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    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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JOURNALS 


OF THE 





HOUSE of COMMONS. 








Vox. 112. 





















JOURNALS 


Anodes 


OF THE aE. — 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 








From FEBRUARY the 3d, 1857, 


In the Twentietu YEAR of the Reign of 


QUEEN VICTORIA, 
To NoveMBER the 6th, 1857, 


In the Twenty-First YEAR of the Reign of 


QUEEN VICTORIA. 


a 


1857. 
SESSION I.—February 3d to March 21st, 1857 ; 


AND, 
SEssIon II.—April 30th to November 6th, 1857. 


——— 








Printed by Order of The House of Commons, 
BY HENRY HANSARD, PRINTER TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 














Vou. 112. 

















JOURNALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 





1857—WSsgss. I. 
From February the 3d to March the 21st, 1857. 








VOL. 112. 





Message to 
attend the 
Lords Com- 
missioners. 


Writs issued 
in the Recess. 


Members take 
the Oaths, 


Greenwich 
Writ. 


Hertford 
Writ. 





JOUR 


OF THE 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 


NALS 









Sess. I.—1857. 











Martis, 3° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


MESSAGE was delivered by Sir Augustus 
Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her 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 ; 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That, in pur- 
suance of the directions of the Act passed in the 
24th year of the reign of his Majesty King George 
the Third, c. 26, he had issued Warrants to the Clerk 
of the Crown, to make out new Writs for the Elec- 
tion of Members to serve in this present Parliament, 

For the Eastern Division of the County of 
Suffolk, in the room of Sir Edward Sherlock 
Gooch, Baronet, deceased : 

For the Shire of Lanark, in the room of Wil- 
liam Lockhart, Esquire, deceased : 

For the Borough of Sa/ford, in the room of 
Joseph Brotherton, Esquire, deceased ; 

And also his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown 
in Ireland, to make out a new Writ for the elec- 
tion of a Member to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Downpatrick, in the room of 
the Honourable Charles Stewart Hardinge, now 
Viscount Hardinge. 


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 Burgess to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of Greenwich, in 
the room of Peter Rolt, Esquire, who, since his Elec- 
tion for the said Borough, hath accepted the office 
of Steward of Her Majesty’s Manor of Hempholme, 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to oe Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
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for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Hertford, in the 
room of the Right Honourable William Francis 
Cowper, who, since his Election for the said Borough, 
hath accepted the office of Vice-President of the 
Committee of Privy Council for Education. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Limerick 

to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out a County Writ. 
new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire 

to serve in this present Parliament for the County of 

Limerick, in the room of the Right Honourable 

William Monsell, who, since his Election for the said 

County, hath accepted the office of President of the 

General Board of Health. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Aylesbury 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Aylesbury, in the 
room of Sir Richard Betheil, yy 27. who, since his 
Election for the said Borough, hath accepted the 


office of Her Majesty’s Attorney General. . 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Buteshire 


to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 
for the electing of a Commissioner to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Shire of Bute, in the 
room of the Right Honourable James Archibald 
Stuart Wortley, who, since his Election for the said 
Shire, hath accepted the office of Her Majesty’s 
Solicitor General. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Southampton 

to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 

for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Town and County of the Town 

of Southampton, in the room of Sir Alexander James 

Edmund Cockburn, who, since his Election for the 

said Town and County of the Town, hath accepted 

the office of Chief Justice of Her Majesty’s Court 

of Common Pleas. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Newport 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Newport, in the room 
of William Biggs, Esquire, who, since his Election 
for the said Borough, hath accepted the office of 

B2+ Steward 



















i eee um Bale 
we. oe 


4 3° Februarii. - 


Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s three Chiltern 
Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in 
the County of Buckingham. 


Clonmel Writ. Oydered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 


Dumfries- 
shire Writ. 


to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out 
a new Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Borough of Clonmel, 
in the room of John O’ Connell, Esquire, who, since 
his Election for the said Borough, hath accepted 
the office of Her Majesty's Clerk of the Crown and 
Hanaper, in Ireland. 


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 Commissioner to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Shire of Dumfries, in the 
room of the Right Honourable Archibald Douglas, 
commonly called Viscount Drumlanrig, now Mar- 
quis of Queensberry, a Peer of Great Britain. 


Kent (Western Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 


Division) 
Writ. 


Bandonbridge 
Writ. 


Outlawries 
Bill. 


Orders and 
Resolutions. 


Elections. 


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 Western Division of 
the County of Kent, in the room of Sir Edmund 
Filmer, Baronet, deceased. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out 
a new Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Borough of Bandon- 
bridge, in the room of the Honourable Francis Ber- 
nard, commonly called Viscount Bernard, now Earl 
of Bandon, a Peer of Ireland. 


A Bill for the more effectual preventing Clandes- 
tine Outlawries, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That all persons who will question any 
Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, for any 
County, City, Borough or place in the United King- 
dom, 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 Members who are returned for 
two or more places in any part of the United King- 
dom do make their Election for which of the places 
they will serve, within One week from and after the 
expiration of the Fourteen days before limited for 
presenting Petitions, provided there be no question 
upon the Return for that place; and if anything 
shall come in question touching the Return or Elec- 
tion of any Member, he is to withdraw during the 
time the matter is in debate ; and that all Members 
returned upon double Returns do withdraw till their 
Returns are determined. 

Ordered, That all persons who shall question any 
Return of Members to serve in the present Par- 
‘iament, upon any allegation of Bribery and Cor- 
ruption, 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 Cor- 
ruption, may question the same at any time within 
Twenty-eight days alter the date of such payment ; 
or, i® 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 the Realm, except such 
Peers of Ireland as shall for the time being be ac- 
tually 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 








A. 1857. 


other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of Ireland 
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 Ireland, at such Elections in Great 
Britain respectively, where such Peer shall appear 
as a Candidate, or by himself, or any others, be pro- 
posed to be elected; or for any Lord Lieutenant or 
Governor of any County to avail himself of any au- 
thority derived from his Commission to influence 
the Election of any Member to serve for the Com- 
mons in Parliament. 

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


Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person Witnesses. 


hath been tampering with any Witness, in respect of 
his Evidence to be given to this House, or any Com- 
mittee thereof, or directly or indirectly hath endea- 
voured to deter or hinder any person from yrs 
or giving Evidence, the same is declared to be a hig 
crime and misdemeanor ; and this House will pro- 
ceed with the utmost severity against such offender. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person 
hath given false Evidence m any case before this 
House, or any Committee thereof, this House will 
a with the utmost severity against such of- 
ender. 


Ordered, That the Commissioners of the Police of Metropolitan 


the Metropolis do take care that, during the Session Police. 


of Parliament, the passages through the streets 
leading to this Memeboier t free and open, and that 
no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of 
Members to and from this House, and that no dis- 
order be allowed in Westminster Hall, or in the pas- 
sages leading to this House, during the sitting of 
Parliament, and that there be no annoyance therein 
or thereabouts; and that the Serjeant-at-Arms attend- 
ing this House do communicate this Order to the 
Commissioners aforesaid. 


Ordered, That the Votes and Proceedings of this Votes and 


House be printed, being first perused by Mr. Speaker; Proceedings. 


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. 


Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be ap- 
pointed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Public Income 


Account of the Public Income and Expenditure for 
the year ended the 30th day of September 1856, 
together with the Balances in the Exchequer at the 
commencement and at the termination of the year, 
and the Amount of Funded or Unfunded Debt 
created or redeemed in the said year:—And, like 
Account for the year ended the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856. 

Mr. Hayter accordingly presented the said Ac- 
counts. 

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


Sir Charles Wood geen by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Protocol, signed at Paris, 
January 6, 1857, for carrying out the Provisions of 
the Treaty of March 30, 1856. 
Papers relating to the Proceedings of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Naval Forces at Canton; with Appendix. 
Copy of Treaty of Friendship and Commerce be- 
tween Her Majesty and the Kings of Siam, signed 
at Bangkok, April 18, 1856; with an Agreement 
supplementary thereto, signed at Bangkok, May 13, 
1856. 
Copy 


Privileges. 


and Expen- 
diture. 


No. 1. 


War with 
Russia, 


Canton. 


Siam, 










Ra; 
Dug 


Cu 


Fa 
(RK 


Gr 





Postal Ar- 
rangements 
(Belgium. ) 


Postal Ar- 
rangements 
(France.) 


Newfoundland 
Fishery. 


Raj of Ahmed- 
nuggur. 


Customs 
Duties. 


Fast India 
(Roads, ) 


Grants for 
Religious 
Purposes. 


East India 
(Roman Ca. 
tholic Bishops 
and Priests. ) 


Queen Anne’ 
Bounty. on 


20 Vicroriz. 





3° Februariz. 5 


Copy of Convention between- Her Majesty and | of all Receipts and Disbursements by the Governors 
the King of the Belgians, enabling their respective | of Queen Anne’s Bounty, during the year ending 
Post Offices to make Postal Arrangements; signed on the 31st day of December 1855. 


at Brussels, January 8, 1857. 


Copies of Treasury Minutes granting Special Su- Superannu- 
ations. 


Copy of Convention between Her Majesty and | perannuation Allowances. 
the Emperor of the French, relative: to Communi- | 
cation by Post; signed at Paris, September 24,|of the Court of Queen’s Bench, in regard to the 


1856. 

Copy of Convention between Her Majesty and 
the Emperor of the French, relative to the rights of 
Fishery on the Coast of Newfoundland and the 
neighbouring Coasts; signed at London, January 
14, 1857. 





Table. 


Copy of a Certificate from the Lord Chief Justice Queen’s Bench. 


necessity of retaining Five Masters in the said 
Court. 
An Account of all Monies received and paia by Lunacy. 
the Secretary of the Commissioners in Lunacy ; and 
of all Charges and Expenses incurred under or by 
virtue or in execution of the Act 8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 100, 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the | s. 34, during the year ending on the 31st July 1856. 


Statement of the Advances for Metropolitan Im- Metropolitax 
provements out of the Consolidated Fund to the Improvements. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Works, &amp;c.; and 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order,' of the Monies paid into the Consolidated Fund, 
dated the 7th day of July 1856, for Copies of any | between the 1st January and the 31st December 
Letters written by Captain Zany to the Council of | 1856. 


Bombay in reference to the Claim of the _ of | 


Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 19th December Court of 


Edur to the Raj of Ahmednuggur :—Of the Minute 1856, awarding Compensation Allowances, on the Exchequer 


of Lord Ellenborough in Council, or any Order by | abolition of their Offices in the Court of Exchequer 


(Scotland.} 


him, directing the Attachment placed on the Raj ; in Scotland, to Messrs. John Philipps, Robert Ains- 
by Captain Lang to be removed, and all Commu-| lie, Edward M‘Ewan and James Campbell. 


nications on the subject to cease :—Of the Memo- | 


Copy of a Treasury Minute, granting a Superan- Insolvent 


rial afterwards submitted by the Rajah of Edur to| nuation Allowance to Mr. Charles V. White, late — 
the Bombay Council: —Of the Minute of the Go-| First Clerk in the Office of the Court for Relief of pica? 
vernor General, Lord Hardinge, on such Memorial : | Insolvent Debtors. 


—Of any Order of the Court of Directors or the | 


Return of Appointments made to Collectorships Land Tax 


Bombay Council altering or varying such Minute:) of Land Tax in Scotland, of Persons not holding (Scotland.y 
—Of the Authority to Mr. Wil/oughby to inquire the situation of Distributor or Sub-Distributor of 


and report on the Case :—Of Mr. Willoughby’s Re- 
port thereon: — Of any Minute giving effect to 
such Report:—Of any Memorial forwarded by the 
Maha Rajah of duhdpere to the Bombay Council, 
the Governor General, the Court of Directors or the 
Board of Control, in reference to the Claim of his 
Family to the said Raj :—And, of the Letters and 
Reports from resident Political Officers in reference 





to the Rights of the respective Claimants to the 
said Raj. 

Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of July 
1856, for a Return showing the Amount received 
(in the past year) as Customs Duty on each Article 
of Import yielding a less Sum in Import Duty than 
£.10,000; with the Rate of Duty on each Article, 
and the Total Amount received on all. 

Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of July 
1856, for Copies of Minutes and Correspondence 
between the Fate Governor General and the Home 
Departments of the Government of India, in refer- 
ence to the project of the Hindostan and Tibet Road, 
with the several Reports of Major Kennedy and 
Lieutenant Briggs relating thereto, and an Account 
of the Expense attending Construction thereof :— 
And, of Reports of Engineer; and an Account of 
the Expenditure incurred in reference to the Con- 
struction of the New Road between Kalka and the 
Military Sanitary Station of Dugshai. 

Return to an Order, dated the 26th day of July 
1856, for a Return of all Grants for Religious Pur- 
poses from the Consolidated Fund and by Votes of 
Parliament made to the different Religious Deno- 
minations in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the 
last Five years ; distinguishing the Amount paid to 
each Denomination in each year :—Similar Return 
of all Sums paid to the Theological Professors of 
each Religious Denomination :—And, similar Re- 
turn of all Grants for Religious Purposes made to 
the different Denominations in the British Colonics 
and Dependencies. 

Return to an Order, dated the 26th day of July 
1856, for a Copy of any Correspondence or Orders 
on the subject of the Payment, out of Public 
Monies, of Roman Catholic Bishops and Priests in 
India, for the discharge of Clerical or other Duties. 

The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 


of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon | 





Stamps in that Country. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Factories. 


|mand,—Copy of Reports of the Inspectors of Fac- 


tories to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State 
for the Home Department, for the half-year ending 
81st October 1856. 
Copy of Eleventh Annual Report of the Board Poor Relief 
of Supervision for Relief of the Boor in Scotland, Scotland.) 
Copy of Annual Report and Account of the Ec- Ecclesiasticat 
clesiastical Commissioners in Ireland, for year ended —a 
Ist August 1856. ¢ ) 
Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Address Factories. 
to Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of April 1856, 
for Returns of the Number of Cotton, Woollen, 
Worsted, Flax and Silk Factories subject to the 
Factories Acts in each County, and distinguishing 
each of these five descriptions of Factories : 
1. Those for Spinning only ; 
2. Those for Wearns only ; 
3. Those for Spinning he Weaving : 
4. Factories not included in either of the above 
descriptions. 
. The Number of Spindles employed in Spin- 
ning ; 
6. The Number of Power Looms ; 
The several Rooms and Premises occupied by any 
one Firm situated within the same Outward Gate or 
Boundary to be deemed one Factory :—Of the ag- 
gregate Amount available for each of the above de- 
scriptions of Factories of Steam Power, expressed 
by el and of Water Power expressed in the 
same manner :—Of the Number of Children under 
Thirteen years of age, Boys and Girls ; distinguish- 
ing, in Silk Throwmg Mills, the Number of Chil- 
dren between Eleven and Thirteen years of age, 
Boys and Girls :—Of the Number of Male Young 
Persons between Thirteen and Eighteen years of age, 
and of Females above Thirteen years of age :—Of 
the Number of Males above Eighteen years of age, 
including all Managers, Clerks, Overlookers, En- 
gineers, Mechanics, and all others employed in the 
Factory, except the Owners or Occupiers consti- 
tuting the Firm :—And, that the preceding Returns 
shall be followed by a General Summary thereof, 
embracing the whole of the United Kingdom (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 745, of 


uo 


the Table by the Clerk of the House,—An Account | Session 1850). 


Vou. 112. 





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B3 Return 

































































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6 
Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
Ist day of May 1856, for Returns of the Amount 
that has been collected in the case of every Bank- 
ruptcy that has been wound up in the course of the 
years 1853, 1854 and 1855:—Of the Amount that 
as been expended in each case in the Collection 
and Administration of the Assets; distinguishing 
therein, the Amount of Solicitors’ Charges ; the 
Amount of Official Assignees’ Commission; the 


8° Februari. 





Amount of bis Fees or other Charges, whether for 
Stationery, Postages or other Matters; and the 


Amount of all other Charges made to or paid by the | 


other Officers of the Court, and charged to the Es- 
tate :—Of the Amount distributed as Dividends in | 
each case :—And, of the Rent of Court Premises, | 
and List of Officers, in each District ; 


named. 

Returns to several Addresses to Her Majesty, dated 
the 20th day of June, and, 11th day of July 1856, for 
a Return of the Length of Highways in the following 
Parishes, as far as it can be obtained, not being part | 
of the Metropolis Roads; the Amount of the last 
Assessment to the Poor; and the Amount of Rate 
in the Pound levied for Highway Rate during the 
last year :—Chiswick, Ealing, New Brentford, Isle- 
worth, Twickenham, Teddington, Cranford, Heston, 
Hillingdon, Hayes, Norwood, Hanwell, Acton, Wil- 
lesden, Harrow, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, 
Kingsbury, Bushey, Edgeware, Hendon, Tottenham, 
Hornsey, Enfield, Edmonton, Walthamstow, Layton, 
Woodford, Wanstead, Saint Margaret’s and Saint 
John’s Westminster, Chelsea, Kensington, Saint 
George’s Hanover-square, Fulham, Hammersmith, | 
Paddington, Hampstead, Saint Marylebone, Saint 
Pancras, Islington, Clerkenwell, Saint Luke’s, Saint 
Leonard’s Shoreditch, Stoke Newington, Hackneyand 
Bethnal Green: And, for a Return similar to 
that moved for on the 20th day of June last, for the 
remaining Parishes in the County of Middlesex. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
26th day of July 1856, for a Return of the Annual 
Numbers of Passengers passing between this Country 
and France, showing the Port of Embarkation and 
Disembarkation, and of the Annual Value of Ex- 
ports and Imports to and from France, during the 
years 1852 to 1855 (in continuation of Parliamentary 

aper, No. 462, of Session 1853). 

Return toan Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
26th day of July 1856, for a Return from the Me- 
tropolitan Prisons of London and Middlesex and 
Horsemonger-lane, showing how often the same in- 
dividual has been committed (by his initial Letters), 
with the Dates of such Commitments and their Dura- 
tion; the Sum due on each Commitment, and the 
County Court from which they were so sent; the 
specific Grounds as mentioned in the Warrant, and 
if practicable, the Names of the Plaintiffs at whose 
Suit they were committed, during the years 1852 to 
1855 inclusive. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—A Return of 
the Number of Causes instituted and decided in 
the Court of Session, from 1st January 1856 to 1st 
January 1857. 

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





Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty's Command, 
——Copy of Report to the Board of Trade on the 
A ricultural Statistics of Scotland, for the year 1856. 

r. Lowe also presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 17th a July 1856, for Returns of the 
Total Tonnage of Vessels entered Inwards with Car- 
goes of Corn :—Of the Total Tonnage of Vessels 
entered Inwards conveying Cattle only :—Of the 
Total Tonnage of Vessels entered Inwards convey- 
ing Passengers only :—And, of the Total Tonnage of 
Vessels entered Inwards conveying Passengers and 


with their | 
Salaries; or, if by other mode of Payment, the | 
Amount received by them during the years above | 
| ¢. 81, in place of a Section and a Clause of the Re- 

















A. 1857. 


Cargo; all during the year between the 1st day of 
July 1855 and the 30th day of June 1856. 
Mr. Lowe also presen 


Orders in Council under the Merchant Shipping 
Act, 1854, ala certain Bye-Laws and Reo. 
lations for the licensing and government of Pilots in 
the Port of Leith. 


Copy of Order in Council, under the 17 &amp; 18 Vic. Metropolis 
¢. 120, suspending certain Sections of two Local Acts Local Manage. 
of Parliament with respect to the collection of Rates ™°™’ “ 


in the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington. 


Copies of two Ordinances framed by the Oxford Oxford — 
University Commissioners, under the 17 &amp; 18 Vic, University. 


ce. 81, in respect of University and Balliol Colleges 
Br erty 

Sopies of two Ordinances made by the Ozford 
University Commissioners, under the 17 &amp; 18 Vic. 


gulations and Ordinances of Exeter and Lincoln 
Colleges respectively. 

Copy of a Statute passed by the University of 
Oxford, under the 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 81, for the appli- 


_ cation of the Gift or Endowment of William Heather, 


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


Mr. Speaker reported, ‘That the House had been Mr. Speaker 
at the House of Peers, at the desire of the Lords reports the 


Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal for 


holding this present Parliament, and that the Lord speech. 


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, for greater 
accuracy, obtained a Copy, which he read to the 
House, as followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded to assure you that Her Ma- 
jesty has great satisfaction in recurring again to the 
advice and assistance of Her Parliament. 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to inform 
you that difficulties. which arose in regard to some 
of the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, delayed 
the complete execution of the stipulations of that 
Treaty. 

Those difficu!ties have been overcome in a satis- 
factory manner, and the intentions of the Treaty have 
been fully maintained. 

An insurrectionary movement which tok place in 
September last in the Swiss Canton of Neuchdtel, 
for the purpose of re-establishing in that Canton the 
authority of the King of Prussia as Prince of Neu- 
chdtel, led to serious differences between his Prus- 
sian Majesty and the Swiss Confederation, threaten- 
ing at one time to disturb the general Peace of 
Europe. But Her Majesty commands us to inform 
you, that, in concert with Her august Ally the Em- 
peror of the French, She is endeavouring to bring 
about an amicable settlement of the matters in 
dispute, and Her Majesty entertains a confident 
expectation that an honourable and satisfactory 
arrangement will be concluded. 

In consequence of certain discussions which took 
place during the Conferences at Paris, and which 
are recorded in the Protocols that were laid before 
you, Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French 
caused Communications to be made to the Govern- 
ment of the King of the Two Sicilies, for the purpose 
of inducing him to adopt a course of policy calcu- 
lated to avert dangers which might disturb that Peace 
which had so recently been restored to Europe. 

Her Majesty commands us to inform you, that 
the manner in which those friendly Communications 
were received by his Sicilian Majesty was such as 
to lead Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French 
to discontinue their diplomatic relations with his 
Sicilian Majesty,.and they have accordingly with- 
drawn their Missions from the Court of Naples. 

Her 





, pursuant to the direc- Merchant 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copies of two Shipping Act. 








20 VictorizZ. 


Her Majesty has directed that Papers relating to 
this subject shall be laid before you. 

Her Majesty commands us to inform you, that 
She has been engaged in negotiations with the Go- 
vernment of the United States, and also with the 
Government of Honduras, which She trusts will be 
successful in removing all cause of misunderstanding 
with respect to Central America. 

Her 
ship and 
before vou. 

Her Majesty commands us to express to you Her 
regret that the conduct of the Persian Government 
has led to hostilities between Her Majesty and the 
Shah of Persia. 

The Persian Government, in defiance of repeated 
warnings, and in violation of its engagements, has 
besieged and captured the important City of Herat. 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to inform 
you, that a British Revel and Military Force, de- 
spatched from Bombay, has taken possession of the 
Island of Karrack, and of the Town of Bushire, 
with a view to induce the Shah to accede to the 
just demands of Her Majesty’s Government. 

Her Majesty has seen with satisfaction that the 

Naval and Military Forces employed on this occa- 
sion have displayed their accustomed gallantry and 
spirit. 
P Her Majesty commands us to inform you that 
acts of violence, insults to the British Flag, and 
infraction of Treaty Rights, committed by the local 
Chinese Authorities at Canton, and a pertinacious 
refusal of redress, have rendered it necessary for 
Her Majesty’s Officers in China to have recourse to 
measures of force to obtain satisfaction. 

Those measures had, up to the date of the last 
accounts, been taken with great forbearance, but 
with signal success as regards the conflicts to which 
they had led. 

We are commanded to inform you that Her Ma- 
jesty trusts that the Government of Pekin will see 
the propriety of affording the satisfaction demanded, 
and of faithfully fulfilling its Treaty engagements. 


ajesty has concluded a Treaty of Friend- 
mmerce with Siam, which will be laid 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


Her Majesty has directed the Estimates for the 
ensuing year to be laid before you. ‘They have 
been prepared with every attention to economy, and 
with a due regard to the efficient performance of 
the Public Service at home and abroad. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


Her Majesty commands us to inform you that 
Bills will be submitted to your consideration for the 
consolidation and the amendment of important 
portions of the Law; and Her Majesty doubts not 
that you will give your earnest attention to matters 
so deeply affecting the interests of all classes of 
Her Subjects. 

Her Majesty commands us to recommend to your 
consideration the expediency of renewing for a fur- 
ther period the privileges of the Bank of England, 
the conditions imposed on the issue of Bank Notes 
in the United Kingdom, and the state of the Law 
relating to Joint Stock Banks. 

Her Majesty commands us to express the grati- 
fication which it affords Her to witness the general 
well-being and contentment of Her People, and to 
find that, notwithstanding the sacritices unavoidabiy 
attendant upon such a War as that which has lately 
terminated, the resources of the Country remain 
unimpaired, and its productive industry continues 
unchecked in its course of progressive development. 

Her Majesty commits with confidence the great 
interests of the Country to your wisdom and care, 
and She fervently prays that the blessing of Al- 
mighty God may attend your deliberations, and 
prosper your councils, for tne advancement of the 
welfare and happiness of Her loyal and faithful 
People. 


3° Februari. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Resolution for 
ddress. 


7 


nted to 4 
ajesty, to convey to Her Majesty the Thanks 
of this Bone for the gracious 8 which Her 
Majesty has patsathiow Dm be made to both Houses 
of Parliament: 
To thank Her Majesty for assuring us that Her 
Majesty has great satisfaction in recurring again to 
the advice aud assistance of Her Parliament: 
To thank Her Majesty for informing us that dif- 
ficulties, which arose in regard to some of the pro- 
visions of the Treaty of Paris, delayed the complete 
execution of the stipulations of that Treaty, but that 
those difficulties have been overcome in a satisfac- 
tory manner, and the intentions of the Treaty have 
been fully maintained : 
Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that an insurrectionary movement which took Lee 
in September last in the Swiss Canton of Neuchéeel, 
for the purpose of re-establishing in that Canton the 
authority of the King of Prussia as Prince of Neu- 
chdtel, led to serious differences between his Prus- 
sian Majesty and the Swiss Confederation, threat- 
ening at one time to disturb the General Peace of 
Europe: 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that, in 
concert with Her august Ally the Emperor of the 
French, She is endeavouring to bring about an ami- 
cable settlement of the matters in dispute, and that 
Her Majesty entertains a confident expectation that 
an honourable and satisfactory arrangement will be 
concluded : 

To convey to Her Majesty our humble Thanks 
for informing us, that in consequence of certain dis- 
cussions which took place during the Conferences 
at Paris, and which are recorded in the Protocols 
that were laid before us, Her Majesty and the Em- 
peror of the French caused Communications to be 
made to the Government of the King of the Two 
Sicilies, for the purpose of inducing him to adopt a 
course of policy calculated to avert dangers which 
might disturb that Peace which had been so recently 
restored to Europe : 

~ That we learn with regret that the manner in which 
those friendly Communications were received by 
his Sicilian Majesty was such as to lead Her Ma- 
jesty and the Emperor of the French to discontinue 
their diplomatic relations with his Sicilian Ma- 
jesty, and that they have, accordingly, withdrawn 
their Missions from the Court of Naples; and to 
thank Her Majesty for having directed that Papers 
relating to this subject shall be laid before us : 

To thank Her Majesty for acquainting us that 
She has been engaged in negotiations with the Go- 
vernment of the United States, and also with the 
Government of Honduras, which She trusts will be 
successful in removingvall cause of misunderstand - 
ing with respect to Central America : 

To thank Her Majesty for the assurance that 
Her Majesty has concluded a Treaty of Friend- 
ship and Commerce with Siam, which will be laid 
before us: 

To assure Her Majesty that we participate in the 
expression of Her regret that the conduct of the 
Persian Government has led to hostilities between 
Her Majesty and the Shah of Persia, and that the 
Persian Government, in defiance of repeated warn- 
ings, and in violation of its engagements, has be- 
sieged and captured the important City of Herat: 

o thank Her Majesty for informing us that a 
British Naval and Military Force, despatched from 
Bombay, has taken possession of the Island of Kar- 
rack, and of the Town of Bushire, with a view to 
induce the Shah to accede to the just demands of 
Her Majesty’s Government ; and that we learn with 
satisfaction that the Naval and Military Forces em- 
ployed on this occasion have displayed their accus- 
tomed gallantry and spirit: 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 


ore That an humble Address be 
er M 





Vou. 112. 


that acts of violence, insults to the British Flag, 
B4 and 


















































































































Committee 
to draw up 
Address. 





8 $°—4° Februarzi. 


and infraction of Treaty Rights committed by the 
local Chinese Authorities at Canton, and a pertina- 
cious refusal of redress, have. rendered it necessary 
for Her Majesty’s Officers in China to have recourse 
to measures of force to obtain satisfaction: 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that those 
measures had, up to the date of the last accounts, 
been taken with great forbearance, but with signal 
success as regards the conflicts to which they had 
led ; and to assure Her Majesty that we concur with 
Her Majesty in trustinx that the Government of 
Pehin will see the propriety of affording the satisfac- 
tion demanded, =~ of faithfully fulfilling its Treaty 
engagements : 

To thank Her Majesty for having directed tha 
the Estimates for the ensuing year shall be laid 
before us, and for the assurance that they have been 
prepared with every attention to economy, and with 
adue regard to the efficient performance of the Pub- 
lic Service at home and abroad : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for acquainting 
us that Bills will be submitted to our consideration 
for the consolidation and the amendment of impor- 
tant portions of the Law; and to assure Her Majesty 
that we will give our earnest attention to matters so 
deeply affecting the interests of all classes of Her 
Subjects : 

To assure Her Majesty that we will take into our 
careful consideration the expediency of renewing for 
a further period the privileges of the Bank of Eng- 
land, the conditions imposed on the issue of Bank 
Notes in the United Kingdom, and the state of the 
Law relating to Joint Stock Banks : 

That we participate in the gratification which it 
affords Her Majesty to witness the general well- 
being and contentment of Her People, and to find 
that, notwithstanding the sacrifices unavoidably at- 
tendant upon such a War as that which has lately 
terminated, the resources of the Country remain 
unimpaired, and its productive industry continues 
unchecked in its course of progressive development : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for informing us 
that Her Majesty commits with confidence the great 
interests of the Country to our wisdom and care, 
and, in common with Her Majesty, we fervently pray 
that the blessing of Almighty God may attend our 
deliberations, and prosper our councils, for the ad- 
vancement of the welfare and happiness of Her 
loyal and faizhful People ; 


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


Mercurii, 4° die Februarii, 1857: 


And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up an Address to be presented to Her Majesty upon 
the said Resolution:—And a Committee was ap- 

inted of Sir John Ramsden, Sir Andrew Agnew, 
Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exche- 

uer, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, 
dir Charles Wood, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Attorney 
General for Ireland, Mr. Baines, Mr. Horsman, 
Mr. Lowe, Mr. Bouverie, the Judge Advocate, Sir 
Benjamin Hall, Mr. Hayter and Mr. FitzRoy, or 
any Five of them :—And they are to withdraw im- 
mediately. 

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


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Twelve of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





A, 1857. 


Mercurii, 4° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M* Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from East Kent 
I Pe of the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- — q 
vate Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the . 
Standing Orders in the case of the Petition for Cres : ros ‘ 
the East Kent Railway (Strood to Saint Mary's 
Cray, &amp;c.) Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Islington 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Parish. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Islington 
Parish Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Formartine 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 2°4 Buchan 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing ‘ 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Formartine 
and Buchan Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,-—Report from Mid-Kent 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, (omyae 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing $¥T°7C°" 
rm the case of the Petition for the Mid-Kent 
Railway (Croydon Extension) Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Aberdeen, 
one of tne Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Sein ne and 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Se a 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Aberdeen, 

Peterhead and Fraserburgh Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Finsbury 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Pt 

in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 

Orders in the case of the Petition for the Finsbury 

Park Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Newry and 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Enniskillen 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing “““”*%: 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Newry and 
Enniskillen Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Southampton, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, eer 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Railway. 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the South- 

ampton, Bristol and South Wales Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders. 

Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Stockport, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, aie Be 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Railway. - 


Orders in the case of the Petition for the Stockport, 








Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker iaid upon the Table,—Report from Eastern 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Couties 





- Railway. 
in, Bailway 














n, 


Clyde Navi- 
gation. 


North Eastern 
Railway (Lan- 
chester Val- 
ley Branch.) 


Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 
Railway. 


Hartlepool 
Extension 
and Headland 
Improvement. 


Stockton 
New Gas and 
Stockton Gas 
Consumers’ 
Companies. 


Tyne Im- 
provement. 


Tralee and 
Killarney 
Railway. 


90 Vicroriz. 


in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Eastern 
Counties Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Clyde 
Navigation Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the North 
Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley Branch) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Sitringbourne and Sheerness Railway 
Company to alter the Line and Levels of portions 
of their authorized Line, and abandon portions 
thereof; to construct new Branches and other 
Works; to authorize working Arrangements with 
the East Kent Railway Company ; to amend “ The 
Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Act, 1856,” 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Lushington and Mr. Philip Martin. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of the Borough of Hartlepoo/, in their corporate 
capacity, and as the Local Board of Health for the 
District of Hartlepool, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to extend the Limits of the Borough and District of 
Hartlepool; to authorize the division of the Borough 
into Wards: to enable the Corporation to construct 
Sea Walls for the protection of the Headland of 
Hartlepool; to enable the Locul Board to make 
and improve Streets ; to confer other Powers on the 
Corporation and the Local Board; Amendment of 
Acts, and other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Farrer and Mr. Atherton. 


A Petition of the Stockton Gas Company, and 
also of the Stockton Gas Consumers’ Company 
(Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill to unite and 
amalgamate the Stockton New Gas Company, and the 
Stockton Gas Consumers’ Company (Limited), and 
to authorize the united Company to raise additional 
Capital, and to sell their Undertaking to the Mayor, 
Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Stock- 
ton, and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Cayley and Mr. Farrer. 


A Petition of the Zyne Improvement Commis- 
sioners for executing the Acts thereinafter men- 
tioned, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend and 
enlarge the Provisions of the Acts relating to the 
River Tyne, and to enab'e the Zyne Improvement 
Commissioners to construct Docks at Coble Dean, | 
and certain Works for the improvement of such 
River, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Liddell and Mr. Headlam. 


A Petition of the Tralee and Killarney Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the 
borrowing Powers of the Tralee and Killarney Rail- 
way Company, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Vis- 
count Castlerosse and Mr. Henry Herbert. 





Vou. 112. 


4° Februari. 9 


A Petition of Subscribers to the Undertaking Tilbury, 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill a 
for making a Railway, with Branches, from the Railway. 
London, Tilbury and Southend Extension Railway 
to the Towns of Maldon, Colchester and Burnham, 
in the County of Essex, and for other purposes, was 

resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
bromgit in accordingly, by Mr. Peacocke, Mr. 
Bramley- Moore and Mr. Hawkins. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Watchet 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for the main- Harbour. 
tenance, regulation and improvement of Watchet 
Harbour, in the County of Somerset, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Moody 
and Mr. William Gore Langton. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Liverpool and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for exempting — 
: , : 8. 

Vessels resorting to Docks in the County Palatine 

of Chester, and the Cargoes thereof, from the pay- 

ment of certain Dues to the Trustees of the Liver- 

pool Docks, and for other purposes, was presented, 

and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
~—e by Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tolle- 

mache. 


A Petition of the there-undersigned, for leave to Kidsgrove 
bring in a Bill to establish Markets and Fairs in the Market 
Parish of Kidsgrove, in the County of Stafford, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Tollemache and Mr. 
Christy. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act Langport, 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bil] Somerton and 
to repeal an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign et “an 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 

“An Act for more effectually repairing and im- 
proving certain Roads leading to, through and from 
the Towns of Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary, 
in the County of Somerset, and for making and im- 
proving other Roads in the said County,” and 
granting more effectual Powers in lieu thereof, and 
for making and improving new Lines of Road, was 
pene and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 

rought in accordingly, by Mr. Moody, Mr. Gore 
Langton and Mr. Pinney. 


A Petition of the West Somerset Mineral Railway West Somerset 

Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing Mineral 

the West Somerset Mineral Railway Company _- 
make the Minehead Extension, and the Cleeve 

Branch, and for other purposes, was presented, and 

read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 

curdingly, by Mr. Moody and Mr. William Gore 

Langton. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Stratford- 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate 4Po™-Avom 
the Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Lord Guernsey and 
Mr. Shirley. 


A Petition of the Brighton, Hore and Preston Brighton, Hove 
Constant Service Waterworks Company, for leave = 
to bring in a Bill to grant further Powers to the amar mg Siiten 
Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service Wa- 
terworks Company, and to amend the Act relating 
to the Company, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Sir George Brooke Pechell and Lord Alfred 
Hervey. 


A Petition of the Vewry, Warrenpoint and Ros- Newry, _ 
trevor Railway Company, for leave to bring in a a once 
Bill to authorize the Newry, Waurrenpoint and Ros- Siow. 
trevor Railway Company to extend their Railway 

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10 4° Februari. 


at Newry and at Warrenpoint, and to enter into 
arrangements with the Newry and Enniskillen Rail- 
way Company, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Kirk and Mr. Greenall. 


Metropolitan A Petition of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 

ibaa for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Metropo- 

ments. litan Board of Works to open certain new Streets 
in the City and Liberties of Westminster, and in 
the Borough of Southwark, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Sir John Shelley and Mr. Pellatt. 

Wearmouth A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 

Bridge, 


sses of the Borough of Sunderland, for leave to 
aon Fring in a Bill to al the Provisions of the Acts 
relating to the Bridge and Ferries across the River 
Wear, in the Borough of Sunderland, and to grant 
further Powers for the maintenance and improve- 
ment of such Bridge and Ferries, and the Ap- 
proaches and Landing-places connected therewith ; 
or for the erection of a new Bridge in lieu of the 
existing Bridge across such River, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Hudson and Mr. Fenwick. 


Sunderland A Petition of the Sunderland Corporation Gas 
Ges. Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for more 
effectually supplying with Gas the Town and Bo- 
rough of Sunderland, and the neighbourhood thereof, 
in the County of Durham, was presented, and read ; 


and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Hudson and Mr. Mowbray. 


Whitehaven A Petition of the Whitehaven and Furness Junc- 
— tion Ruilway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 
Railway. to enable the Whitehaven and Furness Junction 


Railway Company to raise additional Capital, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Hildyard and Mr. Irton. 


South Durham A Petition of Subscribers to and Promoters of 

ay &gt;a the Railway undertaking thereinafter mentioned, for 

way. ~  Jeave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway com- 
mencing by a Junction with the Huggarleazes 
Branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 
near the Lands Colliery, in the County of Durham, 
and terminating by a Junction with the Lancaster 
and Carlisle Railway at or near TJebay, in the 
County of Westmoreland, and for making arrange- 
ments with the Stockton and Darlington, the Dar- 
lington and Barnard Castle, and the Lancaster and 
Carlisle Railway Compunies, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in by the Earl of Bective, Colonel 
Wilson Patten and Mr. Heywood. 


Reading Rail- A Petition of the Staines, Wokingham and Woking 
pee unetion Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 
v- to empower the Staines, Wokingham and Woking 
Railway Company to make a Railway to connect 


the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway with | P* 


the Great Western Railway, and for other purposes 
connected with their Undertaking, was presented, 
anc read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Viscount Barrington and Mr. 
Hayter. 


Dumbarton A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 

Water, &amp;. Council of the Ruyal Burgh of Dumbarton, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for supplying the Burgh of 
Dumbarton, and places adjacent, with Water, for 
embunking and reclaiming the Broad Meadow there, 
and for extending the Municipal Boundaries of the 
said Burgh, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Bouverie and Mr. Smollett. 








A. 1857. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Leslie 
subscribed, for leave to bring ina Bill for making @ ®#ilway. 
Railway from the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee 
Railway at Markinch Station, to the Town of Leslie, 
with Branches to Auchmuty Mills, Leven Bank 
Mill, and Prinlaws Lower Mills, and other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Fergus 
and Mr. Edward Ellice. 


A Petition of the Peebles Railway Company, for Peebles 
leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Peebles Rail- B4ilwsy- 
way Company to create additional Shares in their 
Undertaking, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered tu be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir Graham Montgomery and Mr. 
Cowun. 


A Petition of the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egre- whitehaven, 
mont Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill Cleator and 
to enable the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont ae 
Railway Company to raise additional Capital, and i 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Hildyard and Mr, Irton. 


A Petition of the City and Suburban Gas Com- Glasgow City 
pany of Glasgow, for leave to bring in a Bill to 24 Suburbaa 
enable the City and Suburban Gas Company of ~*~ 
Glasgow to amend their Act, to raise additional Ca- 
pital, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Sir James Anderson, Mr. Cochrane 
and Mr. Alexander Hastie. 


A Petition of the City of Chester Waterworks Chester 
Company, for leave to bring in a Kill to make fur- Water. 
ther Provision for supplying with Water the City of 
Chester and Suburbs thereof, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brouglit in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Owen Stanley and Earl Gros- 


venor. 


A Petition of the Znverness and Nairn Railway Inverness 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend %™4 Nairn 
“ The Inverness and Nairn Railway Act, 1854 ;” to 4 
enable the Inverness and Naira Railway Company 
to create a Preference Stock, and to raise further 
Sums of Money, and for other purposes, was 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Cumming Bruce 
and Mr. Matheson. 


A Petition of the Taff Vale Railway Company, Taff Vale 
for leave to bring in a Fin for ine the Taff Railway. 
Vale Railway Company to construct new Lines of 
Railway, to alter, widen and improve portions of 
their existing Railway, and for other purposes, was 
poets and — ; - Fag ts ordered to be 

rought in accordingly, r. William Gore Lang- 
ton a Mr. Hutchins. . 


A Petition of the Exeter and Exmouth Railway Exeter and 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Exmouth 
Time for the compulsory Purchase of Lands for *“!"*- 
rts of the Exeter and Exmouth Railway, and to 
extend the Time for completing such Railway, was 

resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
rought in accordingly, by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 
and itr Palk. sid ™ 
‘ 


A Petition of the South Devon Railway Com- south Devon 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Railway. 
South Devon Railway Company to raise additional 
Capital, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
meats. und 0: GR ib dalam’ én ht in 
accordingly, by Sir John Yarde Buller Mr. 

Collier. 

A Petition of Price's Patent Candle , Price’s Patent 

Limited, for leave to bring in a Bill to re-incor- Candie Com- 


porate Price’s Patent Candle Company, Limited, ?”’ 
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90 VicTorRiz. 


and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Glyn and Mr. Raikes Currie. 


A Petition of the North Level Commissioners, 
being the Commissioners for the Drainage of the 
Lands lying in the North Level of the Great 
Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level, and in 
Great Portland, in the Manor of Crowland, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for improving the North 
Level Drainage, and for other purposes relating to 
the Level, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Hast- 
ings Russell and Mr. Byng. 


North Level 
Drainage. 


North Eastern A Petition of the North Eastern Railway Com- 
Railway 


tof ny, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the North 
ew ) wo Railway Company to cancel unissued and 
forfeited Shares, to create new Shares in lieu thereof, 
and raise authorized Capital, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Colonel Smyth and 

Sir William Milner. 
Manchester, A Petition of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin- 
a colnshire Railway Company, for leave to bring in a 
Railway *°  Bill for enabling the Manchester, Sheffield aud Lin- 


(Buxtonand colnshire Railway Company to make a Railway from 

Cleethorpes.) the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway 
to Buxton, and a Railway to Cleethorpes, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a Biil 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Hadfield and Mr. Hindley. 


Lancaster A Petition of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 


po be Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 

Railway. Railway from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, 
in the Parish of Kendal, in the County of Westmore- 
land, to the North Western Railway at or near 
Ingleton, in the West Riding of the County of York, 
with a Branch therefrom, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Colonel Lowther, Mr. 
Howard and Mr. Marshall. 

Manchester, A Petition of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin- 

—— colnshire Railway Company, for leave to bring in a 

Railway Bill for enabling the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin- 


(Romiley, &amp;c.} colnshire Railway Company to make Railways to 
Romiley, New Millis, Bugsworth, Crist Quarry, and 
Hayfieid,and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Hadfield and Mr. Hindley. 


Ely Tidal A Petition of the Z/y Tidal Harbour and Railway 
pirbour and ~ Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling 
— the Ely Tidal Harbour al Railway Company to 
construct Railways to, and a Dock and other Works 
on or adjoining the South West Bank of the River 
Ely, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Crawshay Bailey and Mr. Clive. 
Birkenhead A Petition of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and 
ry Cheshire Junction Railway Company, for leave to 
Junction bring in a Bill to authorize the Birkenhead, Lanca- 
Railway. shire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to 
purchase or hire Steam-boats, to stop up part of 
Canning-street, in Birkenhead, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Philip 

Egerton and Mr. Tollemache. 
+ ao A Petition of the Great Western Railway Com- 

way. 


pany, the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and 

the South Devon Railway Seman, for leave to 

bring in a Bill for enabling the Great Western, Bristol 

and er, and South Devon Railway Companies to 

afford further assistance towards the c ion of 

es Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and Truro, 
OL. 112. 


4° Februariz. 








11 


for extending the time for the completion thereof, 

and for other pu was presented, and read; 

and a Bill was o to be brought in accordingly, 

by Mr. Michael Williams, Viscount Barrington and 
r. Henry Berkeley. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Birkenhead 
gesses of the Borough of Liverpool, for leave sng nts) 


bring in a Bill for carrying into effect certain Pro- 
visions of “ The Birkenhead Docks Act, 1855,” re- 
lating to the Management of the Birkenhead Docks, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be wry in accordingly, 
by Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Joseph Ewart. 


A Petition of the Blackburn Railway Company, Blackburn 
for leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing the Bilway. 
Blackburn Railway Company to make and maintain 
Extensions of their Railway, and for regulating the 
Capital of the Company, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to: 
be brought in accordingly, by Colonel Wilson Patten, 

Mr. Heywood and Mr. Starke. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Birkenhead 
gesses of the Borough of Liverpool, for leave esas 
bring in a Bill for carrying into effect certain Pro- ; 
visions of “ The Birkenhead Docks Act, 1855,” in 
relation to the construction and completion of the 
Birkenhead Docks, for authorizing Alterations there- 
in, and new Works, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought.in accordingly, by Mr. Horsfall and Mr. 
Joseph Ewart. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effectin 
purposes thereinalter mentioned, for leave to bring A* ~~ 
in a Bill for the construction of Railways to supply Guide 

direct communication between Oldham, Ashton- Junctiow 
under-Lyne and Guide Bridge, and for the accommo- 

dation of the neighbourhood, was presented, and 

read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
—e by Mr. Hindley, Mr. For and Mr. 

Cobbett. 


the Oldham, 


A Petition of the London and South Western Londowand 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for South Western 
authorizing the London and South Western Railway amendment. 
Company, and others, to make Deviations from 
their authorized Lines of Railway and other Works, 
and for authorizing divers other matters affecting 
that Company and other Companies and Under- 
takings, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be im ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Hutchins. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the Watchet Har- 
ses thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring our Trust. 

in a Bill for improving, repairing and regulating the 
Harbour of Watchet, in the y of Somerset, 
and for other pur connected therewith, was 

resented, and in 3; and a = ordered to be 

rought in accordingly, by Mr. William Wyndham 
and Mr. Moody. sasaiiies me 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Lewes and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making Uckfield 
a Railway from Lewes to Uckfield, all in the County ®*2”*y- 
of Sussex, was , and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Brand 
and Colonel Harcourt. 


A Petition of the Governor and Company of the New River 
New River ht from Chadwell and Amwell to Company. 
ing i Bill 








Islington 
Parish. 


Victoria (Lon- 
don) Docks. 


East Kent 
Railway (Ex- 
tension to 
Dover.) 


Finsbury 
Park, 


Great 
Northern 
and Western 
of Ireland 
Railway. 


Southampton, 
Bristol and 
South Wales 
Railway. 


Formartine 
and Buchan 
Railway. 





12 4° Februarit. 


A Petition of Subscribers to a proposed Com- 
y, to be called “The Great Yarmouth Britannia 
Pier Company,” for leave to bring in a Bill for con- 
structing and maintaining a Pier at Great Yarmouth, 
in the County of wg * , to be called “The Great 
Yarmouth Britannia Pier,” was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Rumbold and Sir Edmund Lacon. 


A Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint 
Mary, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act made and 

sed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Ma- 
jesty King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act to 
repeal the several Acts for the Relief and Employ- 
ment of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Mary, 
Islington, in the County of Middlesex; for lighting 
and watching, and preventing nuisances and annoy- 
ances therein; for amending the Road from High- 
gate through Maiden-lane, and several other Roads 
in the said Parish, and for pooranng a Chapel of 
Ease and an additional Burial-ground for the same, 
and to make more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of the Victoria (London) Dock Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing the 
Victoria (London) Dock Company to make a new 
Cut eastward of their Dock, and to raise additional 
Capital, and for other purposes, was presented, aud 
read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Cob- 
bold and Sir Samuel Bignold. 


A Petition of the East Kent Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the East Kent 
Railway (Extension to Dover) Act, 1855, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Zushington and Mr. 
Rice. 


A Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint 
Mary, Islington, in the Senay of Middlesex, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Formation 
of a Park for the Northern Suburbs of the Metro- 
polis, to be called “ ayy 4 Park,” was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Right honourable the Earl of 
Lucan, and of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
Railways from Athlone to Roscommon and Castle- 
reagh, to be called “The Great Northern and 
Western of Ireland Railway,” and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
authorize the Construction of a Railway between 
Southampton and Salisbury, and for other purposes 
connected therewith, was presented, and read ; and 
referted to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of Property 
on the Line and in the Neighbourhood of the Rail- 
way thereinafter-mentioned, or Subscribers, for car- 
rying the same into execution, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for making a Railway from the Great North 
of Scotland Railway to Peterhead and Fraserburgh, 
all in the County of Aberdeen, to be called ‘‘ The For- 
martine and Buchan Railway,” was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 








A. 1857. 


A Petition of the Eastern Counties Railway Com- Eastern Coun- 
any, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the ‘i* Railway 
Bastern Counties Railway Company to construct 
Railways from the Colchester Line of the Eastern 
Counties Railway at Maldon and Shenfield to the 
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway at Pitsea, 
with Branches to Burnham and the Chelmer Navi- 
gation Basin, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the North Eastern Railway Com- North Eastern 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the North Railway (han- 
Eastern Railway Company to make a Branch from ow Branch.) 
their Bishop Auckland Branch Railway to the Con- 
side Ironworks, to acquire additional Lands, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of the Mid-Kent Railway Company, Mid-Kent 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Mid- Railway 
Kent Railway Company to make certain Kailways eireelon.) 
from their Terminus at Beckenham to Croydon, an 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders. 


A Petition of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Newry and 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling Enniskillen 
the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Company to — 
construct their Railway as far as the City of Armagh, 
and changing the Name of the Company, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Stockport, 
Bridge Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Disley and 
Bill to empower the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Manned wae 
Bridge Railway Company to extend their Railwa . 
to Buxton, and for other purposes connected with 
their Undertaking, was presented, and read; and 
— to the Select Committee on Standing 

rders. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Undertaking Aberdeen, 
thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill Peterhead and 
for making a Railway from Aberdeen to Peterhead —" 

y- 
and Fraserburgh, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 


mittee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Parliamentary Trustees of the River Clyde Navi- 
Clyde and Harbour of Glasgow, for leave to bring s4tion. 
in a Bill to continue or renew the Powers Pood enn, 
on the Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of 
Glasgow; to take Lands and execute Works for 
the improvement of the Navigation; to confirm a 
Conveyance of the Govan Ferry and adjoining 


‘Ground to the said Trustees, and for other P ong so 8ee 


was presented, and read; and referred to 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


e Select 


A Petition of the East Kent Railway Company, East Kent 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the East Railwa 
Kent Railway Company to extend their Railway i Mary's 
from Strood, to join the Mid-Kent Railway ( Bromley Cray, fee.) 
to Saint Mary’s Cray) at Saint Mary's Cray, and 
to make a Branch Railway to Chatham Dockyard, 
and for other purposes connected with their Under- 
taking, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


ae — of ay coe Southern and Western Great 
ilway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to Southern 
enable the Great Southern and Western Railway iad na 
Company to make a Railway from Zullamore to Railway. 
Athlone, and for other purposes, was presented, and 

read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Beamish and Mr. De Vere. 


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A Petition of the Waterford and Tramore Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend and 
extend the Provisions of “ The Waterford and Tra- 
more Railway Act, 1851,” and to enable the Water- 
ford and Tramore Railway Company to make a 
Deviation or Extension of their Line of Railway ; 
to revive and exte::d their Powers, and increase their 
Capital, and for oiler purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Grogan and Mr. Alexander. 





Waterford 
Railway. 





Carlisle 
and Hawick 
Railway. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are there- | 
unto subscribed, and of the Caledonian Railway 
Compariy, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway from the Caledonion Railway, near Moss- 
band Hall, in Cumberland, to Hawick, with Lines to 
Canobie Colliery, and to the Hawick Station of the 
North British Railway, and for other purposes, was | 

resented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
~_ ht in accordingly, by the Earl of Dalkeith and | 

r. Elliot. 





Bathgate, 
Airdrie and 


Coatbridge 
Railway. 


A Petition of Persons thereunto subscribing, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway and | 
Branch Railways to connect the Towns and Mineral | 
Districts of Bathgate, Airdrie and Coatbridge, in, 
the Counties of Linlithgow and Lanark, and for | 
other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. | 
Cochrane, Mr. Baird and Mr. George Dundas. | 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide First 
Report. 


Petitions relating to Paper ;—Property and In- 
come Tax ;— Wine ;— China ;—Civil Service Su- 
perannuation Fund ;— Convicts ;— John Harrison ; 
—and, Medical Officers of Unions,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Glasgow Gas. =A Petition of the Glasgow Gas-Light Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Glasgow 
Gas-Light Company to raise a further Sum of 
Money, and for other purposes, was presented, and | 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- | 
cordingly, by Mr. Alexander Hastie and Sir James | 
Anderson. 





Tweed River 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing the 
Fisheries. 


Acts thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for better regulating the Fisheries in the River 
Tweed, and the Streams running into the same, and 
at the Mouth or Entrance of the said River, was 
ata and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 

rought in accordingly, by Mr. Marjoribanks and 
Mr. yt Forster. 





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Leave of 


Ordered, That Sir Edward Dering have leave of 
Absence. j 


absence till Easter, on account of ill health. 


Sir John Ramsden reported from the Committee 
appointed to draw up an Address, to be presented 
to Her Majesty, That they had drawn up an Ad- 
dress sitctlbaiy and the same was read, as fol- 
Toweth : 


Address 
reported, and 


agreed to. 


Most Gracious Sovereign, 
We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Subjects, , 


the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great | 


4° Februarit. 


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13 


been overcome in a satisfactory manner, and the 
intentions of the Treaty have been fully maintained : 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for informin 
us that an msurrectionary movement which took 
place in September last in the Swiss Canton of Neu- 
chatel, for the purpose of re-establishing in that 
Canton the authority of the King of Prussia as Prince 
of Neuchdtel, led to serious differences between his 
Prussian Majesty and the Swiss Confederation, 
threatening at one time to disturb the general 
Peace of Europe : 

We also thank Your Majesty for informing us 


| that, in concert with Your august Ally the Emperor 


of the French, Your Majesty is endeavouring to 
bring about an amicable settlement of the matters 
in dispute, and that Your Majesty entertains a con- 
fident expectation that an honourable and satisfac- 
tory arrangement will be concluded : 

We beg to convey to Your Majesty our humble 
thanks for informing us, that in consequence of 


‘certain discussions which took place during the 


Conferences at Paris, and which are recorded in 
the Protocols that were laid before us, Your Ma- 
jesty and the Emperor of the French caused Com- 


| munications to be made to the Government of the 


King of the Two Sicilies, for the purpose of inducing 
him to adopt a course of policy calculated to avert 
dangers which might disturb that Peace which had 
been so recently restored to Europe : 

We learn with regret that the manner in which 
those friend!y Communications were received by his 
Sicilian Majesty was such as to lead Your Majes 
and the Emperor of the French to discontinue di- 
plomatic relations with his Sicilian Majesty, and 
that You have, accordingly, withdrawn Your Mis- 
sions from the Court of Naples; and we thank 
Your Majesty for having directed that Papers re- 
lating to this subject shall be laid before us: 

We thank Your Majesty for acquainting us that 
Your Majesty has been engaged in negotiations 
with the Government of the United States, and also 
with the Government of Honduras, which Your 
Majesty trusts will be successful in removing all 
cause of misunderstanding with respect to Central 
America : 

We beg to offer our thanks to Your Majesty for 
the assurance that Your Majesty has concluded a 
Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with Siam, 
which will be laid before us : 

We assure Your Majesty that we participate in 
the expression of Your regret that the conduct 
of the Persian Government has led to hostilities 
‘between Your Majesty and the Shah of Persia, 
and that the Persian Government, in defiance of 
repeated warnings, and in violation of its engage- 


| ments, has besieged and captured the important City 


of Herat : 

| We thank Your Majesty for informing us that 
'a British Naval and Military Force, despatched 
from Bombay, has taken possession of the Island of 
| Karrack, and of the Town of Bushire, with a view 
| to induce the Shah to accede to the just demands 
|of Your Majesty’s Government; and we learn with 
Forces em- 
their accus- 


' satisfaction that the Naval and Mili 
loyed on this occasion have display 

tomed gallantry and spirit : 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for informing 


Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg | us that acts of violence, insults to the British Flag, 
leave to convey to Your Majesty our thanks for the and infraction of Treaty Rights committed by the 
gracious Speech which Your Majesty has commanded | local Chinese Authorities at Canton, and a perti- 
to be made to both Houses of Parliament: _nacious refusal of redress, have rendered it necessary 
We thank Your Majesty for assuring us that ; for Your Majesty's Officers in China to have recourse 
Your Majesty has great satisfaction in recurring to measures of force to obtain satisfaction : 
again to the advice and assistance of Your Par-| We beg to express our thanks to Your Majesty 
liament : |for informing us that those measures had, up to the 
We beg to express our thanks to Your Majesty | date of the last accounts, been taken with great for- 
for informing us that difficulties, which arose in re- | bearance, but with signal success as regards the 
d to some of the provisions of the Treaty of | conflicts to which they had led ; and we assure Your 
aris, delayed the complete execution of the stipu- | Majesty that we concur with Your Majesty in trust- 
lations of that Treaty, but that those difficulties have ling that the Government of Pekin will see the pro- 
Vo, 112. ; c3 priety 































priety of affording the satisfaction demanded, and of 
faithfully fulfilling its Treaty gements : 

We k Your Majesty for having directed that 
the Estimates for the ensuing year shall be laid 
before us, and for the assurance that they have been 
prepared with every attention to economy, and with 
a due regard to the efficient performance of the 
Public Service at home and abroad : 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for acquainting 
us that Bills will be submitted to our consideration 
for the consolidation and the amendment of important 
portions of the Law; and we assure Your Majesty 
that we will give our earnest attention to matters so 
deeply affecting the interests of all classes of Your 
Majesty’s Subjects : 

e assure Your Majesty that we will take into 
our careful consideration the expediency of renew- 
ing for a further period the privileges of the Bank 
of England, the conditions imposed on the issue of 
Bank Notes in the United Kingdom, and the state 
of the Law relating to Joint Stock Banks: 

We ee in the gratification which it affords 
Your Majesty to witness the general well-being and 
contentment of Your People, and to find that, not- 
withstanding the sacrifices unavoidably attendant 
upon such a War as that which has lately terminated, 
the resources of the Country remain unimpaired, 
and its productive industry continues unchecked in 
its course of progressive development : 

We beg humbly to thank Your Majesty for in- 
forming us that Your Majesty commits with confi- 
dence the great interests of the Country to our wis- 
dom and care, and, in common with Your Majesty, 
we fervently pray that the blessing of Almighty God 
may attend our deliberations, and prosper our Coun- 
cils, for the advancement of the welfare and happiness 
of Your loyal and faithful People. 

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

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. 


4°59 Februariz. 


A. 1857. 


Secretary of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, #rv2ey and 
and of the President, Vice-President and Secretary 
of the Manchester Commercial Association, and elso 
of the Great Western Railway Company, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for consolidating the Doeks at 
Liverpool and Birkenhead into one Estate, and for 
vesting the control and management of them in one 
Public Trust, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Oliveira 
and Mr. Milligan. 








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


Kitchen and Ordered, That a Standing Committee be appointed, 

ey ll to control the arrangements of the Kitchen and 

of Commons.) Refreshment Rooms in the Department of the Ser- 
jeant-at-Arms attending this House :—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Colonel [rench, Colonel 
Dunne, Mr. Hayter,Colonel Boldero, Mr. Archibald 
Hastie, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, and Mr. Hume. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 





Judgments Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Execution, &amp;c. + render Judgments or Decreets obtained in certain 
Courts in England, Scotland and Jreland respec- 
tively, effectual in anv other part of the United 
Kingdom: And that Mr. Craufurd and Mr. Dun- 
lop do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the 
urposes thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring 
in a\Bill for better supplying with Water the Inha- 
bixants of the Borough of Portsmouth, in the County 
of Southampton, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Francis Baring and Viscount Monck. 


Portsmouth 
Water. 


Judgments Mr. Craufurd presented a Bill to render Judg- 
Exyoution, &amp;c- ments or Decreets obtained in certain Courts in 
Bill 1 England, Scotland and Ireland respectively, etfec- 
* tual in any other part of the United ; 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upom Wednesday next ; 

and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to County County 
Elections, which was presented upon the 12th day of Elections. 
June 1856, be printed. No, 2. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Customs Customs 
Duties, which was presented upon the 3d day of Duties. 
this instant February, be printed. No. 3. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Grants for we for 
Religious Purposes, which was presented upon the p¢?s!ous 
3d day of this srl February, os printed. er" 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Queen Queen Anne’s 


Anne's Bounty, which was presented upon the 3d Bounty. 
day of this instant February, be printed. No. 5. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Metropolitan Metropolitan 
Improvements, which was presented upon the 3d Improve- 
day of this instant February, be printed. ae ‘ 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Factories, Factories. 
which was presented upon the 3d day of thisinstant No, 7, 
February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Highways Highways 
(Metropolis), which was presented upon the 3d day (Metropolis. ) 
of this instant February, be printed. No. 8. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Traffic with Traffic with 
France, which was presented upon the 3d day of #rance. 
this instant February, be printed. No. 9. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Tormage of Tonnage of 
Vessels, which was presented upon the 3d day of V*sls- 
this instant February, be printed. No. 10. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to Oxford Oxford 
University, which were presented upon the 3d day University. 
of this instant February, be printed. No. 11. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Jovis, 5° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


M® Speaker laid upon the Table, — Report Great 
from one of the Examiners of Petitions for a 
Private Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the og Ireland 
Standing Orders in the case of the Petition for the Railway. 
Great Northern and Western of Jreland Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Subscribers to the Undertaking Bristol, South 
thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill been we 
for making Railways between the City of Bristol Union Rail. 
and the South Wa/es Railway, in the County of way. 
Monmouth, with a Steam Ferry across the River 
Severn, in connexion therewith, for the purpose of 
improving the Railway communication between 
South Woles and Bristol, Southampton and the 
South Western Districts of England, was presented, 
and read ; ~ . a ne —— to be brought in 

i y Mr. Henry and Mr. Henry 
wg ae tn heley y 


A Petition of a Quorum of the Commissioners and Tweed 
Overseers appointed and acting under the Acts Fisheries. 





thereinafter- 


A Petition of the President, Vice-President. and Mersey Con- - 





Poe 


Nor 
Rail 


ef 


Her 
Catl 


gay 


Pr 


Pulteney 
Town 
Harbour. 


North Western A Petition of the North Western Railway Com- 


Railway. 


Burslem and 


90 Vicroriz. 


thereinafter-mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to consolidate and amend the Acts for the more 
effectual preservation and increase of Salmon, and 
the regulation of the Fisheries in the River Tweed, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Sir Henry Davie, Mr. 
Elliot and Mr. Edward Ellice. 


A Petition of the British Society for extending 
the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of this 
Kingdom, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the 
British Fisheries Society to enlarge, improve and 
maintain Pulteney Harbour, in the County of 
Caithness, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Traill, Mr. Laing and Mr. 
Archibald Hastie. 


pany for leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing the 
orth Western Railway Company to divert a portion 
of their Railway; and to enter into arrangements | 
with other Companies, and for other purposes with | 
relation to their said Railway, was presented, and | 





| 


A Petition of a Quorum or Board of the Directors | 


cordingly, by Mr. Milligan and Mr. Oliveira. 


5° Februariz. 





15 


cordingly, by Mr. John Lewis Ricardo and Mr. 
Leveson Gower. 





A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Kinross-shire 


subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for maki 
Railway from the Dunfermline Branch of the Edin- 
burgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, to Kinross, with 
a Branch to Kingseat, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Edward Ellice and 
Mr. Fergus. 


aq Railway. 


A Petition of the Blyth and Tyne Railway Com- Blyth and 


pany, for leave to brmg in a 
enlarge some of the Provisions of “The Blyth and 
Tyne Railway Consolidation and Extensions Act, 
1854;” to authorize the relinquishment of a Branch 
Railway authorized by that Act, and the construc- 
tion of other Railways and Works in comexion 
with the Blyth and Tyne Railway, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Liddell and Mr. Beaumont. 


ill to amend and 7 


'yne Railway. 


A Petition of the Portadown and Dungannon Portadownand 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac-| Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to — 


amend and enlarge the Powers of the Acts relating 
to the Portadown and Dungannon Railway Com- 


pany, and to enable that Company to extend their 


Tunstall Gas. of the Burslem and Tunstall Gas-Light Company, ; Railway to the Town of Omagh, im the County of 


Fife and Kin- 
ross Railway. 


‘Hereford 
Cathedral 
‘Restoration. 


Dublin and 
Wicklow 
Railway. 


Monkland 
‘Railways. 


Kidegrove 
dal 


Market, Town 
ly MWC, 


for leave to bring in a Bill for incorporating the | 
Burslem and Tunstall Gas-Light Company, and ex- 
tending their Powers, and for authorizing additional 
Works, and the raising of further Monies, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; anda Bill | 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. | 
Child and Mr. Leveson Gower. 


A Petition of the Fife and Kinross Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Fife | 
and Kinross Railway Company to deviate part of 
their Main Line, and to make an Extension from | 
Milnathort to Lumphinans, with a Branch to Kelty, | 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to | 
be brought in accordingly, by Sir Graham Mont-, 
gomery and Mr. Johnstone. 


} 
A Petition uf the Dean and Chapter of the Cathe- | 
dral Church of Hereford, for leave to bring ina Bill, | 
for authorizing the Dean and Chapter of Hereford | 
to raise Money for the repair of the Cathedral Church 
of Hereford, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
King King and Mr. Clifford. 


A Petition of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to confirm the 
incorporation of the Undertaking of the Dublin and 
Bray Railway Company with that of the Dublin 
and Wicklow Railway Company; to dissolve the 
former Company, and to extend the Railway in the 
City of Dublin, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Grogan and Mr. Whiteside. 


A Petition of the Monkland Railways Company, 
for leave to bring ina Bill to enable the Monkland 
Railways Company to make and maintain certain 
Railways in the Counties of Zanark and Linlithgow, | 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. Alexander Hastie and Sir Archibald 
Campbell, 


A Petition of William Cooper, of Port Hill Villa, 
in the Parish of Wolstanton, in the County of Staf-' 
ford, for leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment 
and regulation of a Market and Town Hall in Kids- 
grove, in the County of Stafford, was presented, and 


Tyrone, and to enter into certain arrangements with 
the Ulster and other Railway Companies with respect 
to the Working and Leasing of the Railway, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Lord Claud Hamilton, Mr. Corry and Mr. Stuart 


Knoz. 


A Petition of the Great Southern and Western Mallow and 


Railway Company, and of the Mallow and Fermoy 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
authorize the Lease or Sale of the Mallow and Fer- 
moy Railway to the Great Southern and Western 
Railway Company, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. French and Mr. Beamish. 


Fermoy 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Electric Telegraph Company, Electric 


for leave to bring in a Bill for granting further 
Powers to the Electric Telegraph Company, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by the Marquis of Stafford 
and Lord Alfred Paget. 


A Petition of the Great Western and Brentford 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Great Western and Brentford Railway 
Company to raise additional Capital, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Lord 
Robert Grosvenor and Mr. Osborne. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway from the Llantrissant Station of the South 
Wales Railway, to Penrhiwfer, in the Parish of 
Liantrissant, in the County of Glamorgan, with 
Branches to G/anmychydd and Mynydd Gellyrnaidd, 
both in the said Parish of Lilantrissant, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir George Tyler and 
Mr. Henry Bruce. 


A Petition of the Dorset Central Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing an 
Extension of the Dorset Central Railway, and for 
regulating the Capital of the Dorset Central Railway 
Company, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. Floyer and 








zead ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
Vou. 112, 


Mr. Sturt. 


c4 A Petition 


Telegraph 
Company. 


Great Western 
and Brentford 
ailway. 


Ely Valley 
Railway. 


Dorset Central 
Railway. 
























































16 


arene x A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 

‘Anuntiment’ Norfolk Estuary, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
alter, amend and consolidate the Acts relating to 
the Company of Proprietors of the Norfolk Estuary, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Fellowes and 
Mr. Wells. 





A Petition of the Portsmouth Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling the Ports- 
mouth Railway Company to construct new Railways 
and execute other Works, and to use a portion of 
the London and South Western, and London, 
Brighton and South Coast Railways, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Man- 
gles and Mr, Bonham Carter. 


Portsmouth 
ilway. 


Wilmslowand A Petition of Trustees of the Wilmslow and Lawton 

Lawton Rend. Turnpike Road, for leave to bring in a Bill for con- 
tinuing the Term, and amending and extending the 
Provisions of the Act relating to the Wilmslow and 
Lawton Turnpike Road, in the County of Chester, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Sir Philip Egerton 
and Mr. Tollemache. 


Cork and 
Bandon Rail- 
way. 


A Petition of the Cork and Bandon Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to revive and ex- 
tend the Powers of the Cork and Bandon Railway 
Company, for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, 
for the purposes of the Bantry Extension Railway, 
and to extend the Powers of that Company for the 
compulsory Purchase of Lands for the purposes of 
the Skibbereen Branch Railway, and to extend the 


5° Februari. 








A, 1857. 


for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Glasgow Gas-Light Com- Glasgow Gas 
pany to raise a further Sum of Money, and for other Pill. 
purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for supplying the Burgh of Dumbarton, Dumbarton 
and Places adjacent, with Water; for embanking _— &amp;e. 
and reclaiming the Broad Meadow there ; and for 
extending the Municipal Boundaries of the said 
Burgh, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to make further Provision for supplying Chester Water 
with Water the City of Chester and Suburbs thereof Bill, 

was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 

second time. 





A Bill to amend the Jnverness and Nairn Rail- Inverness 
way Act, 1854; to enable the Jnverness and Nairn ye Ley 
Railway Company to create a Preference Stock, . 
and to raise further Sums of Money, and for other 
ey erp was read the first time; and ordered to 

e read a second time. 


A Bill for the Maintenance, Regulation and Im- Watchet _ 
provement of Watchet Harbour, in the County of Harbour Bilt 
Somerset, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for authorizing the West Somerset Mineral West Somerset 
Railway Company to make the Minehead Extension Mineral Rail- 
and the Cleeve Branch, and for other purposes, was “** Bill. 








respective Periods now limited for the construction 
of those Railways; and to alter the Provisions of 
“ The Cork and Bandon Railway Act, 1853,’ with 
respect to Contributions by certain portions of the 


read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for exempting Vessels resorting to Docks Liverpool and 





County of Cork, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be | 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Beamish and Mr. | 
Deasy. 


A Petition of the Great Southern and Western 

. Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Great Southern and Western Railway 
Company to raise a further Sum of Money, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Beamish and Mr. 
De Vere. | 


North Staf- = A Petition of the Right honourable Francis Eger- | 

pon «Tg ton Earl of Ellesmere, the Right honourable George | 

water Canals.) William Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Granville | 
Egerton, Viscount Brackley, Francis Egerton, Alger- 
non Egerton, Arthur Frederick Egerton, Lord Ro-| 
bert Grosvenor, and the North Staffordshire Rail- | 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to vest in | 
the North Staffordshire Railway Company the Duke 
of Bridgewater's Canal, and the Mersey and Irwell 
Navigation, and the Runcorn and Weston Canal, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. John Lewis Ri- 


cardo. 


Great 
Southern 
and Western 
Railway 
(Capital. ) 








Caledonian A Petition of Persons thereunder-signed, and of | 
ae the Caledonian Railway Company, for leave to bring 
ranton.) in a Bill to enable the Ca/edonian Railway Com- 
pany to construct Branch Railways from their Line 
near Edinburgh to Granton, and tor other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to | 
be brought in accordingly, by the Earl of Dalkeith, 
Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Black. 
Carlisle A Bill for making a Railway from the Caledonian 
Seubeey Bil Railway, near Mossband Hall, in Cumberland, to 


Hawick, with Lines to Canobie Colliery, and to the 
Hawick Station of the North British Railway, and 








in the County Palatine of Chester, and the Cargoes Birkenhead 
thereof, from the Payment of certain Dues to the a 
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 


A Bill to incorporate the Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford- 
Gas Company, was read the first time ; and ordered Aa — 
to be read a second time, a - 


A Bill to enable the. Whitehaven, Cleator and Whitehaven, 
Egremont Kailway Company to raise additional Cleator and 
Capital, and for other purposes, was read the first Railway Bill 


time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Whitehaven and Furness Whitehaven 
Junction Railway Company to raise additional Ca- yo b+ 
pital, and for other purposes, was read the first Railway Bill. 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for improving, repairing and regulating Watchet Har- 
the Harbour of Watchet, in the County of Somerset, bour Trust 
and for other purposes connected therewith, was 

read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 

time. 


A Bill to amend the East Kent Railway (Ex- East Kent 
tension to Dover) Act, 1855, was read the first a 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Dover) Bill. 


A Bill for authorizing the Zondon and South Iondon and 
Western Railway Company and others to make South Western 
Deviations from their authorized Lines of Railway Rellway Ace 
and other Works, and for authorizing divers other Bill. 
matters affecting that Company and other Com- 
panies and Undertakings, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


second time. 


A Bill to enable the New River Company to raise New River 
a further Sum of Money, to construct other Sewers Company 
at 


Uni 














20 Vicroriz. 


at Hertford, and to amend the Acts relating to the 
Company, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


Lewes and A Bill for making a Railway from Lewes to Uck- 
vay Bill ” field, all in the County of Susser, was read the 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Reading Rail- 


A Bill to empower the Staines, Wokingham and 
ways Junction 


Woking Railway Company to make a Railway to 


ney ae connect the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Rail- 
way with the Great Western Railway, and for other 
purposes connected with their Undertaking, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a se- 

cond time. 
Oldham, 4 A Bill for the Construction of Railways to supply 
on ®F* direct Communication between Oldham, Ashton- 


Guide Bridge under-Lyne, and (iuide Bridge, and for the Accom- 
Junction - modation of the Neighbourhood, was read the first 
Railways Bill. tie; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Portsmouth A Bill for better supplying with Water the Inha- 

Water Bill — bitants of the Borough of Portsmouth, in the County 
of Southampton, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 

Victoria A Bill for authorizing the Victoria (London) Dock 

a Company to make a new Cut eastward of their 
Dock, and to raise additional Capital, and for other 
eo was read the first time; and ordered to 

read a second time. 

Peebles Rail- A Bill to enable the Peebles Railway Company 

Railway Bill. to create additional Shares in their Undertaking, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 

Leslie Rail- A Bill for making a Railway from the Edinburgh, 

way Bill. Perth and Dundee Railway, at Markinch Station, 


to the Town of Leslie, with Branches to Auchmuty 
Mills, Leven Bank Mill, and Prinlaws Lower Mills, 
and other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time, 


SouthDurham A Bill for making a Railway commencing by a 


a Junction with the Haggarleazes Branch of the 
way Bill, Stockton and Darlington Railway near the Lands 
Colliery, in the County of Durham, and terminating 
by a Junction with the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail- 
way at or near Zebay, in the County of Westmore- 
land ; and for making Arrangements with the Stock- 
ton and Jarlington, the Darlington and Barnard 
Castle, and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 
Companies, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 
Bathgate, A Bill for making a Railway and Branch Rail- 
_ _ ways to connect the Towns and Mineral Districts of 
Railway Bil. Bathgate, Airdrie and Coatbridge, in the Counties 
of Linlithgow and Lanark, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 
erg A Bill for carrying into effect certain Provisions 
on mao. of “The Birkenhead Docks Act, 1855,” relating to 
Bill. the Management of the Birkenhead Docks, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 
Birkenhead A Bill for carrying into effect certain Provisions 
me of “The Birkenhead Docks Act, 1855,” in relation 
Bill. to the Construction and Completion of the Birken- 
head Docks, for authorizing Alterations therein, and 
New Works, and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 
——. A Bill for authorizing the Blackburn Railway 


Company to make and maintain Extensions of their 
mo: and for regulating the Capital of the Com- 
OL. 112, 


5° Februaris. 


17 


pany, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Birkenhead, Lancashire Birkenhead, 
and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to pur- Lancashire 
chase or hire Steam Boats; to stop up part of Can- fee 
ning-street, in Birkenhead, and for other purposes, way Bill. 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Great Western, Bristol and Cornwall 
Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies to Bailway Bill. 
afford further Assistance towards the Completion of 
the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and Truro; 
for extending the Time for the Completion thereof, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Ely Tidal Harbour and I a . 
Railway Company to construct Railways to, and a p°)-0Ur me 
Dock and other Works on or adjoini the South- =v 5 
west Bank of the River Ely, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Lancaster Lancaster 


and Carlisle Railway, in the Parish of Kendal, in pom hoon 
the County of Westmoreland, to the North Western Railway Bill. 


Railway, at or near Jngleton, in the West Riding of 
the County of York, with a Branch therefrom, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Manchester, Sheffield and Manchester, 
Lincolnshire Railway Company to make a Railway Sheffield and 
from the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway 
Railway to Buzton, and a Railway to Cleethorpes, (Buxton and 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; and Pisethorpes) 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Manchester, 4 and Manchester, 
Lincolnshire Railway Company to make Railways Sheffield and 
to Romiley, New Mills, Bugsworth, Crist Quarry and — 
Hayfield, and for other purposes, was read the first (Romiley, &amp;c.) 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Bill. 


A Bill to enable the North Eastern Railway Com- North Eastern 
pany to cancel unissued and forfeited Shares, to create Railway _ 
new Shares in lieu. thereof, and raise authorized (Capital) Bill. 
Capital, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to re-incorporate Price’s Patent Candle Price's Patent 
Company (Limited), and for other purposes, was poo sg 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second °™”Y 
time. 


A Bill for enabling the South Deron Railway Com- South Devon 
pany to raise additional Capital, and for other pur- ®ilway Bill. 
poses, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Taff Vale Railway Com- Taff Vale 
pany to construct new Lines of Railway; to alter, ®#ilway Bill. 
widen and improve Portions of their existing Rail- 
way, and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Time for the compulsory Pur- Exeter and 
chase of Lands for Parts of the Exeter and Exmouth — ' 

. . way Bill. 
Railway, and to extend the Time for completing 
such Railway, was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Great Southern and Western Goons 
Railway Company to make a Railway from Tu/la- Southern 
more to Athlone, and for other purposes, was read Fo ag 


the first time; and ordered to be read a second Railway Bill, 





time. 
D A Bill 






















































Kidsgrove 
Market Bill. 


North Level 
Drainage Bill. 


Glas, Cit 
and Suburban 
Gas Bill. 


Waterford 
and Tramore 
Railway Bill. 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill. 


Tyne Im- 
provement 
Bill. 


. 


Tweed River 
Fisheries Bill. 


Tilbury, 
Maldon and 
Colchester 
Railway Bill 


Brighton, Hove 
and Preston 
Constant Ser- 
vice Water 
Bill. 


and Rostrevor 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolitan 
New Streets 
and Improve- 
ments Bill. 


Wearmouth 
Bridge, 
Ferries and 
papeenence 
Bi 


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A Bill to establish Markets and Fairs in the 
Parish of Kidsgrove, in the County of Stafford, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for improving the North Level Drainage, 
and for other purposes relating to the Level, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for granting further Powers to the City and 
Suburban Gas Company of Glasgow, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to amend and extend the Provisions of 
“The Waterford and Tramore Railway Act, 1851,” 
and to enable the Waterford and Tramore Railway 
Company to make a Deviation or Extension of their 
Line of Railway ; to revive and extend their Powers, 
and increase their Capital, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for consolidating the Docks at Liverpool 
and Birkenhead into one Estate, and for vesting the 
Control and Management of them in one public 
Trust, and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to amend and enlarge the Provisions of the 
Acts relating to the River Zyne, and to enable 
the Tyne Improvement Commissioners to construct 
Docks at Coble Dean, and certain Works for the 
Improvement of such River, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for better regulating the Fisheries in the 
River Tweed, and the Streams running into the same, 
and at the Mouth or Entrance of the said River, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for making a Railway, with Branches, from 
the London, Tilbury and Southend Extension Rail- 
way to the Towns of Maldon, Colchester aud Burn- 
ham, in the County of Essez, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to grant further Powers to “The Brighton, 
Hove and Preston Constant Service Waterworks 
Company,” and to amend the Act relating to the 
Company, was read the first time ; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Newry, Warrenpoint and 
Rostrevor Railway Company to extend their Rail- 
way at Newry and at Warrenpoint, and to enter into 
Arrangements with the Mewry and Enniskillen Rail- 
way Company, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works 
to open certain New Streets in the City and Liberties 
of Westminster, and in the Borough of Southwark, 
wa; read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to repeal the Provisions of the Acts re- 
lating to the Bridge and Ferries across the River 
Wear, in the Borough of Sunderland, and to grant 
further Powers for the Maintenance and Improve- 
ment of such Bridge and Ferries, and the Ap- 
proaches and Landing-places connected therewith, 
or for the Erection of a New Bridge in lieu of the 
existing Bridge across such River, was read the first 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 





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A. 1857. 


A Bill for more effectually supplying with Gas Sunderland 
the Town and Borough of Sunderland, and the © Bill. 
Neighbourhood thereof? in the County of Durham, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 





A Bill for constructing and maintaining a Pier at Great 
Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, to be Yarmouth 
called “'The Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier,” was pier Bill. 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. ' 


A Petition of the Scottish Central Railway Com- Scottish Cen- 
y, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the ‘4! Railway. 
Scottish Central Railway Company to make and 
maintain certain Extensions of their Denny Branch, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Cumming Bruce 
and Mr. Blackburn. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Kingston- 
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 Kingston-upon- Hull, 
in the room of Sir William Henry Watson, who, 
since his Election for the said Borough, hath accepted 
the Office of one of the Barons of Her Majesty’s 
Court of Exchequer. 


Petitions relating to Elective Franchise (Scot- Public 

land) ;—Registration of Voters (Scotland) ;—Church Petitions. 
Property (Ireland) ;—County Rates ;—Fire Insu- yige First 
rance ; —Paper;—Property and Income Tax; — Report. 
Queen’s Plates (Jreland) ;—China and Persia ;— 
Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;— Incumbered 
Estates Court (Jreland) ;— Intoxication ;—Masters 
and Servants ;—Metropolis Turnpike Roads ;—and, 
Public-houses (Scotland) Act,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


(Ci 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Copy of a Letter addressed by the Court of Direc- on) 
tors of the East India Company to the Governor yy) 39 
General of Jndia in Council, on the 10th day of meee 
December 1856, relative to the assumption of the 
Government of Oude, and the introduction into that 
Country of a System of Administration superintended 
by British Officers. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said Paper. 

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


Cor 


_ Ordered, That there be laid before this House, East India 
a Copy of the Circular of the Governor General —. 
in Council, dated 28th February 1856, calling for ments, &amp;c.) 
Opinions on the Reports of the Royal Commission 
on Judicial Establishmentsin Jndia :—Extracts from 
a Minute of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, 
dated 30th April 1856, on the Administration of 
Criminal Justice, and on the Age and Inexperience 
of the ‘Magistrates :—And, Copy of Memorial from 
the Missionaries to the Government of Bengal on 
the state of that Province, with the Reply of Govern- 
ment. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Parochial 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Elections. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return setting forth, in Columns—the 
Names of the Parishes in Schedule (A ) of the Act 
18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 120; the Names or Numbers of the 
Wards into which each Parish has been divided 
under the Provisions of the said Act; the Number 
of Parochial Representatives for each Ward; the 
Number of Ratepayers entitled to vote at the Pa- 
rochial Election of November 1855 in each Ward; 
the Number of Persons who voted at that Election ; 
(if there was not any Contest, the Column to be 
filled up “ No Contest;”) and, the Number not 
voting :~-And, Similar Return for Parishes in — 

ule 





Poor Relief 
(Ireland. ) 


East India 


20 Victoriz. 


dule (B.); in case any Parish has not been divided, 
the Returns are to set forth the Name of the Parish ; 
the Number of Ratepayers entitled to vote at the 
Parochial Election of November 1855 ; the Number 
of Persons who voted at that Election; (if there was 
not any Contest, the Column to be filled up “ No 
Contest ;”) and, the Number not voting. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing, by Counties, the Total Number of 
Paupers (In-door and Out-door) in receipt of Relief 
on the first Saturday of January 1856, and the first 
Saturday of January 1857, in the Unions in Ireland, 
specifying the Increase or Decrease in the latter as 
compared with the former period :—Of the Total 
Number of Paupers in receipt of Relief in the Work- 
houses in each Province in Ireland at the close of the 
first Week (ending Saturday) of January 1849, 1350, 
1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1857, 
stating also the Amount of Workhouse Accommoda- 
tion, the Number of Deaths in the Workhouses 
during the Week, the Weekly Rate of Mortality per 
1,000 Inmates, and the Average Weekly Cost of 
Maintenance per Head, exclusive of Clothing; and 
also, for the same periods, a Return of the Number 
of Persons in receipt of Out-door Relief, and the 
Total Expenditure in Out-door Relief during the 
Week :—And, of the Amount of Poor-rate lodged, 
and of the Expenditure of Poor-rates in each Pro- 
vince in Jreland, during the year ended the 29th day 
of September 1856, in comparison with the same 
for the preceding yeat. 


Mr. Seymour presented, pursuant to the direc- 


(CivilService.) ¢ions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of the Regu- 


Constables. 


Ecclesiastical 

Commission 

(Ireland.) 
No. 13. 


Pitcairn’s 
Island. 


Emigration 
(North 
American 
Colonies. ) 


Incumbered 
Estates Court 
(Ireland.) 


lations framed by the Commissioners for the Affairs 
of India for the examination of Candidates for 
appointment to the Civil Service of the East India 
Company. 

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


Mr. Massey presented, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Rules and Re- 
— made by the Secretary of State, for the 

overnment of County and Local Constables. 

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


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Ecclesiastical 
Commission (Ireland), which was presented upon 
the 3d day of this instant February, be printed. 


Mr. Peel presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
—Copy of Correspondence on the subject of removal 
of Inhabitants of Pitcairn’s Island to Norfolk 
Island. 

Mr. Peel also presented,—Return to an Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 25th day of July 1856, 
for Copies or Extracts of Déspatches relative to 
Emigration to the North American Colonies (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 464, of 
Session 1855). 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Number of Absolute Orders for Sale, 
Partition or Exchange of Premises, in Cases at- 
tached to or depefding in the Office of the late Chief 
Commissioner of the Incumbered Estates Court in 
Ireland, pursuant to which Sales, Partitions or 
Exchanges of the Premises therein contained had 
not been effected on the 1st day of May 1856 :-— 
Of the Number of Abstracts of Title to the Pre- 
mises ordered to be sold, partitioned or exchanged, 
lodged in the Office of such Chief Commissioner, 
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5° Februari. 


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19 


which had not been approved or disposed cf by him 
on the said 1st day of May 1856 :—Of the Number 
of Abstracts of Title for Sale, Partition or Exchange 
actually in the Office of such Chief Commissioner 
for approval, on the 4th day of December 1856, 
which had not been approved or disposed of by 
him :—And, of the Number of Schedules of Incum- 
brances actually in the said Office on the 4th day of 
December 1856, and not disposed of by the said 
late Chief Commissioner, 
















































































Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Hudson’s Bay 
to consider the state of those British Possessions in Company. 
North America which are under the Administration 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company, or over which they 
possess a License to trade. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Ionian Sub- 
enable the Subjects of the Jonian States to hold Jt Com- 
Military and Naval Commissions under the Crown: 
And that Mr. Secretary Labouchere and Mr. John 
Ball do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Norfolk Island 
to amend so much ofan Act, intituled,“ An Act to re- (Ecclesiastical 
peal the Acts of Parliament now in force respecting stapes eo 
the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in Her 
Majesty’s «ustralian Colonies, and to make other 
Provision in lieu thereof,” as relates to the Ecclesias- 
tical Government of i 5 Island: And that Mr. 

Secretary Labouchere and Mr. John Ball do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Notices of 
posed, That Notices of Motions on going into Motions. 
Committee of Supply on the Estimates shall have 
precedence only on alternate days:—And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Imprisonment 
to amend the Law of Imprisonment for Debt, to %* Debt, &amp;c. 
extend the remedies of Creditors, and to punish 
fraudulent Debtors: And that Mr. Pellatt and 
Mr. Hadfield do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, Public 
to whom shall be referred all Petitions presented to Petitions. 
the House, withthe exception of such as complain of 
undue Returns, or-relate to Private Bills; and that 
such Committee do classify and prepare Abstracts of 
the same, in such form and manner as shall appear 
to them best suited to convey to the House lee 
quisite information respecting their contents, and do 


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 Peti- 
tions, as shall appear to require it:—And that such 
Committee have Power to report their Opinion and 
Observations thereupon to the House :—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. 
Thornely, Admiral Jones, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Scott, 
Mr. Adderley, Mr. Owen Stanley, Mr. Henry Aus- 
tin Bruce, Mr. Liddell, Mr. Gregson, Mr. De Vere, 
Mr. Lloyd Davies, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. Wise and 
Mr. Dillwyn. 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Criminals. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of all Memorials or Addresses to the 
Secretary of State for the Home Department from 
any Public Bodies, in reference to the criminal state 
of the Country, during the year 1856 and up to the 
present time. 

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 Comet. 

D2 e 





jects’ Com- 
missions Bill. 


Bill 2. 


Norfolk Island 


20 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Speech of the Lords 
Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament ; and 
the same was again read by Mr. Speaker. 

And a Motion being made, That a Supply be 
granted to Her Majesty ; 

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


Mr. Secretary Lubouchere presented a Bill to 
enable the Subjects of the Jonian States to hold 
Military and Naval Commissions under the Crown : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Friday the 13th day 
of this instant February ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented a Bill to 


(Ecclesiastical amend so much of an Act, intituled, “ An Act to re- 


Government) 
Bill. 


Bill 3. 


Nene Valley 
Drainage and 
Navigation 
Improvement. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt, &amp;c. 
Bill. 

Bill 4. 


Thames and 
Medway 
Conservancy. 


Metropolitan 


peal the Acts of Parliament now in force respecting 
the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in 
Her Majesty's Australian Colonies, and to make 
other Provision in lieu thereof,” as relates to the 
Ecclesiastical Government of Norfolk Island: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Friday the 13th day of this 
instant February ; and to be printed. 


A Petition of the Nene Valley Drainage and Na- 
vigation Improvement Commissioners, and of Owners 
or Occupiers of Lands subject to taxation under the 


Acts thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a | 
Bill for granting further Powers to the Nene Val- | 
ley Drainage and Navigation Improvement Com- | 


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A. 1857. 


a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir James Duke and Mr. Masterman. 


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 for leave to bring in a Bill 
for abolishing the Court of Hustings und certain 
Jurisdiction of the Sheriffs’ Courts of the City of 
London, and for amending the Process, Practice and 
mode of Pleading in the Mayor's Court, and for ex- 
tending the Jurisdiction thereof, was read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir James Duke, Mr. Masterman and Mr. Thomas 
Chambers. 


Ma: 
of t 


r’s Court 
City of 
London. 


The House being informed, That the Sheriffs of Burial of the 
Dead within 


the City of Zondon attended at the door, they were 
called in; and at the Bar presented,—A Petition of 


City of London, in Common Council assembled :—- 
And then they withdrew. 

And the said Petition for leave to bring in a Bill 
to amend an Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth 
years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen 
Victoria, intituled, “ An Act to amend the Laws 
concerning the Burial of the Dead in the Metropolis, 
so far as relates to the City of London, and the 
Liberties thereof,’ was read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Sir James Duke 


missioners for the completion of the Works in the | and Mr. Masterman. 


third District of Drainage, and for authorizing them 
to raise further Money, and for other purposes, was | 


brought in accordingly, by Mr. Hankey and Mr | 
Oliveira. 


Mr. Hadfield presented a Bill to amend the Law 
of Imprisonment for Debt, to extend the remedies of 
Creditors, and to punish fraudulent Debtors: 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 adjourned till To-morrow. 





Veneris, 6° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 





they were called in; and at the Bar presented,—A | 


Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Com- 
mons of the City of London, in Common Council 
assembled :—And then they withdrew. 

And the said Petition for leave to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the Conservation of the Rivers Thames 
and Medway, and for the Regulation, Management 
and Improvement thereof, was read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir James 
Duke, Mr. Masterman and Mr. Thomas Chambers. 


The House being informed, That the Sheriffs of 


the 


City and 


Liberties of 
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the London. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Hereford 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be | to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 


for the electing of a Citizen to serve in this present 
Parliament for the City of Hereford, in the room of 


| Sir Robert Price, Baronet, who, since his Election 


for the said City, hath accepted the Office of Steward 
or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of Worthstead, in 


| the County of York. 


A Petition of the West of Fife Mineral Railway west of Fife 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Mineral Rail- 
West of Fife Mineral Railway Company to con- 


struct Branch Railways to Roscobie and Braehead, 
and for certain other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was pen ee to be Ibeonghe in ac- 
cordingly, by Sir James Anderson and Mr. Cumming 
Bruce. 


A Petition of the Norfolk Railway Company, for Norfolk Rail- 
4 bet House being informed, That the Sheriffs leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Norfolk wy. 
of the City of London attended at the door, | Railway Company to subscribe to the Wells and 


Fakenham Railway, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir Samuel Bignold and 
Mr. Cobbold. 


A Petition of William Baird, Esquire, of Elie, Elie Harbour. 


in the County of Fife, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
improving and maintaining the Harbour of Elie, in 
the County of Fife, was presented, and read; anda 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Baird. 


Cattle Market. the City of London attended at the door, they were | A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the Cwm Amman 
called in; and at the Bar presented,—A Petition of | purposes thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring 


the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the 
City of Zondon, in Common Council assembled :— 
And then they withdrew. 

And the said Petition for leave to bring in a Bill 
to amend an Act of the twenty-first year of the 
reign of King George the Third, to prevent the 
mischiefs that arise from driving Cattle within the 
Cities of London and Westminster and Liberties 
thereof, and Bills of Mortality; and also to amend 
the Metropolitan Market Act, 1851, was read ; and 








in a Bill for making a Railway from the Aberdare 
Railway into and along the Amman Valley, in the 
County of Glamorgan, was presented, and read; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Blakemore and Mr. Philipps. 


way. 


A Petition of Directors and Promoters of the Herne Bay and 
Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Company, for Faversham 
leave to bring in a Bill for — 

Herne Bay to Faversham, and fo 


a Railway from 
r other purposes 
connected. 





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20 Vicroriz. 


connected therewith, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered te be brought in accordingly, by 
Captain Leicester Vernon and Mr. Lushingten. 


Mordon Carrs 
Drainage. 


A Petition of Persons interested in the Lands 
thereinafter-mentioned proposed to be drained, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for more effectually draining 
the Mordon a and other Lands in the County 
of Durham, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 

accordingly, by Mr. Farrer and Mr. Atherton. 
Midland 


ae A Petition of the Midland Great Western Rail- 
ag — of Ireland peg rk for leave to bring in 
of Ireland a Bill to enable the Midland Great Westein Rail- 


(Tullamore way of Ireland Company to make a Railway to 
line.) Tullamore, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir Timothy O’Brien and Mr. Blake. 
SelbyandMar- A Petition of Trustees for executing the Acts 
» ab acest thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
repeal the Acts relating to the Selby and Market 
_ Weighton Turnpike Road, in the East Riding of the 
County of York; and to make other Provisions in 
lieu thereof, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Edmund Denison and Mr. Oliveira. 
Prestwich, A Petition of Trustees for executing, the Act 
4 = _ thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
"repairing the Roads from Prestwich to Bury and 
rng. in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and 
for making and maintaining as Turnpike certain 
other Roads in connexion therewith, all in the same 
County, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Peel and Lord Stanley. 
Haslingden A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act there- 
yo — inafter mentioned, for leave to bring ina Bill for 
"repairing the Road from Haslingden to Todmorden, 
and several Branches therefrom, all in the County 
Palatine of Lancaster, and for other purposes, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Colonel Wilson Patten 
and Mr. Heywood. 
New Bruns- A Petition of the Class A. Shareholders of the 
jet ag Saint Andrew’s and Quebec Railroad Company, and 
way and Land Of the Mew Brunswick and Canada Railway and 
Company. Land Company (Limited), for leave to bring in a 
Bill to incorporate the New Brunswick and Canada 
Railway and Land Company, and for other purposes 
relating to the said Company, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Crawshay Bailey and Mr. 
Wickham. 
Andover A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Canal Sale. © Andever Canal Navigation, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the 
Andever Canal Navigation to sell their Undertaking, 
and enabling them to discontinwe the same Naviga- 
tion, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Coles and Mr. 
Alderman Cubitt. 
South Shields A Petition of the South Shields Gas Company, 
mae for leave to bring in a Bill for lighting with Gas the 
Borough of South Shields and neighbourhood 
thereof, in the County of Durham, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Ingham and Lord Adolphus 
Vane Tempest. 
West Hartle- A Petition of the West Hartlepool Harbour and 
ial Rewer Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
and North authorize the Amalgamation of the West Hartle- 
ony Rail- pool Harbour and Railway Company and the North 
panies Amal. Eastern Railway Company, to authorize further 
gamation. Capital and the conversion of Shares and Stock, and 


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21 


for other purposes, was presented, and read; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Farrer and Mr. Atherton. 


A Petition of the Westminster Terminus Railway Westminster 
Extension Company, Clapham to Nurwood, for Terminus 
leave to bring in a Bill for the abandonment of the perenon 
Westminster Terminus Railway Extension, Clap- (Clapham to 
ham to Norwood, and for other purposes, was pre- Norwood 
sented, and read; anda Bill was ordered to be 99g 
brought in accordingly, by Mr Alcock and Mr. 

Pellatt. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Cardigan 

of the Borough of Cardigan, for leave to bring in Markets and 
a Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur-°" PY" 
gesses of the Borough of Cardigan to provide a 
Market-house, and establish and regulate Markets 

and Fairs, and to regulate the supply of Water within 

the Borough, and to pave, light, cleanse, regulate 

and improve the Borough, and for other purposes, 

was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 

be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Lloyd Davies 

and Mr. Saunders Davies. 


A Petition of the Fraserburgh Harbour Commis- Fraserburgh 
sioners, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Harbour. 
Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners to purchase 
Lands, and to borrow a further sum of Money, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Saint Helen’s Canal and Rail- Saint Helen's 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to autho- a 
rize the Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Company " 
to abandon the formation of part of a Branch Rail- 
way at Sutton, to increase and regulate the Capital 
of the Company, and to relieve from Liverpool Town 
and Dock Dues the Commerce resorting to the 
Docks and Canal of the Company, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Colonel Wilson Patten and Mr. 
Greenall. 


A Petition of the South Eastern Railway Com- south Eastern 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the South Railway | 
Eastern Railway Company to make a Railway from SGreenwich 
the North Kent Railway near Greenwich to Dart- Nartford, &amp;.} 
ford; and also to make or complete a short Line of 
Railway at Tunbridge, and to authorize that Com- 
pany to purchase additional Property for the pur- 
poses of their London-bridge Station, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Brockman and Mr. Rich. 


A Petition of John George Barry and Alfred Meriton’s 
Barry, of Dockhead, Bermondsey, in the County of a Hagen’s 
Surrey, Wharfingers, for leave to bring in a Bill for wharves, 
the regulation of certain Public Sufferance Wharves 
in the Port of Zondon, known as “ Meriton’s Suffer- 
ance Wharf,” and “ Hagen’s Sufferance Wharf,’ 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Sir Charles Napier 
and Mr. Oliveira. 


A Bill to alter the borrowing Powers of the Tralee Tralee and 
and Killarney Railway Company, was read the first Killarney 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. Railway Bill. 


A Bill to extend the Limits of the Borough and Hartlepool 
District of Hartlepool; to authorize the Division of py cay . 
the Borough into Wards; to enable the Corporation araaee 
to construct Sea-walls for the protection of the Bill. 
Headland of Hartlepool ; to enable the Local Board 
to make and improve Streets; to confer other 
Powers on the Corporation and the Local Board ; 
Amendment of Acts, and other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 





D3 A Bill 






































































Sittingbourne A Bill to enable the Sittingbourne and Sheerness 

and Sheerness Rajlway Company to alter the Line and Levels of 

Railway Bill Portions of their authorized Line, and abandon 
Portions thereof; to construct New Branches and 
other Works ; to authorize Working Arrangements 
with the East Kent Railway Company; to amend 
“ The Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Act, 
1856,” and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Stockton A Bill to unite and amalgamate the Stockton 
New Gasand New Gas Company and the Stockton Gas Con- 


a sumers’ Company (Limited); and to authorize the 


Companies united Company to raise additional Capital, and to 

Bill. sell their Undertaking to the Mayor, Aldermen and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 

Kinross-shire A Bill for making a Railway from the Dunferm- 


Railway Bill. Jine Branch of the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee 
Railway to Kinross, with a Branch tu Kingseat, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time ; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


Portsmouth A Bill for enabling the Portsmouth Railway Com- 

Railway Bill pany to construct New Railways and execute other 
Works, and to use a Portion of the London and 
South Western, and London, Brighton and South 
Coast Railways, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. ; 


Great Western A Bill to enable the Great Western and Brentford 
and Brentford Railway Company to raise additional Capital, and 


Railway Bill. (&gt;&gt; other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 
Ely Valley A Bill for making a Railway from the Llantrissant 


Railway Bill. Station of South Wales Railway to Penrhiwfer, in 
the Parish of Liantrissant, in the County of Gla- 
morgan, with Branches to Glanmychydd and Mynydd 
Gellyrhaidd, both in the said Parish of Llantrissant, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Dorset Central A Bill for authorizing an Extension of the Dorset 
Railway Bill. Central Railway, for regulating the Capital of the 
Dorset Central Railway Company, and for other 
poreeraes was read the first time ; and ordered to 

e read a second time. 


Caledonian A Bill to enable the Caledonian Railway Company 
Railway to construct Branch Railways from their Line near 
(Lines to 


Granton) Bill, Ldinburgh to Granton, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Scottish A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway 
ae Company to make and maintain certain Extensions 
’ of their ny Branch, was read the first time ; and 

ordered to be read a second time. 
Monkland — A Bill to enable the Monkland Railways Com- 
Railways Bill. pany to make and maintain certain — in the 
Counties of Lanark and Linlithgow, and for other 
a was read the first time; and ordered to 

read a second time. 

Cork and — A Bill to revive and extend the Powers of the 
— Cork and Bandon Railway Company for the com- 


pulsory Purchase of Lands for the purposes of the 
Bantry Extension Railway, and to extend the 
Powers of that Company for the comp Pur- 


chase of Lands for the purposes of the Shibbereen 
Branch Railway, and to extend the respective 
Periods now limited for the Construction of those 
Railways, and to alter the Provisions of “ The Cork 
and Bandon Railway Act, 1853,” with respect to 
Contributions by certain Portions of the County of 





6° Februarit. 











A, 1857. 


Cork, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to vest in the North Staffordshire Railway North Staf- 
Company the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal and the Srashire 
Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and the Runcorn and (Bridgewater 
Weston Canal, and for other purposes, was read the Canals) Bill. 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Lease or Sale of the Mallow and 
Mallow and Fermoy Railway to the Great Southern Fermoy Rail- 
and Western Railway Company, was read the first “ 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Great Southern and Western Great 
Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money, "0ymn 
. 4 W 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a — 


second time. (Capital) Bill. 


A Bill for continuing the Term and amending and Wilmslow 
extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the 2" sae 
Wilmslow and Lawton Turnpike-road, in the County / 
of Chester, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill to alter, amend and consolidate the Acts Norfolk 
relating to the Company of Proprietors of the Nor- Estuary Acts 
fotk Estuary, was read the first time; and ordered Amendment 
to be read a second time. 


A Bill for authorizing the Dean and Chapter of Hereford 
Hereford to raise Money for the repair of the Ca- —— 
thedral Church of Hereford, was read the first time; py 


and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the British Fisheries Society to Pulteney Town 
enlarge, improve and maintain Pulteney Harbour, Harbour Bill. 
in the County of Caithness, and for other purposes, ' 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for incorporating the Burslem and Tunstall Burslem and 
Gas-Light Company, and extending their Powers, oo 
and for authorizing additional Works, and the 
raising of further Monies, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to consolidate and amend the Acts for the Tweed 
more effectual Preservation and Increase of Salmon, Fisheries Bill 
and the Regulation of the Fisheries in the River 
Tweed, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Fife and Kinross Railway Fife and Kin- 
Company to deviate part of their Main Line, and to Tess Railway 
make an Extension from Milnathort to Lumphinauns, 
with a Branch to Kelty, was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to confirm the Incorporation of the Under- Dublin and 
taking of the Dublin and Bray Railway Company JYicklow 
with that of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Com- “” "*’ *" 
pany, to dissolve the former Company, and to ex- 
tend the Railway in the City of Dublin, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 


time. 


A Bill to amend and enlarge some of the Pro- Blyth and 
visions of “The Blyth and Tyne Railway Consoli- FS ogg eenttied 
dation and Extensions Act, 1854 ;’”’ to authorize the 
relinquishment of a Branch Railway authorized by 
that Act, and the Construction of other Railways 
and Works in connection with the Blyth and Tyne 
Railway, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 


read a second time. 


A Bill for making Railways between the City of Bristol, South 

Bristol and the South Wales Railway, in the County Wales and 

of Monmouth, with a Steam Ferry across the River Union Rail- 
Severn, way Bill. 


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Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Bill. 


Electric " 
Telegrap 
Company Bill. 


North Western 
Railway Bill. 


Nene Valiey 
Drainage and 
Navigation 

J 
Bill. 


Fraserburgh 
Harbour. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide First 
Report. 


Shipping, 





90 Victoriz. 


Severn, in connection therewith, for the purpose of 
improving the Railway communication between 
South Wales and Bristol, Southampton, and the 
South Western Districts of England, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to amend and enlarge the Powers of the 
Acts relating to the Portadown and Dungannon 
Railway Company, and to enable that Company to 
extend their Railway to the Town of Omagh, in the 
County of Tyrone, and to enter into certain arrange- 
ments with the Ulster and other Railway Companies 
with respect to the working and leasing of the Rail- 
way, and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for granting further Powers to the Electric 
Telegraph Company, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill authorizing the North Western Railway 
Company to divert a Portion of their Railway, and 
to enter into arrangements with cther Companies, 
and for other purposes with relation to their said 
Railway, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for granting further Powers to the WVene 
Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement | 
Commissioners, for the completion of the Works in | 
the Third District of Drainage, and for authorizing 
them to raise further Money, and for other purposes, | 


second time. 





6° Februari. 23 


cember 1856:—Similar Return of Steam Vessels 
and their Tonnage :—Returns of the Number of 
Vessels, with their Tonnage (distinguishing Steam 
from Sailing Vessels), that were Built an Regis~ 
tered, distinguishing Timber from Iron Vessels ; 
also, a similar Return of Vessels sold and trans- 
ferred ; also, a similar Return of Vessels wrecked ; 
also, a similar Return of Vessels broken up, in the 
year 1856:— Of the Number of Colonial-built 
Vessels and their Tonnage, Registered at each of 
the Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year 1856 ; 
distinguishing the Number and Tonnage of each 
Colony respectively :—Similar Return of the Num- 
ber of Foreign-built Vessels and their Tonnage :— 
And, Return of the Shipping employed in the Trade 
of the United Kingdom, exhibiting the Number and 
Tonnage of Vessels that entered Inwards and 
cleared Outwards (including their repeated Voyages), 
separating British from Foreign Vessels, also Steam 
from Sailing Vessels, and distinguishing the Trade 
with each Country, in the year 1856 (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 122, of Session 1856). 


The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household reported Answer to 


to the House, That Her Majesty, having been at- Address. 


tended with their Address of Wednesday last, was 
pleased to receive the same very graciously, and to 
give the following Answer : 

I have received with much satisfaction your loyal ° 
and dutiful Address. 

I shall gladly avail Myself of your assistance in 
My endeavours to advance the best interests of the 





was read the first time; and ordered to be read a | Country, and to promote the prosperity and happi- 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Fraserburgh 
Harbour Bill. 

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


Petitions relating toSunday Desecration ;—Paper; 
— Property and Income Tax ;—Wine;—Adulteration 
of Food ;—China ;— China and Persia ;—Civil Ser- 
vice Superannuation Fund ;—Grand Juries ( Ireland) 
Act ;—and, Land Transport Corps,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number and Tonnage of Sailing 
Vessels registered at each of the Ports of Great 
Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and | 
the Channel Islands ; distinguishing those under and 
those above Fifty Tons Register, on the 31st day of 
December 1856 :—Similar Return of Steam Vessels 
and their Tonnage :—Return of the Number and 
Tonnage of Vessels that entered and cleared Coast- 
wise, at each of the Ports of Great Brituin and 
Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands (including 
their repeated Voyages); distinguishing British 


from Foreign Vessels, and Steam from Sailing, 
Vessels, between the 31st day of December 1855 | 


ness of My People. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the Town of Mil- itfora 
ford and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the Pa- Improvement. 
rishes of Stainton and Hubberston, or one of them, 
in the County of Pembroke, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for the Cousietehiot of the Town of Milford 
and the Neighbourhood thereof, for establishing Gas- 
works, Waterworks and a Cemetery there, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Lloyd Davies and Mr. Spooner. 


Ordered, That Lord Elcho have leave of absence Leave of 
till Easter, on account of ill health. . Absence. 


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


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Agricultural 
mand,—Copy of General Abstracts relative to Agri- Statistics 
cultural Statistics in Jreland, showing the Acreage Ireland.) 
under the several Crops, and the Number of Live 
Stock in each County and Province, for the year 
1856. ‘ 

Copy of Report on the Condition and Progress of Queen’s 
the Queen’s Cnibenaite in. Ireland, from 1st Sep- pay mee 
tember 1855 to 1st September 1856, by the Right” “°"" 
honourable Maziere Brady, Vice-Chancellor of the 
University, and Lord High Chancellor of Jreland. 

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








and the 31st day of December 1856 :—Like Return | 


from and to the Colonies; further distinguishing 


| Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Railway 
British from Foreign Vessels; also, from and to| mand,—A Return of the Nu 


mber and Nature of the Accidents. 


Foreign Ports; also distinguishing British from | Accidents, and the Injuries to Life and Limb which 


Foreign Vessels :—Aggregate Return of the Number 


of the Ports of Great Britain and Ireland, Isle of 
Man and Channel Islands (including their repeated 
Voyages), in the Coasting, Colonial, and Foreign 
Trades, in the year 1856; distinguishing British 
from Foreign Vessels :—Return of the Number and 
Tonnage of Sailing Vessels registered at each of the 
Ports of the Colonies of the United Kingdom re- 
spectively ; distinguishing those under and those 
above Fifty Tons Register, on the 31st day of De- 
VoL, 112, 





have occurred on all the Railways open for Traffic 


and Tonnage of Vessels entered and cleared at each | in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland re- 


spectively, from the Ist July to the 31st December 
1856. 

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


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Post-office. 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of Trea- 
sury Warrants establishing Rates of Postage. 


n4 Copy 


























































County Courts. 


East India. 


Emigration 
(North 
American 
Colonies. ) 


No. 14. 


Constables. 
No. 15. 


Supply. 


Lords Com- 
missioners’ 
Speech re- 


ferred, 


Bank Acts, 
&amp;c. 


Bank Acts. 


Passing Tolls. 


24 6§°—9° Februarii. 


Copy of Order of the Lords Commissioners of 
Her Majesty’s Treasury, dated 21st November 1856, 
sanctioning a Schedule of Fees to be taken on cer- 
tain Proceedings in the County Courts. 

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 Salary or Gratuity. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Emigration 
(North American Colonies), which was presented 
upon the 5th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Constables, 
which was presented upon the 5th day of this instant 
February, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the House 
to resolve itself into a Committee to consider the 
Motion, That a Supply be granted to Her 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. 

(In the Committee.) 


Lords Commissioners’ Speech read. 
Resolved, That a Supply be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty. 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

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





A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to in- 
quire inte the Operation of the Bank Act of 1844 
(7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32), and of the Bank Acts for Jre- 
land and Scotland of 1845 (8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 37 and 38) ; 
also to inquire into the Law relating to Joint Stock 
Banks :—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the Operation of the Bank Act of 
1844 (7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32), and of the Bank Acts for 
Ireland and Scotland of 1845 (8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 37 
and 38). 


The House was moved, That the several Acts re- 
lative to Passing Tolls, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said Acts : 
—The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Abolition of Passing Tolls. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. FitzRoy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as folluweth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Abo- 
litiun of Passing Tolls:—And he moved the House 
accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill . 











A. 1857. 


And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Lowe and Viscount 
Palmerston do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Hayter and Mr. Hastie be dis- Kitchen and 
charged from further attendance on the Standing Refreshment 
Committee on the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms ¢¢ eet 
(House of Commons). P 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Cubitt and Mr. 

Robertson he added to the Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Printing. 
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 :—And a 
Committee was appointed of Mr. George Alexander 
Hamilton, Mr. John Greene, Mr. Wilson, Mr. 
Bechett, Mr. Divett, Mr. Gaskell, Mr. Vernon Smith, 
Mr. Estcourt and Mr. Bonham Carter. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Rating ot 
to inquire into the Law and Practice with respect to Mines. 
the Rating of Mines. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That his War- Controverted 
rant for the Appointment of Members to serve on Elections. 
the General Committee of Elections, was upon the No. 16. 
Table :—And the said Warrant was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

Pursuant to the Provisions of “The Election Pe- 
titions Act, 1848,” I do hereby appoint, 

The Right honourable Sir Francis Thornhill 
Baring, Baronet, Member for the Borough 
of Portsmouth ; 

The Right honourable Spencer Horatio Wal- 
pore, Member for the University of Cam- 

ridge ; 

Co'onel John Wilson Patten, Member for the 
Northern Division of the County of Lan- 
caster ; 

Robert Palmer, Esquire, Member for the County 
of Berks ; 

William Deedes, Esquire, Member for the 
Eastern Division of the County of Kent; 
and Chichester Samuel Fortescue, Esquire, 
Member for the Borough of Louth ; 

To be Members of the General Committee of 
Elections for the present Session. 


Given under my hand, this 6th day of February 
1857. 


Cuar.es Suaw Lerevre, Speaker. 
Ordered, That the said Warrant be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented a Bill for the Abolition of Passing Tolls 
Passing Tolls: And the same was read the first Bil. 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Friday next ; and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 


ill 5 








Luna, 9° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions , 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 4th, f™** ais: 
5th and 6th 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 Petition of the United General Gas-Light Com- Cork Gas. 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for more effectually 
empowering the United General Gas-Light Company 

to 





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20 Vicroriz. 


to light the City of Cork and the Suburbs thereof 
with Gas, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Hankey 
and Mr. Francis William Russell. 


North Eastern 


A Petition of the North Eastern Railway Com- 


ae pany and of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway 

Railway Com- Company, for leave to bring ina Bill for amalga- 

panies Amal- muting the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Com- 

gamation. = pany with the North Eastern Railway Company, 
and for vesting the Undertaking of the former 
Company in that of the latter, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to S brought in accordingly, by Sir Wil- 
liam Milner and Colonel Smyth. 

Lowestoft A Petition of the Lowestoft Water, Gas and 

&gt; Market Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 

- "authorizing the Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market 
Company to make additional Waterworks, and 
raise additional Capital, and to lease their Under- 
taking, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Lord Henniker and Sir Fitz Roy 
Kelly. 

Newcastle- A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act | 

a thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill 
to repeal the Act relating to the Newcastle-under- 
Lyme and Leek Turnpike Roads, and to nike other 
Provisions in lieu thereof, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Adderley and Mr. Child. 

Willenhall A Petition of Members of the Committee of Ma- 

(Wolverhamp- navement of the Willenhall Gas Company, for leave 

=e to bring ina Bill for incorporating the Willenhall 
Gas Company, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Villiers and Mr. 
Thornely. 

Briton Ferry A Petition of the Briton Ferry Floating Dock 

Docks. Company, for leave to bring in « Bill to empower 
the Briton Ferry Floating Dock Company to raise 
Money, and for other purposes connected with their 
Undertaking, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Gwyn, Mr. Henry Bruce and Mr. Henry Vivian. 

Landport A Petition of Inhabitants of the Towns or 

Southsea Places of Landport and Southsea and the neigh- 


Provement bourhood, in the respective Parishes of Portsea and 
Portsmouth, in the County of Southampton, and 
Owners, Lessees or Occupiers of Property in those 
Towns or Places, or one of them, or the neighbour- 
hood thereof, in the respective Parishes aforesaid, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for the Improvement of 
Landport and Southsea, and the neighbourhoods, in 
the Parishes of Portsmouth and Portsea, in the 
County of Southampton, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Sir Francis Baring and Viscount Monch. 


Sunken Ves- A Petition of the Sunken Vessels Recovery Com- 
cls Recovery pany (Limited), for leave to bring ina Bill for grant- 
pavy: ing certain Powers to the Sunken Vessels Recovery 
Company (Limited), for better enabling such Com- 
pany to raise Sunken Vessels and their Cargues, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Henry Berkeley 

and Mr. Henry Gore Langton. 
vane 3 A Petition of the Midland Great Western Rail- 
envern way of Ireland Com , for leave to Lring in a 
Inland (Stigo Bill to enable the Midland Great Western Railway 
nsion.) of Jre/and Company to made an Extension Line of 


Railway to Sligo, with Branches therefrom, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
Timothy O’ Brien and Mr. Blake. 

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25 


A Petition of the Cannock Mineral Railway Com- Cannock 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Can- Mineral Rail- 
nock Mineral Railway Company to make Extension “” (“* ? 
Lines to Colwich and Wolverhampton, to abandon 
part of their authorized Line, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Malins and Mr. 

Henry Berkeley. 


A Petition of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Salisbury 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the — 
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Company to make“ 
Deviations from the Line of their Railway, and for 
other purposes connected with their Undertaking, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Newquay Pier, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, — and 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- we 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Newquay 
Pier, Harbour and Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Bill enabling the Company of Proprietors of Andover Canal 
the Andover Canal Navigation to sell their Un- Sale Bill 
dertaking, and enabling them to discontinue the 
same Navigation, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for the Abandonment of the Westminster Westminster 
Terminus Railway Extension, Clapham to Norwood, —— 
° ilway 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; and 


3 Extension 
ordered to be read a second time. (Clapham to 


Norwood 
Abandonment) 
Bill. 


A Bill for lighting with Gas the Borough of South South Shields 
Shields and Neighbourhood thereof, in the County &amp;** Bil 
of Durham, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


A Bill to incorporate the New Brunswick and New Bruns- 
Canada Railway and Land Company, and for other wick and 
&gt; : Canada Rail- 
purposes relating to the said Company, was read way and Land 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second Company Bill. 


time. 


A Bill to authorize the Saint Helen’s Canal and Saint Helen’s 
Railway Company to abandon the formation of part Cava! and. 
of a Branch Railway at Sutton, to increase and re- eT 
gulate the Capital of the Company, and to relieve 
from Liverpvol Town and Dock Dues the Commerce 
resorting to the Docks and Canal of the Company, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Cardigan 
gesses of the Borough of Cardigan to provide _— a 
Market-house, and establish and regulate Markets — 
and Fairs, and to regulate the supply of Water 
within the Borough; and to pave, light, cleanse, re- 
gulate and improve the Borough, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a sccond time. 


A Bill for the Establishment and Regulation of a Kidsgrove 
Market and Town Hall in Kidsgrove, inthe County Market, Town 
of Stafford, was read the first time; and ordered to #4) *e- Bill 
be read a second time. 


A Bill for the Regulation of certain Public Suf- Meriton’s 
ferance Wharves in the Port of London; known as we 
“* Meriton’s Sufferance Wharf,” and “ Hagen’s Suf- Wharves Bill 
ferance Wharf,” was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to repeal an Act passed in the fifth year Langport, 
of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, ea and 
intituled, “An Act for more effectually repairing and ponds Bil 

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certain Roads leading ta, through, and 
of Langport, Somerton, and Castle 
the County of Somerset, and for 


26 
fom the towns 


Cary, making 
and unproving other Roads in the said County, 
= ing more effectual Powers in licu thereof, 


epee egeeiag Raw nt Dee 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


second time. 


“Norfolk Rail- © A Bill to authorize the Norfolk Railway Company 

way Bill. to subscribe to the Wells and ilway, 
and for other ses, was read ‘the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


South Eastern A Bill to enable the South Eastern Railway 
oe, ‘ch Company to make a Railway from the North Kent 
Sanction to. «Railway, near Greenwich, to Dartford ; and also to 
Dartford, &amp;c:) make or complete a short Line of Railway at Tun- 
Bill. bridge; and to authorize that Company to purchase 
additional Property for the purposes of their Lendon- 
bridge Station; and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 
Elie Harbour A Bill for improving and maintaining the Harbour 
Bill. of Elie, m the County of Fife, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 
Haslingden A Bill for repairing the Road from Hlaslingden to 
and Todmor- Todmorden, and several Branches therefrom, all in 


den Roads Bill. the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for other 


purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 
Prestwich, A Bill for repairing the Roads from Prestwich to 
7 and Rad- Bury and Radcliffe, in the County Palatine of Lan- 
a "* ~— caster; and for making and maintaining as Turnpike 


certain other Roads in connexion therewith, all in 
the same County, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


SelbyandMar A Bill to repeal the Acts relating to the Selby 
ket Weighton and Market Weighton Sendiieaenl, in the East 
noe Riding of the County of York, and to make other 
Provisions in lieu thereof, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to provide for the Conservation of the 
Rivers Thames and Medway, and for the Regulation, 
Management and Improvement thereof, was read 
the ‘first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Thames and 
Medway 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Metropolitan | A Bill to amend an Act of the twenty-first year 
Cattle Market of the reign of King George the Third, “to prevent 
. the Mischiefs that arise from driving Cattle within 
the Cities of London and Westminster, and Liberties 
thereof, and ‘Bills of “Mortality,” and also to amend 
“The Metropolitan Market Act, 1851,” was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time. 


Mayor's Court A Bill for abolishing the Court of Hustings, and 

tig A certain Jurisdiction of the Sheriffs’ Courts of the 
City of Zendon, and for amending the Process, 
Practice end Mode of Pleading in the Mayor's 
Court, and for extending the Jurisdiction thereof, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Burialofthe A Bill to amend an Act passed in the fifteenth 
oe me and sixteenth om of the reign of Her present Ma- 
Libertive of  jeSty Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Act to amend 
London Bill. the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in the 


Metropolis, so far.as relates to the City of London 
and the Liberties thereof,’ was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 





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\@ Bill for reducing the Dues levied 








A. 1857. 


A Bill to enable the West of Fife Mineral Rail- West of Fife 
way Company to construct Branch Railways to Mineral Rail- 
Roscobie and Braehead, and for certain other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 





A Bill for making a Railway from the Aberdare a 


Railway into and along the Amman Valley, in the 


| County of Glamorgan, was read the first time ; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from Herne Bay to Herne Bay and 
Faversham, and for other purposes connected there- ————. | 
with, was read the first time ; and ordered to be read ay | 
a second time. 


A Bill for more effectually draining the Morden Morden Carrs 
Carrs and other Lands in the County of Durham, P™#inage Bill. 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Midland Great Western Midland “2 
Railway of Jreland Company to make a Railway to 27¢*t Western 
Tullamore, and for other purposes, was read the first Ireland (Tulla- 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. ag Line) 


A Bill for the Improvement of the Town of Mil- yrtora 
ford and the Neighbourhood thereof, for ge emngees Improvement 
Gasworks, Waterworks and a Cemetery there, and Bill 
for other purposes, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


Petitions relating to Property and Income Tax ; Public 
— China ;—Civil Service Su nuation Fund ;— Fetitions. 
Poor Law ;—Poor Law (Ireland) 3—Turkish Con- yiae Second 
| eg Engineers ;—Turnpikes,&amp;c. ;—and, Weights keport. 

and Measures,—were presented, and read; and or- 
| dered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Manufacturers of Salt and Traders Weaver 
on the River Weaver, and Exporters of Salt from N#vigation. 
Liverpvol to Foreign Countries, for leave to bring in 

by the ‘Trustees 
of the River Weaver Navigation on Coal and Salt, 
| was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Thornely and 
Sir Erskine Perry. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a River Thames. 
Copy of a ort made to the First Commissioner No, 17. 
of Works by Commander Burstal, x. N.,:on the state 
of the River Thames from Putney to Rotherhithe, 
dated the 27th day of January 1857. 

m Sir Benjamin Hall accordingly presented the said 
aper. 

bbriiered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Electors, &amp;c. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
| House, a Return.of the Number of Electors in every 
| County and Division of a County in Great Britain, 

according to the Register of Electors for 1850, 1851, 
(1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, and as they 
ar in the Register of Electors for 1856 and 
(1857; distinguishing the different Qualifications 

under which they are registered in 1856 and 1857, 
_with the Population of each County and Division of 
'a County, according to the Census of 1851 :—And, 
of the Names of all Cities and Boroughs in Great 
Britain, showing the Number of Electors on the 
Register of 1856 and 1857, and the Population of 
each City and Borough, according to the Census of 
| 1851. 

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. 

‘Ordered, 





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Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amount of Bullion purchased and sold 
by the Bank of England, distinguishimg Gold from 
Silver, and Bar Gold from Foreign Gold Coin, in 
each Month, from the 31st day of December 1855 
to the 31st day of December 2856; also, the Exeess 
of Payments or of Receipts from the Public of Bri- 
tish Gold Coin; and also, the Amount received 
from the Mint during the same omy (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 26, of Session 
1856). 


Bullion (Bank 
of England,) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return, showing the Value of the Coinages of Silver 
at the Mints of Ca/eutta, Madras and Bombay, re- 
spectively, in each year from 1845-46 to the latest 
Date for which Statements of the same have been 
received. 


Silver 
Coinages 
(Calcutta, &amp;c.) 


Wine and 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Spirits. 


Accounts of the Number of Gallons of Foreign 
Wine imported, of the Quantities upon which Duty 
has been paid for Home Consumption, and the 
Quantities exported ; also, the Quantities exported 
on Drawback, and the Quantities retained for actual 
Consumption in the United Kingdom, for the year 
ended the 31st day of December 1856 ; distinguish- 
img the different Countries from whence imported, 


and whether Red or White; together, with the | 


Quantities of each Sort remaining in Bond on the 
31st day of December 1856, distinguishing London 
from the Country :—And, of the Number of Proof 
Gallons of Rum, distinguishing West India, Eust 
India, and Foreign; also, of Brandy, Geneva, and 
other Foreign, Colonial, or Jersey Spirits imported ; 
of the Quantities upen which Duty has been paid 
for Home Consumption, the Quantities exported, 
and the Quantities shipped as Stores and used by 
the Navy, for the year ended the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856; tcgether with the Quantities of each Sort 
remaining in Bond on the 31st day of December 
1856, distinguishing London from the Country (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 261, of 
Session 1856). ‘ 


Imprisonment The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
for Debt, &amp;c. nesday next, the Imprisonment for Debt, &amp;c. Bill, 
. was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 25th day of this instant 
ebruary. 


Standing The Select Committee on Standing Orders was 
Orders. nominated of Colonel Wilson Patten, Sir William 
Heathcote, Mr. Henley, Mr. Thomas Greene, Mr. 
pg Denison, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Wright- 
son, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Eliot Lock- 
hart, and Mr. Deedes. 
Committeeof The Committee of Selection was nominated of 
Selection. Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Thomas Greene, Sir 
Robert Ferguson, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Bonham Carter, 
and the Chairman of the Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders. 
Bedale and A Petition of the Bedale and Leyburn Railway 
— Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating 
# the Capital of the Bedale and Leyburn Railway 


Company, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Cayley and Mr. Wyvill. 


Paper Mills. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number uf Paper Mills at work in 
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, respectively, 
in each year from 1838 to 1856. 

Savings The following Papers were laid upon the Table 

by the Clerk of the Wontep- Retin to an Order, 

— the 14th day of July 1856, for a Return re- 

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9° Februari. 


27 


lating to Savings Banks, for the year ending the 20th 
day of N 1855 (in cuitianstion of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 207, of Sessiom 1855). 

Return to am Order, dated the 14th i 2 Savings 
1856, for Returns relating to Savings for Banks. 
the year ending the 20th day of November 1855 (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, Ne. 208, of 
; Tr stow pursuant directions 

he following Papers, to the jons Woods, Forests 
of several ace of Parliancent, were also laid — 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Abstract z 
Accounts of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, for the year 
ended 3Ist March 1856, with the of the 
Commissioners of Audit, dated 32 January 1857, in 
thereto. - 

C of an Account of the Naval Receipt and Naval Receipt 

Rapistiiene, for the year ended 31 March 1856. 374 Expen- 


An Account of the Receipts and Disbursements Irish Repro- 
on account of the Frisk Reproductive Loan Fund, to — 
31st December 1856. 

An Account, made up to the 3ist December 1856, Russian 
of the Sums which have beem paid and ied Dutch Loan. 
within the year 1856, by virtue of am Act 53 Gea. 3, 

c. 115, intituled, “An Act for carryimg imto effect 

a Convention between his Majesty and the King of 

the Netherlands and the Emperor of all the Russias,” 

for paying and satisfying the Interest om the = 

of the Loan therein agreed to be borne by his 
jesty, on all or any of the Securities therein-men- 
tioned, and towards paying and satisfying the Prin- 

cipal thereof (in case the Principal of amy of the 

said Securities shall have been paid), and also for 
paying the Expenses of carrying the said Act inte 
execution, and the Sinking Fund for the extinetion 

of the same. 

An Account of the Total Sums issued up to the Sardinian 
31st December 1856, out of the Consoli Fund, 1°22. 
and advaneed to his ——— the King of Serdinia, 
by virtue of the Aets 18 Vic. c. 17, and 19 &amp; 20 
Vic. c. 20; and also of the Sums received from the 
Sardinian Government for Interest and Sinking 
Fund in respect thereof, in the same period. 

An Account of Monies paid out of the Consoli- Greek Loan. 
dated Fund under the Acts 2 &amp; 3 Will. 4, ¢. 121, 
and 6 &amp; 7 Will. 4, c. 94, for Interest and Sinking 
Fund on that part of the Greek Loan which is 
guaranteed by this Country under the Authority of 
the said Acts, and of the Amount repaid by the 
Greek Government on account of the same. 

Copies of Orders in Council applying the Publie Public Health 
Health Act (1848) to the Districts of Smethwick At (1848. 
(Staffordshire), and Bradford (Lancashire). 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to County County Courts. 
Courts, which was presented oe Su the 6th dayof No. 18. 
this instant February, be primted. 


The Clerk read the List of Members who have Controverted 
claimed to be excused from serving on Election Com- Elections. 
mittees, as being upwards of Sixty years of age, as 
followeth :— 

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, the Honourable General 
Arbuthnott, John Bagshaw, Esquire, Sir Joseph 
Bailey, William Beckett, Esquire, Philip Bennet, 
Esquire, Sir Maurice Berkeley, Sir George Berheley, 

Sir Samuel Bignold, John Brochlehurst, Esquire, 
William Brown, tig Lewis William Buck, 
Esquire, Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Henry Negus 
Burroughes, Esquire, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Es- 
quire, Sir William Clay, Henry Beaumont Coles, 

squire, Henry Combe Compton, Esquire, Sir Charles 
Henry Coote, Saunders Davies, uire, Richard 
Davison, Esquire, Edmund Denison, Esquire, Henry 
Drummond, Esquire, George Duncan, Esquire, the 

ight honourable Edward Ellice, the Honourable 
John Edmund Elliot, Sir De Lacy Evans, William 
Johnson Fox, Esquire, James William Freshfield, 





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Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills. 
No. 19. 


Supply. 


Navy and 
Army. 





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Esquire, Augustus Eliott Fuller, Esquire, Sir George 
Goodman, William Ormsby Gore, Esquire, the — 
honourable Sir James Graham, Thomas Greene, Es- 
uire, George Hadfield, Esquire, George Granville 
‘anest Esquire John Heathcoat, Esquire, the 
Right honourable Joseph Warner Henley, Sir James 
Hogg, Admiral Jones, Sir Charles Lemon, the 
Honourable Colonel Lowther, Thomas Luce, Esquire, 
John Mackie, Esquire, Sir Herbert Maddock, John 
Masterman, Esquire, Thomas Philip Maunsell, Es- 
uire, William Michell, Esquire, Robert Milligan, 
ye Joseph Randolph Mullings, ore George 
Frederick Muntz, Esquire, Cornelius O’ Brien, ks- 
quire, Sir John Owen, Charles William Packe, Es- 
quire, Viscount Palmerston, Robert Townley Parker, 
Esquire, Sir George Brooke Pechell, Nicholas Power, 
Esquire, Lord William Powlett, David Pugh, Es- 
uire, Osman Ricardo, Esquire, Samson Ricardo, 
jm Edward Royd Rice, Esquire, Lord John 
Russell, Captain Scobell. Richard Spooner, Esquire, 
Sir George Strickland, Henry William Tancred, Es- 
uire, Thomas Thornely, Esquire, George Traill, 
endion Sir William cron, John Ennis Vivian, 
Esquire, Harry Spencer Waddington, Esquire, 
Admiral Walcott, William Battie Wrightson, Es- 
quire, General Wyndham. 

The Right honourable Sir George Grey, one of 
Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, having 
stated that he could not attend Election Committees 
without material inconvenience to the public service, 
during the time he may hold the said office ; 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Sir George 
Grey, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of 
State, be excused from serving on Election Com- 
mittees during the time he may hold the said office. 

The Right honourable Sir George Cornewall 
Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer, having stated 
that he could not attend Election Committees with- 
out material inconvenience to the public service, 
during the time he may hold the said office ; 

Resolved, ‘That the Right honourable Sir George 
Cornewall Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer, be 
excused from serving on Election Committees during 
the time he may hold the said office. 

The Right honourable Henry Labouchere, one of 
Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, having 
stated that he could not attend Election Committees 
without material inconvenience to the public service, 
during the time he may hold the said office ; 

Resolved, ‘That the Right honourable Henry La- 
bouchere, one of Her Majesty’s ews Secretaries 
of State, be excused from serving on Election Com- 
mittees during the time he may hold the said office. 


Ordered, That the Board of Trade do present to! 
this House, a Report upon the Private Bills for 
Harbours, Docks, Navigations, &amp;c., in conformity 
with the Practice in force with respect to Railway 
Bills. 

Mr. Lowe accordingly presented the said Paper. 

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








A. 1857. 


Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for 
Army Services, to the 31st day of March 1857, be 
laid before this House. 

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions to the proper Officers to lay before 
this House the said Estimates. 
Ordered, ‘Vhat the said Address be presented to 
Her sy by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


years of Her Majesty, to substitute in certain cases 
other Punishment in lieu of Transportation: And 
that Sir George Grey and Mr. Massey do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


in England; And that Sir George Grey and Mr. 
Massey do prepare, and bring it in. 


the Royal Marine Forces: And that Sir Charles 
Wood and Sir Maurice Berkeley do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


urchase certain Lands in the Parish of Chatham, 

in the County of Kent, and to stop up, divert or 
alter certain Ways in the said Parish, and for other 
purposes relating thereto: And that Sir Charles 
Wood and Sir Maurice Berkeley do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Names of the Six Schools in 
Great Britain which have received the largest 
Amount of the Parliamentary Grant under heading 
“ Capitation Money,” for the year ending December 
1856 ; specifying the Sums received by each; the 
Number of Scholars in Average Attendance at each 
during the last year; the Number of Scholars on 
whom the Grant was allowed ; and the Population 
of each Parish :—And, of the Names of the Six 
Schools which have received the smallest Amount 
of “ Capitation Money,” for the same year ; stating 
the Sums received by each; the Number of Scholars 
in Average Attendance at each during the last year ; 
the Number of Scholars on whom the Grant was 
allowed ; and the Population of each Parish. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Bens as are 
of Her Majesty s Most honourable Privy Council. 





Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee to 
whom it was referred to consider the Motion, That 
a Supply be granted to Her Majesty, a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That a Supply be granted to Her Majesty. 

The said Resolution being read a second time ; 

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

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
the Supply granted to Her Majesty. 


Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for Na- 
val Services, to the 31st day of March 1857, be laid 
before this House. 


‘to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
|to give directions, that there be laid before this 
| House, a Return of the several Barracks and En- 
campments occupied by Troops on the Ist day of 
January 1857, with the Number of Rank and File 
they are each calculated to contain; showing, in a 
Tabular Form, if the Barrack Rooms and Passages 
are lighted with Gas ; if separate Quarters are pro- 
vided for Married Private Soldiers, as distinguished 
from Families in Barrack Rooms; if Ovens, or 
means of Roasting are provided in the Kitchens; 
and if Ovens for instructing Soldiers in Baking 
Bread are attached ; if Fives Courts, Skittle Grounds, 
or the means of ——— Gymnastic Exercises are 
provided for Soldiers ; if any Cricket Ground is at- 
tached to the Station or provided at the Expense of 
Government; and also the Amount of Accommoda- 
tion 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Transporta- 
amend the Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth tion and Penal 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Reformatory 
facilitate the Establishment of Reformatory Schools Schools. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Royal Marine 


amend the Act for limiting the Time of Service in Forces. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Chatham 
for enabling the Commissioners of the Admiralty to Lands, &amp;c. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Education. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Barracks, &amp;c. 










































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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. 


Commons’ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
Inclosure. = guthorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pursu- 
ance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for 
England and Wales: And that Mr. Massey and Sir 

George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 
Reformatory Mr. Massey presented a Bill to facilitate the Es- 
Schools Bill. tablishment of Reformatory Schools in Englund: 
Bill6. And the same was read the first time; and ordered 


to be read a second time upon Friday the 20th day 
of this instant February ; and to be printed. 


Fire Insurance Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Duties. Copy of Mr. Coode’s Report on Fire Insurance 
Duties. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Transporta- Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Act of 
tion and Penal the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty, 
Servitude Bill. +, substitute in certain cases other Punishment in 
Bill7. tien of Transportation: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday the 23d day of this instant February ; 

and to be printed. 





Commons’ Mr. Massey presented a Bill to authorize the In- 
Inclosure Bill. closure of certain Lands, in pursuance of a Report 
Bill8. of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and 
Wales: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next; and to be printed. 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 
Martis, 10° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 
Salisbury R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
ee reve M one of the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
i vate Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders in the case of the Petition for the 
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders, 
Stratford. Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
ian one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


in respect cf non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Stratford- 
upon-Avon Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
VoL. 112, 





9°—10° Februariz. 


29 


A Petition of the South nee Railway Com- Boath Fastern 
any, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the *#! way 
South Eastern Railway ‘Onn y to make a Rail- os 
way at Reading; from the Reading, Guildford and 
Reigate Railway, to the Great Western Railway, 
and to afford facilities for the interchange of Traffic 
between those Railways, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Brockman and Mr. Rich. 


A Petition of the Bagenalstown and Werford Bagenalstown 
Railway Company, for leave cto bring in a Bill to = beg 
authorize a Deviation in the Line of the Bagenalstown q 
and Wexford Railway, and to provide for 
ing Interest on a portion of the Capital of the Bage- 
nalstown and Wexford Railway Company, by means 
of Rates on certain portions of the County of Wex- 
ford, and for other purposes, was sone and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Grogan and Mr, Alezander. 


A Petition of the Shrewsbury Gas-Light Company, Shrewsbury 
for leave to bring in a Bill for lighting with Gas the 
Borough of Shrewsbury and the Neighbourhood 
thereof, in the County of Salop, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Zomline and Mr. Baldock. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Mansfield and Mansfield 
Worksop Turnpike Road, for leave to bring in a Bill a4 Worksop 
for the Mansfield and Worksop Turnpike Road, in 
the County of Nottingham, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Lord Robert Clinton and Viscount 
Galway. 


A Petition of the Atlantic Telegraph Company Atlantic 
(Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate Telegraph 
and regulate the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and cuneeny. 
to enable the Company to establish and work Tele- 
graphs between Gireat Britain, Ireland and New- 
foundland, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. William Brown and Sir James 
Anderson, 


A Petition of Suitors for the Bill thereinafter Calcutta and 
mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorpo- South Eastera 
rating the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Congeny. 
Company, and for other purposes connected there- 
with, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Herbert 
Maddock and Mr. Montagu Chambers. 


A Petition of the Australian Agricultural Com- Avftralian 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for granting addi- Agricultural 
tional Powers to the Australian Agricultural Com- —— 
pany, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Elliot 
and Mr. Marjoribanks. 


A Petition of Managers of the Co-partnership, Guitafora 
styled “The Guildford Gas-Light and Coke Com- Gas. 
pany,” and Suitors for a Bill for effecting the purposes 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring i a Bill 
to incorporate the Guildford Gas-Light and Coke 
oer oy and to confer &gt; to them further Powers 
for the upply of Gas to Guildford and the vicinity, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
- brought in accordingly, by Mr. Mangles and Mr. 

ell, 


A Petition of Trustees of the Worksop and Worksop and 
Attercliffe Turnpike Road, for leave to bring in a Aterelitfe 
Bill for the Worksop and Attercliffe Turnpike Road, ~* 
in the County of Nottingham, and the West Ridin 
of the County of York, was presented, and read ; an 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Lord Robert Clinton, Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Hadfield. 

E3 A Petition 




























Norwich A Petition of the Norwich and Spalding Railwa 
Raia Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to eed a 
Time for the Construction of the Railway between 
Spalding and Sutton-bridge, was’ presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Cobbold and Mr. Cayley. 
South Staf- A Petition of the South Staffordshire Waterworks 
— Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the 
i South Staffordshire Waterworks Company to alter 
and extend their Works, and obtain an additional 
supply of Water, and to make certain Arrangements 
with respect to their Undertaking, and the Works 
connected therewith, and for other purposes, was 
— and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
—_ in accordingly, by Sir Stafford Northcote 
and Mr. Charles Forster. 
Lowestoftand A Petition of Promoters of the establishment and 
— maintenance of the thereinafter mentioned Ferry and 
and Roads’ © Floating Bridge across the River Waveney, and of 
the Works and Approach Roads in connection 
therewith, for leave to bring in a Bill for establish- 
ing and maintaining a Ferry and Floating Bridge 
across the River Waveney, near Burgh Saint Peter 
Staithe, in the Parish of Oulton, in the County of 
Suffolk, and Burgh Saint Peter, in the County of 
Norfolk, with proper Works and Approach Roads 
thereto, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be eter in accordingly, by Lord Hen- 
niker and Mr. Burroughes. 
Bank of A Petition of Directors of the Bank of London 
ae and National Provincial Insurance Association, for 
Provincial leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Bank of Lon- 
Insurance § don and National Provincial Insurance Association 
Association. to sue and be sued ; to confirm certain Agreements 
entered into by them or on their behalf, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Lord 
Claud Hamilton, Mr. Knight and Mr. Luce. 
Stratford. A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
eon Avon subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for the 
- making and maintaining of the Stratford-upon- 
Avon Railway, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders. 
Dundalk and = A Petition of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Rail- 
— way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for ena- 
- bling the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Com- 
pany to make certain Deviations and Alterations in 
their Line and Works, and for other purposes con- 
* nected with their Undertaking, was presented, and 
read ; and referred tothe Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders. 
Newquay Pier A Petition of James Henry Meredith, of Fowey, in 
oe gg the County of Cornwall, uire, Edward John 
” Treffry, of Fowey aforesaid, Clerk in Holy Orders, 
and ~ sie Dormer Wiicocks, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for confirming the Title to Lands acquired for 
the purposes of the Newquay Railway, part of 
“ The Zreffry Estates,” in the County of Cornwall, 
and for regulating the Railway, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
e 
Bathgate, The Bathgate, Airdrie and Coatbridge Railway 
— and Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 
oatbridge 
Railway Bill. 
Birkenhead Ordered, That the Birkenhead Docks (Construc- 
Docks (Con- tion) Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 
struction) Bill 
Birkenhead Ordered, That the Birkenhead Docks (Manage- 
Docks (Ma- 


nagement) Bill 


30 


ment) Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 


10° Februari. 


A. 1857. 


The Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junc- Birkenhead, 


tion Railway Bill was read a second time; and Lancashire 
itted and Cheshire 
committed. Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


The Bluckburn Railway Bill was read a second Blackburn 
time; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Briyhton, Hove and Preston Constant Ser- Brighton, Hove 
vice Water Bill was read a second time; and com- rowed a 


mitted. vice Water Bill. 


The Carlisle and Hawick Railway Bill was read Carlisle and 
a second time ; and committed. —_” 
Ordered, That the Chester Water Bill be read a Chegter 
a second time upon Tuesday next. Water Bill, 


The Cornwall Railway Bill was read a second Cornwall _ 
time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Dumbarton Water, &amp;c. Bill was read a Dumbarton 
second time; and committed. oe &amp;e. 


The East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) East Kent 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed. ee &lt;a&gt; 
ension to 
Dover) Bill, 
The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Bill was Ely Tidal P 
a i . j arbour an 
read a second time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill was read Exeter and 
; . ; Uxmout 
a second time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Glasgow City and Suburban Gas Bill was Glasgow City 
read a second time; and committed. and Suburban 
Gas Bill. 
The Glasgow Gas Bill was read a second time ; Glasgow Gas 
and committed. Ball. 


The Great Southern and Western Extension Great 
Railway Bill was read a second time; and com- Southern 
itted and Western 
ml P Extension 
Railway Bill. 
The Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier Bill was Great 
read a second time ; and committed. Yarmouth 
Britannia 
Pier Bill. 


The Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill was read Inverness 
ime: i and Nairn 
a second time; and committed. Railway Bill, 
The Kidsgrove Market Bill was read a second Kidsgrove 
time ; and committed. Market Bill. 


The Lancaster and Carlisle and Ingleton Rail- Lancaster 
way Bill was read a second time; and committed. — a mi 
Railway Bill. 

The Leslie Railway Bill was read a second time ; Leslie Rail- 
and committed. way Bill. 


The Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill was read a Lewes and 
second time. a een 

And a Motion being made, and the Question y 
being proposed, That the Bill be committed :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 


morrow, 


The London and South Western Railway Acts I.ondon and 
Amendment Bill was read a second time ; and com- eleay dae 
mitted. Amendment 

Bill. 

Ordered, That the Mersey Conservancy and Mersey Cm. 
Docks Bill be read a second time To-morrow. Decks Bill. 
The New River Company Bill was read a second New River 


time ; and committed. Company Bill 


The Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway Newry, 


Bill was read a second time ; and committed. ro! 


The Railway Bill 














oo et he 


Se HW wUSOMa es 


a 












20 VictoriZ. 
North Eastern The North Eastern Railway (Capital) Bill was 


ae) Bal read a second time ; and committed. 

Oldham, The Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide 
or Bridge Junction Railways Bill was read a second 
Guide Bridge time ; and committed. 

Junction 

Railways Bill. 

Pelle The Peebles Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway 5. time ; and committed, 

Portsmouth The Portsmouth Water Bill was read a second 
Water Bill. time; and committed. 

Price’s Patent Price’s Patent Candle Company Bill was read 
Candy, a second time ; and committed. 

pany 

South Devon ~- The South Devon Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. 


time ; and committed. 


South Durham The South Durham and Lancashire Union Rail- 


a way Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


Railway Bill. 


Stratford. The Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Bill was read a 
a second time; and committed. 

Sunderland The Sunderland Gas Bill was read a second 
Gos Bid. time ; and committed. 

Taff Vale The Taff Vale Railway Bill was read &amp; second 
Railway Bil. tine; and committed. 

Tweed River ‘The Tweed River Fisheries Bill was read a second 


Fisheries Bill time ; and committed. 


Victoria(Lon- The Victoria (London) Docks Bill was read a 
— Docks second time; and committed. 


Watchet The Watchet Harbour Bill was read a second 
Harbour Bill. time ; and committed. 


Watchet The Watchet Harbour Trust Bill was read a 

— Trust second time ; and committed. 

Waterford The Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill was 

Railway Bill read a second time ; and committed. 

Wearmouth = The Wearmouth Bridge, Ferries and A 

— Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

proaches Bill. 

~_ Semneneet The West Somerset Mineral Railway Bill was 
inera. 


Railway Bill. read a second time; and committed. 


Gaacheven, The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway 

Enenowt. Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

Railway Bill. 

Whitehaven The Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway 

any Bill was read a second time; and committed. 

way Bill. 

Cork Gas Bill. A Bill for more effectually empowering the United 
General Gas-Light Company to light the City of 
Cork and the Suburbs thereof with Gas, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

Newcastle- A Bill to repeal the Act relating to the Wewcastle- 

a rey™  uncler-Lyme and Leek Turnpike-roads, and to make 

Roads Bill, 4 Other Provisions in lieu thereof, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 

Lowestoft A Bill for authorizing the Lowestoft Water, Gas 

baby an and Market Company to make additional Water- 

Bill. works, and raise additional Capital, and to lease 
their U: ing, and for other purpases, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

Cannock — A Bill to enable the Cannock Mineral Railway 


” Company tomake Extension Lines to Colwich and 
~ fas Wemmnenaptes ; to abandon part of their. authorized 
» Vou. 112. , 


10° Februarii. 


31 


Line, and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for ing certain Powers to the Sunken Sunken 
Vessels eae tan (Limited), for better Vel 
enabling such Company i 


their Cargoes, was read 


to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the mation of the West West Hartle- 
H Harbour and Railway Company and the 
North Eastern Railway Company, to authori 
further Capital, and the Conversion of Shares and Eastern Rail- 
Stock, and for other purposes, was read the first on ag 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. ' ‘gamation Bill. 

A Bill for regulating the Capital of the Bedale Beisle and 
and Leyburn Railway pany, and for other pur- “yur 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be *™/"*Y Bil 
read a second time. 


A Bill for amalgamating the Hartlepool Dock North Eastern 
and Railway Company with the North Eastern Rail- #74 Hartlepool 
way Company, and for vesting the Undertaking of Railway Com- 
the former Company in that of the latter, and for panies Amal- 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered &amp;*™4tion Bill 


to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Midland Great Western Midland Great 
Railway of Ireland Company to make an Extension Western Rail- 
Line of Railway to Sligo, with Branches therefrom, (Sligo Exten- 
and for other purposes, was read the first time ; and sion) Bill. 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to empower the Briton Ferry Floating Briton Ferry 
Dock Company to raise Money, and for other pur- 2° Bill 
poses connected with their Undertaking, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for the Improvement of Zandport and Landport 
Southsea, and the Neighbourhoods, in the Parishes 4 Southses 
of Portsmouth and Portsea, in the County of South- — 
ampton, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for incorporating the Willenhall Gas Com- ee 
pany, and for other purposes, was read the first \ Overnamp- 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. a 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Dundalk and 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, —— 
in respeet of non-compliance with the Standing Or-“"'"*™" 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Dundalk and 
Enniskillen Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 


Committee on Standing Orders. 


Petitions relating to Property and Income Tax ; Public 
—China and Persia ;—Civil Service Superannuation Petitions. 
Fand ;—Emigration ;—Opium Trade ;—and, Settle- vide Thira 
ment and Removal,—were presented, and read ; and Report. 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Income Tax. 
Return showing the Number of Persons. to 
the Income Tax for the years ended the 5th day of 
April 1855 and 1856, under Schedule (D); dis- 
tingnishing the Number in each of the 
following Classes: viz., under £.100 a year; £.100 
and under £.150.a year; £.150 a year and under 
£.200; £.200 and under £.300; £.300 and under 
£.400; £.400 and under £.500; £.500,and under 
£.600; £.600 and under £.700; £.700 and under 
£.800; £.800 and under £.900; £.900 and under 
£.1,000; £.1,000 and under £.2,000; £.2000 and 
under £.3,000; £.8,000and under.¢.4,000; £.4,000 
and under £..5,000 ; £.5,000 and under £.10,000 ; 
£.10,000 and under £.50,000; £.50,000 and up- 
wards ; and the Amounts of Tax. received from each 





E4 Class : 























































































Sugar, &amp;c. 


Foreign Sugar. 


Immigrants 
and Liberated 
Africans. 


Navy. 

No. 20. 
Post-office 
Department 
(Packet 
Service.) 


No, 21, 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 

Bill 9. 


Royal Marine 
Forces Bill. 


Bill 10. 


32 


Class :—Similar Return, under Schedule (E), to 
£.5,000 a year and upwards :—Return showing the 
Net Amount of Property and Income Tax for the 
same years, classed under the several Schedules (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 313, of 
Session 1856) :—And, similar Return for Zreland. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Tabular Return showing the Quantities of Sugar of 
the several Sorts imported into the United Kingdom, 
and the Quantities retained for Home Consumption ; 
together with the Rates of Duty charged thereon, 
and the Net Revenue accruing therefrom, in each 
year from 1800 to 1856 inclusive; followed by a 
Comparative Statement of the Average Prices of 
British Plantation and Foreign Sugar (ordinary 
Yellow Havannah) for the same series of years :— 
Account of the Imports into the United Kingdom 
of Sugar, Molasses, Rum, Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton, 
from the West Indies, British Guiana, the Mauri- 
tius and British Possessions in India, for the years 
1831 to 1856 inclusive; distinguishing the Quan- 
tities imported from each Colony and each Posses- 
sion in each year :—Similar Account of the Quan- 
tities of Foreign Sugar imported, stating from 
whence, and the Quantities from each Place or 
Country :—And, Account of the Quantity of Refined 
Sugar and Sugar Candy imported into the United 
Kingdom in the years 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 
1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, respectively ; stating 
the Quantity retained for Home anenigiton, the 
Rates of Duty paid, and the Quantity exported (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 209, of 
Session 1856). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Quantity of Foreign Sugar entered 
for Home Consumption during each year, from 1831 
to 1856 inclusive; distinguishing Refined from Un- 
refined; and also the several Places from whence 
such Sugar was imported (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 210, of Session 1856). 


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 Return showing the Number of Immi- 
grants and Liberated Africans admitted into each of 
the British West India Colonies, as well as the 
Places from whence they were introduced, for each 
year since 1847 :—And, similar Return for Mauri- 
tius (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 
130, of Session 1856). 

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. 


Sir Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty's 
Command,—Navy Estimates, for the year 1857-58. 


Estimate for the Post-office Department (Packet 
Service), for the year 1857-58. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Sir Maurice Berkeley presented a Bill for enabling 
the Commissioners of the Admiralty to purchase cer- 
tain Lands in the Parish of Chatham, in the County 
of Kent, and to stop up, divert or alter certain Ways 
in the said Parish, and for other purposes relating 
thereto: And the same was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Ex- 
aminers of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 


Sir Maurice Berkeley presented a Bill to amend 
the Act for limiting the time of Service in the Royal 
Marine Forces: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Thursday next; and to be printed. 





10° Februarii. 


A. 1857. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Civil Appoint- 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased men’ (Army 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “"* ary) 
House, Returns of the Names and Rank of the 
several Officers of the Army and Navy now holding 
Civil Appointments in the Public Rervice within 
the United Kingdom :—Of the Date, Description 
and Annual Salary and Emolument of each such 
Civil Appointment :—And, of the Annual Amount 
of Halt-Pay (if any) which each such Military or 
Naval Officer respectively receives, in addition to 
the Salary and Emolument of each such Civil Ap- 
pointment. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be iaid before this House, Mr. James. 
one of the several Warrants issued for the Ap- Sadleir. 
= rension of Mr. James Sadleir, a Member of this 

ouse, and of the Reports from the Crown Solicitor 
and Officers of Constabulary of the Steps taken for 
his Arrest ; and, of the several Proceedings in the 
Process of Outlawry against him. 


Ordered, That Sir George Goodman have leave Leave of 
of absence till Easter, on account of ill health. Absence, 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Bank of” 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the England. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—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 
1857, 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 Government Secu- 
rities, which was in the hands of the Governor and 
Company of the said Bank on the 5th day of Ja- 
nuary 1857 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 
£.27,310. 1. 3. in one year, from the 5th January 
1856 to the 31st December 1856, by the Commis- 
sioners, as appointed by the 26 Geo. 3, for the Re- 
duction of the National Debt. 

A Copy of all Applications made by the First 
Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer to the Governor and Deputy Governor of 
the Bank of England, for Advances to Government 
authorized by Parliament, from the 5th January 
1856 to the 5th January 1857 ; with a Copy of the 
Minutes of the Court of Directors thereon, and the 
Answers of the said Court thereto. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Savings Savings 
Banks (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, Banks. 
No. 207, of Session 1855), which was presented upon No. 23. 
the 9th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Savings Savings 
Banks (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 207, of Session 1855), which was presented upon No. 24 








the 9th day of this instant February, be printed. 
Ordered, 



























oe a, 








‘Woods, Forests 
and Land 
Revenues. 


No. 25. 


Naval Receipt 
and Expendi- 


ture. 

No. 26. 
Irish Repro- 
ductive Loan 
Fund 

No. 27. 


Russian 
Dutch Loan. 
No. 28. 
Sardinian 
Loan. 
No. 29. 


Greek Loan. 
No. 30. 


Lunacy. 
No. 31 . 


Railways 
(United 
States.) 


Income Tax. 


Industrial 
Schools. 


Sale of Beer, 
&amp;e. 





90 VicToriz. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Woods, 
Forests and Land Revenues, which were presented 
upon the 9th day of this instant February, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Naval Re- 
ceipt and Expenditure, which was presented upon 
the 9th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Irish 
Reproductive Loan Fund, which was presented upon 
the 9th day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Russian 
Dutch Loan, which was presented upon the 9th day 
of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, that the Account relative to the Sar- 
dinian Loun, which was presented upon the 9th day 
of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Greek 
Loan, which was presented upon the 9th day of this 
instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Lunacy, 
which was presented upon the 3d day of this 
instant February, be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
—Copy of Report to the Lords of the Committee of 
Privy Council for Trade on the Railways of the 
United States, by Captain Douglas Galton, r. E. 

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


A Metion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That whereas the Act of Parliament [18 Vic. 
c. 20] contains a Proviso, which, by its technical 
construction, would inflict in a time of Peace a 
second year of full War Income Tax upon the loyal 
but heavily burdened subjects of Her Majesty, this 
House is of opinion that the Provisions of the said 
Act should cease and determine from the 6th day of 
April next :—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
make better Provision for the Care and Education 
of Vagrant, Destitute and Disorderly Children, and 
for the Extension of Industrial Schools: And that 
Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Adderley and Mr. 
Headlam do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the several Acis re- 
lating to the Sale of Beer might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will immediately re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Acts :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave te given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to the general Sale of Beer 
and Cider in England, and to regulate certain places 
of public resort, refreshment and entertainment. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Fitz Roy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Laws relating to the general Sale of Beer and Cider 
in England, and to regulate certain places of public 

Vo. 112. 


10° Februariz. 





33 


resort, refreshment and entertainment :—And he 
move the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Hardy, Mr. William 
Brown and Mr, Headlam do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Contracts for 
to inquire into the Principle adopted for making Public De- 
Contracts for the supply of the Public Departments, °“"°""* 
and the effect which the present system has upon the 
Expenditure of Public Money. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Ecclesiastical 
further to provide for the Mode of securing and — 
paying Fixed Incomes to Ecclesiastical Corporations, 

Aggregate and Sole: And that the Marquis of 
Blandford and Mr. George Butt do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Statute Law 
to consider so much of the Second Report of the Commission. 
Statute Law Commissioners as relates to the propo- 
sition therein made for the adoption of Means to 
improve the Manner and Language of Current Le- 
gislation, and to report their Opinion thereupon to 
the House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring im a Bill to Chief Con- 
facilitate the Appointment of Chief Constables for *t#bles. 
adjoining Counties, and to confirm Appointments of 
Chief Constables in certain cases: And that Sir 
George Grey and Mr. Massey do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Trees 
a Return of the Number of Trees registered with the ‘Ireland.) 
Clerks of the Peace for the different Counties in 
Freland during the last Ten years, distinguishing the 
Numbers registered in each year. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Banks of 
Returns of any Banks, being Banks of Issue pre- Issue, &amp;c- 
viously to the passing of the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32, 
which have ceased to issue their own Notes, and of 
the Amount of Circulation of such Banks respec- 
tively :—Of the Amount of Bank of England Notes 
issued under Order in Council, according to the Pro- 
visions of the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32, for replacing the 
Amount of Circulation thus withdrawn, and up to 
what Date :—And, of the Banks of Issue, if any, 
which have ceased to issue their own Notes, and 
the Amount of Circulation of such Banks respec- 
tively, since the Date of the above Issue of Bank of 
England Notes (in continuation of a former Return). 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Rating Rating of 
of Mines do consist of Seventeen Members ; Mines. 
A Committee was accordingly nominated of Mr. 
Kendall, Mr. Michael Williams, Mr. Deedes, Mr. 
George Cavendish, Mr. Child, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. 
Hutchins, Mr. Philipps, Colonel Pennant, Mr. 
Ridley, Viscount Monch, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Hussey 
Vivian, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Hume, Mr. Henry Her- 
bert and Mr. Colvile ; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Order of 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased the Bath. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Names of all Officers in the 
Army and Navy who have been decorated with the 
Order of the Bath since the Ist day of January 
1854, with the Degree and Date of oe Decoration ; 
the Date of Entrance into Her Majesty’s Service, 
and Promotion to their different Ranks therein ; 
giving also the Staff or other Appointments or Com- 
mands, with the Emoluments attached, held by them 

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34, 10°—11° Februarii. 


respectively, and stating the Engagements in which 
they have taken part : ‘ 





Engage- 
ments 
in which 
they have 
taken part. 


Date of | Prom: Staff or Decora- 
Na Entrance en. other /|Emolu-| tions 

: ods into | ? | Appoint- ments. | and 

Service. Different Grades.| ments. | Date. 


pif 
| 
Cen Sn Sc =n — | . 


And, of the Civilians who, during the said Period, 
have been honoured with the like Decoration, and 
the Date. 

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. 


























Public Income 
and Expendi- 
ture. 


No. 32. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Income and Expenditure for the 
Three quarters of the year ended the 31st day of 
December 1856, together with the Balance in the 
Exchequer at the Commencement and at the Ter- 
mination of the Period, and the Amount of Funded 
or Unfunded Debt created or redeemed in the said 
Three quarters of a year. 

Viscount Monck accordingly presented the said 
Account. 

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


Industrial Sir Stafford Northcote presented a Bill to make 
Schools Bill. etter Provision for the Care and Education of Va- 
Bill 11. grant, Destitute and Disorderly Children, and for 
the Extension of Industrial Schools : And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 4th day of March 

next ; and to oe printed. 


Ecclesiastical © The Marquis of Blandford presented a Bill further 
— to provide for the Mode of securing and paying 

Rill 12, Fixed Incomes to Ecclesiastical Corporations, Ag- 
* gregate and Sole: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 11th day of March next; and to be 
printed. 


Sale of Beer, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Bill 13, 


Mr. Hardy presented a Bill to amend the Laws 
relating to the general Sale of Beer and Cider in 
England, and to regulate certain Places of Public 
Resort, Refreshment and Entertainment: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Wednesday the 4th day of 
March next; and to be printed. 





Chief Con- 
stables Bill. 


Bill 14. 


Mr. Hayter presented a Bill to facilitate the Ap- 
pointment of Chief Constables for adjoining Coun- 
ties, and to confirm Appointments of Chief Con- | 
stables in certain cases: 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. | 





Mercurii, 11° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS, 


Public N R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
cmon Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
port.) had examined the Petitions presented upon the 9th 
day 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. 


Reversionary § A Petition of Directors of the Reversionary In- 


ace. terest Society, for leave to bring in a Bill for grant- 


A. 1857. 


ing further Powers to the Reversionary Interest So- 
ciety, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr John 
Lewis Ricardo and Mr. Butler. 


A Petition of the Bury Gas-Light and Coke Bury Gas. 

Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for lighting 
with Gas the Town of Bury, and other Townships 
and Places in the Parishes of Bury, Middleton, 
Prestwich-cum-Oldham and Radcliffe, respectively, 
all in the County of Lancaster, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Peel, Colonel Wilson Patten, and 
Mr. Cheetham. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are West Somerset 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to Railway. 
authorize the Construction of a Railway from Taun- 
ton to the Harbour uf Watchet, and for other pur- 
poses relating to the said Railway and Harbour, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


The Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill was read a se- Blyth and 
cond time ; and committed. 2 Railway 


The Burslem and Tunstall Gas Bill was read a Burslem 
second time; and committed. and Tunstall 
Gas Bill. 
The Caledonian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill Caledonian 


was read a second time ; and committed. Railway 
(Lines to 
Granton) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Cork and Bandon Railway Cork and 
Bill be read a second time To-morrow. Bandon Rail- 
way Bill. 
The Dorset Central Railway Bill was read a se- Dorset Central 
cond time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill was read Bale and 
j ° j icklow 
a second time; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Electric Telegraph Company Bill was read Electric 
a second time; and committed. Telegraph 
Company Bill. 
The Ely Valley Railway Bill was read a second Ely Valley 
time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Fife and Kinross Railway Bill was read a Fife and Kin- 
second time; and committed. = Railway 


The Great Southern and Western Railway (Ca- Great 
pital) Bill was read a second time; and committed, Southern 
and Western 
Railway 
(Capital) Bill. 
The Great Western and Brentford Railway Bill Great Western 
was read a second time; and committed. and Brentford 
Railway Bill. 
_ The Kiuross-shire Railway Bill was read a second Kinross-shire 
time ; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Mallow and Fermoy Railway Bill was read Mallow and 
a second time ; and committed. Fermoy Rail- 
way Bill. 
The Metropolitan New Streets and Improvements Metropolitan 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed. New Streets 
and Improve- 
ments Bill. 
_ The Monkland Railways Bill was read a second Monkland_ 
time ; and committed. Railways Bill. 


The Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment Bill was norfolk 


read a second time ; and committed. Estuary Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The North Level Drainage Bill was read a second North Level 
time ; and committed. Drainage Bill. 


The North Staffordshire Railway (Bridgewater North Staf- 
Canals) Bill was read a second time; and com- fordshire 


. Railwa, 
mitted. (Bridgewater 








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SemTh 2OQm was 


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20 VicToriz. 


ene The North Western Railway Bill was read a se- 
Railway cond time ; and committed. 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Bill. 


The Portadown and Dungannon Railway Bill 
was read a second time; and committed. 


Portsmouth = The Portsmouth Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. time; and committed. 


PulteneyTown Ordered, That the Pulteney Town Harbour Bill 
Harbour Bill. be read a second time upon Friday next. 


Reading Rail- The Reading Railways Junction Railway Bill 

mies ail was read a second time; and committed. 

Scottish i The Scottish Central Railway Bill was read a se- 

a " cond time; and committed. 

Siiasiowne The Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill 

an eerness ; . ; 

Railway Bil, VS read a second time; and committed. 

ietece . The Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gag Con- 

Stockton Gas Sumers’ Companies Bill was read a second time; 

Consumers’ and committed. 

Companies 

Bill. 

Tralee and Ordered, That the Tralee and Kiliarney Railway 

Railwey Bill Bill be reada second time upon Wednesday the 
25th day of this instant February. 

Tweed - The Tweed Fisheries Bill was read a second time; 

Fisheries Bil. ond committed. 

i The Wilmslow and Lawton Road Bill was read a 

Road Bill, «Second time; and committed. 

Birkenhead : : i ill w 

Docks (Con- The Birkenhead Docks (Construction) Biil was, 


struction) Bill, according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


Birkenhead The Birkenhead Docks (Management) Bill was, 
opnaieng ding to Order, read d time; and com- 
nagement) pers o Order, read a second time; and com 
Bill, mitted. 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill ke now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at the 
end of the Question, adding the words “ upon this 
“ day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Satin, 

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. 


Lewes and 
Uckfield 
Railway Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the 
adjourned Debate on the Question proposed upon 
the 10th day of this instant February, That the 
Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill be committed ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

: &gt;. { Mr. Brand, 

Tellers for the Yeasy) Colonel on } 
&gt; Sir Charles Burrell. 
Tellers for the I oes,f Sit John Shelley : : } 48 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The Bill 
was accordingly committed. 


A Bill to enable the South Staffordshire Water- 
"t Company to alter and extend their Works, 
OL. 112. 


$2 


South Staf- 
fordshire 
Water Bill. 


11° Februari. 


te ieee 
ae aS ae 
‘oO we ee 


35 


and obtain an additional Supply of Water, and to 
make certain Arrangements with respect to their 
Undertaking, and the Works connected therewith, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Time for the Construction Norwich and 
of the Railway between Spalding and Sutton-bridge, Spalding _ 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a ®#ilway Bill. 
second time. 


Ordered, That the Bill for establishing and main- Lowestoft and 
taining a Ferry and Floating Bridge across the River Burgh Saint 
Waveney, near Burgh Saint Peter Staithe, in the eg ame 
Parishes of Ouléon, 1a the County of Suffolk, and Bill. 

Burgh Saint Peter, in the County of Norfolk, with 

proper Works and Approach Roads thereto, be read 

the first time To-morrow. 


A Bill to incorporate and regulate the Atlantic Atlantic 
Telegraph Company, and to enable the Company Telegraph 
to establish and work Telegraphs between Great ee 
Britain, Ireland and Newfoundland, and for other 

purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered to 

be read a second time. 


A Bill for granting additional Powers to the Australian 
Australian Agricultural Company, was read the  etatamane 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. cities 


A Bill for incorporating the Calcutta and South Calentan s and 
Eastern Railway Com for uth Kastern 
connected therewith aa oan fi me Sor aul a 
» was rea e first time; and Company Bill. 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to incorporate the Guildford Gas-Light and Guildford 
Coke Company, and to confer upon them further “as Bill. 
Powers for the Supply of Gas to Guildford and the 
Vicinity, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize a Deviation in the Line of the pagenalstown 
Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway ; and to pro- and Wexford 
vide for guaranteeing Interest on a Portion of the Railway Bill 
Capital of the Bagenalstown and Wezford Railway 
Company by means of Rates on certain Portions of 
the Comune of Wexford, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill to enable the South Eastern Railway Com- South Eastern 
pany to make a Railway at Reading, from the Railway 
Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway, to the — ad 
Great Western Railway, and to afford Facilities for 
the Interchange of Traffic between those Railways, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for lighting with Gas the Borough of Shrewsbury 
Shrewsbury and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the Gas Bill. 
County of Salop, was read the first time; and or- 


dered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Peel presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Army. 
—Army Estimates of Effective and Non-Effective No. 33. 
Services, for 1857-58. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


to 


A Petition of the East Somerset Railway Com- East Somerset 
any, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Railway. 
ast Somerset Railway Company to extend their 
Railway from Shepton Mallett to Wells, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Hayter and Captain 
Jolliffe. 


Wycombe 


A Petition of the Wycombe Railway Company, Railway 


for leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Wycom 
Railway Company to extend their Railway to 





F2 Princes 






















































Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Third 
Report. 


Poor Law. 


Bills of Ex- 
change Act, 
&amp;e. 


36 11°—12° 


Princes Risborough and to Thame, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Disraeli, Sir George Dashwood 
and Mr. Martin Tucher Smith. 


Petitions relating to Property and Income Tax ; 
—China and Persia ;—and, Civil Service Superan- 
nuation Fund,—were presented, and read ; and or- 


dered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Correspondence which has taken place 
since January 1856, between the Poor Law Board 
and the Local Authorities of Saint Marylebone and 
Saint Pancras, in relation to the Administration of 
the Poor Law; together with any Letter or Com- 
munication that may have been addressed to the 
Poor Law Board by the Churchwarden of Saint 
Marylebone upon the same subject, or upon the 
Management of the Workhouse, or the Conduct of 
the Board of Guardians of that Parish. 


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 Writs issued under 
the Bills of Exchange Act (18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 67), in 
the Superior Courts, during the year 1856 :—Of the 
Number of Writs issued on Bills of Exchange and 
Promissory Notes not under the Act (or as near 
thereto as practicable) :—Of the Number of Orders 
for Leave to appear under the Act :—Of the Num- 
ber of Judgments under the Act:—Of the Total 
Number of Writs issued :—Of the Total Number of 
Judgments :—Of the Total Number of Writs issued 
on an Ave of Four years, ending on the 31st 
day of December 1855 :—Of the Number of Final 
Judgments on an Average of Four years, ending on 
the 31st day of December 1855 :—Of the Number 
of Judgments on Verdicts on an Average of Four 
years, ending on the 31st day of December 1855 :— 
And, of the Number of Judgments on Verdicts for 
the year 1856. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Number of Paupers of all 
Classes in receipt of Relief on the 1st day of Janu- 
ary 1856, and the Ist day of January 1857, in 
Unions, &amp;c. in England and Wales :—And, of the 
Number of Adult Able-bodied Paupers in receipt of 
Relief on the 1st day of January 1856, and the Ist day 
of January 1857; together with a Return showing 
the Causes of Relief upon which the Adult Able- 
bodied were relieved. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Keturn to an Order, 
dated the 17th day of July 1856, fora Return of the 
Total Number of Acts passed in each Session since 
the year 1800 ; distinguishing the Number of Public, 
Private and Local and Personal Acts, and the Num- 
ber relating to Great Britain, England, Scotland 
and Ireland, and those relating to the United King- 
dom. 

Return to an Order, dated the 10th da 
iastant February, for a Return relative to 
Sadleir. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of Report to the 
Lord Chancellor, under the 8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 100, s. 88, 
of all Sums received by the several Commissioners 
in Lunacy for Travelling and Personal Expenses, or 
upon any other account, during the year ending cn 
the 31st December 1856. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to Acts of 
Parliament; and, Mr. James Sadleir, be printed. 


of this 
r. James 


Februarit. A. 1857. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Bank of Bank of 
England, which were presented upon the 10th day 2ssland. 
of this instant February, be printed. No. 35. 36. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Judgments 
reading of the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. Bill ; Execution, &amp;c, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Craufurd, 1 56 
Yeas, UMr. Joseph Ewart : Pg 
Tellers for the (Colonel French, { 
Noes, \Mr. Henry Hughes: 
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. 


f 46. 


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

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Londonderry 

to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out Writ 

a new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire 

to serve in this present Parliament for the County 

of Londonderry, in the room of Thomas Bateson, 

Esquire, who, since his Election for the said County, 

hath accepted the office of Steward of the Manor 

of Hempholme. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Public Monies, 
to inquire into the Receipt, Issue and Audit of Public 
Monies in the Exchequer, the Pay Office, and the 
Audit Department. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 12° die Februari ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Belfast 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Improvement. 
Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Belfast 
Improvement Bill. 

Bubrel, That the a be referred to the Select 


Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from west Somerset 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Railway. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the West 
| Somerset Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Provisional Directors of the Banff, Banff, Portsoy 
Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Company, for leave a 
to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from the “”“*” 
Grange Station of the Great North of Scotland Rail- 
way to the Harbour of Banff, with a Branch to the 
Harbour of Portsoy, was presented, and read ; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. James Duff and Mr. Cumming Bruce, 





A Petition 





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oF? Tf mes ed 


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90 VicrorizZ. 


Orkney Roads. A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 

regulating and converting the Statute Labour of the 

Stewartry or Sheriffdom of Orkney, and for more 

effectually making, repairing and maintaining the 

Highways and Bridges within the same, for leave 

to bring in a Bill for more effectually making, re- 

—s and maintaining the Highways, Roads and 

ridges within the Sheriffdom of Orkney, and for 

other purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 

was ordered to brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Frederick Dundas and Mr. Laing. 


Chatham Dis- 


A Petition of Subscribers to the Undertaking 
trict Water. ; 


thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
better supplying with Water Rochester, Chatham, 
Brompton and Gillingham, and their Neighbour- 
hood, in the County of Kent, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Sir Herbert Maddock and Mr. Wykeham Martin. 


National A Petition of Directors of the National Assurance 
pean ae and Investment Association, for leave to bring in a 
Association. Bill for granting further Powers to “ The National 


Assurance and Investment Association,” and for 
changing the Name of the Association to the Name 
of “ State Life Association,” was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Kinnaird and Mr. Atherton. 


Medical, Legal A Petition of the Medical, Legal and General 


oe pe Mutual Lite Assurance Society, and the New 
New Equitable Equitable Life Assurance Company, for leave to 


Life Assurance bring in a Bill for the establishment of “The Medical 
Companies’ Mutual Life Assurance Company, by the amalgama- 
Amalgama- ° ‘ i : 
tion. tion of “ The Medical, Legal and General Mutual Life 
Assurance Society” and “The New Equitable Life 
Assurance Company,” and for other purposes, was 
inne og and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 


rought in accordingly, by Lord Hotham and Mr. 


Repton. 
Saint Philip’s A Petition of the Reverend Charles Henry Burton, 
Livereol Clerk, Master of Arts, for leave to bring in a Bill 
"for uniting the Offices of Minister and Chaplain of 
Saint Philip's Church in Liverpool, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Joseph Ewart. 
Edinburgh, A Petition of the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee 
ae and Railway Company, and of the Scottish Central 

ee, and 


Scottish Cen- Railway ompeny for leave to bring in a Bill to 

tral Railway enable the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, and 

Companies. Scottish Central Railway Companies to enter into 
Agreements for the joint management and working 
of their Undertakings, was presented, and read; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Edward Ellice and Mr. Kinnaird, 


Ringwood, A Petition of Suitors for a Bill for effecting the 


ma urposes thereinafter mentioned, for leave to mea 
mouth Raii- ina Bill for making a Railway from the London an 


way. South Western Railway, near Ringwood, to Christ- 
church, in the County of Southampton, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be broughtin accordingly, by Mr. Compton 
and Admiral Wa/cott. 


Keith and A Petition of Provisional Directors of the Keith 
Railway, and Dufftown Railway Company, for leave to bring 
ina Bill for making a Railway y so Keith to Duff 
town, was presented, and read; and referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 
Mid-Kent A Petition of the Mid-Kent Railway (Bromley to 
wie Saint Mary Cray) Company, for leave to bring in a 
nt Mary Bill for enabling the Mid-Kent Railway (Bromley 


Cray) (Exten- to Saint Mary Cray) Company to extend their 
fed)” Dart- authorized Line from Saint Mary Cray, to join the 
North Kent Railway at Dartford, in the County of 
* and for other purposes, was presented, and 
POL. 112. 








12° Februari. 37 


read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


The Right Honourable Sir Francis Thornhill Controvertea 

Baring, Baronet, the Right Honourable S; Elections. 
Horatio Walpole, Robert Paimer, Esquire, William 
Deedes, Esquire, and Chichester Samuel Fortescue, 
Esquire, being Five of the Members appointed by 
Mr. Speaker to serve on the General Committee of 
Elections, and not objected to by the House, were 
sworn by the Clerk at the Table. 


The Cork and Bandon Railway Bill was, accord- Cork and — 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed. Bandon Rail- 
way Bill. 
The Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and Lowestoft and 
Roads Bill was, according to Order, read the first Rursh Saint 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. oat 
Bill. 
_ A Bill for granting further Powers to “ The Rever- Reversionary 
sionary Interest Society,” was read the first time ; Interest 


and ordered to be read a second time. Society Bill. 


A Bill to authorize the East Somerset Railway East Somerset 
Company to extend their Railway from Shepton Railway Bill. 
Mallett to Wells, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Wycombe Railway Com- wycombe 
pany to extend their Railway to Princes Risborough Railway Bill. 
and to Thame, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Bank of London and National Bank of 
Provincial Insurance Association to sue and be sued ; London and 
. as National 
to confirm certain Agreements entered into by them provincial 
or on their behalf, and for other purposes, was read Insurance As- 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second *°ciation Bill. 


time. 


A Biil for lighting with Gas the Town of Bury, Bury Gas 
and other Townships and Places in the Parishes Bill 
of Bury, Middleton, Prestwich-cum-Oldham, and 
Radcliffe, respectively, all in the County of Zan- 
custer, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for the Worksop and Aitercliffe Turnpike Worksop 
Road, in the County of Nottingham, and the West and Atterclifle 
Riding of the County of York, was read the first * 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for the Mansfield and Worksop Turnpike Mansfield 
Road, in the County of Wottingham, was read the #™4 By orksop 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. — 


Petitions relating to Church Rates ; — Married Public 
Women ;—Paper ;—Property and Income Tax ;— F¢titions. 
China and Persia;—Civil Service Superannuation yige Thira 
Fund ;— Intoxication ;—Licenses (Beer-houses) ;— Report. 
Newspapers ;—Opium Trade ;—Public Health Act 
(1848); — Public Houses (Scotland) Act ;—and, 
Turnpikes, &amp;c.,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Westminster Improvement Com- Westminster 
missioners, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending !™provements. 
the Time granted to the Hestminster Improvement 
Commissioners, by “The Westminster Improvement 
Act, 1845,” “The Westminster Improvement Act, 

1847,” “The Westminster Improvement Act, 1850,” 
“The Westminster Improvement Act, 1853,” and 
“The Westminster Improvement Act, 1855,” for the 
comgenes Purchase of Lands and the Completion 
of Works, and for facilitating the Completion of the 
Improvements, and the Sale of Lands, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Mac- 
hinnon, Mr. Oliveira and Mr. Warner. 

F3 A Petition 



























































Victoria 
(Australia) 
Electoral Law. 


Canton River. 


Queen’s Col- 
lege (Galway.) 


Queen's Col- 
lege ( Belfast. ) 


Prisons. 


Education. 


Bullion ( Bank 
of England.) 


38 12° Februariz. A. 1857. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Undertakin 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Farnborough Station 
of the London and South Western Railway, to Al- 
dershot, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Henry 
Lowther and Mr. Gwyn. 


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 the Electoral Law of the Colony of Vic- 
toria (Australia), passed by the Colonial Legislature, 
and forwarded to this Country for the Royal As- 
sent. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of all Sums expended by the East India 
Company, and charged or to be charged on the Re- 
venues of India, for Law Proceedings in England, 
during the years 1855 and 1856 respectively :—And, 
showing the Expense incurred by the East India 
Company in opposing a Private Bill, intituled, “ The 
Nawab of Surat Treaty Bill,” before a Committee 
of the House of Commons, and the Number of 
Counsel engaged. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Total Amount of the Capital due to 
the various Indian Railway Companies remaining 
in the Home Treasury of the Last India Company 
on the last day of every Month in the Twelve 
Months ending the 30th day of April 1856, with an 
Account of the Proportions in which the said Total 
Amount of Jndian Railway Capital was held as 
Cash, or invested, by the East India Company, at 
the above Dates. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence relative to the 
Operations in the Canton River, April 1847 (in con- 
tinuation of Papers presented to Padiennes, July 
1847). 

Copy of Correspondence relating to the Affairs 
of Naples. 

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


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty's Com- 
mand,—Copy of Report of the President of the 
Queen’s College, Galway, 1856. 

Copy of Report of the President of Queen’s Col- 
lege, Belfast, for the Session 1855-56. 

opy of Twentieth Report of the Inspectors ap- 
pointed under the Provisions of the Act 5 &amp; 6 Will. 
4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of Great Bri- 
tain: 1, Home District. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, duted the 9th day of this in- 
stant February, for Returns relative to Education. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 9th day of this instant February, for a Return 
relative to Bullion (Bank of England). 

The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—An Account 
of the Sums advanced in each year from the Con- 
solidated Fund for the Purchase of Bullion for 
Coinage, and of the Sums paid in each year to the 
Account of Her Majesty’s Exchequer at the Bank 
of England in Repayment thereof. 


Accounts respecting the Territorial Revenues and East India 
Disbursements of the East India Company for the (Territorial 
year 1854-55, with an Estimate of the same for anq Disburs 
the succeeding year, and Appendices containing ments.) 
comparative Statements for the years 1852-53, 


1853-54, 1854-55, and Estimate 1855-56. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Public 
to Her Majesty, praying that She will be graciously Justice. 
pleased to take into consideration, as an urgent 
measure of Administrative Reform, the formation 
of a separate and responsible Department for the 
Affairs of Public Justice. 

Ordered, Thatthe said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to Church Rates 
abolish Church Rates: And that Sir William Clay, A»lition. 
Mr. Hutt and Mr. Miall do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- General 
posed, That there be laid before this House, a Copy —— 
of all Correspondence relating to the Removal of 
General Sir George Pollock, a. c.B., from the Di- 
rection of the Honourable East India Company :— 

And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Weights and 
amend so much of the Act of the fifth and sixth Measures. 
years of William the Fourth as relates to Weights 
and Measures throughout England and Wales: And 
that Mr. Lloyd Davies and Mr. Adderley do prepare, 
and bring it in. 





| A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Moldavia and 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to Her Wallachia 
Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions, that there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Treaty concluded by his Majesty the 
Emperor of Austria with the Sublime Porte, on the 
14th day of June 1854, relative to the Military Oc- 
cupation of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wal- 
lachia:—And the said Motion was, with leave of 

| the House, withdrawn. 


| Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Bank Bank Acts. 
Acts be a Committee of Secrecy, and do consist 

of Twenty-two Members :—The Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli, Sir James Graham, Mr. 

Spooner, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. George Alexander Ha- 

milton, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hildyard, 

Mr. Glyn, Mr. Bechett and Mr. Hankey were nomi- 

nated Members of the Committee. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Pollard-Urquhart be one other 
Member of the said Committee; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the name of “ Mr. Pollard- 
“ Urquhart,” and inserting the name of “ Mr. 
** Vance,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the name 
of “ Mr. Pollard-Urquhart” stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That Mr. Pollard-Urquhart be one 
other Member of the said Committee. 

Then Mr. John Lewis Ricardo, Sir Charles Wood, 
Mr. Cayley, Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Martin Tucker 
Smith, Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Fergus, were nomi- 
nated other Members of the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 


for persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, hat Five be the Quorum. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Assaults upod 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased es 
to give directions, that there be laid before this (yfctropolis.) 
House, a Return of the Convictions and a 

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within the Police Districts of the Metropolis, during 
the year 1856, under the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 30, 
for the better Prevention and Punishment of Ag- 
gravated Assaults upon Women and Children. 
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. 


surveyors, &amp;c. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 

of Stamps and Return of the Salaries and Allowances for Travelling 

Taxes. Expenses, &amp;c., paid to each of the Seven Classes of 
Surveyors of Stamps and Taxes in England, Scot- 
land and Ireland respectively :—And, similar Re- 
turn of the Salaries and Allowances of the Three 
Classes of Inspectors of Taxes in England, Scotland 
and Ireland respectively. 


Commons’ The Commons’ Inclosure Bill was, according to 
Inclosure Bill. Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Royal Marine The Royal Marine Forces Bill was, according to 
Forces Bill. Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Church Rates Sir William Clay presented a Bill to abolish 
Abolition Bil. Church Rates: And the same was read the first 


12°—13° Februariz. 


39 


A Petition of Trustees of the Besselsleigh Turn- Besselsleigh 
pike Road, for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Road. 
Acts relating to the Besse/sleigh Turnpike Road, 
in the County of Berks, and to make other Provisions 
in lieu thereof, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Vis- 
count Barrington and Mr. Robert Palmer. 


A Petition of Subscribers to the thereinafter men- Margate 
tioned Undertaking, for leave to bring in a Bill for Wr. 
better supplying with Water the Inhabitants of the 
Parishes of Saint John the Baptist (including Mar- 
gate), and Saint Peter the Apostle (including Broad- 
stairs), in the County of Kent, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Brockman and Mr. Mackinnon. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Mid-Kent and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a South Kent 
Railway from the Caterham Railway to the East ®*""*v- 
Croydon Station of the London, Brighton and South 
Coast Railway, and another Railway in connexion 
therewith, both in the County of Surrey, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

Alcock and Mr. Alderman Challis. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Alva Parish. 
subscribed, for Jeave to bring in a Bill for disuniting 
| the Parish of Alva from the County of Stirling, and 
uniting it to the County of Clackmannan, was pre- 











Bill 15. time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 25th day of March next; and to be 
printed. ® ) 

And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 
Veneris, 13° die Februarii; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 
Public R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
(Third Re- Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
port.) had examined the Petitions presented upon the 10th, 
11th and 12th days of this instant February, and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 4 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 
Mid-Kent Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Brome to one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Saint Mary in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 


Cray) (Exten- ders in the case of the Petition for the Mid-Kent 
sion to Dart- Railway (Bromley to Saint Mary Cray) (Extension 


_ to Dariford) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
Keith and Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
tag one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
og in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Keith and 
Dufftown Railway Bill. 
rdered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
a ag Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
(Runuis one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
Powers, ) in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Caledonian 
Railway (Running Powers) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
- cas a Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
North Lincotn. 08€ Of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


shire Junction IN respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ilway. ders in the case of the Petition for the South York- 
ond and North Lincolashire Junction Railway 
ill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
Vow. 112. 


sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
| brought in accordingly, by Mr. Elliot and Mr. 
Lockhart. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Wimbledon and Wimbledon 
Dorking Railway Company, for leave to bring in a 204 Dorking 
Bill for making a Railway from the London and ®*!¥*y- 
South Western Railway at Wimbledon to Epsom, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Mangles and Mr. 

Bonham Carter. 


A Petition of the Times Fire Assurance Com- Times, 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for the Amalgama- Atheneum, 
tion of “The Times Fire Assurance Company,” “The “04 Beacon 
Athenezum Fire Insurance Society,” and “ The Companies’ 
Beacon Life and Fire Assurance Company,” and of Amalgama- 
the Business of the said Companies and Society, “°™ 
except so far as the Business of the last-named Com- 
| pany relates to Assurances of Lives, was presented, 

_and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
lin accordingly, by Mr. Bulkeley Hughes and Mr. 
Oliveira. 








A Petition of the Stamford and Essendine Rail- Stamford 

way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to em- and Essendine 
|power the Stamford and Essendine Railway Com- “*"**)- 
| pany to raise Money, to sell or let their Undertaking, 
'and for other purposes connected therewith, was 
| presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Sir Frederic Thesiger and 
Lord Robert Cecil. 


A Petition of the Chepstow Gas and Coke Con- Chepstow 
sumers Company (Limited), for leave to bring in a &amp;* 
Bill to incorporate a Company for supplying Gas to 
Chepstow, and the neighbourhood, was presented, 

and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
| accordingly, by Mr. Octavius Morgan and Colonel 
Somerset. 





A Petition of Proprietors of the Guildford Water- Guildford 
works, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate the Wtr- 
| Proprietors of the Guildford Waterworks, and to 
conter further Powers for the supply of Water to the 
| Borough of Guildford, was presented, and read; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
| by Mr. Mangles and Mr. Evelyn. 
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40 

A Petition of the Cork and Youghal Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the 
Time for making the Cork and Youghal Railway, 
and to vary the borrowing Powers of the Company, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 


be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Isaac Butt and 
Mr. Talbot. 


- oy 
oug 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Charing Cross Bridge Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Charing 
Cross Bridge Company to alter their Bridge and 
Approaches, to adapt the same to the passage of 

orses and Carriages, and for other purposes con- 
nected with their Undertaking, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Masterman, Sir John Shelley and 
Mr. William Williams. 


Charing Cross 
Bridge. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway from near Hamilton, to near Strathaven, 
in the County of Lanark, to be called“ The Hamilton 
and Strathaven Railway,” and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Cochrane, Mr. 
Baird and Sir James Fergusson, 


Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway. 


13° Februariz. 


A. 1857. 


Colonel John Wilson Patten, one of the Members Controverted 
appointed by Mr. Speaker to serve on the General Elections. - 
Committee of Elections, and not objected to by the 
House, was sworn by the Clerk at the Table. 


The Bristol, South Wales and Southampton Union Bristol, South 
shu: ’ + ° ia es an 
Railway Bill was read a second time; and com ben thane 
mitted. Union Rail- 

way Bill. 
The Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Im- Nene Valley 
provement Bill was read a second time; and com- ies 
mitted. Improvement 
Bill 


The Tilbury, Maldon and Colchester Railway Bill Tilbury, 
Maldon and 

Colchester 

Railway Bill. 


The 7yne Improvement Bill was read a second Tyne Im- 
— 
Bi 


was read a second time ; and committed. 


time ; and committed. 


The Pulteney Town Harbour Bill was, according Pulteney Town 
to Order, read a second time; and committed. Harbour Bill. 


A Bill for granting further Powers to the “ Na- National As- 


tional Assurance and Investment Association,” and nese 


for changing the Name of the Association to the Association 





Forth and 
Clyde Junc- 
tion Railway. 


name of “State Life Association,” was read the Bill. 


A Petition of the Forth and Clyde Junction Rail-| first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to cancel | 
certain forfeited Shares in the Forth and Clyde| 


A Bill for more effectually making, repairing and Orkney Roads 


Junction Railway Company, and to enable the Com-| maintaining the Highways, Roads and Bridges Bill. 


pany to create new and additional Shares, and for | 
| poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 


other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Blachburn, Mr. Smollett and Sir James Anderson. 


Mid-Sussex 


A Petition of Promoters of a Railway from Pul- 
Railway. j 


in the County of Sussex, for leave to bring in a Bill | 
for making a Railway from the London, Brighton | 
and South Coa-t Railway at Horsham, through | 
Billingshurst to Pulborough, with a Branch from | 
Billingshurst to Petworth, all in the County of 
Sussex, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln- 
shire Railway, at or near to Barton, in the County 
of Lincoln, to the South Yorkshire Railway, at 
Thorne, in the West Riding of the County of York, 
to be called “ The South Yorkshire and North Lin- 
colnshire Junction Railway,” was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


North Lincoln- 
shire Junction 
Railway. 


Newtown and 
Machynlleth 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Right honourable the Earl Vane 
and of other Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Kailway from the Lianidloes and Newtown Railway, 
in the Parish of Llandinam, in the County of Mont- 
gomery, to the Town of Machynlleth, in the same 
County, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Colonel 
Wynn and Mr. Pugh. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are there- 
unto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
aaning © Bridge over the River Wye, near to the 
Siven Pitt Ferry, and Approaches thereto; for dis- 


Fownhope and 
Holme Lacy 
Bridge. 


| Station of the Great North of Scotland Railway 
borough to Horsham, with a Branch to Petworth, all 


within the Sheriffdom of Orkney, and for other pur- 
read a second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Grange Banff, Portsoy 
to and Strathisla 


the Harbour of Banff, with a Branch to the Har- Railway Bill. 


bour of Portsoy, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for uniting the Offices of Minister and Saint Philip's 
Chaplain of Saint Philip’s Church, in Liverpool, nor paar 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a? 
second time. 


A Bill for better supplying with Water Rochester, Chatham 
Chatham, Brompton and Gillingham, and their — Wates 
Neighbourhood, in the County of Kent, wasread the ~~ 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for reducing the Dues levied by the Weaver Navi- 
Trustees of the River Weaver Navigation on Coal gation Bill. 
and Salt, was read the first time; oa ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Bill to enable the Edinburgh, rainburgh, 
Perth and Dundee, and Scottish Central Railway Perth and 
Companies to enter into Agreements for the Joint Dundes _ 
Management and Working of their Undertakings, tral Railway 


be read the first time upon Monday next. ——— 


A Bill for making a Railway from the London Ringwood, 
and South Western Railway, near Ringwood, to Christchurch 
| Christchurch, in the County of Southampton, and for 804 Rowrnr 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered way Bill. 


to be read a second time. 


A Bill for extending the Times granted to the Westminster 
Westminster Improvement Commissioners by “ The ama 
Westminster Improvement Act, 1845,” “ The West- 





continuing and regulating Ferries near to the Bridge, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Blakemore and Mr. King King. 


The Order for reading a second time the Hereford 
Cathedral Restoration Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


minster Iniprovement Act, 1847,” “The West- 
minster Improvement Act, 1850,” “The West- 
minster Improvement Act, 1853,” and “ The West- 
minster Improvement Act, 1855,” for the compul- 
‘sory Purchase of Lands and the Completion of 
Works, and for facilitating Completion of the Im- 
provements and Sale of Lands, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 

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20 VicrorIZ. 


Medical, Legal A Bill for the Establishment of the Medical Mu- 


and General 


tual Life Assurance Company, by the Amalgamation 


New Eiattable of the Medical, Legal and General Mutual Life As- 
Life 


Assurance 
Com ies 


tion Bill. 


Aldershot 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Fourth 
Report. 


County Courts. 


surance Society, and the New Equitable Life As- 
surance Company, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Ordered, That the Bill for making a Railway from 
the Farnborough Station of the London and South 
Western Railway to Aldershot, be read the first time 
upon Monday next. 


Petitions relating to the Ballot ;—Church Rates ; 
— Ministers’ Money (Jreland) Act ;— Paper ;— 
Property and Income Tax ;—Adulteration of Food ; 
—China and Persia;—Civil Service Superannu- 
ation; — Metropolis Turnpike Roads; — Opium 
Trade ;—Passing Tolls Bill ;—Poor Law (Jre/and) ; 
—Public Houses (Scotland) Act ;—and, Settlement 
and Removal,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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 from every County Court throughout Eng- 
land and Wales, established under the Act 9 &amp; 10 
Vic. c. 95, of the Total Number of Plaimts entered 
in each Court, from the 1st day of January te the 
30th day of September 1856, both days inclusive :— 
Of the Total Number of Plaints entered in each 
Court above £. 20 and not exceeding £. 50, from the 
1st day of January 1856 to the 30th day of Septem- 
ber 1856, both days inclusive :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Plaints entered in each Court, from the Ist 
day of January 1856 to the 30th day of September 
1856, under the 17th section of the Act 13 &amp; 14 
Vic. c. 61 :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried 
by each Court, from the 1st day of January 1856 to 
the 30th day of September 1856, both days inclu- 
sive :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried by each 
Court, from the 1st day of January 1856 to the 30th 
day of September 1856, both days inclusive, above 
£.20 and not exceeding £.50 :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes tried by each Court, from the 1st day 
of January 1856 to the 30th day of September 1856, 
under the 17th section of the Act 13 &amp; 14 Vic. 
c. 61:—Of the Total Number of Appeals under the 
last-mentioned Act pending on the 1st day of Janu- 
ary 1856, and the Total Neenber made from the 1st 
day of January 1856 to the 30th day of September 
1856, both days inclusive, from the Decisions of each 
Court, and whether such Decisions were confirmed 
or reversed, and the Number of Appeals dropped or 
—- undecided on the 30th day of September 
1856 :— Of the Total Number of Days that each 
Court has sat, from the 1st day of January to the 
30th day of September 1856, both days inclusive, 
and the Average Number of Hours comprised in 
each Sitting :—Of the Total Number of such Sit- 
tings held before a Deputy Judge:—Of the Total 
Amount of Monies for which the Plaints were en- 
tered in each Court during the last-mentioned 
period :—Of the Total Amount of Monies, exclusive 
of Costs, for which Judgment has been obtained in 
each Court during the same period, and also the 
Amount of such Costs :—Of the Total Amount of 
Monies paid into each Court during the same period, 
in satisfaction of Debts sued for, without proceed- 
ing to Judgment :—Of the Gross Total Amount of 
Fees received in each Court during such period, 
distinguishing the Amount of Fees for each Officer, 
and on account of the General Fund :—Of the Gross 
Total Amount of Monies received in each Court to 
the Credit of Suitors, and the Amount paid out to 
Suitors :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried in 
each Court during the same period, with the assist- 
“ of a Jury, specifying the Number of such 

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13° Februariz. 








41 


Causes in which a Verdict has been given in favour 
of the Party requiring a Jury to be summoned :— 
Of the Total Number of Executions issued by the 
Clerk of each Court, during the same period, against 
the Goods of Defendants :—Of the Total Number of 
Judgment Summonses issued by each Court during 
the same period :—Of the Total Number of Judg- 
ment Summonses heard by each Court during the 
same period :—Of: the Total Number of Warrants 
of Commitment issued by the Clerk of each Court 
during the same period, and the Number of Persons 
actually taken to Prison under such Warrants :— 
And, of the Total Amount received by the Treasurer 
of each Court, on account of the General Fund of 
such Court, from the 1st day of January 1856 to the 
30th day of September 1856, inclusive; and the 
Payments made thereout during such period, as 
given in the Balance Sheets rendered to the Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, according to 
Article 48 of the Treasurer’s Instructions ; together 
with the Sums therein stated to have been received 
of or paid to Her Majesty’s Paymaster-general. 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented County Courts. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Returns from every County Court throughout Eng- 
land and Wales, established under the Act 9 &amp; 10 
Vic. c. 95, of the Total Number of Plaints entered 
in each Court, from the Ist day of October to the 
31st day of December 1856, both days inclusive :— 
Of the Total Number of Plaints entered in each 
Court above £. 20 and not exceeding £. 50, from the 
Ist day of October 1856 to the 31st dav of Decem- 
ber 1856, both daysinclusive :— Of the Total Number 
of Plaints entered in each Court, during the same 
een, under the 23d Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20 

ic. c. 108 :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried 
by each Court, during the same period, upon which 
the Hearing Fee of Two Shillings in the Pound was 
taken :—Of the Total Number of Causes in which, 
from admission or confession, the Fee of One Shil- 
ling in the Pound was taken on the Judgment, 
during the same period :—Of the Total Number of 
Causes in which Judgment by Default was entered 
up under the 28th Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. 
c. 108, during the same period:—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes in which Judgment by Default was 
entered up on Plaints entered under the Summary 
Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act, 1855, during 
the same period :—Of the Total Number of Causes 
tried by each Court, during the same period, above 
£.20 and not exceeding £. 50 :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes sent for Trial in a County Court by 
the Judge of a Superior Court, under the 26th Sec- 
tion of the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 108, during the same 

eriod :—Of the Total Number of Causes in which 
Defendants have objected to Trial and given Se- 
curity, under the Provisions of the 39th Section of 
the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 108:—Of the otal Num- 
ber of Causes tried by each Court, during the same 
period, under the 23d Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20 
Vic. c. 108:—Of the Total Number of Appeals to 
the Superior Courts pending on the 1st day of Oc- 
tober 1856, and the Total Number made from the 
1st day of October 1856 to the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856, both days inclusive, from the Decisions of 
each Court, and whether such Decisions were con- 
firmed or reversed, and the Number of Appeals 
dropped or remaining undecided on the 31st day of 
December 1856 :—Of the Total Number of Days 
that each Court has sat, from the 1st day of Octo- 
ber to the 31st day of December 1856, both days 
inclusive, and the Average Number of Hours com- 
prised in each Sitting:—Of the Total Number of 
such Sittings held before a Deputy Judge :—Of the 





G Total 





























































Fishery Board 
(Scotland.) 


Poor Law 
Union Schools. 


42 


Total Amount of Monies for which the Plaints were 
entered in each Court during the last-mentioned 
period :—Of the Total Amount of Monies, exclusive 
of Costs, for which Judgment has been obtained or 
entered up in each Court during the same period, and 
also the Amount of such Costs, exclusive of Fees of 
Court :—Of the Total Amount of Monies paid into 
each Court during the same period, in satisfaction 
of Debts sued for, without proceeding to Judgment : 
—Of the Amount of Fees received in each Court 
during such period :—Of the Gross Total Amount 
of Monies received in each Court to the Credit of 
Suitors, and the Amount paid out to Suitors, during 
such period :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried 
in each Court during the same period with the assist- 
ance of a Jury, specifying the Number of such 
Causes in which a Verdict has been given in favour 
of the Party requiring a Jury to be summoned :— 
Of the Total Number of Executions issued by the 
Clerk of each Court during the same period against 
the Goods of Defendants :—Of the Total Number of 
Judgment Summonses issued by each Court during 
the same period :—Of the Total Number of Judg- 
ment Summonses heard by each Court during the 
same period :—Of the Total Number of Warrants of 
Commitment issued by the Clerk of each Court 
during the same period :—And of the Number of Per- 
sons actually taken to Prison under such Warrants. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this me as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of any Reports addressed to the Lords Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury in 1856, or 
the present year, on the Subject of the Fishery 
Board of Scotland. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of all Poor Law Unions in England and 
Wales where the Schoo! is maintained in a separate 


Building from the Union Workhouse :—And, of such 
Unions under the Poor Law Board as have united 


for the purpose of educating the Pauper Children 
separately ; stating the Names of such Unions, and 
the Average Number of Children in such Union 
School during the year 1856. 


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 of “ Report on Hong Kong,” “ Re- 

rt on Chusan,”’ and, “Minute on the British 

osition and Prospects in China,” by Mr. R. Mont- 
gomery Martin, when Treasurer to the Queen at 
Hong Kong, and a Member of Her Majesty’s Le- 
gislative Council in China. 

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. 


Sir Charles Wood presented,—Return to an Or- 
der, dated the 22d day of July 1856, for a Return 
of the Number of Persons flogged in the Navy in 
the years 1853, 1854 and 1855 ; a 
year, specifying the Name of the Ship, the Offence, 
the Sentence, and Number of Lashes inflicted, and 
stating the highest and the lowest Number given 
‘n ‘each Class (in continuation of Parliamentary Pa- 
per, No. 552, of Session 1853). 

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


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 Men of all Ranks 
of the Army from 1828 to 1856-7, both inclusive, 
stating the Numbers in Jndia, for Service in the 
Colonies and at Home, and the Total Number voted, 


13° Februariz. 


A. 1857. 


as in Return No. 2, in the Appendix to the Report: 
of the Select Committee on Army and Ordnance 
Expenditure, with the Gross Amount voted in each 
year for the Army Estimates, irrespective of Credits 
m Aid:—Of the Number of Men voted in the 
same years for Ordnance Services (given in the 
Return No, 47, in the Appendix to the Second Re- 
port of the Select Committee on Army and Ord- 
nance Expenditure), together with the Gross Sums 
voted in each year :—Of the Gross Sums voted in 
each year for the Commissariat, and the Totals of 
the Men voted for the Army and Ordnance Services ; 
also the Total of the Sums voted as above in each 
year for Army, Ordnance and Commissariat : 





for Army, Ordnance and 


Commissariat, 


of Recruiting Troops and 


Companies. 
cluding Recruiting Troops, 


&amp;e. 
for Army and Ordnance. 


missariat, 


For Service in the Colonies. 
Ordnance. 


Gross Sum voted for Ord- 
Gross Sum voted for Com- 


Total of Gross Sums voted 


Number of Men voted for 
Total Number of Men voted 


Numbers in India, exclusive 
For Service at Home, in- 
| Gross Sum voted for Army. 


Total Number voted. 






































And, similar Return of Men, Boys and Marines 
voted for the Navy, and Gross Sum voted (see Table 
at pages 6 and 7 of Report of the Select Committee 
on Navy, Army and Ordnance Estimates), irrespec- 
tive of Credits in Aid, but deducting the Vote for 
Packets from the year 1842. 

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. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Rhymney 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Railway. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Rhymney 
Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from ys;4-gussex 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Railway. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Mid-Sussex 
Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Massey presented,— Return to an Order, Incumbered 
dated the 5th day of this instant February, for Re- Estates Court 
turns relative to the Incumbered Estates Court “teland) 
(Ireland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 5th day of this in- Poor Relief 
stant February, for Returns relative to Poor Relief (Ireland.) 
(Ireland). 

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


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Court of 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the Session (Scot- 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of War- @"*) 
rant granting Compensation Allowances to Hector 
Mason and others, Assistant Clerks in the Court of 
Session in Scotland, and to John Barrow, Depute 
Clerk of the Teind Court, Scotland, year 1856. 

Copy of Warrant granting Compensation to Mr. Entails, &amp;. 
William Pitt Dundas, for loss of Fees sustained by (Scotland.) 
him as Keeper of the Register of Entails, &amp;c. in 
Scotland, year ending 15th November 1856. 

Account, pursuant to Act 6 &amp; 7 Vic. c. 63, inti- West India 
tuled, “ An Act for granting Relief to the Islands Islands, &amp;c. 
of Antigua, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Dominica and Mont- 
serrat,” of all Sums advanced during the year end 
5th January 1857, to the said several Islands, an 
of all Sums repaid by reason of such Advances, with 
the Interest paid thereon, during the same period, 

Account, 








90 Vicroriz. 


Account, pursuant to Act 11 &amp; 12 Vie. c. 130, 
intituled, “ An Act for guaranteeing the Interest on 
such Loans, not exceeding £.500,000, as may be 
raised by the British Colonies on the Continent of 
South America, in the West Indies and the Mau- 
ritius, for certain oa of all Sums issued out 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 
during the year ending 5th January 1857, to make 
good the Deficiency in the regular Payment on the 

rt of the said Colonies of the Interest due on the 
ae advanced to them respectively, and of all 
Sums repaid by the said Colonies by reason of such 
Advances, with the Interest recovered and to be 
recovered thereon. 

Account, pursuant to Act 11 &amp; 12 Vie. c. 22, inti- 
tuled, “ An Act for granting Relief to the Island of 
Tobago, and for aiding the Colonies of British 
Guiana and Trinidad in raising Money for the 
Promotion of Immigration of Free Labourers,” of 
all Sums advanced to the said Islands or Colonies, 
and of all Sums repaid by reason of such Advances, 
with the Interest paid thereon during the year ending 
5th January 1857. 





13° Februari. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Lunatic Asy- 
to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of lums (Ireland.) 


43 


Officers and Management of Lunatic Asylums in 
Ireland: And that Colonel Dunne and Mr. Hume 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Hudson’s Hudson's Bay 
Bay Company do consist of nimeteen Members :—A Company. 


Committee was accordingly nominated of Mr. Secre- 
tary Labouchere, Sir John Pakington, Lord John 
Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, Mr. Roebuck, 
Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Lowe, Vis- 
count Sandon, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Greg- 
son, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Charles Fitzwilliam, Mr. 
Gordon, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Percy Herbert and Mr. 
Bell; with Power to send for persons, papers and 
records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Railways. 


Returns of the Amount of Capital and Loan which 
each Railway Company has been authorized to raise 
by Acts passed previous to and in 1856, the Amount 
of Share Capital actually paid up on the 31st day 
of December 1856, separating the ordinary Share 


rin, Ord, That ce Retr eli fo Eineaton | Gupta which dos ot rect ot no ete 
. ine Rebros ye to receive, any Preferential Dividend or Interest from 
meal ‘ ‘ that which bears a Preferential Dividend or Rate of 
Bullion (Bank Ordered, That the Return relative to Bullion | Interest; stating the Rate and Amount of Dividend 
of England.) (Bank of England), which was presented upon the| upon such ordinary Share Capital, as well as the 
No. 39 jth day of this instant February, be printed. Amount of each Class of such Preferential Capital, 
Mint. Ordered, That the Account relative to the Mint, oe be + ry ge a ‘ z nr = ae 
No. 40. which was presented upon the 12th day of this instant _ “Le - N renee " Sonia tre se te Se. 
ion i ouiatioh tures, Loan Notes, or any other Interest bearing Se- 
REY, 3° curities on the 31st day of December 1856, the 
East India Ordered, That the Accounts relative to East India| Rates of Interest payable thereon, and the Sums 
(Territorial (Territorial Revenues and Disbursements), which | to which such Rates of Interest are applicable ; dis- 
is, were presented upon the 12th day of this instant | tinguishing the several Sums raised by Shares or on 
ments.) February, be printed. Loan on which Dividend or Interest was not paid 
No. 41. out of Revenue, and the Amount of such Dividend 
@ si, : . . or Interest, the Total Amount the Company retained 
Supply. ‘. -~ a oy me to Order, resolved itself into Powers at the end of 1856 to raise, either on exist- 
Oe ee ing Shares or by creating new Shares or by Loans; 
(In the Committee.) the length of Line open for Traffic on the 31st day 
, : of December 1856, distinguishing Single and Double 
gel Pa mem _— on Aas cae d pate “ Portions ; the length of Line in course of Construc- 
Majesty, to pay off and discharge Exchequer Bonds, Gon _ pease hy ome been ¢ te Com- 
issued under the Provisions of the Act 17 Vic. c. 23, | P@°Y '® d h » ae of D wets: wes nee 
and dated the 8th day of May 1854, which will be commenced on the 31st day of December 1856, and 
due aud payable on the sth day of May 1857, consequently the Total Length for which the Com- 
pay . : pany has obtained Powers :—Of the Amalgamation 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. of Railway Companies which has been effected either 
. . by Purchase, Lease, or otherwise during 1856, stating 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. FitzRoy | i). Nature of such Amal : r 

\ ; ‘ gamation, and the Date on 
spo, That he Commits hmade ors | which i commen, withthe. Act of Prhament 
™ ~|under which it was effected:— And, from each 
gr = That the Committee may have leave| Railway Com any, showing the length of each Line 
oe 1. That this House will, upon Monday |° P@* of a Line or Branch Line, for which the 
ge or age anata Rage stmt man Y| Powers granted by Parliament for the compulsory 
3 * | Purchase of the Land required for their Construc- 
; : ah ‘ tion had heen allowed to expire, previous to the 31st 

Tonian Sub- The Jonian Subjects’ Commissions Bill was, ac- : ‘ aha 
jects? Com. couding to Oster, sond.o.csteediithuns andiaaat day of December 1856, without the exercise of such 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Friday next. 


a Island The Order of the day being read, for the second 


ical 


Government ) 
Bill. 


Passing Tolls 
Bill 


reading of the Norfolk Island (Ecclesiastical Go- 
vernment) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next, 


The Passing Tolls Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Select 
Committee, consisting of Nine Members, to be no- 
minated by the Committee of Selection. 


Powers ; and the Capital appropriated by Parlia- 
ment for the Construction of such Lines or Branch 
Lines. 


The Select Committee on the Statute Law Commis- Statute Law 
sion was nominated of Mr. Baines, Sir James Gra- Commission. 


ham, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Attorney General, Sir Frederic 
Thesiger, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Henley, Mr. Hughes, 
Sir William Heathcote, Sir FitzRoy Kelly, Lord 
Stanley, Mr. Locke King, Mr. Napier, Mr. Evelyn 
a and Mr. monet Ewart; with Power to 
sen persons, Ts records. 

Ordered, That be the Quorum. 






























































Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That all Petitions against the Bill be 
referred to the Committee, and that the Petitioners 
be heard by themselves, their Counsel or Agents, 
— the Bill, if they think fit. 

OL. 112. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Mr. James 
Copies of the Report of Sir Richard Mayne, of the Sadleie. 
11th day of February 1857, and of the Warrant No. 37. 
therein mentioned:—And, of the Report of the 
Crown Solicitor for Leinster, of the 12th day er 

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44 13°—16° Februariz. 


of February 1857, and of the several Orders and 
Documents therein mentioned. 

Mr. Attorney General for Ireland accordingly 
presented the said Paper. 

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


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


Adjournment. 


Army in the 
East. 
No, 42. 


Mr. Peel presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 25th day of July 1856, for 
a Return concerning the late Army of the East :— 








non-effective from other Causes, prior to 


9th September 1855. 


received from England prior to 9th Sep- 


tember 1855, exclusive of previous column. 
Number of Men killed or died up to 9th 


Serjeants, Drummers, Rank and File, with 


Date of joining. 


which composed the Army of the East. 


on 9th September 1855. 


Soldiers wounded, 
Total killed and wounded. 


Soldiers killed. 
Number of Non-commissioned Officers and 


Total Non-commissioned Officers and Men 


Number of Non-commissioned Officers and 


Regiments (by Brigades and Divisions) 
Original Strength on joining the Army, in 
Number of Men invalided, or who became 
Number of Men remaining in the Crimea 
Regiments, by Brigades and Divisions, 


Number of Officers killed. 
Number of Officers wounded. 





| 


| 


a on | 


—And, similar Return for Royal Artillery and Royal 
— and Miners. 

rdered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 



































Mr. Grey presented,— Return to an Order, dated 
the 11th day of this instant February, for Returns 
relative to Paupers. 

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


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 





Luna, 16° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Duncan reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 13th 
day 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, 


Public 
Petitions 
(Fifth Re- 
port.) 


A Petition of Trustees of the ware Free Bridge, 


for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Trustees of 
the Wexford Free Bridge to raise further Monies, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. George and Mr. M‘ Mahon. 


Manchester 


t A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens 
Corporation. 


of the City of Manchester, for leave to bring in a 
Bill to make better provision for the Burial of the 
Dead in the City of Manchester, and for enabling 
the Corporation to purchase certain I.ands and effect 
certain Improvements in that City, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Cheet- 


ham. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring ina Bill for making 
a Railway from Broughton to Coniston, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster, and for other pur- 


A. 1857. 


s, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. George 
Cavendish and Sir Joseph Paxton. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Bridgwater 
of the Borough of Bridgwater, in the County of Markets and 
Somerset, and Trustees for executing the Act for ~“"* 
enlarging the Market-house, and regulating the Mar- 
kets within the Borough of Bridgwater, in the County 
of Somerset, for paving, cleansing, lighting and 
watching the Streets, Lanes and other public pas- 
sages and places within the said Borough, or adja- 
cent thereto, and for the Improvement thereof, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for regulating the Markets 
and Fairs in Bridgwater, for making further pro- 
vision for the paving, lighting and improving of 
Bridgwater, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Colonel Tynte and Mr. Follett. 


A Petition of Persons whose naines are thereunto Bourn and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making Essendine 
a Railway from the Essendine Station of the Great “""*” 
Northern Railway to Bourn, in the County of 
Lincoln, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Lord Burghley and Sir John Trollope. 


A Petition of the Cannock Mineral Railway Com- Cannock _ 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorize Ar- oa) 
rangements between the Cannock Mineral Railway “” ‘"°~ 
Company, and the North Staffordshire Railwa 
Company, and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Malins and Mr. Henry 
Berkeley. 


A Petition of the Metropolitan Railway Company, Metropolitan 
for leave to bring in a Billto extend the Time for Bailway. 
the Purchase of certain Lands required for the Me- 
tropolitan Railway, and to enlarge the Powers of 
the Acts relating thereto, and for other purposes, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Alderman Chal- 
lis and Mr. Thomas Duncombe. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Banff, Macduff 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate 924 Turriff 
a Company for extending the Banff, Macduff and ia 
Turriff Junction Railway, from Turriff to Ban 
and ———— was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 


James Duff and Mr. George Skene Duff. 


A Petition of the Slaney Navigation Company Slaney River 
(Limited), for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the {mprovement. 
River Slaney Improvement Act, 1852, and to make 
better provision for the execution of the objects of 
that Act, and for other purposes connected with the 
River Slaney, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 

M‘ Mahon and Mr. George. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto European 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorpo- 4nd Indian 
rating the European and Indian Junction Telegraph Telegraph 
Company, and for other purposes catinataal tute Company. 
with, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Viscount 
Monch and Sir Thomas Maddock. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Belfast 
of the Borough of Belfast, for leave to bring in a Jmprovement. 
Bill for the Amendment of the Acts for the Improve- 
ment of the Borough of Belfast, and for confirming 
things done with a view to the execution of those 
Acts, and to provide for the Collection of Rates 
in the ene of Belfast, and for other purposes, 
wis presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, 





A Petition 





hohe 


mes 


wer 


Se 


BROPHY BEeH men w 






South London 
Railway. 


Rhymney 
Railway. 


Caledonian 
Railway 
(Running 
Powers.) 


Swansea Har- 
bour Trust 
and Swansea 
Dock Com- 
pany. 


Atlantic 
Telegraph 
Company Bill. 


Australian 
Agricultural 
Company Bill. 


Bedale and 
Leyburn 
Railway Bill. 


Briton Ferry 
Docks Bill. 


Burial of the 
Dead within 
the City and 
Liberties of 

London Bill. 


Cannock 
Minera! Rail- 
way (No. 1 
Bill. ) 


Cardigan 
Markets and 
ae 
Bi 


Cork Gas 
Bill. 

Elie Harbour 
Bill. 

Guildford Gas 
Bill. 


Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den Roads 
Bill. 


Herne Bay and 


aversham 
Railway Bill. 


Kidsgrove 
Market, Town 
Hall, &amp;. Bill. 


Landport 

_ Southsea 
provement 

Bill. 


Langport, 
Somerton and 
Castle Cary 
Roads Bill. 





20 Vicrortz. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorpo- 
rate a Company for making a Railway from Clap- 
ham to London-bridge, to be called “The South 
London Railway,” was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Rhymney Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for consolidating the Acts 
relating to the Rhymney Railway Company, and 
for authorizing the Company to make and main- 
tain a Branch Railway, and for regulating the 
Capital of the Company, and for other urposes, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Caledonian Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for empowering the 
Caledonian Railway Company to use the Scottish 
Central and Stirling and Dunfermline Railways, and 
requiring the Owners and Lessees of these Railways 
to afford facilities for conveying the Traffic of that 
Company, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Swansea Harbour Trustees, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for the transfer of the Docks 
of the Swansea Dock Company to the Swansea 
Harbour Trustees, and for authorizing those Trus- 
tees to make further Works and raise further Monies, 
and for other purposes, was presented, atid read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Hussey Vivian. 


The Atlantic Telegraph Company Bill was read 
a second time; and committed. 


The Australian Agricultural Company Bill was 
read a second time; and committed. 


The Bedale and Leyburn Railway Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed. 


The Briton Ferry Docks Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed, 


Ordered, That the Burial of the Dead within the 
City and Liberties of London Bill be read a second 
time upon Monday the 16th day of March next. 


The Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill was 
read a second time; and committed. 


The Cardigan Markets and Improvements Bill 
was read a second time ; and committed. 


The Cork Gas Bill was read a second time; and 
committed. 


The Elie Harbour Bill was read a second time; 
and committed. 


The Guildford Gas Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed. 


The Haslingden and Todmorden Roads Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed. 


The Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed. 


The Kidsgrove Market, Town Hall, &amp;c. Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed. 


The Landport and Southsea Improvement Bill 
was read a second time ; and committed. 


The Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Roads 
Bill was read a second time; and committed. 
Von, 112, 


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45 


The Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks Bill was Liverpool and 
read a second time ; and committed. ag 


The Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Bill was Lowestoft 
read a second time ; and committed. Water, Gas 
-_ Market. 
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rail- Manchester, 
way (Buxton and Cleethorpes) Bill was read a second Sheffield and 
time ; and committed. aa. 
ae 
eetnorpes 
a 


The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rail- Manchester, 
way (Romiley, &amp;c.) Bill was read a second time ; ewe 
and committed. Railway 
(Romiley, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Mayor’s Court of the City of Mayor’s Court 


: C of the City of 
— Bill be read a second time upon Monday © ies Bull, 


Meriton’s and Hagen’s Sufferance Wharves Bill Meriton’s 


was read a second time; and committed. and Hagen’s 
Sufferance 


Wharves Bill. 
Ordered, That the Metropolitan Cattle Market Metropolitan 
Bill be read a second time upon Monday the 16th Cattle Market 
day of March next. 


The Midland Great Western Railway of Jreland Midland 
(Sligo Extension) Bill was read a second time ; and Gteat Western 


é Railway of 
committed. Treland (Sligo 


Extension) 
Bill. 


The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Midland 


(Tullamore Line) Bill was read a second time; and Great Western 
‘ted Railway of 
committed. Ireland (‘Tul- 
lamore Line) 
Bill. 


The Milford Improvement Bill was read a second Milford Im- 
time ; and committed. een 


The Mordon Carrs Drainage Bill was read a Mordon Carrs 
second time ; and committed. Drainage Bill. 


The New Brunswick and Canada Railway and New Bruns- 


: : A wick and 
Land Company Bill was read a second time; and Canada Raile 
committed. way and Land 
Company Bill. 


The Newcastle-under-Lyme and Leek Roads Bill Newcastle- 


, . . C under-Lyme 
was read a second time ; and committed, poe me 


Roads Bill. 
The Norwich and Spalding Railway Bill was Norwich 
read a second time ; and committed. and Spalding 
Railway Bill. 
The North Eastern and Hartlepool Dock and North Eastern 
Railway Companies Amalgamation Bill was read a oP ne 
second time ; and committed. Railway Com- 
panies Amal- 
gamation Bill. 
The Prestwich, Bury and Radcliffe Roads Bill Prestwich, 
was read a second time ; and committed. ow Boy 
Roads Bill. 
The Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Bill was Saint Helen's 
ime: j Janal an 
read a second time; and committed. Railway Bill. 
The Selby and Market Weighton Road Bill was Selby and 


; P i Market 
read a second time ; and committed. Weighton 


Road Bill. 
The Shrewsbury Gas Bill was read a second time ; Shrewsbury 
and committed. Gas Bill. 


The South Eastern Railway (Greenwich Junction South Eastern 
to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill was read a second time ; and Railway 


: Greenwich 
committed. unction to 


Dartford, &amp;c, } 
Bill. 


.) Bil] South Eastern - 
Ke ) om Railway (Read= 
ing, &amp;c.) Bill. 
e 


The South Eastern Railway (Reading, 
was read a second time; and committed. 
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The South Shields Gas Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


South Shields 
Gas Bill. 


South 
Staffordshire 
Water Bill. 


ae ve: The Sunken Vessels Recovery Company Bill was 


Company Bill, "ead a second time ; and committed. 


The South se ir Water Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


West Hartlee The West Hartlepool Harbour and. Railway and 
a a ng North Eastern Railway Companies Amalgamation 
y : . : 

and North _ Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

Eastern Rail- 

way Com- 

panies Amal- 

gamation Bill. 

Westminster The Westminster Terminus Railway Extension 

— (Clapham to Norwood Abandonment) Bill was read 

y ° “ 

Extension § a second time ; and committed. 

(Clapham 

to Norwood 

Abandonment) 

ill. 

West of Fife The West of Fife Mineral Railway Bill was read 

—— a second time ; and committed. 

Willenhall The Willenhall (Wolverhampton) Gas Bill was 

hl ys —~ read a second time ; and committed. 

Edinburgh, The Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, and Scottish 

ste: reel Central Railway Companies Bill was, according to 

Scottish Cen- Order, read the first time; and ordered to be read 

tral Railway a second time. 

Companies 

Bill , 

Aldershot The Aldershot Railway Bill was, according to 

Railway Bill, Order, read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time. 

Cork and A Bill to extend the Time for making the Cork and 

Youghal Rail- Yoyghal Railway, and to vary the borrowing Powers 

ees of the Company, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 

Times, A Bill forthe Amalgamation of “ The Times Fire 

ny emee Assurance Company,” “The Atheneum Fire In- 

‘Acsurance, surance Society," and “ The Beacon Life and Fire 

Companies’ Assurance Company,” and of the Business of the 

——- said Companies and Society, except so far as the 

: Business of the last-named Company relates to As- 

surance of Lives, was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 

Alva Parish A Bill for disuniting the Parish of Alva from the 

=. County of Stirling, and uniting it to the County of 
Clackmannan, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. ; 

CharingCross A Bill to enable the Charing Cross Bridge Com- 

Bridge Bill. pany to alter their Bridge and Approaches, to adapt 
the same to the passage of Horses and Carriages, 
and for other purposes connected with their Under- 
taking, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 

Chepstow A Bill to incorporate a Company for supplyi 

Gas Bill = Gas to Chepstow aa the Neighbourhood, om | 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

Guildford A Bill to incorporate the Proprietors of the Guild- 

Water Bill ford Waterworks, and to confer further Powers for 
the supply of Water to the Borough of Guildford, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time, 

Stamfordand &lt;A Bill to empower the Stamford and Essendine 

Ballvay BM, Railway Company to raise Money, to sell or let 


their Undertaking, and for other purposes connected 
therewith, was read the first time; and ordered to 
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A Bill to cancel certain forfeited Shares in the Forth and — 
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Company, and Clyde June. * 
to enable the Company to create new and ad- {ar Railway 
ditional Shares, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from near Hamilton Hamilton ana 
to near Strathaven, in the County of Lanark, to be Strathaven 
called “The Hamilton and Strathaven Railway,” ®!way Bill 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for better supplying with Water the In- Margate 
habitants of the Parishes of Saint John the Baptist Water Bill. 
{including Margate), and Saint Peter the Apostle 
(including Broadstairs), in the County of Kent, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Llanidloes Newtown and 
and Wewtown Railway, in the Parish of Llandinam, ae 5 
in the County of Montgomery, to the Town of Ma- , 
chynlleth, in the same County, was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Zondon Wimbledon 
and South Western Railway at Wimbledon to Epsom, #4 Dorking 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a meade 
second time. 


A Bill for making a Bridge over the River Wye, Fownhope and 
near to the Even Pitt Ferry, and Approaches Holme Lacy 
; “flips “ - Bridge Bill. 
thereto; for discontinuing and regulating Ferries 
near to the Bridge, and for other purposes, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The Comptroller of the Household reported to the Public Justice. 
House; That their Address of the 12th day of this 
instant February, praying that Her Majesty would 
be graciously pleased to take into consideration, as 
an urgent measure of Administrative Reform, the 
formation of a separate and responsible Department 
for the Affairs of Public Justice, had been presented 
to Her Majesty; and that Her Majesty had been 
pleased to receive the same very graciously, and to 
give the following Answer : 

I have received your Address respecting the for- 
mation of a Department for the Affairs of Public 
Justice, and I shall give directions that the subject 
may receive the attentive consideration which its 
importance demands. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to Colchester 
the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for Writ. 
the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Colchester, in the 
room of the Right Honourable John James Robert 
Manners, commonly called Lord John James Robert 
Manners, who, since his Election for the said Bo- 
rough, hath accepted the Office of Steward or 
Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of Hempholme. 


Petitions relating to Church Rates ;—Maynooth Public 
College Act ;— Paper ;—Property and Income Tax ; scapueoenad 
—Civil Service Superannuation Act ;—and, Metro- vide Fifth 
polis Turnpike Roads,—were presented, and read ; Report. 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the corrected Alphabetical List Controverte 
of Members to serve on Election Committees be Eectio™ 
referred to the General Committee of Elections. 


a age eg Address be presented ime a 
to Her Majesty, that She will be iously pleased ‘ 
to give ree id that there be laid before this 8) mea 
House, Copies of the Names of Poor Law Superin- 
tendents in Scotland appointed under the Act 19 
&amp; 2u Vic. c. 117, with the Dates of their respective 
Appointments :—And, of the Instructions given to 
such Poor Law Superintendents. 
. Ordered, 





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Ordered, That the said Address be ena to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the 4th day of March next, the Sale of Beer, 
&amp;c. Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 1st day of April next. 


Sale of Beer, 
&amp;c, Bill. 


Leave of Ordered, That Mr. Morgan have leave of absence 
ame. for a fortnight, on account of ill health. 
Exchequer Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
niet) a Return of the Number of Days in each Term, 
¢ during the year 1856, in which the Court of Exche- 
uer Chamber in Jreland sat; the Names of the 
} udges present at each Day’s Sitting, together with 
the Number of Cases adjudicated on during that 
period, and the Courts from which such Cases pro- 
ceeded. 
Hong Kong, Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented, by Her Ma- 


jesty’s Command,—Copy of Correspondence re- 
specting the Registration of Colonial Vessels at 
Hong Kong. 

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


Debt (Funded Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
and Unfunded.) 4 Return showing the Liabilities in respect to Debt, 
Funded and Unfunded, incurred for the Sérvice of 
the War, to be redeemed in pursuance of the Acts 
17 Vie. c. 28, 18 Vie. c. 18, 18 &amp; 19 Vie. c. 130, 

and 19 Vic.c. 6 and 21. 


Wrecks and 
Casualties. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
—An Abstract of the Returns made to the Lords of 
the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of Wrecks 
and Casualties which occurred on and near the Coasts 
of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to 
the 3ist December 1856, with a Statement of the 
Number of Lives lost and saved; also of the 
Amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine 
Fund, as Rewards for the Salvage of Life, and for 
Contributions towards the Maintenance of Life- 
boats, during the same period; and a Précis of the 
special Inquiries instituted into the Causes of such 

recks and Casualties by Order of the Board of 
Trade. 





























Trade and Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, for the 

Navigation. Month ended 31st December 1856, and year ended 
No. 44. 31st December 1856. 

National Gal- _ Copy of a Deed of Gift by John Sheepshanks, 

rd of =, , Esquire, of his Collection of Pictures and Drawings, 

Sule) * in trust to form the Nucleus of a National Gallery 

of Art in connexion with Her Majesty’s Depart- 
ment of Science and Art; also, Copy of Minute of 
the President of the Board of Trade. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the Accounts relative to Trade and 
Navigation be printed. 

Local Acts. Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
No. 45. mand,— Reports from the Admiralty relative to 
th Applications for Local Acts. 

Spirits (Navy.) “Mr. Osborne also presented,—Return to an Order, 

dated the 13th day of March 1856, for Copies of 
Contracts entered mto for the Supply of the Royal 
Navy with Spirits, from the 24th day of April 1855 
to the latest Date: 
ain cite Quantity — ee of Spirits 
; ‘ erected Sor, 
Date of =_ | lininieaeeh nants tee. 
Advertisement. ‘ eaitaal —- 
| Month. | Year. | Quantity. | PPR] “Gatan 
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47 


(in continuation of Parliamentary Papers, No. 389, 
of Session 1854, and No. 275, of Seenon 1855). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the first be printed. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Ameer Ali 

by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, Morad. 
dated the 24th day of July 1856, for Copies of any 
Despatches addressed to the Governor General of 
India, in reply to the Despatch of Lord Dalhousie, 
dated the 27th day of February 1851, on the subject 
of the Confiscation of the Territories of the Ameer 
Ali Morad :—Ofall Correspondence that has passed 
between his Highness Ameer Afi Morad and the 
Authorities of India, on the subject of that Confisca- 
tion subsequent to the Proclamation of the 19th day 
of January 1852:—Of any Correspondence that 
has taken place between Ameer Ali Morad and the 
Authorities in Jndia, relative to his intended visit to 
Engiand :—Of the Depositions or other Information 
on the Claims of Afi Morad, recorded by Captain 
Pope, on the occasion of his visit to Khyrpoor, in 
August 1843, as stated by Captain Pope in his 
Letter to F. Thomason, Esquire, Secretary to the 
Government of Jndia, dated Sukkur, October 24th, 
1843, and published in page 63 of Parliamentary 
Papers, No. 73, of Session 1852 :—Of all Corres- 
pondence between the Magistrate of Sukkur and 
the Government of Scinde, between the years 1843 
and 1845, or during the same period between the 
Government of Scinde and that of India, respecting 
the withholding from Ameer Ali Morad of the Per- 
gunnahs of Meerpoor, Mahtela and Meherkee, and 
of any Correspondence between the same Parties 
relative to their restitution to him in 1845 :—Of the 
Proclamation of Mr. Commissioner Freere, dated 
the 19th day of January 1852, confiscating the 
Territories of the Ameer Ali Morad :—And, Return 
of the several Pergunnahs and Districts confiscated 
by this Proclamation, and of the Gross Revenue re- 
ceived by the Indian Government from each of those 
Districts, in each of the years since the date of the 
Proclamation. 

Return to an Order, dated the 26th day of July Bishops 
1856, for Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence (Scotland.) 
relating to the Discontinuance of an Allowance here- 
tofore made to the Bishops of the Episcopal Com- 
munion in Scotland, 

Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of July Caroline Cort 
1856, for a Copy of the Warrant in the reign of 0! Catherine 
Geo. 3, granting a Pension of £.25 per annum to°°?™™ 
Caroline Cort and Catherine Seymer, with a State- 
ment of the Deductions made therefrom, and of the 
Authority by which such Deductions were made ; 
and also, a Copy of the Warrant granting the same 
Pensions in the reigns of Geo. 4, and Will. 4. 

Return to an Order, dated the 5th day of this East India 


instant February, for a Return relative to East India (Judicial 
pr : Establish- 
(Judicial Establishments, &amp;c.) ments, &amp;c.) 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Duchy of 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon the Lancaster. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—An Account of 
the Receipts and Disbursements of the Duchy of 
Lancaster, for the year ended 21 December 1856 ; 
also a separate Account of the said Duchy for the 
same period. 

An Account of the Receipts and Disbursements Duchy of 
of the Duchy of Cornwall, in the year ended on the Co™wall. 
31st December 1856. 

Return from the Accountant General of the High Court of 
Court of Chancery, showing the state of the several Chancery. 
Funds in his Name, called “ The Suitors’ Fund” and 
“The Suitors’ Fee Fund,” and the Charges upon 
the same respectively. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the In- Incumbered 
cumbered Estates Court (Jre/and), which was pre- Estates Court 
sented upon the 13th day of this instant February, “S*"™*) 
be printe d. 0. 46. 

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Poor Relief 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 47. 


Flogging 
CNavy.) 
No. 48, 


James Sadleir, 


Exchequer 
Bonds. 


Chief Con- 
stables Bill. 


Commons’ 
Inclosure Bill. 


Royal Marine 
Forces Bill. 


Public Health 


Supplemental 
Bill (1857.) 


Public Health 
Supplemental 
41857.) 


48 16° Februarii. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Re- 
lief (Ireland), which was presented upon the 13th 
day of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Flogging 
(Navy), which was presented &gt; as the 13th day of 
this instant February, be printed. 


Resolved, That James Sadleir, Esquire, a Mem- 
ber of this House, having been charged with divers 
Frauds and Fraudulent Practices, and Bills of In- 
dictment for certain Misdemeanors having been 
found against him, and Warrants issued for his 
apprehension, and the said James Sadleir having 
failed to obey an Order of this House, that he should 
attend in his place upon Thursday the 24th day of 
July last, and having fled from justice, be expelled 
this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That a Sum, not exceed- 
ing £.2,000,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to pay 
off and discharge Exchequer Bonds, issued under the 
Provisions of the Act 17 Vic. c. 23, and dated the 
8th day of May 1854, which will be due and payable 
on the 8th day of May 1857 :—Question put, and 
agreed to. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. Fitz Roy 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 Chief Constables Bill was, according to Or- 
der, read a second time ; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Commons  Inclosure 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 on the Royal Marine Forces Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


Mr. Cowper presented, pursuant to the directions 


A. 1857. 


and Professors of the Queen’s Colleges in Cork, 
Belfast and Galway respectively ; if there be any 
Official Residence, or Allowance instead of a Resi- 
dence, provided for such Presidents, Vice-Presidents, 
Fellows and Professors, the Number of Weeks in 
each year, since the opening of these Colleges for 
the Instruction of Students, during which such Pre- 
sidents, Vice-Presidents, Fellows and Professors 
shall have resided elsewhere than in such Colleges 
or Official Residences respectively; if any of the 
said Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Fellows or Pro- 
fessors hold any other and what Public Office or 
Employment, and, if there be any Salary, Emolu- 
ment or other advantage attached to such Office 
or Employment, the Nature and Value thereof, and 
the Date of Appointment to such Office or Employ- 
ment. 


minated of Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Henley, Mr. 
William Williams, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bowyer, Mr. 
Ellice, Mr. Hankey, The Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer, Sir James Graham, Sir Henry Willoughby, 
Mr. Peacocke, Mr. James MacGregor, Lord Stanley, 
Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. George Alexander Hamil- 
ton; with Power to send for persons, papers and 
records, 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


be added to the Secret Committee on the Bank Acts. 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

posed, That the Committee do consist of Twenty- 

| three Members:—And the said Motion was, with 

\leave of the House, withdrawn. 

| Ordered, That the Committee do consist of 

Twenty-four Members. 

| Ordered, That Mr. Vance and Mr. Laing be added 

to the Committee. 


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Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Foreign 
| Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to Legions. 


give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
| eturns of the Number of Officers, Non-commis- 
‘sioned Officers, and Men enlisted in each of the 
| Foreign Legions during the late War; stating in 
| Detail all Expenses incurred for—Recruiting, Em- 
, bodying, and Concentration of each Corps; Arm- 
‘ing, Equipping, and Clothing; Bounty, Pay and 
| Cost of Subsistence while serving; any Gratuities 
on Discharge, and Allowance for Conveyance to 
their Homes; the Number of each employed on 
Active Service during the War, and the Stations at 
which the remainder were quartered :—Of the Date 
of Embodiment and of the disbanding of each :— 
Of the Quantity of Land granted to each Officer, 
Non-commissioned Officer, and Soldier of any 
Foreign Legion, either at the Cape of Good Hope or 
elsewhere :—Of the Amount of any Gratuity given to 
| each, either for the Erection of ~ ara or in lieu of 
| them, or other purpose :—Of the Amount of any Pay 





The Select Committee on Public Monies was no- Public Monies, 


Ordered, That Mr. Weguelin and Mr. Blackburn Bank Acts. 


of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of Reports of the or Allowance granted to each, and the Services they 
Superintending Inspectors addressed to the General | are expected to perform :—And, of the Annual Ex- 
Board of Health, with respect tothe Placesto which! pense of Arming, Clothing, and subsisting these 
the Provisional Orders included in the Schedule to | Soldiers ; together with the Numbers of each Rank 


the Public Health Supplemental Bill (1857) relate. 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the, 


Table. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General 
Board of Health, applying the Public Health Act, 
1348, to the Districts of pswich, Oldbury, Stroud, 
Llangollen and Dukinfield, and for altering the Con- 
stitution of the Local Board for the Main Sewerage 
District of Wisbech and Walsohen: And that Mr. 


Cowper and Mr. Massey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Queen's Col- 
Joges (Ireland.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Name, Date of Appointment, and 
Salary of the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Fellows 


| who have been thus located. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Sone as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Bills of this Session, in compliance with the re- 
commendation contained in the Fifth Report of the 
Select Committee on Railway and Canal Bills of 
the Session of 1853. 


tlepool Extension and Headland Improvement Bill 
was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be withdrawn. 





Ordered, 





Ordered, That the Board of Trade do present to Railway and 
this House, a Report upon the Railway and Canal Canal Bills. 


The Order for reading a second time the Har- Hartlepool 
? and Headland 





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Hartlepool _ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 

Exicfradiana eXtend the Limits of the Borough’ and District of 

Improvement Hartlepool; to authorize the Division of the Borough 

(No. 2.) into Wards ; to enable the Corporation to construct 
Sea Walls for the protection of the Headland of 
Lfartlepool ; to enable the Local Board to make and 
improve Streets; to confer other Powers on the 
Corporation and the Local Board ; Amendment of 
Acts, and other purposes: And that Mr. Farrer 
and Mr. Atherton do prepare, and bring it in. 


Public Health 

Supplemental 

Bill (1857.) 
Bill 16. 


Mr. Cowper presented a Bill to confirm certain 
Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, 
applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to the Dis- 
tricts of Ipswich, Oldbury, Stroud, Llangollen and 
Dukinfield, and for altermg the Constitution of the 
Local Board for the Main Sewerage District of 
Wisbech and Walsoken: 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 adjourned till To-morrow. 








Martis, 17° die Februari; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the South 
London Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


South London 
Railway. 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Deeside Ex- 
tension Railway Bill. 

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


Fiskerton 


; A Petiéion of Owners of Land in the Parishes of 
Drainage. 


Fisherton, Cherry Willingham and Greetwell, in 
Lincolnshire, and in the extra-parochial place called 
the Liberty of the Monks in the City of Lincoln, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for the more effectual Drain- 
age of certain Lands in the Parishes of Fiskerton, 
Cherry Willingham and Greetwell, in the County 
of Lincoln, and in the Liberty of the Monks in the 
City of Lincoln, was presented, and read; anda 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. George Heneage and Major Sibthorp. 


Dartmouth 
and Torbay 
ilway. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway from the Torquay Branch of the South 
Devon Railway to or near to Dartmouth, to be 
called “The Dartmouth and Turbay Railway,” and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read ; and a 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Sir Johu Yarde Buller, Sir Thomas Herbert and 
Mr. Palk. 


Otley and 


Sinton Road. A Petition of a Quorum of Trustees acting in exe- 


cution of the Act thereinafier-mentioned, for leave 
to bring ina Bill for continuing the ‘Term and 
amending and extending the Provisions of the Act 
relating to the Otley and Shipton Turnpike-road, 
and to create a further Term therein, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. 
Edmund Denison and Mr. Wickham. — 


Doncaster A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of Property 
ond = ace on the Line or in the Neighbourhood of the Line of 
F the intended Railway thereinafter referred to, or 

Vou. 112. 


Februari. 49 


| Subscribers to the said Railway, for leave to bring 
in a Bill to authorize the construction of a Railway 
from the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster, to 
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near Wake- 
Jield, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Edmund 
Denison and Mr. Sandars. 


A Petition of the Newport, Abergavenny and Here- Newport, 


ford Railway Company, for leave to bring in ‘os 
Bill to enable the Newport, Abergavenny and Here- a aig . 


ford Railway Company to extend their Railway into 
the Aberdare and Bargved Valleys in Glamorgan- 
shire, and for other purposes connected with the 
Company, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Price 
and Mr. George Ctive. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Victoria Gas. 

subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorpo- 
rating the Victoria Gas Company, and for autho- 
rizing them to acquire and enlarge the North Wool- 
wich Gas Works, and to supply Gas, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to he brought in accordingly, by Mr. Oli- 
veira and Mr. Wickham. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Backwater 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a — and 
Bridge across the River Backwater, near Weymouth, “°" 
and a Turnpike-road, and other Works in con- 
nexion therewith, in the County of Dorset, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Colonel 
Ireeston and Mr. Sheridan. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Richmond and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a a oe 
Railway from the North and South Western Junc-%°" “*'"* 
tion Railway, in the Parish of Ealing, to Richmond, 
to be called “The Richmond and Kew Extension 
Railway,” and for other purposes, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Deeside Railway Company, for Deeside 
leave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from — 
the Deeside Railway at Banchory to Charleston of ®#"4y: 
Aboyne, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the General Controverted 
Committee of Elections ; That they had selected the Elections. 
following Six Members to be the Chairmen’s Panel, 
and to serve as Chairmen of Election Committees 
for the present Session : 

John Evelyn Denison, Esquire, (Malton) ; 

Edward Christopher Egerton, Esquire, (Mac- 
clesfield) ; 

George Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, (Dublin 
University) ; 

Robert Ingham, Esquive, (South Shields) ; 

Henry Ker Seymer, Esquire, ( Dorset) ; 

The Right honourable Sir William Meredyth 
Somerville (Canterbury). 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Pulmer reported from the General Controverted 
Committee of Elections ; ‘That they had divided into Elections. 
Five Panels the List of Members to serve on Elec- 
tion Committees. 

‘Whereupon the Clerk decided by lot, at the Table, 
the order of the said Panels, and distinguished each 
of them by a Number, denoting the amas in which 
they were respectively drawn, as follow :—No. 1, 

C; No. 2,D; No. 3, B; No. 4, E; No. 5, A. 

Ordered, That the said Panels be printed. 


The Bury Gas Bill was read a second time ; and Bury Gas Bill. 
committed. 
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50 


The East Somerset Railway Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and 
Roads Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


Last Somerset 
Railway Bill. 


Lowestoft and 
Burgh Saint 
Peter Ferry 
and Roads 
Bill. 


Mansfield 


~~ The Mansfield and Worksop Road Bill was read 


a second time ; and committed. 


Reversionary 
Interest 
Society Bill. 


The Reversionary Interest Society Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed. 


Worksop and 
Attercliffe 
Road Bill 


The Worksop and Attercliffe Road Bill was read 


a second time; and committed. 


Wycombe The Wycombe Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. 


time ; and committed. 


Chester 


The Chester Water Bill was, according to Order, 
Water Bill. 


read a second time; and committed. 


Besselsleigh 


Ordered, That the Bill to repeal the Acts relating 
Road Bill. 


to the Besselsleigh Turnpike-road, in the County of 
Berks, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof, 
be read the first time To-morrow. 


Mid-Kent and 
South Kent 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Caterham 
Railway to the East Croydon Station of the London, 
Brighton and South Coast Railway, and another 
Railway in connexion therewith, both in the County 
of Surrey, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Banff, Macduff 
and Turriff 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill to incorporate a Company for extending 
the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway 
from Turriff to Banff and Macduff, was read the 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Bourn and 
Exssendine 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Essendine 
Station of the Great Northern Railway to Bourn, 
in the County of Lincoln, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Coniston 


r ; Ordered, That the Bill for making a Railway from 
Railway Bill. 


Broughton to Coniston, in the County Palatine of 
Lancaster, and for other purposes, be read the first 
time To-morrow. 


Bridgwater 
Markets and 
Fairs Bill. 


A Bill for regulating the Markets and Fairs in 
Bridgwater ; for making further Provision for the 
paving, lighting and improving of Bridgwater, and 
for other purposes, was read the first time ; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


European and 
Indian J unc- 
tion Telegraph 
Company Bill. 


A Bill for incorporating the European and Indian 
Junction Telegraph Company, and for other pur- 
poses connected therewith, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Cannock 


A Bill to authorize Arrangements between the 
Mineral Rail- ' 


Cannock Mineral Railway Company and the North 
Staffordshire Railway Company, and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


way (No. 2) 
Bill. 


Slaney River 
Improvement 
Bill. 


A Bill to repeal “ The River Slaney Improvement 
Act, 1852,” and to make better Provision for the 
execution of the Objects of that Act, and for other 
purposes connected with the River Slaney, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

Shropshire A Petition of the Shropshire Union Railways and 
— Rail- Canal Company, and the London and North West- 
ays and : : “ ‘ 
Canal, London €™ Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill 
and North = for authorizing the conversion of parts of the Shrop- 


17° Februarit. 


A. 1857. 


shire Canal to purposes of a Railway, and the Western 
making and maintaining of a Railway accordingly, Rail and 
and for authorizing Arrangements between the Lon- Canal Com- 
don and North Western Railway Company, and panies. 
other Companies, and for other purposes, was pre- 

sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 

brought in accordingly, by the Marquis of Chandos 

and Mr. Glyn. 


Petitions relating to Maynooth College Act ;— Public 
Fisheries (Ireland) ;— Paper;— Property and In- Petitions. 
come Tax ;—Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;— yiae sixth 
Dower Act;—Intoxication ; —Oath of Abjuration ; Report. 
—Opium Trade ;—and, Settlement and Removal,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition against the Passing Tolls Bill was 
also presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Dexthorpe Turnpike Dexthorpe 
Trust, for leave to bring in a Bill, to repeal so much Turnpike 
of the Act relating to the Road from Bawtry Bridge, ——. 
in the County of Nottingham, to Hainton, in the 
County of Lincoln, and other Roads, as relates to 
the second District{of Roads therein-mentioned, and 
to make other Provisions in lieu thereof, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Nisbet, Hamilton and 
Major Sibthorp. 


A Petition of the Bagenalstown and Wexford Bagenalstown 
Railway Company, praying that Provision may be pag 
made in the Bagenalstown and Wexford Railwa — 
Bill, for including in the twelfth Clause of the Bill the 
names of certain Parishes amongst those chargeable 
with Payments for Interest or Dividend, if on the 
opening of the guaranteed Line the Receipts are 
not sufficient, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Sussex (East- 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ ¢™ Division) 
for the electing of a Knight of the Shire to serve ¥ 
in this present Parliament for the Eastern. Division 
of the County of Susser, in the room of Charles 
Hay Frewen, Esquire, who, since his Election for 
the said Division of the said County, hath accepted 
the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s 
three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and 
Bonenham, in the County of Buckingham. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Re- Spirits. 
turns showing the Total Number of Gallons of 
Proof Spirits distilled in England, Scotland and 
Ireland, respectively ; distinguishing the Quantities 
— from Malt, from a mixture of Malt and 

nmalted Grain, and from a mixture of Sugar or 
Molasses with Unmalted Grain, or from Sugar, or 
from Molasses ; showing also the Total Quantity of 
each Sort in the United Kingdom, for the year 
ending the 31st day of December 1856:—Of the 
Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distinguishing 
the Sorts), on which Duty was paid for Home Con- 
sumption in each of the three Kingdoms, with the 
Rate per Gallon and the Amount of such Duty; 
also, the Total Number of Gallons and Duty in 
the United Kingdom, for the year ending the 31st 
day of December 1856 :—Showing, under separate 
Heads, the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits, 
distinguishing the Materials from which made, im- 
ported into each Kingdom from each of the others 
respectively ; stating also the Rate 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 
in England ; also, what Portion was actually ware- 
housed under Excise Lock, distinguishing Malt from 
Grain Spirits, in England, for the year ending the 





31st 





Schoolsof Art. | Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


Adjournment. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Lunatic 
Asylums 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 17. 


Gas Works, 





90 Vicroriz. 17° Februari. ~ 51 


31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Total Number| Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Criminals. 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits permitted out of Dis- | 5th day of this instant February, for a Return re- 
tillers’ Stocks in England, and the Total Number of | lative to Criminals. 
Proof Gallons of British Brandy and Spirits of Wine | Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

rmitted out of Rectifiers’ Stocks in England for | Table. 
Flome Consumption; also, the Total Quantity of | 
Proof Gallons of Rum received into Rectifiers’; Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits Spirits (Navy.j 
Stocks for Rectification, in England, Scotland and | (Navy), which was presented upon the 16th day of No. 49. 
Ireland, for the year ending the —— “ — | this instant February, be printed. 
ber 1856 :—Of the Total Number of Proof Gallons! ©, Jere, That the Return relative to Bish 

sh * gs . pp 4 ’ Ops Bishops 

of Spirits distilled in England, gene = a | (Scotland), which was presented upon the 16th Ses (Seotland.) 
distinguishing the Quantities in each Country de- of this instant February, be gduiel. No. 50. 
livered, Duty paid, direct from Distillers’ Stocks, 
from the Quantities put into Bond, for the year | Ordered, That the Return relative to East India Fast India 
ending the 31st day of December 1856 :—Of the | (Judicial Establishments, &amp;c.), which was presented (Judicial 
Total Number of Proof Gallons of British Com- | upon the 16th day of this instant February, Soa &amp;c.) 
pounds and Spirits of Wine permitted from Recti- | printed. No. 51. 


fiers’ Stocks in England, Scotland and Ireland, for | ; 
Exportation to Foreign Ports under Drawback, for| ,Q7dered, That the Account relative to the Duchy puchy of 


the years ending the sth day of January 1855 ond | of Lancaster, which was presented upon the 16th Lancaster. 


the Bist day of December 1856 :—Of the Total | day of this instant February, be printed. No. 52. 


Number of Gallons of Spirits in Bonded Stores in | Ordered, That the Account relative to the Duchy Duchy of 
England, Scotland and Ireland respectively, on the | of Cornwall, which was presented upon the 16th day ©™=¥#l 
31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Total Number | of this instant February, be printed. No. 53. 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distinguishing Grain from | : ; 

Malt), permitted out from Distillers’ Stocks in Eng- | Ordered, That the Account relative to the Court Court of 


land, Scotland and Ireland, for Exportation to Fo- | of Chancery, which was presented upon the 16th ig * 0 


reign Ports, for the year ending the 31st day of De-| day of this instant February, be printed. —— 


cember 1855 :—Similar Account for the year ending / re , 
the 31st day of December 1856 :—And of the Total | Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Seacoast 
Number of Gallons of Methylic Alcohol sold by the | assimilate the Law as to the Sea-coast Fisheries of Fisheries. 
Excise, and the Total Number of Gallons of Methy- | Ireland tothat of England: And that Mr. M‘Mahon 

j,2 and Mr. Moore do prepare, and bring it in. 





lated Spirits made by Persons licensed to sell the 
same, under the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 38, from he | 
Ist day of October 1855 to the 31st day of Decem- | T 8 


ber 1856 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, | . hat a Select Committee be appointed to —_ waspapece: 
No. 214, of Session 1856). | into the Naval Administration, relating to the Lists 


of Officers, the Patronage, the Promotions and the 
' Retirements, and the efficiency of the Service in all 
its grades ; 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Naval Admi- 


Return of the Amount granted in respect of Schools | The H divided 
of Art in the years 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, re- The ate th, Richt: 
spectively ; distinguishing the Amount paid to the | . ee a 


Masters and Pupil Teachers of each School, and spe- | The Noes to the Left. 


cifying whether the Payment to such Masters was —— for a gn Scobell, \ 76. 
wholly for Salary, or on account of Scholarships or | »p — ayaa nah J 
otherwise. | ellers for thes Mr. Hayter, le 
Noes, |The Earl of Mulgrave: Jf ~" 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- | Sa pened eee 


posed, That this House do now — :—And the 


; Ordered, That a Select Committee b i i 
said Motion was, with leave of the ' gee thr mg ore hen 


ouse, withdrawn. | ¢, inquire into the Operation of the Act 17 &amp; 18 Elections Act. 
Vic. c. 102, intituled, “ An Act to consoli 

; Ordered, That Mr. West have leave of absence | amend the ‘Laws relating to Bribery, ar = 
till Easter, on account of ill health. undue Influence at Elections of Members of Par- 
liament.” 

Colonel Dunne presented a Bill to amend the | 
Law relating to the Appointment of Officers and| Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday Savings 
Management of Lunatic Asylums in Jreland: And | next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider the Banks. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be ; Laws relating to Savings Banks, and to provide for 
read a second time upon Tuesday next; and to be | the establishment of Savings Banks with the secu- 
printed. rity of the Government. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com-| Ordered, That leave be = to bring in a Bill Petty Sessions 
mand,—Copy of ‘f'wentieth Report of the Inspectors | to authorize the Payment of Clerks of Petty Ses- (Ieland.) 
appointed under the Provisions of the Act 5 &amp; 6 | S10Ns In Ireland by Salaries instead of Fees, and to 
Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of Great | amend “ The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 :” 
Britain :—\1. Northern and Eastern District. And that Mr. Horsman and Mr. Attorney General 

Mr. Massey also presented,— Return to an Address | for Ireland do prepare, and bring it in. 
to Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of May 1856, for 
a Return of all Gas Works established under Acts} Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Turnpike 
of Parliament in England and Wales, and where | discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turnpike-roads Trusts 
situated ; stating, in Columns, the Maximum Charge | now existing in Jreland, and to provide for the nee 
for 1,000 cubic feet of Gas; the Minimum Charge } Maintenance of such Roads as Public Roads, and (Same) 
per 1,000 cubic feet; the Material used ; the Aver-| for the discharge of the Debts due thereon, and for 
age Number of cubic feet of Gas produced from a/other purposes relating thereto: And that. Mr. 
Ton of Coal; and the illuminating Power of the | Horsman and Mr. Attorney General for Zreland do 
Light produced from an oe Burner consuming prepare, and bring it in. 
Five cubic feet of Gas per Hour, as compared with 
the en from Sperm Candles, Six in the} Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Extra-paro- 


pound, burning 120 grains per Hour. provide for the Relief of the Poor in extra-paro- chial Places, 
Vou, 112. H 2 chial 





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chial Places: And that Mr. Bouverie and Mr. 
Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Viscount Monck reported irom the Committee of 
Supply, a Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : 
Chat a Sum, not exceeding £.2,000,000, be 
ranted to Her Majesty, to pay off and discharge 
xchequer Bonds, issued under the Provisions of 
the Act 17 Vic. c. 23, and dated the 8th day of 
May 1854, which will be due and payable on the 
8th day of May 1857. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Supply. 


Exchequer 
Bonds. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of Ways 
and Means for raising the Supply granted to Her 
Majesty. 


Royal Marine 


The Royal Marine Forces Bill was, according to 
Forces Bill. 


Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sea-coast 
Fisheries, Bill. 


Bill 18. 


Mr. M‘Mahon presented a Bill to assimilate the 
Law as to the Sea-coast Fisheries of Zreland to that 
of England: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 25th day of this instant February ; and 
to be printed. 


Petty Sessions Mr. Horsman presented a Bill to authorize the 
(Ireland) Bill. Payment of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Jreland by 
Bill 19. Salaries instead of Fees, and to amend “ The Petty 
Sessions (Jreland) Act, 1851:” And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Tuesday the 3d day of March next; and 
to be printed. 
Turnpike Mr. Horsman presented a Bill to discontinue the 
) = taking of Toll on the Turnpike-roads now existing 
(ireland) Bill, in Zreland, and to provide for the Maintenance of 
Bill 20, such Roads as Public Roads, and for the discharge 
of the Debts due thereon, and for other purposes 
relating thereto: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Tuesday the 10th day of March next; and to be 
printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 18° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
— N R. Duncan reported from the Select Com- 
(Fifth Report.) mittee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 16th day 
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 Petition of the Swansea Dock Company, for 
leave to bring ina Bill for further extending the 
Time for completing the Swansea Docks; for in- 
creasing the Capital of the Company; for exone- 
rating the Docks from the Swansea eshous Rates, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
anda Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Henry Bruce. 


Swansea 
Docks. 


A Petition of Richard Dykes Alexander, John 
Cobbold, John Chevallier Cobbold and John Orford, 
of Ipswich, Esquires, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
better supplying with Water the Town of Jpswich, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 


Ipswich 
W ater, 





A. 1857. 


be brought in accordingly, by Sir Samuel Bignold 
and Mr. Hawhins. 


A Petition of Landowners on or near the Line British and 
of Railway thereinafter mentioned, or otherwise in- irish Grand 
° ° ° : unction 
terested therein, for leave to bring in a Bill to au- Raitway, 
thorize the Construction of a Railway from Castle 
Douglas, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, to Port- 
patrick, in the County of Wigtown, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir Andrew Agnew and Sir John 


M‘ Taggart. 


The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Bill Banff, Portsoy 


: a ; oe . and Strathisla 
was read a second time; and committed. Railway Bill. 


The Chatham District Water Bill was read @ Chatham 


m : cell District 
second time ; and committed. Water Bill. 


The Medical, Legal and General Mutual, and Medical, Legal 


New Equitable Life Assurance Companies’ Amalza- eet 

mation Bill was read a second time; and com- New Equitable 

mitted. Life Assurance 
Companies’ 
Amalgama- 
tion Bill 


The National Assurance and Investment Associa- National 
Assurance and 
Investment 
Association 
Bill. 


tion Bill was read a second time; and committed. 


Ordered, That the Orkney Roads Bill be read a Orkney 
second time upon Wednesday the 11th day of March Roads Bill. 
next. 


The Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Ringwood, 
Railway Bill was read a second time; and com- oo 
mitted. mouth Rail- 
way Bill. 

The Saint Philip’s Church (Liverpool) Bill was Relat a 
7 } ° 1 urc al- 
read a second time ; and committed. verpool) Bill 

The Besselsleigh Road Bill was, according to Or- Besselsleigh 
der, read the first time; and ordered to be read a Road Bill. 


second time. 


The Coniston Railway Bill was, according to Or- Coniston _ 
der, read the first time ; and ordered to be read a Railway Bill. 
second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Construction of a Railway Doncaster 
from the Great Northern Railway, at Doncaster, to a 
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near Wake- “*'“*Y 


_| field, was read the first time; and ordered to be 


read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Trustees of the Werford Wexfora 
Free Bridge to raise further Monies, and for other Free Bridge 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to Bll 

¢ read a second time. 


A Bill for authorizing the Conversion of Parts of shropshire 
the Shropshire Canal to purposes of a Railway, and Union ~ 
the making and maintaining of a Railway accord- 6273)" Tondon 
ingly, and for authorizing Arrangements between the and North 
London and North Western Railway Company, and he wa P 
other Companies, and for other purposes, was read Shropabine 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Canal Com- 

panies Bill. 

A Bill for the more effectual Drainage of certain Fiskerton 
Lands in the Parishes of Fiskerton, Cherry Willing- Drainage Bill 
ham, and Greetwell, in the County of Lincoln, and 
in the Liberty of the Monks in the City of Lincoln, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 


second time. 


Petitions relating to Church of Zreland ;—May- Pablic 
nooth College Act ;—Property and Income Tax ;— /*ttions- 
Railways ;—Tea and Sugar ;—China ;—China and vide sixth 
Persia ; — Civil Service Superannuation Fund ; — Report. 
Judgments Execution, &amp;c. Bill; — Public Houses 
(Scotland) Act ;—and, Turnpikes, &amp;c.,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

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Standing Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select 
wae. Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 
all ce 2: That in the case of the Edinburgh Life Assu- 
Sempeny. rance Company Petition for leave to deposit Peti- 
tion for Bill, the Standing Orders ought not to be 
dispensed with. 
East Kent 2. That in the case of the East Kent Railway 
el vs (Strood to Saint Mary’s Cray, &amp;c.) Petition, the 
Saint Mary’s Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that 
Cray, &amp;c.) the Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
Islington 3. That in the case of the Is/ingion Parish Peti- 
Parish. tion, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 
Formartine 4. That in the case of the Formartine and Buchan 
and Buchan = Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to 
anaes be dispensed with. 
Mid-Kent 5. That in the case of the Mid-Kent Railway 
ee (Croydon Extension) Petition, the Standing Orders 
eecten.) ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
Aberdeen, 6. That in the case of the Aberdeen, Peterhead 
Peterhead and and Fraserburgh Railway Petition, the Standing 
Railway. Orders ought not to be dispensed with. 
Finsbury 7. That in the case of the Finsbury Park Peti- 
Park. tion, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 
Newry and 8. That in the case of the Newry and Enniskillen 
Enniskillen Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
aie dispensed with; that the Parties be permittéd to 
roceed with their Bill, provided that amended 
Notices be forthwith inserted for three succefsive 
weeks in the Newspapers, and once in the Dublin Ga- 
zette ; and provided that it be proved before the Com- 
mittee on the Bill that the Notice referred to in the 
statement (marked A.) of the Promoters has been 
served on all the owners, lessees and occupiers; and 
provided also that the second reading of the Bill be 
deferred till after the 25th day of March; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such Or- 
ders have been complied with on the Report of the 
Bill. 
Southampton, 9, That in the case of the Southampton, Bristol 
eld and South Wales Railway Petition, the Standing 
Railway. Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided 
that amended Notice be inserted in the London 
Gazette; and also that the second reading of the 
Bill be* deferred till after the 9th day of March; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Orders have been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 
Stockport, 10. That in the case of the Stockport, Disley and 
Whey a fine Whaley Bridge Railway Petition, the Standing Or- 
ilway. ders ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided 
that they strike out of the said Bill ail Provisions 
relating to the proposed Hayfield Branch Railway ; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report of 
the Bill. 
Eastern 11. That in the case of the Eastern Counties 
— Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
” dispensed with; that the larties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill, provided that they strike out 
of the said Bill all Provisions relating to the pro- 
posed No. 2 and No. 4 Railways; that the Com- 
mittee on the Bill do report how far such Order has 
been complied with on the Report of the Bill. 
ree Hast 12. That in the case of the Clyde Navigation Pe- 


tition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill, provided that they deposit forthwith 
amended Plans and Sections; that the Committee 
on the Bill do report how far such Order has been 
complied with on the Report of the Bill. 

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53 


13. That in the case of the North Eastern Rail- North Easters 
way (Lanchester Valley Branch) Petition, the Stand- chesten Valley” 
ing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the Branch.) 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

14. That in the case of ~ Great —— me a 
Western of Jreland Railway Petition, the Standing 
Orders ought to be Gipeent with; that the Parties pry bee oni 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill. Railway. 

The second, third, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 
tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth 
Resolutions, being read a second time, were agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon tae Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the North Easterm 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of Railway (Lane 
the Petition for the North Eastern Railway (Zan- —_ 
chester Valley Branch) Bill, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the North Eastern Railway Company to 
make a Branch from their Bishop Auckland Branch 
Railway to the Conside Iron Works, to acquire ad- 
ditional Lands, and for other purposes: And that 
Colonel Smyth, Sir William Milner and Mr. Mow- 
bray do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Islington 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of Parish. 
the Petition for the Islington Parish Bill, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave. be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend an Act made and passed in the fifth year of 
the reign of his late Majesty King Geurge the 
Fourth, intituled, “An Act to repeal the several 
Acts for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of 
the Parish of Saint Mary, dslington, in the County 
of Middlesex ; for lighting and watching and pre- 
venting Nuisances and Annoyances therein; for 
amending the Road from Highgate through Maiden 
Lane, and several other Roads in the said Parish ; 
and for providing a Chapel of Ease, and an addi- 
tional Burying-ground for the same; and to make 
more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof,” and for 
other purposes: And that Lord Robert Grosvenor, 

Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Thomas Duncombe 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Mid-Kent 
Select Commiitee on Standing Orders, in respect of (Crepe 
the Petition for the Mid-Kent Railway (Croydon Hesumien&gt; 
Extension) Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Billi 
for enabling the Mid-Kent Railway Company to 
make certain Railways from their Terminus at Beck- 
enham to Croydon, and for other purposes: And 
that Mr. Locke King, Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. 


Brockman do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Finsbury 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of atk 
the Petition for the Finsbury Park Bill, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, ‘Vhat leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
authorize the formation of a Park for the Northern 
Suburbs of the Metropolis, to be called “ Finsbury 
Park:” And that Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Al- 
derman Challis and Mr. Thomas Duncombe do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the East Kent 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of sane. 
the Petition for the East Kent Railway (Strood to ergs 0 
Saint Mary’s Cray, &amp;c.) Bill, might be read ; and Cray, &amp;c.) 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for enabling the East Kent Railway Company to 
extend their Railway from Strood, to join the Mid- 

Kent Railway (Bromley to Saint Mary’s Cray) at 
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Saint Mary's Cray, aud to make a Branch Railway 
to Chatham Dockyard, and for other purposes con- 
nected with their Undertaking: And that Mr. 
Lushington ard Mr. Masters Smith do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
© the Petition for the Stockport, Disley and Whaley 
Bridge Railway Bill, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; . 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to 
empower the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge 
Railway Company to extend their Railway to 
Buxton, and for other purposes connected with their 
Undertaking: And that Mr. Henry Cavendish and 
Mr. Thornhill do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Great Northern and Western of 
Freland Railway Bill, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making Railways from Athlone to Roscommon 
and Castlereagh, to be called “ The Great Northern 
and Western of Jreland Railway,’ and for other 
purposes: And that Mr. John Wynn and Colonel 
Higgins do prepare, and bring it in. 


Notice being taken, That the Petition for the Dez- 

thorpe Turnpike Trust Bill, which was presented 

esterday, had been presented after the time allowed 
by Standing Order, No. 161 ; 

The House was moved, That the Entry in the 
Votes of the Proceedings of the House of yesterday 
in relation to the Petition for the said Bill, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The Order, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
pursuant to the prayer of the said Petition, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Petition be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That Mr. Wise have leave of absence 
till Easter, on account of illness in his family. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. 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 
“ this House will, upon this day six months, resolve 
“ itself into the said Committee,” 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

A Mr. Craufurd, 

Tellers for the Y eas,| Myr, &gt; xh es 


. , { Mr. Henry Hughes, 
Tellers for the Noes,) Colonel Raia » 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


hier. 
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(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 1 (Where judgment has been ob- 
tained in the Courts at Westminster, a memorial 
thereof registered in Zre/and, and vice versd, shall 
have the etfect of a judgment of the Court in which 
it is so registered). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 8: After the 
word “ respectively ” to insert the words “ or in the 
“Common Pleas of Lancaster and J)urham, the 
“ Mayor’s Court of London, the Tolsel Court of 





A. 1857. 


“ Bristol, the Passage Court of Liverpool, the Re- 
« cord Court of Manchester, in the County Court.” 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fiéz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


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

Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Chief Con- 
into a Committee on the Chief Constables Bill; and, stables Bill. 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill; and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow, 


The Public Health Supplemental Bill (1857) was, public Health 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- Supplemental 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Bil (857) 
Friday 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 Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Tipperary 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to make out Writ. 
a new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire 
to serve in this present Parliament for the County 
of Tipperary, in the room of James Sadleir, Es- 
quire, expelled this House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Eaucation 
promote Education in Corporate Cities and Boroughs (Cities and 
in England and Wales: And that Sir John Paking- Boroughs.) 
ton, Mr. Cobden, Lord Stanley and Mr. Headiam 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Incumbered 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Returns Estates Court 
of any Communications addressed to the Com- ae 
missioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in 
Ireland, or to any of them, relating to the Removal 
of Baron Richards from the office of Chief Com- 
missioner, and of the Dates of said Communications, 
if any :—Of the Order or Communication addressed 
to Baron Richards, containing his Removal from 
said Court, and of the Date of same :—And, of any 
Order or Warrant for the appointment of a third 
Commissioner since the Removal of Baron Richards : 

—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 


morrow. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented National 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Gallery of Art. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of any Correspondence between Her 
Majesty’s Government and Mr. Sheepshanks, re- 


specting the Gift of his Collection of Pictures to the 
ation. 
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. 


Sir John Pakington presented a Bill to promote Education 
Education in Corporate Cities and Boroughs in — fay 
England and Wales: And the same was read the pu” 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time ij] 21. 
upon Wednesday the 4th day of March next; and 
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20 VicroriZ. 
Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


Richmond and 
Kew ExtensioD one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


Railway: in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 


ders in the case of the Petition for the Richmond 
and Kew Extension Railway Bill. 

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


Debt (Funded The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
and Unfunded.) the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
No. 55. the 16th day of this instant February, for a Return 
relative to Debt (Funded and Unfunded). 
Ordered, That the said Return be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Criminals, 
which was presented upon the 17th day of this in- 
stant February, be printed. 


Criminals. 
No. 56. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Jovis, 19° die Februari ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills, That in the case of the Chatham Lands, &amp;c., 
Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 





Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


A Petition of the East Suffoik Railway Company, 
the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway Company, 
and the Lowestoft and Beccles Railway Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Lease of 
the Undertaking of the East Suffolk Railway Com- 
pany, and the amalgamation therewith of the Under- 
takings of the Yarmouth and Haddiscoe and Lowes- 
toft and Beccles Railway Companies, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir Fitz- 
Roy Kelly and Lord Henniker. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Southampton, Bristol and South 
Wales Railway Bill, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
authorize the construction of a Railway between 
Southampton and Salisbury, and for other purposes 
connected therewith: And that Mr. Willeor and 
Mr. Weguelin do prepare, and bring it in. 


East Suffolk 
Railway. 


Southampton, 
Bristol and 
South Wales 
Railway. 


Newry and 
Enniskillen 
Railway. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Newry and Enniskillen Railway 
Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave he given to bring ina Bill for 
enabling the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Com- 
pany to construct their Railway as far as the City 
of Armagh, and changing the Name of the Com- 
pany: And that Mr. Kirk and Mr. Richardson do 
prepare, and bring it in. 

Clyde Navi- 


—. The House was moved, That the Report from the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition forthe Clyde Navigation Bill, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
continue or renew the Powers conferred on the 
Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of Glas- 
gow, to take Lands and execute Works for the Im- 
provement of the Navigation; to confirm a Con- 
veyance of the Govan Ferry and adjoining Ground 
to the said Trustees, and for other purposes : And 
that Mr. Alexander Hastie, Mr. Cochrane and Sir 
James Anderson do prepare, and bring it in. 

Newport, A Bill to enable the Newport, Abergavenny and 
and Herefory 2ereford Railway Company to extend their Rail- 


18°—19° Februari. 


55 


Glamorganshire, and for other purposes connected 
with the Company, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Torguay Dartmouth 
Branch of the South Devon Railway to or near to 2nd a 
Dartmouth, to be called “ The Dartmouth and Tor- ®#w4y 
bay Railway,” and for other purposes, was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for continuing the Term, and amending and Otley and 
extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the a 
Otley and Skipton Turnpike Road, and to create a 

further Term therein, and for other purposes, was 

read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 

time. 


A Bill for incorporating the Victoria Gas Com- Victoria Gas 
pany, and for authorizing them to acquire and en- Bill 

large the North Woolwich Gas Works, and to supply 

Gas, and for other purposes, was read the first time ; 

and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to amend an Act made and passed in the Islington 
fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Parish Bill. 
George the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to repeal the 

several Acts for the Relief and Employment of the 

Poor of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the 
County of Middlesex ; for lighting and watching and 
preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein ; for 
amending the Road from Highgate through Maiden 

Lang, and several other Roads in the said Parish ; 

and for providing a Chapel of Ease and an addi- 

tional Burying-ground for the same; and to make 

more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof,” and for 

other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 

to be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Formation of a Park for Finsbury Park 
the Northern Suburbs of the Metropolis, to be called Bill. 
“ Finsbury Park,” was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to extend the Time for the Purchase of Metropolitan 
certain Lands required for the Metropolitan Rail- Railway Bill 
way, and to enlarge the Powers of the Acts relating 
thereto, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for further extending the Time for com- Swansea 
pleting the Swansea Docks; for increasing the Ca- Docks Bill 
pital of the Company; for exonerating the Docks 
from the Swansea Harbour Rates, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill for better supplying with Water the Town Ipswich 
of Ipswich, was read the first time ; and ordered to Water Bill. 
be read a second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Construction of a Railway British and 
from Castle Douglas, in the Stewartry of Kirkcud- Irish Grand 
bright, to Portpatrick, in the County of Wigtown, Railway Bill 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a : 
second time. 


A Bill for making a Bridge across the River Back- Backwater 
water, near Weymouth, and a Turnpike Road and Bridge md 
other Works in connection therewith, in the County ws 


of Dorset, and for other purposes, was read -the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for making Railways from Ath/one to Ros- Great 
common and Castlereagh, to be called “The Great Northern 
Northern and Western of Ireland Railway,” and tor °74, ye" 
other purposes, was read the first time; and ordered Railway Bill. 


to be read a second time. 


A Bill for enabling the Mid-Kent Railway Com- mia-Kent 
pany to make certain Railways from their Terminus Railway 
at Beckenham to Croydon, and for other purposes, (Croydon Bx- 








Railway Bill. = into the Aberdare and Bargoed Valleys in 
OL. 112. 


tension) Bill. 
H4 was 



























































North Eastern 
Railway (Lan- 
chester Valley 
Branch) Bill. 


East Kent 
Railway 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Seventh 
Report. 


Game Certi- 
ficates (Ire- 
Jand.} 


v 


Hudson's Bay 
Company. 


56 


was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to enable the North Eastern Railway Com- 
any to make a Branch from their Bishop Auckland 
ranch Railway to the Conside Iron Works, to ac- 
quire additional Lands, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill for enabling the East Kent Railway Com- 
pany to extend their Railway from Strood, to join 
the Mid-Kent Railway (Bromley to Saint Mary’s 
Cray) at Saint Mary's Cray, and to make a Branch 
Railway to Chatham Dockyard, and for other pur- 
poses connected with their Undertaking, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Petitions relating to Church of Jreland;--Maynooth 
College Act;—Emigration ;— Ministers’ Money (Ire- 
land) Act;—Pyoperty and Income Tax ;—Tea ;— 
Adulteration of Food ;—Civil Service Superannua- 


19° Februariz. 


A. 1857. 


with the Dates of all former Charters or Grants to 
the Company, “ presented in Return to an Address 
of the House of Commons of the 26th day of May 
1842 ” (547): 

And the Papers presented by Command of Her 
Majesty to the House of Commons, in pursuance of 
an Address, praying that Her Majesty would be 
graciously pleased to direct that such means as to 
Her Majesty shall seem most fitting and effectual, be 
taken to ascertain the legality of the Powers in 
respect to Territory, Trade, Taxation and Govern- 
ment, which are, or recently has been, claimed or 
exercised by the Hudson’s Bay Company on the 
Continent of North America, under the Charter of 
his Majesty King Charles the Second, issued in 
the year 1670, or in virtue of any other Right or 
Title, except those conveyed by or under the Act 
43 Geo. 3, c. 138 (extending the Criminal Jurisdic- 
tion of Canadian Courts), and the Act 1 &amp; 2 Geo. 
4, c. 6, intituled, “ An Act for regulating the Fur 
Trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Juris- 
diction within certain parts of North America.” 





tion Fund;—Judgments Execution, Xc. Bill ;— | 
Reverend #. H. Maberly;— Medical Officers of | 
Unions ; — Metropolis Turnpike Roads ; — Ocean | 
Penny Postage;—Poor Law (Lreland) ;— Public- 

houses (Scotland) Act ;—Settlement and Removal; | 
—and, Turnpikes, &amp;c.,—were presented, and read ; | 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | 
Returns of the Number of Informations lodged with | 
the Officers of Excise in Jreland, in each of the years | 
1854, 1855 and 1856, against Persons sporting in that 
Country without Game Certificates, and the Number 
of such Cases in which Prosecutions have been insti- 
tuted for the Penalty, and the Result of such Pro- | 
ceedings :—And, of the Number of Game Certifi- | 
cates taken out in each District in Jreland, in each | 
of the following years, namely, from 1843 to 1856 
inclusive. 


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, an Extract of so much of the Royal Com- 
mission of the Governor General of Canada as de- 
fines the Boundaries of that Province. 

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. 





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 Despatch from Her Majesty’s | 
the decoration of the French Military War Medal. 

| Mr. Peel also presented,—Return to an Address Fireworks 


Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor 
General of Canada, dated the 4th day of December 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Civil Service 
Her Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Second Report Commission. 
of Her Majesty’s Civil Service Commissioners ; to- 
gether with Appendices. 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented National 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Collections. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing how far, in the different 
National Collections of Works of Art, Objects of 
Historical Interest, or of Science (in the National 
Gallery, British Museum, Hampton Court Palace, 
and all similar public Repositories maintained or as- 
sisted by the Money Votes of Parliament, as well as 
in Ancient, Religious or Civil Edifices or Monuments 
so assisted or maintained), the rule lias been observed 
of attaching to the Objects of Art a brief Account 
thereof, inciuding their Date, their Subject, the 
Name, with the Date of the Birth and Death of the 
Artist, and the School to which he belonged ; and in 
the case of Objects of Science or of Historical In- 
terest, a brief Description thereof, with the view of 
conveying useful information to the Public, and of 
sparing them the Expense of a Catalogue. 

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. Peel presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, French 
—Copy of Supplemental Lists of Nen-commissioned gd dat 
Officers and Soldiers selected for recommendation 
to his Majesty the Emperor of the French, to receive 


1856, together with a Copy of the Reply from the | to Her Majesty, dated the 30th day of June 1856, (Woolwich 
Governor General, dated the 17th day of January for a Return, in detail, of the Total Amount of the anne) 
1857, enclosing a Minute of the Geel, on the sub- | Expenses incurred in the Royal Arsenal at Wool- 
ject of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories. | wich, in the preparation of the Fireworks for the 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to | Celebration of the Peace, including the Cost of 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this fiouse as are Materials, Workmen’s Wages, and all Experiments 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. | connected therewith. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Army 

Ordered, That the following Papers be referred to | 30th day of June 1856, for a Return of the Total (Ctimea-) 
the Select Committee on the Hudson’s Bay Com- | Number of Officers and Men in the Army who have 
pany :— been killed in the Crimea :—Like Return of the 

The Report of the Committee of the House of | Number wounded: — And, Return of the Total 
Commons of the year 1749, «ppointed to inquire into | Number of Horses belonging to the Cavalry in the 
the state and condition of the Countries adjoining to , Crimea which have been killed, and the Total Num- 
Hudson's Bay, and of the Trade carried on there : ber which have died from other Causes, up to the 

The Copy of the existing Charter or Grant by the | 1st day of June 1856 (in continuation of Parlia- 
Crown to the Hudson’s Bay Company ; together | mentary Paper, No. 204, of Session 1854-55). 
with me oe or Extracts of the Correspondence) Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Army 
which took place at the last renewal of the Charter | 14th day of July 1856, for a Return of the Killed in (Crimea-) 
between the Government and the Company, or of| Action, Died of Wounds, and Wounded, of the 
Individuals on behalf of the Company; together | British Army in the Crimea, distributed according 

to 


Hudson's Bay 
Company. 
























































Reviews at 
Spithead and 
Aldershot. 


Barracks, &amp;c. 


Extra-paro- 
chial Places 
Bill. 


Bill 22. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Marriages 
(Ireland. ) 


Prisons 
(Scotland.) 


Agricultural 
Produce 
(Ireland. ) 


Charterhouse. 


East India 
(Opium. ) 


20 VicrortzZ. 


19°—20° 


to their Service on the Staff or Regimentally; dis- 
tinguishing Officers from Non-commissioned Officers 
and Rank and File, and specifying the Date of the 
Arrival ard Departure of each Regiment. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
6th day of June 1856, for Returns of all Orders 
given, and Contracts entered into, by the War De- 
partment, for Small Arms, from the 18th day of 
December 1854 to the 31st day of May 1856, in- 
cluding all Contracis for Materials for Small Arms, 
and for setting up the same; and also, Contracts 
for finished Arms, with the Date of Contract, and 
Quantity ordered, specifying separately, London, 
Birmingham, Belgium and France:—And, of all 
Muskets, Rifles and other descriptions of Small 
Arms, and Materials for the same, received by the 
War Department, from the 18th day of December 
1854 to the 31st day of May 1856, specifying sepa- 
rately, London, Birmingham, Enfield, Belgium and 
France. 

Return to an Order, dated the 22d day of July 
1856, for Returns showing, in detail, the Total Ex- 
pense incurred in providing Conveyance by Special 
Trains, Accommodation in Steamers or Sailing Ves- 
sels, and Refreshments, for Members of the two 
Houses of Parliament, on the day of the late Naval 
Review at Spitkead; stating also the Number of 
Tickets issued for Members of each House :—And, 
of the Total Expense incurred in providing Con- 
veyance by Special Trains, Omnibuses at the Farn- 
borough Station, and Luncheon, on the occasion of 
the Review at Aldershot, on the 16th day of this 
instant July. 

Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of July 
1856, for Returns of the Amount expended on Bar- 
racks in the United Kingdom in each year from 
1820 to 1853, both inclusive, distinguishing the 
Amount expended on Erection of New, Enlargement 
and Repairs of Barracks:—Of the Amount voted 
for Barracks in the United Kingdom in each of the 
years 1854, 1855 and 1856 :—And, of the Amount 
expended for Huts in the United Kingdom in each 
of those years. 

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





Mr. Bouverie presented a Bill to provide for the 
Relief of the Poor in extra-parochial places: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Chatham Lands, &amp;c. Bill be 
read a second time. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Sixth Report of the Registrar 
General of Marriages in Jreland, under the Pro- 
visions of the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 81. 

Copy of Eighteenth Report of the General Board 
of Directors of Prisons m Scotland to the Right 
honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, one of Her 
Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, of their 
Proceedings under the Acts 2 &amp; 3 Vic.c. 42,7 &amp; 8 
Vic. c. 34, and 14 &amp; 15 Vic. ¢. 27. 

Returns of Agricultural Produce in Jreland, for 
the year 1855. 


Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 22d day of July 
1856, for a Copy of the Report of an Inquiry made 
by an Inspector of the Charity Commission in 1854, 
into the State and Management of the Estates and 
Property of the Charterhouse, and into the General 
Affairs of that Charity. 

f. on That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
~ Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
OL. 112, 





Februarit. 57 


the 2Ist day of July 1856, for a Return of the 
Charges to the East India Government incurred in 
the Growth and Monopoly of Opium; specifyin 
Salaries of all Denuigtitent the Cost of bicectent 
of Sales, of Transport to Calcutta, Warehouse Rent, 
and other Expenditure, for Ten years, including the 
last year in which Returns are complete :—Like 
Return showing the Amount of Advances, under the 
following Heads,—Outstanding Balances, including 
Interest at the commencement of year ; Sums re- 
ceived in Cash on account of Balances; Sums 
struck off as irrecoverable ; Contract Price paid to 
Cultivator; Advances during the year; and out- 
standing Claims at the end of the year :—Like Re- 
turn of Losses incurred on bad or insecurely packed 
Opium, including Drawbacks allowed to Purcha- 
sers:—Like Return of the Value of the Houses, 
Stock, &amp;c. available to Government if the Monopoly 
weie abolished :—Like Return of the Charges to 
the East India Company on the Opium manufac- 
tured in Native States and transmitted to Ports of 
Exportation in the Company’s Territories :—And, 
like Abstract Return of the Gross and Net Receipts 
received by the Company’s Treasury. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Signals at 
—Copy of Report of the Committee appointed by S¢ 


the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for 
Trade, to inquire into and report upon the subject 
of a Code of Signals to be used at Sea. 

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


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, County 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make the Franchise. 


Franchise in Counties in England and Wales the 
same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right of 
Voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annual 
value of Ten pounds ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Lett. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Locke King, lave 
Yeas, Lord Robert Grosvenor: J*‘~* 
Tellers for the) Mr. Hayter, on 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: J°°* 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Ministers’ 
amend the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 11, with a view to Money 


the abolition of the Tax thereby imposed in lieu of 
Ministers’ Money in Ireland: And that Mr. Fagan 
and Mr. Beamish do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Maynooth 
posed, That this House do resolve itself into a Com- College. 


mittee for the purpose of considering the Acts for 
the Endowment of the College of Maynooth, with a 
view to the withdrawal of any Endowment out of 
the Consolidated Fund, due regard being had to 
vested rights or interests :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 


And the House havi 
Twelve of the clock on 


continued to sit till after 
riday morning ; 


Veneris, 20° die Februarti, 1857: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned :—It 
passed in the Negative. 

Then the Main Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Spooner, 59 

Yeas, Mr. Kendal: ‘Sais 
Tellers for thef Mr. Serjeant O’ Brien, 
Noes, (Mr. Serjeant Shee: 

So it passed in the —_— 





58 19°—20° 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law relating to Grand Juries in Ireland: 
And that Mr. Bowyer and Mr. Kennedy do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland. ) 


Medical 
Profession, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
alter and amend the Laws regulating the Medical 
Profession : And that Mr. Headlam, Sir William 
Heathcote and Mr. Napier do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That a Standing Committee of sixteen 
Members be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the 
direction of the Library, and to whom shall be re- 
ferred all matters relating thereto:—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Colonel Wilson Patten, 
Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer, Mr. Napier, Sir James Graham, Mr. Monck- 
ton Milnes, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Walpole, the Lord 
Advocate, Lord Naas, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir 
William Heathcote, Sir Thomas Acland, Mr. Massey, 
Mr. Baines and Mr. Bramston. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Library of 
she House. 


Crimean A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

Inquiry. osed, That an humble Address be presented to 
a Majesty, That She will be graciously pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a Letter from Sir John M‘ Neill, c.c.., 
to Lord Panmure, of the 9th day of February 1856, 
respecting the Services of Colonel Tulloch, and of 
any Reply thereto :—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn, 


Contracts for Ordered, That the Select Committee on Contracts 
~~ eee for Public Departments do consist of seventeen 
: Members :—A Committee was accordingly nomi- 
nated of Colonel Dunne, Mr. Muntz, Mr. Peel, 
Captain Laffan, Sir Charles Napier, Mr. Thomas 
Mitchell, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Tite, Mr. Otway, Mr. 
Stafford, Colonel Boldero, Mr. Corry, Mr. Liddell, 
Colonel Gilpin, Mr. Lloyd Davies and Colonel 
Lindsay ; with Power to send for persons, papers 

and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


CourtofChan- Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
Ane aa for securing the Titles of Purchasers of Estates sold 
urchasers.) under the Court of Chancery in Jreland: And that 
Mr. Whiteside and Mr. Napier do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


CourtofChan- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 

cery (Ireland.) rake Provision for the Appointment of Registrars 
to the Masters of the Court of Chancery in Jreland ; 
also for the safe custody of Title-deeds and Docu- 
ments lodged in the said Court; and to amend the 
Practice in certain particulars : And that Mr. White- 
side and Mr. Napier do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on Savings Banks ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Chief Con- 


The Chief Constables Bill was, according to Or- 
stables Bill 


der, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Incumbered The Order of the day being read, for resuming the 
Estates Court adjourned Debate on the Question proposed upon the 
— zh day of this instant February, That there be laid 
before this House, Returns of any Communications 
addressed to the Commissioners for the Sale of In- 
cumbered Estates in Ireland, or to any of them, 
relating to the Removal of Baron Richards from the 


Februarit. 





A. 1857. 


office of Chief Commissioner, and of the Dates of 
said Communications, if any :—Of the Order or 
Communication addressed to Baron Richards, con- 
taining his Removal from said Court, and of the Date 
of same:—And, of any Order or Warrant for the 
appointment of a third Commissioner since the Re- 
moval of Baron Richards ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said aiectned idbete. 

And the Question being put :—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 


Mr. Whiteside presented a Bill for securing the Court of Chan- 
Titles of Purchasers of Estates sold under the Court omy en 
of Chancery in Jreland: And the same was read nn ell 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time Bill. 


upon Wednesday next ; and to be printed. Bill 23. 


Mr. Fagan presented a Bill to amend the Act Ministers’ 
17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 11, with a view to the Abolition of aeaee, Ge 
the Tax thereby imposed in lieu of Ministers’ Money gt 24. 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; . 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 18th day of March next; and to be 


printed. 


Mr. Whiteside presented a Bill to make Provision Court of Chan- ¢ 


for the Appointment of Registrars to the Masters of cery (Ireland) 
the Court of Chancery in Jreland ; also for the safe Bill 2 
Custody of Title-deeds and Documents lodged in ate 
the said Court; and to amend the Practice in 
certain particulars: 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 One of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Veneris, 20° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Duncan reported from the Select Com- Public 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 17th ay = 
and 18th 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 Petition of the Birkenhead Improvement Com- Liverpool 
missioners, and of the Local Board of Health, of the Docks — 
District of Wallasey, for leave to bring in a Bill to aed ert 
authorize the Birkenhead Improvement Commis- Decks. 
sioners and Local Board of Health for Wallasey, 
to appoint Members on the Liverpool Docks Com- 
mittee, and to make better provision for the manage- 
ment of the Birkenhead Docks, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Tollemache and Sir Philip 
Egerton. , 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Eastern Coun- 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of ts Bailway- 
the Petition for the Eastern Counties Railway Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company 
to construct Railways from the Colchester Line of 
the Eastern Counties Railway at Maldon and 
Shenfield, to the London, Tilbury and Southend 
Railway at Pitsea, with Branches to Burnham, and 
the Chelmer Navigation Basin, and for other pur- 

poses : 





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20 VicToRIz. 


ses: And that Mr. Bagshaw, Mr. Cobbold and 
ir Sumuel Bignold do prepare, and bring it in. 


Bank of The Order for reading a second time the Bank 

—a of London and National Provincial Insurance Asso- 

Provincial ciation Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Insurance Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 

Association 

Bill. 

Bank of Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

pene and to enable the Bank of Zondon and National Pro- 

ar wo BI vincial Insurance Association to sue and be sued ; 

Insurance —‘ to confirm certain Agreements entered into by them 

Association or on their behalf, and for other purposes: And that 

Ge 2) Lord Claud Hamilton, Mr. Knight and Mr. Luce 
do prepare, and bring it in. 

Andover Canal The Andover Canal Sale Bill was read a second 

Sale Bill. time; and committed. 

Bagenalstown Ordered, That the Bagenalstown and Wexford 

and a Railway Bill be read a second time upon Tuesday 

seated the 1oth day of March next. 

Calcuttaand The Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Company 

South Eastern Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 

Railway Com- 

pany Bill. 


CwmAmman The Cwm Amman Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. time; and committed. 


Norfolk Ordered, That the Norfolk Railway Bill be read 
Railway Bill. a second time upon Friday the 6th day of March 
next, 


Thames and Ordered, That the Thames and Medway Conser- 
Medway vancy Bill be read a second time upon Tuesday 
Conservancy ext 
Bill. " 
Fast Suffolk A Bill to authorize the Lease of the Undertaking 
Railway Bill. of the East Suffolk Railway Company, and the 


Amalgamation therewith of the Undertakings of the 
Yarmouth and Haddiscoe and Lowestoft and Bec- 
cles Railway Companies, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill to authorize the Construction of a Railway 
between Southampton and Salisbury, and for other 


Southampton, 
Bristol and 


Railway Bill purposes connected therewith, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 
Newry and A Bill enabling the Newry and Enniskillen Rail- 
se way Company to construct their Railway as far 
allway Bil. as the City of Armagh, and changing the Heme of 
the Company, was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 
Clyde Navi- A Bill to continue or renew the Powers conferred 
gation Bill, on the Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of 
Glasgow to take Lands and execute Works for the 
Improvement of the Navigation, to confirm a Con- 
veyance of the Govan Ferry and adjoining Ground 
to the said Trustees, and for other purposes, was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 
Manchester A Bill to make better Provision for the Burial of 
pecperation the Dead in the City of Manchester, and for ena- 
: bling the Corporation to purchase certain Lands and 
effect certain Improvements in that City, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 
Swansea Har- A Bill for the Transfer of the Docks of the Swan- 
fame sea Dock Company to the Swansea Harbour Trus- 
Dock Com. tees, and for authorizing those Trustees to make 
Pany Bill, further Works and raise further Monies, and for 


other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 
VoL. 112. 


20° Februarit. 





59 

Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select Standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; OF4er*- 
which were read, as follow : 

1. That in the case of the Fraserburgh Harbour Fraserburgh 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Harbour. 
with; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 

2. That in the case of the East Somerset Railway East Somerset 
Petition of William Cecil de Vere, for dispensing Railway. 
with Standing Orders 196, and for leave to deposit 
a Memorial complaining of non-compliance with 
the Standing Orders, the said Standing Order ought 
not to be dispensed with. 

3. That in the case of the Salisbury and Yeovil Salisbury 
Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be a 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to " 
proceed with their Bill. 

4. That in the case of the Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford- 
Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be Lr a 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to ¥ 
proceed with their Bill. 

5. That in the case of the Dundalk and Ennis- Dundalk and 
killen Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought —" 
to be dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted " 
to proceed with their Bill, provided that they deposit 
forthwith amended Plans and Sections; and pro- 
vided also that the second reading of the Bill be 
deferred till after the 25th day of March ; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such Or- 
con have been complied-with on the Report of the 

ill. 

6. That in the case of the West Somerset Railway West Somerset 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Railway. 
with; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 

7. That in the case of the Keith and Dufftown Keith and 
Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be — 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill, provided that they strike 
out of the said Bill all Provisions empowering the 
Great North of Scotland Railway Company to raise 
One thousand pounds by new shares; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such Or- 

- has been complied with on the Report of the 
ill. 

8. That in the case of the Mid-Kent Railway Mid-Kent 
(Bromley to Saint Mary Cray) (Extension to Dart- we 
ford) Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be enya 
dispensed with. , Cray ) (Exten. 

he first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh 


sion to Dart- 
Resolutions, being read a second time, were agreed “"“" 


to. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the West Somerset 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of Railway. 
the Petition for the West Somerset Railway Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to authorize the Construction of a Railway from 
Taunton to the Harbour of Watchet, and for other 
purposes relating to the said Railway and Harbour : 
And that Mr. William Wyndham, Mr. Moody and 
Sir John Ramsden do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Stratford- 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect pPor-Avom 
of the Petition for the Stratford-upon-Avon Railway ~ ”**’ 
Bill, might he read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the making and maintaining of the Stratford- 
upon-Avon Railway, and for other purposes: And 
that Lord Guernsey and Mr. Shirley do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Salisbury 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of = Yeovib 
the Petition for the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ““”*” 








Bill, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
12 Ordered, 





































































Keith and 
Dufftown 
Railway. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide ‘Seven th 
Report. 


60 20° Februari. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Coals, Cinders 
Accounts of the Quantities of Coals, Cinders and *"4 Culm, &amp;. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Salisbury ed Yeovil Railway Com- 
ny to make Deviations from the Line of their 
Railway, and for other purposes connected with 
their Undertaking: And that Mr. William Wyndham 
and Mr. Ker Seymer do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Keith and Dufftown Railway 
Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Keithto Dufftown; And 
that Mr. George Skene Duff and Mr. Cumming 
Bruce do prepare, and bring it in. 


Petitions relating to Church of Ireland ;—May- 
nooth College Act;—Bengal ;—Property and In- 
come Tax ;—Sugar ;—Taxation ;—Tea ;—Tea and 
Sugar ;—Billeting Soldiers ;—China and Persia ;— 
Civil Service Snperannuation Fund ;—Metropolis 
Turnpike Roads ;— Newspapers ;—Opium Trade ;— 
Poor Law (Jrelund);—and, Settlement and Poor 
Removal,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions against the Passing Tolls Bill,—were 
also presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Total Number of Quarters of 
Malt made in the United Kingdom in the yeurs 
ending respectively the Ist day of October 1855 
and the ist day of October 1856; distinguishing 
the Quantity made, and the Quantity used by 
Brewers, and by Victuallers, and by Retail Brewers, 
in each year in each Country (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 75, of Session 1855). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of the Total Number of Acres of Land in 
the United Kingdom under the Cultivation of Hops 
in the year 1856; distinguishing the Number of 
Acres in each Parish ; and the Number of Pounds 
weight charged with Duty in each Collection ; and 
the Number of Pounds weight charged with Duty 
in each Parish of the Canterbury and Rochester 
Collections :—Of the Amount of Duty charged on 
Hops in each Collection of the Growth of the year 
1856, distinguishing the Districts, and the Old from 
the New Duty in each District; showing the 
Average Amount of Duty per Acre in each Col- 
lection :—Of the Quantity of British Hops exported 
from the United Kingdom to Foreign Countries, 
from the 1st day of January to the 30th day of June, 
and from the ist day of July to the 31st day of 
December 1856, respectively; distinguishing the 
Countries to which the same have been exported, 
and also the Quantities to each Country, with the 
Dates of the years in which the Hops were Grown: 
—Of the Quantity of Foreign Hops exported from 
the United Kingdom to Foreign Countries, from 
the 1st day of January to the 30th day of June, and 
from the Ist day of July to the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856, respectively ; distinguishing the Countries 
to which the same have been exported, and also the 
Quantities to each Country :—Of the Quantity of 
Foreign Hops imported into the United Kingdom 
from the Ist day of January to the 30th day of 
June, and from the Ist day of July to the 31st day 
of December 1856, respectively ; distinguishing the 
Ports where imported, and the Countries from 
whence exported :—Of the Total Number of Pounds 
weight of Foreign Hops charged with Duties for 
Home Consumption from the 1st day of January to 
the 30th day of June, and from the 1st day of July 
to the 31st day of December 1856, respectively :— 
And, of the Guantity of Foreign Hops in bond on 
the ist day of January 1857, stating the Ports at 
which they are bonded (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentury Paper, No. 153, of Session 1856). 





A. 1857. 


Culm, and Patent Fuel, shipped at the several 
Ports of England, Scotland and Ireland, Coastways, 
to other Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year 
1856 ; distinguishing the Quantity Shipped at each 
of the said Ports as compared with the year 1855 : 
—Of the Quantities and Declared Value of Coals, 
Cinders and Culm, and Patent Fuel, exported from 
the several Ports of England, Scotland and Ireland, 
to Foreign Countries, and the British Settlements 
Abroad, in the year 1856 ; distinguishing the Coun- 
tries to which the same were sent, and comparing 
the same with the year 1855; also, distinguishing 
the Ports of the United Kingdom from which the 
same were shipped :—Of the Quantities of Coals, 
Cinders and Chl, and Patent Fuel, exported from 
the United Kingdom in the year 1856, with the 
Rate and Amount of Duty thereon :—And, of the 
Quantities of Coals and Patent Fuel brought Coast- 
ways and by Inland Navigation into the Port of 
London during the year 1856, comparing the same 
with the Quantities brought during the year 1855. 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented, by Her Ma- Canton 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of turther ane ee River. 


relative to the Operations in the Canton River (in 
continuation of Papers presented to both Houses 
of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 17th 
February 1857). 

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


‘Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s Canton. 


Command,—Copy of Correspondence relative to 

Entrance into Canton, 1850-1855. 

" Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


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


for the electing of a Knight of the Shire to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Northern Division 
of the County of Leicester, in the room of the Right 
honourable Charles Cecil John Manners, commonly 
called the Marquis of Granby, now Duke of Rut- 
land, cailed up to the House of Peers. 


Ordered, That Mr. Wyvill have leave of absence me of 
Si 


till Easter, on urgent business. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Smyrna, 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Report on Smyrna, prepared 
at the request of, and addressed to, the Secretary of 
State for War, by George Rolleston, M. v. 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Riff Pirates. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Ships belonging 
to English Owners captured by Riff Pirates off the 
Coast of Morocco since the 1st day of January 1850; 
pe pe the Name and Tonnage of each Ves- 


sel ; Captain’s Name, and Number of each Crew ; 
Date of Capture of each Ship; how many of each 
Crew killed, and subsequent Fate of others (where 
ascertained); estimated Value of each Ship and 
Cargo; Amount of Ransom (if any) paid for Ships’ 
Crews, or Survivors of Crews; Amount and Date 
of Compensation for any Ships or Cargoes (or both) 
received from the Emperor of Morocco or others, 
distinguishing the same for each Ship; and, what 

captured 





vision) Writ. 


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Queen’s Col- 
lege (Cork.) 


Tithe Com- 
mission. 


Copyhold 
Commission. 


Inclosure 
Commission. 
Medical 
Museums. 


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20 Vicrori«. 


captured Ships have been recovered, stating the 
Names of Ships and Commanders engaged in the 
Re-capture. 

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. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Report of the President of the 
Queen’s College, Cork, for the Academic year of 
1855-56. 

Copy of Report of the Tithe Commissioners to 
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home De- 
partment, dated 31st January 1857, for the year 
1856. 

Copy of Fifteenth Report of the Copyhold Com- 
missioners to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of 
State for the Home Department, pursuant to the 
Act 4 &amp; 5 Vic. c. 35, s. 3. 

Copy of the Twelfth Annual Report of the Inclo- 
sure Comissioners, 1857. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 17th day of July 
1856, for Returns from the Colleges of Physicians 
of London, Edinburgh and Ireland, the Collen 
of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh and Ireland, 
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 
the Societies of Apothecaries of London and Dub- 
lin, and the Universities in England, Scotland and 
Ireland; statmg, whether any Museum for medical 
purposes is maintained out of the Funds of the In- 
stitution; under what Conditions such Museum, if 
any, is open to Students or Members of the Medical 
Profession ; the Annual Cost of such Museum in 
each of the last Ten years, distinguishing the Ex- 
penditure for Building, for Salaries and Wages, for 
Catalogues, and for preserving and increasing the 
Collection; the Total Number of the Catalogued 


Specimens in each of the last Ten years; what | 


Lectureships for medical purposes are maintained 
by the Funds of the Institution, and at what Annual 
Cost; under what Conditions have the Lectures, if 
any, been open to the Public, or to Students or 
Members of the Medical Profession ; whether any 
Expenses have been incurred for Medical Libraries, 
Botanic Gardens, or other Objects of Medical 
Science, and, if so, at what Average Annual Cost 
for the last ‘fen years, and under what Conditions 
available to the Public or to Students or Members 
of the Medical Profession. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 10th day of this instant February, for a 
Return relative to Banks of Issue, &amp;c. 

The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—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, and determined sub- 
sequent to the 9th day of February 1856, being 
the Date of a like Return made under the direc- 
tions of the same Act, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment. 

Copy of Cases respecting Assessed Taxes deter- 
mined by the Judges in Scotland, 1856. 


Ordered, That the Return of the Total Number 
of Officers and Men killed in the Crimea, which 
was presented upon the 19th day of this instant 
February, be printed. ‘ 


Ordered, That the Return of the killed in Action, 
died of Wounds, and wounded of the British Arm 
in the Crimea, which was presented upon the 19 
day of this instant February, be printed. 


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61 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Small Arms, Small Arms. 
which was presented upon the 19th day of thisin- No. 58. 
stant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Barracks, Barracks, &amp;c. 
&amp;c., which was presented upon the 19th day of this No. 59 
instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Opium), which was presented upon the 19th day (Opium.) 
of this instant February, be printed. No. 60. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
— proposed, ‘That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

alr ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the Income Tax. 
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, it would be expedient, 

“ before sanctioning the financial arrangements for the 
“ensuing year, to adjust the estimated Income and 
“ Expenditure in the manner which shall appear best 
“ calculated to secure the Country against the risk 
“ of a deficiency in the years 1858-59 and 1859-60, 
“ and to provide for such a Balance of Revenue and 
“ Charge respectively, in the year 1860, as ma 
“ place it in the power of Parliament at that period, 
“ without embarrasment to the Finances, altogether 
“to remit the Income Tax,” 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
| their Clerks, as followeth : 





| The Lords request, that this House will give leave Journals 

| to Thomas Erskine May, Esquire, Clerk Assistant (House of 
of this House, to attend the Select Committee of 

their Lordships on the Minutes and Journals of their 
Lordships’ House, and to give Evidence before the 

said Select Committee. 

Resolved, That Thomas Erskine May, Esquire, 
have leave to go to the House of Lords, as desired 
by their Levdenhin. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint them that this House hath given leave 
to Thomas Erskine May, Esquire, to go to the 
House of Lords, as desired by their Lordships: 
And that the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


The Reformatory Schools Bill was, according to Reformatory 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Schools Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday the 13th 
day of March next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Ionian Sub- 
into a Committee on the Ionian Subjects’ Com-Jects Com. 
missions Bill; and, after some time spent therein, a 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Norfolk Island 
reading of the Norfolk Island (Ecclesiastical Go- (Ecclesiastical 
vernment) Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Coin- Supply. 
mittee of Supply; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
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Public Health The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Bi ner) into a Committee on the Public Health Supple- 
“mental Bill (1857); and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
FitzRoy 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 

upon Monday next. 


Mr. Bowyer presented a Bill to amend the Law 
relating to Grand Juries in Ireland: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 4th day of March 
next ; and to be printed. 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 26, 


Lighting of 
Towns (Ire- 
land) Act 
Amendment. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend an Act of the ninth year of King George the 
Fourth, Chapter eighty-two, intituled, “ An Act to 
make Provision for the Lighting, Cleansing and 
Watching of Cities, Towns Corporate, and Market 
Towns in Jreland, in certain cases :” And that Mr. 
Maguire and Mr. Deasy 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 Return of the Names of all Non-com- 
missioned Officers of the Army who were promoted 
to Commissions while serving in the Field with the 
Army of the East, between the Ist day of May 
1854 and the Ist day of August 1856 ; stating the 
Regiment to which they belonged and the Regiment 
or Corps to which they were promoted ; and speci- 
fying if they received Appointments as Adjutants 
or Quartermasters, and if now serving on Full or 
Half Pay. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this ome as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Army Pro- 
motions, 


Mr. Maguire presented a Bill to amend an Act of 
the ninth year of King George the Fourth, Chapter 
eighty-two, intituled, “An Act to make Provision 
for the Lighting, Cleansing and Watching of Cities, 
Towns Corporate, and Market Towns in Jreland, in 
certain cases:” 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 Monday 
next. 


Lighting of 
Towns (Ire- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 

Bill 27. 








Luna, 23° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions ; That the 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 19th 
and 20th 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. 


Public 

Petitions 
(Seventh 
Report.) 


Torquay and 
Saint Mary 
Church Gas. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Torquay and 
Saint Mary Church Gas Bill. 

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


nalstown 
and Wexford 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway 
Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 


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A. 1857. 


Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have Power to make 
Provision therein, pursuant to the prayer of the said 
Petition. 


Ordered, That the following additional Document Hudson's Bay 
be referred to the Select Committee on the Hudson’s Company. 
Bay Company :— 

eturn to an Address of the Honourable the 
House of Commons, dated the 9th day of February 
1849, for Copies of any Memorials presented to the 
Colonial Office by Inhabitants of the Red River 
Settlement, complaining of the Government of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company ; of the Instructions given 
to the Governor General of Canada for the investi- 
gation of those Complaints ; of the Reports of the 
Officers appointed by Lord Elgin, or by the Colonial 
Office, for the purpose of such investigation; and of 
any rem Sa which has passed between the 
Colonial Office and the Hudson’s Bay Company, and 
the Inhabitants of the Red River Settlement respec- 
tively, upon the subject of the above Memorial. 
(Sessional Paper, No. 227, of 1849). 


A Petition of the Birkenhead and Claughton Gas Birkenhead 
and Water Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to District Gas 
reconstitute the Birkenhead and Claughton Gas *4 Wr. 
and Water Company, under the name of “ The Bir- 
henhead District Gas and Water Company,” to en- 
large and extend their Powers, to authorize them to 
raise further Moneys, and for other purposes, was 

resented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
rought in accordingly, by Sir Philip Egerton and 
Mr. Tollemache. 


Cork Con- 


A Petition of the Cork Gas Consumers Company, 
sumers’ Gas. 


Limited, for leave to bring in a Bill for better en- 
abling the Cork Gas Consumers Company, Limited, 
to supply Gas for the purpose of Lighting the Bo- 
— and Vicinity of Cork, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Fagan, Mr. Beamish and Mr. 
Maguire. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Fraserburgh 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of Harbour. 
the Petition for the Fraserburgh Harbour Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners 
to purchase Lands, and to borrow a further Sum of 
Money: And that Lord Haddo and Mr. Thompson 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Dundalk and 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of £nniskillen 
the Petition for the Dundalk and Enniskillen Rail- ®*"”*- 
way Bill, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway 
Company to make certain Deviations and Alterations 
in their Line and Works, and for other purposes 
connected with their Undertaking: And that Mr. 
Fortescue and Mr. Bowyer do prepare, and bring 
it In. 

Ordered, That the Alva Parish Bill be read a Alva Parish 
second time upon Friday next. ill. 


The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Rail- Banff, Macduff 
way Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 4 Tu 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 
The Besse/sleigh Road Bill was read a second 
time; and committed. 


Besselsleigh 
Road Bill. 


The Bourn and Essendine Railway Bill was read Bourn and 
a second time; and committed. Essendine 


Railway Bill , 
The Cannock Mineral Railway (No, 2) Bill was Cannock 

read a second time; and committed, ent) 

Ordered, Bill. 











bay 





90 Victroriz. 


Chatham Ordered, That the Chatham Lands, &amp;c. Bill be 


— &amp;¢. read a second time To-morrow. 

Chepstow The Chepstow Gas Bill was read a second time ; 
Gas Bill. and committed. 

Coniston The Coniston Railway Bill was read a second 


Railway Bill. time; and committed. 


Cork and Ordered, That the Cork and Youghal Railway 
yoni Rail- Bill be read a second time upon Monday next. 


Doncaster The Doncaster and Wakefield Railway Bill was 
and Wakefield pead a second time; and committed, 
Railway Bill. 
Servpose and Ordered, That the European and Indian Junction 
an Junc- ; ; 
Sion Telegvenh Telegraph Company Bill be read a second time upon 
Company Bill. Friday next. ‘ 
Forth and The Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill was | 
Coe allway read a second time; and committed, 
Bill. 
prahepe and The Fownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bill was 
olme Lacy 7 : 
Bridge Bill read a second time; and committed. 
Guildford The Guildford Water Bill was read a second 
Water Bill. time ; and committed. 
? 
Hamiltonand = The Hamilton and Strathaven Railway Bill was 
eiway Bi, “ead a second time ; and committed. 
Margate The Margate Water Bill was read a second time ; 
Water Bill. and committed. 
Newtown and The Newtown and Machynileth Railway Bill was 
Machynlleth 


read a second time; and committed. 


Railway Bill. 

Shropshire The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Lon- 
Union Rail- don and North Western Railway, and Shropshire 
Canal, London Canal Companies Bill was read a second time; and 
and North committed. 

Western 


Railway, and Shropshire 
Canal Companies Bill. 


Suntord and Ordered, That the Stamford and Essendine Rail- 
ssenaine . ; 

Railway Bil, W@Y Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 

jee The Times, Atheneum and Beacon Assurance 
ae Companies’ Amalgamation Bill was read a second 
Assurance time; and committed. 

Companies 

Amalgama- 

tion Bill. 

Weaver Navi- The Weaver — Bill was read a second 
sation Bill. time; and committed. 

Westminster Ordered, That the Westminster Improvements 


seprovenente Bill be read a second time upon Monday the 9th 
day of March next. 


Wexford Free The Wexford Free Bridge Bill was read a second 


Bridge Bill. time; and committed. 

ca aeten The Wimbledon and Dorking Railway Bill was 
Railway Bilt read a second time ; and committed. 

Mayor’s Court ’ ‘ js 
of the City of The Mayor’s Court of the City of London Bill 


London Bill, WS, according to Order, read a second time; and 


committed. 
ie Somerset A Bill to authorize the Construction of a Rail- 
way Bil. way from Taunton to the Harbour of Watchet, and 
for other purposes relating to the said Railway and 
Harbour, was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time, 
ere! A Bill to authorize the Birkenhead Improvement 
mittee and Commissioners and Local Board of Health for Wal- 
Birkenhead © ‘asey to appoint Members on the Liverpool Docks 
Docks Bill, Committee, and to make better Provision for the 


Vou. 112. 


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63 


Management of the Birkenhead Docks, was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Eastern Coun- 
Company to construct Railways from the Colchester tics Railway 
Line of the Eastern Counties Railway at Shenfield, 
to the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway at 
Pitsea, with a Branch to the Chelmer Navigation 
Basin, and for other purposes, was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for the making and maintaining of the Stratford- 
Stratford-upon-Avon Railway, and for other pur- ——— 
‘ way Bill. 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail- Salisbury 
way Company to make Deviations from the Line of a 
their Railway, and for other purposes connected 
| with their Undertaking, was read the first time; 

_and ordered to be read a second time. 

A Bill to empower the Stockport, Disley and ee 

| Whaley Bridge Railway Company to extend their Whaley Bridge 
| Railway to Buxton, and for other purposes con- Railway Bill. 
nected with their Undertaking, was read the first 

time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 





A Bill for making a Railway from Keith to Duff- Keith and 
town, was read the first time; and ordered to be Dufftown 
- Railway Bill. 
read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Bank of Zondon and National Bank of 
Provincial Insurance Association to sue and be sued, London _ 
to confirm certain Agreements entered into by them )*ton®! | 
or on their behalf, and for other purposes, was read Insurance 


the first time; and ordered to be read a second Association 
time. (No. 2) Bill. 


A Petition of John Boulderson Barkworth, of Kingston- 
Cottingham Castle, in the County of York, Mer- pon-Hull 
chant, was delivered in, and read ; setting forth, That Eaeien. 
at an Election of Members to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, 
holden in the month of July in the year One thou- 
sand eight hundred and Fifty-two, James Clay, 
Esquire, George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Es- 

i commonly called Viscount Goderich, John 

ramley Moore, Esquire, and Charles Lennox 
Butler, Esquire, commonly called the Honourable 
Charles Lennox Butler, were Candidates to repre- 
sent as Burgesses the said Borough in this present 
Parliament; that a poll having been demanded, 
the same was taken by the Returning Officer for 
the said Borough on the Eighth day of July in the 
| said year One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 
| two; and the said James Clay and Viscount Gode- 
| rich were, by the said Returning Officer, declared 
|to have a majority of votes at the said Election, 
/and to have been duly elected, and were returned 
as Burgesses duly elected, to serve in this present 
Parliament for the said Borough of Kingston-upon- 
Hull; that, nevertheless, the said James Clay and 
the said Viscount Goderich, before and during the 
said Election, were, and each of them was, by their 
and his agents guilty of bribery, with a view to 
procure their Election and Return to serve as Bur- 
gesses in this present Parliament for the said Bo- 
rough of Kingston-upon-Hull, masrauch as they 
and each of them did by their or his agents, or other 
person or persons on their or his behalf, give, cause 
to be given, and promise and agree to give, sums of 
money, gifts and rewards, to divers persons upon 
engagements, contracts and agreements, that such 
last-mentioned persons, to whom, to whose use, or 
on whose behalf such gifts or promises were made, 
should, by themselves, or by other persons at their 


solicitation, request or command, procure, or en- 

















deavour to procure, the Return of the said James 
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64 


Clay and Viscount Goderich to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament as Burgesses for the said Borough 
of Kingston-upon-Hull; and by reason of such acts 
of bribery they the said James Clay and the said 
Viscount Goderich did procure their Election and 
Return to serve as Burgesses as aforesaid, and by 
reason of such several acts they the said James 
Clay and Viscount Goderich were and are, and | 
each of them was and is, disabled and incapacitated | 
to serve in this present Parliament as Burgesses | 
for the said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull ; that 
further, the said James Clay and Viscount Gode- | 
rich, being Candidates as aforesaid, and so elected 
to serve as Burgesses in this present Parliament for 
the said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, before | 
and during the said Election were, and each of them | 
was, by their and his agents guilty of — with | 
a view to procure their said Election and Return 
to serve as Burgesses in this present Parliament for 
the said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, inasmuch 
as they and each of them did, by their and his 
agents acting for and on their respective behalves, | 
give or provide, or cause or allow knowingly to be 
given or provided, wholly or partly at the expense | 
of them the said James Clay and Viscount Goderich, | 
or pay wholly or in part certain expenses incurred 
for meat, drink, entertainment or provision to or for | 
certain persons for the purpose of corruptly influ- | 
encing such last-mentioned persons to give, or to| 
refrain from giving, their votes at such Election, or 
for the purpose of corruptly rewarding such last- 
mentioned persons for having given, or refrained 
from giving, their votes at such Election, and by 
such acts of treating they the said James C/ay and 
the said Viscount Goderich did procure their Elec- 
tion and Return to serve as Burgesses as aforesaid, 
and by reason of such several acts they the said 
James Clay and Viscount Goderich were and are, 
and each of them was and is, incapable of being 
elected or sitting in this present Parliament as Bur- 
gesses or Burgess for the said Borough of Kingston- 
upon-Hull; that the said James Clay and Vis- 
count Goderich having been thus by their agents or 
such other persons guilty of bribery and treating at 
the said Election, a Petition of Jonathan Pulleyn 
and Henry Whytall Walker, Electors of the said 
Borough, complaining of such acts of bribery and 
treating at the said Election on the part of the said 
James Clay and Viscount Goderich, and by them- 
selves and their agents, was presented to the House 
on the Nineteenth day of November One thousand 
eight hundred and Fifty-two, and the same was 
referred to a Select Committee of the House to exa- 
mime into and to report on the allegations therein 
contained, and the said Petition came on in due 
course to be heard and tried before the said Select 
Committee; that at the hearing of the said Petition 
before the said Select Committee, evidence was ad- 
duced on behalf of the said last-mentioned Peti- 
tioners of divers acts of bribery and treating com- 
mitted by certain persons being the agents of the 
said James Clay and Viscount Goderich at the said 
last-mentioned Election; and that the said Com- 
mittee, after duly considering the same, came to 
certain Resolutions, which were in substance as 
follows :—“ That James Clay, Esquire, and Viscount 
Goderich were not duly elected Burgesses tu serve 
in this present Parliament for the Borough of King- 
ston-upon-Hull; that the last Election for the said 
Borough is a void Election; that the said James 
Clay, Esquire, and Viscount Goderich were, by their 
agents, guilty of bribery and treating at the last 
Election ;”’ that the determinations and resolutions 
aforesaid of the said Election Committee in the 
matter of the said Petition were reported to the 
House on the Seventh day of March One thousand 
eight hundred and Fifty-three, and were duly entered 
on the Proceedings and Journals of the House ; 
that thereafter, upon an Address of the two Houses 
of Parliament presented to Her most Gracious Ma- 








23° Februarit. 


A, 1857. 


jesty, in reference to the before-mentioned Report of 
the Select Committee of the House appointed to 
try the Petition of the said Electors, complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
Her Majesty was graciously — to give direc- 
tions for the appointment of Commissioners, for the 
purpose of making the inquiry prayed for by the 
said Address; that a Commission was thereafter 
issued under Her Majesty's royal sign manual of 
the Seventh day of May in the year One thousand 
eight hundred and Fifty-three, wherein Frederick 
Solly Flood, John Deedes and William Baliol Brett, 
Esquires, were appointed Commissioners for the 
purpose of making inquiry into the existence of 
corrupt practices at Elections for Members to serve 
in Parliament for the said Borough of Kingston- 
upon- Hull; that upon the Thirtieth day of August 
in the same year One thousand eight hundred and 
Fifty-three, John Deedes, Esquire, and William Baliol 
Brett, Esquire, two of the said Commissioners, 
made their Report under the said Commission of 
their proceedings had thereon, and of the evidence 
taken by them, and of what they had found con- 
cerning the several matters within the scope of the 
said Commission so given to them; that in their 
said Report the said Commissioners reported, inter 
alia, as follows :—“We find that at the E!ection of 
One thousand eight hundred and Fifty-two, syste- 
matic bribery was committed on behalf of James 
Clay, Esquire, and with his knowledge and assent ;” 
that the Report of the said Commissioners, together 
with the Minutes of Evidence, were presented to both 
Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty ; 
that thereafter new Writs were issued for a new 
Election of Burgesses to serve in the said present 
Parliament for the said Borough of Kingston-upon- 
Hul/, in the room of the said James Clay and 
Viscount Goderich, whose Election had been so de- 
termined to be void ; and at such new Election Wil- 
liam Henry Watson, Esquire, and William Digby 
Seymour, Esquire, were duly returned to serve as 
Burgesses in this said Parliament for the said Bo- 
rough ; that upon the Fifth day of February in this 
present year One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 
seven, a new Writ was issued for the Election of a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the room 
of the said William ye Watson, now Sir William 
Henry Watson, a Baron of the Court of Exchequer; 
that at the Election of a Burgess so to serve in the: 
room of the said Sir William Henry Watson, which 
took place on the Eleventh day of February in this 
present year One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 
seven, the said James Clay, notwithstanding his dis- 
qualification and incapacity to be returned and to 
sit for the said Borough as aforesaid, was a Candi- 
date to represent the said Borough as one of the 
Burgesses thereof, at which Election Charles Spil- 
man Todd, Esquire, the Sheriff of Kingston-upon- 
Hull aforesaid, was the Returning Officer, and the 
said James Clay having been proposed and seconded 
as a fit person to serve as aforesaid, and no other 
Candidate being proposed, the said James Clay was 
declared by the said Charles Spilman Todd to be 
duly elected, and was accordingly returned to serve 
as one of the Burgesses in this present Parliament 
for the said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull; that 
before and during the said Election so held on the 
said Eleventh day of February One thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-seven, the disqualification and in- 
capacity of the said James Clay was notorious and 
well known to the Electors of the said Borough of 
Kingston-upon-Hull ; that at and during the Elec- 
tion last-mentioned and so made on the Eleventh 
day of February One thousand eight hundred and 
Fifty-seven, the Petitioner was a registered Elector 
of the said Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, and 
had a right to vote at the Election as held on the 
Eleventh day of February One thousand eight hun- 
dred and Fifty-seven, and is still a registered way 
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20 Vicroriz. 


of the said Borough ; that at the time of the said 
Election and Return on the said Eleventh day of 
February in the present year, the said James Clay 
was, and now is by law, and by reason of the before 
set forth acts of corrupt bribery and treating at and 
during the Election of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the said Borough of King- 
ston-upon-Hull, held on the Eighth day of July in 
the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, 
as aforesaid, and by reason of the aforesaid Resolu- 
tions and Report of the said Select Committee, in- 
capacitated and disabled to serve, and is incapable 
of being elected or of sitting, in this present Parlia- 
ment as Member for the said Borough of Kingston- 
upon- Hull, and the Eiection and Return of the said 
y sent Clay at the said Election of the Eleventh day 
of February in the present year were and are wholly 
null and void; that the said James Clay, having 
been declared by a Committee of the House to have 
been guilty of bribery and treating at an Election 
for the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in this 
present Parliament, at which he was a Candidate 
and elected to serve, was incapacitated and disabled 
to serve, and incapable of being elected, at any 
subsequent Election for the same Borough in this 
same present Parliament, and in suethealne at the 
said last Election, held on the Eleventh day of 
February in the present year One thousand eight 
hundred and Fifty-seven; and praying that the 
House will take the premises into considération, and 
will declare that the said James Clay was not duly 
elected, and ought not to have been returned at the 
said Election held as aforesaid on the Eleventh day 
of February in the present year One thousand eight 
hundred and Fifty-seven, as one of the Burgesses to 
serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of 
Kingston-upon-Hull ; that the said James Clay was 
and is incapacitated and disabled to serve, and is 
incapable of being elected or sitting, in this present 
Parliament as a Burgess for the said Borough of 
Kingston-upon-Hull, and that the said last-men- 
tioned Election and Return were and are wholly 
null and void; end that the Petitioner may have 
such other relief in the premises as to the House 
may seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the General Committee of Elections. 

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. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
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 John M‘Gregor, Esquire, who, since his 
Election for the said City, hath accepted the Office 
of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of 
Northstead, in the County of York. 


Glasgow Writ. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Eighth 
Report. 


Petitions relating to Maynooth College Act ;— 
Bengal ; —Paper Ase &lt;8. and Income Tax ;— 
Tea;—Tea and Sugar ;— Burghs( Scotland) ;— China 
and Persia ; —Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;— 
Newspapers ;—and, Public-houses (Scotland) Act,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions against the Passing Tolls Bill,—were also 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Bill. 


Passing Tolls 
Bill. 


Contracts for Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
— — before the Select Committee of last Session, on Con- 
(1856) tracts for Public Departments, be referred to the 
Select Committee on Contracts for Public Depart- 

ments. 


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65 


the vear 1846, of all Accidents occurring to Labour- 
ers or others employed in the construction of Rail- 
ways or other Public Works, where Death has been 
occasioned by the falling in of embankments of earth 
or other materials. 


Imprisonment 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
for Debt Bill, 


nesday next, the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 11th day of March next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Chinese 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased os 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of any recent Communications to or 
from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Board of 
Trade, and any other Department of Her Majesty’s 
Government, on the subject of Mortality on Board 
the “ Duke of Portland,” or any other British Ships 
carrying Emigrants from China. 

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 Order of the day being read, for the second 
— of the Transportation and Penal Servitude 

ill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday the 9th day of March next. 


Tran 
dened iene 


Servitude Bill. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s China. 
Command,— Copy of Correspondence respecting 
Insults in China. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Iron, &amp;c. 
Return of the Quantity of Foreign Iron imported and 
exported from the United Kingdom in the years 
1855 and 1856; of British Iron exported, including 
Unwrought Steel, in the same periods; and of the 
Quantity of British Hardware exported during the 
above period (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 288, of Session 1855). . 


Lord Edward Howard presented, pursuant to Arundel Port, 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,-—-The Report 
and General Account of the Receipts and Disburse- 
ments of the Monies which have ieon received and 
paid by the Commissioners of Arundel Port, since 
the 21st day of December 1855, up to and including 
the 31st day of December 1856. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to an Order, dated Harbour, &amp;e. 
the 9th day of this instant February,—Further Re- Bis. 
ports from the Board of ‘Trade relative to Harbour, No 19. 
&amp;c., Bills. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Fishery Board 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, ‘Seotland) 
dated the 13th day of this instant February, for a 
Return relative to the Fishery Board (Scotland). 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Bank of 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the England. 











Table by the Clerk of the House,—Supplementary 
Return to an Account of the Amount of all Exche- 
quer Bills or Treasury Bills and other Government 
Securities, which have been purchased by the Go- 
vernor 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 





Cotten on _ Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
(Ire = — from the several Coroners of Ireland, since 
OL. 112. 





and Company of the said Bank, in the year ending 
kK the 



































































Medical 
Museums. 
No. 61. 


Banks of 
Issue, &amp;c. 


No. 62. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Income Tax. 


Income’Tax. 


66 23°—24° 


the 5th day of January 1857 ; 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 
Government Securities which was in the hands of 
the Governor and Company of the said Bank on the 
5th day of January 1857 aforesaid. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Medical 
Museums, which was presented upon the 20th day 
of this instant February, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Banks of 
Issue, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 20th day 
of this instant February, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 20th day of this instant February, was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair (for Committee of Ways 
and Means), and which Amendment was to leave 
out from the word “ That” to the end of the Ques- 
tion, in order to add the words, “ in the Opinion of 
“ this House, it would be expedient, before sanction- 
“ing the financial arrangements for the ensuing 
“ year, to adjust the estimated Income and Expen- 
“ diture in the manner which shall appear best 
“ calculated to secure the Country against the risk 
“ of a deficiency in the years 1858-59 and 1859-60, 
“ and to provide for such a balance of Revenue and 
“ Charge respectively in the year 1860, as ma 
“ place it in the power of Parliament, at that period, 
“‘ without embarrassment to the Finances, altogether 
“ to remit the Income Tax,” 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 a Motion being made, and the Question 
beingproposed, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 


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


Martis, 24° die Februarii, 1857: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Lett. 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Bentinck, 
Yeas, \ Mr. Newdegate : 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave : 
So it passed in the Negative. 
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 Right ; 
The Noes to the left. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for thef Colonel Taylor, 
Noes, (Sir William Jolliffe : 
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.) 


he 


} 477. 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That, to- 
wards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, 
there shall be raised annually, during the term of 
Three years from the 5th day of April 1857, io lieu 
of the Rates and Duties chargeable during the same 
period, under the several Acts now in force relating 
to the Income Tax, for and in respect of all Pro- 
perty, Profits and Gains, chargeable under the said 
Acts, the Rate and Duty of Seven-pence for every 


Februariz. A. 1857. 


Twenty shillings of the annual value or amount of 
all such Property, Profits and Gains respectively. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had made 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 Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Commous’ 
| into a Committee on the Commons’ Inclosure Bill ; ™!sre Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Jonian Subjects’ Commissions Bill was, ac- Ionian Sub- 
cording to Order, read the third time. jects’ oy 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. minute 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Public Health Supplemental Bill (1857) was, Public Health 
according to Order, read the third time. Bes7) 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. fice 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act Amendment ques ot 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; jand) Act Z 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, Amnduent 


for Thursday next. , 


The Select Committee on the Bribery at Elections Bribery at 

Act was nominated of Lord John Russell, Mr. Wal- Election Act. 
pole, Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Cobden, the Lord Ad- 
vocate, Mr. Barrow, Sir Fitz Roy Kelly, Mr. Berkeley, 
Mr. Deedes, Mr. George Butt, Mr. George Alexander 
Hamilton, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Ker Seymer, Sir Wil- 
liam Somerville and Mr. Tite; with Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, Prot Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Persia. 
Copy of the Correspondence, showing the propor- No. 63. 
tion of the Expenses incurred in poo Se an Expe- 
dition against Persia, which is to be defrayed from 
the Revenues of the United Kingdom. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


: Table; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 24° die Februarit ; 








Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of the Great Yarmouth Water- Great Yar- 
works Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 7° Wate 
enable the Great Yarmouth Waterworks Company to 
raise a further Sum of Money, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Sir Edmund Lacon and Mr. Rumbold. - 
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90 Vicroriz. 


Bank of The Order for reading a second time the Bank of 


—s nd London and National Provincial Insurance Asso- 
Provincial _— ciation (No. 2) Bill, was read, and discharged. 
pre el Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
(No. 2) Bill. miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
Aldershot Ordered, That the Aldershot Railway Bill be read 
Railway Bill. : 

a second time To-morrow. 
Backwater The Backwater Bridge and Road Bill was read a 
Bridge and j . . 
ioe gy second time ; and committed. 
Bridgwater | The Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill was read 
Markets j ° : 
Fairs Bill a second time ; and committed. 
British and Ordered, That the British and Jrish Grand 
Irish Grand = Junction Railway Bill be read a second time To- 
Junction ‘ 
Charing Cross The Charing Cross Bridge Bill was read a second 
Bridge Bill. time; and cowmitted. 
Dartmouth The Dartmouth aud Torbay Railway Bill was read 
and Torbay 4 second time; and committed. 
Railway Bill. 


East Kent 
Railway 
(Strood to 
Saint Mary’s 
Cray, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 


The East Kent Railway (Strood to Saint Mary’s 
Cray, &amp;c.) Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


Great The Great Northern and Western of Jreland 


Northern Railway Bill was read a second time; and com- 
and Western mitted 

of Ireland - 

Railway Bill. 

Ipswich The Ipswich Water Bill was read a second time ; 
Water Bill. and committed. 

Islington The Jslington Parish Bill was read a second time ; 
Parish Bill. and committed. 

Newport, The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway 
Abergavenny Ril] w ime: j a 

par ttn 4 Bill was read a second time; and committed 

Railway Bill, 

North Eastern _ The North Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley 
Railway Branch) Bill was read a second time; and com- 
(Lanchester mitted. 

Valley Branch) 

Bill. 

Otley and The Otley and Skipton Road Bill was read a 


Skipton Boad second time; and committed. 


The Chatham Lands, &amp;c., Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to Sir 
Maurice Berkeley, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Philip Wyke- 
ham Martin, Mr. Masters Smith, Sir Robert Peel 
Sir Herbert Maddock, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Fitz Roy ; 
and Five Members to be added by the Committee 
of Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


The Stamford and Essendine Railway Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Stamford and 
Rssendize ° 
Eailway Bill. 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


The Thames and Medway Conservancy Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


A Bill to enable the Dundalk and Ennishillen 
Railway Company to make certain Deviations and 
Alterations in their Line and Works, and for, other 
purposes connected with their Undertaking, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Dundalk and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bill, 


Fraserburgh 


A Bill to enable the Fraserburgh Harbour Com- 
Harbour Bill. 


missioners to purchase Lands, and to borrow a fur- 
ther Sum of Money, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Committee : 
of Selection Mr. Greene reported from the Committee of Se- 


(First Report.) lection ; That they had formed into Groups certain 
No. 64, Vou. 112, 


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67 


Private Bills; and had agreed to report the same to 
the House. 

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


Petitions relating to Established Church (Wales) ; Public 
—Maynooth College Act ;—Property and Income Fetitious. 
Tax ;—-Tea ;—Civil Service Superannuation Act ;— yige Ninth 
Convict Hulks (Woolwich) ; — Denbighshire Con- Report. 
stabulary ;—Houseless Poor (Metropolis) ;—Opium 
Trade; — Poor Law;— Poor Law (Jreland) ;— 
Public-houses (Scotland) Act ; — Sale of Beer, &amp;c. 

Bill ;— Settlement and Removal ;—and, Turnpike 
Trusts Abolition (Jreland) Bill,— were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the: Table. 

A Petition against the Passing Tolls Bill, was 
also presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Baltic and 
Copy of the Medical Statistical Returns of the Baltic —. Sea 
and Black Sea Fleets, during the years 1854 and 
1855. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a National 
Consecutive Return of the Total Expenditure in- “aller. 
curred in the Purchase and Transmission to this 
Country of the Kriiger Collection of Early German 
Pictures purchased for the National Gallery; the 
Amount received by Public Auction or otherwise 
for any of such Pictures not retained for the use of 
the National Gallery ; the Number so disposed of, 
with the Number and Description of such as may 
have been retained for the National Gallery. 


Ordered, That Colonel Wilson Patten have leave Leave of 
of absence for a fortnight, on account of the death Absence. 
of a near relation ;—Sir John Yarde Buller till Eas- 
ter, on account of a domestic affliction; — and, 

Mr. Lee till Easter, and, Mr. Mullingsa fortnight, on 
account of ill health. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a National 
Consecutive Return of the Sittings of the Board of Education 
National Education in Zreland, from the Ist day of tes 
August 1855 to the 1st day of February 1857, with 
the Day of the Week and Month of each Sitting, and 
the Names of the Commissioners present at every 
such Meeting respectively, and designating Extraor- 
dinary and Ordinary Sittings. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee standing 
ou Standing Orders, several Resolutions; which were Orders. 
read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway Caledonian 
(Running Powers) Petition, the Standing Orders Railway 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided that 
they strike out of the said Bill ail Provisions giving 
Powers over the Forth and Clyde Junction Rail- 
way, the Crieff Junction Railway, and the Dun- 
blane, Doune and Callander Railway ; that the Com- 
mittee on the Bill do report how far such Order has 
been complied with on the Report of the Bill. 

2. That in the case of the South Yorkshire and South York- 
North Lincolushire Junction Railway Petition, the Suireand 
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that any 
the Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. Railway. 

3. That m the case of the Mid-Susser Railway mia-sussex 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Railway. 
with; that the Parties be permitted to proceed 
with their Biil. 

4. That in the case of the Rhymney Railway Pe- Rhymney 
tition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed Railway. 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 

5. That in the case of the South London Railway South London 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 8way. 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill, provided that amended Lists of Owners, 

Lessees and Occupiers be deposited in the — 
K 2 1 


( 
Powers.) 


68 


Bill Office; that the Committee on the Bill do 
report how far such Order has been complied with 
on the Report of the Bill. 

6. That in the case of the Deeside Extension 
Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 

7. That in the case of the Richmond and Kew 

_ Extension Railway Petition, the Standing Orders 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

8. That in the case of the Dexthorpe Turnpike 
Trust Petition of John Shepherd, for dispensing with 
Standing Order 161, and for leave to present Peti- 
tion for Bill; the said Standing Order ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
present their Petition. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Deeside Extension Railway Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Deeside Railway at 
Banchory, to Charleston of Aboyne: And that Lord 
Haddo and General Arbuthnott do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Rhymney Railway Bill, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for consolidating the Acts relating to the Rhymney 
Railway Company, and for authorizing the Company 
to make and maintain a Branch Railway, and for 
regulating the Capital of the Company, and for 
mr oe purposes: And that Sir George Tyler and 
Mr. Henry Bruce do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill, 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, Brighton 
and South Coast Railway at Horsham, through 
Billingshurst, to Pulborough, with a Branch from 
Billingshurst to Petworth, all in the County of 
Sussex: And that the Earl of March and Mr. Henry 
Wyndham do prepare, and bring it in. 


South London 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Railway. 


Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the South London Railway Bill, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
incorporate a Company for making a Railway from 
Clapham to London-bridge, to be called “ The 
South London Railway :” And that Sir James Duke 
and Mr. William Williams do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


tion of Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Voters (Scot- to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
land) Act. +5 \give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Amount of Assessment, and 
the Rate per Pound, in each Burgh, under the Re- 
gistration of Voters (Scotland) Act, since the passing 
of that Act. 

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. 


Reformatory Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
aoe oneal &gt; Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns showing the Number of Reforma- 


24° Februariz. 





A. 1857. 


tory and Industrial Schools certified and sanctioned 
by the Secretary of State under the Acts 17 &amp; 18 

ic. c. 86, and 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 74, respectively :— 
And, of the Number of Children (distinguishing 
Boys from Girls) which each of such Schools is 
capable of accommodating, and the Number con- 
tained in each at the latest Date for which the Re- 
turn can be given. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Poor Rates 
Return of the Amount raised for Rates for the Relief (Metropolis. ) 
of the Poor in each of the Parishes of the Metro- 
polis during the years 1855 and 1856 respectively. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 
the House this day, adjourn till Two of the clock 
To-morrow. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty's Com- Metropolitan 
mand,—Copy of Report to the Right honourable Water Supply. 
William Cowper, m.p., President of the General 
Board of Health, on the Microscopical Examina- 
tion of the Metropolitan Water Supply, under the 
Provisions of the Metropolis Water Act, by Arthur 
Hill Hassall, m.v.,F..s. 

General Report of Turnpike Trusts in England Turnpike 
and Wales, by direction of the Secretary of State, Trusts. 
under Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, c. 80. 

_ Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Metropolitan 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Accounts showing Police. 

the Sums received and expended for the purposes 

of the Metropolitan Police, Police Superannuation 

Fund, Public Carriages, and Police Courts, in the 

year ended the 31st December 1856. 


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


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Trade and 
—Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, Navigation. 
Month ended 31st January 1857. No. 44. 

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


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Dover 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the Harbour. 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—An Account of 
Receipts and Expenditure by the Honourable War- 
den and Assistants of the wai of Dover, in the 
County of Kent, from the 10th day of October 1855, 
to the 10th day of October 1856. 

Certificate from the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of 
Court of Exchequer, in regard to the necessity of Exchequer. 
retaining Five Masters in the said Court. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Fishery Fishery Bose 
Board (Scotland), which was presented upon the oa 
23d day of this instant February, be printed. Bie. 6. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Bank of Bank of 
England, which was presented upon the 23d day of ="8!n4. 
this instant February, be printed. No. 36. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Representative 
That a Select Committee be appointed to consider SYSt™ 
and report upon the most practical means for les- 
sening the existing inequalities in our Representa- 
tive see and for extending to the unenfranchised 
that share of Political Power to which they may be 
justly entitled ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Le 
Tellers for thefSir Joshua Walmsley, 
Yeas, (Mr. Hadfield : 
Tellers for “— Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave : 
So it passed in the Negative. 


\ na, 
}iv0. 


Ordered, 








20 VicTori. 24°. 95° 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 


appropriate the Income of such one of the Canonries 
of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle as shall next 
fall vacant to the Augmentation of certain Eccle- 
siastical Incumbencies in that City: And that Mr. 
Ferguson, Mr. Charles Howard and Mr. Thomas 
Chambers do prepare, and bring it in. 


Carlisle 
Canonries. 


Railway 
Accidents. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the Causes of Accidents on Railways, 


and into the possibility of removing any such Causes | 


by further Legislation. 


Civil Service 


(iveland.) A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 


That an humble Address be presented to Her Ma- 
jesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions to have the Examination of Candidates 
for admission into the Civil Service in Ireland con- 
ducted as in England, by Examiners whose Cha- 
racter, Acquirements and Experience in Examina- 
tions render them peculiarly fitted for the Duty ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Teliers for the { Mr. Deasy, 
Yeas, Mr. Napier : 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave: 
So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
eg That an humble Address be presented to 

er Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Communications made to Her Ma- 
jesty’s Government, since the end of the last Session 
of Parlfament, respecting the Franklin Expedition, 
and the urgent nature of the Claim for a further and 
complete Search :—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


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 any Correspondence with the 
Secretary of State for the Home Department as to 
the refusal of the Bishop of the Diocese to conse- 
crate the new Cemetery for the Borough of Swansea, 
without Provision being made by the Burial Board 
for the Conveyance tu and from the Cemetery of 
the officiating Clergyman. 

Ordered, That the said Address be —— to 

by such Members of this House as are 


Her Majesty, 
of Her Majesty s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Franklin 
Expedition. 


Swansea 
Cemetery. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
provide for the Registration of Long Leases in Scot- 
land, and Assignations thereof: And that Mr. Dunlo 


Registration 
of Long Leases 
(Scotland.) 
and Sir Michael Shaw Stewart do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) 
Act (1856): And that Mr. Dunlop and Sir James 
Fergusson do prepare, and bring it in. 


f nmaleners 

upp 

(Scotland) 

Act (1856) 
ndment. 


Order of 
Victoria, 


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 the Royal Warrant, dated the 29th 
day of January 1856, laying down the Regulations 
under which the Decoration of the Victoria Cross is 
to be conferred. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Seon as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Lunatic Asylums (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 4th day of March next. 
Vou, 112. 


lums 


(Ireland.) Bill. 


69 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Savings 
into a Committee on Savings Banks. Bunks. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to amend the Laws 
relating to Savings Banks, and to provide for the 
Establishment of Savings Banks with the Security 
of the Government. 


Resolution to be reported. 


Februariz. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
i aha That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
ution. 


Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, accordin 
into consideration the C 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 


morrow, 


to Order, proceeded to take Commons’ 


ommons’ Inclosure Bill, as — 


Mr. Ferguson presented a Bill to appropriate the Carlisle 
Income of such one of the Canonries of the Cathe- Canonries 
dral Church of Carlisle as shall next fall vacant 21. 
to the Augmentation of certain Ecclesiastical Incum- Bill 28. 
bencies in that City: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 18th day of March next ; and to be 
printed, 


Mr. Dunlop neni a Bill to provide for the Registration 
Registration of Long Leases in Scotland, and As- of Long Tenses 
signations thereof: And the same was read the _— ) 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time ™ 2. 
upon Wednesday the 18th dav of March next; and 

to be printed. 


Mr. Dunlop presented a Bill to amend the Com- Commissioners 
missioners of Supply (Scotland) Act, 1856: And phe. A 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be (906) anne 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be ment Bill. 


printed. Bill 30. 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 25° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Duncan reported from the Select Com- Public 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had Fetitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 23d day a ) 
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; 


P | and be printed. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Dexthorpe Turnpike Dexthorpe 
Trust, for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of — 
the Act relating to the Road from Bawtry Bridge, in 
the County of Nottingham, to Hainton, in the County 
of Lincoln, and other Roads, as relates to the second 
District of Roads therein mentioned, and to make 
other Provisions in lieu thereof, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be seer in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Nisbet Hamilton and Major 
Sibthorp. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Torquay and 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate Saint Mary 
a Company for manufacturing and supplying Gas emcees 
within the Parishes of Tormoham (including the 
Town of Torquay), and Saint Mary Church, in the 
County of Devon, and for other purposes, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Richmond and 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of Kew Exten- 





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the Petition for the Richmond and Kew Extension 
Railway Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the North and South 
Western Junction Railway, in the Parish of Ealing, 
to Richmond, to be erlled “The Richmond and 
Kew Extension Railway,” and for other purposes : 
And that Mr. Locke King and Mr. Alcock do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


South York- The House was moved, That the Report from the 

cee coln. Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect 

shire Junction Of the Petition for the South Yorkshire and North 

Railway. Lincolnshire Junction Railway Bill, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Manchester, Sheffield 
and Lincolnshire Railway at or near to Barton, in 
the County of Lincoln, to the South Yorkshire Rail- 
way at Thorne, in the West Riding of the County of 
York, to be called “ The South Yorkshire and North 
Lincolnshire Junction Railway :” And that Viscount 
Goderich and Mr. Dighy Seymour do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Caledonian The House was moved, That the Report from the 

Railway Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 

(Running &gt; 2242 ? "ih ° 

Powers.) the Petition for the Caledonian Railway (Running 
Powers) Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for empowering the Ca/edonan Railway Company 
to use the Scottish Central and Stirling and Dun- 
fermline Railways, and requiring the Owners and 
Lessees of these Railways to afford facilities for con- 
veying the Traffic of that Company: And that Mr. 
Hope Johnstone and Mr. Cochrane do prepare, and 
bring it in, 


~~ and The Order for reading a second time the Keith 
ufftown ‘ ia aes : aaa aaa = 
Railway Bill. ee Railway Bill, was read, and dis 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Keithand = Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

——— for making a Railway from Keith to Dufftown: 

yee) And that Mr. George Skene Duff and Mr. Cumming 
Bruce do prepare, and bring it in. 


Clyde Navi- The Clyde Navigation Bill was read a second 
gation Bil = time; and committed. 


East Suffolk The East Suffolk Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. time; and committed. 


aia Kent The Mid-Kent Railway (Croydon Extension) Bill 
Rai Ris oe 
( ow gx. WS read a second time; and committed. 
tensionBill. ) 
Aldershot — The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Railway Bill yeading of the Aldershot Railway Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 

Wednesday the 4th day of March next. 


British and The British and Irish Grand Junction Railway 
Irish Grand Bj] was, according to Order, read a second time; 


Junction . 
Railway Bill, @d committed. 


Tralee and The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Killarney — reading of the Zralee and Killarney Railway Bill ; 

Beiwey Bel. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 11th day of March next. 


South York- Ordered, That the Bill for making a Railway from 
— and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 

orth Lincoln- : : 
shire Junction @t or near to Barton, in the County of Lincoln, to 
Railway Bill. the South Yorkshire Railway at Thorne, in the West 
Riding of the County of York, to be called “ The 


South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Junction 





A. 1857. 


Junction Railway,” be read the first time To- 
morrow. 


A Bill to incorporate a Company for making a South London 
Railway from Clapham to London-bridge, to be Railway Bill 
called “The South London Railway,” was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Great Yarmouth Waterworks Great Yar- 
Company to raise a further Sum of Money, was mouth Water 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Petitions relating to Registration of Voters (Scoé- Public 
land); — Representation (Scotland) ; — Maynooth Petitions. 
College Act ;—Property and Income Tax ;—Sugar; vide Ninth 
—Tea ;—Tea and Sugar ;— China ;—Civil Service Report. 
Superannuation Fund ;—Judgments Execution, &amp;c. 

Bill ;—Opium Trade ;—and, Weaver Navigation,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Ordered, That Sir Thomas Winnington have leave Leave of 
of absence for a fortnight, on account of a domestic —_ 
affliction ; and, Mr. Freshfield till Easter ; and, Mr. 
Goddard ten days, on account of ill health. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Metro- Metropolitan 
politan Police, which were presented upon the 24th Police. 
day of this instant February, be printed. No. 66. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sea Coast _ 
reading of the Sea Coast Fisheries Bill ; Fisheries BUS 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read.a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. M‘ Mahon, ‘| 

Yeas, Mr. Kennedy : 
Tellers for the The Earl of Mu/grave, 
Noes, | Viscount Monck : 

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 
UL ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon this day six months. 


10. 


}iss. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Newport, Newport 
in the Isle of Wight, was delivered in, and read ; Blection. 
setting forth, That the Petitioners were at and during 
the last Election of a Member to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament for the Borough of Newport regis- 
tered Electors of the said Borough, and had a right 
to vote and did vote at the said Election; that 
Charles Seely, Esquire, and Robert William Ken- 
nard, Esquire, were Candidates at the said Election, 
and, a poll being demanded and taken thereat, the 
said Robert William Kennard was at the close 
thereof declared to have the majority of votes, and 
to be duly elected to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment for the said Borough; that before and at the 
said Election the said Robert William Kennard did 
by himself, and by others on his behalf, directly and 
indirectly give, lend, and agree to give or lend, and 
offer and promise to procure, or to endeavour to 
procure, oa or valuable consideration to divers 
persons, in order to induce voters to vote or refrain 
trom voting at the said Election, and did also cor- 

ruptly 








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ter 


90 Vicroriz#. 





ruptly do such acts as aforesaid, on account of such 
voters having voted or refrained from voting at the 
said Election; that the said Robert William Ken- 
nard did by himself, and by others on his behalf, 
directly and indirectly give or procure, or agree, ws 
mise, and undertake to give or procure, office, place 
or employment, in order to induce voters to vote or 
refrain from voting at the said Election, and did 
corruptly do such acts as aforesaid on account of 
such voters having voted or refrained from voting at 
the said Election; that the said Robert William 
Kennard did by himself, and by others on his 
behalf, directly and indirectly make gifts, loans, 
offers, promises and procurements, and agreements 
to divers persons in order to procure the votes of 
voters, and in order to procure his Return at the 
said Election; that the said Robert William Ken- 
nard corruptly did by himself, and by others 
on his behalf, before, during and after the said 
Election, directly and indirectly give or provide, 
or cause to be given or provided, and did know- 
ingly allow to be given and provided, and did pay for 
meat, drink, entertainment or provision, to or for 
divers persons for the purpose of corruptly influenc- 
ing some persons to vote or refrain from voting at 
the said Election, or on account of such persons 
having voted or refrained from voting at the said 
Election; that the said Robert William Kennard 
did by himself, and by others on his behalf, in 
divers ways and means, practise intimidation, ia 
order to induce or compel certain persons to vote 
or refrain from voting at the said Election, and did 
by fraudulent devices and contrivances, impede, 
prevent and otherwise interfere with the free exer- 
cise of the franchise of divers voters, and did 
thereby compel, induce or prevail upon such voters 
either to vote or refrain from voting at the said Elec- 
tion ; that the said Robert William Kennard was, by 
himself, his agents, friends, partisans, and others on 
his behalf, guilty of bribery, treating, and undue in- 
fluence before and at the said Election, and his 
Election and Return were thereby brought about; 
that the said Robert William Kennard, prior to and 
at the time of such Election, had undertaken, and 
did then, directly or indirectly, himself, or by some 
person in trust for him, and for his use and benefit, 
or on his account, undertake hold and enjoy, wholly or 
in part, certain contracts, agreements or commissions 
made or entered into with, under or from the 
Master-General or Board of Ordnance, or with some 
other person or persons, for or on account of the 
public service, and had also knowingly and willingly 
furnished and provided, in pursuance of such con- 
tracts, agreements or commissions, certain wares or 
merchandise to be used or employed in the service 
of the public, by reason of which contracts, agree- 
ments and commissions, and also by reason of the 
said furnishing and providing as aforesaid, the said 
Robert William Kennard then was and is incapable 
of being elected at the said Election, or of sitting 
or voting as a Member of the House of Com- 
mons, by virtue of the statute in such case made 


and provided ; that at the said Election the poll | % 


was not taken as by law directed, inasmuch as 
one of the booths for taking the said poll was made 
and the poll taken at an inn, hotel, tavern, public- 
house, or other premises licensed for the sale of beer, 
wine or spirits, or in a booth, hall, room or other 
place direetly communicating therewith, without the 
consent of all the candidates expressed in writing, 
and that such poll so taken was an illegal poll, and 
wholly null and void, and the Election and Keturn of 
the said Robert William Kennard was an illegal Re- 
turn, and was and is wholly null and void ; that the 
booth for taking the poll at the said Election for one 
of the districts of the said Borough was not erected 
within the said Borough, and that all votes recorded 
at the said booth were not legally taken, and oughtnot 
to be added to the poll at the said Election, and, the 
— of the said Robert William Kennard having 
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25° Februariz. 71 


been procured by such votes, his Election and Re- 
turn was and is wholly null and void; that by 
reason of the said bribery, treating, and undue in- 
fluence used and exercised by the said Robert Wil- 
liam Kennard, and by his agents, friends, partisans, 
and others on his behalf, and by reason of the said 
personal disqualification of the said Robert William 
Kennard, and by reason of the illegal taking of the 
poll as aforesaid, the said Election and Return of 
the said Robert William Kennard is not a valid 
Return, and ought to be set aside; and praying 
that the House will take the premises into their con- 
sideration, and declare that the Election and Return of 
the said Robert William Kennard was and is wholly 
null and void ; and will give the Petitioners such fur- 
ther and other relief as to the House may seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Judgments 
into a Committee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. Execution, &amp;c. 
Bill. _ 

(In the Committee.) 


CuausE, N° 1 (Where Judgment has been ob- 
tained in the Courts at Westminster, a Memorial 
thereof registered in Ireland, and vice versd, shall 
have the effect of a Judgment of the Court in which 
it is so registered). 

Amendment again proposed, in p. 1,1. 8: After 
the word “ respectively,” to insert the words “ or in 
* the Common Pleas of Lancaster and Durham, the 
“ Mayor's Court of London, the Tolsel Court of 
“ Bristol, the Passage Court of Liverpool, the Re- 
“ cord Court of Manchester, in the County Court.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 8: After 
the word “‘ respectively,” to insert the words “ orin 
‘the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster, or in 
“ the Court of Pleas at Durham.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1,1. 13: To 
leave out the word “‘ memorial ” and insert the word 
“ copy.” :; 

Question put, That the word “ memorial ” stand 
part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. ——- lor 

Yeas, (Mr. Dunlop: P paper 

Tellers for the { Mt: Attorney General for 

Ne dreland 99 
Noes ; ‘ 
’ | Mr. Hughes: 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
cress 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 
the 5th day of March next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Zreland) (Titles cety (Ireland) 
5 . (Titles of 
of Purchasers) Bill ; Purchasers) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill; cory (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
raittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 





K 4 Resolved, 















































































95°96, 


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72 


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. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
Savings Banks, a Resolution ; which was read, as 
followeth : 

That it is expedient to amend the Laws relating 
to Savings Banks, and to provide for the esta- 
blishment of Savings Banks with the security of 
the Government. 

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. Fite Roy, The Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Commons’ The Commons’ Inclosure Bill was, according to 
Inclosure Bill. Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bankruptcy Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 

and Insolvency to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to 

(Ireland ) Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland; And that 
Mr. Attorney General for Zreland and Mr. Horsman 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 26° die Februarii; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
oo Mid-Kent and South Kent Railway Bill 


was read a second time; and committed. 
The South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire 
mo Junction Railway Bill was, according to Order, 


shire Junction read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
Railway Bill. time. 


Mid-Kent and 
South Kent 
Railway Bill. 


South York- 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the Deeside 
Railway at Banchory to Charleston of Aboyne, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Mid-Sussex 
Railway Bill. 


A Bill for making a Railway from the London, 
Brighton and South Coast Railway at Horsham, 
through Billingshurst, to Pulborough, with a Branch 
from Billingshurst to Petworth, all in the County of 
Sussex, was 1ead the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Rhymney 


A Bill for consolidating the Acts relating to the 
Railway Bill. 


Rhymney Railway Company, and for authorizing 
the Company to make and maintain a Branch Rail- 
way, and for regulating the Capital of the Company, 
and for other purposes, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to reconstitute the Birkenhead and Cluugh- 
ton Gas and Water Company under the Name of 
“Tie Birkenhead District Gas and Water Com- 
pany,” to enlarge and extend their Powers, to autho- 
rize them to raise futher Moneys, and for other 
purposr®, was read the first time; and ordered to 

read a second time. 


Birkenhead 
District Gas 
and Water 
Bill. 


Richmond and 
Kew Exten- 
sion Railway 
Bill 


A Bill for making a Railway from the North and 
South Western Junction Railway, in the Parish of 
Ealing, to Richmond, to be called “The Richmond 


A. 1857. 


and Kew Extension Railway,” and for other pur- 
poses, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Februarii. 


A Bill for empowering the Caledonian Railway Caledonian 
Company to use the Scottish Central and S/irling Railway 
and Dunfermline Railways, and requiring the Sowers) han 
Owners and Lessees of these Railways to afford 
facilities for conveying the Traffic of that Company, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for making a Railway from Keith to Duff- Keith ana 
town, was read the first time. Dufftown 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- (Roan 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. . ; 


A Bill for better enabling the Cork Gas Con- Cork Con- 
sumers’ Company, Limited, to supply Gas for the mers’ Gas 
purpose of lighting the Borough and Vicinity of ~ 
Cork, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Bill to repeal so much of the Dexthorpe 
Act relating to the Road from Bawtry Bridge, in Turnpike 
the County of Nottingham, to Hainton, in the County T™* Bill 
of Lincoln, and other Roads, as relates to the Second 
District of Roads therein mentioned, and to make 
other Provisions in lieu thereof, be read the first 
time To-morrow. 


Petitions relating to Maynooth College Act ;— Public 
Emigration ;—Property and Income Tax ;—Tea and Petitions. 
Sugar ;— China ;—China and Persia;—Civil Ser- vide Ninth 
vice Superannuation Fund ;—Metropolis Turnpike Report. 
Roads ;—Newspapers ;—Opium Trade ;— Passing 
Tolls Bill ;—and, Public-houses (Scotland) Act,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions against the Passing Tolls Bill,—were 
also presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Newspaper 

Returns of the Number of Newspaper Stamps at St@™Ps. 
One Penny issued to Newspapers in England, 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the 1st day of 
July 1855 to the 1st day of July 1856 :—And, of 
the Halfpenny Stamps issued as above, during the 
same — (in continuation of Parliamentary Pa- 
per, No. 438, of Session 1854-55). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Tobacco. 
Return of the several Seizures made, and of the 
Prosecutions for Breach of the Laws relating to To- 
bacco, between the 5th day of January 1855, and 
the 5th day of January 1857, distinguishing those 
in Great Britain from those in Ireland ; specifying 
the Places where and the Names of the Persons 
prosecuted or from whom the Seizures were made ; 
the Quantities and kind of Goods seized ; the precise 
Nature of the Offences charged or for which the 
Seizures were made; the Results of the Examina- 
tions of the Goods by Analysis or otherwise where 
seized for Adulteration ; whether any and what Ju- 
dicial Proceedings were taken in each Case; the 
Result of such Proceedings, whether convicted or 
otherwise ; Amount of Fine paid or Imprisonment 
suffered ; whether the Goods seized were con- 
demned or restored (in continuation of Parliamen- 
‘ary Paper, No. 429, of Session 1854~55). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Extra par” 
Copy of the Correspondence in the Office of the chial I 4. 
Poor Law Board relating to the Relief of the Poor No. 6 
in the extra-parochial places of Threapwood, Block- 
house, Deeping Fen, Alrewas Hay, Highleigh, Not- 
tingham Park, Guildford Friary and No Man's 
Land (Hants), since the year 1847. 

Mr. Grey accordingly presented the said Paper. 





Ordered, 








Army, &amp;c. 
Examina- 


tions. 


Assurance 
Companies. 


Local Acts. 
No. 45. 


Baltic and 
Black Sea 
Fleets. 


Liverpool 
Port. 


Fiscal Affairs 
(Ireland. ) 
r 


China. 


iTO- 


53. 


20 Vicroriz. 26°—927° 


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


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 Return showing what are the present 
Subjects of Examination on entering the Army ; 
and whether any Examination is held, or contem- 
plated (and, if so, on what Subjects), on Promotion 
in the Army; also, whether the Examinations pro- 
posed for Candidates in the Diplomatic and Con- 
sular Service have been carried into effect, and, if 
so, what are the Subjects of those Examinations. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this yi as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 





Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated | 
the 18th day of July 1856, for a Return containing | 
a Copy of every Account registered by Assurance | 
Companies contormably with the Provisions of the | 
Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 110, up to the Day of making | 
such Return, and not included in the Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 178, of the present Session. 

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


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Maujesty’s Com- 
mand,— Further Reports from the Admiralty re- 
lative to Applications for Local Acts. 

Mr. Osborne also presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 24th day of this instant February, for a 
Return relative to the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the first be printed. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Receipt and Disbursement 



























Februariz. 73 
that the Papers which have been laid upon the 
Table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the 
violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late 
affair of the “ Arrow:” — And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
facilitate the Registration of Persons entitled to vote 
for Members of Parliament in the Counties of Scot- 
land: And that the Lord Advocate, Sir George 
Grey and Mr. Duncan 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, Copies of any Communications which have 
taken place between the Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, the Commissioners in Lunacy, 
and the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic 
Asylum, respecting the Case of Mr. Charles Snape, 
Medical Superintendent of the said Asylum. 

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- 
—_ That the Select Committee on Contracts for 

ublic Departments do consist of nineteen Mem- 
bers :—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
| reading of the pene ooo Places Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


into a Committee on the Lighting of Towns (Jre- 








of Dock and Light Duties at the Port of Liverpool, 
from 25th June 1855 to 24th June 1856. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
relieve Grand Juries from Fiscal Duties, and to 
place the Administration of Local Affairs in Ireland 
in elected Councils: And that Sir Deaham Norreys, 
Mr. Pollard-Urquhart and Mr. Fagan do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 


land) Act Amendment Bill; and, after some time 
| spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 


Registration 
of Voters 
(Scotland. ) 


Surrey Lunatic 
Asylum. 


Contracts for 
Public De- 
partments. 


Extra-paro- 
chial Places 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Lighting of 


Towns (Ire- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


_ mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 

| Sir Denham Norreys presented a Bill to relieve 
Grand Juries from Fiscal Duties, and to place the 
Administration of Local Affairs in Ireland in elected 
Councils: And the same was read the first time ; 


Fiscal Affairs 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 31. 


proposed, That this House has heard with concern | 4nd ordered to be read a second time upon Wednes- 


of the conflicts which have occurred between the 


British and Chinese Authorities in the Canton River ; | A Petition of Hattill Arnold, of Millbank-street, 


and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent 
to which the Government of China may have afforded 
this Country cause of complaint respecting the non- 
fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers 
that the Papers which have been laid upon the Table 
fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent 
measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of 
the “ Arrow :” 

That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
into the state of our commercial relations with China: 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House havin 
Twelve of the clock on 


continued to sit till after 
riday morning ; 


Veneris, 27° die Februarii, 1857: 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion and Original Question were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That this House has heard with concern of 
the conflicts which have occurred between the British 
and Chinese Authorities in the Canton River; and, 
without expressing an opinion as to the extent to 
which the Government of China may have afforded 
this Country cause of complaint respecting the non- 
fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers 

Vout, 112, 


| day the 29th day of April next ; and to be printed. 


Southampton 


| Northam, in the Parish of Saint Mary’s, in the Election. 


town and county of the town of Southampton, 


‘in the same parish, and town and county of the town 
Belvedere-road, of the same place, boat builder ; 
Frederick Hillier, of Bevois-street, of the same place, 
joiner; and John Coupland, of Cranbury-place, in 
the said parish of Sat Mary’s, in the said town 
and county of the town of Southampton, newspaper 
proprietor, was delivered in, and read ; setting forth, 
That the Petitioners were, at and during the last 
Election for a Member to serve in this present Par- 
liament for the town and county of the town of 
Southampton, and now are, Electors for the said 
town and county of the said town, and had and claim 
to have had aright to vote, and did vote, at the 
last Election for a Member to serve in this present 
Parliament for the said town and county of the said 
town of Southampton ; that at the said Election the 
Honourable Sir Edward Butler, Knight, Richard 
Andrews and Thomas Matthias Wequelin, Esquires, 
were duly proposed as Candidates to represent the 
said town and county of the town of Southampton in 
Parliament, and that a poll being demanded the 
same was proceeded with on the Tenth day of 
February One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 

L seven ; 





grocer; of William Tong Bennett, of Bernard-street, 


aforesaid, printer; of Daniel George Hatcher, of 














































































74 26°—27° 


seven; that John White, who is now and then was 
Mayor of the said town and county of the said town 
of otiiaien ton, John Heaton Hall, who claims to 
be Senior Bailiff, and James Ricketts Weston, who 
claims to be Junior Bailiff of the said town and 
county of the town of Suuthampton, then and there 
assumed to be and acted without due authority as 
Returning Officers of the said Election, and the 
said Juhn White, John Heaton Hall and James 
Richetts Weston, so acting without due authority 
as such Returning Officers, declared the said 
Thomas Matthias Weguelin to be elected a Member 
to serve in the present Parliament for the said town 
and county of the said town of Southampton, and 
the said Thomas Matthias Weguelin was returned 
as such Member accordingly by the said persons so 
acting as Returning Officers; that the said John 
White, John Heaton Hall and James Ricketts 
Weston, so acting without due authority as Return- 
ing Officers, appointed thirteen places in the said 
town for the taking of the said poll, and described 
respectively as No. 1 for Al/ Saints, letters A. B. 
C. D. E. and F.; No. 2 for ditto, letters G, H. I. 
J. K. L. and M.; No. 3 for ditto, letters N. O. P. 
Q. R.S. T. W.; No. 4 for Holyrood and remainder 
of All Saints; No. 5 for the three parishes of Saint 
John, Saint Lawrence and Saint Michael; No. 6 
for Saint Mary’s Parish, A. and B.; No. 7 for 
ditto, C. D. and E.; No.8 for ditto, F. G. and P.; 
No. 9 for ditto, H. I. J. and K.; No. 10 for ditto, 
L. M. N. O.; No. 11 for ditto, Q. R. S.; No. 12 
for ditto, T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z.; No. 13 for the 
Tything of Portswood; that at the booth No. 6, 
being the place appointed for the first division of 
the parish of Saint Mary, comprising all those 
voters whose names appear on the Register of Vo- 
ters in that parish, and commencing with the letters 
A. and B., the said Mayor and Bailiffs appointed 
one Jacob Sulgar Bartlett to take the said poll, 
and to preside at the said booth as Deputy Re- 
turning Officer, and such polling booth was erected 
at South Front, Kingsland-place, between the Eagle 
Tavern and Aiddle-street; that booth No. 7, ap- 
pointed for the second division of the parish of 
Saint Mary’s, comprising all those voters whose 
names appear on the Register of Voters in that 
arish, and commencing with the letters C. D. and 
E.. was erected in South Front, Kingsland-place, 
near the Kingsland Tavern, and one Joseph Clark 
presided at such booth as Deputy Returning Of- 
ficer ; that booth No. 8 appointed for the third divi- 
sion of the said parish of Saint Mary, comprising 
all those voters whose names appear on the Register 
of Voters in that parish, and commencing with the 
letters F. G. and P. respectively, was at Mr. John 
West's dwelling, Bevois-street (Southside), near 
Saint Mary’s-street, and one George Degee presi- 
ded at such polling-place as Deputy Returning Of- 
ficer; that booth No. 10, appointed for the fifth 
division of the said parish of Saint Mary's, com- 

rising all those voters whose names appear on the 
Register of Voters in that parish, and commencing 
with the letters L. M. N. and O., was erected at the 
north corner of the Deanery Wall in the said parish 
of Saint Mary, and that one Arthur Weston presi- 
ded at the same as Deputy Returning Officer; that 
booth No. 11, appointed for the sixth division of 
the parish of Saint Mary, comprising all those 
voters whose names appear on the Register of 
Voters in that parish, and commencing with the 
letters O. R. and S., was erected on the south side 
of the Deanery Wall, in Marsh-lane, in the parish 
of Saint Mary, at which one William Henry Rogers 
presided as Deputy Returning Officer ; that the said 
Jacob Sulgar Bartlett, Joseph Clark, George De- 
gee, Arthur Weston, William Henry Rogers, re- 
= mre acted most illegally, and in violation of 
the freedom of Election, by closing the poll at said 
booths respectively before Four of the clock in the 
afternoon of the day appointed for taking the said 

















Februari. A. 1857. 


poll, whereby Electors who were desirous of giving 
their votes in favour of the said Sir Edward Butler, 
or of the said Richard Andrews, were prevented 
from so doing ; that some of the persons appointed 
by the said Mayor or Bailiffs to take the said 
poll, improperly adjourned the said poll between 
the hours of Eight and Four of the clock on the 
day alletted for the taking of the poll, whereby 
several Electors entitled to vote, and who attended at 
such polling places in order to vote for the said Sir 
Edward Butler, ov for the said Richard Andrews, 
respectively, were unable to vote, and did not vote 
at the said Election ; that during the hours allotted 
for the taking of the said poll as aforesaid, many of 
the persons appointed by the said Mayor and 
Bailiffs to take the said poll improperly and illegally 
absented themselves from the said booths, or some. 
or one of them, in contravention of the Statute in 
that case made and provided, and in violation of 
the freedom of Election, whereby divers Electors 
who were prepared to record their votes for the 
said Sir Edward Butler or for the said Richard 
Andrews were unable to vote, and did not vote ; 
that the said Mayor and the Magistrates acting 
in and for the said town and county of the town 
of Southampton as aforesaid, upon whom the re- 
sponsibility of keeping the peace in the said town 
and county of the town during the said Election 
devolved, greatly misconducted themselves in dis- 
charge of the duty so devolved upon and undertaken 
by them, by not affording sufficient protection to 
the said voters in the interest of the said Sir Ed- 
ward Butler and the said Richard Andrews, and 
that in consequence of the want of such proper and 
efficient protection certain riotous and tumultuous 
proceedings ensued, whereby the polling at divers 
of the booths appointed for taking the said poll was 
stopped for some time, and several of the booths 
were pulled down and demolished before the hour 
of Four of the clock in the afternoon of the said day 
of polling ; that the several persons appointed by 
the said Mayor and Bailiff to take the said poll as 
Deputy Returning Officers aforesaid did not in the 
interruption of the said poll in consequence of the 
riotous and improper proceedings as aforesaid ad- 
journ the same, nor was the said poll so prematurely 
and illegally closed again opened in order that the 
Electors who had been onal to give, or had been 
prevented from giving, their said votes for the said 
Sir Edward Butler or for the said Richard An- 
drews respectively, might record the same; that 
many persons who were registered as Electors, or 
freemen, or inhabitant householders, paying scot 
and bearing lot in respect of occupation and resi- 
dence for the said town and county of the town of 
Southampton, by the Revising Barrister, became 
disqualified as Electors for the said town and 
county of the town of Southampton at the said 
Election between’ the Thirty-first day of July One 
thousand eight hundred and Fifty-six, and the time 
of the holding of the said last Election for the said 
town and county of the town of Southampton, by 
having ceased to reside as freemen or inhabitant 
householders paying scot and bearing lot within 
the limits or distance of the said town, prescribed 
by the Statute in that case made and provided, or 
by having ceased to occupy the property in respect 
of which they were registered as Electors for the 
said town and county of the town of Southampton, 
and to reside within the limits prescribed by the 
said Statute, and thereby ceased to possess the 
title or qualification, whether as freemen or other 
Electors, in respect of which they had been regis- 
tered, and others were disqualified by receiving 
bribes or promises of money, or bribes or other 
rewards, for giving their votes at the last Election, 
or by receiving of alms or parochial relief or other- 
wise, after they had been so registered as aforesaid, 
or as holding situations in the Revenue of Customs 
of Excise, but all such persons were nevertheless 
allowed 

















20 VicTroriz. 


allowed to vote, and did vote; that the said Zho- 
mas Matthias Weguelin, by his agents, committee, 
friends, supporters, managers and partisans, and by 
persons employed for and by him, and in his behalf, 
before, at and during the time of the said Election, 
was guilty of various corrupt acts of bribery and 
illegal practices, and used various threats and pro- 
mises, and employed undue influence and other 
illegal and improper means, and gave and caused 
to be given divers sums of money, and gave and 
entered into divers gifts, rewards, promises, agree- 
ments and engagements to several persons having 
and claiming to have a right to vote, in order to 
procure them to vote at the said Election for the 
said Thomas Matthias Weguelin, and to forbear 
to vote for the said Sir Edward Butler and Richard 
Andrews respectively, and in order to procure the 
said Thomas Matthias Weguelin to be returned to 
serve in the present Parliament for the said town 
and county of the town of Southampton aforesaid; 
that the said Thomas Matthias Weguelin, by his 
agents, committee, friends, supporters, managers 
and partisans, did at the said Election procure 
and obtain certain persons who had no right to vote 
at the said Election, to personate absent and de- 
ceased Electors, and the votes of many absent 
and deceased Electors thus personated were impro- 
perly taken by the said several Deputy Returning 
Officers aforesaid, as good votes for the said Thomas 
Matthias Weguelin, in order to procuré the said 
Thomas Matthias Weguelin to be returned to serve 
in the present Parliament for the said town and 
county of the town of Southampton; that the agents, 
committee, friends, supporters, managers and par- 
tisans, and several Electors who voted for the said 
Thomas Matthias Weguelin, were disqualified from 
voting by reason of laying wagers of monevs, and 
entering into bets upon the issue of the said Election 
for the said town and county of the town of 
Southampton; that by the several improper pro- 
ceedings and practices aforesaid the said Thomas 
Matthias Weguelin obtained a colourable majority, 
and was improperly and illegally returned to serve 
in Parliament for the said town and county of the 
said town of Southampton, whereas in truth and in 
fact the said Honourable Sir Edward Butler, Knight, 
had a majority of legal votes over the said Thomas 
Matthias Weguelin, and was duly elected Member 
to serve in the present Parliament for the said town 
and county of the town of Southampton, and ought 
to have been returned ; and praying that the House 
will take the premises into consideration, and de- 
clare that the Return of the said Thomas Matthias 
Weguelin was an illegal Return, and wholly null and 
void; or will declare that the said Election and 
Return of the said Thomas Matthias Weguelin was 
wholly null and void, and that the said Thomas 
Matthias Weguelin ought not to have been returned 
at the said Election, and that the said Sir Edward 
Butler was duly elected, and ought to have been 
returned ; and will cause the said Return to be 
amended, by erasing the name of the said Thomas 
Matthias Weguelin, and substituting that of the 
said Sir Ldward Butler in its stead ; and will give 
Petitioners such further and other relief as to the 
House may seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Twelve of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 


26°—27° Februarii. 


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(Ireland) Bill ;—Judgments Execution, 
L2 





75 


Veneris, 27° die Februarii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from West London 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private 224 Crystal 
Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the Standing ay —_ 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the West . 
London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill. 


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


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 24th, port.) 
25th and 26th 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. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Committee of Se- Committee of 


lection; That they had made an alteration in the Se ener) 
Groups already formed, and had grouped other, gg 


Bills, which they had agreed to report tp the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of the several Persons whose names Mid-Sussex 
are thereunto subscribed, Promoters of the Bil] ®4iway Bill 
thereinafter mentioned, praying that Provision ma 
be made in the Mid-Susser Railway Bill, substituting 
for the Branch Railway from Billingshurst to Pet- 
worth, as proposed in the second paragraph of Section 
20 of the Bill, a Branch from Pulborough to a place 
called Coultershaw near Petworth aforesaid, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Examiners . 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, and Scottish Edinburgh, 
Central Railway Companies Bill was read a second Perth and 
“Sas . Dundee, and 
time ; and committed. Scottish Cen- 
tral Railway Companies Bill. 


The Fiskerton Drainfige Bill was read a second Fiskerton 
time; and committed. Drainage Bill. 


Ordered, That the Metropolitan Railway Bill be Metropolitan 
read a second time upon Monday the 16th day of Railway Bill. 
March next. 


The Slaney River Improvement Bill was read a Slaney River 
second time; and committed. iugeevement 


Ordered, That the ‘Swansea Docks Bill be read a Swansea 
second time upon Friday next. Docks Bill. 


The Victoria Gas Bill was read a second time; Victoria 


and committed. Gas Bill. 
The Alva Parish Bill was, according to Order, ane Parish 


read a second time ; and committed. 


The European ‘and Indian Junction Telegraph European 
Company Bill was, according to Order, read a second — 
time ; and committed. Telegraph 
Company Bill. 

The Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill was, accord- Dexthorpe 
ing to Order, read the first time; and ordered to be a 

‘ rust Bill. 
read a second time. 


Petitions relating to the Church Rates Abolition Public 
Bill; — Maynooth College Act; — Emigration ;— Petitions: 
Paper ;—Property and Income Tax ;—Tea ;—Tea vise Tenth 
aie ;—China ;—China and Persia ; — Civil Report. 
Service Superannuation Fund;— Fiscal Affairs 
&amp;e. Bill ;— 
Metropolis 






























































Standirg 
Orders. 


Mallow and 
Fermoy 
Railway Bill 


Torquay and 
Saint Mary 
Church Gas. 


Birkenhead, 
Lancashire 
and Cheshire 
Junction 
Railway Bill 


Great North- 
ern Railway 
(Capital. ) 


Belfast 
Improvement 
(Special Re- 
port. ) 


Valuation 
(Treland.) 


97° Februarit. 


Metropolis Local Management Act ;— Metropolis 
Turnpike Roads ;—Opium Trade ;—Public-houses 
(Scotland) Act ;—and, Settlement and Removal,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition against the Passing Tolls Bill, was 
also presented, and read, and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders have leave to make a Special Report. 

Mr. Greene reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1, That in the case of the Mallow and Fermoy 
Railway Petition of Sir Edward M‘Donnell and 
Francis Bernard Beamish, for dispensing with Stand- 
ing Order No. 140, the said Standing Order ought to 
be dispensed with, if the Committee on the Bill 
shall think fit. 

2. That in the case of the Torguay and Saint 
Mary Church Gas Petition, the Stending Orders 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

3. That in the case of the Birkenhead, Lancashire 
and Cheshire Junction Railway Petition of Trus- 
tees under the Will of Richard Smith aud others, 
and also the Petition of William Potter, for dis- 
pensing with Standing Order 109, and for leave 
to be heard on their Petitions against the said Bill, 
the said Standing Order ought to be dispensed with ; 
that the Parties be permitted to be heard on their 
Petitions against the Bill, notwithstanding the same 
shall have been deposited later than seven clear days 
after the second reading of the Bill. 

4. That in the case of the Great Northern Rail- 
way (Capital) Petition for leave to deposit a Petition 
for a Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to deposit their 
Petition accordingly. 

5. That in the case of the Be/fast Improvement 
Petition, the Committee had agreed to the following 
Special Report :— 

That in the case of the Petition for the Belfast 


Improvement Bill, it appearing to the Committee | 


that Notices for the said Bill have been inserted in 
the Newspapers and Gazette, subsequent to the 
time limited by the Standing Orders, it be referred 
to the Examiners of Petitions to inquire and report 
whether such Notices correctly state the objects of 
the intended application as required by the Standing 
Orders ; that the several Parties who have already 
appeared before the Examiner be permitted to be 
again heard, and that the Examiner have leave to 
sit and proceed upon Monday next. 

The said Resolutions and Special Report, being 
read a second time, were agreed to. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Counties in Jre/and in which 
the Tenement Valuation has been completed, under 
the Act 9 &amp; 10 Vie. c. 110, and the several Acts 
amending the same ; the Name of each County; the 
Acreable Contents; the Annual Value ; the Cost of 
the Valuation by the Acre; the Cost of the Valua- 
tion by the £.100 of the Valuation; the whole 
Cost to each County; and the Date when it first 
came into force in each County :—Of the whole Cost 
or the Townland and of the Tenement Valuation in 
each County, and of the Total Cost of these Valua- 
tions in all the Counties valued under them respec- 
tively:—Of the Number of Revisions in each 
County or Poor Law Union, and the Cost of each 
such Rechte, in each of the years ending the 31st 
day of December 1854, 1855 and 1856 :—And, 
Statement of the Progress and Prospect of Comple- 
tion of the Tenement Valuation of Jreland (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 180, of Ses- 
sion 1856). 


A. 1857. 


' Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Wheat, &amp;c. 
Returns, in a Tabular Form, of the Quantities of 
Wheat in Imperial Quarters, and Flour in Barrels or 
Imperial Cwts., and of the Quantities of other Bread- 
stuffs and of Grain other than Wheat, including Zn- 
dian Corn, in Imperial Quarters or Cwts., imported 
into this Country during the year 1856 ; specifying 
from what Countries such Wheat, Flour, Bread- 
stuffs and Grain have been imported: —Of the 
Quantities of Wheat and of other Grain returned as 
sold during ‘the year 1856 in the several Counties 
of England and Wales, and the Six Weeks’ Average 
Prices thereof:—And, of the Number of Head of 
Cattle, Sheep and Swine imported into this Country 
during the last year, specifying from what Countries 
| the same have been received. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Dietaries for 

| to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Convicts, &amp;c. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Dietaries sanctioned by the 
Government for Convicts at Gibraltar, Bermuda, 
and the different Convict Establishments of every 
| Class in England, Wales and Ireland, specifying the 
| Amount of Food provided at each Meal, and the 
Quality thereof, and the Quantity of Beer or Spirits 
allowed daily to each Convict:—Of the Dietaries 
sanctioned by the War Office for the different 
Classes of Prisoners in the Military Prisons of the 
United Kingdom, specifying the Amount of Food 
allowed at each Meal, and the Quality thereof; and 
the Term of Imprisonment in each Class, and whether 
the Guard Bed is substituted fora Hammock at any 
and what intervals :—And, of the Dietaries sanc- 
tioned for Prisoners in the County Gaols of the 
United Kingdom, specifying the Classes and the 

Diet of each Class on each Day of the Week : 





resented to 
t ouse as are 
lajesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


— Breakfast. | Dinner. Remarks. 


Supper. | Beer. 


Spirits. 

















Ordered, That the said Address be 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this 
of Her 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Savings Banks 
to amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and Bill. 
to provide for the Establishment of ne Banks _ Bill 32. 
with the Security of the Government: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday the 13th day of March 
next ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to Orders,—A Re- Railway and 
port from the Board of Trade, relative to Railway Canal Bills. 
and Canal Bills. No. 69. 

A further Report from the Board of Trade, relative Harbour, &amp;c. 
to Harbour, &amp;c. Bills. Bills. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the No. 19. 


Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Assurance Assurance 
Companies, which was presented upon the 26th day Companies. 
of this instant February, be printed. No. 70. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Baltic Baltic and 
and Black Sea Fleets, which was presented upon — 
the 26th day of this instant February, be printed. No. 71. 

Ordered, That an Abstract of the Account relative Liverpool 
to Liverpool Port, which was presented upon the 
26th day of this instant February, be printed. No. 72. 





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


Mr. Headlam presented a Bill to alter and amend Medical Pro- 


the Laws regulating the Medical Profession : oe —e 








—_« - = 


te ot 


iit tl: Oa 


National 


Gallery of Art. Her Majesty, dated the 18th day of this instant 


Swansea 
Cemetery. 


China. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Royal Marine 
Forces Bill. 


Ways and 
Means, 


Supply. 


Norfolk Island 
(Ecclesiastical 


Government) 
Bill. 


Extra-paro- 
chial Places 
Bill. 


Lighting of 
owns (Ire. 

d) Act 

Amendment 


Savin 
i? 


20 Vicroriz. 


the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 18th day 
of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 


February, for a Return relative to the National Gal- 
lery of Art. 

"Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
24th day of this instant February, for a Return rela- 
tive to Swansea Cemetery. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


27°—28° Februariz.—2° Marti. 








Table. 





77 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hong Kong. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Governor Davis’ Separate De- 
spatch, dated the 20th day of August 1844, enclo- 
sing Mr. Montgomery Martin’s Observations on the 
Colony of Hong Kong; of Lord Stanley's Despatch, 
No. 66, of the 17th day of December 1844, to Go- 
vernor Davis ; and of Governor Davis’ Despatch, 
No. 44, of the 25th day of April 1845, upon the 
same Subject. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her M ajesty, by such Members of this Hews as are 
of Her 


lajesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 
















The Order of the day being read, for resuming | 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed | Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Draftsmen of 
upon the 26th day of this instant February, That a Return of the Sum Total of all Monies paid or Parliamentary 
this House has heard with concern of the conflicts | allotted to Draftsmen by the several Public De- = 
which have occurred between the British and Chinese | partments, during the year 1856, for drafting or 
Authorities in the Canton River; and, without ex-| settling the Drafts of Parliamentary Bills ; and, in 
pressing an opinion as to the extent to which the | case such Draftsman is a Member of or em loyed 
Government of China may have afforded this Country | under any Commission, the Name of such Drefts- 
cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of | man, and the Amount received by him. 
the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the | 
Papers which have been laid upon the Table fail to} Mr. Bland presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Rerenue 
establish satisfactory grounds for the violent mea-| mand,-—Estimates, Revenue Departments, for the Departments. 
sures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the | year 1857, ending 31 March 1858. No. 73. 
“ Arrow ;” | Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
And the Question being again proposed :—The the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 

House resumed the said adjourned Debate! — 

‘ ; aN | Mr. Peel presented,—Return to an Address to Order of 
— eae me ag a seaganrem till after | Her Majesty, dated the 24th day of this instant Victoria. 

5? | February, for a Return relative to the Order of Vie- 
Sabbati, 28° die Februarii, 1857: 


toria. 
. | Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Smyrna. 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned | ae —- a y 
in Monday nent. | ein instant February, fora Return rela- 
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 
Saturday morning, adjourned tiil Monday 
next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- | 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of | 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Royal Marine 
Forces Bill, without any Amendment. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | sae a 
mittee of Ways and Means; a 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. | 





Lune, 2° die Martiz ; 































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

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


Monday 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Worfolk Island (Ecclesiastical Go- 
vernment) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Extra-parochial Places Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Lighting of Towns (Jre- 
land) Act Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns relating to Savings Banks, in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 23, of the present Ses- 
sion, from November 20, 1855, to November 20, 
1856 :—And, in continuation of Parliamentary Pa- 
per, No. 24, of the present Session, from November 
20, 1855, to November 20, 1856. 

Vou, 112. 


| Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M Committee on Public Petitions ; 


| had examined the Petitions presented yom the 27t 


| day of February last, and had directed 
\a Report thereof to the House. 

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


im to make 


| 
| Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Belfast Im- 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; Provement- 


| That in the case of the Petition for the Belfast Im- 
‘provement Bill, the Notices inserted in the Dublin 
Gazette of the 16th, 23d and 30th December 1856; 
‘in the Freeman’s Journal of the 13th, 20th and 27th 
| December 1856, and the Daily Express of the 13th, 
20th and 27th December 1856, both being News- 

apers published in Dub/in two days in the week ; 
\in the Belfast News-Letter of the 17th, 24th and 
31st December 1856, and the Belfast Daily Mer- 
‘cury of the 17th, 24th and 31st December 1856, 
| being Newspapers published in the Town of Belfast, 
‘to which Town the Bill specially relates; and in 
the Northern Whig of the 13th, 20th and 27th De- 
cember 1856, and in the Banner of Ulster of the 
13th, 20th and 27th December 1856, correctly state 
the objects of the intended application as required 
by the Standing Orders. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 





lect Committee on Standing Orders. 
L3 Mr. 




























R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
That they Petitions 


) port.) 





78 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; 
That in the case of the Bank of London and Na- 
tional Provincial Insurance Association (No. 2) Bill, 
the Standing Orders have been complied with. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Bank of 
London and 
National 
Provincial 
Insurance 
Association 
(No, 2) Bill. 


Keithand = Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
yn . one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills; 
Bill : That in the case of the Keith and Dufftown Railway 
(No. 2) Bill, the Standing Orders have been com- 
plied with. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The Eastern Counties Railway Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


Eastern 
Counties Rail- 
way Bill. 


Finsbury Park 


7 Ordered, That the Finsbury Park Bill be read a 
Ll. 


second time upon Monday the 23d day of this 
instant March. 


Fraserburgh 


The Fraserburgh Harbour Bill was read a second 
Harbour Bill. 


time; and committed. 


Great Yar- 


The Great Yarmouth Water Bill was read a 
— Water 


second time ; and committed. 


Salisbury 
and Yeovil 
Railway Bill. 


The Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed. 


South London 


The South London Railway Bill was read a second 
Railway Bill. 


time; and committed. 


Stockport, 
Disley and 
Whaley Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


Stratford- 
upon-Avon 
Railway Bill. 


The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Rail- 
way Bill was read a second time ; and committed. 


The Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bill was read 
a second time; and committed. 


The Swansea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock 
Company Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 


Swansea Har- 
bour Trust 
and Swansea 
Dock Com- 
pany Bill. 


The West Somerset Railway Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


West Somerset 
Railway Bill, 


Cork and 
Youghal Rail- 
way Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Cork and Youghal Railway Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Ordered, That Standing Order, No. 175, be sus- 
way Bill, and pended in the case of the West Somerset Mineral 
West Somerset Railway Bill, and the West Somerset Railway Bill ; 
Railway Bil. and that they be referred to the Committee of 
Selection. 


West Somerset 
Mineral Rail- 


Public 


Petiticns relating to Representation (Scotland) ;— 
Petitions. 


Church Rates Abolition Bill ;— Maynooth College 
Vide Eleventh Act ;—Tithes ;— Mines ; — Ministers’ Money (Jre- 
Report. land) Act ; — Paper ; — Tea ;—Tea and Sugar ;— 
China ;—China and Persia ;—Civil Service Super- 
annuation Fund ;—Game Laws ;—Intoxication ;— 
Opium Trade ;—Passing Tolls Bill;—Poor Law 
(dreland) ;—Sale of Beer, &amp;c. Bill; —Sir John 
M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch;—and, Weights and 
Measures,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition relating to Bank Notes, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Secret Com- 
mittee on the Bank Acts. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Duty paid by Railway Companies in 
the United Kingdom during the last two years on 
Passengers’ ‘Traffic, and distinguishing the Amount 
paid by each Company each year. 


Railways. 


Revising 
Barristers. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
tv Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


2° Martii. 











A, 1857. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Reports of the Chief Justices 
of the Court of Common Pleas, pursuant to Statute 
6 Vic. c. 18, to the House of Commons; stating 
the Point of Appeal from the Courts of the Revising 
Barristers, and Decision of the Court of Common 
Pleas on each such Point, classifying the Cases ac- 
cording to their subject-matter (in continuation of 
the Returns already delivered, of which the latest 
was by the late Chief Justice Wilde (Lord Truro), 


| on the 22d day of June 1849. 


Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 


Her M ajesty, by such Members of this House as are 


of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Volun- 


Returns of First Class Volunteers, Naval Cadets, teers, &amp;c.) 


Midshipmen and Naval Instructors, for each year, 
from 1836 to 1856 inclusive :— 





| 

Number of First Class 
Volunteers, Naval 
Cadets, and Mid. 
shipmen entered. 


Number of First Class Volunteers, 
Naval Cadets, 
and Midshipmen discharged. 





Fresh Entries. 
Voluntarily. 
Promotion 


Number of 
Naval In- 
structors 
employed 
Afloat. 


























—-Of Mates for 
inclusive : 


each year, from 1836 to 1856, 








Number discharged. 





Year. | Number made. 


Voluntarily. Promotion. 


Misconduct. 


Deaths. 





—Similar Return for Lieutenants: —And, similar 
Return for Commanders. 














Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Contracts or renewals of Contracts 
made by the Government since 1852, for the Con- 
veyance of the Mails between Dover and Calais, 
and Dover and Ostend. 


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 Return of the following information in re- 
spect of each Parish, or part of Parish, in England 
and Wales, not within the Limits of any City or 
Parliamentary Borough, for the year ended at Lady- 
day 1856 :—viz. 1. Name; 2. Population (Census 
1851); 3. Gross estimated Rental of the Property 
assessed to the Poor Rate; 4. Rateable Value (i. e. 
the Net Sum on which the Rate was laid); 5. Num- 
ber of Persons rated at £.10 and under £.50; £.50 
and upwards; 6. Number of Electors on the Par- 
liamentary Register; the preceding Particulars to 
be summarized so as to show, in regard to each 
Head of Information, separate Totals for each 
County Division, and for each County; together 
with a Total for the entire District returned. 

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. 


Dover Mails, 


Population, &amp;c.. 


of 





‘arishes, 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Charity | 
mand,—Copy of Fourth Report of the Charity Com- Commssio? 


missioners for England and Wales, with an Appen- 
dix; 1857. ie 
r. 





Poor 
{Sco 


Asy 


Tur 


Wal 


Ba 


o- 4 


SS 






20 VictToriz. 





2° $° Marti. 


poor LawSu- Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad-| The Extra-parochial Places Bill was, according Extra-paro- 
perintendents dress to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of Febru-| to Order, read a second time; and committed to a — Faces 
(Scotland.) ary last, for a Return relative to Poor Law Super-| Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 

intendents (Scotland.) 

surreyLunatic Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the; The Lighting of Towns (Jreland) Act Amendment Lighting of 

Asylum. 26th day of February last, for a Return relative to | Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. Towns (Ire- 
the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. yer 

Turnpike Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di-| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Bill. 

—) rections of an Act of Parliament,—Accounts of Re- | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Wale, for the year pot an omen thane And the House having continued to sit till after 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 
Table. Martis, 3° die Martii, 1857: 
National The following Papers were laid upon the Table by Ordered, That there be laid hefore this House, East India 
a Gallery. the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated Returns of the Number of Persons engaged by the pee) 
the 24th day of February last, for a Return relative | East India Company in the Presidency of Bengal 
to the National Gallery. | in making Advances of Money to the Cultivators of 

East India Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of Febru- ig: Rory before the sowing time; in watching 

(Law Ex- ary last, for Returns relative to East India (Law | its Growth after it is sown; in superintending the 

penses. ) Expenses). Delivery of the Opium, its Inspissation and prepara- 

Soane’s The following Papers, pursuant to the directions | tion for the taste of Chinese Consumers ; its forma- 

— of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon | tion into Balls and Package in Chests especially 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—A Statement | adapted for the convenience of Carriage into Chinese 
of the Funds of the Museum of the late Sir John | Territories, and its Conveyance to Calcutta for 
Soane. on the 15th of January 1857. | Auction at the Government Sales :—And, of the 

Bankruptcy. A Return showing the Total Amount of Monies Numbers of Licenses granted by the East India 
paid into the Bank of England to the Credit of the Company, in the years 1855 and 1856, to Private 
Accountant in Bankruptcy, for the year ending the Ships trading to China, containin a Provision, with 
31st day of December 1856, distinguishing the the Penalty attached, “That no Opium except that 
Amount paid over by Her Majesty’s Commissioners | which the East India Company monopolizes shall 
of Inland Revenue ; also, the Amount paid by Or- | be taken on board. 
ders of the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Justices, | , 
the Vice-Chancellors and Commissioners, and the; . Ordered, That the Select Committee on Contracts Contracts 
Amount transferred and paid out as Dividends, from | for Public Departments do consist of nineteen = nina 
the 31st day of December 1855 to the Ist day of Members. . . ; 
January 1857; also, the Balances standing on the| _ Ordered, That Viscount Goderich and Mr. 
following Accounts to the credit of Richard Clarke, | MacGregor be added to the Committee. 

Esquire, the Accountant in Bankruptcy, on the Ist And then the House, having continued to sit 
day of January 1857; namely, 1st. he General Ac- till a quarter of an hour after Twelve of the 
count of Bankrupts Estates; 2d. The Bankruptcy clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
Fund Account; 3d. The Unclaimed Dividend Ac- this day. 
count ; 4th. The Chief Registrar’s Account ; together 
with an Appendix to the last-named Account of ==&gt; 
the Payments made therefrom, showing to whom : , - a 
made, and whether as Salaries, Compensations, | Martis, 3° die Martii ; 
Annuities, Services, Travelling or other Expenses or Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
Allowances. 

PRAYERS. 

China, The Order of the day being read, for resumin | M&amp;: FitzRoy reported the Cornwall Railway cornwall 
the adjourned Debate on the Question anneal I Bill, with Amendments, Railway Bill. 
upon the 26th day of February last, That this House | Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
has heard with concern of the conflicts which have | and be printed. 

- occurred between the British and Chinese Authorities | 
in the Canton River; and, without expressing an} Mr. Fitz Ro reported from the Committee on the Exeter and 
opinion as to the extent to which the Government | Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill; That they had Exmouth — 
of China may have afforded this Country cause of | examined the allegations contained in the Preamble in 
complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty | of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking out 
of 1842, this House considers that the Papers whic | so much as related to an extension of time for 
have been laid upon the Table fail to establish satis- | making the Railway, the Provision in the Bill for 
factory grounds for the violent measures resorted to | effecting that object having been abandoned by the 
at Canton in the late affair of the “ Arrow; | Promoters; and found the same, as amended, to 
And the Question being again proposed :—The | be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. | Amendments thereunto. 
_ Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned} Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
till To-morrow. /and be printed. 
Ways and snap ot 
Means, i nd ws: doa nat, Se Oe Clee |_Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on _—_ oe 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday | Price's Patent Candle Company Bill; That they pany Bill 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by altering 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- the amount of Capital described to be paid up, b 
mittee of Supply ; increasing the said amount, and by erasing so muc 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday | thereof as referred to a Proviso in the Act by the 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. Bill repealed, for paying off half the borrowed Capital 
SE in order to make the same more in accordance with 
en The Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Act | the Provisions of the Bill; and found the same, as 

(Scotland) Act (1856) Amendment Bill was, according to Order, | amended, to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 

(1856) Amend. read a second time ; and committed to a Committee | and made Amendments thereunto. 

ment Bil. = of - whole House, for Thursday next. Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

OL. 112. L4 Mr. 








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Whitehaven, 
Cleator and 
Egremont 
Railway Bill. 


Railway and 
Canal Bills 


(First Report.) 


No. 78. 


Committee of 
Selection 
«Third Re- 
port.) 

No. 74. 


Standing 
Orders. 


Liverpool 
Town and 
Dock Dues 


3° Martii. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Whitehaven, Cleator 
and Egremont Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

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


Lord Hotham reported from the General Com- 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills; That they had 
formed the List of Railway and Canal Bills into 
Groups. 

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


Mr. Greene reported from the Committee of Se- 
lection ; That they had made certain alterations in 
the Groups of Private Bills already formed. 

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


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders, several Resolutions; which 
were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Liverpool Town and 
Dock Dues (Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway) Pe- 


A. 1857. 


time ; and committed. 


og Trade ;—Poor Law (Ireland) ;—Probates of 
ills and Letters of Administration, &amp;c. ; —Sale of 
Beer, &amp;c. ;—Settlement and Removal ;—Sir John 
M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch ;—and, Soulage’s Col- 
lection,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the ‘lable. 

A Petition against the Passing Tolls Bill, was 
also presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 





to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


‘to give directions, that there be laid before this 


House, Returns of the Number of Huts supplied to 
| the Ordnance Department during the years 1854-55 
and 1855-56, the Appropriation of the same, together 


(Saint Helen’s tition for leave to deposit a Petition for a Bill, the! with the Stations, and Quantities sent to each :—Of 


Canal and 
Railway.) 


Belfast Im- 
provement. 


West London 
and Crystal 
Palace Rail- 
way. 


Belfast Im- 
provement. 


Mid-Sussex 
Railway Bill. 


Birkenhead 
District Gas 
and Water 
Bill. 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 
Manchester 
Corporation 
Bill. 


Mid-Sussex 
Railway Bill. 


Richmond and 


Kew Exten- 
sior Railway 
Rill. 


Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that 
the Parties be permitted to deposit their Petition 
accordingly. 

2. That in the case of the Belfast Improvement 
Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with; that the Parties be permitted to proceed with 
their Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


A Petition of the West End of London and 
Crystal Palace Railway Company, for leave to bring 
ina Bill for authorizing Traffic Arrangements between 
the West End of London and Crystal Palace, and 
the London, Brighton and South Coast, and South 
Eastern and London and South Western Railway 
Companies; for Sale or Lease of the West London 
and Crystal Palace Railway ; for extending the time 
for completing the said Railway, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Belfast Improvement Bill, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Amendment of the Acts for the Improvement 
of the Borough of Belfast, and for confirming things 
done with a view to the execution of those Acts, and 
to provide for the collection of Rates in the Borough 
of Belfast, and for other purposes: And that Mr. 
Davison and Mr. Cairns do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill. 

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


Ordered, That the Birkenhead District Gas and 
Water Bill be read a second time upon Tuesday 
next. 


The Deeside Extension Railway Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


The Manchester Corporation Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Mid-Sussex Railway Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Richmond and Kew Extension Railway Bill 
was read a second time ; and committed. 


the Names of the several Contractors, Amount of 
each Contract, Price paid per Hut, with Dimensions: 

|—And, Number of Men now Hutted in Great Bri- 

| tain and Ireland. 

| Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 

| Her Majesty, by such Members of this House its are 

| of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


| 


| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, East India 
| Returns showing the whole Outlay sanctioned by (Railways.) 


the East India Company for the purposes of Rail- 
ways in India, independently of the Cost of Land ; 
specifying the Amount for each several Railway, and 
the Rates of Interest at which the different Sums 
have been guaranteed :—-Showing the whole Amount 
which has been paid into the East India Company’s 
Treasury on account of Indian Railways, and the 
whole Amount which has been paid out of the East 
India Company’s Treasury on account of Indian 
Railways, down to the latest Period for which Ac- 
counts have been received in England :—Showing 
the direction of Lines of Railway sanctioned in India, 
sketched on a Skeleton Map of that Country, mark- 
ing the Principal Stations, with their Distance from 
the Principal Terminus on each of the said Lines; 
distinguishing the Portions of the said Lines com- 
pleted, or to be completed within a given time, or 
already open for ‘l'raffic, from those Portions not 
yet compieted or commenced upon; and specifying 
the Number of Miles of Railway open for Traffic in 
each Presidency, with the Date at which the Con- 
struction of each several Indian Railway was begun, 
so far as the above Particulars are already known in 
England :—And, showing the Number of Miles of 
New Roads or Navigable Canals opened for Traffic 
in each several Presidency of India since the year 
1848, and the Total Amount of Money expended on 
their Construction ; specifying the Localities of the 
above Lines of Communication, and distinguishing 
the Number of Miles, and the direction of such of 
the said New Roads as are continuously Stoned and 
Bridged and of the First Class throughout, and the 
Number of Miles and direction of such of the said 
Canals as are available for Steam Navigation. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns showing the Amount of Money at 
the disposal of the Emigration Commissioners, for 
Emigration to the Australian Colonies, in each of 
the last Ten years, the Amount expended, and the 
Number of Emigrants sent out in each year; and 
the Average Cost per Statute Adult :—Of the Num- 
ber of Applications for Passages now in the Com- 
mission Office, the Amount of a 

alance 








: il w Rh 
The Rhymney Railway Bill was read a second Ralway 


Petitions relating to Maynooth College Act ;— Public 
Paper ;—Property and Income Tax ;—Tea ;—Tea Petitions. 
and Sugar ;— China ;—Civil Service Superannuation vide Twelfth 
Pund ; — Education ; —Industrial Schools Bill ; — Report. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army Huts. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Emigration 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Australia) 





20 VicrorizZ. g°—4° 


Balance in their hands, and the probable Number of 
Statute Adults for whom that Balance will provide : 
—Of the Number of Persons connected with the 
Building Trades sent out during the last Six Months, 
and the proportion which they bear to other Emi- 
grants during the same period :—And, of the Re- 
gulations and Conditions under which Passages are 
ranted. 

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. 
Foreign Corps. 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 Return of the Names of Places of Abode of 
Officers of Disbanded Foreign Corps who are in 
receipt of Half-pay and reduced Allowances for 
Service in the 
Annual Payment made to each Officer; and of the 
Date when such Payment commenced :—Like Return 
of Pensions for Wounds :—And, like Return of 

Allowances for Widows and Children. 

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 following Papers, pursuant to Order, were 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— 


Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills. 


No. 19. Further Reports from the Board of Trade relative 
to Harbour, &amp;c., Bills. 
East India The following Paper was also laid upon the Table 
(Railways.) by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 12th day of February last, for a Return 
relative to East India (Railways). 
Poor Law Su- Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Law 
perintendents Superintendents (Scotland), which was presented 
orm upon the 2d day of this instant March, be printed. 
. Je 
SurreyLunatic Ordered, That the Return relative to the Surrey 
Asylum. Lunatic Asylum, which was presented upon the 2d 
No.77. day of this instant March, be printed. 
National Ordered, That the Return relative to the National 
Gallery. Gallery, which was presented upon the 2d day of 
No. 78. this instant March, be printed. 
Court of Chan- i 
np +b - s The Order of the day being read, for the second 


(Titles of Pur- Teading of the Court of Chancery (Ireland) (Titles 
chasers) Bill, of Purchasers) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


Court of Chan- 


ery (Ireland) The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


Petty Sessions The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Petty Sessions (Zreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday the 17th day of this instant March. 


Notices of Ordered, That the Notices of Motions be post- 
Motions. poned till after the Order of the day for resuming 
the adjourned Debate relative to China. 

China, 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 26th day of February last, That this 
House has heard with concern of the conflicts which 
have occurred between the British and Chinese Au- 
thorities in the Canton River ; and, without express- 
ing an opinion as to the extent to which the Govern- 
ment of China may have afforded this Count 
cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of 
the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the 
Papers which have been laid upon the Table fail to 
establish satisfactory grounds for the violent mea- 
ys resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the 
«6 rrow yh 


ar which ended in 1815; of the P 


Martiz. 8t 
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, 4° die Martii, 1857 : 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Mr. Cobden, 


| 963. 
f 


Yeas, UMr. Milner Gibson: 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, Loa 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: f~*"" 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Wine Duties. 
osed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the practicability of reducing the Duty 
now paid upon Foreign Wines; to ascertain whether 
the Revenue may not be much increased by such 
| reduction, a stop put to the adulteration of Wines 
which now prevails, to the manifest injury of the 
Revenue and the honest importer, and our Com- 
mercial Relations with Foreign Countries producing 
Wines increased, through the medium of a mutual 
'reduction of Tariffs, due regard being had to the 
interests of the Trade for Drawback upon Duty-paid 
Stock, or such a gradual diminution. of Duty as 
would admit of those Stocks being consumed before 
the lowest point of a reduction should be arrived at, 
as proposed in the following plan: 

hat, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now charge- 
‘able on Foreign Wine imported into the United 
| Kingdom, the following Duties shall be charged 
| (that is to say), upon every Imperial Gallon— 





| 


| 
| 


| 
\ 





d. 


Os 


To the 5th day of April 1858, inclusive - 
From and after the 5th day of April 1858 till 
the 5th day of April 1859, inclusive 
From and after the 5th day of April 
the 5th day of April 1860, inclusive 
From and after the 5th day of April 
the 5th day of April 1861, inclusive 
From and after the 5th day of April 1861 1 


—And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


1859 till 


1860 till 


4 
3 
elf = 3 -« 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Licensed 
Return of the Number and Names of the Licensed Passage | 
Passage Brokers and Licensed Receivers in the Port (Liverpool.) 
of Liverpool, with the Addresses or Places of Busi- 


ness of each, under the Act of 1855. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Grand Juries 
amend the Act of the sixth and seventh years of ge Ame . 
King William the Fourth, chapter One hundred and wen aes 
sixteen, for consolidating and amending the Laws 
relating to the presentment of Public Money by 
Grand Juries in Seedend : And that Mr. Magan and 
Colonel Greville do prepare, and bring it in. 

The Order made upon the 2d day of this instant Navy (Volun- 
March, That there be laid before this House, Returns *¢¢™* 
relating to Navy (Volunteers, &amp;c), was read, and 
discharged. 


| 


Vol 
be.) 





Mr. Magan presented a Bill to amend the Act of Grand Juries 
the sixth and seventh years of King William the ony cer’ 
Fourth, chapter One hundred and sixteen, for conso- ment Bill. 
lidating and amending the Laws relating to the pre- _pjJ] 34, 
sentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Jre- 
land: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 


TY |the 11th day of this instant March; and to be 


printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, Grand Juries 
the Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill, was read, and dis- (Ireland) Bill. 
charged. . 





Vou. 112. 


Ordered, That the Bill be’ read a second time 


M upon 








































































Public 
Petitions 
(Eleventh 
Report.) 


Caledonian 
Railway 
(Running 
Powers ) Bill. 


Dexthorpe 
Turnpike 
Trust Bill. 


Aldershot 
Railway Bill. 


Belfast Im- 
provement 
Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twelfth 
Report. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Camp at 
Colchester. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


82 


upon Wednesday the 18th day of this imstant 
March. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Two of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Mercurii, 4° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 

M R. Duncan reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had 

examined the Petitions presented upon the 2d day 
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 Caledonian Railway (Running Powers) Bill 
was read a second time ; and committed. 


The Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Aldershot Railway Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 18th day of this instant March. 


A Bill for the Amendment of the Acts for the 
Improvement of the Borough of Belfast, and for 
confirming things done with a view to the execution 
of those Acts, and to provide for the Collection of 
Rates in the Borough of Belfast, and for other 
purposes, was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


Petitions relating to Maynooth College Act ;—Tea 
and Sugar;—China and Persia ;—Civil Service 
Superannuation Fund ;— Education (Cities and 
Boroughs) Bill;—Industrial Schools Bill ;—Judg- 
ments Execution, &amp;c. Bill ;—Poor Law (Ireland) ;— 
Settlement and Removal ;—Sir John N*Neill and 
Colonel Tulloch ;—and, Ulverstone Parish,—were 
= and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Ordered, That Mr. Lascelles have leave of absence 


for a month, on account of a domestic affliction. 


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 any Correspondence between the 
War Department and Major-General Gascoigne, in 
relation to the Destitution amongst the Families of 
Soldiers at Colchester. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Sajasty 8 Most honourable Privy Council. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Industrial Schools Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Grestion :—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 To-morrow. 


3°—4° Murtii. 


A. 1857. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Education (Cities and Boroughs) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Education 
(Cities and 
Boroughs) 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Lunatic Asy- 
reading of the Lunatic Asylums (Jreland) Bill; lums (Ireland 
Ordered, That the Bill bé read a second time 3” 
upon Wednesday the 18th day of this instant March. 


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. 


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

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Court of Chan- 
cery (Ireland) 
(Titles of Pur- 
chasers) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Zreland) (Titles 
of Purchasers) Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day six weeks.” 

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 Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill;  cety (ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Monsell be added to the Select Contracts 
Committee on Contracts for Public Departments. —_ fF Public 
Departments. 
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Foreign 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased er ord at 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ” 
House, a Copy of Report on Foreign Military 
Training and Education, drawn up by a Commission 
appointed by the Secretary of State for War. 
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. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Catalogue of Library of 
the Library of the House of Commons, 1857. the House. 





| _ Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
|(Roads), which was presented upon the 3d day of (Roads.) 
| February last, be printed. No. 79. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Swansea Swansea 
Cemetery, which was presented upon the 27th day Cemetery. 
of February last, be printed. No. 80. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Railways), which was presented upon the 3d day of (Railways.) 
this instant March, be printed. No. 81. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den-Roads Bill. 


Landport 

and Seuthsea 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Liverpool 
Town and 
Dock Dues 
(Saint Helen’s 
Canal and 
Railway Com- 


pany). 


South Devon 
Railway Bill. 


Scottish Cen- 
tral Railway 
Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


20 VicrorRiz. 


Jovis, 5° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of Promoters of the Bill therein- 
after mentioned, and ‘l'rustees of the Todmor- 

den and Halifax Roads, praying that Provision may 
be made in the Haslingden and Todmorden Roads 
Bill for vesting in the ‘l'rustees of the Todmorden 
Roads certain portions of Road, was presented, and 


read ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Bill thereinafter 
mentioned, and Commissioners for paving, cleansing, 
watering, regulating and otherwise improving the 
Towns of Portsmouth and Portsea, praying that 
Provision may be made in the Landport and South- 
sea Improvement Bill for the appointment of a Com- 
mittee to license Hackney Carriages, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Examiners of Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Examiner of Petitions for 
Private Bills have leave to sit and proceed To-mor- 
row, on the Petition for the Liverpool Town and 
Dock Dues (Saint Helen’s Canaland Railway Com- 
pany) Bill. 


Colonel French reported from the Committee on 
the South Devon Railway Bill; That they had exa- 


5° Marti. 83 


structions given or forwarded by the Secretary of 
State to the Government ineer, in Moor- 
som, as to the Survey of the Line : any Cor 


‘ ee or Communications received from that 
Co 


ony by the Secretary of State, in reference to such 
Railway, with the Answers thereto :—And, of all 
Correspondence and Applications from other Par- 
ties, to the present time, to the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, for promoting a Railway in Ceylen, 
with the Replies thereto, showing the measures 
taken in the same by the Secretary of State. 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ordnance* 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 5 


House, a Return with regard to the Ordnance Sur- 
vey in each County of Scotland, showing,—1. The 
Scale or Scales of such Surveys, enieen diffe- 
rent Scales have been adopted, the Date when such 
Scales were severally commenced; 2. The present 
state of such Surveys, and the estimated time for 
their Completion upon each different Scale adopted ; 
3. The Expense incurred in each Survey, from the 
|Commencement to April 1854, and subsequently in 
‘the several years ending April 1855, 1856 and 
|1857; 4. The estimated Cost of Completion; 5. 
|Where no Survey has yet been commenced, the 
‘Scale or Scales on which it is intended to make the 





mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of | Survey, with the estimated Cost and time of Com- 


the Bill, and amended the same, by setting out more 
fully the position of the Company as regards their 
Capital and Debenture Debt; and found the same, 
as amended, 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. 


Colonel French reported the Scottish Central Rail- 
way Bill, with Amendments. 

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


Petitions relating to Representation (Scotland) ;— 
Church Rates ;—Church Rates Abolition Bill ;— 





| pletion. 

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. 


| 


| Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Land Trans- © 


urvey (Scot- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this aes 


| to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Port Corps. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
| House, a Copy of any Order or Instructions issued 
| by the War Department during the past year for 
_the Disbandment of the Land Transport Corps. 

| 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 


Vide Twelfth — Maynooth College Act ;~-Ministers’ Money (JIre- | Council. 


Report. 


Sir John 
M'Neill and 
Colonel 
Tulloch, 


Ceylon Rail- 
way. 


land) Act ;—Paper ;—Property and Income Tax ;— 
Tea ;—Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;—Dock- 
yard Labourers ;—Extra-parochial Places Bill ;— 


Juries (Zreland) Bill ;—Harbours of Refuge (N orth- 
East Coast of England) ;—Health of Towns Act ;— 
Imprisonment for Debt Bill ;—Industrial Schools 
Bill;—Intoxicating Liquors ;—Judgments Execu- 
tion, &amp;c. Bill;—Poor Law (/reland);—Poor Law 
(Scotland);—and, Sale of Beer, &amp;c. Bill,—were 
=a and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


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 Correspondence between the Government 
or War Office and Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel 
Tulloch, with reference to the Offer of a Thousand 
pounds made to them. 

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. 


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 the Correspondence between 
Sir Henry Ward, Governor of Ceylon, and the Se- 
cretary of State for the Cvlonies, to the present 
= respecting a Railway in Ceylon :—Of the In- 

OL. 112, 


Further Reports from the Board of Trade relative 
|to Harbour, &amp;c. Bills. 





‘lative to Silver Coinages (Calcutta, &amp;c.) 


| Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of Surveyors, &amp;. 
February last, for a Return relative to Surveyors, ‘ow and 


' &amp;c. of Stamps and Taxes. 


of several Acts of 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of a 
Treasury Minute, dated 28th ro precesten 1857, 
granting a Special Compensation Allowance to Mr. 
C. Alexander Wood, on the abolition of his Office 
as one of the Emigration Commissioners. 


duction of the National Debt, on account of Banks 
for Savings and Friendly Societies in Great Britain 
and Ireland, from their Commencement at 6th August 
1817 to the 20th November 1856, inclusive :—Also, 
an Account of all Expenses ineurred by the said 
Commissioners, for Salaries of Clerks or other Inci- 
dental Expenses, during the preceding year. 

An Account of the Gross Amount of all Bank An- 
nuities and Long Annuities, and any other Annuities 
for Terms of Years transferred, and of all Sums of 





M2 Money 


The following Papers, pursuant to Order, were Harbour, &amp;c. 
‘laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— Bills. 
Grand Juries, &amp;c. (Zreland) Bill (1856) ;—Grand | 


No. 19. 


The following Papers were also laid upon the Table silver 
| by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, Coinages a 
| dated the 9th day of a for a Return re- (C*lcutta &amp;e.) 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Emigration 
adam were also laid upon Commission. 


An Account of the Gross Amount of all Sums National 
received and paid by the Commissioners for the Re- Deb. 






























































ASE cA PRIN EAGLES DIMI PE MEH 9 - 


FREE EAI LL RENO RL RE LOAN ATE RAITT LS BE NE ILE 5 REET 


ANREP RRB TBO ANSE FUNDER one ec? EURO RULER AE A DAR IEEE EOI AG A IER: 


+R NCR CIE RET Hr See naar es: 










84 5°—6° Martii. 


Money paid to the Commissioners for the Reduction 
of the National Debt, and the Gross Amount of 
Annuities for Lives and for Terms of Years which 
have been granted for the same, under the Provi- 
sions of the Acts of 10 Geo. 4, c. 24, 3 Will. 4, 
c. 14, and 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 45, within the year ending 
5th January 1857. 

An Account of the Gross Amount of all Monies 
received and paid by the Commissioners for the Re- 
duction of the National Debt on account of the Fund 
for the Military mem Banks, from the 19th Sep- 
tember 1845 to the 5th January 1857, inclusive. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills, be printed. 


— Deaths Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty's Com- 
(Scotland. mand,—Copy of Second Annual Report of the Re- 


gistrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in 
Scotland. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
Children dress to Her Majesty, dated the 12th day of Fe- 
(Metropolis.) bruary last, for a Return relative to Assaults upon 
Women and Children (Metropolis). 


ee Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of Fe- 

(Ireland. ) bruary last, for a Return relative to the Exchequer 
Chamber (/re/and). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
a _ Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
a (Law Expenses), which was presented upon the 2d 
No. 82. day of this instant March, be printed. 

Dover Mails. Mr. Osborne presented,— Return to an Order, 
dated the 2d day of this instant March, for a Return 
relative to Dover Mails. 

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


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. 

‘Tenants’ Com- 


pensation 
(Ireland. ) 


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

afford Compensation to Tenant Farmers in Jre/and 
for Improvements made on the Land in their Pos- 
session: And that Mr. Moore, Mr. Maguire and 
Mr. Kennedy do prepare, and bring it in. 
Land Tax. A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
consider the expediency of allowing a further Re- 
demption of Land Tax, and also whether by any 
other means this Tax might be made more beneficial 
to the Revenue of the Country, and to the Reduction 
of the National Debt :—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Judgments 
Execution, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com 

mittee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Commission- § The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
CBestiandy Act a Committee on the Commissioners of Supply (Scot- 
(1856) Amend. land) Act (1856) Amendment Bill; and, after some 
ment Bill. time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 


gone through the Bill. 


Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Notice being taken, that Forty Members were not 


resent :—The House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 
Forty Members not being preseut, and it being then 
after Four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 


hy Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till To- 


morrow. 


7, 











A, 1857. 


Veneris, 6° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


M R. Speaker laid upon the Table, — Report Liverpool 

‘A from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Town and 

Private Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the ny 

Standing Orders in the case of the Petition for the Canal and 

Liverpool ‘Town and Dock Dues (Saint Helen’s Railway 

Canal and Railway Company) Bill. a 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Duncan reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions 
Petitions presented upon the 3d, 4th and 5th days toon) 
of this instant March, and had directed him to a 
a Report thereof to the House. 

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


The Cork Consumers’ Gas Bill was read a second Cork Con- 
time; and committed. ed Gas 


Ordered, That the"Liverpool Docks Committee Liverpool 
and Birkenhead Docks Bill be read a second time Pocks Com- 
upon Tuesday next. ow emt eel 
Docks Bill. 

The Order of the day being read, for the second Norfolk 
reading of the oo Railway Bill; Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Swansea Docks Bill was, according to Order, Swansea 
read a second time; and committed. Docks Bill. 


A Petition of the Saint Helen’s Canal and Rail- Liverpool 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to relieve Town and 
from Liverpool Town and Dock Dues the Commerce cans tints 
resorting to the Garston and Widnes Docks, and to Canal and 
the Sankey Canal of the Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway 
Railway Company, was presented, and read; and eines 
— to the Select Committee on Standing 

rders. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Newquay Pier, Har- Newquay 
bour and Railway Petition, the Standing Orders Pier, Harbour 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be *™¢ Bailway. 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

2. That in the case of the West London and West London 
Crystal Palace Railway Petition, the Standing Or- 2nd Crystal 
ders ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties {alse Rail 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill, provided ‘ 
that they strike out of the said Bill all Provisions 
enabling the Brighton Railway Company, the South 
Western Railway Company and the South Eastern 
Railway Company, to contribute Funds towards the 
making of the Crystal Palace Railway and Exten- 
sion Railway, or either of them, or any part thereof ; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 

3. That in the case of the Taff Vale Railway Taff Vale 
Petition of Justices of the Peace for the County of Railway Bill 
Glamorgan, to dispense with Standing Order 109, 
and for leave to be heard upon their Petition against 
the said Bill, the said Standing Order ought to be 
dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted to be 
heard on their Petition against the Bill, notwith- 
standing the same shall have been deposited later 
than seven clear days after the second reading of 
the Bill. 

4. That in the case of the Metropolitan New Metropolitan 
Streets and Improvements Petition of Churchwar- New Streets 


dens and Vestrymen of Saint Saviour, Southwark, ments ‘i 





fur dispensing with Standing Order 109, and for 
leave 











(Sp 
Rep 


Pal 


Vi 
tee 








Committee of 
Selection 
(Special 
Report). 

No. 83. 


Tenants’ 
Compensation 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 35. 


West London 
and Crystal 
Palace Rail- 
way. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thir- 
teenth Report. 


The “ Yeoman” 
and “ Helen 
Heidgers,” 


Public 
Libraries, 





90 VicroriZ. 


leave to be heard on their Petition against the said 
Bill, the said Standing Order ought not to be dis- 
pensed with. 

The first, second and third Resolutions, being 
read a second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee of Selection have 
leave to make a Special Report. 

Colonel Wi/son Patten reported from the said 
Committee; That they had agreed to the following 
Special Report : 

That, under existing circumstances, they have post- 
poned, for the present, the meeting of all Committees 
on Opposed Private Bills already appointed. 

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


Mr. Kennedy presented a Bill to afford Compen- 
sation to Tenant Farmers in Jreland for Improve- 
ments made on the Land in their possegsion: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 18th day 
of this instant March ; and to be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect 
of the Petition for the West London and Crystal 
Palace Railway Bill, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for authorizing Traffic Arrangements between the 
West End of London and Crystal Palace, and the 
London, Brighton and South Coast, the South 
Eastern, and London and South Western Railway 
Companies; for Sale or Lease of the West London 
and Crystal Palace Railway ; for extending the Time 
for completing the said Railway, and for other pur- 
poses: And that Mr. Seymour and Sir Joseph Pax- 
ton do prepare, and bring it in, 


Petitions relating to the Church of Jreland ;— 
Church Rates :—Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill;— 
Maynooth College Act;—Property and Income Tax ; 
—Tea;—Teaand Sugar ;— Christ's Hospital ;—Civil 
Service Superannuation Fund ;—Opium Trade ;-— 
Passing Tolls Bill ;—Public-houses (Scotland) Act ; 
—Sale of Beer, &amp;c. Bill ;—Settlement and Removal ; 
—and, Weights and Measures,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition relating to Bank Notes, was also pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Secret Com- 
mittee on the Bank Acts. 


Ordered, Tirat there be laid before this House, 
Copies of the Depositions taken at Liverpool, by 
ole of the Board of Trade, from the Survivors of 
the “ Yeoman,” as well as from the Crew of the 
“ Helen Heidgers.” 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
ive directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Betas of the Names (alphabetically arranged) of 
all Places in which, according to a Return (No. 221) 
made in the last Session of Parliament, Free Public 
Libraries had then been agreed upon or established, 
with a Return showing how far the institution of 
Free Public Libraries has since been agreed to or 
dissented from in the following Places: Aberdeen, 
Dundalk, Haslingden (Lancashire), Kingston-upon- 
Hull, Leamington, Lichfield, Limerick, Marylebone, 
Paddington, Westminster: — And, from Bristol, 
Greenock, Norwich, Preston and Southampton, and 
the City of London ; showing, 1. Whether the Cor- 
porations of those Places hold in trust any Collec- 
tion of Books bequeathed for public use, with the 
Date, Terms of Bequest, and Name of the Testator ; 
2. Whether any Funds for the Maintenance of such 
Collections are held by the Corporations aforesaid, 
and to what Amount; 3. What is the present extent 
VoL. 112. 


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85 


of each of such Collections, where they are pre- 
served, and under what custody, and what are the 
terms of public access thereto; 4. Whether any 
steps have been taken, or are in contemplation, 
under the Public Libraries Act of 1850 or of 1855, 
for the future maintenance of such Collections, or 
of any of them, by Rate, or for the amalgamation 
of any such Collection with other Collections formed 
under either of the Acts aforesaid. 

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. 


nesday the 25th da 
Church Rates Abolition Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


their Clerks, as followeth : 


Bill, without any Amendment : 


Stock created since the 5th day of April 1854, in 
respect of Loans, Funding of Exchequer Bills, and 
of the Monies received in respect of both :—Of the 
Capital Sum which would be equivalent to the Charge 
of the Terminable Annuities, payable under the Act 
18 Vic. c. 18, Interest being soshened according to 
the present Price of Consols :—Of the Excess of 
Exchequer Bills (Supply) now outstanding over 
those outstanding on the 6th day of April 1854; 
and of the Amount now outstanding of Exchequer 
Bonds :—Of the Excess of Balance in the Ex- 
chequer on the Ist day of January 1857 over that 
of the 5th day of April 1854 :—Of the Amount and 
Denominations of Public Securities standing to the 
Credit of the Commissioners of the National Debt, 
for Account of Savings Banks, on the 6th day of 
April 1854, and on the 1st day of January 1857; 
also, of their Aggregate Purchases and Sales in each 
Denomination within the said Dates of the Proceeds 
of such Sales, and of the manner in which such Pro- 
ceeds have been invested or disposed of :—And, of 
Stock sold by the Commissioners for the Reduction 
of the National Debt on account of Savings Banks, 
in each Quarter, from the 5th day of April 1854 to 
the 31st day of December 1856, together with the 
Quarterly Average Price at which such Stock was 
sold. 

Mr. Wilson accordingly presented the said Ac- 
counts. 

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


House, Copies of any Memorials received by Vis- 
count Palmerston, in 1847 and 1848, from the East 
India and China Association of Liverpool, together 
with the Answers returned thereto. 

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. 





M3 dated 





The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Church Rates 
of this instant March, the Abolition Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 


The Lords have agreed to the Chief Constables Chief Con- 
€ stables Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Public Health Sup- Public Health 


2 a . ‘ Supplemental 
plemental Bill (1857), without any Amendment : Bill (1857,) 
The Lords have agreed to the Jonian Subjects Ionian Sub- 
Commissions Bill, without any Amendment. jects’ Com&lt; 
missions Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Public Debt, 


Accounts of the Amount and Denomination of all we 
o, 84. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented East India 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 4” 


to give directions, that there be laid before this pre 


d China 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table Poor Rates 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, (Metropol's.) 












































































Harbour, &amp;e. 
s. 


No. 19. 


Ramsgate 
bour. 


Silver 

Coinages 

(Calcutta, &amp;c. ) 
No. 85. 


Surveyors, &amp;c. 

of Stamps 

and Taxes. 
No. 86. 


National Debt. 
No. 87. 


Assaults upon 
Women and 
Children. 


No. 88. 
Dover Mails. 
No. 89. 





























Committals 
(Metropolis. ) 


No. 90. 























Ways and 
Means. 























Customs 
Duties. 






















































































































































































86 


dated the 24th day of February last, for a Return 
relative to Poor Rates (Metropolis). 

The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was also 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— 
A Further Report from the Board of Trade relative to 
Harbour, &amp;c. Bills. 

The foliowing Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—An Account of the 
Revenue and Expenditure of the Royal Harbour of 
Ramsgate Trust, from 24th June 1855 to 24th June 
1856. 





Ordered, That the Return relative to Silver 
Coinages (Calcutta, &amp;c.), which was presented upon 
the 5th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Surveyors, 
&amp;c. of Stamps and Taxes, which was presented upon 
the 5th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the 
National Debt, which were presented upon the 5th 
day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Assaults 
upon Women and Children, which was presented 
upon the 5th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Dover 
Mails, which was presented upon the 5th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative 
to Committals (Metropolis), which was presented 
upon the 3d day of February last, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That, 
towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, 
in lieu of the Duties of Customs now chargeable on | 
Tea imported into the United Kingdom, the follow- | 
ing Duty shall be charged, from and after 5th April | 
1857 to 5th April 1858, inclusive, 1 s. 5 d. per pound. 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, | 
That, towards raising the Supply granted to Fer| 
Majesty, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now | 
chargeable on Tea imported into the United King- 
dom, the following Duty shall be charged, from and | 
after 5th April 1857 to 5th April 1858, inclusive, | 
1s. 3d. per pound ; | 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Gladstone, 
Yeas, UMr. Milner Gibson ; } 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 1 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: {18 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 


125. | 


2. Motion made, and Question proposed, That, 
towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, 
in lieu of the Duties of Customs now chargeable on 
Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, the fol- 
lowing Duties shall be charged, fiom and after 5th 
April 1857 to 5th April 1858, inclusive : 

Sugar, viz.:— £..ee 

andy, brown or white, refined Sugar, or 
Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
quality thereto - - - thecwt. -18 4 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That, 
towards raising the Supply granted to Her Majesty, 
im lieu of haloes ot Customs now chargeable on 
Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, the fol- 
lowing Duties shall be charged, from and after 5th 
April 1857 to 5th April 1858, inclusive : 

Sugar, viz.:— £.s. d. 

Candy, brown or white, refined Sugar, or 
Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
quality thereto - - - the cwt. 

——-put, and negatived, 


- 16 8 


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Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Question proposed, That 
White clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by | £. 8, d. 
any process equal in quality to white | 
clayed, not being refined, or equal in | 
quality to refined 0. (a the ewt. -16 - 
stand part of the proposed Resolution ; 


Afterwards proposed, That 
White clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by | £. 8. d. 
any process equal in quality to white 
clayed, not being refined, or equal in 





quality to refined a ecwt.| - 14 7 
stand part of the proposed Resolution put, and 
negatived. 


Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Question proposed, That 


Yellow Muscovado and brown clayed Sugar, | £. s. d. 
or Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
quality to yellow Muscovado or brown 
clayed, and not equal to white clayed, 

the ewt. 
stand part of the proposed Resolution ; 


Afterwards proposed, That 


Yellow Muscovado and brown clayed Sugar, | £. 8. d. 
or Sugar rendered by any process equal 
in quality to yellow Muscovado or brown 
clayed, and not equal to white clayed, 

the ewt.' - 12 9 
stand part of the proposed Resolution——put, and 
negatived. 


Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Question proposed, That 


Brown Museovado, or any other Sugar not | £. s. d. 
being in quality to yellow Muscovado or 
brown clayed Sugar - -_ the ewt. 


stand part of the proposed Resolution ; 


Afterwards proposed, That 
Brown Muscovado, or any other Sugar, not | £.s. d. 
being equal in quality to yellow Musco- 
vado or brown clayed Sugar - thecwt.| - 11 8 
stand part of the proposed Resolution——put, and 
negatived. 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 


Question proposed, That 


- 13 10 





- 12 8 





£. 8. d. 

Molasses ee ne - 56 - 
stand part of the proposed Resolution ; 

Afterwards proposed, That tenets 

Molasses - - theewt.| - 4 6 


stand part of the proposed Resolution——put, and 
negatived. 


Original Question put, and agreed to. 

3. Resolved, That, towards raising the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties now 
chargeable on the following articles imported into 
the United Kingdom, the following Duties shall be 








charged : 
From and after 
5th April 1857 
to 
5th April 1858, 
inclusive. 
Cherries, dried - ) £. 8. d. 
Comfits, dry - 


Confectionery - 
Ginger, preserved 
Marmalade -  - 
Plums, preserved in Sugar - = - 
Succades, including all fruits and 

vegetables preserved in Sugar not 

otherwise enumerated - -) 


Resulutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

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

Mr. FitzRoy also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 


leave to sit again. 
Resolved, 


the Ib. - - 2 








A. 1857. 


Supp 


Norfe 
(Eccl 
Gove 
Bill. 


Comt 
ers 0! 
(Scot 
(1856 
ment 


Indu 
Scho 


Mun: 


Act . 
ment 


Inco 


ee 


Bill 


,--F--Ba-P 


Supply. 


Norfolk Island 
(Ecclesiastical 
Government) 


Bill. 


Commission- 


ers of Supply 
(Scotland) Act 
(1856) Amend- 


ment Bill. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


Bill 36. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Act Amend- 
ment, 


Income Tax. 


Transporta- 


tion and Penal 
Servitude Bill. 


Income Tax 
Bill. 


Bill 37. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Thirteenth 
Report. ) 


Haslingden 
2d Toumor- 
den Roads 
Bill, 


N 
ES 
Railway, and 


90 VicroriZ. 


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- 
mittee of Supp ; 

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 Norfolk Island (Ecclesiastical Gu- 
vernment) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day two months. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Commissioners of Supply 
(Scotland) Act (1856) Amendment Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Industrial Schools Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Provisions of the Act for the Regulation 
of Municipal Corporations, concerning the Transfer 
of Powers under Local Acts: And that Mr. Massey 
and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to reduce the Rates of Duty on Profits arising from 
Property, Professions, Trades and Offices: And 
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Pal- 
merston and Mr. Wilson do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Mon- 
day next, the Transportation and Penal Servitude 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to reduce the Rates of Duty on Profits arising from 
Property, Professions, Trades and Offices: 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 Monday next. 











Lune, 9° die Marii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Duncan reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined 
the Petitions presented upon the 6th day of this in- 
stant March, 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. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; 
That in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Haslingden and Todmorden Roads 
Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have Power to make 
Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the said 
Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Newquay Pier and Harbour 





6°—9° Marti. 87 


and Railway Bill, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for confirming the Title to y some acquired for the 
purposes of the Newquay Railway, part of ‘* The 
Treffry Estates,” in the County of Cornwall; and 
for regulating the Railway, and for other purposes : 
And that Mr. Kendall and Mr. William Michell do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cornwall 
the Cornwall Railway Bill, as amended in, the Railway Bill 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Exeter and 
the Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill, as amended — ; 
‘ P ailway Bill. 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Price’s Patent 
Price’s Patent Candle Company Bill, as amended a 
in the Committee. gg 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Whitehaven, 
the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway Bill, a and 

: : ’ igremont 
as amended in the Committee. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Belfast improvement Bill be Belfast Im- 
read a second time To-morrow. — 
The Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) Bill Keith and 


was read a second time ; and committed. Dufftown 
Railway 


(No. 2) Bill. 
The South Yorkshire and North Linco/nshire South York- 


Junction Railway Bill was read a second time ; and Shire and 
committed North Lincotn- 
. shire Junction 
Railway Bill. 


The Cork and Youghal Railway Bill was, ac- Cork and 


cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Youghal 
mitted. Railway Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Westminster 
reading of the Westminster Improvements Bill; Improvements 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


A Bill for authorizing Traffic Arrangements West London 
between the West End of Zondon and Crystal and Crystal 
Palace, and the London, Brighton and South Coast, a 
the South Eastern and London and South Western 
Railway Companies ; for Sale or Lease of the West 
London and Crystal Palace Railway ; for extending 
the Time for completing the said Railway, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Petitions relating tothe Ecclesiastical Corporations Public 
Bill ;— Maynooth College Act ;— Emigration ;— An- Petitions. 
nuity Tax (Edinburgh), &amp;c.;—Paper;— Property vy... p.-. 
and Income Tax ;—Sugar ;—Tea ;— Wine ;— Chinas oom Eepsee 
—Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;—Debtor and 
Creditor (Scotland) ;—Extra-parochial Places Bill ; 
—Industrial Schools Bill;— Metropolis Turnpike 
Roads ;—Opium Trade ;—Poor Law (Ireland) ;— 

Sale of Beer, &amp;c. Bill ;—Settlement and Removal ; 
—Sir John M*‘Neiil and Colonel Tulloch ;—and, 
Weights and Measures,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition against the Passing Tolls Bill, was 
also presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


A Message by Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Usher of Royal Assent. 
the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 





Von. 112. 


Commission, for declaring Her Royal Assent. to 
M4 several 


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Royal Marine 
Forces Bill. 


Chief Con- 
stables Bill. 


Public Health 
oo 
Bill (1857. ) 


Tonian Sub. 
jects’ Com- 
missions Bill. 


Contracts 
for Public 
Departments. 


No. 93. 


Election. 


Newport 
Election. 


National 
Collections. 


Medical Pro- 
fession Bill. 


Education 
(Cities and 
Boroughs) 
Bill, 


Sale of Beer, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


88 


several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, desire 
the immediate attendance of this Honourable House 
in the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 
ee 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 Acts therein mentioned ; and 
thatthe Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 


9° Martiz. 





Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: | 
An Act to amend the Act for limiting the Time of | 
Service in the Royal Marine Forces : 
An Act to facilitate the Appointment of Chief 
Constables for adjoining Counties, and to confirm 
Appointments of Chief Constables in certain cases: | 
ie Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of | 
the General Board of Health applying the Public | 
Health Act, 1848, to the Districts of Lpswich, Old-| 
bury, Stroud, Llangollen and of Dukinfield; and 
for altering the Constitution of the Local Board for 
the Main Sewerage District of Wisbech and Wal- 
soken ; 
An Act to enable the Subjects of the Ionian 
States to hold Military and Naval Commissions 
under the Crown. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Contracts 
for Public Departments have Power to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Colonel Dunne reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred, and agreed to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 

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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of John Boulderson Barkworth, 
relating to the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Morris Morgan, Samuel Dyer 
and Robert Pinnock, relating to the Borough of 
Newport, is unobjectionable. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Sums expended under the 
following Heads, in each year, from 1846 to 1856 
severally : British Museum Establishment; British 
Museum Buildings; British Museum Purchases ; 
National Gallery; Scientific Works and Experi- 
ments; Royal Geographical Society; British His- 
torical Portrait Gallery ; Science and Art Depart- 
ment; Museum of Practical Geology; Royal So- 
ciety :—And, of the Sums expended in the Purchase 
and laying out of the Grounds, and in Buildings, on 
the Mevleotes Gore Estate, in each year, from 
1851 to 1856 inclusive. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the 18th day of this instant March, the 
Medical Profession Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday next, the Education (Cities and Boroughs) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the Ist day of April next, the Sale of Beer, 
&amp;c. Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 














A. 1857. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Wheat, &amp;c. 


Return of the Number of Quarters of Foreign and 
Colonial Wheat, Wheat Flour, and all other kinds 
of Grain, Meal and Flour imported from Foreign 
Countries into Jre/and, from the 1st day of January 
1856, to the 31st day of December 1856, inclusive : 
—Similar Return of all Grain, Meal and Flour 
imported from Great Britain into Ireland :—And, 
similar Return-of Grain and Flour of all kinds im- 
ported into Great Britain from Ireland (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 64, of Session 
1856). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Return showing the Names of all Creditors on the (Oude-) 


State of Oude, and the Amount of their respective 
Claims, so far as such Return can be made without 
reference to India. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Three per 
Account of Three per Cent. Consols, showing the ©e#. Consols. 


Highest and the Lowest and the Mean Price during 
each year, from the 5th day of April 1847 (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 3, of Session 
1847-48), 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Malta. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence 
between the Colonial Office and the Governor of 
Malta on the subject of the working of the Jury 
Law in general, and especially with reference to 
the Trial of the Murderer of Captain Graves. 
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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 


Copy of a Despatch relating to the System of Police aaa _ 


in the Bengal Presidency. 


gal.) 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of Chan- 
mittee on the Court of Chancery (Ireland) (Titles of °ety (Ireland) 


Purchasers) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 

reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


(Titles of Pur- 
chasers) Bill. 


Court of = 
ce ju 
ao 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Civil Services 


Her Majesty’s Command,—A Statement of the 
Civil Service Estimates for the year 1857, ending 
31st March 1858, in respect of which it is proposed 
to take Votes “on Account” in the present Session ; 
showing the Total Estimate, and the Sum proposed 
to be voted “on Account”’ for each Service. 


No. 91. 


A Statement of the Estimates of Revenue Depart- Revenne 
ments, for the year 1857, ending 31st March 1858, Departments 


showing the Total Estimate and the Sum proposed 
to be voted “on Account”’ in the present Session for 
each Service. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 


| the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


No. 92. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Exchequer 


Account of all Exchequer Bills raised, charged on 
the Aids or Supplies of 1857, unprovided for. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, History of | 
Copies of Correspondence between the Master of &amp;teat Brite» 


the Rolls and the Treasury, respecting the publica- 
tion of Materials for the History of Great Britain 
previously to the Reign of Henry VIII. 

The Chancellor of the Badiogunr accordingly 


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


Ordered, 


No, 94. 





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Hudson’s Bay 
Company. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


Mr. Speaker’s 
Retirement. 


Public 
Business. 


Prisons, 


Church Estates 
Commission, 


Ecclesiastical 
Commission. 


Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bilis. 
No. 19, 


20 Vicroriz. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
Hudson’s Bay Company have Power to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere reported from the said 
Select Committee ; That they had taken Evidence 
with regard to the matters to them referred, which 
they had agreed to report to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, upon Friday next, on the Reformatory 
Schools Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Mr. Speaker addressed the House as followeth : 

Before I call upon the Clerk to proceed with the 
Orders of the day, I hope the House will permit me 
to occupy their attention for a very few moments. 

After the Statement made by the Noble Lord at 
the head of the Government to the House on Thurs- 
day last, it is quite evident that a Dissolution of 
Parliament is rapidly approaching ; and I feel it to 
be only consistent with that respect which is espe- 
cially due from me to the House, that I should 
inform them that it is my intention to retire from 
Parliament at the close of the present Session. 

It is very nearly eighteen years since I first had 
the honour of being elected Spgaker of this House, 
and I cannot contemplate the termination of my 
official career without great pain; nor can I allow 
it to close without offering to the House my sincere 
and grateful acknowledgments for that uniform 
confidence and support which I have received, not 
only from all parties in the House, but I may say, 
with perfect truth, from every individual Member of 
the ane I am quite aware that, in the discharge of 
the delicate, and very onerous duties of this Chair, I 
have had great need of that kind indulgence which 
has always been extended to me ; especially of late, 
when [| have been too frequently reminded of my 
increasing inability to do full justice to the task 
which has devolved upon me. 

It has been my constant endeavour, as is well 
known to the House, to improve and simplify their 
forms of proceeding, but at the same time | have 
endeavoured to maintain unimpaired all those rights 
and privileges, and those rules and orders, sanc- 
tioned by ancient usage, which long experience has 
taught me to respect and venerate, and which [ 
believe never can be relaxed, or materially altered, 
without prejudice té the freedom and independence 
of the House of Commons. And if I have been in 
the least degree instrumental in promoting objects 
so desirable, and so essential to the Public 1 scary 
I am perfectly aware that | owe that success to the 
cordial co-operation | have always received from the 
House, and for which I never can be sufficiently 


grateful. 


Resolved, That Orders of the day have prece- 
dence of Notices of Motions upon Thursdays. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Twenty-second Report of the In- 
spectors appointed under the Provisions of the Act 
5 &amp; 6 Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of 
Great Britain :—Southern and Western District: 

Copy of Sixth General Report from the Church 
Estates Commissioners ; with an Appendix (under 
the Acts 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 104, 17 &amp; 18 Vie. c. 116, 
and 19 &amp; 20 Vie. c. 74.) 

Copy of Ninth General Report from the Ecclesi- 
astical Commissioners fur England; with an Ap- 
pendix (under the Acts 13 &amp; 14 Vic. c. 94, s. 26, 
and 17 &amp; 18 Vie. c. 116, s. 10.) 

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


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House :— 
VoL. 112. 





4° Martiz. 89 


A further Report from the Board of Trade relative 
to Harbour, &amp;c. Bills. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Bankruptcy. 


of an Act of Parliament, were also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Returns of the 
Official Assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy, show- 
ing the Total Amounts of their Receipts and Pay- 
ments for the year ending the 31st December 1856, 
upon every Estate under their Charge as such Official 
Assignees ; and also, the Balances appearing by their 
Reeke to be then in the Bank of England, standing 
to the credit of the Accountant in Bankruptcy of 
every such Estate; and also the Balances of every 
such Estate then in the hands or under the power or 
control of such Official Assignees ; together with the 
Returns showing the several Sums allowed to them 
as Official Assignees for Remuneration and for Petty 
Expenses, under every Estate under their Charge, 
during the year 1856. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Rates poor Rates 
(Metropolis), which was presented upon the 6th day (Metropolis.) 


of this instant March, be printed. 


No. 95. 


The Commissioners of Supply (Scotland) Act Commission- 


(1856) Amendment Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


ers of Supply 
(Scotland) 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Bill 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Ways and 


Ways and Means, several Resolutions ; which were 
read, as follow : 


3. 


1, That, towards raising the Supply granted to Customs 


Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now 
chargeaole on Tea imported into the United King- 
dom, the following Duty shall be charged, from and 
after 5th April 1857 to 5th April 1858, inclusive, 
1s. 5d. per pound. 

2. That, towards raising the Supply granted to 
Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now 
chargeable on Sugar imported into the United King- 
dom, the following Duties shall be charged, from 
and after 5th April 1857, to 5th April 1858, in- 
clusive : 

Sugar, viz.:— ae. &amp; 

Candy, brown or white, refined Sugar, or 
Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
uality thereto - - - theewt.| -18 4 
White clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by 
any process equal in quality to white 
clayed, not being refined, or equal in 
quality to refined - = theewt.| -16 - 
Yellow Muscovado and brown clayed Sugar, 
or Sugar rendered bv any process equal in 
quality to yellow Muscorado or brown 
clayed, and not equal to white clayed, 
the cwt. | - 13 10 
Brown Muscovado, or any other Sugar, not 
being equal in quality to yellow Musco- 
vado or brown clayed Sugar - theewt.| - 12 8 
Molasses - - - «+ theewh}| - 5 - 





3. That, towards raising the Supply granted to 
Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties now chargeable 
on the following Articles imported into the United 
Kingdom, the following Duties shall be charged : 





From and after 
5th April 1857 
to 
5th April 1858, 
inclusive. 








Cherries, dried - - «© =) Z. &amp; @ 
Comfits, dry ae ee ie 
Confectionery - - - = 
Ginger, preserved . © ~s 
Marmalade - - - - _ ~~) thelb. - - 2 


Plums, preserved in Sugar - - 
Succades, including all Fruits and 
Vegetables preserved in Sugar, 
not otherwise enumerated -) 


N The 








Duties. 

































































SEAR YOR SRE mR ie UA OP a BADE 














Income Tax 
Bill. 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Extra-paro- 
chial Places 
Bill, 





90 


The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill or Bills be brought in upon 
the said Resolutions: And that Mr. FitzRoy, the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr.’ Wilson do 


prepare, and bring them in. 


9° Martii: A. 1857. 
hold 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Copy 
continue or erp under the Act for consoli- #4. ae 
dating the Copyhold and Inclosure Commissions, go, 
and for completing Proceedings under the Tithe 
Commutation Acts: And that Mr. Massey and Sir 


George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 





The Income Tax Bill was, according to Order, Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Ecclesiastical 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee continue certain temporary Provisions concerning 3% 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. | Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England: And that 
} | Mr. Massey and Sir George Grey do prepare, and 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself bring it in. 


into the Committee of Supply. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Indemnity. 
(a the Commstien.) indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as 
1, 53,700 Men and Boys for Sea and Coast Guard | have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and 
Services, for Four Months, including 15,000 Royal | Employments, and to extend the Time limited for 
Marines. | those purposes respectively: And that Mr. Massey 
2. £.800,000 on account, for Wages to Seamen and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 
and Marines. 
3. £.300,000 on account, for Victuals to Seamen Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Pauper 
and Marines. continue the Act for charging the Maintenance of Maintenance. 
4. £. 50,000 on account, for Expenses of Admi- | certam Paupers upon the Unten Funds: And that 
ralty Office. Mr. Bouverie and Mr. Grey do prepare, and bring 
5. £.80,000 on account, for Coast Guard Service, | it in. 
and for Royal Naval Coast Volunteers. 
6. £. 30,000 on account, for Contingent Expenses 
of Scientific Departments of the Navy. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Russian 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Medical De- 


7. £.60,000 on account, for Expenses of Her 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments at Home. 

8. £.10,000 on account, for Expenses of Naval 
Establishments Abroad. 

9. £.300,000 on account, for Wages to Artificers, 
Labourers and others in Naval Establishments at 
Home. | 

10. £. 20,000 on account, for Wages to Artificers 
and others in Naval Establishments Abroad. 

11. £. 500,000 on account, for Naval Stores for the 
Building, &amp;c. of the Fleet, Purchase of Steam Ma- 
chinery, and for other purposes connected therewith. | 

12. £.200,000 on account, for New Works, Im- | 
provements and Repairs in the Naval Establish- | 
ments. 





to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Report on the Organization of the 
Russian Medical Depariment, and the sanitary 
state of their Crimean Hospitals, forwarded by Sir 


John Hall to Dr. Andrew Smith, on the 15th day 


of May 1856. 

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 Order for referring the Passing Tolls Bill toa Poning Tolls 


Select Committee, was read, and discharged. 


partment. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Portland 


13. £. 20,000 on account, for Medicines and Me- | resorting to the Harbour of Refuge at Portland, 


dical Stores. 

14. £.30,000 on account, for divers Naval Mis- 
cellaneous Services. 

15. £. 250,000 on account, for Half-pay, Reserved 
Half-pay and Retirement to Officers of the Navy 
and Royal Marines. 

16. £.200,000 on account, for Military Pensions 


‘and for enabling the Commissioners of the Admi- 


ralty to supply such Water ; for vesting in the said 
Commissioners certain Lands belonging to Her 
Majesty ; and for other purposes relating thereto: 
And that Mr. Osborne and Sir Robert Peel do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


for the better Supply of Water for the use of Vessels Harbour. 








and Allowances. 
17. £.60,000 on account, for Civil Pensions and 
Allowances. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to continue certain Ecclesiastical 
temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Ju- Jurisdiction 
risdiction in England: And the same was read the Pl. 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time Bill 38- 





18. £.80,000 on account, for Freight of Ships, 
Victualling and Conveyance of Troops, on account 
of the Army. 

19. £.400,000 on account, for the Packet Ser- 
vice. 

Resolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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 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- 
mittee on the Extra-parochial Places Bill ; 

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





To-morrow ; and to be printed. 





The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Customs 


for granting certain Duties of Customs on Tea, Duties Bill 
| Sugar and other Articles: Aud the same was read _ Bill 39. 


the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
| time To-morrow ; and to be printed. 
| Mr. Osborne presented a Bill for the better Su 
ly of Water for the vse of Vessels resorti 
ashes of Refuge at Portland, and for enavling the 
_Commissioners of the Admiralty to supply such 
Water; for vesting in the said Commissioners cer- 
tain Lands belonging to Her Majesty, and for other 
| purposes relating thereto: And the same was read 
| the first time. 
| Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
| printed. 
| Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit and 
proceed ‘To-morrow. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to indemnify such 





qualify themselves for Offices and mar an | 
an 


Portland 
to the Harbour BilL 


Bill 40. 


Indemnity 
Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to Bill. 






























FOES 


mesa 


Pe wed ted 





Copyhold 

and Inclosure 
Commissions, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Bill 41. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 
Bill 42. 


The ** Yeoman” 
and “ Helen 
Heidgers.” 


Wycombe 
Railway Bill. 


Bedale and 
Leyburn Rail- 
way Bill. 


Reversionary 
Interest 
Society Bill. 


Inverness 
and Nairn 


Railway Bill 


Peebles Rail- 
way Bill, 


90 Vicrori2Z. 9°—10° 


and to extend the Time limited for those purposes 
respectively: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to continue Appoint- 
ments under the Act for consolidating the Copyhold 
and Inclosure Commissions, and for completing 
Proceedings under the Tithe Commutation Acts : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time To-morrow; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Pro- 
visions of the Act for the Regulation of Municipal 
Corporations, concerning the Transfer of Powers 
under Local Acts: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time To- 
morrow ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented,— Return to an Order, dated 
the 6th day of this instant March, for a Return 
relative to the “ Yeoman” and “ Helen Heidgers.” 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Martis, 10° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. FitzRoy reported the Wycombe Railway 
Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 





Mr. FitzRoy reported the Bedale and Leyburn 
Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Reversionary Interest Society Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
ambie of the Biil, and amended the same verbally, 
and stating, the Company were empowered “ to pur- 
chase life and other partial interests the rever- 
sions expectant on which had not been previously 
purchased by the Society, as well as life and other 
partial interests the reversions expectant on which 
might have been previously purchased by the So- 
ciety,” in order more correctly to describe the objects 
of the Society ; and found the same, as amended, to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amerdments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill; That. they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by.a statement 
of the extent to which the Company has exercised 
the Power to purchase lands for the purposes of 
their Undertaking, in consideration of an annual feu 
duty, and the consequent diminution of the Com- 
pany’s borrowing Powers; and found the same, as 
amended, 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. Fitz Roy reported the Peebles Railway Bill, 
with Amendments. 

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

Vou. 112. 


Martiz. 91 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Electric 
Electric Telegraph Company Bill; That they had Telegraph 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble °°™?*"Y 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by adding, that 

the Capital had been converted into Stock, by 
omitting words stating the desirability of raising 

part of Money to be borrowed by a Debenture 

Stock, and other words stating the application of the 

Money to be raised, and by adding a recital stating 

that former Acts should be repealed, and the Provi- 

sions thereof incorporated in the present ; and found 

the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Landport 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 224 Southsea 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- ee 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Provi- 
sion in the Landport and Southsea Improvement 
Bill. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the third Cornwall 
reading of the Cornwall Railway Bill; Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Scottish 
the Scottish Central Railway Bill, as amended in the Central Rail- 
Committee. wwe 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Devon 
the South Devon Railway Bill, as amended in the ®ailway Bill 
Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Bagenalstown 
— of the Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway Railwoy Bill 
ill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Belfast Im- 
reading of the Belfast Improvement Bill ; gr 

And a Motion being made, and the Question ~ ~ 
being proposd, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second pirkenhead 
reading of the Birkenhead istrict Gas and Water District Gas 
Bill ; — Water 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Liverpool 
reading of the Liverpool Docks Committee and Docks Com- 


Birkenhead Docks Bill; mittee and 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. —— —_ 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


A Bill for confirming the Title to Lands acquired Newquay 
for the purposes of the Newquay Railway, part of the — we ae- 
Treffry Estates, in the County of Cornwall; and Railway Bill. 
for regulating the Railway, and for other purposes, 
N2 


was 



























































NARI ALES AE ORER. OPAL LABEL IIE RA EIA, 

















Committee of 
Selection 
(Fourth Re- 
port.) 

No. 97. 


Standing 
Orders. 


Mid-Sussex 
Railway Bill, 


Liverpool 
Town and 
Dock Dues 
(Saint Helen's 
Canal and 
Railway 
Company). 


Bank of 
London and 
Natienal 
Provincial 
Insurance 
Association 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Liverpool 
Town and 
Dock Dues 
{Saint Helen's 
Canal and 
Railway 
Company.) 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Four- 
teenth Report, 


Bank Acts. 


Statate Law 
Cemmission. 


No. 99. 


92 10° Mariiz. 


was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- 
mittee of Selection; That they had made certain 
alterations in the Groups of Private Bills already 
formed, and directed him to report the same to the 
House. 

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


Colonel Wi/son Patten reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill 
Petition for additional Provision, the Standing Or- 
ders ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to introduce their additional Provision ac- 
cordingly, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit; 
provided that they forthwith give amended notices, 
and make application to all the owners, lessees and 
occupiers on both Lines, and that they deposit 
amended plans, sections and books of reference, and 
subscription contract; that the Committee on the 
Bill do report how far such Orders have been.com- 
plied with on the Report of the Bill. 

2. That in the case of the Liverpool Town and 
Dock Dues (Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Com- 
pany) Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 


3. That in the case of the Bank of London and 
National Provincial Insurance Association (No. 2) 
Petition of Messrs. Tyrrell, Paine and Layton, for 
dispensing with Standing Order 171, and that the 
Bill may be read a second time, the said Standing 
Order ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties 
may be allowed to proceed, on giving three days’ 
notice in the Private Bill Office. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Liverpool Town and Dock Dues 
(Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Company) Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
relieve from Liverpool Town and Dock Dues the 
Commerce resorting to the Garston and Widnes 
Docks, and to the Sankey Canal of the Saint 
Helen’s Canal and Railway Company: And that 
Colonel Wilson Patten and Mr. Greenall do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Petitions relating to the Church of Jreland ;— 
Maynooth College Act ;—Wine ;—Metropolis Turn- 
pike Roads ; -Opium Trade ;— Public-houses (Scot- 
land) Act;—and, Sale of Beer Act,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee of Secrecy on the 
Bank Acts have Power to report their Observations 
thereupon to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the ‘Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Cardwell reported from the said Committee ; 
‘hat they had agreed to a Report, which they had 
directed him to make to the Renn 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. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the 
Statute Law Commission have Power to report their 
Observations thereupon to the House, together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


A. 1857. 


Mr. Baines reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee; That they had made Progress in the con- 
sideration of the matter referred to them, and had 
examined several Witnesses ; but at the same time 
they consider the inquiry so far from complete, that, 
having regard to the approaching Prorogation of 
Parliament, they do not feel themselves in a position 
to offer any definite opinion to the House on the 
Question referred to them, and they have therefore 
agreed simply to report the Evidence taken up to 
the present time. 

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


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
sioners for England of the respective Total Amounts 
of the Grants or Reductions allowed by them, since 
the Ist day of January 1840, to each of the several 
Chapters of England and Wales, to pay Substitutes 
for performing additional Duties cast upon them by 
the suspension of Canonries. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, by such Members of this Mouse 
as are of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy 
Council. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Persons during 
the years 1854, 1855 and 1856, against whom cases 
of Assault on Police Constables while in the execu- 
tion of Duty have been proved, detailing the Nature 
of each case of Assault, and the Amount of Punish- 
ment, if any, inflicted on each Person. 

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. 


stant March, for an Account relative to Exchequer 
Bills. 

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


which Lord John Russell also addressed the House : 

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That the Thanks 
of this House be given to Mr. Speaker, for his 
eminent and distinguished services during the period 
of nearly eighteen years for which he has filled the 
Chair of this House; that he be assured that this 
House fully appreciates the zeal and ability with 
which he has discharged the duties of Speaker 
under circumstances requiring unprecedented labour 
and exertion, and that this House entertains the 
strongest sense of the firmness and dignity with 
which he has maintained its privileges, of his unre- 
mitting attention to its business, of the care which 
he has devoted to the improvement of its forms, and 
of the urbanity and kindness which have uniformly 
marked his conduct in the Chair, and which have 
secured for him the esteem and gratitude of every 
Member of this House. 

Then Mr. Speaker addressed the House as 
followeth (all the Members being uncovered) : 

During the long period in which, by God’s bless- 
ing, I have been enabled to discharge the duties of 
this Chair, I have had abundant experience of the 
kindness, forbearance, and indulgence of the House, 
which they have shown to me under all circum- 
stances, and on all occasions. But | have not 
words at my command, nor can I sufficiently control 
my feelings, so as adequately to express my grati- 





tude 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Suspended 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Canonries, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Police 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ©st#bles. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented,— Exchequer 
Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of this in- Bills. 


On the Motion of Viscount Palmerston, which Mr. Speaker's 
was seconded by Mr. Diraeli, and in support of Retirement, 




















BPO 


i awh--) 


French 
Military 
War Medal. 


90 VicTorRIZ. 


tude for this crowning mark of their favour and ap- 

robation. I can only assure the House, that I 
shall cherish to the last moment of my existence, 
the remembrance of the proceedings of this day, and 
of the Resolution to which this House has unani- 
mously agreed,—this great and inestimable reward 
for public service ; and in all sincerity, and from the 
very bottom of my heart, I thank them for the dis- 
tinguished honour which they have conferred upon 
me. 

Resolved, Tnat the Thanks of this House be given 
to Mr. Speaker for what he has said this day to the 
House, and that the same be printed in the Votes of 
this day, and entered in the Journal of this House. 

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That an humble 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying Her 
Majesty, that She will be most graciously pleased 
to confer some signal mark of Her Royal Favour 
upon the Right honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre, 
Speaker of this House, for his great and eminent 
services performed to his Country, during the long 
and important period in which he has, with such 
distinguished ability and integrity, presided in the 


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93 


cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Cinque Ports 
for the Amendment of the Cinque Ports Act: And Act Amend- 
that Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the Exche- ™™ 
quer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, slave Trade. 
a Return of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels em- 
ployed on the Coast of Cuba, and on tne Coast of 
Africa, for the Prevention of the Slave Trade, from 
the Ist day of January 1854 to the latest date, 
distinguishing Steam from Sailing Vessels. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Turnpike 
reading of the Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Zreland) Trusts 
Biil ; (ireland) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Income Tax 
into a Committee on the Income Tax Bill, Bill. 





Chair of this House; and to assure Her Majesty | 
that whatever expense Her Majesty shall think | 
proper to be incurred upon that account, this House | 
will make good the same. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented | 
to Her Majesty, by such Members of this House | 
as are of 
Council. 


Mr. Peel presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, | 


-—Names of Non-commissioned Officers and Sol- 
diers selected for recommendation to his Majesty 


- the Emperor of the French to receive the Decoration 


Army, &amp;c. 
Examina- 
tions. 


Camp at 
Colchester. 


Sir John 
M'Neill and 
Colonel 
Tulloch, 


Land Trans- 
port Corps. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land.) 


Racehorse 
Duty Act 
Amendment, 





of the French Military War Medal. 

Mr. Peel also presented,—Return to an Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 26th day of February 
last, for a Return relative to Army, &amp;c. Exami- 
nations, 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
4th day of this instant March, for a Return relative 
to the Camp at Colchester. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
5th day of this instant March, for a Return relative 
to Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch. 

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


Ordered, That the Petitions of the Non-commis- 
sioned Officers and Drivers of the Land Transport 
Corps, who served during the late War in the Crimea, 
which were presented upon the 6th day of February 
last, be referred to a Select Committee. 


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 Extra Sittings of 
the Court of Session in Scotland, since the 1st day 
of January 1840 to the 1st day of January 1857, 
in terms of the Act 2 &amp; 3 Vic. ec. 36 :—(1.) Of the 
whole Court or either Division thereof; and (2.) Of 
all or any of the Lords Ordinary; and by whose 
directions such Extra Sittings took place :—Of the 
Number of Causes standing in the Short Roll of 
each Division of the Court, and ready for Hearing, 
at the meeting of the Court in November, during 
each of the last Ten years :—And, of the Number 
of Cases decided at each of the Extra Sittings by 
each Division and each Lord Ordinary. 

Ordered, That the said Address be 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this 
of Her M 


resented to 
ouse as are 
ajesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, 
for repealing and re-imposing, under new regula- 
tions, the Duty on Racehorses: And that the Chan- 
Vou. 112, 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Crause, N° 1 (Reduced rate of Seven-pence in 
the pound to be charged for the year commencing 
from the 5th April 1857). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 2: To leave out 


er Majesty's Most honourable Privy i“ Seven-pence”’ and insert “ Five-pence.” 


Question, That “Seven-pence” stand part of 
‘the Clause——put, and agreed to. 
| Another Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 8: To 
|leave out from the word “ Twenty” to the end of 
| the Clause. 
Question, That the words “ Provided neverthe- 
| less, that where under the last-mentioned enact- 
'“ ment” stand part of the Clause Amendment, 
| by leave, withdrawn. 
| Another Amendment. proposed, in p. 2, 1.11: To 
| leave out from the word “ shall” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to add the words “ not be charge- 
“ able with any Incame Tax on an income less than 
“ 1501. a vear.” 

Question put, That the words “ be chargeable 
“ for the year commencing as aforesaid” stand part 
of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for the 17; r. Hayter, 1 53 
Yeas, Viscount Monck: _— 
Tellers for thes Mr. William Williams, \ , 
Noes, \(Mr. Pellatt: ji 


Clause agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment: And the Bill was re-committed to 
a Committee of the whole House :—The House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 





Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That 53,700 Men and Boys be employed for seamen, &amp;c. 
the Sea and Coast Guard Services for Four months, 
ending on the 31st day of July 1857, including 
15,000 Royal Marines. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.800,000, be wages, 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Wages to Seamen and Ma- 
rices, which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

n3 3. That 
















































































Victuals. 


Admiralty 
Office. 


Coast Guard 
Service, &amp;c. 


Scientific 
Departments 
of the Navy, 


Naval Esta- 
blishments at 
Home. 


Naval Esta- 
blishments 
Abroad. 


Wages to 
Artificers, &amp;c. 
at Home. 


Wages to 
Artificers, &amp;c. 
Abroad. 


Naval Stores. 


New Works, 
&amp;e. 


Medicines 
and Medical 
Stores. 


Naval 
Miscellaneous 
Services. 


Half-Pay, &amp;c. 


94 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 300,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Victuals to Seamen and Ma- 
rines, which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.50,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Salaries of the Officers and the Contin- 
gent Expenses of the Admiralty Office, which will 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 80,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Salaries and Expenses of the Coast 
Guard Service, and the Charges for the Royal 
Naval Coast Volunteers, which will come in course 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 30,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Salaries of the Officers and the Contin- 
gent Expenses of the several Scientific Departments 
of the Navy, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858, 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 60,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Salaries of the Officers and the Contin- 
gent Expenses of Her Majesty’s Naval Establish- 
ments at Home, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.10,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Salaries of the Officers and the Contin- 
gent Expenses of Her Majesty’s Naval Establish- 
ments Abroad, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 300,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Wages to Artificers, La- 
bourers, and others employed in Her Majesty’s 
Naval Establishments at Home, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1858. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.20,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Wages to Artificers, La- 
bourers, and others employed in Her Majesty’s 
Naval Establishments Abroad, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1858. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 500,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Expense of Naval Stores for the Build- 
ing, Repair and’ Outfit of the Fleet, the Purchase of 
Steam Machinery, and for other purposes connected 
therewith, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 200,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of New Works, Improvements, 
and Repairs in the Naval Establishments, which 
will come in course of payment during the year 
ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 20,000, be 
ranted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Medicines and Medical Stores, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 81st day of March 1858. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £.30,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of divers Naval Miscellaneous 
Services, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 250,000, be 
erantet to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 


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A. 1857. 


fraying the Charge of Half-Pay, Reserved Half- 
Pay, and Retirement to Officers of the Navy and 
Royal Marines, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 200,000, be Military 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- Pensions and. 
fraying the Charge of Military Pensions and Allow- “"°7#"°* 
ances, which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 60,000, be Civil Pensions. 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- and Allow. 
fraying the Charge of Civil Pensions and Allow-*"°** 
ances, which will come in course of foyont during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £.80,000, be Transport 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- Service, &amp;c. 
fraying the Charge for the Freight of Ships, for the 
Victualling and Conveyance of Troops, on account 
of the Army, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 400,000, be Packet 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- Service. 
fraying the Charge of the Packet Service, for the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

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 
“in order to secure to the Country that relief from 
“ Taxation which it justly expects, it is necessary, Pxpenditure of 
“in the judgment of this House, to revise and ~~ 
“further reduce the Expenditure of the State,” in- 
stead 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 the said Resolutions be now read 
a second time:—The said Resolutions were ac- 
cordingly read a second time, and agreed to. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Marine 
for the Regulation of Her Majesty’s Royal Marine Mutiny. 
Forces while on Shore: And that Mr. FitzRoy, 

Sir Charles Wood and Sir Robert Peel do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Extra-paro- 
a Committee on the Extra-parochial Places Bill; chial Places 
and, afier some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill was, according Ecclesiastical 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a — 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. , 


The Customs Duties Bill was, according to Order, Customs 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee Duties Bill 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Indemnity Bill was, according to Order, read Indemnity 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of Bill. 
the whole House, for To-morrow. : 


The Copyhold and Inclosure Commissions, &amp;c. Copyhold 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; ye rt 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, go. pill, 


for To-morrow. 


The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill Municipal 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and Corporations 
i : . Act Amend- 

committed to a Committee of the whole House, for jrent Bill. 


To-morrow. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy ( Volun- 
Returns of First Class Volunteers, Naval Cadets, “™ 
Midshipmen, 





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ES Sierrre 












90 VicTrorIz. 


Midshipmen, and Naval Instructors, for each year, 
from 1836 to 1856 inclusive :— 














First Class Volunteers, Naval Cadets, and Midshipmen. a 
Number 
on the . Number discharged. 
List on 3 
31st Dec. 2 Number 
ineach | = . . : 
Yeer.| Year. - Misconduct. | Voluntarily. | Promotions. | Deaths employed 
4 
3 3 vo g a bo Afloat 
=| 8 x z| s ‘2 | im each 
SPIPEl sas) Fis] Pla | Fl sl? 
‘ slale(3/e/3/ 2/5 18/8] veo. 
Piglalzialslalsl alfa 
i) ss i) ° 
SlzleisSilz/Sla/8li2a\Slza 












































Of Mates for each year, from 1836 to 1856, inclu- 

































































sive :— 
Number : 
Number discharged. 
on the List | § ane 
on &gt; 
Sist December} 2 Misconduct. | Voluntarily. | Promotions. | Deaths. 
in each Year. | t&amp; 
Year. ‘§ Py ser is x 
a 7 a oy ca a 
a |3 3 x x] x} 
a “bo a a] iy a 2 g 2 a iy 
2/388 2/3 i1a/8ietlsisais 
PIT lei F/R) 2) 38) 2] 8 [23 
Silze2l/2}/8s laz2/;si}a)/5)]24 |sfa 
Similar Return of Lieutenants :—And, similar Re- 
turn of Commanders. 
— The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 


Duty Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, 

Amendment for repealing and re-imposing, under new Regula- 

= tions, the Duty on Racehorses: And the same was 

Bill 43. read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


Pauper Mr. Bouverie presented a Bill to continue the 
Maintenance Act for charging the Maintenance of certain Paupers 
aoa upon the Union Funds: And the same was read the 
Bill 44. first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow; and to be printed. 


Cinque Ports Viscount Monck presented a Bill for the Amend- 

Act Amend- ment of the Cinque Ports Act: And the same was 

ment Bill. read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
Bill 45. time To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Mercurii, 11° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
Comwall HE Cornwall Railway Bill was, according to 
Railway Bill. Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


pethampton, The Southampton, Bristol and South Wales Rail- 
South Wane way (Southampton and Salisbury, &amp;c.) Bill was read 
Railway a second time ; and committed. 

(Southampton 


and Salisbury, 
te.) Bill, 
fev Roads The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Orkney Roads Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Wednesday next. 
Vou. 112. 





10°—11° Marti. 95 


The Tralee and Killarney Railway Bill was, ac- Tralee and 


i i : - Killarney 
cone to Order, read a second time; and com Railway: Bill. 


A Bill to relieve from Liverpool Town and Dock Liverpool 
Dues the Commerce resorting to the Garston and —— 
Widnes Docks and to the Sankey Canal of the Saint (gaint Helen’s 
Helen’s Canal and Railway Company, was read the Canal and 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Railway Com- 

pany) Bill. 

Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Meriton’s — 
Meriton’s and Hagen’s Sufferance Wharvee Bill ; 314 Hasen’s 
That they had examined the allegations contained Wharves BUL 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, 
by altering the date of an Order of the Commission- 
ers of Her Majesty's Customs, in order to make the 
same in accordance with the facts of the case; and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions relating to Church Rates ; — Church Public 
Rates Abolition Bill;—and, Public-houses (Scot- Petitions. 


land) Act,—were presented, and read ; and ordered Vide Fifteenth 


to lie upon the Table. Report. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Wheat, &amp;c. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 27th day of February last, for Returns relative 
to Wheat, &amp;c. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Steam Vessels. 


a Return, in a tabular form, with consecutive Num- 
bers, of the whole of the Steam Vessels registered 
in the United Kingdom on or before the 1st day of 
January 1857; stating, in separate Columns, the 
following Particulars: 1. Vessels’ Names; 2. Port 
of Registry; 3. Dateof Build; 4. Registered Owners; 
5. Dimensions of Vessels in Length and Breadth, 
and Depth of Hold; 6. Tonnage (exclusive of En- 
gine-room) and Gross Tonnage, distinguishing Ves- 
sels built of Iron, and also Vessels having Screw 
Propellers; 7. Estimated Horse-power of their En- 
gines, and giving the Agcregate Number of Vessels 
and Amount of Tonnage; with an Index for easy 
reference attached to it, giving the Names of the 
Vessels in Alphabetical Order, with Numbers to 
each, corresponding with those in the Return (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 473, of 
Session 1855). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Kooria Moorig 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Islands. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of Correspondence re- 
lating to the Cession of the Kooria ‘Mooria Islands 
to Great Britain by the Imaum of Muscat, and to 
the Grant of a License from the Crown to John Ord, 
of Litherland, near Liverpool, in the County of 
Lancaster, late Master Mariner, and Joseph Hindson 
and James Henshall Hayes, both of Liverpool afore- 
said, Merchants and Brokers, to take the Guano on 
those Islands. 

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. Duncan reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions 
Petitions presented upon the 9th and 10th days of eee 
this instant March, and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial 
mittee on the Industrial Schools Bill; Schools Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the suid Committee. 
N4 The 


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96 


Turnpike The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Trusts 


auton reading of the Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Jreland) 
(Ireland) Bil, Bill ; ; ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ecclesiastical © The Order of the day being read, for the second 

aroun reading of the Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill ; 

_ Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Imprisonment for Debt, &amp;c. Bill ; 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 
ut, That the Bill be now read a second time :—It 
Ccanid in the Negative. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act (1836) 
Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) 

Act (1836) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


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

Ordered, That the Account of all Exchequer Bills 
raised, charged on the Aids or Supplies of 1857, 
unprovided for, which was presented upon the 10th 
day of this instant March, be referred to the Com- 
mittee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 


Supply. 


Exchequer 
Bills 


(In the Committee.) 


1, £.21,049,700, to pay off Exchequer Bills. 

2. £.1,553,200, on account, for certain Civil 
Services. 

3. £.1,510,000, on account, for Revenue De- 
partments. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


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. 


Income Tax 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, mg to 


take into consideration the Income 
amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


ax Bill, as 


Extra-paro- 
chial Places 


Bill, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Extra-parochial Places 
Bill, as amended in the Committee; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bili be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


Ecclesiastical 
Jurisdiction 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
+a eee mittees on the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, the 
Duties Bill, Customs Duties Bill, the Indemnity Bill, and the 
Indemnity Bill, Copyhold and Inclosure Commissions, &amp;e. Bill ; 

and Copyhold = ()rdered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
and Inclosure ; 

Commissiuns, 82me Committee. 

&amp;e. Bill. Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee; and, after scme time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 


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A. 1857. 


Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, and directed him to Ecclesiastical 
report the same, without Amendment. a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee Customs 
had gone through the Soetienn Duties Bill. Duties Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- _ Bill 46. 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow; and 
be printed. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee Indemnity 
had gone through the Indemnity Bill, and the Copy- Bill, and 
hold and Inclosure Commissions, Xc. Bill, and di- so 
rected him to report the same, without Amend- Commissions, 
ment. &amp;c. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations Act Amend- Corporations 
° Act Amend- 
ment Bill; ment Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Racehorse Duty Act Amendment Bill was, Racehorse 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- Duty Act 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- Ry, 


morrow. 


The Pauper Maintenance Bill was, according to Pauper Main. 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a tenance Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Cinque Ports Act Amendment Bill was, Cinque Ports 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- Act Amend. 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for ment EB. 
‘To-morrow. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Portland 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; #arbour Bill. 
That in the zase of the Portland Harbour Bill, the 
Standing Orders have been complied with. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Bankruptcy. 
to Bankruptcy, which was presented upon the 3d No. 100. 
day of February last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army, &amp;c. Army, &amp;. 
Examinations, which was presented upon the 10th Examinations. 
day of this instant March, be printed. No. 101. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Camp at Camp at 
Colchester, which was presented upon the 10th day Colchester 
of this instant March, be printed. No, 102. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Sir John Sir John 


M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch, which was presented -— ond 


upon the 10th day of this instant March, be printed. Tulloch. 
No. 103. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Friday Savings Banks 
next, the Savings Banks Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 12° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 
. Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill was Dewees? 
read the third time. Railway Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Price’s Patent Candle Company Bill was read the Price's Patent 
third time. pom &gt; ya 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. oe: 
Ordered, 








Whitchaven, 
Cleator a 
Egremon 
Railway Bill. 


Portland 
Harbour Bill. 


Salford Bo- 
rough (No. 1), 
and Salfor 
Borough 

(No. 2.) 


Private Bills. 
No. 104. 


90 Vicrori2Z. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Portland Harbour Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That in the case of the Petitions for the 
Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, and Salford Borough 
(No. 2) Bill, the Examiner of Petitions for Private 
Bills have leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Promoters of every Private 
Bill which has been brought into this House in the 
present Session of Parliament, shall have leave to 
suspend any further proceedings thereupon, and to 

roceed with the same Bill in the next Session of 
arliament. 

Ordered, That the Promoters of every such Bill 
shall give notice in the Private Bill Office, not later 
than the day prior to the close of the present Ses- 
sion, of their intention to suspend any further pro- 
ceedings thereon; or, in the case of Bills then 
pending in the House of Lords, of their intention 
to proceed with the same Bill in this House in the 
next Session. 

Ordered, That an Alphabetical List of all such 
Bills, with a Statement of the stage at which the 
same were suspended, distinguishing those Bil's in 
respect of which Subscription Contracts have been 
deposited, shall be prepared by the Private Bill 
Office, and printed. 

Ordered, That, not later than three clear days 
after the next meeting of Parliament, the Bill (in the 
form required by Standing Order No. 168) shall 
be deposited in the Private Bill Office, with a de- 
claration signed by the agent annexed thereto, 
stating that the Bill is the same in every respect as 
the Bill with respect to which proceedings have 
been so suspended, at the last stage of its proceed- 
ings in the House, in the present Session. 

Ordered, That the Bills indorsed by one of the 
~Clerks in the Private Bill Office, as having been 


duly deposited, with the agent’s declarations an- 
nexed, be laid by one of the Clerks of that Office 





12° Marti. 97 


in the present Session of Parliament ; and if any such 
Bill shall have been reported by any Committee in 
the present Session, the same shall be referred to a 
Committee solely for such purpose. 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented in the pre- 

sent Session against’ Private Bills, and which stood 
referred to the Committees on such Bills, shall stand 
referred to the Committees on the same Bills in the 
next Session of Parliament. 
Ordered, That uc Petitioners shall be heard 
before the Committee on such Bi'l, unless their Pe- 
tition shall have been presented within the time 
limited in the present Session. 

Ordered, That in case the time limited for pre- 
senting Petitions against any such Bill shall not 
have expired at the close of the present Session, 
Petitioners may be heard before the Committee on 
such Bill, provided their Petition be presented pre- 
vious to, or not later than, seven clear days after 
the second reading thereof in the next Session. 

Ordered, That all Instructions to Committees on 
Private Bills in the present Session, which shall be 
suspended previously to their being reported by any 
Committee, be Instructions to the Committee on the 
same Bills in the next Session. 

Ordered, That the said Orders be Standing Or- 
ders of this House ; and be printed. 


A Petition of the Great Yarmouth Waterworks Great Yar- 
Company, praying that Provision may be made mouth Water 
in the Great Yarmouth Water Bill, aut orizing the - 
Company to lease the Rates for a period not ex- 
ceeding Fourteen years, was presented, and read ; 
and reterred to the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


Petitions relating to County Rates and Expendi- Public 
ture ;—Paper ; —Property and Income Tax ;—Tea Petitions. 
and Sugar ;—Wine:—Burial Acts ;—Civil Service y;ao Fineenth 
Superannuation Fund ;—Imprisonment for Debt ;— Report. 
Metropolis Turnpike Roads;— Minié or Enfield 
Rifle ;— Public-houses (Scotland) Act ;— Sale of 
Beer, &amp;c. Act ;—Settlement and Removal ;—Sir 
John M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch ;—and, ‘Tenants’ 
Compensation (Jreland) Bill,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Police 
Copies of any application or sworn information, (Ireland.) 
forwarded to the /rish Government, by any Magis- 
trate, the County Inspector, or other Parties, re- 
quiring the attendance of a large body of Police, 


upon the Table of the House in the next Session of with a Stipendiary Magistrate, to attend at a Sale 


Parliament, in the order in which they shall stand 
upon such List, but not exceeding Fifty Bills on any 
oue day. 

Ordered, That, in respect of every Bill so laid 
upon the Table, the Petition for the same Bill, and 
the order of leave to bring in the same in the pre- 
sent Session, shall be read, and thereupon such 
Bill shall be read a first time ; and a second time (if 


of Timber at Claggan, near Ballymena, County of 
Antrim, in the latter end of February last, on the 
Estate of Mr. John O’ Hara :—And, of anv Re- 
port made by the Stipendiary Magistrate to the 
Authorities at Dublin Castle, subsequent to such 
attendance. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Audit Office. 


the Bill shall have been read a second time pre- Return of the state of Business in the Audit Office 


viously to its being suspended) ; and (except in the 
case of Bills in respect of which a Subscription 
Contract has been deposited) if such Bill shall 
have been reported by any Committee in the present 
Session, the order for referring such Bill to a Com- 
mittee shall be dispensed with, and the Bill ordered 
to lie upon the Table, or to be read a third time, as 
the case mav be. 


to the present time (in continuation of Return pre- 
sented last Session). 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Poor Law. 
mand,—Copy of Ninth Annual Report of the Poor 
Law Board. 


Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- Bills of Ex- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of Fe- chaage Act, 


Ordered, That in the case of Bills in respect of} bruary last, for Returns relative to Bills of Exchange 


which a Subscription Contract has been entered 
into prior to the present Session, provided it shall 
be proved to the satisfaction of the Committee to 
which the Bill is referred that the deposits in re- 
spect thereof (see Standing Orders 63 and 64) have 
not been withdrawn, it be an Instruction to the 
Committee to insert a Clause enacting that such 


Contract shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
VoL. 112. 


Act, &amp;e. 


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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Paper Mills. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 9th day of February last, for a Return relative 
to Paper Mills. 





O Ordered, 
















































East India 
(Bengal. ) 


Hudson's Bay 


Company. 


Local Acts. 
No. 45. 


Riff Pirates. 


East India 
and China 
Association 


of Liverpool. 


Supply. 


Exchequer 
Bills. 


Civil Services. 


Revenue 


Departments. 


Sir John 
M‘Neill and 
Colonel 
Tulloch. 


98 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Wheat, &amp;c., 
which was presented upon the 11th day of this in- 
stant March, be printed. 


Mr. Peel presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 22d day of July 1856, for a 
Return of the Number of Persons flogged in the 
Army in each of the years 1854 and 1855; speci- 
fying the Offence, the Regiment, the Place of Sta- 
tion, the Time, the Sentence, and the Number of 
Lashes inflicted (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 294, of Session 1854). 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of a Despatch from the Court of Directors 
of the East India Company to the Governor General 
of India in Council, in the Judicial Department, 
dated the 11th day of March 1857, No. 20, as to 
the Memorial of certain Christian Missionaries, 
praying for a Commission of Inquiry into the social 
condition of the Rural Population of Bengal (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 51, of the 
present Session). 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of 
February last, for a Return relative to Canada. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
19th day of February last, for a Return relative to 
the Hudson’s Bay Company. 

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


Mr. Oshorne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,— Further Reports from the Admiralty relative 
to applications for Local Acts. 

Mr. Osborne also presented,— Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 20th day of Fe- 
bruary last, for a Return relative to Riff Pirates. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
6th day of this instant March, for a Return relative to 
the East India and China Association of Liverpool. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the first be printed. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.21,049,700, be 
— to Her Majesty, to pay off and discharge 

xchequer Bills charged on the Aids of 1857 un- 
provided for. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,553,200, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards 
defraying the Charge of certain Civil Services, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,510,000, be 
— to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards 

efraying the Charge of the Revenue Departments, 
which will come in course of —— during the 
year ending the 31st day of March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 

were agreed to. 


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

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 
“ Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch ably ful- 
“ filled the duty entrusted to them of inquiring into 
“ the arrangement and management of the Commis- 


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A. 1857. 


“ sariat Department :—That the evidence in their 
“ Report proves that in the months of December 
“ 1854 and January 1855 the sufferings of the Army 
“ must have been intense, and that great mortality 
“was occasioned by overwork and exposure, and 
“ want of food and clothing:—That the examina- 
“ tions into this statement by the Board of General 
“ Officers materially support the conclusions arrived 
“ at by the Commissioners as to the want of organi- 
“ zation in the Quartermaster General’s, Commissa- 
“ riat and Transport Services :—That it appears to 
“ this House that, from the Report of the Board, 
“this inefficiency must be attributed to the im- 
“ perfect arrangement or conduct of those Depart- 
“ ments,” 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. 

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 “ Sir John M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch ably 
“ fulfilled the duty entrusted to them of inquiring 
“into the arrangement and management of the 
“ Commissariat Department ; and that, considering 
“the able services rendered by Sir John M Neill 
“and Colonel 7ulloch, as Commissioners in the 
“ Crimea, and the high testimony in their favour by 
“ Her Majesty's Government, an humble Address 
“ be presented to Her Majesty, praying that some 
“ especial mark of approbation be conferred upon 
“ them,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words “ Sir 
“ John M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch ably fulfilled 
“the duty entrusted to them of inquiring into the 
“arrangement and management of the Commis- 
“sariat Department; ana that, considering the 
“able services rendered by Sir John M‘Neill and 
“ Colonel Tulloch, as Commissioners in the Crimea, 
“and the high testimony in their favour by Her 
“ Majesty’s Government, an humble Address be 
‘ presented to Her Majesty, praying that some 
*‘ especial mark of approbation be conferred upon 
“ them,” be added instead thereof :—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Resolved, That Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel 
Tulloch ably fulfilled the duty entrusted to them of 
inquiring into the arrangement and management of 
the Commissariat Department; and that, consider- 
ing the able services rendered by Sir John M‘ Neill 
and Colonel Z'udloch, as Commissioners in the Crimea, 
and the high testimony in their favour by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Government, an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, praying that some especial mark of 
approbation be conferred upon them. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Rone as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- Supply- 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Land Forces, 126,796 Men (exclusive of the 
Men employed in the Territorial Possessions of the 
East India Company), Commissioned and Non- 
commissioned Officers included. 

2. £.1,467,000, on account, for Pay and Allow- 
ances of Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and 
Abroad, exclusive of India. 

3. £.184,000, on account, for Miscellaneous 
Charges of Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home 
and Abroad, exclusive of India. 

4. £.14,000, 








12° Martie. Q9 


20 Vicroriz. 


4. £.14,000, on account, for Volunteer Corps in 
Great Britain. 

5. £.62,000, on account, for Departments of the 
Secretary of State for War, and of the General 
Commanding in Chief. 

6. £.125,000, on account, for Manufacturing De- 
partments, Military Storekeepers, Barrack Masters, 


7. £.111,000, on account, for Wages of Artificers, 
Labourers, &amp;c. 
8. £.140,000, on account, for Clothing and Ne- 


9. £.319,000, on account, for Provisions, Forage, 
Fuel and Light, Barrack Furniture, Bedding, &amp;c. 

10. £.199,000, on account, for Warlike Stores for 
Land and Sea Service. 

11. £.82,000, on account, for Fortifications at 
Home and Abroad. 

12. £.231,000, on account, for Civil Buildings 
and Barracks at Home and Abroad. 

13. £.76,000, on account, for Educational and 
Scientific Branches. 

14. £.9,000, on account, for Rewards for Military 


15. £.21,000, on account, for Pay of General 


16. £.190,000, on account, for Pay of Reduced 
and Retired Officers. 

17. £.63,000, on account, for Pensions to Widows 
of Officers, and of Allowances on the Compassionate 


18. £.16,000, on account, for Pensions, Gratuities 
and Allowances to Officers for Wounds. 

19. £.11,000, on account, for Chelsea and Kil- 
mainham Hospitals and the In-Pensioners thereof. 

20. £.393,000, on account, for Charge of Out- 
Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, &amp;c. 

21. £.41,000, on account, for Superannuation and 
Retired Allowances. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


Viscount Palmerston acquainted the House, That 
their Address of the 10th day of this instant March, 
“That Her Majesty would be most graciously 
eased to confer some signal mark of Her Royal 
avour upon the Right honourable Charles Shaw 
Lefevre, Speaker of this House, for his great and 
eminent services performed to his Country during 
the long and important period in which he has with 
such distinguished ability and integrity presided in 
the Chair of this House; and to assure Her Ma- 
jesty that whatever expense Her Majesty shall think 
proper to be incurred upon that account, this House 
will make good the same,” had been presented to 
Her Majesty, and that Her Majesty had been 
pleased to receive the same very graciously; and 
had commanded him to acquaint this House, that 
Her Majesty is desirous, in compliance with the 
wishes of Her faithful Commons, to confer upon the 
said Right honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre some 
signal mark of Her Royal Favour, but as the same 
cannot be effectually granted and secured without 
the concurrence of Parliament, Her Majesty re- 
commends to the House of Commons the adoption 
of such measures as may be necessary for the ac- 
complishment of this purpose. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee, to consider Her Ma- 
jesty’s most gracious Answer. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Ways ana 
the Committee of Ways and Means. Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply Exchequer 
granted to Her Majesty, the Sum of £.21,049,700 Bills. 
be raised by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the 
year 1857. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
+g That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
ution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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 intv the said Committee. 


The Income Tax Bill was, according to Order, Income Tax 
read the third time. Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Extra-parochial Places Bill was, according Extra-paro- 
to Order, read the third time. —- riecaae 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill was, according Ecclesiastical 
to Order, read the third time. Jurisdiction 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. =. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded totake Customs 
into consideration the Customs Duties Bill, as Duties Bill. 
amended in the Committee ; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


The Indemnity Bill was, according to Order, read Indemnity 
the third time. Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Copyhold and Inclosure Commissions, &amp;c, Copyhold 

Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. ee 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. &amp;c. Bill. _— 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations Act Amend- pw pene 
ment Bill ; ment Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- Racehorse 
mittees on the Racehorse Duty Act Amendment on 


Bill, the Pauper Maintenance Bill, and the Cinque ji), p 
Ports Act Amendment Bill ; ; : Malneseenae 


Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the Bill, and 
i Cinque Ports 
same Committee. ‘At hand 


Then the House, resolved itself into the Com- ment Bill, 
mittee; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz re- — 
a That the Committee had gone through the 

ills, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time 


To-morrow. 
02 Ordered, 
































































Standing 
Orders. 


Birkenhead 
Docks (Con- 
struction) 
Bill. 


Birkenhead 
Docks (Ma- 
nagement) 
Bill. 


Landport 
and Southsea 
Improvement 
Bill 


Aberdeen, 
Peterhead 
and Fraser- 
burgh Rail- 
way (No. 2.) 


Public 
Petitions 
(Fifteenth 
Report.) 


Dublin and 
Wicklow 
Bailway Bill. 


Willenhall 
(Wolverhamp- 
ton) Gas Bill. 


100 12°—13° 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing the Progress made in the Com- 
pletion of the Maps of the Ordnance Survey (Scot- 
land) on the Scale of 6 inches to 1 mile :—And, 
similar Return in respect of the Maps to be laid 
down on the Scale of 25 inches to 1 mile; both Re- 
turns are to be in Statute Acres, and to the Date of 
this Order. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Veneris, 13° die Martii; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 

R. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 

1. That in the case of the Birkenhead Docks 
(Construction) Bill, Petition of William Potter, for 
dispensing with Standing Order 109, and for leave 
to be heard on bis Petition against the Bill, the said 
Standing Order ought not to be dispensed with. 

2. That in the case of the Birkenhead Nocks 
(Management) Bill, Petition of William Potter, for 
dispensing with Standing Order 109, and for leave to 
be heard on his Petition against the Bill, the said 
Standing Order ought not to be dispensed with. 

3. That in the case of the Zandport and Southsea 
Improvement Bill, Petition for additional Provision, 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; 
that the Parties be permitted to introduce their addi- 
tional Provision in the Bill, if the Committee on the 
Bill shall think fit. 

4. That in the case of the Aberdeen, Peterhead 
and Fraserburgh Railway (No. 2) Petition for leave 
to deposit Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders 
ought not to be dispensed with. 

he third Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Duncan reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented upon the 11th and 12th 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. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and verbally amended the same, and 
inserted a recital therein to the effect that the Ca- 
pital of the Company had been fully paid up, and 
the borrowing Powers exhausted ; and found the same, 
as amended, 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. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Willenhall (Wolverhampton) Gas Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
striking out an allegation of the expediency of capi- 
tal.zing a certain sum expended by the Company 
on their works out of their divisible profits, and sub- 
stituting an allegation of the expediency of appro- 

riating to the existing Shareholdeis shares amount- 
ing in the aggregate to that sum, bearing a preferen- 
tial cividend of Five pounds per centum per annum, 
alterations to that effect having been made in the 
Clauses of the Bill; and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 








Martii. A. 1857. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Guildford G 
Guildford Gas Bill; That they had examined the &amp;s Bill. . 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out an allegation 
of the expediency of capitalizing a certain sum ex- 
pended by the Company on their works, and in 
paying off part of a mortgage out of their divisible 
profits, and substituting an allegation of the expe- 
diency of appropriating to the existing Shareholders 
shares equal in the aggregate to that sum, bearing a 
preferential dividend of Five pounds per centum per 
annum, alterations to that effect having been made 
in the Clauses of the Bill; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


orate a 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Dumbarton Water, &amp;c. Dumbarton 
Bill, with Amendments. Water, &amp;c, Rill. 
Ordered, ‘That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the South Shields Gas Bill, South Shields 
with Amendments. Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


i a | 


Mr. LitzRoy reported the Sunder/and Gas Bill, Surderland 
with Amendments. Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


o~— @ 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Great 
the Great Southern and Western Railway (Capital) ee 
Bill; That they had examined the allegations con- Railway = 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the (Capital) Bill. 
same, by specifying the existing Powers of the Com- 
pany with respect to Capital, and the extent to 
which they have been exercised; and found the 
same, as amended, 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. 


ad that G® bee 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Great Yarmouth Bri- Great 
tannia Pier Bill, with Amendments. ——— 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. Pier Bin. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Waterford 
the Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill; That we Meg 4 
they had examined the allegations contained in the _ 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
striking out that portion relating to the construction 
of an Extension Railway ; and found the same, as 
amended, 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 Bury Gas-Light and Coke Bury Gas Bill. 
Company, and of the Bury Improvement Commis- 
sioners, praying that Provision may be made in the 
Bury Gas Bill for transferring the Undertaking of 
the said Company to the said Commissioners, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Bridgwater Turn- Bridgwater 
pike Roads, praying that Provision may be made in wong ig ! 
the Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill, for enabling ’ 
the Petitioners to erect other Toll-houses and Turn- 
pike-gates beyond the limits of the said Bill, in lieu 
of those now erected on the southern and eastern 
sides of the Town of Bridgwater, and to take Tolls 
in respect thereof, and to sell such last-mentioned 
Toll-louses, and for postponing the operation of the 
Towns Improvement Act, so far as atiects Turnpike 
Roads, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 

A Petition 





Great North- 
ern Railway 
(Capital. ) 


West Metro- 
politan Rail- 
way and 
Thames Em- 
bankment. 


West Metro- 
politan Rail- 
way and 
Thames Em. 
bankment. 


Great North- 
ern Railway 
(Capital. ) 


Landport 

and Southsea 
=o 
Bi 


Public Monies. 


No. 107. 


South Devon 
Railway Bill. 


Portland 
Harbour Bill. 


Southampto 
Election. 


90 VicrorRiZz. 


A Petition of the Great Northern Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring ina Bill to authorize the 
ayment of the Dividend by the Great Northern 
ailway Company, and to make Provision with re- 
spect to Capital fraudulently created in the said 
Company, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto 
subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway for connecting the West London Railway 
with the London and South Western Railway, and 
the West London and Crystal Palace Railway, and for 
connecting such Railways with Westminster; for 
making an Embankment on the North side of the 
River Thames between the New Chelsea or Ranelagh 
Bridge, and the Kensington Canal, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the West Me- 
tropolitan Railway and Thames Embankment Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Great 
Northern Railway (Capital) Bill. 

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


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for additional Provision in the Land- 
port and Southsea Improvemeut Bill, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, That they have Power to make 
Provision therein, pursuant to the prayer of the said 
Petition. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Public 
Monies have Power to report their Observations 
thereupon to the House. 

Sir Francis Baring reported from the said Select 
Committee; That they had met, and settled the 
course of their Proceedings, but are of opinion that, 
in present circumstances, it would not be possible 
to give proper time and consideration to the im- 
portant matters and extensive subject referred to 
them ; the inquiry therefore remains in an incom- 
plete state. 

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


The South Devon Railway Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Portland Harbour Bill was, according to 


Order, read a second time ; and committed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
received Notice, that it is not intended to proceed 
with the Petition complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Town of Southampton ;— And the 
said Letter was read, as followeth : 


Sir, Southampton, March 12th, 1857. 
We beg leave to inform you, that it is not our in- 


tention to proceed upon the Petition presented by 
Vou. 112. 





13° Martiz. 


101 


us on the 26th of February, complaining of an 
undue Election for the Town of Southampton. 


We have the honour to be, 
Your faithful servants, 
John Coupland. 
William Tong Bennett. 
Daniel George Hatcher. 
Hattill Arnold. 
Frederick Hillier. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


mittee on the Industrial Schools Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


of Refuge (North East Coast of England);—Medical 
Charities (reland) ;—Public-houses (Scotland) Act ; 
—and, Weights and Measures,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


























The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial 
¢ Schools Bill. 


Petitions relating to Church of Jreland;--Church Public 
Rates Abolition Bill;— Constabulary Force (Jre- Petitions. 
land) ;—Grand Juries (Ireland) Act ;—Grand Juries vide sixteenth 
(Ireland) Act (1836) Amendment Bill;—Harbours Report. 


| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a British and 


Return of the Number of British and Foreign 
| Vessels, including Coasters, entered inwards and 
cleared outwards at Ports in the United Kingdom, 
for the several years from 1852 to 1854 inclusive ; 
also, the Number of Wrecks and Casualties which 
happened on or near the Coasts of the United King- 
dom in the same years, and showing the Per-centage 
of Loss each year; also, the same Return for the 
years 1855 and 1856, but distinguishing for these 
years British from Foreign Vessels. 


mand,—Copy of Twenty-second Report of the In- 
spectors, appointed under the Provisions of the Act 
5 &amp; 6 Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons 
of Great Britain :—IV. Scotland. 

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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 26th day of July 1856, for a Return 
showing, in Columns, the Net Amount received 
annually from the Sale of Parliamentary Papers 
printed by Order of the House of Commons; dis- 
tinguishing the Amount received for whole Sets of 
Papers and the Amount for Miscellaneous Papers, 
sokiening the Amount for each year, commencing 
in 1852, specifying the Increase or Decrease in each 
year respectively; and in one Sum the Total Net 
Receipt to the end of the year 1855 (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 63, of Session 1852): 
—And, similar Return from Her Majesty’s Sta- 
tionery Office, of Papers sold by that Department. 


bruary last, for a Return relative to the Poor Law. 


(Police System, Bengal). 


Foreign 
Vessels, &amp;c. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Prisons. 


Parliamentary 
Papers. 


Return to an Order, dated the 11th day of Fe- Poor Law. 


Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of this in- Fast India 


stant March, for a Return relative to East India (Police Sy» 
tem, Bengal.) 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Order of Order of 


Victoria, which was presented upon the 27th day of Victoria. 


February last, be printed. 


No. 108. 


Ordered, that the Return relative to Paper Mills, Paper Mills. 


which was presented upon the 12th day of this in- 
stunt March, be printed. 





Ordered, 


No. 109. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Flogging Flogging 
(Army), which was } resented upon the 12th day of (Army.) 
this instant March, be printed. 

03 


No. 110. 












102 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to East India 
(Bengal), which was presented upon the 12th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Canada, 
which was presented upon the 12th day of this in- 
stant March, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Hudson's 


Bay Company, which was presented upon the 12th 
day of this instant March, be printed. 


East India 
(Bengal. ) 
No. 111. 


Canada. 
No. 112. 


Hudson’s Bay 
Company. 
No. 113. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Bills of 
Exchange Act, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 
12th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Bills of Ex- 
change Act, 
&amp;c. 


No. 114, 


East India 
and China 
Association 
of Liverpool. 


No. 115. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the East 
India and China Association of Liverpool, which 
was presented upon the 12th day of this instant 
March, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of all British Spirits in Duty-free Ware- 
houses in the United Kingdom, on the 1st day of 
January 1857 :—Of all British Spirits put in Duty- 
free Warehouses, from the 1st day of January 1857 
to the 15th day of February 1857 :—Of all British 
Spirits Duty-paid or removed in Bond, from the 1st 
day of January 1857 to the 15th day of February 
1857 :—Of all British Spirits remaining in Duty-free 
Warehouses, on the 15th day of February 1857: 


British Spirits. 





1. 2. ie | 4. 5. 


Stored 
Ist Jan. to | Total. 


15th Feb. 1857, No. 3. 
| 


15th Feb. 
remaiping in 
Warehouse No, 5. 


Duty paid 
Ist Jan. 1857, 
No, 4. 


Gallons in Store. 


In Store No. 1, 


1957, | Nod 





| Gallons Duty paid 
Warehouses, | Total | or removed in Bond, 

Ist Jan. 1857 to Gallons | Ist Jan. 1857 

| Ist Feb. 1857. * | to 15th Feb, 1857. 


| .: 
Gallons placed in | Gallons remaining 
in Warehouses, 


15th Feb. 1857. 


Gallons of Spirits 
in Store, 
Ist Jan. 1857. 











ae 


—Similar Accounts for Scotland :— And, similar 
Accounts for England. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy, and Continuance to the Ist day of January 
1857, of Parliamentary Paper, No. 326, of last Ses- 
sion, entitled “ Return of the Consumption of Spirits, 
British, Foreign and Colonial, in the United King- 
dom, 1800 to 1855; Account of the Number of 
Bushels of Malt charged with Duty, 1826 to 1855; 
the Rate of Duty and Amount charged, with 
Average Price of Barley per Bushel, &amp;c. &amp;c.” 


Spirits and 
alt. 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 3d day of this 
instant March, for a Return relative to Emigration 
(Australia). 

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


Emigration 
(Australia. ) 


No. 116. 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Articles of Agreement, dated the 18th 
day of December 1856, made between the Queen’s 
most Excellent Majesty, of the first part; the 
Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, Commissioner 
of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests and Land Reve- 
nues, of the second part; and the Mayor, Com- 
monalty and Citizens of London, of the third part, 
referred to in a Bill, intituled “The Thames and 
Medway Conservancy Bill.” 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty's Command,—Copy of Report to the 
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, 
upon the Accidents which have occurred on Railways 
during the year 1856. 


Railway 
Accidents. 


13° Marti. 





A. 1857. 


Copy of First Report of the Commissioners of Inland 
Inland Revenue, on the Inland Revenue. Reveuue. 

Copy of First Report of the Commissioners of Customs. 
Her Majesty’s Customs, on the Customs. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer also presented, Customs 
—Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Tariffs. 
21st day of July 1856, for a Return of all Alterations 
made in the Customs Tariffs of Foreign States, and 
of their Dependencies, as well as of the British Pos- 
sessions, information of which has been received 
since the 1st day of August 1855; giving the Fo- 
reign Weights, Measures and Monies, as well as the 
English equivalents, appended to the Description of 
each Article the Duty upon which has been altered ; 
and, under the Heading of each State, Dependency 
or Possessions, the Scale according to which the 
Reduction into such English equivalents is made ; | 
giving, further, the Dates at which each Alteration 
has been made, the Date of its taking effect, and a 
reference to the Document or Publication in which 
the Official Notice of such Alteration first appeared ; 
stating also, whether or where, in each State, De- 
serail or Possession, any fixed Scale for the 

aluation of Articles subject to ad valorem Duties 
is used, and the general effect of such use upon the 
Rate of such Duties. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer also presented, Harbour, &amp;e. 
ursuant to Order,—A further Report from the Bills. 
oard of Trade relative to Harbour, &amp;c. Bills. No. 19. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Paper relative to Harbour, &amp;c. 

Bills, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment. 
a That this House will, at the rising of the 
Louse this day, adjourn till Monday next :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Mr. Speaker's- 
into a Committee to consider Her Majesty's most ®etirement. 
gracious Answer to the Address of this House of 
the 10th day of this instant March, relative to the 
retirement of the Right honourable Charles Shaw 
Lefevre, Speaker of this House. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That the annual 
Sum of £.4,000 net be granted to Her Majesty, out 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland, the said Annuity to 
commence and take effect upon the day upon which 
the Right honourable Charles Shaw Lefore, now 
Speaker of the House of Commons, shall cease to 
hold the Office of Speaker of the House of Com- 
mons ; to be settled in the most beneficial manner 
upon, and to continue during the life of him, the 
said Right honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Viscount 
Monck reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 


Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Viscount Monck reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 
1. That a Number of Land Forces, not exceeding Land Forces 
126,796 Men (exclusive of the Men employed in 
the Territorial Possessions of the East India Com- 
pany), Commissioned and Non-commissioned Offi- 
cers included, be maintained for the Service of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 
2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,467,000, be Charge of 
ranted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- Land Forces 
fraying the Charge of the Pay and Allowances of 
Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, 
exclusive of Jndia, which will come in course of 
payment 








90 VicrorizZ. 


payment from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st 
day of March 1858, inclusive. 
Miscellaneous 3, That a Sum, not exceeding £.184,000, be 
Charges. — to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
aying the Charge of the Miscellaneous Charges of 
Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad 
(exclusive of India), which will come in course of 
payment from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st 
day of March 1858, inclusive. 


Volunteer 4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.14,000, be 

Corps. granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Volunteer Corps in Great 
Britain, which will come in course of payment from 
the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 
1858, inclusive. 

Departments. 5, That a Sum, not exceeding £.62,000, be granted 

for War and t&gt;) Her Majesty, on account, towards defraying the | 

Commander ? os ! 

in Chief. Charge of the Departments of the Secretary of State 
for War, and of the General Commanding in Chief, 
which will come in course of payment from the Ist 
day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

Manufacturing 6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.125,000, be 


Departments, oranted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- 
- ing the Charge of the Manufacturing Departments, 

Military Storekeepers, Barrack Masters, &amp;c., which 

will come m course of payment from the Ist day of | 

April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 
Wages of 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.111,000, be| 
Artificers, &amp;¢. oranted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of the Wages of Artificers, La-| 
bourers, &amp;c., which will come in course of payment | 
from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of | 
March 1858, inclusive. | 








Clothing, &amp;c.° 


13° Martiz. 


8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.140,000, be| 





103 


16. That a Sum, not exceeding £.190,000, be Pay of Re- 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- poy Ree 
ing the Charge of the Pay of Reduced and Retired 
Otficers, which will come in course of payment from 
the 1st day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of March 
1858, inclusive. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 63,000, be Widows’ 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- Pensions. 
ing the Charge of Pensions to Widows of Officers, 
and of Allowances on the Compassionate List, 
which will come in course of payment from the Ist 
day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £.16,000, be Pensions, &amp;c. 
cranted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- to Wounded 
ing the Charge of Pensions, Gratuities and Allow-~ 
ances to Officers for Wounds, which will come in 
course of payment from the 1st day of April 1857 
to the 3ist day of March 1858, inclusive. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 11,000, be Chelsea and 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- Kilmainham 
ing the Charge of Chelsea and Kilmainham Hos-~°?* 
pitals, and the In-Pensioners thereof, which will 
come in course of payment from the 1st day of April 
1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 

20. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 393,000, be’Out-Pension- 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- ers of Chelsea 
ing the Charge of Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hos- Hospital &amp;- 
pital, &amp;c., which will come in course of payment 
frem the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

21. That a Sum, not exceeding £.41,000, be Superannu- 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- ation i 
ing the Charge of Superannuation and Retired Eee 
Allowances, which will come in course of payment 


granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de-| from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 


fraying the Charge of Clothing and Necessaries, | 


which will come in course of payment from the 1st | 


March 1858, inclusive. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 


day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, | were agreed to. 


inclusive. 
Provisions, 
&amp;e. 


Light, Barrack Furniture, Bedding, &amp;c., which will 


April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 


Stores. 10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.199,000, be 





| 
| 
9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.319,000, be| Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Mutiny. 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de-| for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the 
fraying the Charge of Provisions, Forage, Fuel and | 


come in course of payment from the Ist day of| 


better Payment of the Army aud their Quarters: 
And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Peel and the Judge 


Advocate do prepare, and bring it in. 


| Viscount Monck reported from the Committee of Ways and 


granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de-| Ways and Means, a Resolution; which was read, as Means. 


fraying the Charge of Warlike Stores for Land and 
Sea Service, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 82,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Fortifications at Home and 


Fortifications. 


Abroad, which will come in course of payment from ! 


the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 
1858, inclusive. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 231,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Civil Buildings and Barracks 
at Home and Abroad, which will come in course of 
payment from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st 
day of March 1858, inclusive. 


‘Civil Buildings 
and Barracks. 


followeth : 

That, towards making good the Supply granted Exchequer 
to Her Majesty, the Sum of £. 21,049,700 be raised Bills. 
by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year 
| 1857. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upen the said 
| Resolution: And that Mr. FitzRoy, the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do prepare, and 
bring it in. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself ways and 
\into the Committee of Ways and Means. Means. 


(In the Committee.) 





Educational 13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.76,000, be| Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply Consolidated 
eee granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards de-| granted to Her Majesty, the Sum of £. 13,007,200, Fund. 
‘fraying the Charge of the Educational and Scientific | be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the 

Branches, which will come in cuurse of payment | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 
from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 31st day of} Resolution to be reported. 
March 1858, inclusive. | — 
prot 14, ‘That a Sum, not exceeding £.9,000, be granted | Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Viscount 
Service, &gt; to Her Majesty, on account, towards defraying the | Monch reported, That the Committee had come to 
Charge of the Rewards for Military Service, which | a Resolut:on. 
will come in course ‘of payment from the Ist day of Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. | morrow. 
Othe General 15. That a Sum, not exceeding £.21,000, be, Viscount Monck also acquainted the House, that 


granted to Her Majesty, on account, towards defray- | 
ing the Charge of the Pay of General Officers, which 
will come in course of payment from the Ist day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. | 

Vou. 112. 





he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit ugain. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
O 4 The 









































104 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mnittee of Supply : 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. 


The Customs Duties Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Racehorse Duty Act Amendment Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Cinque Ports 
Act Amend- 


The a Ports Act Amendment Bill was, ac- 
ment Bill. 


cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Pauper Maintenance Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time ; and verba] Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Pauper Main- 
tenance Bill. 


Mr. Peel presented a Bill for punishing Mutiny 
and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the 
Army and their Quarters: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow. 

Ordered, That Clauses 69 and 73 be printed. 


Mutiny Bill. 


No. 106. 


Mr. Osborne presented a Bill for the Regulation 
of Her 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. 


Marine 
Mutiny Bill. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Sabbati, 14° die Martiz; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
Public ETITIONS relating to Education (Cities 
Petitions. and Boroughs) Bill ;—and, Metropolis Turn- 
Vide Sixteenth Pike Roads,—were presented, and read; and or- 
Report. dered to lie upon the Table. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer reported from 
the Committee to whom it was referred to consider 
Her Majesty’s most gracious Answer to the Address 
of this House of the 10th day of this instant March, 
relative to the retirement of the Right honourable 
Charles Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of this House, a 
Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : 

That the annual Sum of £.4,000 net be granted 
to Her Majesty, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the 
said Annuity to commence and take effect upon the 
d:y upon which the Right honourable Charles Shaw 
Lefevre, now Speaker of the House of Commons, 
shall cease to hold the Office of Speaker of the House 
of Commons ; to be settled in the most beneficial 
manner upon, and to continue during the life of him, 
the said Kight honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to, Wemine Contradicente. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that the Chancellor of the Exche- 

uer, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. FitzRoy and Mr. 
Wilson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Speaker's 
Retirement. 


13°—14°— 16" Martiz. 





A. 1857. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer reported from Ways and 
the Committee of Ways and Means, a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That, towards making good the Supply granted to Consolidated 
Her Majesty, the Sum of £.13,007,200 be ted out Fund. 
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 leave be given to bring in a Bill to Consolidated 
apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the Fund (Appro- 
Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and P™"-) 
Fifty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted 

in this Session of Parliament: And that the Chan- 

cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. FitzRoy and Mr. - 

Wilson do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, read a Mutiny Bill. 
second time; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for Monday next. 


The Marine Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, Marine 
read a second time; and committed to a Com- Mutiny Bill. 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Mr. Speaker's 
for settling and securing an Annuity on the Right ones 
honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre, in consideration : 

: : : ’ Bill 47. 
of his eminent Services: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 


time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill &amp;xchequer 
for raising a Sum by Exchequer Bills for the Ser- Bills 
vice of the vear One thousand eight hundred and a toee.700) 
Fifty-seven : And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next, 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Consolidated 
to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the Fund (Appro- 
Service of the year One thousand eigit hundred and P40") Bil. 
Fifty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted 
in this Session of Parliament: And the same was 


-| read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 


time upon Monday next. 
And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 








Lune, 16° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 

M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from Bridgwater 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private a and 

ons ‘ : = : airs Bill. 
Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for additional 
ee in the Bridgwater Markets and Fairs 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 

Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Bury Gas Bill. 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Bury Gas Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Great Yar- 
one of the Examiners of Petitions fur Private Bills, mouth Water 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- ~"* 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Great Yarmouth Water Bill. 

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

e 











20 VicTorRiz. 


Inverness The House proceeded to take into consideration 
and nay the Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill, as amended 
many in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
ae The House proceeded to take into consideration 
poe Tame Meriton’s and Hagen’s Sufferance Wharves Bill, as 
Wharves Bill. amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Peebles Rail- © The House proceeded to take into consideration 
way Bill. the Peebles Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- 

mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
pear The House proceeded to take into consideration 

nterest the Reversionary Interest Society Bill, as amended 
iety Bil. —o — 
ean in the Committee. Wis oa 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Bank of The Bank of Zondon and National Provincial In- 
London and = surance Association (No. 2) Bill was read a second 
National : , 

Provincial | time; and committed. 

Insurance 

Association 

(No. 2) Bill. 

Liverpool The Liverpool Town and Dock Dues (Saint 

F ser _ Helen’s Canal and Railway Company) Bill was read 

(Saint Helen’s @ second time ; and committed. 

Canal and 

Railway Com- 

pany) Bill. ‘ ; 

Newquay Pier The Newquay Pier and Harbour and Railway 

and Harbour 3j]] was read a second time; and committed. 

and Railway 

Bill. 

West London Ordered, That the West London and Crystal Pa- 

and Crystal Jace Railway Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 

Palace Rail- 

way Bill. 

Burial of the The Burial of the Dead within the City and Li- 

—— berties of London Bill was, according to Order, read 

Eetioe of a second time; and committed. 

London Bill. 

Metropolitan © The Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill was, ac- 

— Market cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted. 

Balleey Ball The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the Metropolitan Railway Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Raway Valley Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
_ one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for the Conway 
Valley Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Public 


ethics. Petitions relating to Paper;—Tea and Sugar ; 


— —Wine ;—Civil Service Superannuation Fund ;— 
Vide Sixteenth Diseased Cattle; — Guano ;— Opium Trade ; — 
Report. Poaching ; — and, Weights and Measures,—were 

presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

lable. 
pas Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of July 1856, for 
a Return from each Savings Bank in England and 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland, containing, in Columns, 
the Names of the Officers, their respective Salaries, 
and other Allowances, if any; the Amount of Se- 
curity each gives; the Numbers of Accounts re- 
maining open; the Total Amount owing to Depo- 
sitors; the Total Amount invested with the Com- 
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt ; 
the Rate of Interest paid to Depositors on the 
various Accounts of Deposit, and the Average Rate 
of Interest on all Accounts ; and the Total Amount 


16° Martiz. 


105 


November 1855; the Rate per centum per annum 
on the Capital of the Bank for the Expenses of 
Management ; the Annual Number of Receipts from 
Depositors ; the Annual Number of Payments; the 

Average Amount of Receipts ; the Average Amount 

of Payments; the hea Ae a Aon An- 

nuities granted ; the Annual Expenses of Mana 

ment, lode of all Payments and Salaries, for the 

year ended the 20th day of November 1855; also, 

the Day or Days and the Number of Hours in the 

Week on which the Banks are open for the Deposit 

and Withdrawal of Monies (in continuation of Pa - 

liamentary Paper, No. 493, of Session 1855). 

Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of Fe- Queen’s Co 
bruary last, for a Return relative to Queen’s Colleges !ses ({reland.) 
(Ireland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 24th day of Fe- National 
bruary last, for a Return relative to National Edu- eae 
cation (Zreland). ( ) 
is —_— That the said Returns do lie upon the 

able. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Three per 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, ©&amp;* Consols. 
dated the 9th day of this instant March, for a Re- 
turn relative to Three per Cent. Consols. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Works and 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the aed 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Abstract Ac- ” 
counts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the 
Moneys granted or otherwise received and appro- 
priated in the Department under the contol or 
management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 
Works and Public Buildings, in the year ended 31st 
March 1856. 


Mr. Speaker’s Retirement Bill was, according to Mr. Speaker's 
Order, read a second time; and committed to ee 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Exchequer Bills (£.21,049,700) Bill was, ac- Exchequer 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- (£.21,049,700) 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- pi,’ ’ 
morrow. 


The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was, Consolidated 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- rr 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- ) 
morrow. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- Matiny Bil, 
mittee on the Mutiny Bill, and the Marine Mutiny sn4 Marine 
Bill; utiny Bill 
Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 

same Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 

mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 

Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy re- 

— That the Committee had gone through the 

ills. 

Ordered, That the Bills, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
Means. 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 


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- Supply. 


mittee of Su 


pply; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Crimean 


Copy of Explanation of Sir Charles Trevelyan, re- Inquiry. 
specting a passage in the Report of General Officers 
nga to inquire into certain Statements in the 


No. 117. 


eport of Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch, 





of the separate Surplus Fund, on the 20th day of 
Vou. 112. 


relative to the Army in the Crimea. 


P The 



































Civil Appoint- 
ments (Army 
and Navy.) 


106 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly pre- 
sented the said Paper. 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pieased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Persons convicted of In- 
fanticide during the years 1852 and 1856, inclusive, 
together with the Sentence passed upon each person 
so convicted; specifying, whether such Sentence 
has been modified or reversed, und specifying, also, 
whether the verdict given at the Trial of each person 
has been accompanied by a recommendation to 
mercy, and if sv, the reason or reasons, if any, 
alleged for such 1ecommendation. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of Correspondence between Mir Jafer Ali 
Khan and the Court of Directors, and between the 
same, and the President of the Board of Control, 
respecting the Property of the late Naw4b of Surat. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Ameer Ali 
Morad, which was presented upon the 16th day of 
February last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Poor 
Law, which was presented upon the 13th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Customs 
Tariffs, which was presented upon the 13th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Mr. Peel presented, — Return to an Address to Her 
Majesty, dated the 26th day of June 1856, for Re- 
turns of the Names, with their Rank and Regiment 
(or Corps), of all Officers of the Army who remained 
in the Crimea from the first landing there till the 
end of the War :—Of the Names, Rank and Regi- 
ment (or Corps), of all Officers who remained from 
the first landing until they died or fell in Action :— 
Of the Names, Rank and Regiment (or Corps), of 
all Officers who remained from the first landing to 
the end of the War, with the exception of an inter- 
val of Absence, stating such interval: —Of the 
Names, Rank and Regiment (or Corps), of all 
Officers who, arriving at any Period after the first 
landing, remained to the end of the War, or who 
died or fell in Action; with the Date of their Arrival, 
and of their Death :—And, of the Names, Rank and 
Regiment (or Corps), of all Officers who left the 
Crimea before the end of the War, with the Date of 
their Arrival and Departure, and the Causes of such 
Departure. 

hewn to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
26th day of June 1856, for Returns of the Names 
and Rank of the several Officers of the Army and 
Navy now holding Civil Appointments in the Pub- 
lic ‘tm 28 within the United Kingdom :—Of the 
Date, Description and Annual S and Emolu- 
ment of each such Civil Appointment :—And, of the 
Annual Amount of Half-pay (if any), which each 
such Military or Naval Officer respectively receives, 
in addition to the Salary and Emolument of each 
such Civil Appointment. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
9th day of this instant March, for a Return relative 
to the Russian Medical Department. 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


16°—17° Marti. 





A. 1857. 


Martis, 17° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Calcutta and 
the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway - or apenas 
Company Bill; That they had examined the allega- Company Bill 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by substituting for the recital of 
the original deed of settlement of the Company, a 
recital of the effect of the articles of association 
under which they are now acting, and by omitting 
an allegation relating to the incorporation of the 
Company, the Bill, as amended, not extending to 
incorporate them; and found the same, as amended, 
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. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the Mallow and 
Mallow and Fermoy Railway Bill; That they had Fermoy Rail- 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble “*7 ™ 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction; inasmuch as, pursuant to the 
Power given to them by the Resolution of the House 
of the 27th day of February last, they did not think 
the grounds advanced by the Parties promoting the 
Bill sufficient for dispensing with the Standing Or- 
der, No. 140. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Banff, Portsoy and Banff, Portsoy 
Strathisla Railway Bill, with Amendments. and Strathisla 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Margate Water Bill, Margate 
with Amendments. Water Bil. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Guildford 
the Guildford Water Bill; That they had examined Water Bill 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same, by making a verbal 
alteration, to render the same more explicit; and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. ae reported from the Committee on Chester 
the Chester Water Bill; That they had examined Water Bill. 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same, by altering the amount 
stated to be the aggregate sum of the dividends 
payable in the three last years, in order to make the 
same an accurate statement of the case; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Chepstow Gas Bill, with Chepstow 
Amendments. Gas BR 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the East Kent Railway East Kent 
(Extension to Dover) Bill, with Amendments. Rava CBE 
a be any the Report do lie upon the Table ; ass —. 


The Birkenhead District Gas and Water Bill was, Birkenbead 


— to Order, read a second time ; and com- parma m 


The West London and Crystal Palace Railway 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; 
and committed. 


bea y Rag 

and st 

ing &gt; Rail- 
~.. . way 

A Petition 








Salford Bo- 
rough (No. 2.) 


Salford Bo 
rough (No. 1.) 


Conway Val- 
ley Railway. 


Controverted 
Elections. 


Printing. 
No. 122. 


Library of the 
House. 


No. 123. 


Parliamentary 
Papers. 


No. 124. 


Index to Ses- 
sional Papers. 
No. 125. 
Divisions of 

the House. 
No. 126. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Six- 
teenth Report. 


Petty Sessions 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Bill. 


20 VicrorIz. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
of the Borough of Salferd, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for authorizing and requiring the Church- 
wardens of the Parish of Manchester, and the Over- 
seers of the Poor of the Township of Manchester, 
to sell or demise certain Property, and providing for 
the application of the proce thereof, and for other 
purposes, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Lang- 
worthy and Colonel Wilson Patten. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of the Borough of Salford, for leave to bring in a 
Bill to give further Powers to the Mayor, Alder- 
men and Burgesses of the Borough of Salford with 
respect to Burial purposes ; and to authorize —_——_ 
ments with respect to Lands in and near Marl 
vaupegeere in Salford, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Langworthy and Colonel Wilson Patten. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Undertaking 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring im a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Chester and Holy- 
head Railway, near way, to Lianwrst, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the General 
Committee of Elections ; That they had appointed 
Wednesday the 8th day of April next, to choose 
from Panel No. 1, the Select Coramittees to try and 
determine the Kingston-upon- Hull and the Newport 
Election Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hamilton reported from the Select Committee 
on Printing; That they had agreed to a Report, 
which they had directed him to make to the 
House. 

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


Mr. Walpole reported from the Standing Com- 
mittee on the Library of the House; That they had 
agreed to a Report, which they had directed him to 
make to the House. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—List of Bills, 
Reports, Estimates, and Accounts and Papers, 
printed by Order of the House, and of Papers pre- 
sented by Command, in Session 1857. 

General Index to the Bills, Reports, Estimates, 
and Accounts and Papers, printed by Order of the 
House, and presented by Command. 

General Index to the Divisions of the House of 
Commons, 1852 to 1857. 

Ordered, That the said Papers be printed. 


Petitions relating to the Ballot ;—Civil Service 
Superannuation Fund ;— Hyde Park ;— Oath of 
Abjuration ;—Public-houses (Scotland) Act ;—Sale 
of Beer, &amp;c. Bill ;—and, Settlement and Poor Re- 
moval,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 

reading of the Petty Sessions (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-morrow, 
the Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 

Vou, 112. 


17° Marti. 





107 


The Comptroller of the Household re to the Sir John 
House; That their Address of the 12th day of this M’Neill and 
instant March, relative to Sir John M*Neall and Tulloch. 
Colonel Tulloch, had been presented to Her Majesty ; 
and that Her Majesty had been to receive 
the same very graciously, and to give the following 
Answer : 

I have received your Address, praying that some 
especial mark of approbation may be conferred upon 
Sir John M‘ Neill and Colonel Tulloch, m conside- 
ration of the able services rendered by them as Com- 
missioners in the Crimea; and having taken the 
same into consideration, I have given directions for 


this purpose. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment, 
posed, That this House do now adjourn — And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Westminster 
Westminster Improvements Bill, might be read ; and — 
the same being read ; vals 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ma Bill 
for facilitating the Lease and Sale of Lands mort- 
gaged by the Westminster Improvement Commis- 
sioners, and for other purposes: And that Mr. 
Mackinnon, Mr. Warner and Mr. Oliveira do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Peel presented,—Return to an Address to Foreign 
Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of this instant Wiitery 
March, for a Return relative to Foreign Military — 
Training, &amp;c. 

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


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Order, Trees (Ire- 
dated the 10th day of February last, for a Return #24) 
relative to ‘Trees (Jreland). 

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


The followmg Papers were laid upon the Table Wheat, &amp;. 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 9th day of this mstant March, for a 
Return relative to Wheat, &amp;c. 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of this in- East India 
stant March, for a Return relative to East India (Ovde-) 
(Oude). 

Return to an Order, dated the 13th day of this British and 
instant March, for a Return relative to British and ae ‘ 
Foreign Vessels, &amp;c. ecmipetes’ 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of Thames | 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upom the Table “*vigetion- 
by the Clerk of the House,—An Account im Abstract 
of the several Sums of Money received and disbursed 
by the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation in 
the year 1856. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India ~ toda 
(Police System, Bengal), which was presented upon ‘* Ce &gt;Ys 
the 13th day of this stant March, be printed. ae 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Savings Savings 
Banks, which was presented upon the 16th day of Banks. 
this instant March, be printed. No. 128. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Queen’s Queen’s Col- 
Colleges (Zreland), which was presented upon the leges Ireland.) 
16th day of this instant March, be printed. No. 129. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to National National 
Education (Ireland), which was presented upon the Cireland ) 
16th day of this instant March, be printed. No. 130. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Three per Three per 
Cent. Consols, which was presented upon the 16th Cent. Consols, 
day of this instant March, be printed. No. 131. 

P * 


Ordered, 

































Works and 


No. 132. 


Army — 
(Crimea. ) 


No. 133. 


Civil Ap- 
pointments 
(Army and 
Navy.) 

No, 134, 


Russian 
Medical De- 
partment. 


No. 135. 
Sound Dues. 


Mr. Speaker’s 
Retirement 
Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Commons’ 
Inclosure Bill. 
Lighting 

of Towns 
(Ireland) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Exchequer 
Bills 
(£.21,049,700) 
Bill, and Con- 


solidated Fund 


(Appropria- 
tion Bul. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine 
Mutiny Bill, 


Journal. 





108 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Works 
and Public Buildings, which were presented upon 
the 16th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army (Cri- 
mea), which was presented upon the 16th day of 
this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Civil Ap- 
pointments (Army and Navy), which was presented 
upon the 16th day of this instant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Russian 
Medical Department, which was presented upon the 
16th day of this instant March, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to Her 

ajesty, that She will be ergo 4 pleased to give 
directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Papers relating to a Treaty to capi- 
talise the Sound Dues, and indemnify Denmark for 
giving up her reputed rights :—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Mr. Speaker’s Retirement 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Viscount Monck 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Commons Inclo- 
sure Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Lighting of Towns 
(Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, with an Amend- 
ment; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittees on the Exchequer Bills (£. 21,049,700) Bill, 
and the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
same Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Viscount Monck 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bills, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Mutiny Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Marine Mutiny Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Journal of this House, from 
the end of the last Session to the end of the present 
Session, with an Index to the 112th Volume, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That 1,000 Copies of the said Journal 
and Index be printed, by the appointment and 


under the direction of Sir Denis Le Marchant, the 
Clerk of this House. 
Ordered, That the said Journal and Index be 





17° Marti. 














A. 1857. 


rinted by such Person as shall be licensed by 
r. Speaker, and that no other Person do presume 
to print the same. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select Standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; Orders. 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Great Northern Rail- Great North- 
way (Capital) Petition, the Standing Orders ought (Ga vial 
to ie dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted — 
to proceed with their Bill, provided that Notices of 
the application be published once in the London 
Gazette, and once in three successive weeks in a 
Newspaper of the County of Middlesex; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such 
— has been complied with on the Report of the 

ill. 


2. That in the case of the West Metropolitan West Metro- 
Railway and Thames Embankment Petition, the rma _ 
Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with. Thames Em- 
bankment. 

3. That in the case of the Dartmouth and Torbay Dartmouth 
Railway Petition of Messrs. H. and W. Toogood, ang 
for dispensing with Standing Orders 139 and 140, Ss 
the said Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with, 

4. That in the case of the Madras Irrigation Madras Irriga- 
and Canal Company, Petition for leave to deposit tion and Canal 
Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be ©°™P#Y- 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
deposit their Petition accordingly. 

5. That in the case of the eatin Union Rail- evethive 
ways and Canal, London and North Western Rail- bmi 
way, and Shropshire Canal Companies Bill, Petition Canal, London 
of the Shrewsbury and Shropshire Coal Company sd North 
for dispensing with Standing Order 109, and for Railway, _ 
leave to be heard on their Petition against the Bill, Shropshire 
the said Standing Order ought not to be dispensed Canal Com- 
with. panies Bill. 

6. That in the case of the London (City) Coal London (City) 
Duties, Petition of Messrs. Dyson, for dispensing °° Duties. 
with Standing Order 161, the said Standing Order 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to present their Petition. 

7. That in the case of the Great Yarmouth Water Great Yar- 
Bill, Petition for additional Provision, the Standing pat'" Water 
Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that the Parties ~ 
be permitted to introduce their additional Provision 
in the Bill, if the Committee on the Bill shall think 
fit; provided that amended Notices be published in 
a Newspaper of the County of Norfolk for three 
successive weeks of the intention of the Company 
to supply Southtown and Gorleston with Water, 
and to enter into certain arrangements with the 
Great Yarmouth Haven Commissioners; that the 
Committee on the Bill do report how far such 
— has been complied with on the Report of the 

ill. 

8. That in the case of the Bridgwater Markets Bridgwater 
and Fairs Bill, Petition for additional Provision, erent 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; ' 
that the Parties be permitted to introduce their 
additional Provision in the Bill, if the Committee 
on the Bill shall think fit; provided that amended 
Notices be published in Newspapers for three suc- 
cessive weeks of the intention to enable the Trustees 
of the Bridgwater Turnpike-roads to sell certain 
Toll-houses, and to erect other Toll-houses in lieu 
thereof; that the Committee on the Bill do report 
how far such Order has been complied with on the 
Report of the Bill. 

The first, third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth 
Resolutions, being read a second time, were agreed 


to. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon tne Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Supply. 
I. An Account of the Sums voted in Supply, during No, 136. 
each year from 1835 to 3856, both inclusive, — 
the 


tt. ti 








London (City) 
Coal Duties. 


Lighting of 
‘Towns (Ire- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 

Great North- 
ern Railway 
(Capital.) 


Local Acts. 
No. 45. 


Electric 


Telegraph 
Company Bill. 


Great 
Southern 

and Western 
Railway 
(Capital) Bill. 


Aldershot 
Railway Bill. 


Orkne 
BIL y Roads 


Great North- 


ern y 
(Capital) Bill 


20 VicroriZ. 


the several heads of Army, Navy, Ordnance, and 
Miscellaneous Services; and also, II. Abstract of 
Grants for Miscellaneous Services from 1838 to 1856, 
in the same form as the Abstract now printed with 
the Annual Estimates, under the several heads of — 
1. Public Works and Buildings; 2. Salaries, &amp;c. 
Public Departments; 3. Law and Justice; 4. Edu- 
cation, Science, and Art; 5. Colonial and Consular 
Services ; 6. Superannuations and Charities ; 7. Spe- 
cial and Temporary Objects ; with the Sum Total 
under each head in each year. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly pre- 
sented the said Paper. 

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


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for dispensing with the Standing Order 
161, in the case of the London (City) Coal Duties, 
might be read, and the same being read ; 

A Petition of Coal Factors and Coal Merchants 
within the City of London, for leave to bring in a 
Bill to allow a Drawback on the Duties payable on 
Coals, Culm, Coke and Cinders, was accordingly pre- 
sented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
in accordingly, by Mr. Pellatt and Mr. Hutt. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Lighting of Towns (Jreland) Act Amendment 
Bill, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
the Petition for the Great Northern Railway (Capital) 
Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorize the Payment of Dividend by the Great 
Northern Railway Company, and to make Provision 
with respect to Capital fraudulently created in the 
said Company : And that Mr. Edmund Denison and 
Colonel Duncombe do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty relative 
to Applications for Local Acts. 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Mercurii, 18° die Martii ; 


Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
‘_ House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Electric Telegraph Company Biil, as 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment 
was made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Great Southern and Western Railway (Capital) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Aldershot Railway Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Orkney Roads Bill was, according to Order, 


read a second time ; and committed. 


A Bill to authorize the Payment of Dividend by 
the Great Northern Railway sary and to make 
—— with respect to Capital fraudulently created 

OL, 112. 


17°—18° Marti. 








109 


in the said Company, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to allow a Drawback on the Duties payable London (City) 
on Coals, Culm, Coke and Cinders, was read the Coal.Duties 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill to give further Powers to the Mayor, Alder- Salford 
men and Burgesses of the Borough of Salford, with (Ne 15 Bill 
respect to Burial purposes, and to authorize arrange- ~~ ’ 
ments with respect to Lands in and near Marlbo- 
rough-square in Salford, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Bill for authorizing and requiring the Church- Salford 
wardens of the Parish of Manchester, and the Over- os 
seers of the Poor of the Township of Manchester, Oe ate anaes 
sell or demise certain Property, and providing for 
the application of the Proceeds thereof, and for other 
sa roa was read the first time; and ordered to 

read a second time. 


Petitions relating to Representation (Scotland) ;— Public 
Maynooth sry Act ;—Ministers’ Money (Jre- Petitions. 
land) Bill, and Annuity Tax (Edinburgh) ;—Arbi- y;3. Seven- 
tration ;—and, Civil Service Superannuation Fund, teenth Report. 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Enfield 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Factory: 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, an Account of the Total Sum expended at 
Enfield Factory, from the 1st day of January 1854 
to the 31st day of March 1857; the Amounts under 
the following heads to be separately specified, viz. :— 
Building, Machinery, Miscellaneous Stores, Salaries, 
and Wages. 

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 Order of the day being read, for the second Ministers’ 
reading of the Ministers’ Money (Ireland) Bill; Money (Ire- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
after the other Orders of the day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Carlisle _ 
reading of the Carlisle Canonries Bill ; Canonries Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
after the other Orders of the day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
fend) Sil; the Registration of Long Leases (Scot- y Sete 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
after the other Orders of the day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Lunatic 
reading of the Lunatic Asylums (Jreland) Bill ; Asylums _— 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ‘ eoend) Bee. 
after the other Orders of the day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second name 3 
° ’ ° ompensation 
nore of the Tenants’ Compensation (Jreland) (Irelan 4) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
after the other Orders of the day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means: Means, 
Resolved, That this House will, after the other 
Orders of the day, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Coin- Supply. 
mittee of Supply; 
Resolved, That this House will, after the other 
P3 Orders 





‘ eg ll 
it » a ae ad i “ Ae 
et eee re a ee _ 






























































Exchequer 
Bills 
(£.21,049,700) 
Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine 
Mutiny Bill. 


Lighting of 
Towns (Ire- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Ministers’ 
Money ([re- 
land) Bill. 





110 18° Marti. A. 1857. 


Orders of the day, resolve itself into the said Com-; Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
mittee. sage had been brought from the Lords, by ane of *e Lords. 
I 
Mr. Speaker's Retirement Bill was, according to 8 nave to the Commissioners of Commissioners 7 
Order, rad the third time; and verbal Amendments Supply (Scotland) Act (1856) Amendment Bill, (.502PY) a ~ 
were made to the Bill. wit any Amendment : (1856) Amend. 
Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That the Bill do ment Bill. 
pass. The Lords have agreed to the Income Tax Bill, Income Tax 
Whereupon Mr. Speaker addressed the House as | without any Amendment : Bill. 
followeth (all the Members being uncovered) : The Lords have agreed to the Indemnity Bill, Indemnity 
I should not do justice to my own feelings, were | without any Amendment : Bill 
I to permit this Bill to pass through its last stage, The Lords have agreed to the Copyhold and In- Copyhold 
without expressing most gratefully and respectfully | closure Commissions, &amp;c. Bill, without any Amend- pe ao many 
to the House my very sincere acknowledgments for | ment : &amp;e. Bil. 
this mark of their approbation of my humble ser- 
vices in the Chair, and of the noble and generous 
manner in which those services have been rewarded. 


224 


The Lords have agreed to the Ecclesiastical Juris- Ecclesiastical 
diction Bill, without any Amendment : ~ 


The Lords have agreed to the Extra-parochial Extra-paro. 
Ordered, That what has now been said by Mr. | Places Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords had mane 
Speaker be printed in the Votes of this day, and | desire the concurrence of this House. 


entered in the Journal of this House. : 
ae : The Order of the day being read, for th d Carlish 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the} 24: oo Sud eh a Bill . ao 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
, Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
The Exchequer Bills (£.21,049,700) Bill was, ac- pe 


cording to Order, read the third time. The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration of 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the| The ' day being. poy 
Title be, An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty-one | ray Od the Registration of Long Leases (Scot- (Scotland) Bill. 


million forty-nine thousand seven hundred pounds | , . 
by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year One we wr a — ages discharged. 
thousand eight hundred and Fifty-seven. ’ a 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | The Order of the day being send, — a Ta 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. ‘reading of the Lunatic Asylums (Jreland) Bill ; Asylums - 
eg _ Ordered, That the said Order be discharged.  “™°#"4) Bil 
The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was, Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
neogeding to ange wee Oe third time. 
tesolved, That the Bill do pass. ' The Order of the day being read, for the sec6dnd « , 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the reading of the naan Eaiepenniion (Ireland) ee ai ' 0: 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. ' Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
| Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
The Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, read | Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. __ Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Extra-paro- 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | Lords to the Extra-parochial Places Bill be now chial Places 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. taken into consideration:—The House accordingly 
proceeded to take the said Amendments into con- 
The Marine Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, sideration ; and the same were twice read, and, with 
. an Amendment to one of them, agreed to. 


d the third time. 
“Resolved, That the Bill do pass. | Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. | agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships, 


with an Amendment; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 
The House, according to Order, proceeded to take | 
into consideration the Amendment made by the! Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Pimlico Im- 
Lords to the Lighting of Towns (Jreland) Act extend the Time for enabling the Commissioners of Provements- 
Amendment Bill; and the same was twice read, and | Her Majesty’s Works to complete Improvements in 
agreed to. : Pimlico ax in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Palace: And that Sir enjamin Hall and Viscount 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath Monch do prepare, and bring it in. 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord-| ” 
ships. | Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Public Offices 
_make further Provision for enabling the Commis- Extension. 
The Order of the day being read, for the second | sioners of Her Majesty’s Works to acquire a Site for 
reading of the Ministers’ Money (Jreland) Bill ; | additional Offices for the Public Service near White- 
And a Motion being made, and the Question | hall and Her Majesty's Palace of Westminster: And 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second | that Sir Benjamin Hall and Viscount Monck do 
time ; | prepare, and bring it in. 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the | 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at! Mr. Duncan reported from the Select Committee Public 
the end of the Question, adding the words “upon on Public Petitions; That they had examined the ee 
“ this day three weeks.” Petitions presented upon the 13th, 14th, 16th and Seport) . 
And the Question being put, That the word “now” | 17th days of this instant March, and had directed 
stand part of the Question :—It was resolved in the | him to make a Report thereof to the House. 
Affirmative. _ Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second | and be printed. 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole} Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Rules, Orders ont 
House, for this day three months. and Forms of Proceeding of the House of Cor 
mons, 








Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Poor Relief. 
No. 137. 


Standing 
Orders. 


Bury Gas Bill. 


Conway Val- 
ley Railway. 


‘ 


90 VicroriZ. 18°— 


mons, relating to Publie Business (corrected to the 
end of this present Session). 


The Order made upon the 13th day of this in- 
stant March, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return relative to the Thames and Medway Conser- 
vancy Bill, was read, and 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, a Copy of the Articles of Agreement, dated 
the 18th day of December 1856, made between the 
Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, of the first part ; 
the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, Commis- 
sioner of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests and Land 
Revenues, of the second part; and the Mayor, Com- 
monalty and Citizens of London, of the third part; 
referred to in a Bill, intituled, “The Thames and 
Medway Conservancy Bill.” 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this ; me as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return showing the Amount of Money expended 
for In-maintenance and Out-door Relief in 624 
Unions, &amp;c. under the Poor Law Amendment Act 
in England and Wales, during the half-years ended 
Michaelmas 1855 and 1856, respectively :— And, 
Similar Return for the half-years ended at Lady-day 
1856 and 1857, respectively. 

Mr. Bouverie accordingly presented the said 
Return. 

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


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Bury Gas Bill, Peti- 
tion for additional Provision, the Standing Orders 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to introduce their additiona) Provision in 
the Bil, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit ; 
provided that amended Notices be published, and 
posted in each of the Parishes affected by the 
original or amended Bill, and published for three 
successive weeks in two Newspapers circulatmg in 
the district ; that such Notices state distinctly the 
proposed sale of the works to the Bury Commis- 
sioners, and the transfer of such works to them, and 
the assumption thereof and manufacture of Gas by 
the said Commissioners, and the maximum price at 
which such Gas is proposed to be supplied; that 
they also state distinctly the limits proposed by the 
Bill, as originally introduced, and those now proposed, 
to be taken as the limits of Supply by the Commis- 
sioners, and do also show how all the Parties will 
be affected by the Provisions of the Bill, as pro- 
posed to be amended ; whether by way of enlarge- 
ment, limitation or abandonment of Powers under any 
existing Acts, or by any such Powers as had been 
sought under the original clauses of the Bill now pro- 
posed to be amended ; that the Bill be reprinted, as 
proposed to be amended, and copies deposited, at the 
expense of the Promoters, for public inspection with 
the Clerk to the Commissioners, the Clerk to the 
Company, and the Clerk of each of the several Pa- 
rishes affected by the Bill, or the ag or Amend- 
ments ; that the Committee on the Bill do report 
how far such Orders have been complied with on 
the Report of the Bill. 

2. That in the case of the Conway Valley Rail- 
way Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be 
dispensed with. Fr 

The first Resolution, being read a second time, 
was to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Von. 112. 


21° Marti. 









111 


Ordered, That leave be — to bring in a Bill Public 
for the Incorporation of Public Charities: And that Charities. 
Mr. Pellatt and Mr. Hindley do prepare, and bring 
Tt in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burials. 
relating to Burials in Consecrated and Unconse- 
crated Ground: And that Mr. Pellatt and Mr. 


Hindley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Pellatt presented a Bill for the Incorpora~ Public 
tion of Public Charities: And the same was read Charities Bill. 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time Bill 48. 
upon this day three months; and to be printed. 


Mr. Pellatt presented a Bill relating to Burials in Burials Bill. 
Consecrated and Unconsecrated Ground: And the Bill 49. 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon this day three months; 
and to be printed. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Gas Works. 
to Gas Works, which was presented upon the 17th No, 138. 
day of February last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Wheat, &amp;c., Wheat, &amp;c. 
which was presented upon the 17th day of this im- No. 139. 
stant March, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Oude), which was presented upon the 17th day (Oude-) 
of this instant March, be printed. No, 140. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to British and British _ 
Foreign Vessels, &amp;c., which was pone upon ee 


the 17th day of this instant March, be printed. No. 141. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Trees (Ire- 
to Trees (Ireland), which was presented upon the !#4.) 
17th day of this instant March, be printed. No. 142. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Post-office. 
Her Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Third Report 
of the Postmaster General on the Post-office. 
- ~ a hhae, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


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


And the House accordingly adjourned till Satur- 
day next. 





Sabbati, 21° die Martii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1957. 


PRAYERS. 
V ISCOUNT Duncan presented,— Return to Iron, &amp;c. 
an Order, dated the 23d day of February last, No. 122. 
for a Return relative to Iron, &amp;e. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


Table; and be printed. 


Petitions relating to the Church Rates Abolition Public 
Bill; — East India (Madras) ;—W ine ;-— Adultera- Petitions. 
tion of Food ;— China ;— Civil Service NNU- Vide Seven 
ation Fund ;—Public-houses (Scotland) Act ;—and, teenth Report. 
Captain Peter Valentine Wood, — were \. 


and read; and ordered to lie upon the Ta 


The Order for printing the Report from the Com- Bank Acts. 
mittee of Secresy on the Bank Acts, was read, and 
charged. 


Mr. Duncan reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Jctitions 
Petitions presented the 18th and 21st days of Report.) 
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. 
P4 Ordered, 

























_ Income Tax. 
No. 143. 


Sanitary Com- 
mission (War 
in the East.) 


Convict Dis- 
cipline and 


prem am 
tion (Austra- 
lian Colonies.) 


Cape of Gocd 
Hope. 


British 
Colonies. 


Emigration 
(Australian 
Colonies ). 


No. 144. 


Immigrants 
and Liberated 
Africans. 

No. 145. 
Victoria 
(Australia) 
Electoral Law, 


No. 146. 
Chinese 
Emigrants. 

No. 147. 


China ; and 
Hong Kong. 


No. 148, 


Malta. 
No. 149, 


Licensed Pas- 
sage Brokers, 
&amp;c. (Liver. 
pool). 


No. 150. 


112 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of an Extract from a Letter addressed to 
the Board of Inland Revenue by the Surveyor of 
Taxes at Stoke-upon-Trent, dated the 16th day of 
March 1857, relative to the Return required under 
the Income Tax Act from the Cashier of Messrs. 
Minton, of Stohke-upon-Trent, of the persons in their 
employment in receipt of £.80 a year and upwards, 
together with the Form of the Return No. 8, pro- 
vided by the Board of Inland Revenue in pursuance 
of the Income Tax Act. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Return. 

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


Sir George Grey presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Report of the Proceedings 
of the Sanitar Sonandinien despatched to the Seat 
of War in the East. 

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


Mr. Secretary ZLabouchere presented, by Her 
Majesty's Command,—Copy of further Correspon- 
dence on the subject of Convict Discipline and 
Transportation in the Australian Colonies (in con- 
tinuation of Papers presented June 1856). 

Further Papers relative to the state of the Kaffir 
Tribes in the Cape of Good Hope (in continuation 
of Papers presented 6 June 1856). 

Copy of Reports made for the year 1855 to the 
Secretary of State, having the Department of the 
Colonies (in continuation of the Repeste annually 
made by the Governors of the British Colonies, 
with a view to exhibit se aye the past and pre- 
sent state of Her Majesty’s Colonial Possessions, 
transmitted with the Blue ooks for the year 1855). 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere also presented,— Re- 
turn to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 25th 
day of July 1856, for Copies or Extracts of any 
Despatches relative to Emigration to the Australian 
Colonies (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 42, of Session 1855). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
10th day of February last, for a Return relative to 
Immigrants and Liberated Africans. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
12th day of February last, for a Return relative to 
Victoria (Australia) Electoral Law. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
23d day of February last, for a Return relative to 
Chinese Emigrants. 


Return to several Addresses to Her Majesty, dated 
the 13th and 27th days of February last, for Re- 
turns relative to China; and Hong Kong. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
9th day of this instant March, for a Return relative 
to Malta. 

Return to an Order, dated the 3d day of this in- 
stant March, for a Return relative to Licensed 
Passaze Brokers, &amp;c. (Liverpool). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Returns relative to Emigration 
(Australian Colonies) ; Immigrants and Liberated 
Ajricans; Victoria (Australia) Electoral Law; 

hinese Emigrants; China and Hong Kong; 
Malta ; and, Licensed Passage Brokers, &amp;c. (Liver- 
pool), be printed. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of General Treaty between Her 
Majesty and the Sultan of Morocco ; signed in the 


English and Arabic Languages at Tangier, Decem- 
ber 9, 1856. 





21° Martiz. 





A. 1857. 


Copy of Convention of Commerce and Navigation Morocco. 
between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Morocco ; 
signed in the English and Arabic Languages at 
Tangier, December 9, 1856. 

Copy of Correspondence respecting Consular [n- China. 
terference for the prevention of Smuggling in China. 

Further Papers relative to the Proceedings of Canton. 
Her Majesty’s Naval Forces at Canton. 
‘ "gts That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Captain Wood. 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
mt directions, that there be laid before this House, 
opies of all Correspondence which has taken place 
between Captain Wood, late Paymaster of the 
Depot Battalion at Winchester, and the War De- 
partment, from the date of his appointment to that 
situation to the present time :—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Arterial 
Lists of Arterial Drainage Districts in Zreland in Drainage 
which Final Awards have been made :—Of Arterial ne.) 
Drainage Districts commenced, but in which Final No. 151. 
Awards have not yet been made :—Return of Navi- 

tions combined with Drainage :—Lists of Arterial 

rainage Districts for which Final Notices were 
issued, but in which the Works have not yet been 
commenced :—And, of Arterial Drainage Districts 
for which Memorials were presented to the Board 
of Works in Jreland, and in which the Preliminary 
Surveys were commenced, but not completed. 

Viscount Duncan accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Medical Chari- 
mand,—Copy of Fifth Annual Report of the Com- ‘es (Ireland.) 
missioners for administering the Laws for Relief of 
the Poor in Jreland, under the Medical Charities 
Act, 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 68. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- National 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of Fe- Collections. 
bruary last, for a Return relative to National Col- No. 152. 
lections. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Reformatory 
24th day of February last, fora Return relative to and Industrial 
Reformatory and Industrial Schools. No. 168 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Dietaries for 
27th day of February last, for a Return relative to Convicts, &amp;c. 
Dietaries for Convicts, &amp;c. No. 154. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Returns relative to National 
Collections ; Reformatory and Industrial Schools ; 
and, Dietaries for Convicts, &amp;c., be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Parlia- Parliamentary 
mentary Papers, which was presented upon the 13th Papers. 
day of this instant March, be printed. No, 155, 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Railway 
—Copy of Reports of the Inspecting Officers of the Accidents. 
Railway Department to the Lords of the Committee 
of Privy Council for Trade, on certain Accidents 
which occurred on Railways during the Months of 
January and February 1857. 

Abstract of Reports on the Trade of various Trade of va- 
Countries and Places for the year 1855-56, received Tous tountrics 
by the Board of Trade (through the Foreign Office), *" 
from Her Majesty’s Ministers and Consuls. 

Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, for Trade and 
the Month ended 28th February 1857, and Two Navigation. 
Months ended 28th February 1857. No. 44. 

Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom in statistical 
each of the last Fifteen years, from 1842 to 1856, Abstract. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie ve _ 

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§chools of Art. 
No. 157. 


Highland 

Roads and 

Bridges. 
No. 156. 


Land Trans- 
port Corps. 
No. 98. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Customs 
Duties Bill. 


Racehorse 
Duty Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Pauper Main- 
tenance Bill. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine 
Matiny Bill. 


Mr. Speaker’s 
Retirement 
Bill. 


Exchequer 


) 
(£.21,049,700) 
Bill, 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill. 


Cornwall 
Railway Bill, 


Whitehaven, 
Cleator and 
Egremont 
Railway Bill. 


Price's Patent 
Candle Com- 
pany Bill, 
Extra-paro- 
chial Places 
Bill, 


Cinque Ports 
ct Amend. 
ment Bill, 


Royal Assent, 





20 VicroriZ. 


Table; and that the Accounts relative to Trade and 
Navigation be printed. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 17th day of February last, for a Return relative 
to Schools of Art. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—The Forty-third Re- 
port of the Commissioners of Highland Roads and 
Bridges in Scotland. 

Ordered, That the said Papers be printed. 


Mr. Peel presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 5th day of this instant 
March, for a Return relative to the Land Transport 
Corps. 

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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of their 
Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Customs Duties 
Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Racehorse Duty 
Act Amendment Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed, to the Pauper Mainte- 
nance Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Mutiny Bill, with- 
out any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Marine Mutiny 
Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to Mr. Speaker’s Retire- 
ment Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Exchequer Bills 
(£. 21,049,700) Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated Fund 
(Appropriation) Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Cornwall Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Whitehaven, 
Cleator and Egremont Railway Bill, without any 
Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to Price's Patent Candle 
Company Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made 
by this House to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships to the Extra-parochial Places Bill, with- 
out any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Cinque Ports Act 
Amendment Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


A Message by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman 

Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commissions, for declaring Her Royal Assent to 
several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, and for 
proroguing the present Parliament, desire the im- 
mediate attendance of this Honourable House in the 
House of Peers, to hear the Commissions read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the Tans of Peers, where a Commission 
under the Great Seal was read, giving, declaring 
and notifying the Royal Assent to the several Acts 
therein mentioned; and the Lords, thereby autho- 


rized, declared the Royal Assent to the said Acts, as 
follow : 


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113 


An Act for settling and securing an Annuity on Mr. Speaker's 
the Right honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre, in con- — 
sideration of his eminent Services : 

An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty-one mil- Exchequer 
lion forty-nine thousand seven hundred pounds by Bills 
Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year One re) 
thousand eight hundred and Fifty-seven : 

An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Consolidated 
Fund to the Service of the year One thousand eight petaticny ba, 
hundred and Fifty-seven, and to appropriate the : 
Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament : 

An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, Commons’ — 
in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commis- ™&lt;losure Bill. 
sioners for England and Wales : 

An Act to amend the Commissioners of Supply Commissioners 


, of Supply 


(1856) Amend- 
ment Bill. 
An Act to reduce the Rates of Duty on Profits Income Tax 
arising from Property, Professions, Trades and Bill. 
Offices : 
An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Indemnity 
Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for 
Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time 
limited for those purposes respectively : 
An Act to continue Appointments under the Act Copyhold 
for consolidating the Copyhold and Inclosure Com- and Inclosure 
. ¢ : . Ommissions 
missions, and for completing Proceedings under the x. pi), 
Tithe Commutation Acts: 
An Act to continue certain temporary Provisions Ecclesiastical 
concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England: Jurisdiction 


An Act to amend an Act of the ninth year of King Lighting of 
George the Fourth, chapter eighty-two, intituled, a 
“ An Act to make Provision for the lighting, cleans- yee bl 
ing and watching of Cities, Towns, Corporate and Bill. 


Market Towns in Jreland, in certain cases :” 


An Act for granting certain Duties of Customs on Customs _ 
Tea, Sugar, and other Articles: Duties Bill. 


An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Racehorse 
Parliament for repealing, and re-imposing under new yt0 tell , 
Regulations, the Duty on Racehorses : Bill. 

An Act to continue the Act for charging the Pauper Main- 
Maintenance of certain Paupers upon the Union *24nce Bill. 
Funds : 

An Act to provide for the Relief of the Poor in Extra.paro- 
Extra-parochial Places : es 

An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and Mutiny Bill. 
for the better Payment of the Army and their 
Quarters : 

Av Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty’s Marine _ 
Royal Marine Forces while on Shore: Mutiny Bill. 


An Act for enabling the Great Western, Bristol Cornwall 
and Exeter and South Devon Railway Companies ®#!!way Bill, 
to afford further Assistance towards the Completion 
of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and 
Truro, for extending the Time for the Completion 
thereof, and for other purposes : 

An Act to re-incorporate Price’s Patent Candle — ee 
Company, Limited, and for other purposes : p ae, Kinet, 

iL. 
An Act to enable the Whitehaven, Cleator and Whitehaven, 
Egremont Railway Company to raise additional Ca- Fae 
pital, and for other purposes. Railway Bill. 
And afterwards, a Speech of the Lords Commis- Lords Com- 
sioners was delivered to both Houses by the Lord = 
High Chancellor, as followeth : = 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded by Her Majesty to inform 
you, that in releasing you at this early period from 
our attendance in Parliament it is Her Majesty’s 
intention immediately to dissolve the present Par- 
liament, in order to ascertain in the most constitu- 


tional manner the sense of Her People upon the 
present state of Public Affairs. 





Vou. 112. 


Gentlemen 


Q 
















114 
Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to thank 
you for the liberal provision which you have made 
for the exigencies of the Public Service during the 
period that will elapse before the New Parliament, 
which Her Majesty will direct immediately to be 


called, shall have been able to give its deliberate 
attention to these matters. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded by Her Majesty to express 
the satisfaction which She feels at your having been 
able, during the present Session, materially to reduce 
the burthens of Her People. 

Her Majesty conmands us to assure you that 
it is Her fervent prayer that the several Consti- 
tuencies of the United Kingdom, upon whom will 
devolve the exercise of those high functions which 
by the Constitution belong to them, may be guided 





21° Marti. 





A. 1857. 


by an All-wise Providence to the selection of Repre- 
sentatives whose wisdom and patriotism may aid 
Her Majesty in Her constant endeavours to main- 
tain the honour and dignity of Her Crown, and to 
promote the welfare and happiness of Her People. 


Then a Commission for proroguing the Parlia- 
ment was read. 


After which the Lord Chancellor said ; 
My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


By virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission, under Parliament 
the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and Prorogued. 


now read, we do, in Her Majesty’s Name and in 
obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this Par- 
liament to Thursday the 30th day of April next, 
to be then here holden; and this Parliament is 
accordingly prorogued to Thursday the 30th day 
of April next. 























JOURNALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 





1857.—Sgss. II. 
From April the 30th to November the 6th 1857. 








VOL. 112—continued. 


VoL, 112—continued. 


By The QUEEN. 


A PROCLAMATION, 


For dissolving the present Parliament, and declaring 
the Calling of another. 


VICTORIA R. 


W HEREAS We have thought fit, by and with 
the advice of Our Privy Counch, to dissolve 
this present Parliament, which was this day pro- 
rogued, and stands prorogued to Thursday the 
Thirtieth day of April next: We do, for that end, 
publish this See Royal Proclamation ; and do hereby 
dissolve the said Parliament accordingly; and the 
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, 
Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners 
for Shires and Burghs, of the House of Commons, 
are discharged from their meeting and attendance 
on the said Thursday the Thirtieth day of April 
next: And We, being desirous and resolved, as soon 
as may be, to meet Our People, and to have their 
advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all 
Our loving Subjects Our Royal will and pleasure 
to call a new Parliament: And do hereby further 











declare, That, with the advice of Our Privy Council, | 


We have given Order that Our Chancellor of that 
part of Our United Kingdom called Great Britain, 
and Our Chancellor of Jreland, do respectively, 
upon Notice thereof, forthwith issue out Writs, in due 
form, and according to Law, for calling a new Par- 
liament : And We do hereby also, by this Our Royal 
Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our United 
Kingdom, require Writs forthwith to be issued ac- 
cordingly by Our said Chancellors respectively, for 
causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
Commons, who are to serve in the said Parliament, 
to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, 
Our said Parliament; which Writs are to be re- 
turnable on Thursday the Thirtieth day of April 
next. 


Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this 
Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our 
Lord One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 
seven, and in the twentieth year of Our reign. 


GOD save The QuEEN. 





Parliament 
meets. 


Message to 
attend the 
Lords Com- 
missioners, 


Parliament 
opened by 
Commission. 


J O UR 





NALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE of 





COMMONS. 





Sess. I].—1857. 








Parliamentum, inceptum et tentum apud civitatem Westmonas- 


teriensem, die Jovis, 30° die Aprilis, anno 20° regni Domine 
nostre Vicrort#, Dei gratia Britanniarum Regine, Fidei 


Defensoris ; annoque Domini 1857. 


N which day, being the first day of the meeting 

of this Parliament for the despatch of business, 
pursuant to a Proclamation (hereunto annexed), 
Sir Denis Le Marchant, Clerk of the House of 
Commous, and Thomas Erskine May and Henry 
Ley, Esquires, Clerks Assistant, attending in the 
House, and the other Clerks attending, according to 
their duty, Charles Romilly, Esquire, Clerk of the 
Crown in Chancery in Great Britain, delivered to 
the said Sir Denis Le Marchant a Book, containing 
a List of the Names of the Members returned to 
serve in this Parliament. 

Several of the Members repaired to their Seats. 


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- 
man Usher of the Black Rod; 


Gentlemen, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, desire the immediate attendance of 
this Honourable House in the House of Peers, to 
hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly, the House went up to the House of 
Peers ; where the Lord Chancellor and other Lords 
named in the Commission, sitting on a Form, 
between the Throne and the Woolsacks ; 


The Lord Chancellor said, 


My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of 
Commons, 
H ER Majesty not thinking fit to be here present 
this day in Her Royal Person, has been 
pe in order to the opening and holding of this 
arliament, to cause Letters Patent to be passed 
under Her Great Seal, constituting us, and several 
other Lords therein named, Her Commissioners, to 
do all things in Her Majesty’s Name, on Her part 
necessary to be performed in this Parliament; this 
Vou. 112. 





will more fully appear by the Letters Patent them- 
selves, which must now be read. 


Then the said Letters Patent were read ; and are 
as follow : 


VICTORIA R. 


PlCroRia, by the Grace of God of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
Queen, Defender of the Faith: To all to whom 
these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas, by 
the advice of Our Council, for certain arduous and 
urgent affairs concerning Us, the state and defence 
of Our said United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, and the Church, We have ordered a certain 
Parliament to be holden at Our City of Westminster, 
on Thursday the Thirtieth day of April instant: And 
forasmuch as, for certain causes, We cannot con- 
veniently be preset in Our Royal Person in Our 
said Parliament on the said Thirtieth day of April 
instant, Know ye, That We, trusting in the discre- 
tion, fidelity and care of Our most dear Cousin 
and Faithful Councillor George William Frederick 
Charles Duke of Cambridge; The Most Reverend 
Father in God and Our faithful Councillor John 
Bird Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all 
England and Metropolitan; Our well-beloved and 
faithful Councillor Robert Monsey Lord Cranworth, 
Chancellor of that part of Our said United King- 
dom called Great Britain; The most Reverend 
Father in God and Our faithful Councillor Thomas 
Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Me- 
tropolitan; Our most dear Cousins and Councillors 
Granville George Earl Granville, President of Our 
Council; Dudley Earl of Harrowby, Keeper of Our 
Privy Seal ; Edward Adolphus Duke of Somerset, 
Charles Duke of Richmond, Francis Duke of Bed- 
ford, William Spencer Duke of Devonshire, Walter 
Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, George 





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118 


Douglas Duke of Argyll, James Duke of Montrose, 
Henry Pelham Duke of Newcastle, Algernon Duke of 
Northumberland, Augustus Frederick Duke of Lein- 
ster, Arthur Richard Duke of Wellington, Master of 
Our Horse; Richard Plantagenet Duke of Bucking- 
ham and, Chandos, John Marquis of Breadalbane, 
Chamberlain of Our Household ; Henry Marquis of 
Lansdowne, James Brownlow William Marquis of 
Salisbury, James Marquis of Abercorn, George Ha- 
milton Marquis of Donegal, Brownlow Marquis of 
Exeter, Henry Marquis of Anglesey, George Horatio 
Marquis of Cholmondeley, Frederick William Robert 
Marquis of Londonderry, Francis Nathaniel Marquis 
Conyngham, Ulick John Marquis of Clanricarde, 
Richard Marquis of Westminster, Constantine Henry 
Marquis of Normanby, Frederick Earl Spencer, 
Steward of Our Household; Edward Geoffrey Earl 
of Derby, William Basil Percy Earl of Denbigh, 
John Earl of Westmorland, George Earl of Chester- 
field, John William Earl of Sandwich, George Wil- 
liam Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Earl of 
Jersey, Archibald William Earl of Eglinton, Tho- 
mas Earl of Haddington, James Earl of Elgin and 
Kincardine, George Ear] of Aberdeen, Archibald John 
Earl of Rosebery, Charles Augustus Earl of Tan- 
herville, Charles Philip Earl of Hardwicke, George 
John Earl De Lawarr, George William Frederick 
Earl of Clarendon, one of Our Principal Secretaries 
of State; Hugh Earl Fortescue, George Earl of 
Beverley, John George Brabazon Earl of Bess- 
borough, Robert Earl of Roden, James Howard 
Earl of Malmesbury, James Alexander Earl of Ross- 
lyn, Thomas Earl of Wilton, Henry Earl Grey, 


William Earl of Lonsdale, Gilbert Earl of Minto, 
Earl Granville, Earl of Saint Germans, Thomas 
Philip Earl De Grey, Richard William Penn Ear] 
Howe, Frederick John Earl of Ripon, Edward Earl 
of Ellenborough, Lucius Viscount Falkland, John 
Robert Viscount Sydney, Stapleton Viscount Com- 
bermere, Charles John Viscount Canning, Stratford 


Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe; The Right Re- 
verend Father in God and Our faithful Councillor 
Archibald Campbell Lord Bishop of London ; Our 
well-beloved and faithful Councillors Fox Lord 
Panmure, one other of Our Principal Secretaries of 
State; William Lennox Lascelles Lord De Ros, 
Peter Robert Lord Willoughby de Eresby, John 
Lord Elphinstone, George Lord Kinnaird, Thomas 
Henry Lord Foley, Charles Lord Colchester, John 
George Weld Lord Forester, John Singleton Lord 
Lyndhurst, William Lord Heytesbury, Toy Lord 
Brougham and Vaur, William Bingham Lord 
Ashburton, Charles Lord Glenelg, Edward John 
Lord Hatherton, George Stevens Lord Strafford, 
Edward John Lord Stanley (of Alderley), James 
Lord Dunfermline, Thomas Lord Monteagle (of 
Brandon), John Lord Campbell, John Cam Lord 
Broughton, Edward Burtenshaw Lord Saint Leo- 
nards, James Lord Wensleydale, and Edward Lord 
Belper, by the advice of Our said Council, do 
give and grant, by the tenor of these presents, 
unto the said Duke of Cambridge, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, Lord Cranworth, Archbishop of York, 
Earl Granville, Earl of Hurrowby, Duke of Somer- 
set, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Bedford, Duke 
of Devonshire, Duke of Buccleuch and Queens- 
berry, Duke of Argyll, Duke of Montrose, Duke of 
sVewcastle, Duke of Northumberland, Duke of Lein- 
ster, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Buckingham 
and Chandos, Marquis of Breadalbane, Marquis of 
Lansdowne, Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis of Aber- 
corn, Marquis of Donegal, Marquis of Exeter, 
Marquis of Anglesey, Marquis of Cholmondeley, 
Marquis of Londonderry, Marquis Conyngham, 
Marquis of Clanricarde, Marquis of Westminster, 
Marquis of Normanby, Earl Spencer, Earl of Derby, 
Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Westmorland, Earl of 
Chesterfield, Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Carlisle, 
Earl of Jersey, Earl of Eglinton, Earl of Hadding- 
ton, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Earl of Aberdeen, 


30° Aprils. 





A. 1857. Sess. IIT. 


Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Tankerville, Earl of 
Hardwicke, Earl De Lawarr, Earl of Clarendon, 
Earl Fortescue, Earl of Beverley, Earl of Bessborough, 
Earl of Roden, Earl of Malmesbury, Earl of Rosslyn, 
Earl of Wilton, Earl Grey, Earl of Lonsdale, Earl 
of Minto, Earl of Saint Germans, Earl De Grey, 
Earl Howe, Earl of Ripon, Earl of Ellenborough, 
Viscount Falkland, Viscount Sydney, Viscount 
Combermere, Viscount Canning, Viscount Stratford 
de Redcliffe, Lord Bishop of London, Lord Pan- 
mure, Lord De Ros, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, 
Lord Elphinstone, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Foley, Lord 
Colchester, Lord Forester, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord 
Heytesbury, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord Ash- 
burton, Lord Glenelg, Lord Atherton, Lord Straf- 
ford, Lord Stanley (of Alderley), Lord Dunfermline, 
Lord Monteagle (of Brandon), Lord Campbell, Lord 
Broughton, Lord Saint Leonards, Lord Wensleydale, 
and Lord Belper, or any Three of them, full Power, 
in Our name, to begin and hold Our said Parliament, 
and to open and declare, and cause to be opened 
and declared, the causes of holding the same, and 
to proceed upon the said affairs in Our said Parlia- 
ment, and in all matters arising therein, and to do 
everything which for Us, and by Us, for the good 
government of Our said United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, and other Our Dominions 
thereto belonging, shall be there to be done; and 
also, if necessary, to continue, adjourn and prorogue 
Our said Parliament; commanding also, by the 
tenor of these presents, with the assent of Our said 
Council, as well all and every the Archbishops, 
Bishops, Earls, Viscounts, Barons and Knights, as 
all others whom it concerns, to meet in Our said 
Parliament, that to the same Duke of Cambridge, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Cranworth, Arch- 
bishop of York, Earl Granville, Earl of Harrowby, 
Duke of Somerset, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Bed- 
ford, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Buccleuch and 
Queensberry, Duke of Argyll, Duke of Montrose, 
Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Northumberland, Duke 
of Leinster, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Bucking- 
ham and Chandos, Marquis of Breadalbane, Marquis 
of Lansdowne, Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis of 
Abercorn, Marquis of Donegal, Marquis of Ezeter, 
Marquis of Anglesey, Marquis of Cholmondeley, Mar- 
quis of Londonderry, Marquis Conyngham, Marquis 
of Clanricarde, Marquis of Westminster, Marquis of 
Normanby, Earl Spencer, Earl of Derby, Earl of 
Denbigh, Earl of Westmorland, Earl of Chesterfield, 
Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Jersey, 
Earl of Eglinton, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Elgin 
and Kincardine, Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Rose- 
bery, Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Hardwicke, Earl 
De Lawarr, Earl of Clarendon, Earl Fortescue, 
Earl of Beverley, Earl of Bessborough, Earl of Roden, 
Earl of Malmesbury, Earl of Rosslyn, Earl of Wilton, 
Earl Grey, Earl of Lonsdale, Earl of Minto, Earl of 
Saint Germans, Earl De Grey, Earl Howe, Earl of 
Ripon, Earl of Ellenborough, Viscount Falkland, 
Viscount Sydney, Viscount Combermere, Viscount 
Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord 
Bishop of London, Lord Panmure, Lord De Ros, 
Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Lord Elphinstone, Lord 
Kinnaird, Lord Foley, Lord Colchester, Lord Fo- 
rester, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Heytesbury, Lord 
Brougham and Vaux, Lord Ashburton, Lord Glenelg, 
Lord Hatherton, Lord Strafford, Lord Stanley (of 
Alderley), Lord Dunfermline, Lord Monteagle (of 
Brandon), Lord Campbell, Lord Broughton, Lord 
Saint Leonards, Lord Wensleydale, and Lord Belper, 
and any Three of them, they diligently intend in the 
remises in the form aforesaid. &gt; witness whereof, 
e have caused these Our Letters to be made Pa- 
tent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Twenty- 
ninth day of April, in the twentieth year of Our reign. 


By The QUEEN Herself, 
Signed with Her own Hand. 
C. Romitry. 
And 








20 VictorIZ. 


And then the Lord Chancellor said, 
My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


House directed We have it in Command from Her Majesty to 


to choose a 
Speaker. 


Mr. Evelyn 
Denison chosen 


Speaker. 


Mr. Speaker 
approved of 
by The Queen, 


let you know, That as soon as the Members of both 
Houses shall be sworn, the causes of Her Majesty’s 
calling this Parliament will be declared to you ; and 
it being necessary a Speaker of the House of Com- 
mons should be first chosen, it is Her Majesty’s 
pleasure that you, Gentlemen of the House of Com- 
mons, repair to the place where you are to sit, and 
there proceed to the choice of some proper person 
to be your Speaker; and that you present such 
person whom you shall so choose, here, To-morrow, 
at Two of the clock, for Her Majesty’s Royal Ap- 
probation. 


And the House being returned ; 


Lord Harry Vane, addressing himself to the Clerk 
(who, standing up, pointed to him, and then sat 
down), proposed to the House for their Speaker, 
John Evelyn Denison, Esquire, and moved, “ That 
John Evelyn Denison, Esquire, do take the Chair 
of this House as Speaker,” which Motion was 


. seconded by Thomas Thornely, Esquire. 


The House then calling Mr. Evelyn Denison to 
the Chair, he stood up in his place, and expressed 
the sense he had of the honour proposed to be con- 
ferred upon him, and submitted himself to the 
House. 

The House then again unanimously calling Mr. 
Evelyn Denison to the Chair, he was taken out of 
his place by the said Lord Harry Vane and Mr. 
Thornely, and conducted to the Chair, where, stand- 
ing on the upper step, he returned his humble ac- 
knowledgments to the House for the great honour 


they had been pleased to confer upon him by unani-- 


mously choosing him to be their Speaker. 

And thereupon he sat down in the Chair; and 
then the Mace (which before lay under the Table) 
was laid upon the Table. 

Then Viscount Palmerston, having congratulated 
Mr. Speaker elect, moved, “ That the _ do 
now chew ;” and the Right honourable Spencer 
Horatio Walpole having also congratulated Mr. 
Speaker elect ; 


The House accordingly adjourned till To- 


morrow. 








Veneris, 1° die Maii; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


4 House being met; and Mr. Speaker elect 
having taken the Chair ; 


A Message was delivered by Sir Augustus Clifford, 
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod : 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this 
Honourable House in the House of Peers. 


Accordingly, Mr. Speaker elect, with the House, 
went up to the House of Peers, where he was pre- 
sented to the said Lords Commissioners for Her 
Majesty’s Royal approbation. 


Then the Lord Chancellor, one of the said Lords 
Commissioners, signified Her Majesty’s approbation 
of Mr. Speaker elect. 


The House being returned ; 


Mr. Speaker reported, That the House had been 
in the House of Peers, where Her Majesty was 


pleased, by Her Commissioners, to approve of the 
choice the House had made of him to be their 
Speaker; and that he had in their name, and on 
their behalf, by humble Petition to Her Majesty, 


VoL, 112. 





30° Aprilis.—1°—2°—4°— 5° Mai. 









119 


laid claim to all their ancient Rights and Privileges, 
particularly that their Persons and Servants might 
be free from Arrests and all Molestations; that they 
may enjoy Liberty of Speech in all their Debates ; 
may have access to Her Majesty’s Royal Person 
whenever occasion shall require ; and that all their 
Proceedings may receive from Her Majesty the 
most favourable construction; which, he said, Her 
Majesty, by Her said Commissioners, had confirmed 
to them in as full and ample a manner as they have 
been heretofore granted or allowed by Her Majesty, 
or any of Her Royal Predecessors. 


And then Mr. Speaker repeated his most respect- 
ful acknowledgments to the House for the high 
honour they had done him. 


Mr. Speaker then put the House in mind, that 
the first thing to be done was to take and subscribe 
the Oaths by Law required. 


And thereupon Mr. Speaker first alone, standing Mr. Speaker 
upon the upper ~*~ of the Chair, took the Oaths takes Oaths. 
of Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration ; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of his Quali- 
fication. 


Then several Members took the Oaths of Alle- Members 
giance and Supremacy, and took and subscribed t#ke Oaths. 
the Oath of Abjuration ; and delivered to the Clerk 
of the House an account of their Qualification ; 
and one Member, being one of the People called 
Quakers, made the Affirmation required by law; 
and delivered to the Clerk of the House an account 
of his Qualification. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Sabbati, 2° die Maiti ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of Members 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- tke Oaths. 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration ; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of their Quali- 
fication. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 





Luna, 4° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of Members 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- take Oaths, 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of their Quali- 
fication. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Martis, 5° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
ag tea other Members took the Oaths of Members 
\J Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- take Oaths. 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of their Quali- 
fication; and one Member having been one of the 
People called Quakers, and entertaining conscientious 
objections to the taking of an Oath, made the 
Affirmation required by law; and delivered to the 
Clerk of the House an account of his Qualification. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


s+ Mercuri, 


























Members 
take Oaths. 


Members 
take Oaths. 


Message to 
attend the 
Lords Com- 
missioners. 


Members 
take Oaths. 


Orders and 
Resolutions, 


Elections. 


e 


§°—7° Maiz. A. 1857. . Sess. IT. 


Mercurii, 6° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- 
ecribed the Oath of Abjuration ; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of their Quali- 
fication ; and one Member, being one of the People 
called Quakers, made the Affirmation required by 
law ; and delivered to the Clerk of the House an 
account of his Qualification. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, '7° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


OS bythe other Members took the Oaths of 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration; and delivered to 
the Clerk of the House an account of their Quali- 
fication ; and one Member, being one of the People 
called Quakers, made the Affirmation required by 
law; and delivered to the Clerk of the House an 
account of his Qualification. 


A Message was delivered by Sir Augustus Clifford, 
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod : 


Mr. Speaker, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this 
Honourable House in the House of Peers. 


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


Several other Members took the Oaths of Alle- 
giance and Supremacy, and took and subscribed the 
Oath of Abjuration ; and delivered to the Clerk of 


the House an account of their Qualification. 


Ordered, That all persons who will question any 
Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, for any 
County, City, Borough or place in the United King- 
dom, 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 Members who are returned for 
two or more places in any part of the United King- 
dom do make their Election for which of the places 
they will serve, within One week from and after 
the expiration of the Fourteen days before limited 
for presenting Petitions, provided there be no ques- 
tion upon the Return for that place ; and if anything 
shall come in question touching the Return or Elec- 
tion of any Member, he is to withdraw during the 
time the matter is in debate ; and that all Members 
returned upon double Returns do withdraw till their 
Returns are determined. 

Ordered, That all persons who shall question any 
Return of Members to serve in the present Par- 
liament, upon any allegation of Bribery and Cor- 
ruption, and who shall in their Petition specifically 
aliege 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 Cor- 
ruption, 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 the Realm, except such 
Peers of Zreland as shall for the time being be ac- 
tually 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 Ireland, at such Elections in Great 
Britain respectively, where such Peer shall appear 
as a Candidate, or by himself, or any others, be pro- 
posed to be elected; or for any Lord Lieutenant or 
Governor of any County to avail himself of any au- 
thority derived from his Commission, to influence 
the Election of any Member to serve for the Com- 
mons 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 Bribery or other 
corrupt practices. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person Witnesses. 
hath been tampering with any Witness, in respect of 
his Evidence to be given to this House, or any Com- 
mittee thereof, or directly or indirectly hath endea- 
voured to deter or hinder any person from appearing 
or giving Evidence, the same is declared to be a high 
crime and misdemeanor; and this House will pro- 
ceed 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 of- 
fender. 

Ordered, That the Commissioners of the Police of Metropolitan 
the Metropolis do take care that, during the Session Police. 
of Parliament, the passages through the streets 
leading to this House be kept free and open, and that 
no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of 
Members to and from this House, and that no dis- 
order be allowed in Westminster Hall, or in the pas- 
sages leading to this House, during the sitting of 
Parliament, and that there be no annoyance therein 
or thereabouts ; and that theSerjeant-at-Arms attend- 
ing this House do communicate this Order to the 
Commissioners aforesaid. 


Ordered, That the Votes and Proceedings of this Votes and 
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. 


Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be ap- Privileges. 
pointed. 


Ordered, That all Petitions complaining of undue Election 
Elections and Returns, be printed. Petitions. 


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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Pablic Income 
Account of the Gross Public Income and Expendi- =— 
ture for the year ended the 31st day of March 1857, yo. 4 
together with the Balances in the Exchequer at the ve 
commencement and at the termination of the year, 
and the Amount of Funded or Unfunded Debt 
created or redeemed in the said year. 

Mr. Wilson accordingly presented the said Ac- 
count. 

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


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Turnpike 
mand,—Copy of Reports of Turnpike Trusts made T'¥** 


by 











Manchester 
and Salford 
Hundred 
Courts. 


Benefices. 


Suspended 
Canonries. 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Parochial 
Elections. 





90 VicToRIZ. 


by direction of the Secretary of State, under the 
Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, c. 80, Nos. 1 to 14. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 5th day of June 
1856, for a Return from the Manchester and Sal- 
ford Hundred Courts of Record, of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes entered in the year 1855; the Number 
under £.5, above £.5, and under £.10, and above 
£.10 and under £.20; of the Total Number of 
Causes tried, and the Number of Causes in which 
Defendants appeared by Attorney; 
Amount of Monies for which Causes were entered ; 
the Total Amount of Monies, exclusive of Costs, 
for which Judgments were entered, and the Total 
Amount of Costs; the Gross Total of Fees re- 
ceived, and the Amount of Fees paid to each Officer 
of the Court; the Scale of Fees charged in the 
Proceedings of the Court; a List of the first Fifty 
Causes entered in the year 1855, in which the De- 
fendant appeared by Attorney at the hearing of the 
Cause ; the Names of the Plaintiff and Defendant ; 


the Amount of Money sued for; the Amount of| 


Money for which Judgment was given in each 
Case; and the Costs in each Case. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
2d day of July 1856, for a Return of all Applica- 
tions for Augmentation or Endowment of Bene- 
fices received by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
and not yet provided for, stating in each case the 
Name of the Benefice, and whether in Public or 
Private Patronage; the Amount, as far as can be 
ascertained, of its present Income, and the Amount 
of Benefaction, if any, offered to meet a Grant by 
the Commissioners. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
10th day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, 
for a Return from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
for England, of the respective Total Amounts of the 
Grants or Reductions allowed by them, since the 
1st day of January 1840, to each of the several 
Chapters of Enyland and Wales, to pay Substitutes 
for performing additional Duties cast upon them by 
the suspension of Canonries. 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
18th day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, 
for Copy of the Articles of Agreement, dated the 
18th day of December 1856, made between The 
Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, of the first part ; 
the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, Commis- 
sioner of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land 
Revenues, of the second part; and the Mayor, 
Commonalty, and Citizens of London, of the third 
part ; referred to in a Bill, intituled, “The Thames 
and Medway Conservancy Bill.” 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
5th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for a Return, setting forth, in Columns— 
the Names of the Parishes in Schedule (A.) of 
the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 120; the Names or Num- 
bers of the Wards into which each Parish has 
been divided under the Provisions of the said Act; 
the Number of Parochial Representatives for each 
Ward ; the Number of Ratepayers entiiled to vote 
at the Parochial Election of November 1855 in each 
Ward ; the Number of Persons who voted at that 
Election ; (if there was not any Contest, the Column 
to be filled up “‘ No Contest ;”) and, the Number not 
voting :—And, Similar Return for Parishes in Sche- 
dule (B.); in case any Parish has not been divided, 
the Returns are to set forth the Name of the Parish ; 
the Number of Ratepayers entitled to vote at the 
Parochial Election of November 1855 ; the Number 
of Persons who voted at that Election; (if there was 
not any Contest, the Column to be filled up “ No 
Contest ;”) and, the Number not voting. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
9th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for a Return of the Number of Electors 
in every County and Division of a County in 

VoL. 112. 


the Total: 


7° Mai. 








121 


Great Britain, according to the Register of Elec- 
tors for 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 and 
1856, and as they appear in the Register of Electors 
for 1856 and 1857; distinguishing the different 
Qualifications under which they are registered in 
1856 and 1857, with the Population of each County 
and Division of a County, according to the Census 
of 1851 :—And, of the Names of all Cities and 
Boroughs in Great Britain, showing the Number of 
Electors on the Register of 1856 and 1857, and the 
Population of each City and Borough, according to 
the Census of 185]. 


Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Poor Relief 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—A Return of the (ireland) 


Expenditure on the Relief of the Poor in each Union 
in Ireland, for the year ended the 29th day of Sep- 
tember 1856, and of the Total Numbers relieved in 
and out of the Workhouse in each Union during 
the same period. 

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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table by Spirits. 


the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 17th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for Returns showing the Total Number of 
Gallons of Proof Spirits distilled in England, Scotland 
and Ireland, respectively ; distinguishing the Quanti- 
ties produced from Malt, from a mixture of Malt and 
Unmalted Grain, and from a mixture of Sugar or Mo- 
lasses with Unmalted Grain, or from Sugar, or from 
Molasses ; showing also the Total Quantity of each 
Sort in the United Kingdom, for the year ending 
the 31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Number 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distinguishing the Sorts), 
on which Duty was = for Home Consumption 
in each of the three Kingdoms, with the Rate per 
Gallon and the Amount of such Duty; also, the 
Total Number of Gallons and Duty in the United 
Kingdom, for the year ending the 31st day of 
December 1856 :—Showing, under separate Heads, 
the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits, distin- 
guishing the Materials from which made, imported 
into each Kingdom from each of the others respec- 
tively ; stating also the Rate 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 
in England ; also, what Portion was actually ware- 
housed under Excise Lock, distinguishing Malt from 
Grain Spirits, in England, for the year ending the 
31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Total Number 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits permitted out of Dis- 
tillers’ Stocks in England, and the Total Number of 
Proof Gallons of British Brandy and Spirits of Wine 

rmitted out of Rectifiers’ Stocks in England for 
the Consumption; also, the Total Quantity of 
Proof Gallons of Rum received into Rectifiers’ 
Stocks for Rectification, in England, Scotland and 
Ireland, for the year ending the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856 :—Of the Total Number of Proof Gallons 
of Spirits distilled in England, Scotland and Ireland; 
distinguishing the Quantities in each Country de- 
livered, Duty .paid, direct from Distillers’ Stocks, 
from the Quantities put into Bond, for the year 
ending the 31st day of December 1856 :—Of the 
Total Number of Proof Gallons of British Com- 
pounds and Spirits of Wine permitted from ‘Recti- 
fiers’ Stocks in England, Scotland and Ireland, for 
Exportation to Foreign Ports under Drawback, for 
the years ending the 5th day of January 1855 and 
the 31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Total 
Number of Gallons of Spirits in Bonded Stores in 
England, Scotland and Ireland respectively, on the 
31st day of December 1856 :—Of the Total Number 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distinguishing Grain from 
Malt), permitted out from Distillers’ Stocks in Eng- 
land, Scotland and Ireland, for Exportation to Fo- 
reign Parts, for the year ending the 31st day of De- 
cember 1855 :—Similar Account for the year —_— 

$2 t 































Valuation 
(Ireland. ) 


122 


the 31st day of December 1856 :—And, of the Total 
Number of Gallons of Methylic Alcohol sold by the 
Excise, and the Total Number of Gallons of Methy- 
lated Spirits made by Persons licensed to sell the 
same, under the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 38, from the 
1st day of October 1855 to the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 214, of Session 1856). 

Return to an Order, dated the 19th day of Fe- 
bruary, in uie last Session of Parliament, for Returns 
of the Number of Informations lodged with the 
Officers of Excise in Ireland in each of the years 1854, 
1855 and 1856, against Persons sporting in that 
Country without Game Certificates, and the Number 
of such Cases in which Prosecutions have been insti- 
tuted for the Penalty, and the result of such Proceed- 
ings:—And, of the Number of Game Certificates 
taken out in each District in Ireland in each of the 
following years, namely, from 1843 to 1856 inclusive. 

Return to an Order, dated the 20th day of Fe- 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for 
Accounts of the Total Number of Acres of Land 
in the United Kingdom under the Cultivation of 
Hops in the year 1856; distinguishing the Num- 
ber of Acres in each Parish ; and the Number of 
Pounds weight charged with Duty in each Collec- 
tion; and the Number of Pounds weight charged 
with Duty in each Parish of the Canterbury and 
Rochester Collections :—Of the Amount of Duty 
charged on Hops in each Collection of the growth 
of the year 1856, distinguishing the Districts, and 
the Old from the New Duty in each District ; show- 
ing the Average Amount of Duty per Acre in each 
Collection :—Of the Quantity of British Hops ex- 
ported from the United Kingdom to Foreign Coun- 
tries, from the 1st day of January to the 30th day of 
June, and from the 1st day of July to the 31st day 
of December 1856, respectively ; distinguishing the 
Countries to which the same have been exported, 
and also the Quantities to each Country, with the 
Dates of the Years in which the Hops were grown: 
—Of the Quantity of Foreign Hops exported from 
the United Kingdom to Foreign Countries, from the 
Ist day of January to the 30th day of June, and 
from the 1st day of July to the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856, respectively ; distinguishing the Countries 
to which the same have been exported, and also the 
Quantities to each Country :—Of the Quantity of 
Foreign Hops imported into the United Kingdom 
from the 1st day of January to the 30th day of 
June, and from the 1st day of July to the 31st day 
of December 1856 respectively ; distinguishing the 
Ports where imported, and the Countries from 
whence exported :—Of the Total Number of Pounds 
weight of Foreign Hops charged with Duties for 
Home Consumption from the 1st day of January to 
the 30th day of June, and from the 1st day of July 
tu the 31st day of December 1856, respectively :— 
And, of the Quantity of Foreign Hops in Bond on 
the ist day of January 1857, stating the Ports at 
which they are bonded (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 153, of Session 1856). 

Return to an Order, dated the 20th day of Fe- 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for an 
Account of the Total Number of Quarters of Malt 
made in the United Kingdom in the years ending 
respectively the 1st day of October 1855 and the 1st 
day of October 1856 ; distinguishing the Quantity 
made, and the Quantity used by Brewers, and by 
Victuallers, and by Retail Brewers, in each year in 
each Country (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 75, of Session 1855). 

Return to an Order, dated the 27th day of Fe- 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for Re- 
turns showing the Counties in Jreland in which 
the Tenement Valuation has been completed, under 
the Act 9 &amp; 10 Vic. c. 110, and the several Acts 
amending the same; the Name of each County ; 
the Acreable Contents; the Annual Value; the 
Cost of the Valuation by the Acre; the Cost of 


7° Maiti. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


the Valuation by the £.100 of the Valuation; 
the whole Cost to each County; and the Date 
when it first came into force in each County :—Of 
the whole Cost of the Townland and of the Tene- 
ment Valuation in each County, and of the Total 
Cost of these Valuations in all the Counties valued 
under them respectively :—Of the Number of Revi- 
sions in each County or Poor Law Union, and the 
Cost of each such Revision in each of the years 
ending the 31st day of December 1854, 1855 and 
1856 :—And, Statement of the Progress and Pro- 
= of Completion of the Tenement Valuation of 

reland (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 180, of Session 1856). 


Return to an Order, dated the 27th day of Fe- Draftsmen of 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for Ss “Onmed 


Return of the Sum Total of all Monies paid or 
allotted to Draftsmen by the several Public Depart- 
ments, during the year 1856, for Drafting or Settling 
the Drafts of Parliamentary Bills ; and, in case such 
Draftsman is a member of or employed under any 
Commission, the Name of such Draftsman, and the 
Amount received by him. 

Return to an Order, dated the 2d day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a Return of 
the Duty paid by Railway Companies in the United 
Kingdom during the last Two years on Passengers’ 
Traffic, and distinguishing the Amount paid by each 
Company each year. 

Return to an Order, dated the 13th day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for Accounts of 
all British Spirits in Duty-free Warehouses in the 
United Kingdom, on the Ist day of January 1857; 
—Of all British Spirits put in Duty-free Ware- 
houses, from the 1st day of January 1857 to the 
15th day of February 1857 :—Of all British Spirits 
Duty-paid or removed in Bond, from the 1st day of 
January 1857 to the 15th day of February 1857 :— 
Of all British Spirits remaining in Duty-free Ware- 
houses, on the 15th day of February 1857: 


Railways. 


British 
Spirits. 





1. 2, | ¢ 4. 


| 
: | Stored 
} 
Gallons in a Ist Jan. to 
In Store No. 1, | 15th Feb. 1857, | 
1857. | No. 2. 


) 


Total. Duty paid 
Ist Jan. 1857, 


No. 4. 


5. 
15th Feb. 


remaining in 


Warehouse No, 5. 





No. 3. | 
| 
| 


| 
| &lt;— 
- «| Gallons placed in | 
a Warehouses, {| Total 
~ anny | Ist Jan. 1857 to} 
lst Jan. 1857. lst Feb. 1857. Gallons. 


| Gallons Duty paid 
| or removed in Bond, 
lst Jan. 1857 

to 15th Feb. 1857. 








| 
! | 
| | 
—Similar Accounts for Scotland ;— And, similar 
Accounts for England. 


Return to an Order, dated the 13th day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a Copy, and 
Continuance to the 1st day of January 1857, of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 326, of last Session, enti- 
tled “ Return of the Consumption of Spirits, British, 
Foreign and Colonial, in the United &gt; sar ng 1800 
to 1855; Account of the Number of Bushels of Malt 
charged with Duty, 1826 to1855; the Rate of Duty 
and Amount charged, with Average Price of Barley 
per Bushel, &amp;c. &amp;c.” 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copies of 
all Cases which have been stated and signed by 
Commissioners acting in the execution of the Acts 
relating to the Assessed Taxes, subsequent to the 
12th day of February 1857, being the Date of a 
like Return made under the directions of the same 
Act, in the last Session of Parliament. 


Copy of Treasury Warrants establishing Rates of 
Postage. 








py of a Treasury Minute, dated 24th March Royal Military 


1857, granting a special Superannuation Allowance 
to 


Spirits and 


Assessed 
Taxes. 


Postage. 


College. 


Gallons remaining 
in Warehouses, 
15th Feb. 1857. 











Hobart Town, 


Mail Guard. 





Increase and 
Diminution 
(Public 
Offices. ) 


Superannu- 
ations (Public 
Offices. ) 


Pilotage. 


Mr. Speaker 
reports the 
Lords Com- 
missioners’ 
Speech. 





90 VicToriz. 


to Colonel Prosser, late Lieutenant-governor of the 
—_— Military College. 

opy of a Treasury Minute, dated 24th March 
1857, granting a special Superannuation Allowance 
to Mr. William Garwood, late Miller at the Prisoners’ 
Barracks at Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. 

Copy of a Treasury Minute, dated 11th March 
1857, granting a special Superannuation Allowance 
to John Campton, late a Mail Guard. 

An Account of every Increase and Diminution 
which has taken place in the year 1856 in the Num- 
ber of Persons employed, or in the Salaries, Emolu- 
ments, Allowances aud Expenses in all Public Of- 
fices or Departments. 

An Account of all Allowances or Compensations 
granted as Retired Allowances or Superannuations 
in all Public Offices or Departments which re- | 
mained payable on the 1st of January 1856; the 
Annual Amount which was granted in the year 
1856; the Annual Amount which ceased within the 
year; and the Total Amount remaining payable on 
the 31st of December 1856. 





Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament,—A Return of all Bye-laws, 
a Orders or Ordinances relating to Pilots 
or Pilotage for the time being in force issued by 
the respective Pilotage Authorities of the United 
Kingdom :—Of the Names and Ages of the Pilots 
or Apprentices licensed or authorized to act by the 
respective Pilotage Authorities, and of all Pilots or 
Apprentices acting either mediately or immediately 
under such Authorities, whether so licensed or 
authorized or not :—Of the Service for which each 
Pilot or Apprentice is licensed :—Of the Rates of 
Pilotage for the time being in force, at the Ports 
under the Jurisdiction of the respective Pilotage | 
Authorities, including therein the Rates and De-. 
scriptions of all Charges upon Shipping made for | 
or in respect of Pilots or Pilotage :—Of the Total 
Amount received for Pilotage at the respective | 
Ports aforesaid ; distinguishing the several Amounts | 
received from British Vessels and from Foreign 
Vessels respectively, and the several Amounts re-_ 
ceived in respect of different Classes of Vessels | 

aying different Rates of Pilotage, according to the | 

cale of such Rates for the time being in force, and | 
the several Amounts received for the several Classes 
of Service rendered by Pilots; and also the Amount | 
paid by such Vessels (if any) as have, before reach- 
ing the limits of Pilotage Water, if Outward bound, 
or their Port of Destination, if Inward bound, to 
take or pay for two or more Pilots, whether licensed 
by the same or by diff-rent Pilotage Authorities ; 
together with the Numbers of the Vessels of each 
of the several Classes paying such several Amounts 
as aforesaid :—Of the Keceipt and Expenditure of 
all Monies received by or on behalf of the respec- 
tive Pilotage Authorities aforesaid, or by or on 
behalf of any Sub-Commissioners appointed by them 
in respect of Pilots or Pilotage (in continuation of 








Parliamentary Paper, No. 354, of 1856). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker reported, That the House had been 
at the House of Peers, at the desire of the Lords 
Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal for 
opening and holding this present Parliament, and 
that the Lord High Chancellor, being one of the 
said Comumission rs, made a Speech to both Houses 
of Parliament, of which Mr. g 
for grea'er accuracy, obtained a Copy, which he 
read to the House, as followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded to inform you, that Her 
Majesty has availed herself of the earliest opportu- 
nity of having recourse to your advice and assist- 
ance after the Dissolution of the last Parliament; 
VoL. 112, 


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123 


and Her Majesty trusts that there will be found 
sufficient time during the present Session to enable 
you satisfactorily to deal with various important 
matters, some of which had occupied the attention 
of Parliament in the beginning of this year. 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to inform 
you, that the general aspect of affairs in Europe 
affords a well-grounded confidence in the continuance 
of Peace. 

All the main stipulations of the Treaty of Paris 
have been carried into execution, and it is to be 
hoped that what remains to be done in regard to 
those matters will be speedily accomplished. 

The Negotiations upon the subject of the dif- 
ferences which had arisen between the King of 
Prussia and the Swiss Confederation, in regard to 
the affairs of Neuchatel, are drawing to a close, and 
will, Her Majesty trusts, be terminated by an ar- 
rangement honourable and satisfactory to all parties. 

The Negotiations in which Her Majesty has been 
engaged with the Government of the United States, 
and with the Government of Honduras, in regard 
to the affairs of Central America, have not yet been 
brought to a close. 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to inform 
you, that a Treaty of Peace between Her Majesty 
and the Shah of Persia was signed at Paris on the 
4th of March, by Her Majesty’s Ambassador at 
Paris and by the Ambassador of the Shah; and 
Her Majesty will give directions that this Treaty 
shall be laid before you as soon as the ratifications 
thereof shall have been duly exchanged. 

Her Majesty commands us to express to you Her 
regret that, at the date of the latest advices from 
China, the differences which had arisen between the 
High Commissioner at Canton and Her Majesty’s 


Civil and Naval Officers in China still remain unad- 


justed ; but Her Majesty has sent to China a Ple- 
nipotentiary fully instructed to deal with all matters 


\of difference, and that Plenipotentiary will be sup- 


ported by an adequate Naval and Military Force, 
in the event of vou assistance hecoming necessary. 

We are conimanded to inform you, that Her Ma- 
jesty, in conjunction with several other European 
Powers, has concluded a Treaty with the King of 
Denmark for the redemption of the Sound Dues. 
This Treaty, together with a separate Convention 
between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark, 
completing the arrangement, will be laid before you ; 
and Her Majesty will cause the measures necessary 
for fulfilling the engagements thereby contracted to 
be submitted for your consideration. 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


Her Majesty has disected the Estimates for the 
present = to be laid before you. 

They have been prepared with a careful attention 
to economy, and with a due regard to the efficiency 
of the departments of the Public Service to which 
they severally relate. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


Her Majesty commands us to recommend to your 
earnest consideration measures which will be pro- 
posed to you for the consolidation and improvement 
of the Law. 

Bills will be submitted to you for improving the 

Laws relating to the Testamentary and Matrimonial 
Jurisdiction now exercised by the Ecclesiastical 
Courts, and also for checking fraudulent Breaches 
of Trust. 
Her Majesty commands us to express to you Her 
heartfelt gratification at witnessing the continued 
well-being and contentment of Her People, and the 
progressive development of productive industry 
throughout Her Dominions. 

Her Majesty confidently commits to your wisdom 
and care the great interests of Her Empire, and 
fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God 
may be vouchsafed to your Sainte, and may 

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lead you to conclusions conducive to the objects of 
Her Majesty’s constant solicitude, the welfare and 
happiness of Her loyal and faithful People. 


Resolution 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
for Address. 


to Her Majesty, to convey to Her Majesty the 
Thanks of this House for the gracious Speech which 
Her Majesty has commanded to be made to both 
Houses of Parliament : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that She 
has availed Herself of the earliest opportunity of 
having recourse to our advice and assistance after 
the Dissolution of the last Parliament; and we 
unite with Her Majesty in trusting that there will 
be found sufficient time during the present Session 
to enable us satisfactorily to deal with various im- 
portant matters, some of which had occupied the 
attention of Parliament in the beginning of this year : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that the 
general aspect of affairs in Europe attords a well- 
grounded confidence in the continuance of Peace: 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that all the 
main stipulations of the Treaty of Paris have been 
carried into execution, and to assure Her Majesty 
that we participate in the hope that what remains 
to be done in regard to those matters will be speedily 
accomplished : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that the 
Negotiations upon the subject of the differences 
which had arisen between the King of Prussia and 
the Swiss Confederation, in regard to the affairs of 
Neuchdtel, are drawing to a close, and that Her 
Majesty trusts that those Negotiations will be ter- 
minated by an arrangement honourable and satis- 
factory to all parties: 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that the 
Negotiatious in which She has been engaged with 
the Government of the United States, and with the 
Government of Honduras, in regard to the affairs 
of Central America, have not yet been brought to a 
close : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that a 
Treaty of Peace between Her Majesty and the Shah 
of Persia was signed at Paris on the 4th of March, 
by Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris and by the 
Ambassador of the Shah; and to thank Her Ma- 
jesty for Her gracious intimation that this Treaty 
shall be laid before us as soon as the ratifications 
thereof shall have been duly exchanged : 

To assure Her Majesty that we share Her regret 
that, at the date of the latest advices from China, 
the differences which had arisen between the High 
Commissioner at Canton and Her Majesty’s Civil 
and Naval Officers in China, still remained unad- 
justed ; and to convey to Her Majesty our thanks for 
informing us that She has sent to China a Plenipo- 
tentiary fully instructed to deal with all matters of 
difference, who will be supported by an adequate 
Naval and Military Force in the event of such assist- 
ance becoming necessary : 

To thank Her Majesty for informing us that, in 
conjunction with several other European Powers, She 
has concluded a Treaty with the King of Denmark 
for the redemption of the Sound Dues; and that 
this Treaty, together with a separate Convention 
between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark, 
completing the arrangemeut, will be laid before us ; 
and also that Her Majesty will cause the measures 
necessary for fulfilling the engagements thereby 
contracted to be submitted for our consideration : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for having di- 
rected the Estimates for the present year to be laid 
before us, and for the assurance that they have 
been prepared with a careful attention to economy, 
and with a due regard to the efficiency of the de- 
partments of the Public Service to which they 
severally relate : 

To assure Her Majesty that we will take into 
our earnest consideration measures which are to be 
proposed to us for the consolidation and improve- 


Mad Vee ee eet a 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


ment of the Law, and to thank Her Majesty for 
apprizing us that Bills will be submitted to us for 
improving the Laws relating to the Testamentary 
and Matrimonial Jurisdiction now exercised by the 
Ecclesiastical Courts, and also for checking fraudu- 
lent Breaches of Trust: 

To assure Her Majesty that we concur in the 
expression of Her heartfelt gratification at witness- 
ing the continued well-being and contentment of 
Her People, and the progressive development of 
productive industry throughout Her Dominions : 

Humbly to thank Her Majesty for assuring us 
that She confidently commits to our wisdom and 
care the great interests of Her Empire, and to de- 
clare that, in common with Her Majesty, we fer- ; 
vently pray that the blessing of Almighty God may ( 
be vouchsafed to our deliberations, and may lead us 
to conclusions conducive to the objects of Her 
Majesty’s constant solicitude, the welfare and hap- 
piness of Her loyal and faithful People. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw Committee 
up an Address to be presented to Her Majesty upon @Ppointed 
the said Resolution:—And a Committee was ap- ‘Address. 
pointed of Mr. Dodson, Mr. Buchanan, Viscount 
Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir 
George Grey, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Sir Charles 
Wood, Mr. ane Smith, Mr. Baines, Mr. Attorney 
General, Sir Benjamin Hall, Mr. Attorney General for 
Ireland, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Edward 
Bouverie, Mr. Hayter and Mr. FitzRoy, or any Five 
of them :—And they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That the Speech of the Lords Com- Speech 
missioners to both Houses of Parliament be referred Téferred. 
to the Committee. 





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A Petition of Lieutenant Colonel George Gore Mayo 
Ouseley Higgins, complaining of an undue Election Election. 
and Return for the County of Mayo, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 1}. 

Ordered, Vhat the said Petition be referred to 
the General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Savings 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider the Banks. 
Laws relating to Savings Banks, and to provide for 
the establishment of Savings Banks with the secu- 
rity of the Government. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s Canton. 
Command,—Further Papers relating to the Pro- 
ceedings of Her Majesty’s Naval Forces at Canton. 

Copy of Convention between Her Majesty and _Portendic 
the Emperor of the French relative to Portendic and and Albreda. 
Albreda ; sigued at London, March 7, 1857. 

Copy of Treaty, Protocol and Conveution for the Scund Dues. 
Redemption of the Sound Dues; signed at Copen- 
hagen, March 14, 1857. 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 8° die Maiti ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
aa E House was moved, That the Standing Private Bills. 
Orders of the House of the 12th day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, relating to Private 
Bills suspended in the last Session of Parliament, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Alva Parish 
Alva Parish Bill, which was presented upon the Bill. 





13th day of February, in the last Se-sion of Parlia- 
ment, 














20 Victorix. 


ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


AndoverCanal The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Sele Dis. Andover Canal Sale Bill, which was presented upon 
the 6th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





Atlantic The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
na Atlantic hanya = Company Bill, which was pre- 
pay’ sented upon the 10th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 

might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


Australian The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Agricultural § 4ystralian Agricultural Company Bill, which was 
Company Bill. pe : 
presented upon the 10th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill miade upon the same 
dey, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
he said Bill was read the first and se¢/ond time ; 
and committed. 


Backwater _ The House was moved, That the Petiticn for the 
new py Backwater Bridge and Road Bill, which was pre- 


sented upon the 17th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





Banff, Macduff The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

den onal Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway Bill, 

Railway Bill, Which was presented upon the 16th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of | 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the | 
same day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 

and committed. 





Banff, Portsoy The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

and Strathisla Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Bill, which 

Railway Bill. » ‘ 
was presented upon the 12th day of February, in 
the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 


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| Besselsleigh Road Bill, which was presented upon 


125 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Bedale and 
Bedale and Leyburn Railway Bill, which was pre- see pa 
sented upon the 9th day of February, in the last ’ 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Belfast 
Belfast Improvement Bill, which was presented upon ec 
the 16th day of February, in the last Session of" ~ 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 3d day of March, in the 
last Session of Parliament, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was mnoved, That the Petition for the Besselsleigh 
Road Bill. 
the 13th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Birkenhead 

Birkenhead District Gas and Water Biil, which District Gas 
. ° and Water Bill. 

was presented upon the 23d day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Birkenhead 

Birkenhead Docks (Construction) Bill, which was Docks (Con- 
. struction) Bill. 

presented upon the 4th day of February, ia the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Birkenhead 


Birkenhead Docks (Management) Bill, which was Docks (Ma- 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last pir 


| Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 


bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being read ; | 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; | 
and committed, with reference to the Subscripticn | 


Contract. 
Bank of The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
London and =ank of London and National Provincial Insurance 
National Pro- Psi $ ‘ 
vincial In- | Association (No. 2) Bill, which was presented upon 


surance Asso- the 10th day of February, in the last Session of 
= (No. 2) Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 20th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Bathgate, The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
— tog Bathgate, Airdrie and Coatbridge Railway Bill, 
Railway Si. which was presented upon the 4th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 

leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 

same day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Birkenhead, 
Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Rail- — 
way Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day of es 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, and Railway Bill. 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Blackburn 
Blackburn Railway Bill, which was presented upon Railway Bill 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Ba 
liament, and the Order of leave for brmgmg in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Blyth and 
Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill, which was presented -— Railway 
upon the 5th day of February, in the last. Session ~~ 





and committed. 
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in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Thejsaid Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
y, Bourn and Essendine Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 16th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


Bridgwater 
Markets and 
Fairs Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 16th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Brighton, Hove 
and Preston 
Constant Ser- 
vice Water 
Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service 
Water Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day 
of February, in the last Session of Parliament, and 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Bristol, South 
Wales and 
Southampton 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Bristol, South Wales and Southampton Union Rail- 
way Bill, which was presented upon the 5th day of 
Sdueies, in the last Session of Parliament, and 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


British and 
Irish Grand 
Junction 

Railway Bi 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
British and Irish Grand Junction Railway Bill, 
1, Which was presented upon the 18th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Briton Ferry 


The House was meved, That the Petition for the 
Docks Bill. 


the 9th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Burial of the 
Dead within 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
an Oey end Burial of the Dead within the City and Liberties of 
Liberties of  L0ndon Bill, which was presented upon the 6th day 
London Bill. of February, in the last Session of Parliament, and 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 


The said Rill was read the first and second time ; | 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Burslem and Tunstall Gas Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was-read the first and second time 
and committed. 


Burslem and 
Tunstall Gas 
Bill, 


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8° Maiz. 


Briton Ferry Docks Bill, which was presented upon | 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Bury Gas 
Bury Gas Bill, which was presented wpon the 11th Bil 
day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, 
and the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill 
made upon the same day, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Caleutta and 
Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Company Bill, —_ Eastern 
‘ 4 ilway Com- 
which was presented upon the 10th day of February, pany Bill. 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Caledonian 
Caledonian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill, which Railway 
was presented upon the 5th day of February, in the een Bill 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave ‘ 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day. might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Caledonian 
Caledonian Railway (Running Powers) Bill, which Railway (Run- 
was presented upon the 16th day of February, in pir —_— 
the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
25th day of February, in the last Session of Patlia- 
ment, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Cannock 
Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill, which was Mineral Rail- 
presented upon the 9th day of February, in the last jay ss 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


‘The House was moved, That the Petition for the Cannock _ 
Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 2) Bill, which was ne _ 
presented upon the 16th day of February, in the last pil. weed 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Cardigan 

Cardigan Markets and Improvement Bill, which Markets -_ 
- mprovement 

was presented upon the 6th day of February, in the pil. 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





{ 


| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Carlisle and 

| Carlisle and Hawick Railway Bill, which was pre- Hawick Rail- 

_sented upon the 4th day of February, in the last "*” - 

Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 

bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 

might be read ; and the same being read ; 

_ The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 

and committed. 

| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Charing Cross 
Charing Cross Bridge Bill, which was presented Bridge Bill. 
upon the 13th day of February, in the last Session 

| of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 

|in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

| The 








Chatham 
District 
Water Bill. 


Chepstow 
Gas Bill. 


Chester 
Water Bill. 


Clyde Navi- 
gation Bill. 


Coniston 
Railway Bill. 


Cork and 
Bandon Rail- 
way Bill. 


Cork and 
Yougial Rail- 
way Bill. 


Cork Con- 
sumers’ Gas 
Bill. 


Cork G 
fa as 


20 VictroriIR. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Chatham District Water Bill, whicl was presented 
upon the 12th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Chepstow Gas Bill, which was presented upon the 
13th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Chester Water Bill, which was presented upon the 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the same day, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Clyde Navigation Bill, which was presented upon 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 19th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Coniston Railway Bill, which was presented upon 
the 16th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Cork and Bandon Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Cork and Youghal Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 13th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The saia Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Cork Consumers’ Gas Bill, which was presented 
upon the 23d day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the. Petition for the 
Cork Gas Bill, which was presented upon the 9th 
— February, in the last Session of Parliament, 

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197 
and the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill 
made upon the same day, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; . 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Cwm Amman 
Cwm Amman Railway Bill, which was presented Railway Bill. 
upon the 6th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Dartmouth 
Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Bill, which was when 
presented upon the 17th day of February, in the “"'”*” *™ 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Deeside 
Deeside Extension Railway Bill, which was pre- ———,. 
sented upon the 17th day of February, in the last“ ""7 ©" 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 24th day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Dexthorpe 
Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill, which was presented Fhe gH 
upon the 25th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. ' 

The House was moved, That the Petition for the Doncaster 
Doncaster and Wakefield Railway Bill, which was whens og 
presented upon the 17th day of February, in the last ““""*7 ™ 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Dorset Central 
Dorset Central Railway Bill, which was presented Railway Bill. 
upon the 5th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The Select Committee on Standing Orders was Standing 
nominated of Colonel Wilson Putten, Mr. Heuley, OF4ers- 
Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir 
John Yarde Buller, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Wrightson, 

Mr. Bramston, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Eliott Lockhart, 
and Mr. Bouham- Carter. 


The Committee of Selection was nominated of Committee of 
Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Selection. 
Bonham-Carter, Mr. Palmer, Lord Harry Vane, 
and the Chairman of the Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders. 


Resolved, That the Committee of Selection, on Private Bills. 
giving not less than Seven days’ notice to each 
Member of the week iu which he will be required 
to serve, have Power to form and appoint the meet- 
ing of all Committees on the Private Bills r ferred 
to them or to the General Committee on Railwa 
and Canal Bills, with the exception of Private Bills 
T against 


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Public 
Petitions. 
Vide First 
Report. 
Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills. 


Harhour, &amp;c. 
Bills. 


No. 2. 


A‘ldress 
reported, and 
agreed to. 


128 8° Maiz. 


against which the time for presenting Petitions had 
not expired in the last Session of Parliament, pro- 
vided Seven clear days elapse between the Second 
Reading of such Bills and the sitting of the Com- 
mittee thereon; and that Three clear davs’ notice 
only be required to be given. by the Clerk of the 
Committee of Selection to the Clerks in the Private 
Bill Office of the day and hour fixed for the first 
meeting of any such Committee. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Board of Trade do present to 
this House, a Report upon the Private Bills for 
Harbours, Docks, Navigations, &amp;c., in conformity 
with the practice in force with respect to Railway 
Bills. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to Order,— Re- 
ports from the Board of Trade relative to Harbour, 
&amp;e., Bills. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; anc be printed. 


Mr. Dodson reported from the Committee ap- 
pointed to draw up an Address, to be presented 
to Her Majesty, That they had drawn up an Ad- 
dress accordingly; and the same was read, as fol- 
loweth : 


Most Gracious Sovereign, 


We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loval 
subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assem- 
bled, beg leave to convey to Your Majesty our 
Thanks for the gracious Speech which Your Ma- 
jesty has commanded to be made to both Houses 
uf Parliament : 

We thank Your. Majesty for informing us that 
Your Majesty has availed Yourself of the earliest 


opportunity of — recourse to our advice and 


assistance after the Dissolution of the last Parlia- 
ment; and we unite with Your Majesty in trusting 
that there will be found sufficient time during the 
present Session to enable us satisfactorily to deal 
with various important matters, some of which had 
occupied the attention of Parliament in the begin- 
ning of this year : 

e thank Your Majesty for informing us that the 
general aspect of affairs in Europe affords a well- 


S . . . 
vrounded confidence in the continuance of Peace : 


” We also beg to thank Your Majesty for informing 
us that all the main stipulations of the Treaty of 
Paris have been carried into execution; and we 
assure Your Majesty that we participate in the hope 
that what remains to be done in regard to those 
matters will be speedily accomplished : 

We render our Thanks to Your Majesty for in- 
forming us that the Negotiations upon the subject 
of the differences which had arisen between the 


King of Prussia and the Swiss Confederation, in 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ratifications thereof shall have been duly ex- 
changed : 

We assure Your Majesty that we share Your 
Majesty’s regret that, at the date of the latest ad- 
vices from China, the differences which had arisen 
between the High Commissioner at Canton and 
Your Majesty’s Civil and Naval Officers in China 
still remained unadjusted ; and we beg to convey to 
Your Majesty our Thanks for informing us that Your 
Majesty has sent to China a Plenipotentiary fully 
instructed to deal with all matters of difference, who 
will be supported by an adequate Naval and Mili- 
tary Force in the event of such assistance becoming 
necessary : 

We thank Your Majesty for informing us that, 
in conjunction with several other European Powers, 
Your Majesty has concluded a Treaty with the King 
of Denmark for the redemption of the Scund Dues ; 
and that this Treaty, together with a separate Con- 
vention between Tou Majesty and the King of 
Denmark, completing the arrangement, will be laid 
before us, and that Your Majesty will cause the 
measures necessary for fulfilling the engagements 
thereby contracted to be submitted for our consi- 
deration : 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for having di- 
rected the Estimates for the present year to be laid 
before us, and for the assurance that they have been 
prepared with a careful attention to economy, and 
with a due regard to the efficiency of the depart- 
ments of the Public Service to which they severally 
relate : 

We assure Your Majesty that we will take into 
our earnest consideration measures which are to be 
proposed to us for the consolidation and improve- 
ment of the Law; and we thank Your Majesty for 
apprizing us that Bills will be submitted to us for 
improving the Laws relating to the Testamentary 
and Matrimonial Jurisdiction now exercised by the 
Ecclesiastical Courts, and also for checking frau- 
dulent Breaches of Trust : 

We beg to assure Your Majesty that we concur 
in the expression of heartfelt gratification at witness- 
ing the continued well-being and contentment of 
Your Majesty's People, and the progressive deve- 
lopment of productive industry throughout Your 

ajesty’s Dominions: 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for assuring us 
that You confidently commit to our wisdom and 
care the great interests of Your Majesty’s Empire, 
and, in common with Your Majesty, we fervently 
pray that the blessing of Almighty God may be 
vouchsafed to our deliberations, and may lead us to 
conclusions conducive to the objects of Your Ma- 
jesty’s constant solicitude, the welfare and happiness 
of Your loyal and faithful Peophe. 

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

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. 


regard to the affairs of Neuchdtel, are drawing to a Ordered, That the Speech of the Lords Commis- Lords Com- 
close, and that Your Majesty trusts that those Ne- | sioners to both Houses of Parliament be taken into a 
votiations will be terminated by an arrangement | consideration upon Monday next. poy 


considered. 
honourable and s:tis‘actory to all parties : ; é a» 
We thank Your Majesty for informing us that| Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


the Negotiations in which Your Majesty has been | the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 
engaged with the Government of the United States, on 
and with the Government of Honduras, in regard to| _Mr. Massey presented, pursuant to the directions County 
the affairs of Central America, have not yet been | of an Act of Parliament,—Abstract of the Accounts Treasurers. 
brought to a close: of the several County Treasurers in England and 

We also thank Your Majesty for informing us| Wales, for the year ending Michaelmas 1856. 
that a Treaty of Peace between Your Majesty and| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
the Shah of Persia was signed at Paris, on the 4th | Table. 
of March, by Your Majesty's Ambassador at Paris eo an 
and by the y Arendee. of the Shah ; and we thank | Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions of Importation 
Your Majesty for Your gracious intimation that | several Acts of Parliament,—Copy of an Order in ° atte. 
this Treaty shall be laid before us as soon as the | Council of the 2d April 1857, under the 11 ys 











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20 VicroriZ. 


Vic. c. 105, to prohibit the importation of Cattle, 
&amp;c. from certain places bordering on the Baltic. 


Cambridge Copies of Two Statutes made by the respective 

University. — Governing Bodies of Trinity College and Pembroke 
College, in the University of Cambridge, under the 
19 &amp; 20 Vice. c. 88. 

Oxford — Copies of Three Ordinances framed by the Oz- 

University. —_ ford University Commissioners in relation to Mer- 
ton, Pembroke and University Colleges, in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford respectively, under the 17 &amp; 18 
Vic. c. 81. 

Merchant An Account of the Receipt and Expenditure 

Seamen's = (under the Seamen’s Fund Winding-up Act), from 

_ 1st January to 31st December 1856; with an Ac- 
count of the Sums received and paid for the Wages 
and Effects of deceased Seamen in the year 1856. 

Mercantile An Account of the Mercantile Marine Fund, 


Marine Fund. ynder the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 104, showing the 
Balance of Cash and Amount of Exchequer Bills 
held on 1st January 1856, with the Income and Ex- 
penditure from that period to 31st December 1856. 
. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


Navy. The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
. of an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of an Order in 
ouncil, dated the 20th March 1857, authorizing 
the payment of Full Pay to the Officers of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Navy being made by the Paymasters of each 
of Her Majesty’s Ships. 
Parochial Ordered, That the Return relative to Parochial 
Elections. Elections, which was presented upon the 7th day of 
No. 3. this instant May, be printed. 
Electors, &amp;c. Ordered, That the Return relative to Electors, &amp;c., 
No. 4. which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- 
stant May, be printed. 
Pilotage. Ordered, That the Return relative to Pilotage, 
No.5. which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- 
stant May, be printed. 
Transporta- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
— to amend the Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth 


years of Her Majesty, to substitute, in certain cases, 
other Punishment in lieu of Transportation: And 
that Sir George Grey and Mr. Massey do prepare, 
and bring it in. 

Hudson's Bay 
Company. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 

to consider the state of those British Possessions in 
North America which are under the Administration 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company, or over which they 
possess a license to trade. 
Printing. 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. 


Registration 
of Long Leases 
(Scotland. ) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the Registration of Long Leases in 
Scotland, and Assignations thereof: And that Mr. 
Dunlop and Sir Michael Shaw Stewart do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Industrial 


ee Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


to make better Provision for the Care and Educa- 
tion of vagrant, destitute, and disorderly Children, 
and for the Extension of Industrial Schools: And 
that Mr. Adderley, Mr. Liddell, Mr. Muntz and 

Mr. Headlam do prepare, and bring it in. 
ee and Ordered, That a Standing Committee be ap- 
" (House pointed to control the arrangements of the Kitchen 
of Commons.) and Refreshment Rooms in the Department of the 
Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House :—And a 
pag was appointed of Colonel French, Co- 

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129 


lonel Boldero, Mr. Alderman Cubitt, Mr. Seymour 
Fitzgerald, Mr. Hume, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. 
Bramley Moore. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave. be given to bring in a Bill to Judgments 
render Judgments or Decreets obtained in certain Execution, &amp;c. 
Courts in England, Scotland and Ireland respec- 
tively, effectual in any other part of the United 
Kingdom: And that Mr. Craufurd and Mr. Dun- 
lop do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Danish 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Transit Dues. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Papers relating to the Danish Transit Dues : 
—Ist. Petition presented on the 19th day of No- 
vember 1856 to the Lords Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury, and signed by Directors of the 
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, and 
Sixty-three Mercantile Firms interested :—2d. Pe- 
tition presented on 19th day of November last, and 
signed by Directors of the Royal Danish a 
—3d. Letter addressed by the Secretary to the 
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company, the 
Secretary of the en Danish Railway, and Mr. 
E. E. Wendt, on behalf of the Mercantile Firms 
interested, to James Wilson, Esquire, M. p., Secre- 
tary to the Treasury, dated the 19th day of Novem- 
ber 1856, and Enclosure :—4th. Letter addressed by 
Mr. Wilson to Sir Morton Peto, Baronet, dated the 
29th day of November 1856, with Enclosure :— 
5th. Letter addressed, as above, to James Wilson, 
Esquire, mM. P., Secretary to the Treasury, dated the 
14th day of January 1857, and Enclosures :—6th. 
Of any other Correspondence upon this subject. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Re- Malt, &amp;c. 
turns of the Number of Bushels of Malt brought to 
charge in each of the Four years ending the 5th or 
1st day of April 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1857, as the 
years may end on one or other of those days :—Of 
the Average Price of Barley for each of the Four 
— before-named:—Of the Amount in “ Old 

uty” charged on English Hops for each of the 
before-named Four years :—And, of the Number of 
Cwts. of Foreign Hops imported in each of the same 
Four years. 


Sir George Grey presented a Bill to amend the Transporta- 
Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her tion = — 
Majesty, to substitute, in certain cases, other Punish- w-~eee 
ment in lieu of Transportation: And the same was Bill 1. 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Dunlop presented a Bill to provide for the Registration 
Registration of Tete Leases in Scotland, and As- of Long Leases 
signations thereof: And the same was read the first (Std) 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon gin 9 
Wednesday the 20th day of this’ instant May ; and : 
to be printed. 


Mr. Adderley presented a Bill to make better Industrial 
Provision for the Care and Education of vagrant, Schools Bill. 
destitute and disorderly Children, and for the Ex- _ Bill 3. 
tension of Industrial Schools: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Craufurd presented a Bill to render Judg- Judgments 
ments or Decreets obtained in certain Courts in Execution, &amp;e. 
England, Scotland and Ireland respectively, effec- “ll 
tual in any other part of the United Kingdom : Ang Pala. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next; and to 
be printed. 


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130 


A Petition of Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Cambridge, was presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 2}. , 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Henry Handcock, Esquire, com- 
monly called the Honourable Henry Handcock, of 
Her Majesty's Forty-fourth Regiment of Foot, a 
Candidate at the last Election of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the Borough of Ath- 
lone, complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the said Borough, was presented, and read 
[Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 3]. 


Athlone 
Election, 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Edward Fellowes, of Ramsey Ab- 
bey, in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
said County, was presented, and read [Vide Ap- 
pendix to Votes, No. 4]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections, 

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, 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 








Lune, 11° die Maiti ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


Banff, ee of the Promoters of the Banff, 

de aoe Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway, vr. 

Railway Bill, ing that Provision may be made in the Banff, Mac- 
duff and Turriff Extension Railway Bill for givin 
Power to the Company to alter a Turnpike Roa 
and Public Road in the Parish of Turriff; for 
maintaining and repairing a part of the Turnpike 
Road, when diverted, at the expense of the Company ; 
and for making an Embankment to keep out flood 
waters, also at the expense of the said Company, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- 
mittee of Selection; That they had formed into 
Groups certain Private Bills, and had agreed to 
report the same to the House. 

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


Mr. Seymour presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 16th day of March, in the last Session of 
Parliament, for Copy of Correspondence between 
Mir Jafer Ali Khan and the Court of Directors, 
and between the same and the President of the 
Board of Control, respecting the Property of the 
late Naw4b of Surat. 

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


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read; 


Committee 
of Selection 
(First Report.) 


No, @. 


East India 
Nawab of 
urat.) 


Dublin and 
Wicklow 
Railway Bill. 


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A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, with reference to the Subscription 
Contract. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Dumbarton 
Dumbarton Water, &amp;c. Bill, which was presented os Ke, 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Dundalk and 
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill, which was —— 
resented upon the 10th day of February, in the last ““""*Y = 
ssion of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 23d day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. ‘ 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Eastern 
Eastern Counties Railway Bill, which was presented Counties 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 4i!way Bill. 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 20th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be seul; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the East Kent 
East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) Bill, which Railway (Ex. 
was presented upon the 4th day of February, in the Dover) Bill. 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

he said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the East Kent 
East Kent Railway (Strood to Saint Mary’s Cray, Railwa 
&amp;c.) Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day of — Mary's 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, and the Cray, &amp;c.) 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made Bill 
upon the 18th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the East Somerset 
East Somerset Railway Bill, which was presented Railway Bill 
upon the 11th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Edinburgh, 
Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee, and Scottish Central oo . 
Railway Companies Bill, which was presented upon geottish, Cen- 
the 12th day of February, in the last Session of tral Railway 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in — 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


. The — was — That the Petition for the Blectric i 
lectric Telegraph Company Bill, which was pre- Telegraph 
sented sory 5th ras of February, in the fast Company Bil. 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

‘he said Bill was réad the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read 
the third time. - 

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Elie Harbour ‘The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Bill. Elie Harbour Bill, which was presented upon the 
6th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Fly Tidal The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Hastowr pul. ly Tidal Harbour and Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Ely Valley 


‘ The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Railway Bill. 


Ely Valley Railway Bill, which was presented upon 
the 5th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed, 
Beseyesn aan — ers — pores T pg abe for the 
— « uropean and Indian Junction Telegraph Compan 
reckon 7 Bill, hich was presented upon the 16th day oF Fe. 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be 
read the third time. 


Fife and Kin- 


i The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
- Railway 


Fife and Kinross Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second timé; 
and committed. 
a Park The House wes moved, That the Petition for the 

Finsbury Park Bill, which was presented upon the 

4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the 18th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Fiskerton 


o- The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


Fishertun Drainage Bill, which was presented upon 


the 17th day of February, in the last Session of 


Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Clyde Junc- The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


tion Railway orth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill, which was 
Bill, presented upon the 13th day of February, in the 
~ Session of Parliament, and tlie Order of leave 

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131 


for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Fownhe and 
Fownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bill, which was #o'me Lacy 
magieed upon the 13th ‘am of February, in the a 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Fraserburgh 
Fraserburgh Harbour Bill, which was presented Harbour Bill. 
upon the 6th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 23d day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Glasgow City 

Glasgow City and Suburban Gas Bill, which was *™4 Suburban 
: , Gas Bill. 

presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first aud second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Glasgow 
Glasgow Gas Bill, which was presented upon the 8 Bill. 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being reud ; 

‘he said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Great 

Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill, which was Northern 
: ? ailway 

presented upon the 13th day of March, in the last (capital) Bill. 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 17th day 
of March, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Great 

Great Northern and Western of Zreland Railway Northern 
; and Western 

Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day of Fe- o¢ freland 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the Railway Bill. 
Order of leave fur bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the 18th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Great South- 
Great Southern and Western Extension Railway - Fda 
Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day of Fe- Rellway Bil 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





The House was moved, That the Petition for the Great 
Great Southern and Western Railway (Capital) Bill, rom 
which was presented upon the 5th day of February, oo ennspagy 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of (Capital) BilL 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 





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132 11° Mazz. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read | 
the third time. 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the ~~, 
Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill, which was pre- .: ; 
sented upon the 4th day of February, in the last a 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 


bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 


Great Western The House was moved, That the Petition for the | might be read ; and the same being read ; 


and Brentford 
Railway Bill. 


Great Yar- 
mouth Bri- 
tannia Pier 
Bill. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Water Bill. 


Guildford 
Gas Bill. 


Guildford 
Water Bill. 


Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill. 


Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den Roads Bill. 


Herne Bay and 


Faversham 
Railway Bill. 


Great Western and Brentford Railway Bill, which | 
was presented upon the 5th day of February, in the | 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave | 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same | 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; | 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; | 
and committed. 

The House was moved, That the Petition for the | 
Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier Bill, which was 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, with reference to the Subscription 
Contract. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Great Yarmouth Water Bill, which was presented 
upon the 24th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; und the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 





The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Guildford Gas Bill, which was presented upon the | 
10th day of February, in the last Session of Par-| 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the | 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; | 
and the same being read ; | 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; | 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. | 

| 

The House was moved, That the Petition for the | 
Guildford Water Bill, which was presented upon 
the 13th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the | 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; | 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


and (the Bill having been reported in the last Ses- | 


sion of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Hamilton and Strathaven Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 13th day of February, in the | 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same | 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; | 

The said Bill was read the first ani second time ; | 
and committed. 


| 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the | 
Haslingden and Todmorden Roads Bill, which was 
presented upon the 6th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for | 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, | 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
und committed. | 


The House was moved, That the I’ctition for the 
Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill, which 
was presented upon the 6th day of February, in the 
Jast Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 





| Lancaster and Carlisle and Ingleton Railway Bill 


The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bil! having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be 
read the third time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Ipswich 
Ipswich Water Bill, which was presented upon the Water Bill. 
18th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Islington 
Islington Parish Bill, which was presented upon the Parish Bill. 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the 18th day of February, in 
the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Keith and 

Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) Bill, which Putown 
. ‘ay ig, Railway 

was presented upon the 12th day of February, in (xo 9) Bin. 
the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of : 
leave for bringing im the said Bill made upon the 
25th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

The House was moved, That the Petition for the Kidsgrove 
Kidsgrove Market Bill, which was presented upon Market Bill 


| the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 


liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 


said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 


and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Kidsgrove 
Kidsyrove Market, Town Hall, &amp;c. Bill, which was ay Town 
; all, &amp;. Bill. 
| presented upon the 5th day of February, in the 
| last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
‘for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Kinross-shire 
Kinross-shire Railway Bill, which was presented Railway Bill. 
upon the 5th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Lancaster 
and Carlisle 

. . ? and Ingleton 

which was presented upon the 4th day of February, Salven Bill. 


‘in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 


leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Landport 
Landport and Southsea Improvement Bill, which nt ee 
was presented upon the 9th day of February, in the Bill. 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 


for 





wat a ©F. td 





Langport, 
Somerton and 
Castle Cary 
Roads Bill. 


Leslie Rail- 
way Bill. 


Lewes and 
Uckfield 
Railway Bill. 


Liverpool 
Town and 
Dock Dues 
(Saint Helen’s 
Canal and 
Railway Com- 
pany) Bill. 


Liverpool and 
Birkenhead 
Docks Bill. 


London and 


South Western 


Railway Acts 
Amendment 
Bill, 


London (Cit 
Coal Duties ” 


2) . 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide First 
Report. 


Enfield 
Factory, 


20 Victroriz. 


for bringing in the said Biil made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Roads Bill, 


which was presented upon the 4th day of February, | Her Majesty, by such Members of this 








11° Mazz. 133 


House, an Account of the Total Sum expended at 
Lafieid Factory, from the 1st day of January 1854 
to the 31st day of March iy ; the Amounts under 
the following Heads to be separately specified ; 
viz.:—Building, Machinery, Miscellaneous Stores, 
Salaries aud Wages. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
* tte as are 


in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of | of Her Majesty’s Most, honourable Privy Council. 


leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the | 
same day, might be read; and the same being | 
read ; 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a National 
Return of the whole Amount of the National Debt Debt. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time ; | of Great Britain and Ireiand (including any Foreign 


and committed. 


| 


Loans which have been considered as forming part 


| of the National Debt of Great Britain), Funded and 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the | Unfunded, separately ; also, of all Annuities for 
Leslie Railway Bill, which was presented upon the | Terms of years; and also, of the Charge for Ma- 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Par-| nagement of the National Debt, stated year by year, 


liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; | 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; | 
and committed. | 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


from the year 1691 (as far as practicable) to the 5th 
day of January 1857; the Jrish Debt only to be 
included from the Date of the Union. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, savings 
Returns relative to Savings Banks, in continuation of Banks. 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 23, of Session 1857, from 


Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill, which was pre-| November 20, 1855, to November 20, 1856 :—And, 


sented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for | 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, | 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Liverpool Town and Dock Dues (Saint Helen’s | 
Canal and Railway Company) Bill, which was pre- | 
sented upon the 6th day of March, in the last Ses- | 
sion of Parliament, and the Order of leave for | 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 10th day 
of March, in the last Session of Parliament, might | 
be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


and committed. 





The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks Bill, which was 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
London and South Western Railway Acts Amend- 
ment Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day 
of February, in the last Session of Parliament, and 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bili was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 





The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


London (City) Coal Duties Bill, which was pre- | 


sented upon the 17th day of March, in the last Ses- | 
sion of Parliament, and the- Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pieased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
Vou, 112. 





| in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 24, of 


Session 1857, from November 20, 1855, to Novem- 
ber 20, 1856. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to County county 


: Treasurers, which was presented upon the sth day Treasurers. 
} y 


of this instant May, be printed. No. 7. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to Cambridge Cambridge 
University, which were presented upon the 8th day University. 
of this instant May, be printed. No. 8. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to Oxford Oxford 
University, which were presented upon the sth day University. 
of this instant May, be printed. No. 9. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Mer- Merchant Sea- 
chant Seamen’s Fund, which was presented upon men’s Fund. 
the 8th day of this instant May, be printed. No. 10. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Mer- Mercantile 
cantile Marine Fund, which was presented upon the Marine Fund. 
8th day of this instant May, be printed. No. 11. 


Or:lered, That an Abstract of the Accounts rela- Increase and 
tive to Increase and Diminution (Public Offices), a 
1olic 


which were presented upon the 7th day of this in- Satces 
stant May, be printed. No. 12. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Super- Superannna- 
annuatious (Pubtic Offices), which were presented tions (Public 


upon the 7th day of this instant May, be printed. sano 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Decimal 
mand,—Copy of Preliminary Report of the Decimal Coinage. 
Coinage Commissioners. 

Tables of Criminal Offenders for the year 1856 ; Criminal 
reported by Her Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland, oe 
in terms of the Statute 1 Gul. 4, c. 37, with altera- (Seotland.) 
tions and additions ; ordered and required by one 
of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, in 
virtue of the Powers therein contained. 

Copy of Eighteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper puntic 
of the Public Records. Records. 

Copy of Annual Report of the National Vaccine National Vae- 
Board, 1857. cine Board, 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- Infanticide. 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a Return of 
the Number of Persons convicted of Infanticide 
during the years 1852 and 1856, inclusive, together 
with the Sentence passed upon each Person so con- 
victed; specifying whether such Sentence has been 
modified or reversed, and specifying, also, whether 
the Verdict given at the Trial of each Person has 
been accompanied by a recommendation to mercy, 

T4 ' and, 


LAR Mn 


S sis , 
9 peace RD AaB We, 































East India 
(Opium.) 


Public Health 


Act. 


Lords Com- 
missioners’ 
Speech con- 
sidered. 


Savings 
Banks. 


Transporta- 


tion and Penal 


Servitude Bill. 


Industrial 
Schoois Bill. 


134 


and, if so, the Reason or Reasons, if any, allezed 
for such recommendation. 


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


The folowing Paper was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 21st day of July 1856, for a Return of 
the Charges to the East India Government incurred 
in the Growth and Monopoly of Opium ; specifying 
Salaries of all Descriptions, the Cost of Manufacture, 
of Sales, of Transport to Calcutta, Warehouse Rent, 
and other Expenditure, for Ten years, including the 
last year in which Returns are complete :—Like 
Return showing the Amount of Advances, under the 
following Heads,—Outstanding Balances, including 
Interest at the commencement of year; Sums re- 
ceived in Cash on account of Balances; Sums struck 
off as irrecoverable ; Contract Price paid to Culti- 
vator; Advances during the year; and outstanding 
Claims at the end of the year:—Like Return of 
Losses incurred on bad or insecurely packed Opium, 
including Drawbacks allowed to Purchasers :—Like 
Return of the Value of the Houses, Stock, &amp;c. 
available to Government if the Monopoly were 
abolished :—Like Return of the Charges to the 
East India Company on the Opium manufactured 
in Native States and transmitted to Ports of Ex- 
portation m the Company’s Territories:—And, like 
Abstract Return of the Gross and Net Receipts 
received by the Company’s Treasury. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of Order in 
Council, applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to 
the Township of Denton. 


Sir John Ramsden presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—A Return of 
Officers who have been allowed to receive their 
Half-Pay since the Ist April 1856 to the 31st March 
1857, with Civil Situations, under the Provisions of 
the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 105, s. 31. 

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


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Speech of the Lords 
Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament; and 
the same was aguin read by Mr. Speaker. 

And a Motion being made, That a Supply be 
granted to Her Majesty ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself intoa Committee to consider that Motion. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Savings Banks. 


(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That it is expedient to amend the Laws 
relating to Savings Banks, and to provide for the 
establishment of Savings Banks with the Security 
of the Government. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come toa 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 


morrow. 


The Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill was, 
according 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 second 
reading of the Industrial Schools Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 


11°—12° Maii. 





A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


And the House having continued to sit tiil after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 12° die Maiti, 1857: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Nves to the Lett. 
Tellers for they Mr. Adderley, 
Yeas, | Lord Robert Cecil: 
Tellers for the f Mr. Bowyer, 
Noes, \Mr. Patrick O’ Brien: 
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 20th day of this instant May. 


1 177. 


5 
if 18. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Bank Acts. 
to inquire into the operation of the Bank Act of 
1844 (7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32), and of the Bank Acts for 
Ireland and Scotland of 1845 (8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 37, 38.) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill General Board 
for transferring the Powers of the General Board of % Health. 
Health to a Committee of the Privy Council: And 
that Sir George Grey and Mr. Massey do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Bankruptcy 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to #4 er 
Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland: And that “(7eland.) 
Mr. Attorney General for Ireland and Sir George 
Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Select Committee on Printing was nominated Printing. 
of Mr. George Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Greene, 
Mr. Wilson, Mr. Divett, Mr. Gaskell, Mr. Vernon 
Smith, Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, Mr. Bonham-Carter 
and Mr. Thoruely. 

Ordered, That ‘Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That a Standing Committee of Sixteen Library of 
Members be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the the House. 
direction of the Library, and to whom shall be re- 
ferred all matters relating thereto :—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Colone! Wilson Patten, Lord 
John Russell, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. 
Napier, Sir James Graham, Mr. Monckton Milnes, 
Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Walpole, The Lord Advocate, 
Lord Naas, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Bramston, 
Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Baines, Mr. Massey and 
Lord Harry Vane. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


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, a Copy of a Letter, under date the 17th day 
of January 1857, addressed by Viscount Zorrington 
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the 
state of the Colony of Ceylon. 
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- London and 
posed, That there be laid before this House, a Copy —— 
of the Correspondence that has taken place between 
the North Western Railway Company or the City 
of Dublin Steam Packet Company and the Treasury 
or Post Office, during the years 1855, 1856 and 
1857, relative to the proposed improved Postal and 
Passenger Communication between London and 
Dublin :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Ecclesiastical 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill t 
Corporations. 


further to provide for the mode of securing the In- 
comes of Ecclesiastical Corporations aggregate and 


sole: And that the Marquis of Blaxdford and Mr. 
Ingham do prepare, and bring it in. 
Ordered, 








20 VicTorizZ. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the Receipt, Issue and Audit of 
Public Monies in the Exchequer, the Pay Ottice 
and the Audit Department. 


Public Monies. 


General Board Sir George Grey presented a Bill for transferring 
of Health Bill. the Powers of the General Boazd of Health to a Com- 


Bill 5. —_ mittee of the Privy Council : And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next ; and to ke printed. 

Bankruptcy Mr. Attorney General for Jreland presented a Bill 


and Insolvency to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to 
= Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland: And the 
Bill6. came was read the first time; and crdered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 

printed. 


The Marquis of Blandford presented a Bill 
further to provide for the mode of securing the 
Incomes of Ecclesiastical Corporations aggregate 
and sole: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
the 3d day of June next; and to be printed. 


Ecclesiastical 
Corporations 
Bill. 


Bill 7. 


Rochdale A Petition of Andrew Stewart and Thomas 


Election. 
Return for the Borough of Rochdale, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 5]. 
Ordered, That the said letition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant | 


or Warrants for such persons, papers and records 
as shall be thought necessary by the several Par- 
ties on the hearing of the matter of the said Peti- 
tion. 


A Petition of the Right honourable John Arthur 
Wynne, of Hazlewood, in the County of Sligo, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Sligo, was presented, and read [Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 6]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records 
as shall be thought necessary by the several Par- 
ties on the hearing of the matter of the said Peti- 
tion. 


Siigo Election. 


Pontefract 
Election. 


A Peiition of Benjamin Oliveira, of Upper Hyde 
Park-street, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Pontefract, was pre- 
sented, and read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 7]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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


Sound Dues. © The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Report from 
Her Majesty’s Minister at the Court of Denmark, 
on the Negotiation for the redemption of the Sound 
Dues. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 


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135 
Martis, 12° die Maii ; 


Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


HE House being informed, That the Sheriffs Oath of 
of the City of London attended at the door, Abjuration. 
they were called in; and at the Bar presented,—A 
Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Com- 
mons of the City of London, in Common Council 
assembled :—And then they withdrew. 
And the said Petition, praying that the House 
will forthwith take such means as to their wisdom 
may seem meet, to erase from the Statute Book the 
Act of Parliament requir‘ng the Oath to be taken 
“upon the true faith of a Christian,” so that the 
Jews may not be any longer prevented by their 
religious opinion from holding, like the rest of Her 
Majesty’s subjects, political offices and places of 
trust, was read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Committee 
mittee of Selection; That they had formed certain of Selection 
additional Groups, which they had agreed to report oe ” 
to the House. ” No. 14 

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


A Petition of the Swansea Harbour Trustees, Swansea Har- 
praying that Provision may be made in the Swansea bour Trust 
Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Company Bill, eo 
for enacting that after the expiration of seven years pany Bill. 
from the vesting period, the Powers of the Trustees 
for making the Docks and Works shall cease, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Redale and 
the Bedale and Leyburn Railway Bill, as amended Leyburn Rail- 
in the Committee way Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 





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| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Lowestoft 
| Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Bill, which was Water, Gas 
presented upon the 9th day of February, in the last = se 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for — 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

‘Lhe said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Lowestoft and 
Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and Roads Burgh Saint 

. ae : » Peter Ferry 
Bill, which was presented upon the 10th day of 514 Roads Bill 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, and the . 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Manchester 
Manchester Corporation Bill, which was presented Corporation 
upon the 16th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 
| The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 

, and committed. 





The House was moved, That the Petition for the Manchester, 


| Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire R ailway Sheffield and 
| (Buxton and Cleethorpes) Bill, which was presented — 


| upen the 4th day of February, in the last Session of (Buxton and 
| Parliament, aud the Order of leave for bringing in Cleethorpes) 
| the said Bill made upon the same day, might be - 
read; and the same being read ; 
The sai. Bill was read the first and second time ; 
| and committed. 
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136 


Manchester, 
Sheffield and 
Lincolnshire 
Railway 
(Romiley, 
Bill. 


Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 
(Romiley, &amp;c.) Bill, which was presented upon the 
&amp;c.) 4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Mansfield and Worksup Road Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 10th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 


Mansfield 
and Worksop 
Road Bill. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time; ' 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Margate Water Bill, which was presented upon the 
13th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 


Margate 
Water Bill. 


The said Bill was read the first and second time ; | 


and committed, with reference to the Subscription 
Contract. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Mayor’s Couit of the City of London Bill, which 
was presented upon the 6th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Mayor's Court 
of the City of 
London Bill. 


Medical, Legal The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
= General Medical, Legal and General Mutual, and New 
utual, and . “ ‘ ‘ 
New Equitable Equitable Life Assurance Companies Amalgamation 
Life Assurance Bill, which was presented upon the 12th day of 
——— February, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 

malgama- 4 “aie ‘ 
tion Bill. Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 
The said Bill was :ead the first and second time; 
and committed. 


Meriton’s The House was moved, That the Petition for 
Meriton’s and Hagen’s Sufferance Wharves Bill, 
which was presented upon the 6th day of February, 


Wharves Bill. | ; , 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 


leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the | 


same day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read 
the third time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, which was 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill. 


Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 


12° Maiti. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the | 


presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last | 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Metropolitan 
Metropolitan New Streets and Improvements Bill, pone tt 
which was presented upon the 4th day of February, ments Bill. 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
_— day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Metropolitan 
Metropolitan Railway Bill, which was presented ®*ilway Bill 
‘upon the 16th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Mid-Kent 
_Mid-Kent Railway (Croydon Extension) Billi, which (Croydea 
was presented upon the 4th day of February, in the Extension) 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave Bill. 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 18th day 
of February, in the last Session of Parliament, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


' The House was moved, That the Petition for the Mid-Kent and 
Mid-Kent and South Kent Railway Bill, which was — —— 
‘presented upon the 13th day of February, in the */¥*y Bil 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 

day, might be read ; and the sanie heing read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
‘and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Midland 
Midland Great Western Railway of Zreland (Sligo Great Western 
Extension) Bill, which was presented upon the 9th Ireland (Sligo 
day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, Extension) 
and the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill Bill. 

/made upon the same day, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


|_ The House was moved, That the Petition for the Midland 
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland ( Tulla- Great Western 
more Line) Bill, which was presented upon tlie 6th pe 
day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, (Tullamore 
and the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill Line) Bill. 
made upon the same day, might be read; and the 

same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 

and committed. 


| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Mid-Sussex 
Mid-Sussex Railway Bill, which was presented upon Railway Bill 
the 13th day of February, in the last Session of 

| Parliainent, and the Order of leave for bringing in 

the said Bill made upon the 24th day of February, 

in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 

and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 

‘and committed. 


bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, | 


might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed, 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 6th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

he said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


Metropolitan 
Cattle Market 
Bill 


| The House was moved, That the Petition for the Milford : 
Milford Improvement Bill, which was presented —_— 
_upon the 6th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 

the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 

read ; and the same being read ; 

| The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


| and committed. 


Monkland 
Railways Bill. 


| 
| The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Monkland Railways Bill, which was presented upon 
| the 5th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, 











90 VicrorizZz. 


liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Mordon Carrs Drainage Bill, which was presented 
upon the 6th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the sime being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Mordon Carrs 
Drainage Bill. 


National In- The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


seme — National Insurance and Investment Association Bill, 
ye which was presented upon the 12th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
oe day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 

and committed. 
Nene Valley The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Drainage and ene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement 
nee Bill, which was presented upon the 5th day of Fe- 
Bill bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 


Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


New Bruns- The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


wick - , New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land 
ean Tana Company Bill, which was presented upon the 6th 
Company Bill, day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, 
and the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill 
made upon the same day, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 
Newcastle- The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
under-Lyme — Neweastle-under-Lyme and Leek Roads Bill, which 
Roads Bill, | Was presented upon the 9th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 
—— The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
and Herefora Vewport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway Bill, 
Railway Bill, which was presented upon the 17th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 
Newquay Pier The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
- — Newquay Pier and Harbour and Railway Bill, which 
Bi” +~=was presented upon the 10th day of February, in 
the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 9th 
day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 
a River The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
ompany Bill. Wew River Company Bill, which was presented 


upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Vou. 112. 


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137 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Newry and 
Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill, which was elkeur ie 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last ae 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 19ta day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Newry, War- 
Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway Bill, tenpoint and 
which was presented upon the 4th day of February, 2°s7¢"°",. 

: prese pon y Y&gt; Railway Bill. 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 

same day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Newtown and 
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Bill, which was Machynlleth 
presented upon the 13th day of February, in the last ®#ilway Bill 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time F 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Norfolk 

Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment Bill, which was Estuary Acts. 
. : mendment 

presented upon the 5th day of February, in the last pin, 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the North Eastern 
Noith Eastern and Hartlepool Dock and Railway 924 Hartlepook 
C ‘oe Mmeali , Bill. which q Dock and 

ompanies Amalgamation ill, w uch was presented Railway Com- 
upon the 9th day of February, in the last Session of panies’ Amal- 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 8*™tion Bill, 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was read the first and second time; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the North Eastern 
North Eastern Railway (Capital) Bill, which was Railway, 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the eee 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the North Eastern 

North Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley Branch) a 
Bill, which was presented upon the 4th day of Fe- fap Megueli) 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the Bill. 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the 18th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bi!l was read the first and second time ; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the North Level 
North Level Drainage Bill, which was presented Drainage Bill. 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

The 


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138 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
North 5 peg Railway (Bridgewater Canals) 
Bill, which was presented upon the 5th day of Fe- 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


North Staf- 
furdshire 
Railway 
(Bridgewater 
Canals) Bill. 


North Western The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Railway Bill. North Western Railway Bill, which was presented 
upon the 5th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 
The said. Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Norwich and Spalding Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 10th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Norwich and 
Spalding 
Railway Bill. 


Oldham, The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
a Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guide Bridge 
Guide Bridge Junction Railways Bill, which was presented upon 
Junction the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
pete iene liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 

and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


and committed. 


Orkney 


: The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Roads Bill. 


Orkney Roads Bill, which was presented upon the 
12th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; and the 
same being read , 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Otley and 


“er The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
= Road 


Otley and Skipton Road Bill, which was presented 
upon the 17th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Peebles The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

Railway Bill. Peebles Railway Bill, which was presented upon the 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave ‘for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read 
the third time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Portadown and Dungannon Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Bill. 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
migtit be read; and the same being read ; 
“he said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Portsmeuth Railway Bill, which was presented upon 
the 5th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave f&gt;r bringing in the 


Portsmouth 
Railway Bill. 





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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Portsmouth 
Portsmouth Water Bill, which was presented upon Water Bill. 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; | 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Prestwich, 
Prestwich, Bury and Radcliffe Roads Bill, which Bury and 
was presented upon the 6th day of February, in the ®*dlif 

p ed upon the ary of Fe y, in the ponds Bill. 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
wight be read; and the same being read ; 

The suid Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Palteney Town 
Pulteney Town Harbour Bill, which was presented Harbour Bill. 
upon the Sth day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Reading Rail- 
Reading Railways Junction Railway Bill, which was ¥4y8 Junction 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last anny 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; ] 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


Resolved, That in the case of Unopposed Pri- Private Bills. 

vate Bills, suspended in the last Parliament, of 
which Members had charge who are not Members 
of the present Parliament, the Committee of Selec- 
tion have Power to refer them to the Chairman of 
Ways and Means, and one Member for the place to 
which the Bill refers, and one Member not locally 
or otherwise interested. 


The Comptroller of the Household reported to Answer to 
the House, That Her Majesty, having been attended Address. 
with their Address of Friday last, was pleased to 
receive the same very graciously, and to give the 
following Answer : 

I have received with much satisfaction your loyal 
and dutiful Address. 

It is gratifying to Me to be assured that the 
measures which will be proposed to you will receive 


| your earnest consideration, and [ feel confident that 


you will concur with Me in My endeavours to pro- 
mote the well-being and prosperity of My people 
throughout My Dominions. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Second 
Report. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Benefices, Benefices. 
which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- No, 15. I 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Suspended Suspended 
Canonries, which was presented upon the 7th day of Canonries. 
this instant May, be printed. No. 16. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Re- Poor Relief C 
lief (Ireland), which was presented upon the 7th (Ireland) 
day of this instant May, be printed. No. 17. 
Ordered, 


Spirits. 
No. 18. 


Hops. 
No. 19. 


Malt. 
No. 20. 


Valuation 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 21. 
Draftsmen of 


Parliamentary 
Bills. 


No. 22. 


Railways. 
No. 23. 


British Spirits. 
No. 24. 


Spirits and 
Malt. 


No. 25. 


Decimal 
Coinage. 


Common 
Lodging. 
houses. 


Public 
Libraries. 


Local Acts. 
No. 26. 


Copper, &amp;e, 


20 Vicrort2z. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits, 
which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hops, 
which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Malt, which 
was presented upon the 7th day of this instant May, 
be printed, 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Valuation 


(Ireland), which was presented upon the 7th day of 
this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Draftsmen 
of Parliamentary Bills, which was presented upon 
the 7th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Railways, 
which was presented upon the 7th day of this in- 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to British 
Spiits, which was presented upon the 7th day of 
this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits and | 


Malt, which was presented upon the 7th day of this 
instant May, be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty's Com- 
mand,— Questions communicated by Lord Ocver- 
stone to the Decimal Coinage Commissioners. 

Copy of Report to Her Majesty's Principal Se- 
cretary of State for the Home Department, by the 
Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 
upon the operation of the Common Lodging-houses 


Acts, 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c.28, and 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 41, | 


within the Metropolitan Police District. 

Mr. Massey also presented, — Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of 
March, in the last Session of Parliament, for Re- 
turns of the Names (alphabetically arranged) of 
all Places in which, according to a Return (No. 
221) made in the last Session of Parliament, Free 
Public Libraries had then been agreed upon or 
established, with a Return showing how far the in- 
stitution of Free Public Libraries has since been 
agreed to or dissented from in the fullowing Places : 
Aberdeen, Dundalk, Haslingden (Lancashire), King- 
ston-upon-Hull, Leamington, Lichfield, Limerick, 
Marylebone, Paddington, Westminster :—And, from 
Bristol, Greenock, Norwich, Preston and South- 
ampton, and the City of London, showing, 1. Whe- 
ther the Corporations of those Places hold in trust 
any Collection of Books bequeathed for public use, 
with the Date, Terms of Bequest, and Name of the 
Testator; 2. Whether any Funds for the Main- 
tenance of such Collections are heid by the Corpo- 
rations aforesaid, and to what Amount; 3. What is 
the present Extent of each of such Collections, 
where they are preserved and under what Custody, 
and what are the Terms of public access thereto ; 
4. Whether any Steps have been taken, or are in 
contemplation, under the Public Libraries Act of 
1850 or of 1855, for the future Maintenance of such 
Collections, or of any of them, by Rate, or for the 
Amalgamation of any such Collection with other 
Collections formed under either of the Acts afore- 
said. 

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


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, — Reports from the Admiralty, relative to 
applications for Local Acts. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Exports and Imports in the United 
Kingdom, of Copper and Copper Ore, Zinc and 

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12° Mazz. 139 


Zinc Ore, Tin, Lead and Lead Ore, ending with the 
5th day of January 1857. 


Office in Great Britain and Ireland for Duty on 
Insurances against Fire, for the Quarters ending 
severally the 25th day of March, the 24th day of 
June, the 29th day of September, and the 25th day 
of December 1856 ; distingu shing the Amount of 
Allowance made to each Office for collecting the 
}same in the Country, and in London, Edinburgh 
;and Dublin, respectively, with the Dates of such 
Payment; together with an Abstract showing the 
gross Amount of Duty collected in the year by each 
Company :—And, like Account of Sums insured by 
| each Office on Farming Stock for the saine period. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Keturns of the Number of Convicts who, 
since the passing of the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 99, 





| have received Orders of License :—Of the Number 


of Convicts who, after receiving such Orders of 
License, have been convicted of or charged with 


| subsequent Offences :—Of the Number of Convicts 
| whose Orders of License have been revoked : — 


And, of the Number of Convicts whose Licenses 
| have been refused or withheld in consequence of 
| their Misconduct (in continuation of Parliamentary 
| Paper, No. 103, of Session 1856). 
| 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. 


Gore, High Sheriff of the County of Lei/rim, the 


| Irish Government, and the Post Office Authorities, 


| 


in relation to the Writ of Election for the County 
of Leitrim, and the refusal of the High Sheriff to 
execute that Writ. 

Mr. Attorney General for Jreland accordingly 
presented the said Paper. 
, Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





| Trade, on account of the Mercantile Marine Fund, 
by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights, the 
Corporation for preserving and improving the Port 
of Dublin, and the Corporation of Elder Brethren 
of the Trinity House, respectively, from the time of 
the passing of the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 131, trans- 
ferring to the Board of Trade the control of these 
several Boards, to the 31st day of December 1856 ; 
and the Total Amount of Expenditure for each year 
of the Money so paid over to the Board of Trade 
for the respective Lighthouse Boaids. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of ali Correspondence and Ques- 
tions relating to Vaccination, addressed on behalf 
of the Board of Health by Mr. J. Simon, or any 
other official of the Board, to Foreign Governments, 
Hospitals, or Medical Men on the Continent; with 
the Replies thereto. 

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. 


Return of the Annual Amount of Salary paid to each 
Vestry Clerk of every Metropolitan Parish under 
the Metropolis Local Management Act. 

u3 Ordered, 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Fire In- 
Account of all Sums paid into the Inland Revenue surances- 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Convicts. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Leitrim 
Copy of the Correspondence between Major Ormsby Election. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Mercantile 
Return of a'l Monies paid over to the Board of Marine Fund. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Vaccination. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Vestry Clerks 


SS CE OR SENAY LINER See HERR te RR 







































































Tobacco. 


Schools in 
Rural Dis- 
tricts. 


Aggravated 
Assaults. 


Sale of Beer, 
&amp;e. 


140 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the several Seizures made, and of the 
Prosecutions for breach of the Laws relating to 
Tobacco, between the 5th day of January 1855, and 
the 5th day of January 1857; distinguishing those 
in Great Britain from those in Jreland ; specifying 
the Places where and the Names of the Persons 
prosecuted, or from whom the Seizures were made ; 
the Quantities and kinds of Goods seized ; the precise 
nature of the Offences charged or for which the 
Seizures were made; the results of the examinations 
of the Goods by analysis or otherwise, where seized 
for Adulteration; whether any and what judicial 
Proceedings were taken in each case; the result of 
such Proceedings, whether convicted or otherwise ; 
Amount of Fine paid or Imprisonment suffered ; 
whether the Goods seized were condemned or re- 
stored (so far as relates to the Excise Branch of In- 
land Revenue, and in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 429, of Session 1854-55.) 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider the Oaths 
of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration. 


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 Return of the Number of Schools which 
have been erected under the Minute of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Most honourable Privy Council of Education 
of the 2d day of April 1853, for promoting Volun- 
tary Assessments towards the expense of Building 
Schools in Rural Districts; specifying the Name 
of the Parish and County in which such Schools 
have been erected; the Amount of Rate collected 
by the Inhabitants for the purposes of Building, and 
the Sum contributed from the National Grant in 
each case for the like purpose, from the Ist day of 
January 1854 to the 31st day of December 1856. 

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. 


Ordered, ‘\hat ieave be given to bring in a Bill 
to repeal the Act sixteenth and seventeenth Vic- 
toria, chapter thirty, and to make better Provision 
for the Prevention and Punishment of Aggravated 
Assaults upon Women and Children, and for pre- 
venting Delay and Expense in the Administration of 
certain parts of the Criminal Law: Aud that Mr. 
Dillwyn, Mr. Bentinck and Viscount Raynham do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Acts relative to 
the Sale of Beer, &amp;c. might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will immediately re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Acts :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to the general Sale of Beer 
and Cider by retail in England, and to regulate 
certain Places of Public Resort, Refreshment and 
Entertainment. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Fitz Roy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to the general Sale of 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Beer and Cider by retail in England, and to regulate 
certain Places of Public Resort, Refreshment and 
Entertainment :—And he moved the House accord- 
ingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. /itzRoy, Mr. Hurdy and Mr. 
Headlam do prepare, and bring it iv. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Property | 
to abolish Property Qualifications for Members of Qualification. 


Parliament: And that Mr. Locke King, Mr. Henry 
Gore Langton and Mr. Cobbett do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Chatham 
for enabling the Commissioners of the Admiralty 1748, &amp;e. 


to purchase certain Lands in the Parish of Chatham, 
in the County of Kent, and to stop up, divert or 
alter certain Ways in the said Parish, and for other 
purposes relating thereto: And that Mr. Osborne 
and Sir Charles Wood do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Portland 
for the better Supply of Water for the use of Ves- Harbour. 


sels resorting to the Harbour of Refuge at Portland, 
and for enabling the Commissioners of the Admi- 
ralty to supply such Water; for vesting in the said 
Commissioners certain Lands belonging to Her Ma- 
jesty, and for other purposes relating thereto: And 
that Mr. Osborne and Sir Charles Wood do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Hud- Hudson’s Bay 
son’s Bay Company do. consist of Nineteen Mem- Company, 


bers. 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Sir John Pakington, 
Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, 
Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Edward Lilice were nominated 
Members of the said Committee. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
put, That Mr. Adderley be one other Member of 
the said Committee :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then Mr. Lowe, Viscount Sandon, Mr. Grogan, Mr. 
Kinnaird, Mr. Gregson, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Charles 
Fitzwilliam, Mr. Alexander Matheson, Mr. Gurney, 
Mr. Percy Herbert and Viscount Goderich were 
nominated other Members of the said Committee. 

Ordered, That the Ccmmittee have Power to send 
for —— yapers and records. 

rdered, That Five be the Quorum. 


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 and prepare Ab- 
stracts of the same 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 that such Committee have Power to report their 
Opinion and Observations thereupon to the House: 
—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Bonham- 
Carter, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Scott, Mr. Adderley, Mr. 
Owen Stanley, Mr. Bary Austin Bruce, Mr. Greg- 
son, Mr. De Vere, Mr. Wise, Mr. Dilheyn, Mr. 
Charles Forster, Mr. Gard, My. Davison and Mr. 
Woods. 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Select Committee on Public Monies was no- Public Monies. 


minated of Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Henley, Mr. Witl- 
liam Williams, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Ellice, 
Mr. Hankey, the Chancellor of the Exche uer, Sir 
James Graham, Sir Henry Willoughby, Lord — 
an 








Bank Acts. 


Supply. 


Lords Com- 
missioners’ 
Speech re- 
ferred. 


Savings 
Banks. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Bill 8. 


Portland 


Harbour Bill, 


Bill 9. 


20 Vicroriz. 


and Mr. George Alexander Hamilton; with Power to | 


send for persons, 


Ordered, That 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Bank 
Acts do consist of Twenty-five Members. 

The Committee was accordingly nominated of the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli, Sir 
James Graham, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. 
George Alexander Hamilton, Sir Charles Wood, Mr. 
Glyn, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Cayley, Sir Francis Baring, 
Mr. Vance, Mr. Weguelin, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Han- 
key, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Martin Tucker Smith, Mr. 


apers and records. 
ive be the Quorum. 


Fergus, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. John Lewis Ri- | 
cardo, Mr. Ennis, Mr. Tite, Mr. Puller, Mr. Ball | 


12°—13° Mazz. 








141 


purposes relating thereto: And the same was read 
the first time. 

The House was moved, That the Report from the 
I-xaminer of Petitions for Private Bills, which was 
made upon the 11th day of March, in the last 
Session of Parliament (Standing Orders complied 
with), might be read ; and the same being read ; 

And the Bill being in every respect the same as 
the Bill presented in the last Session, which was 
read the first and second time, and committed ; 

The said Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Select Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 
Mr. [Hardy presented a Bill to amend the Laws Sale of Beer, 


and the Earl of Gifford; with Power to send for | relating to the general Sale of Beer and Cider by &amp;c. Bill. 


persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That the Report which in the last! 
Session of Parliament was made from the Com-| 


mittee of Secrecy on the Bank Acts be referred to 
the Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the House 
to resolve itself into a Committee to consider the 
Motion, That a Supply be granted to Her 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. 


(In the Committee.) 
Lords Commissioners’ Speech read. 
Resolved, That a Supply be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty. 
Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
Savings Banks, a Resolution; which was read, as 
followeth : 

That it is expedient to amend the Laws relating 
to Savings Banks, and to provide for the establish- 
ment of Savings Banks with the security of the 
Government. 

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. Fitz Roy, the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do prepare, and 
bring it in, 

Mr. Fitz Roy presented a Bill for enabling the 
Commissioners of the Admiralty to purchase certain 
Lands in the Parish of Chatham, in the County of 
Kent, and to stop up, divert or alter certain Ways in 
the said Parish, and for other ae relating 
thereto: And the same was read the first time. 

The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills, which was 
made upon the 19th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament (Standing Orders complied 
with), might be read ; and the same being read ; 

And the Bill being in every respect the same as 
the Bill presented in the last Session, which was 
read the first and second time, and committed toa 
Select Committee ; 

The said Bill was read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Select Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


Mr. Fitz Roy presented a Bill for the better supply 
of Water for the use of Vessels resorting to the 
Harbour of Refuge at Portland, and for enabling 
the Commissioners of the Admiralty to supply such 
Water; for vesting in the said Commissioners cer- 
tain Lands belonging to Her Majesty, and for other 

VoL, 112, 








| retail in England, and to regulate certain Places of Bill 10. 
| Public Resort, Refreshment and Entertainment: 


And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 10th 
day of June next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Locke King presented a Bill to abolish Pro- Property 
perty Qualifications for Members of Parliament : Quélification 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered Bill 1 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday the 10th ~ -™ 
day of June next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Dillwyn presented a Bill to repeal the Act Aggravated 
sixteenth and seventeenth Victoria, chapter thirty, A*s4ults Bill 
and to make better Provision for the Prevention and _ Bill 12. 
Punishment of Aggravated Assaults upon Women 
and Children, and for preventing Delay and Expense 
in the Administration of certain parts of the Cri- 
minal Law: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday 
next; and to be printed. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Savings Banks 
to amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and Bil. 
to provide for the establishment of Savings Banks Bill 13. 
with the security of the Government: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday the 20th day of this 
instant May; and to be printed. 


A Petition of John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Wareham 
Erle Drax, Esquire, complaining of an undue Elec- Election. 
tion and Return for the Borough of Wareham, was 
presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 

No. 8]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 13° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
I ‘HE House proceeded to take into considera- Calcutta and 


tion the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway —_ — 
Company Bill, as amended in the Committee; and ony Bu. 
an Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Chepstow 
the Chepstow Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- “as Bill 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions - 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 8th and ‘i*t Report) 
11th days of this instant May, and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

u4 Ordered, 





Reversionary 
Interest 
Society Bill. 


Rhymney 
Railway Bill. 


Richmond 
and Kew Ex- 
tension Rail- 
way Bill 


Ringwood, 
Christchurch 
and Bourne- 
mouth Rail- 
way Bill. 


Saint Helen’s 
Canal and 
Railway Bill. 


Saint Philip's 
Church, Li-; 
verpool Bill. 


Salford 
Borough 
(No. 1) Bill 


Salford 
Borough 
No. 2) Bill. 


142 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; | 


and be printed. | 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Reversionary Interest Society Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 11th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, | 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

he said Bill was read the first and second time; | 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read | 
the third time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Rhymney Railway Bill, which was presented upon 
the 16th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the 24th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Richmond and Kew Extension Railway Bill, which 
was presented upon the 17th day of February, in the 
sast Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 25th 
day of February, in the Jast Session of Parliament, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The s:id Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


13° Mai. 





Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway 
Bi'l, which was presented upon the 12th day of | 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, and the 
Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 6th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool Bill, which was 
presented upon the 12th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Salford Borough (No. 1) Dill, which was presented 
upon the 17th day of March, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Salford Borough (No. 2) Bill, which was presented 
upon the 17th day of March, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Salisbury 
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill, which was pre- ss 
sented upon the 9th day of February, in the er 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 20th day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Scottish Cen- 
Scottish Central Railway Bill, which was presented !7@! Railway 


; upon the 5th day of February, in the last Session of 


Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, with reference to the Subscription 
Contract. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Selby and Mar- 
Selby and Market Weighton Road Bi'l, which was ket Weighton 
presented upon the 6th day of February, in the last aa ee 
Session of Parliament, and the Order cf leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Shrewsbury 
Shrewsbury Gas Bill, which was presented upon the &amp;4s Bill. 
10th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Shropshire 
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, London and Union Rail- 
North Westein Railway and Shropshire Canal Com- oy 
panies Bill, which was presented upon the 17th day and North 
of February, in the last Session of Parliament, and Western 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made Shropenire . 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same Canal Com- 
being read ; panies Bill. 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Sittingbourne 
Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill, which #4 Sheerness 
was presented upon the 4th day of February, in the ny a 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Slaney River 
Slaney River Improvement Bill, which was pre- {mprovement 
sented upon the 16th day of February, in the last _ 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Southampton, 
Southampton, Bristol and South Wales Railway paar 
(Southampton and Salisbury, &amp;c.) Bill, which was —— 
ae sage upon the 4th day of February, in the last (Southampton 

ession of Parliament, and the Order of leave for #04 Salisbury, 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 19th day of “* 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the South Devon 
South Devon Railway Bill, which was presented Railway 


upon 














20 Vicroriz. 


upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Galea? leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported and considered 
in the last Session of Parliament) ordered to be read 
the third time. 





South Durham 
and Lancashire 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
South Jurham and Lancashire Union Railway Bill, 
which was presented upon the 4th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, pon oy te read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


South Eastern 


, The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Railway 


South Eastern Railway (Greenwich Junction to 


ich 
eaten pf aig &amp;c.) Bill, which was presented upon the 
—_ &amp;e.) 6th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
iL 


ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


South Eastern’ The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tending. &amp;c.) South Eastern Railway (Reading, &amp;c.)\ Bill, which 
Bill. was presented upon the 10th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


South London 


Railway Bill The House was moved, That the Petition for the 


South London Railway Bill, which was presented 
upon the 16th day of ) Feentig in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the 24th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


South Shields 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Gas Bill 


South Shields Gas Bill, which was presented upon 
the 6th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


South Staf- 
fordshire 
Water Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
South Staffordshire Water Bill, which was presented 
upon the 10th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Stamford and 
mdine 
Railway Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Stamford and Essendine Railway Bill, which was 
resented upon the 13th day of February, in the 
ast Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Stockton 
ew Gas and 
Stockton Gas 
Consumers’ 
mee 
i panies 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gas Consumers’ 
Companies Bill, which was presented upon the 4th 
day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, 
= the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill 

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made upon the same day, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


: The er was moved, That the Paves nee Becckpert, 
tockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Bill, y and 
te ame upon me 4th } of February, Raley a 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
18th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Stratford- 
Stratford-upon-Avou Gas Bill, which was presented —_ 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of “™* 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

‘The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Stratford- 
Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bill, which was pre- ba meg: A 
sented upon the 10th day of February, in the last ""” 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 20th day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Sunderland 
Sunderland Gas Bill, which was presented upon the © Bill. 
4th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Sunken Ves- 
Sunken Vessels Recovery Company Bill, which was * ae 
presented upon the 9th day of Soleus, in the last “°"P*"7 ®™ 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Swansea 
Swansea Docks Bill, which was presented upon the Pocks Bill. 
18th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the same day, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Swansea Har- 
Swansea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Com- bour Trust 
pany Bill, which was presented upon the 16th day prety gy 
of February, in the last Session of Parliament, and pany Bil. 
the Order of leave for bringing in the said Bill made 
upon the same day, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Taff Vale 
Taff Vale Railway Bill, which was presented upon Bailway Bill. 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

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Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Tilbury, 
Maldon and 
Colchester 
Railway Bill. 


‘Times, 
Atheneum, 
and Beacon 
Assurance 
Companies’ 
Amalgama- 
tion Bill. 


Tralee and 
Killarney 
Railway Bill. 


Tweed 
Fisheries Bill. 


Tweed River 
Fisheries Bill. 


144 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Thames and Medway Conservancy Bill, which was 
presented upon the 6th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

e said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tilbury, Maldon and Colchester Railway Bill, which 
was presented upon the 4th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 
day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Times, Atheneum, and Beacon Assurance Companies 
Amalgamation Bill, which was presented upon the 
13th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 
Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tralee and Killarney Railway Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

he said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tweed Fisheries Bill, which was presented upon the 
5th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the said 


Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tweed River Fisheries Bill, which was presented 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Tyne Improvement Bill, which was presented upon 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


‘The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Victoria Gas Bill, which was presented upon the 
17th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bi!l was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Victoria (London) Docks Bill, which was presented 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 
the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Watchet 
Watchet Harbour Bill, which was presented upon Harbour Bill. 
the 4th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Watchet 
Watchet Harbour Trust Bill, which was presented Harbour - 
upon the 4th day of February, in the last Session — 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Waterford 
Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill, which was wees | 
presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last “" " 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 


-bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 


might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed, with reference to the Subscription 
Contract. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Wearmouth 
Wearmouth Bridge, Ferries and Approaches Bill, Bridge, 

j . Ferries and 
which was presented upon the 4th day of February, Approaches 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of Bill. 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the weaver Navi- 
Weaver Navigution Bill, which was presented upon s4tion Bill. 
the 9th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, and the Order of leave for bringing in the 
said Bill made upon the same day, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the West of Fife 
West of Fife Mineral Railway Bill, which was pre- — 
sented upon the 6th day of February, in the last" ~~ 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the West Hartle- 
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway, and North Poo! flarbour 
Eastern Railway Companies Amalgamation Bill, °"5 North” 
which was presented upon the 6th day of February, Eastern Kail- 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of ¥4Y. a. 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the omer Bill. 
= day, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 


and committed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the West London 
West London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill, 74 Crees 
which was presented upon the 3d day of March, in way Bill 
the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
6th day of March, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Ordered, That Standing Order, No. 90, be sus- Road Bills. 
pended so far as regards Road Bills; and that the 
Committee of Selection have Power to refer all — 

Bills, whether Opposed or Unopposed, to Com- 
mittees of Selected Members. 4 } 
Ordered, 














20 Vicroriz. 


West Somerset (Ordered, That Standing Order, No. 175, be sus~- 
Baty oet Bo. pended in the case of the West Somerset Railway Bill, 
merset Mineral and the West Somerset Mineral Railway Bill, and that 


Railway Bill. they be referred to the Committee of Selection. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 

Petitions. § and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Second 

Report. 

Reviews at Ordered, That the Return relative to Reviews at 

— and Spithead and Aldershot, which was presented upon 

." ot the 19th day of February, in the last Session of 

wee Parliament, be printed. 
Leitrim Ordered, That the Paper relative to Leitrim Elec- 
Election. tion, which was presented upon the 12th day of this 
No. 28. instant May, be printed. 

Public The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 

Accountants. of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,-—-An Account of 
the Ariears and Balances due to or from all Public 
Accountants, arising upon Final Accounts which 
have been stated and declared, or signed and passed ; 
so far as the said particulars can be ascertained from 
the Books of the Commissioners for auditing the 
Public Accounts, completed to 5th January 1857. 

Return of Accounts depending in the Office of 
the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts 
which have not been audited, stated, declared, or 
signed and passed, completed to 28th February 1857. 
Return of Officers and Departments whose Ac- 

counts are audited or inspected by the Commis- 
sioners for auditing the Public Accounts. 

Shipping. Mr. Lowe presented,— Return to an Order, dated 


the 6th day of February, in the last Sessicn of Par- 
liament, for a Return of the Number and Tonnage 
of Sailing Vessels registered at each of the Ports of 
Great Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man 
and the Channel Islands; distinguishing those under 
and those above Fifty Tons Register, on the 31st 
day of December 1856 :—Similar Return of Steam 
Vessels and their Tonnage :—Return of the Number 
and Tonnage of Vessels that entered and cleared 
Coastwise, at each of the Ports of Great Britain and 
Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands (includin 
their repeated Voyages); distinguishing British 
from Foreign Vessels, and Steam from Sailing 
Vessels, between the 31st day of December 1855 
and the 31st day of December 1856 :—Like Return 
from and to the Colonies; further distinguishing 
British from Foreign Vessels; also, from and to 
Foreign Ports; also distinguishing British from 
Foreign Vessels: —Aggregate Return of the Number 
and Tonnage of Vessels entered and cleared at each 
of the Ports of Great Britain and Ireland, Isle of 
Man and Channel Islands (including their repeated 
Voyages), in the Coasting, Colonial and Foreign 
Trades, in the year 1856; distinguishing British 
from Foreign Vessels :—Return of the Number and 
Tonnage of Sailing Vessels registered at each of the 
Ports of the Colonies of the United Kingdom re- 
m wotong~ 4 distinguishing those under and those 
above Fifty Pein Magister, on the 31st day of De- 
cember 1856 :—-Similar Return of Steam Vessels 
and their Tonnage :— Returns of the Number of 
Vessels, with their Tonnage (distinguishing Steam 
from Sailing Vessels), that were Built and Regis- 
tered, distinguishing Timber from Iron Vessels ; 
also, a similar Return of Vessels sold and trans- 
ferred ; also, a similar Return of Vessels wrecked ; 
also, a similar Return of Vessels broken up, in the 
ear 1856: — Of the Number of Colonial-built 
essels and their Tonnage, Registered at each of 
the Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year 1856 ; 
distinguishing the Number and Tonnage of each 
Colony respectively :—Similar Return of the Num- 
ber of Foreign-built Vessels and their Tonnage :— 
And, Return of the Shipping employed in the lrade 
of = United Kingdom, exhibiting the Number and 
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145 


Tonnage of Vessels that entered Inmwards and 
cleared Outwards (including their repeated Voyages), 
separating British from Foreign Vessels, also Steam 
from Sailing Vessels, and distinguishing the Trade 
with each Country, in the year 1856 (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 122, of Session 1856). 

Mr. Lowe also presented, pursuant to the direc- Pwit Cawl 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Copvy of an Order in Pilots. 
Council, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1855, 
giving effect to certain Bye-laws for the Regulation 
of Pilots belonging to the Harbour of Pwil Caw, 
otherwise Porth Caw. 

. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Tab'e. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Judgments 
reading of the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. Bill; _— &amp;e. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question ~~ 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Yeas, iqr —— d, h 37. 
Tellers for the Noes, gg eg } 99 


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, fur Wednesday next. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee to Supply. 
whom it was referred to consider the Motion, That 
a Supply be granted to Her Majesty, a Resolution : 
which was read, as followeth: 

That a Supply be granted to Her Majesty. 

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 Her Majesty. 

Resolved, That This House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the 


Supply granted to Her Majesty. 


Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for Navy and 
Naval Services, to the 31st day of March 1858, be Army. 
laid before this House. 

Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for 
Army Services, to the 31st day of March 1858, be 
laid before this House. 

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

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 being put, Election 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to release Can- Expenses. 
didates at Elections of Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment from the Expenses of Booths and taking the 
Poll, and to make the payment by Candidates of the 
Conveyance of Voters to the Poll illegal ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Lord Robert Grosvenor, 


}is1. 


Yeas, (Sir John Shelley : 
Tellers for the , Lord Hotham, } 58 
Noes, Mr. Ker Seymer : ° 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And that 
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Ao necting ee Se er hg 


iS a em = = te 


146 13°—14° Mai. 


Lord Robert. Grosvenor, Mr. Butler and Mr. Dillwyn 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


CourtofChan- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 

cery (Ireland.) make Provision for the Appointment of Registrars 
to the Masters of the Court of Chancery iu Ireland; 
also for the safe Custody of Title-deeds and Docu- 
ments lodged in the said Court; and to amend the 
Practice in certain Particulars: And that Mr. White- 
side and Mr. Napier do prepare, and bring it in. 


Quit Rents 


ireland.) Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


Return showing the Gross and Net Amounts of Irish 
Quit and Crown Rents, as received and applied b 
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in ae 
year from the 5th day of January 1850 to the 5th 
day of January 1857 (in continuation of Parliamen- 
tary Paper, No. 243, of Session 1850). 


Grand Juries . ae . 
(Ireland) Act Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 


(1836) Amend- amend the Act of the sixth and seventh _— of 

ment. King William the Fourth, chapter one hundred and 
sixteen, for consolidating and amending the Laws 
relating to the Presentment of Public Money by 
Grand Juries in Jreland: And that Mr. Magan and 
Colonel Greville do prepare, and bring it in. 


High Sheriffs 


(ieiend) Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


Copy of all Correspondence between the Jrish Go- 
vernment and the High Sheriffs of Counties in Ire- 
land who, prior to the late General Election, ten- 
dered their Resignation of Office, for the purpose of 
becoming Candidates at such Election; the Dates 
of their Resignation, and acceptance of the same b 
the Lord Lieutenant; and also the Dates at whic 
each succeeding High Sheriff was appointed. 


Medical Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
mn) alter and amend the Laws regulating the Medical 
™ Profession: And that Mr. Headlam, Sir William 


Heathcote and Mr. Napier do prepare, and bring it in. 


Public Ordered, That Sir William Russell be added to 
Petitions. the Select Committee on Public Petitions. 


Hudson's Bay Ordered, That Mr. Christy be added to the Select 
Company. Committee on the Hudson’s Bay Company. 


Ecclesiastical 4 The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
Corporations nesday the 3d day of June next, the Ecclesiastical 
Bill. Corporations Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday the 4th day of June next. 


Election _ Lord Robert Grosvenor presented a Bill to release 
Expenses Bill. Candidates at Elections of Members to serve in Par- 
Bill 14. jiament from the Expenses of Booths and taking the 
Poll, and to make the Payment by Candidates of 
the Conveyance of Voters to the Poll illegal: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 10th day 

of June next; and to 5 printed. 


Courtof Chan- Mr. Whiteside presented a Bill to make Provision 

cry (Ireland) for the Appointment of Registrars to the Masters 

Bill 15. of the Court of Chancery in Jreland ; also for the 

"safe Custody of Title-deeds and Documents lodged 

in the said Court; and to amend the Practice in 

certain Particulars: And thesame was read the first 

time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


Grand Juries | Mr. Magan presented a Bill to amend the Act of 
nanos the sixth and seventh years of King William the 
a Bil. | Fourth, chapter one hundred and sixteen, for conso- 

Bill 16. Jidating and amending the Laws relating to the Pre- 


sentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Jre- 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


land; and the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time To-morrow ; and 
to be printed. ’ 


Mr. Headlam presented a Bill to alter and amend Medical Pro- 
the Laws regulating the Medical Profession: And a (No. 1) 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be Bill 
read a second time upon Wednesday next; and to ™ 17- 
be printed. 


Lord Hotham reported from the General Com- Railway and 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills; That they had —_ —_ 
formed the List of Railway and Canal Bills into N - om 
certain Groups. waster 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 14° die Maii; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of the Rhymney Railway Com- Rhymney 
pany, praying that Provision may be made in Railway Bill. 
the Rhymney Railway Bill for changing the Ter- 
mination of the Branch Railway proposed to be 
authorized by the said Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


A Petition of Promoters of the Fownhope and Fownhope and 
Holme Lacy Bridge Company, praying that Pro- Holme Lacy 
vision may be made in the Fownhope and Holme ®*4se Bill. 
Lacy Bridge Bill for dissolving, when certain mort- 
gage and other debts are paid off, and shares extin- 

uished, the said Company, and for causing the 

ridge to become a County Bridge, and a certain 
Road the Parish Road, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


The Exeter and Exmouth Railway Bill was read Exeter and 
the third time. Exmouth — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ay a. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Great Southern and Western Railway Capital Great 
Bill was read the third time. Southern 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —- 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Capital Bill 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Jnverness and Nairn Railway Bill was read Inverness 
the third time. and Nairn 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Westminster 
Westminster Improvements (No. 2) Bill, which was Improvements 
presented upon the 12th day of February, in the last 2) os 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the 17th day 
of March, in the last Session of Parliament, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Westminster 
Westminster Terminus Railway Extension (Clapham maawey 
to Norwood Abandonment) Bill, which was pre- Extension 
sented upon the 6th day of February, in the last = 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for Avandon- 


bringing ment) Bill 





wes 


reed 


nae sa 


se | 


wea 








90 VicTrortiz. 


bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


west Somerset The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Mineral, Rail- West Somerset Mineral Railway Bill, which was 
way ° 


presented upon the 4th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

he said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


West Somerset The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Railway Bill. West Somerset Railway Bill, which was presented 
—_ the 11th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the 20th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read; 
The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 


Wexford The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

ay Bridge Wexford Free Bridge Bill, which was presented 
upon the 16th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing 
in the said Bill made upon the same day, might 
be read ; and the same being read : 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

Whitehaven The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
—— Whitehaven and Furness Junction ay Bill, 
Railway Bill. which was presented upon the 4th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, and the Order of 
leave for bringing in the said Bill made upon the 
same day, might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

Willenhall The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

(ey Gar Bil Willenhall (Wolverhampton) Gas Bill, which was 
presented upon the 9th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and (the Bill having been reported in the last Session 
of Parliament) ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Wilmslow The House was moved, That the Petition for the 

de Wilmslow and Lawton Road Bill, which was pre- 
sented upon the 5th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

Wimbledon The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
tates | Wimbledon and Dorking Railway Bill, which was 
_ — upon the 13th day of February, in the 
ast Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave 
for bringing in the said Bill made upon the same 

day, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time ; 
and committed. 

aed and _The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Road Bi, 4: Vorksop and Attercliffe Road Bill, which was pre- 


sented upon tie 10th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the Order of leave for 
bringing in the said Bill made upon the same day, 
— be read ; and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 
and committed. 


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147 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the Wycombe 
Wycombe Railway Bill, which was presented upon Railway Bill. 
the 11th day of February, in the last Session of 
Parliament, and the Order of leave for bringing in 

the said Bill made upon the same day, might be read; 

and the same being read ; 

The said Bill was read the first and second time; 

and committed, with reference to the Subscription 

Contract. 


The Select Committee on the Portland Harbour portland 
Bill was nominated of Mr. Osborne, Colonel Free- Harbour Bill. 
stun, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Portman, Mr. Henry Sturt, 

Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 

Mr. Charles Sturt, and Five Members to be added 

by the Committee of Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 

and proceed, on giving Two days’ notice in the Pri- 

vate Bill Office. 


The Select Committee on the Chatham Lands, chatham 
&amp;c., Bill was nominated of Mr. Osborne, Sir Fre- Lands, &amp;c. 
derick Smith, Mr. Philip Wykeham Martin, Mr. il. 
John Alexander Kinglake, Sir Edward Dering, Mr. 
Whatman, Sir Brooke Bridges, Sir John Ramsden, 

and Five Members to be added by the Committee 

of Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 

and pe on giving Two days’ notice in the Pri- 

vate Bill Office. 


The Order, That the Chatham District Water chatham 
Bill be committed, was read, and discharged. District Water 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. am. 


_ The Order, That the Cannock Mineral Railway Cannock 
(No. 2) Bill be committed, was read, and discharged. Mineral Rail- 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. —_—e “7 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Third 
keport. 
Sir Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty’s Navy. 
Command,—Abstiact of Navy Estimates, for the wy. 39, 
year 1857-58. 
Ordered, That the said Paper be referred to the 
Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hong Kong. 
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 Governor Sir John Bowring and the Secre- 
tary of State for the Colonies, relative to the recon- 
struction of the Legislative Council of the Colony of 
Hong Kong, in the years 1855 and 1856. 

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. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Mercantile 
the 12th day of this instant May, for a Return of Marine Fund. 
all Monies paid over to the Board of Trade, on 
account of the Mercantile Marine Fund, by the 
Commissioners of the Northern Lights, the Corpo- 
ration fur preserving and improving the Port of 
Dublin, and the Corporation of Elder Brethren of 
the Trinity House, respectively, from the time of 
the passing of the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 131, trans- 
ferring to the Board of Trade the control of these 
several Boards, to the 31st day of December 1856 ; 
and the Total Amount of Expenditure for each year 
of the Money so paid over to the Board of Trade 





Vou. 112. 


for the respective Lighthouse Boards. 
x 3 Ordered, 






















































14° Mazi. A. 1857. Sess. Il. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Ministers’ 
amend the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 11, with a view to (ireland) 
the abolition of Ministers’ Money in Jreland: And 
that Mr. Fagan and Mr. Beamish do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


148 


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


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—An Account of all Monies 
received during the year ended the 31st day of 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Registration 
March 1857, to the Account of Her Majesty’s Ex- ‘ o g 


amend the Law for the Registration of Persons of Voters 
entitled to vote in the Election of Members to (Scotland. ) 


Loan Fund 
Board of 
Ireland. 


Murrain in 
Horned Cattle. 


Nuisances 
Removal Act. 


Police 
Constables. 


Kast India 
Nawab of 
urat.) 


No. 31. 


Contracts 
¢(Pablic De- 
partments.) 


chequer at the Bank of England and of Ireland, 
under the respective heads of Public Revenue ; the 
Amount of all Royal Orders and Treasury Warrants 
received, and of the Credits and Transfers made by 
the Comptroller General of the Exchequer, the 
Payments by the Bank of England, and the Balance 
remaining to the Account of the Exchequer, at each 
Bank on 31st March 1857. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Nineteenth Annual Report of the 
Commissioners of the Loan Fund Board of Jreland, 
pursuant to the Act 6 &amp; 7 Vic. c. 91. 

Copy of Report on Murrain in Horned Cattle; 
the Public Sale of diseased Animals, and the effects 
of the consumption of their Flesh on human health ; 
addressed to the Right honourable the President of 
the General Board of Health by E. Headlam Green- 
how, m. D., Licentiate of the Royai College of Phy- 
sicians, Lecturer onPublic Health at Saint Thomas's 
Hospital, and Physician to the Western General 
Dispensary. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 22d day of July 1856, for 
a Return stating which of the under-mentioned 
Local Authorities is acting for each Parish in Eng- 
land under the Provisions of the Nuisances Removal 
Act, and specifying the Parishes for which a Sanitary 
Inspector has been appointed :—1. Local Board of 
Health ; 2. Town Council ; 3. Improvement Com- 
missioners or ‘l'rustees; 4. Highway Board; 5. 
Nuisances Removal Committee; 6. Inspectors for 
Lighting and Watching; 7. Guardians and Over- 
seers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways for 
the Parish or Place. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
10th day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, 
for a Return of the Number of Persons during the 
years 1854, 1855 and 1856, against whom Cases of 
Assault on Police Constables while in the execution 
of Duty have been proved, detailing the nature of 
each Case of Assault, and the Amount of Punishment, 
if any, inflicted on each Person. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Correspondence between Meer Jaffur 
Al Khan and the Gourt of Directors of the Kast 
India Company, and between the same and the 
Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, re- 
specting the Property of the Jate Nawab of Surat 
(in continuation of the Papers ordered on the 16th 
day of March). 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law with respect to the Property of 
Married Women: And that Sir Erskine Perry 
and Mr. Monckton Milnes do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the Principle adopted for making 
Contracts for the Public Departments, and the 
effect which the present system has upon the Expen- 
diture of Public Money. 





serve in Parliament for Counties in Scotland: And 
that the Lord Advocate, Sir George Grey and 
Viscount Duncan do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Coinage. 


Account in Detail (in the same form as the Accounts 
contained in the Parliamentary Paper, No. 365, of 
Session 1856) of all Gold, Silver and Copper Mo- 
nies of the Realm coined at the Mint, for each year 
from the 1st day of January 1847 to the 31st day 
of December 1856, and showing, in one Tabular 
Statement, the Total Amount of Gold, Silver and 
Copper Coinage in each year, the real Cost or Value 
of the Metal, and the Amount represented by the 
Coin. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Foreign 
Shipping. 


Account of the Sums paid under the Act 59 Geo. 3, 
c. 54, and subsequent Orders of the Lords Commis- 
sioners of the Treasury, in the year 1856, for the 
difference of Rates and Charges due to Corporations, 
Companies or Individuals for Foreign Vessels 
which under Treaties of Reciprocity or otherwise 
are admitted into the Ports of the United Kingdom 
at the same Rates of Charge as British Vessels ; 
specifying each of the several Rates, on what Ac- 
count the same was paid, whether for Light Dues, 
Dock Dues, Dues on Ships or Merchandise, Pilot- 
age or otherwise; also the Total Amount (under 
the Reciprocity ‘l'reaties) paid to such Corporations, 
Companies, or Individuals, up to the 31st day of 
December 1856 (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 225, of Session 1856). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army Huts 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Huts supplied to 
the Ordnance or War Departments during the years 
1854-5 and 1855-6; the appropriation of the same ; 
together with the Stations, and Quantities sent to 
each :—And, of the Names of the several Con- 
tractors; Amount of each Contract, and Price per 
Hut, with Dimensions; the present exteut of Hut 
accommodation in England and Ireland; and the 
Number of Troops hutted on the ist day of April 
1857. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Court of 


Returns of the Number of Causes and Matters ireland?) 


which were pending in the Office of the late Master 
Henn, in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, between 
thie 1st day of November 1855, and the 1st day of 
November 1856 ; and of the Number of Summonses 
and Notices upon which Proceedings were had in 
that Office during the same Period :—And of the 
Number of Causes and Matters pending in each of 
the Offices of Masters Litton, Bourke and Murphy, 
on the ist day of last Easter Term; and of the 
Number of Summonses entered in each of their 
Offices for that day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Burial Acts 


amend the Burial Acts: And that Mr. Massey 
Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it im. 
Ordered, 





and Amendment. 





90 Vicroriz. 


Medical Pro- Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 

fession (No. 2.) alter and amend the Laws regulating the Medical 
Profession: And that Lord » Mr. Craufurd 
and Mr. Brady do prepare, and bring it in. 


Grand Juries The Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend- 

(ireland) Act ment Bill was, according to Order, read a second 

Cent Bil, time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Tuesday next. 


A Petition of William David Lewis, of 3, New- 
square, Lincoln’s-Inn, in the County of Middlesex, 
and 1, Kensington-square, in the said County, Es- 

uire, Barrister at-Law, complaming of an undue 

lection and Return for the Borough of Mari- 
borough, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 9]. 


Marlborough 
Election. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to | 


the General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Richard Ferrier, of Gaol-street, 
Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, Com- 
mon Brewer, and Edward Harbord Lushington 
Preston, of the North Quay, Great Yarmouth, 
Timber Merchant, Electors for the Borough of 
Great Yarmouth, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the said Borough, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 10]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


A Petition of John Casher, Henry Little and 
Francis Shepherd, Electors for the Borough of 
Wareham, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the said Borough, was presented, and 
read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 11]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, Vhat 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. 


Wareham 
Zlection. 


Ministers’ 
Money (Ire- 
jand) Bill. 


Bill 18. 


Mr. Fagan presented a Bill to amend the Act 
17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 11, with a view to the abolition of 
-Ministers’ Money in Jreland: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Tuesday next; and to be printed. 


Married 
Women Bill. 


Bill 19, 


Sir Erskine Perry presented a Bill to amend the 
Law with respect to the Property of Married 
Women: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next ; and to be printed. 


Medical 


Profession 
{No. 2) Bill. 
Bill 20, 


Lord Elcho presented a Bill to alter and amend 
the Laws regulating the Medical Profession: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next; and to 
be printed. 


Barial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Burial 
Acts: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 


Bi 
voli _ hext; and to be printed. 


Vestry Clerks 


—, -” , That there be laid before this 


The Order made upon the 12th day of this instant 
ouse, a Return 

Annual Amount of Salary paid to each Vestry 
Vou. 112. 





14°—15° Maiti. 





149 


Clerk of every Metropolitan Parish under the Me- 
tropelis Local Management Act, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Vestry Clerks 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Metropolitan 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ~“*"**? 
House, a Return of the Annual Amount of Salary 
paid to each Vestry Clerk of every Metropolitan 
— under the “Metropolis Local Management 

ct. 

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, 15° die Maiti ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


\ R. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report from Swansea Har- 
1 one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private bour Trust 
Bills, That in the case of the Petition for additional $4 S¢3"* 
Provision in the Swansea Harbour Trust and Swan- pany Bill. 

sea Dock Company Bill, the Standing Orders have 


been complied with. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Banff, Macduff 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, —— 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- ».. , 
ders rl the case of the Petition for sdiitasell tees a 
vision in the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension 
Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions ; That they had ex- Petitions 
amined the Petitions presented upon the 12th and = ” 
13th 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. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Committee of 
mittee of Selection; That they had made an Selection 
alteration in the Groups already formed, which they mec - 
had agreed to report to the House. No. 32 

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


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select Standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions; Orders. 
which were read, as follow : 

1. That in the case of the Bathgate, Airdrie and Bathgate, 
Coatbridge Railway, Petition from Messrs. Connell rman Png 
and Hope, for dispensing with Standing Orders 88 Railway Bill. 
and 109, in reference to the Petitions of John 
Buchanan and James Moncrieff Melville, and for 
leave to be heard on their Petitions against the Bill, 
the said Standing Orders ought to be dispensed 
with ; that the Parties be permitted to be heard on 
their Petitions against the Bill, notwithstanding the 
same shall have been deposited later than seven 
clear days after the second reading of the Bill. 

2. That in the case of the Mallow and Fermoy Matow ana 
end Great Southern and Western Railway, Petition Fermoy and 
for leave to deposit a Petition for Bill, the Standing pone se 
Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that the Parties Railway. 
be permitted to deposit their Petition for Bill. 

3. That in the case of the London and South London and 
Western Railway Acts Amendment, Petition from South Western 
A. A. Corsellis (as Clerk to the Wandsworth District yen a 
Board of Works), for dispensing with Standing piu. 
Order 109, and for leave to deposit a Petition 

x4 against 













150 


against the said Bill, the Standing Orders ought not 
to be dispensed with. 

4. That in the case of the Nene Valley Drainage 
and Navigation Improvement, Petition from Owners 
of “ Adventurers’ Lands” within the Middle Level, 
for dispensing with Standing Order 109, and for leave 
to be heard upon their Petition against the Bill, the 
said Standing Order ought to be dispensed with ; 
that the Parties be permitted to be heard on their 
Petition against the Bill, notwithstanding the same 
shall have been deposited later than seven clear days 
after the second reading of the Bill. 

5. That in the case of the Nene Valley Drainage 
4 and Navigation Improvement, Petition of Owners 
of “ Adventurers’ Lands ” within the South Level, for 
dispensing with Standing Order No. 9 of the 12th 
March last, and for leave to be heard upon their 
Petition against the Bill, the Standing Order ought 
to be dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted 
to be heard on their Petition against the Bill, not- 
withstanding the same shall have been deposited 
later than seven clear days after the second reading 
of the said Bill. 

6. That in the case of the Oldham, Ashton-under- 
Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railways, Petition 
of Inhabitants and Ratepa ers of Audenshaw, for 
dispensing with Standing Order No. 9 of the 12th 
March last, and for leave to be heard on their Pe- 
tition against the Bill, the Standing Order ought 
not to be dispensed with. 

The first, second, fourth and fifth Resolutions, 
being read a second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners and Mine-owners on 
or near the Taff Vale Railway, and of Freighters 
on the said Railway, praying that Provision may be 
made in the Taff Vale Railway Bill for limiting the 
tolls and charges of the Zaff Vale Railway Com. 
pany, and for other purposes, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of the North Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, and the Dearness Valley Railway Company, 
raying that Provision may be made in the North 
Zastern Railway (Lanchester Valley Branch) Bill, 
for the Purchase by the Petitioners, the North 
Eastern Railway Company, and the Sale by the Pe- 
titioners, the Dearness Valley Railway Company, of 
the Dearness Valley Railway, and for other pur- 
te was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
xaminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Provisional Directors of a proposed 
Undertaking, for making a Railway from the London 
and South Western Railway at Wimbledon to Epsom, 
praying that Provision may be made in the Wimble- 
don and ——e Railway Bill for amending the 
Preamble of the Bill ; for enabling the Company to 
use the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway; and for 
enabling the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway Com- 
pany to use the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and one : 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


The Bedale and Leyburn Railway Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Meriton’s and Hagen’s Sufferance Wharves Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


15° Maiti. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Peebles Railway Bill was read the third Peebles 
time. Railway 
Resolved, That the Bill do 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bill. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. ses 1c 
Vide Third 
Report. 
Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Registration 
mand,—Copy of Report of the Commissioners ap- of Title. 
pointed to consider the subject of the Registration 
of Title, with reference to the Sale and Transfer of 
Land, 1857. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Opium), which was presented upon the 11th day (Opium.) 
of this instant May, be printed. ide 

0. 33. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Shipping, Shipping. 
which was presented upon the 13th day of this in- No. 34, 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Ex- Exchequer. 
chequer, which was presented upon the 14th day of No. 35. 
this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Nuisances Nuisances 
Removal Act, which was presented upon the 14th Removal Act. 
day of this instant May, be printed. Ne. 36, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to East India East India 
(Nawab of Surat), which was presented upon the (Nawab of 


11th day of this instant May, be printed. “a 31. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Dover Mail 
Return of the Number and Names of the Vessels Packet 
employed in the Mail Contract Service from Dover, wee 
their Steam Power, Tonnage, and Names of Com- 
manders, and whether manned by British Seamen, 
and how often and when last officially surveyed ; 
such Return being made up year by year since the 
commencement of the Contract, stating whether, 
during the sume period, any Government Vessels 
have been lent to the Contractors, and, if so, how 
often, and for what Time, and on what Terms. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Parliamentary 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Voter. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Voters which 
appear on the Parliamentary Register for each 
County, City and Borough in the United Kingdom 
for the year 1856 :—And, of the Number of Voters 
who recorded their Votes for the several Candidates 
at the last General Election in each County, City 
and Borough in which the Return was contested. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Licensed 
a Return of the Number and Names of the Licensed Deen CP ert 
Passenger Brokers and Licensed Runners in the o¢ Liverpool.) 
Port of Limerpool, with the Addresses or Places of 
Business of each, under the Act of 1855. 


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 Oaths. 
into a Committee on Oaths. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 


the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
substitute 








wo 





20 VicTori2. 


nr 
ubstitute one Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, 
Supremacy and Abjuration. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
sega That the Committee had come to a Reso- 

ution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Fitz Roy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth: 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to substitute 
one Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy 
and Abjuration :—And he moved the House accord- 
ingly. 
a, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. FitzRoy, Viscount Palmerston, Sir 
George Grey and the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Transportation and Penal Servitude 
Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
a proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

air ; 

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 Bill be committed to a Select Committee,” 
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 Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Crause, N° 1 (16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 99, 8 s.1, 2, 3 and 
4, repealed). 

Amendment propcsed, in p.1,1.9: After the word 
“ Four” to insert the words “ Nine, Ten, Eleven.” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for thej Mr. Keating, l ss 
Yeas, Mr. Whitbread: — 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, livs 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: -— 


Clause agreed to. 

Cuiausz, N° 2 (Sentence of Transportation abo- 
lished, and sentence of Penal Servitude substituted). 

Amendment eR in p. 1, Is. 11 and 12: To 
leave out the words “ no person shall be sentenced 
“ to Transportation.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Clause amended, and agreed to. 

Cravuses, N* 3, 4, 5 and 6, agreed to. 

Cuavuss, N° 7, amended, and agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 16° die Maii, 1857: 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
of Health Bill. reading of the General Board of Health Bill; 
Vou. 112, 





15°—16° Maiz. 151 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Electors, for each 
County or Division of County in England and Wales, 
whose Names were upon the Register at the last 
General Election; distinguishing the Number of 
Electors resident or non-resident within such Count 

or Division of County respectively; also, in suc 

Counties or Divisions of Counties which were con- 
tested, the Number of non-resident Electors who 
were unpolled at such Election respectively, and the 
Day on which the nomination in each County or 
Division of County was held, and where contested, 
the Day on which the Poll was taken. 

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. 


to inquire into the Law and Practice with respect to 
the Rating of Royalties of Mines, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Lights for 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased St 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Report of the Committee ap- 
pointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admi- 
ralty, to inquire into the expediency of altering the 

resent system of Lights established for Steam and 
Sailing Vessels, together with the Minutes of Evi- 
dence taken before the Committee. 

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. . 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ecclesiastical 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Commission 


to give directions, that there be laid before this ‘ 
House, a Return showing the Names, Dates of Ap- 
pointment and Salaries respectively, of the Gentle- 
men employed as Supernumerary Clerks under the 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Jreland ; the Duties 
on which they are employed, the Number of years 
of Service of each Supernumerary Clerk, and the 
Augmentation, if any, made to their Salaries since 
their employment under the Commissioners. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presenied to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Bleaching and Dyeing Establishments in England, 
Scotland and Ireland; and to consider how far it 





may be necessary or expedient to extend to those 
Establishments provisions regulating such employ- 
ment; and to report their Observations thereupon 
to the House. 


was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 





and Mr. Craufurd do prepare, and bring it in. 
Y¥+ A Motion 










The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Electors 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Wate and 





Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Rating of 


Sailin 
sels, 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Bleaching 
to inquire into the circumstances connected with the and Dyeing 
employment of Women and young Persons in the rks. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Medical 


nesday next, the Medical Profession (No. 2) Bill, (Noa) Bill 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Medical 
alter and amend the Laws regulating the Medical Gas 
Profession: And that Lord Elcho, Mr. FitzRoy’ ~~ 















152 15°—16°— 
Bankruptcy A Motion being made, That this House will, 
i upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee 


(Salaries, &amp;c.] to consider of authorizing the payment, out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, of certain Salaries, Compensa- 
tions, Annuities and Retiring Pensions which may 
become payable under the Provisions of any Act 
of the present Session relating to Bankruptcy and 
Insolvency in Jreland; and also of imposing Stamp 
Duties in lieu of Fees on Documents in the Court 
of Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland ; 

Sir George Grey, by Her Majesty’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, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Oaths Bill. 
Bill 22. 


Sir George Grey presented a Bill to substitute 
one Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, 
and Abjuration: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday the 8th day of June next; and to be 
printed. 


Medical 
Profession 
(No. 8) Bill. 


Bill 20. 


Mr. Fitz Roy presented a Bill to alter and amend 
the Laws regulating the Medical Profession: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next; and to 
be printed. 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Mon- 
day next, the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Maidstone 
Election. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Maid- 
stone, in the County of Kent, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 12]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, That Mt. 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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Sun- 
derland, complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the said Borough, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 13]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Sunderland 
Election. 


Maldon 


A Petition of George Montagu Warren Peacocke, 
Election. 


a Candidate at the last Election for the Borough of 
Maldon, complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the said Borough, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 14]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


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. 


18° Mazz. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Luna, 18° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 

M R. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Mayo 
this day received a Report from the Examiner Election. 

of Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 

the Election Petition of Colonel George Gore Ouse- 

ley Higgins, relating to the County of Mayo, is 

unobjectionable. . 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had were 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 14th er . 
and 15th 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. 


Mr. Packe reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group C. of Private Bills; That the Parties oe (Group C.) 
moting the Cork Gas Bill had stated that the Evi- 

dence of Sir John Gordon was essential to enable 

them to establish their case; and it having been 

proved that his attendance could not be procured 

without the intervention of the House, he had been 
instructed to move, That Sir John Gordon do attend 

the said Committee on Tuesday the 19th day of 

May, at Twelve of the clock. 

rdered, That Sir John Gordon do attend the 

said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Fownhope and 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Holme lacy 

. ; ° - Bridge Bill. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 

Orders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 

vision in the Fownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders, 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Taff Vale 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Railway Bill. 
That in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 

vision in the Taff Vale Railway Bill, the Standing 

Orders have been complied with. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 

mittee on the Bill, That they have Power to make 

Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the said 

Petition. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Wimbledon 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, nd Dorliie 
. ° ° ° way Bill. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for additional 
Provision in the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway 
Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from North Eastern 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Railway (lan 
: : , . 2 chester Valley 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Branch) Bill. 
Orders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the North Eastern Railway (Lanchester 
Valley Branch) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 


Select Committee on Standing Orders, 


The Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Com- Calcutta and 
pany Bill was read the third time. — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Company Bill 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Chepstow Gas Bill was read the third time. —_ 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —_— 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 








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20 VicroriZz. 


Reversionary § The Reversionary Interest Society Bill was read 
Interest t} thi “d ti 
Society Bill. nO enue ame. 5: 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


South Devon 


S tae , a 
Railway Bul The South Devon Railway Bill was read the third 


time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


East Kent The House proceeded to take into consideration 
a the East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) Bill, 
Dover) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


GuildfordGas The House proceeded to take into consideration 
_ the Guildford Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Guildford The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Water Bil. the Guildford Water Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


South Shiclds The House proceeded to take into consideration 
a the South Shields Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Sunderland The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Gas Bill. the Sunderland Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Dundalk and = The Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill was 


feilway Bill read a second time; and committed. 


Great The Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill was 

ey read a second time ; and committed. 

(Capital) Bill. 

a The Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill was read 

Railway Bill. a second time; and committed. | 

Salford The Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill was read a 

(No. 1b Bill, second time ; and committed. 

— The Salford Borough (No. 2) Bill was read a 
rough Ries ; 

(No.2) Bill, second time ; and committed, 

Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; 

Fetitions. and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Votes, Several Public Petitions were also presented, and 


and Fourth yead; and referred to a Select Committee. 

Report. 

Courts of Law Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

(Dublin) —_ Copies of the Letter dated the 13th day of June 
1855, from the Secretary to the Treasury to the 
Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 
relative to the Payment of the Salaries of the Tip- 
staffs of the Courts of Law in Dublin :—And, of the 
Letter dated the 1st day of August 1855, from the 
Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant to the Lord 
Chief Justice, relative to the same subject. 


Guano. 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 of the Reports which have been re- 
ceived from Naval Officers on Foreign Stations, in- 
cluding the Coast of Africa, in consequence of In- 
structions sent out in 1844, 1852 and 1853, directing 
them to take every opportunity of ascertaining where 
any large supplies of Guano existed, or where likely 
to be discovered. 


18° Maiz. 153 


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. 


Ordered, That Sir Andrew Agnew have leave of Leave of 
absence for six weeks, on account of ill health. Absence, 


Sir John Ramsden presented, by Her Majesty’s Army. 
Command,— Army Estimates of Effective and Non- No. 37. 
effective Services, for 1857-58. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Colonial 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to Governors, 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, *~ 
a Return of the Names of all Governors, Lieutenant 
Governors, and Persons administering the Govern- 
ments of the different Colonies ; stating their Salaries 
in British Money, the Dates of their Appointments, 
the Countries or Districts over which they preside, 
distinguishing those who serve in the Army and 
Navy :—And, of the Number of Colonial Bishops ; 
stating the Salaries of each, and the sources whence 
those Salaries are derived. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this en as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Wilson presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Civil Services. 
mand,—Estimates for Civil Services, year ending No. 38. 
31st March 1858: 

I.—Public Works and Buildings. 
I].—Salaries and Expenses of Public De- 
partments. 
I11.— Law and Justice. 
IV.—Education, Science and Art. 
V.—Colonial and Consular Services. 
VI.—Superannuation and Retired Allowances. 
Vil.—Miscellaneous, Special and ‘Temporary 
Objects. 

General Abstract of the Grants to be proposed 
for Civil Services fur 1857, compared with similar 
Charges for 1856. 

Estimates, Revenue Departments, Effective and Revenue 
Non-effective, for the Year 1857, ending 31 March Departments.. 
1858. ° No. 39, 

An Account of the Sums expended in the quarter Civil Con- 
of the year to 31st March 1856, and in the year to “&gt;gencies- 
31st March 1857; with Estimate of the Amount re- No. 40. 
quired for the year to 31st March 1858. 

Ordered, That the said Papers be referred to the 
Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Copy of Minutes of the Members of Council of the (Nawab of 
Government of India in Consultation on Act XVIII. °"™"*? 
of 1848, relating to the Property of the late Nawab 
of Surat. 


Viscount Palmerston acquainted the House, That Princess 
he had a Message from Her Majesty to this House, Boyal. 
signed by Her Majesty :—And he presented the 

same to the House ; and it was read by Mr. Speaker 

(all the Members of the House being uncovered) ; 

and is as followeth : 


VICTORIA R. 


Her Majesty, having agreed to a Marriage pro- 
posed between the Princess Royal and His Royal 
Highness Prince Frederic William of Prussia, has 
thought fit to communicate the same to the House 
of Commons. 

Her Majesty is fully persuaded that this alliance 
cannot but be acceptable to all Her Majesty’s faithful 
Subjects ; and the many proofs which The Queen 
has received of the affectionate attachment of this 
House to Her Majesty’s Person and Family leave 
Her no room to doubt of the concurrence and assist- 
ance of this House in enabling Her to make such 





Vou. 112. 


¥2 a@ provision 





wor ea erennnn tons 9 remem cae 






































































Princess 
Royal. 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


No. 41. 


Supply. 


154 18°—19° Maiz. A. 1857. Sess. IT, 


a provision for Her eldest daughter, with a view to 
the said Marriage, as may be suitable to the dignity 
of the Crown and the honour of the a, 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into a Committee to take into con- 
sideration Her Majesty’s said most gracious Mes- 
sage. 


Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That an humble 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, to return Her 
Majesty the Thanks of this House for Her most 
gracious Communication of the intended Marriage 
between the Princess Royal and His Royal High- 
ness Prince Frederic William of Prussia; to ex- 
press their satisfaction at the prospect of an alliance 
with a Prince of so illustrious a family, which they 
doubt not will contribute to the happiness of Her 
Majesty and of Her Royal Highness, as well as 
prove conducive to the best interests of this King- 
dom; and to assure Her Majesty that the House | 
will immediately proceed to the consideration of 
Her Majesty’s gracious Message, in such a manner 
as shall demonstrate the zeal, duty, and affectionate 
attachment of this House to Her Majesty, a just 
sense of the virtues and merit of Her Royal High- 
ness, and a due regard to the dignity of the Royal 
Family, and the honour of this Country. 

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. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Zhames 
and Medway Conservancy Bill, which was presented | 
upon the 7th day of this instant May, be printed. | 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1, 53,700 Men and Boys for Sea and Coast Guard 
Services, for Eight Months, including 15,000 Royal 
Marines. 

2. £.1,349,333 to complete the Sum for Wages | 
to Seamen and Marines. 

3. £.533,922 to complete the Sum for Victuals 
to Seamen and Marines. 

4. £.84,217 to complete the Sum for Salaries of 
Officers and Contingent Expenses of the Admiralty 
Office. 


5. £.118,150 to compiete the Sum for Salaries | 





and Expenses of the Coast Guard Service, and 


9. £.584,390 to complete the Sum for Wages to 
Artificers, Labourers and others employed in Her 
Majesty's Naval Establishments at Home. 

10. £.33,383 to complete the Sum for Wages to 
Artificers, Labourers and others employed in Her 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad. 

11. £.895,450 to complete the Sum for Naval 
Stores for the Building, Repair and Outfit of the 
Fleet, the Purchase of Steam Machinery; «nd for 
other purposes connected therewith. 

12. £.378,415 to complete the Sum for New 
Works, Improvements and Repairs in the Naval 
Establishments. 

13. £.20,000 to complete the Sum for Mcdicines 
and Medical Stores. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


And the House having continued to sit 1:1 after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 19° die Maii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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 House, according to Order, proceeded to take Transporta- 
into consideration the Transportation and Penal tion and Penal 
Servitude Bill, as amended in the Committee. ee a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


The Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre/and) Bill Bankruptcy 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and = i 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, emilee 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bankruptcy 
into a Committee on Bankruptcy and Insolvency 2nd Insolvency 
(Ireland) [Salaries, &amp;c.] (Ireland) 


[Salaries, &amp;c.] 
(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That provision be made, out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for the payment of certain 
Salaries, er gee Annuities and Retiring 


the Charges for the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers. | Pensions which may become chargeable thereon, in 


6. £.33,091 to complete the Sum for Salaries of | 
the Officers and the Contingent Expenses of the | 


several Scientific Departments of the Navy. 


pursuance of any Act of the present Session relating 
to Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland. 
2. Resolved, That the following Stamp Duties in 


7. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a |lieu of Fees shall be charged for and in respect of 


Sum, not exceeding £. 92,224, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray, 
the Salaries of the Officers and the Contingent Ex- ; 
— of Her Majesty’s Naval Establishments at | 
ome, which will come in course of payment during | 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1358. | 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That | 
a Sum, not exceeding £.91,424, be granted to Her | 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray | 
the Salaries of the Officers and the Contingent Ex- 
te of Her Majesty’s Naval Establishments at 
cme, which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the i John Trelawny, 7 
Yeas, \Mr. William Wilhams: f * 


Tellers for the{f Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : jars. 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
8. £.15,42:% to complete the Sum for Salaries of 
Officers and Contingent Expenses of Her Majesty’s | 
Naval Establishments Abroad. 





the under-mentioned Documents in the Court of 
Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Treland :— 


Stamp Duty 
Document. in 
lieu of Fees. 





an 
&amp; 


Every Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy, 
or for Arrangement between any Debtor and 
his Creditors - + =f ft 

Every Summons of Trader Debtor - = 

Every Copy of such Summons - 

Every otherSummons - - - - 

Every Copy of such Summons - 

Every Requisition for a Sitting of the Court in 
Bankruptcy for any of the following purposes, 
that is to say, Adjudication, Choice of As- 
signees, Proof of Debts. Final Examination, 
Audit, Dividend, Examination of Witnesses, 
to proceed on Summons against Trader Debtor, 
and every Requisition for a Sitting of the 
Court or Meeting. pursuant to the Statute, 
under a Petition for Arrangement, or to pro- 
ceed on any Special Case, or for the Sale or 
Disposition of any mortgaged Property - —- 


ftomol 
AaAaagniit 








C 


Mi 


Infantry and 
Cavalry. 


Administra- 
tion of Justice, 
&amp;c. (Bengal.) 


Rating of 
Mines, 


Bleaching 
and Dyeing 
Works, 


90 Vicroriz. 





Stamp Duty 
Document. in 


lieu of Fees. 





Every Order of the Court for the Payment tothe | £. s. d. 
Assignees of any Debt or Demand over £.10, 
or the Delivery to the Assignees of any Goods 


or Chattels of the value of £.10 or upwards - | - 4 - 

Every Copy of such Order - - - -| - 1 = 
Every y+: ind by any Officer of the Court for 
any Costs, Charges or Disbursements, where 

such Biil of Costs shall not exceed £.5 - -| - 1 6 

Exceeding £.5 and not exceeding £.10 - -| - 2 6 

ra 10 vs a «~ «| « a 

‘ 26 ca SG « «la FS 

” 30 ” 50 - - «= IO .« 

50 me 7M ~« «| = « 

&lt;a « + - © ot we oe 

Every Warrant -~ = = = = =} = 5 = 

Every Search - - = = = © ef = le 





Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


That an humble Address be presented to Her Ma- 


18°—19° Maiz. 155 


Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Viscount Duncan, Mr. Mitchell, Lord Claud Ha- 
milton, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. Westhead, Colonel 
North, Mr. Philips, Mr. Puller, Mr. Liddell and 
Sir Jehn Hanmer ; with Power to send for persons, 
| papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 





City, Esquire; Frederick Joseph Morrell, of the 
same City, Attorney-at-Law ; James Watson, of the 
same City, Farmer; Alfred Green Holmes, of the 
same City, Attorney-at-Law ; Joseph Taylor, of the 
same City, Artist; and William Thompson, of the 
same City, Printseller, complainmg of an undue 
Election and Return for the said City, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 16]. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 


. , | General Committee of Elections. 
Captain Wood. ~~ 4 Motion was made, and the Question being put, 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records as 





jesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Correspondence between Captain Wood, | 
late Paymaster of the Battalion Depot at Winchester, | 
and the War Department, relating to Office Ac-| 
commodation at Winchester, Additional Assistants, | 
and Resignation of the situation of Paymaster :— | 
And, of a Memorial dated the 3d day of January | 
1856, presented by Captain Wood to the Minister | 
of War, the Reply thereto, and of all Correspondence | 
consequent upon and relating to the said Memorial | 
and its Contents :—It passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- | 
a That an humble Address be ned to | 

er Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to | 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, | 
Copies of all Reports of the Inspectors General of | 
Infantry and Cavalry since the appointments of | 
those Officers:—And the said Motion was, with | 
leave of the House, withdrawn, 


Ordered, That the Petition of Protestant Mission- 
aries residing in and near Calcutta, in the Presidency 
of Bengal, relating to the Administration of Justice, 
&amp;c., in that Presidency, which was presented upon 
the 20th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, be printed. 





Ordered, That the Select Committee on Rating | 
of Mines do consist of sixteen Members. 

The Committee was accordingly nominated of | 
Mr. Kendall, Mr. Michael Williams, Mr. George ' 
Cavendish, Mr. Child, Mr. Edward Bouverie, Mr. | 
Philipps, Colonel Pennant, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Spooner, | 
Mr. Hussey Vivian, Mr. Hume, Mr. Henry Herbert, | 
Mr. Colvile, Mr. William Orme Foster, Mr. Davey, 
and Mr. Dudley Fortescue ; with Power to send for | 
persons, papers and records, 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum, 


The Select Committee on Bleaching and Dyeing 
Works was nominated of Mr. Butt, Lord John 
Manners, Viscount Goderich, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Bazter, 
Mr. Massey, Mr. Fergus, Mr. Clark, Mr. Cheetham, 
Lord Naas, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Wise and Mr, Turner. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That Mr. Adderley be one other Member of the 
said Committee :—It passed in the Negative. __ 

Then Mr. Packe was nominated one other Mem- 
ber of the said Committee. 

Vou. 112. 





shall be thought necessary by the several Parties 


on the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. 


A Petition of Edward Hodson, of Twyford, in the -- 


County of Westmeath, Esquire, and Robert English, 
of Athlone, in the said County, Farmer, complaining 
of an undue Election and Keturn for the Borough 
of Athlone, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 17]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Edward Moore and Joseph Knight, Tewkesbury 
oa of an undue Election and Return for Election. 
the 


orough of Tewkesbury, was presented, and read 
[Vide Appencix to Votes, No. 18]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of William Clarke, of Baroe, in the Siigo Borough 
Election. 


County of Sligo, Farmer, and Thomas Reed Wilson, 
of Ratcliff-street, in the Town of Sligo, and County 


of Sligo, Stationer and Bookseller, complaining of 


an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Sligo, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to 
Votes, No. 19]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of George Vere Irving, of Newton, Lanarkshire 
Lanarkshire, complaining of an undue Election and Election, 


Return for the said Shire, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 20]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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 

¥3 A Petiticn 


The Select Committee on Contracts (Public De- Contracts 
partments) was nominated of Colonel Boldero, Mr, (Public De- 
Corry, Sir Charles — Mr. Osburne, Mr. Muntz, partments.) 


A Petition of William Herbert, of the City of Oxford city 
Oxford, Upholsterer; James Pike, of the same Election. 






















































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156 18°—19° Mai. A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


A Petition of James Thompson Mackenzie, of | for the suspension of Private Bills of the 12th March 
No. 24, Gresham-street, London, in the County of | last; and it being proved to the satisfaction of the 
Middlesex, Esquire, complaining of an undue Elec- | Committee that the deposit with the Court of Chan- 


Totnes 
Election. 


tion and Return for the Borough of Zotnes, was cery in Jreland, under Standing Order, No. 64, had 


and read [Vide Appendix to — 


resented, not been withdrawn ; the Committee had, in terms of 
yo. 21]. 'the 7th paragraph of the said Standing Orders of 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred tothe the 12th March, inserted a Clause enacting that 
General Committee af Elections. | the Subscription Contract entered into with res;ect 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant, to the Undertaking authorized by the Bill prior to 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records as | the last Session of Parliament shall be as valid as if 
shall be thought necessary by the several Parties; the B:ll had passed in the said last Session. 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. | Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
; and be printed. 
A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Bury, | 
in the County of Lancaster, complaining of an undue | 
Election and Return for the said Borough, was | 
resented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, | 


Bury Election. 
Mr. FitzRoy reported the Islington Parish Bill, Islington 
with Amendments. Parish Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


oO. 22}. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 19° die Maii; 


Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
M R. Speaker acquainted the House, That he 
. had this day received a Report from the 
Examiuer of Recognizances, stating that the Re- 
cognizance to the Election Petition of Robert Alex- 
ander Shafto Adair, relating to the Borough of 
Cambridge, is unobjectionable. 


Cambridge 
Borough 
Election. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Edward Fellowes, relating to 
the County of Huntingdon, is unobjectionable. 


Huntingdon 
County 
Election. 


Rhymney 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Railway Bill. 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


in respect of non-compliance with the Standing | 


. . . . . 5 
Orders in the case of the Petition for additional 


Provision in the Rhymney Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the —— be referre 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


d to the 


Mr. Packe reported from the Committee on 
Group C. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Burslem and Tunstall Gas Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same, by striking out the 
words “ And whereas it is expedient that Provision 
“be made for enabling the Burslem Local Board of 
“ Health to purchase the Undertaking of the Com- 
“pany,” that part of the Bill not having been 
proved to their satisfaction ; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Burslem and 
Tunstall Gas 
Bill. 


Great Western Mr. FitzRoy reported the Great Western and 
a Brentford Railway Bill, with Amendments. 
ailway Bill. Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Dublin and 
Wicklow 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill; That the 
Bill having been reported by a Committee in the 
last Session of Parliament, before Proceedi 
thereon were suspended under the Standing Orders 


| Ordered, That the Andover Canal Sale Bill be Andover Canat 


referred to the General Committee on Railway and Sale Bill. 
Canal Bills, as an Opposed Bil, under Standing 
Order, No. 176. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Committee 
mittee of Selection; That they had made certain pees ag 
alterations in the Groups already formed, and had (Fourth Re- 

: ae A port.) 
formed certain additional Groups, which they had” wy 4g 
agreed to report to the Elouse, ; 

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


A Petition of Trustees for executing an Act for Orkney Roads 
regulating and converting the Statute Labour of the Bil 
Stewartry or Sheriffdom of Orkney, and for more 
effectually making, repairing and maintaining the 
Highways and Bridg:s within the same, praying that 
Provision may be made in the Orkney Roads Bill 
for enabling the Trustees to make a Deviation in the 
line of Road proposed by the said Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Examiners of 
Petitions for Private Bills. 





| 

| A Petition of Provisional Directors of the Keith a 

and Dufftown Railway Company, praying that Pro- \ ay (No. 2) 

‘vision may be made in the Keith and Dufftown Bill. 

| Railway (No. 2) Bill, for enabling the said Directors 

to make a Deviation in the line of their proposed 
Railway, was presented, and read; and referred to 

| the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

| 

| The House was moved, That the Report from the 

| Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills, in respect 

a ay Se : “ and Swansea 

of the Petition for additional Provision in the Swan- Dock Com- 

| sea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Company pany Bill. 

| Bill, might be read; and the same being read ; 

| Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 

| mittee on the Bill, That they have Power to make 


| Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the said 


| Petition. 


Swansea Har- 
bour ‘Trust 


Mr. Liddell reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group D. of Private Bills; That Mr. Christy, one of (Group D-) 
the selected Members of the said Committee, was 
not present during the sitting of the Committee this 


day. 
| Ordered, That Mr. Christy do attend the said 
Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Willenhall 
the Willenhall ( Wolverhampton) Gas Bill,asamended bere ne 
| in the Committee. a iene 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Pirkenhead 
before the Committees on the Birkenhead Docks Bill, — = 
and Birkenhead Dock Company’s Bill, in Session ‘*°* “° 
1854; the Liverpool Docks Bill, Birkenhead Dock 
Trustees Bill, and Birkenhead and Liverpool — 

(Trust 











nat 


ds. 


ail- 


T- 


p- 
I. 





* Public 


20 VicToRIz. 


(Trust Property of the Birkenhead Dock Trustees) 
Bill, in Session 1855; the Birkenhead Docks Bill 
in Session 1856; and the Admiralty and Board of 
Trade Reports on the Bills, be referred to the Com- 
mittee on Group A. of Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


Petitions. 
Vide Votes, 
and Fourth 
Report. 


Diseases of the 
Army in the 
Last. 


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 the Report on the Pathology of 
the Diseases of the Army in the East, by Dr. Aithen 
and Dr. Lyons. 

Ordered, That the said Address Le presented 
to Her Majesty, by such Members of this H~ ase 
as are of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy 
Council. 


Burials 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
(Ireland.) 


Return of the Number of written Declarations made, 
pursuant to the Statute 5 Geo. 4, c. 25, by Ministers 
of the Church of Jreland, refusing permission to 
Clergymen or Ministers of any Church cr Congre- 
gation, not being cf the Established Church of Jre- 
land, to perform any Burial Service ip Parish 
Charchyards at the grave of deceased persons ac- 
vording to the rites of such Church or Congregation, 
from the date of the said Act till the present time ; 
distinguishing the Number of such Declarations 
made in each year during that period, and also the 
Number made in each Diocese during the same 
Period :—And, Copy or Copies of any such Decla- 
ration or Declarations made within the last Five years 
by the Incumbent for the time being of the Parish 
ot Monkstown, in the Diocese of Dublin. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Communications or Letters that have 
been addressed to or received from the Archdeacon 
of Salop, in the Diocese of Lichfield, by the Secre- 
tary to the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty, from 
the ist day of February 1853 to the present time, 
in reference to proposed Improvements in the Ma- 
nagement of the Bounty Office, and with a view to 
the Interests of the poorer Clergy :— Of all the Mi- 
nutes and Records of the Proceedings and Resolu- 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty. 


tions that have been taken and passed thereon by | 


the Governors, and of the Correspondence that has 
taken place in relation to such Communications or 
Letters, or in consequence thereof :—And, of all 
Papers and Letters on the same subject, laid before 
a Committee, which at a meeting of the Governors 
on the 12th May instant was appointed “ to examine 
the Papers in the Bounty Office, and the Minutes of 
the Governors, in relation to the Archdeacon’s Pa- 
pers and Suggestions.” 


Committees. Ordered, That no Committees shall have leave to 


sit upon Thursday next, being Ascension Day, until 
Two of the eleck. 


a Banks The Order for reading a second time To-morrow 
, the Savings Banks Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Dublin City 
ection. 


A Petition of Electors of the County of the City 
of Dublin, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the said City, was presented, and read 
[Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 23]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, Vhat Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or ae for such persons, papers and records as 

OL. 112. 


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157 


shall he thought necessary by the several Parties 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. 


A Petition of John Coulson, of the Borough of Lisburn 
Lisburn, in the County of Antrim, in Ireland, Es- Election. 
' quire; James Ward, Damask Manufacturer, of the 
said Borough; and James Botton, Esquire, Lieu- 
tenant on Half-pay of the Royal Navy of the said 
Borough, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the said Borough, was presented, and 
| read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 24]. 
| Ordered, ‘that the said Petition be referred to the 
| General Committee of Elections. 
| 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. 





A Petition of James Henry Porteus Oukes, com- Bury Saint 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the Edmund's 
Borough of Bury Saiut Edmund, was presented, ~°°“™ 
and read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 25]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Mr. Massey presented, pursuant to the directions County 
of an Act of Parliament,—An Account in charge — 
and discharge of Fees received by the Registrar of _—— 
Treasurers’ Accounts and Receiver of Fee Fund in 
Ireland, for the year ended 25th March 1857. 

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


Mr. Ostorne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Local Acts. 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty relative No. 26. 
to Applications for pa Acts. 

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


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Sheep, &amp;. 
to amend the Acts to prevent the spreading of con- em 
° e ° ° iseases 
tagious or infectious Disorders amongst Sheep, Cattle prevention. 

and other Animals: And that Mr. Bentinck and Mr. 


Stafford do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Rating of 
posed, That Sir Joseph Paxton be added to the Mines. 
Select Committee on Rating of Mines :— 

But Notice being taken that the House had or- 

dered that this Committee should consist of Sixteen 
Members, and had already nominated that number, 
Mr. Speaker stated that no other Member could be 
added, without leave of the House previously ob- 
tained, and that the Question therefore could not be 
put. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Aggravated 
reading of the Aggravated Assaults Bill ; Assaults Bill, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Dilieyn, 
Yeas, UMr. Bentinck : 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
y4 “ upon 


} 86. 


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Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Act 
(1836) Amend- 
ment Bill, 


Mivisters’ 
Money (Ire- 
land) Bill. 


Supply. 


Sea and 
Coast Guard 
Services. 


Wages. 


Victuals. 


Admiralty 
Office. 


Coast Guard 
Service, Sc. 





158 


“ 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 House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee on the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act 
(1836) Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Fitz-Roy 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 
ihe 4th day of June next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Ministers’ Money (Zreland) Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 20° die Maiti, 1857: 


And the Question being put; 
The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Lett. 


Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, \The Earl of Mulgrave: } — 
Tellers for the; Sir William Jolliffe, See 4 
Noes, { Colonel Taylor : ia 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Biil be now read a second time : 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That 53,700 Men and Boys be employed for 
the Sea and Coast Guard Services for Eight months, 
commencing on the 31st day of July 1857, and end- 
ing on the 31st day of March 1858, including 15,000 
Royal Marines. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,349,333, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray the Charge of Wages to Seamen and 
Marines, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 533,922, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Charge of Victuals to Seamen 
and Marines, which will come in course of payment 
during the year ending on the 31st day of March 
1858. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.84,217, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Salaries of the Officers and 
the Contingent Expenses of the Admiralty Office, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 118,150, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Coast Guard Service, and the Charges for the 
Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1858. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 33,091, be Scientific 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- &gt; ang 
cessary to defray the Salaries of the Officers and ” 
the Contingent Expenses of the several Scientific 
Departments of the Navy, which will come in course 

of payment during the year ending on the 31st day 

of March 1858. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 92,224, be Naval Esta- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- we at 
cessary to defray the Salaries of the Officers and ; 

the Contingent Expenses of Her Majesty’s Naval 
Establishments at Home, which will come in course 

of payment during the year ending on the 31st 

day of March 1858. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.15,423, be Naval Esta- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Te 
cessary to defray the Salaries of the Officers and the © ""*™ 
Contingent Expenses of Her Majesty’s Naval Esta- 
blishments Abroad, which will come in course of 

payment during the year ending on the 31st day 

of March 1858. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 584,390, be Wages to 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Attificers, &amp;c. 
cessary to defray the Charge of Wages to Artificers, — 
Labourers and others employed in Her Majesty's 

Naval Establishments at Home, which will come in 

course of payment during the year ending on the 

31st day of March 1858. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.33,383, be Wages to 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Attificers, &amp;. 
cessary to defray the Charge of Wages to Artifi- “""* 
cers, Labourers and others employed in Her Ma- 
jesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad, which wiil 
come in course of payment during the year ending 
on the 31st day of March 1858. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 895,450, be Naval Stores, 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- &amp; 
cessary to defray the Expense of Naval Stores for 


the Building, Repair and Outfit of the Fleet, the Con 
Purchase of Steam Machinery, and for other pur- Dis 
poses connected therewith, which will come in = 
course of payment during the year ending on the ] 
31st day of March 1858. 
12. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 378,415, be New Works, 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- &amp;- 
cessary to defray the Charge of New Works, Im- = 
provements, and Repairs in the Naval Establish- Bil 
ments, which wil come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 
13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 20,000, be Medicines 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 3nd Medical 
cessary to defray the Charge of Medicines and —_ 
Medical Stores, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. ~ 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, | 
were agreed to. . 
¢ 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve Ways and Ra 
itself into a Committee to consider of Ways and Means. 
Means for raising the Supply granted to Her Ma- 
Jesty. 
The Order of the day being read, for the third Transporta- 
reading of the Transportation and Penal Servitude 20" ~ — 
Bill ; rvitude 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. C 
Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Bankruptcy - 
Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zrelund) [Salaries, &amp;c.], —— Bi 
several Resolutions ; which were read, as follow : t Salaries, &amp;e.J 
1. That Provision be made out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland, for the payment of certain Salaries, &gt; 
Compensations, Annuities and Retiring Pensions E 
R 


which may become chargeable thereon, in pursuance 
of any Act of the present Session relatiny to Bank- 
ruptev and Insolvency in Jre/and. 

2. That the following Stamp Duties in lieu of 
Fees shall be charged for and in respect of the 








under- 





Sheep, &amp;c. 
Contagious 
Diseages Pre- 
vention Bill, 


Bill 23. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 

Bill 24. 


Standing 
Orders, 


Monkland 
Railways Bill. 


Cannock 
—— Rail- 
way (No, 1} 
aL? 


Banff, Macduff 


and Turriff 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 








20 Vicroriz. 


ruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland :— 








Stamp Du 
Document. a ” 
lieu of Fees, 
Every Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy, | £. s. d. 
or for Arrangement between any Debtor and 
his Creditors - - - - - -|/ le-- 
Every Summons of Trader Debtor - - -| - 5 = 
Every Copy of such Summons - - = -|; - 1 - 
Every other Summons - - - - -| - 2 6 
Every Copy of such Summons - - - - 6 


Every Requisition for a Sitting of the Court in 
Bankruptcy for any of the following purposes, 
that is to say, Adjudication, Choice of As- 
signees, Proof of Debts, Final Examination, 
Audit, Dividend, Examination of Witnesses, 
to ~~ on Summons against Trader Debtor, 
and every Requisition for a Sitting of the 
Court or Meeting, pursuant to the Statute, 
under a Petition for Arrangement, or to pro- 
ceed on any Special Case, or for the Sale or 
Disposition of any mortgaged Property - -| 1 

Every Order of the Court for the Payment to the 
Assignees of any Debt or Demand over £. 10, 
or the Delivery to the Assignees of any Goods 
or Chattels of the value of £.10 or upwards - 

Every Copy ofsuch Order - - - = - 

Every Allocatur by any Officer of the Court for 
any Costs, Charges or Disbursements, where 
such Bill of Costs shall not exceed £.5 - 

Exceeding £.5 and not exceeding £.10 - 

” 10 ” 20 
20 ”? 
30 * 
50 “ 

9” 100 - - - - 

Every Warrant - - -— - 

Every Search= - - - = 


ht he 


30 
50 
100 


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The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Mr. Bentinck presented a Bill to amend the Acts 
to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious 
Disorders amongst Sheep, Cattle and other Animals: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday the 28th 
day of this instant May ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Osborne reported from the Select Committee 
on the Chatham Lands, &amp;c. 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 Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


Sir John Yarde Buller reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 

1. That in the case of the Monkland Railways, 
Petition of Messrs Connell and Hope, for dispensing 
with Standing Order, No. 109, and for leave to be 
heard on the Petitions of John Buchanan and others 
against the said Bill, the said Standing Order ought 
to be dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted 
to be heard on their Petition against the Bull, not- 
withstanding the same shall have been deposited 
later than seven clear days after the second reading 
of the Biil. 

2. That in the case of the Cannock Mineral Rail- 
way (No. 1), Petition of the North Staffordshire 
Railway Company, for dispensing with Standing 
Order, No. 9, of the 12th March last, and for 
leave to be heard against the Bill, the said Standing 
Order ought not to be dispensed with. 

3. That in the case of the Banff, Macduff and 
Turriff Extension Railway, Petition for additional 
Provision, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- 
pensed with; that the Parties be permitted to in- 
troduce their additional Provision, if the Committee 
on the Bill shall think fit, provided that they prove 
Vou. 112, 


19°—20° Mai. 


under-mentioned Documents in the Court of Bank- | 





159 


before the Committee that application in writing has 
been made to all the Parties mentioned in the Book 
of Reference deposited with the Plans and Sections 
of the proposed Divisions, and that their consent 
has been obtained ; that the Committee on the Bill 
do report how far such Order has been complied 
with on the Report of the Bill. 

4. That in the case of the London Gas-I ight London Gas- 
Company (Capital), Petition for leave to deposit LightCom- ” 
Petition for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be *”” atin 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
deposit their Petition for a Bill. 

The first, third and fourth Resolutions, being read 
a second time, were —_— to. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India. 
Copy of the Minute recorded by the Lieutenant No. 43. 
Governor of Bengal; of the Minutes recorded by 
the several Members of Council of the Supreme 
Government of India ; of the Letter written by the 
Secretary to the Government of India to the Secre- 
tary to the Government of Bengal; and of the 
Letter from the Court of Directors of the East India 
Company to the Governor General of India in 
Council, respecting the Memorial of certain Mission- 
aries residing in or near Calcutta, dated the 2d day 
of September 1856. 
. Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 

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


A Petition of Charles William Gordon, com- Berwick- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the —— 
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, was presented, and ~ °°” 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 26]. 

Another Petition of Charles William Gordon, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
said Town, was also presented, and read [ Vide Ap- 
pendix to Votes, No. 27]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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


A Petition of Henry John Turner, James George Newport 
and John Lock, three of the Electors of the Borough Election. 
of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, 

No. 28]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Wednesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 


Mercurii, 20° die Maiti ; 
Anno 20° Victorize Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
_ London (City) Coal Duties Bill was read London(Cty) 
a second time; and committed. a Duties 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Fifth 
Report. 

A Petition of Francis La Touche, of Drumfrierney, Leitrim 
in the County of Leitrim, Esquire, and Hugh Moore, Election. 
of Ardrum, in said County, Farmer, complaining of 





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Beverley 
Election. 


Taunton 
Election. 


Saint James's 
Park. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Fourth Re- 
port.) 


Foreign 
Sugar, 


160 


an undue Election and Return. for the said County, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 29]. 

Oeloel, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 





A Petition of William Wells, of Holme Wood, in 
the County of Huntingdon, and of Redleaf, in the 
County of Kent, Esquire, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Beverley, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 30]. 

Ondived, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Taunton, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 


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the said Borough, was presented, and read [Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 31]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the | 
Gencral Committee of Elections. 

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 there be laid before this House, a 
Return of any Sums expended for the Alterations in | 
the Lake in Saint James's Park, together with an | 
Estimate of Expenditure required to complete them, 
and the Vote of Parliament under authority of which | 
any Expenditure has been incurred :—And, Copy of | 
any Correspondence between the Board of Works | 
and the Treasury respecting such Expenditure, and 
of any Order or Authority under which Payments 


have been made by the Paymaster General for such 3B 


Work, and the Dates of such Payments. 


Mr. Bonham- Carter reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had examined 
the Petitions presented upon the 18th day of this 
instant May; 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 following Papers were laid upon the Tabie by | 


the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 10th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for a Return of the Quantity of Foreign 
Sugar entered for Home Consumption during each 
year, from 1831 to 1856 inclusive; distinguishing 
Refined from Unrefined ; and also the several Places 
from whence such Sugar was imported (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 210, of Session 
1856). 

Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of Fe- 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Tabular Return showing the Quantities of Sugar of 
the several Sorts imported into the United Kingdom, 
and the Quantities retained for Home Consumption; 
together with the Rates of Duty charged thereon, 
and the Net Revenue accruing therefrom, in each 
year from 1800 to 1856 inclusive; followed by a 
Comparative Statement of the Average Prices of 
British Plantation and Foreign Sugar (ordinary 
Yellow /avrannah) for the same series of years :— 
Account of the Imports into the United Kingdom 
of Sugar, Molasses, Rum, Coffee, Cocoa and Cotton, 
from the West Indies, British Guiana, the Mauri- 
tius and British Possessions in India, for the years 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


1831 to 1856 inclusive; distinguishing the Quan- 
tities imported from each Colony and each Posses- 
sion in each year :—Similar Account of the Quan- 
tities of Foreign Sugar imported, stating from 
whence, and tlhe Quantities from each Place or 
Country :—And, Account of the Quantity of Refined 
Sugar and Sugar Candy imported into the United 
Kingdom in the years 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 
1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, respectively ; stating 
the Quantity retained for Home Consumption, the 
Rates of Duty paid, and the Quantity exported (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 209, of 
Session 1856). 


Mr. Wilson presented,—Return to an Address to Danish 
Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of this instant May, Transit Dues. 


for a Return relative to Danish Transit Dues. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Registration of Long Leases (Scotland) Bill Registration 


was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Wednesday the 17th day of June next. 


of Long Leases 
(Scotland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Industrial 


mittee on the Industrial Schools 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 
“‘ this House will, upon this day three weeks, resolve 
“ itself into the said Committee,” 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 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. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 

ill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday the 17th 
day of June next, 


Schools Bill. 


Bill 25. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Judgments 
into a Committee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. = a 


Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
The Committee divided. 
} 10. 
Tellers for the Noee,f Mr Craufurd, 
in the Courts at Westminster, a copy thereof regis- 
tered ). 
Question proposed, That those words be there 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
Mr. Bland: J il. 


Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
Mr. Bland 
Tellers for the Yeas + Six Denham Norreys : 
Mr. Dunlop : }is. 
Cravse, N°1 (Where judgment has been obtained 
tered in Jreland, and vice versd, shall have the eftect 
of a judgment of the Court in which it is so regis- 
Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 5: After the 
word “ where” to insert the words “ any adverse.” 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the Yeas, Colonel French, | 
Mr. Craufurd, 
Mr. Dab, }131. 


Tellers for the Noes, { 
Question put, That the Clause stand part of the 
ill ° 


? 


The 











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20 VicroriZ. 
The Committee divided. 


Mr. Craufurd, 1 
Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Danby: ps7. 
Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. yee il } 43. 


Crauss, N° 2 (Where judgment has been obtained 
in the Courts at Westminster, or at Dublin, a copy 
thereof registered in Scotland shall have the effect 
of a decreet of the Court of Session). 

Amendment made. 

Question proposed, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 


sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 
; Mr. Napier, 
Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. wh a } 89. 


Mr. 
Tellers for the Noes, | Mr oer }isz. 


Question put, That the Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the Yeas, (wr — ~ \179. 
’ fMr. Bland, 1 
Tellers for the Noes, LMr. Ayrton : j 92. 


Cuiause, N° 3 (No copy of a judgment to issue 
without Rule of Court or Judges’ Order or Certifi- 
cate). 

Amendments made. 

Question, That the Clause, as amended, stand 
part of the Bill——put, and negatived. 


Cuiause, N° 4 (Where decreet has been obtained 
in the Court of Session, an extract thereof registered 
in England or Ireland shall have the effect of a 
judgment of the Court in which it is so registered). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the following words: ‘ Provided 
“ always, That from and after the registering of any 
“ such copy or extract of any such judgment or de- 
“ creet as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful to issue 
“ any execution in or out of the Court in which such 
“ judgment or decreet was originally obtained or 
“ recovered, unless an application for leave to issue 
“such execution shall first have been made to the 
“ Court, or a Judge of the Court in which such 
“ judgment or decreet was originally obtained or 
“ recovered as aforesaid, nor unless it shall be shown 
“ to the satisfaction of such Court or Judge that the 
“debt, damages or costs for which such judgment 
“or decreet was obtained or recovered, or some 
“ part thereof, is still due and unsatisfied, and that 
“no other execution for enforcing payment thereof 
“has been issued out of the Court in which such 
“ judgment or decreet was registered, or that such 
“ execution was in the whole or in part ineffectual.” 

Question put, That those words be there added ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Yeas, { ery a. } 96. 

Tellers for the Noes, {we oy }rss. 


Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


Cuause, N° 5, agreed to. 

Crausr, N° 6, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravuse, N°7 (Courts at Westminster and Dublin 
to have same control over registered copy or extract 
as over Warrants of Attorney to confess judgment). 

Amendment proposed: At the end of the Clause | 
to add the words “and may set aside, satisfy or | 
“ otherwise deal with it accordingly.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again——put, and agreed to. 





20° Mazi. 161 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
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 Wednesday 
the 24th day of June next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill; Bill (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill ; recy 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second — 
upon Thursday the 4th day of June next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill; — (40°s) Bil. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon ~ ~ 
Thursday the 4th day of June next. 


The Burial Acts Amendment Bill was, according Burial Acts 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Amendment 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday the 
4th day of June next. 


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

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, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Chatham 
into a Committee on the Chatham Lands, &amp;c. Bill; —_ &amp;e. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Registration 
facilitate and afford more frequent opportunities for of Voters. 
the Registration of the Elective Franchise in Eng- 
land and Wales: And that Mr. Thomas Duncombe, 

Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Butler do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Slave Trade 
Return of Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels employed (C+ba-) 
on the Coast of Cuba for the suppression of the 
Slave Trade, from the 1st day of January 1854 ; 
stating the Dates of their Arrival on, and their De- 
parture from, their respective Cruising Stations, with 
the Names of their several Captains and Comman- 
ders, and distinguishing Steam from Sailing Vessels. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Cinque Ports 
for the Amendment of the Cinque Ports Act: And or Amend 
that Mr. Wilson and Viscount Duncan do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Davison be added to the Bleaching 
Select Committee on Bleaching and Dyeing Works. v4 Dyeing 


A Petition of William Tyler, of 23, Highbury- Finsbury 
crescent, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Election. 
Printer; William Millis Robinson, of 1, Green-ter- 
race, New River Head, Clerkenwell, in the said 
County, Commercial Traveller; George Bennett, of 
11, Upper Ashby-street, Clerkenwell aforesaid, Gen- 
tleman; and Joseph Hide, of 16, Denmark-terrace, 
Islington, aforesaid, Bookbinder ; complaining of an 








Von. 112. 


undue Election and Return for the Borough of Fins- 
x2 bury, 


















162 


bury, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to 
Votes, No. 32]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Patteson Nickalls, of Trafalgar- 
road, in the Parish of Camberwell, in the Borough 
of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, 
and Robert Henry Bristowe, of Grove-road, Brixton- 
road, in the said Borough, Stock Jobber, Electors 
for the said Borough, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the said Borough, was 
— 

Vo. 33]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Henry Dann, of Fore-street, in the 
Borough of Bodmin, Cordwainer, and Richard 
Marks, of Saint Nicholas-street, in the said Borough 
of Bodmin, Cabinet-maker, two Electors of the said 
Borough, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the said Borough, was presented, and 
read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 34]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Frederick Hammond, of Laurestone- 
place, in the Parish of Saint James-the-Apostle, in 
the Borough of Dover, inthe County of Kent, Gen- 
tleman, and William Clayton, of Townwall-street, in 
the said Parish of Saint James, in the Borough 
aforesaid, Gentleman, two of the Electors of the 
Borough of Dover, complaining of an undue 
Election and Returm for the Town and Port of 
Dover, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 35]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of George Medd Butt, of Eaton- 
square, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, com- 
laining of an undue Election and Return for the 
orough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, was pre- 
sented, and read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 36]. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the County of the Town 
of Galway, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Town of Galway, was presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 37]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


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and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, | 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


A Petition of Arthur Edwin Way, complaining Bath Election. 
of an undue Election and Return for the City of 
Bath, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to 
Votes, No. 38]. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred. to the 
General Committee of Elections. 
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. 


A Petition of James Lyster O’ Beirne, of 60, Pic- Cashel 
cadilly, London, Esquire, and John Joseph Scully, Plection. 
of Cashel, in the County of Tipperary, in the King- 
dom of Jre/and, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Borough of Cashe/, was pre- 
sented, and read [ Vide —— to Votes, No. 39]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Electians. 

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. 


Lord Lovaine reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group F. of Private Bills; That for the convenience (Group F-) 
of the Parties, the Committee had adjourned to 
Friday the 22d instant, at Twelve o'clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That for the con- (Group A.) 
venience of the Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed to Friday the 22d day of May, at Twelve 
o’clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Edward Egerton reported from the Com- Private Bills 
mittee on Group B. of Private Bills; That for the (Group B.) 
convenience of the Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed to Friday next, at Twelve o'clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Hotham reported from the General Com- Railway and 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills ; That they had — 
added the East Somerset Railway Bill to Group 4 Report.) 
of Railway and Canal Bills. No. 44. 

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


Ordered, That the Journal of this House, from Journal. 
the end of the last Session to the end of the present 
Session, with an Index to the 112th Volume, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That 1,000 Copies of the said Journal 
and Index be printed, by the appointment and 
under the direction of Sir Denis Le Marchant, the 
Clerk of this House. 

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

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Jovis, 21° die Maiti ; 








Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
a: RD Stanley reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group E. of Private Bills; That for the con- (&amp;t™P &amp;) 
venience of the Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed to Thursday the 28th day of May, at Twelve 
o'clock. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Stanley reported from the Committee on Australian | 
Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Agricu rill 
- ° " P Company Dl. 
Australian Agricultural Company Bill, they had ex- 
amined 











Atlantic 
Telegraph ; 
Company Bill. 


Guildford 
Gas Bill. 


Guildford 
Water Bill. 


South Shields 
Gas Bill. 


Sunderland 
Gas Bill. 


Chester 
Water Bill, 


Railway Bills. 


Private Bills. 


Waterford 
and Tramore 
Railway Bill. 





20 VicroRtZ. 


amined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by adding further 
recitals of the Powers contained in previous Acts, 
and a recital having reference to the expediency of 
an alteration of the times of holding general meet- 
ings of the Company; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Stanley reported from the Committee on 


Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of the | 


Atlantic Telegraph Company Bill, they had exa-| Scottish Central Railway Bill; That the Bill having ey ‘lL 


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163 


in Ireland, under Standing Order No. 64, had not 
been withdrawn, the Committee had, in terms of the 
seventh paragraph of the said Standing Orders of 
the 12th March, inserted a Clause enacting that the 
Subscription Contract entered into with respect to 
the undertaking authorized by the Bill prior to the 
last Session of Parliament shall be as valid as if the 
Bill had passed in the said last Session. 

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


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Scottish 


mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of | been reported by a Committee in the last Session of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by inserting the Parliament before proceedings thereon were sus- 
amount now paid up upon each of the shares of the | pended under the Standing Orders for the suspen- 
Company, and also by omitting all reference to the sion of Private Bills of the 12th March last, and it 
expediency of empowering the Company to require being proved to the satisfaction of the Committee 
and work Patents, the Provisions for enabling them | that the deposit with the Court of Exchequer in 
so to do having been struck out of the Bill; and) Scotland, under Standing Order No. 64, had not been 


found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 


} 


withdrawn, the Committee had, in terms of the 


gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- | seventh paragraph of the said Standing Orders of 


unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Guildford Gas Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


| the 12th March, inserted a Clause enacting that the 


Subscription Contract entered into with respect to 
the undertaking authorized by the Bill prior to the 
last Session of Parliamert shall be as valid as if the 
Bill had passed in the said last Session. 

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


ral Rail- 







The Guildford Water Bill was read 'the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the North Eastern 
North Eastern and Hartlepool Dock and Railway $n4 Hartlepool 
Companies Amalgamation Bill; That they had ex- ety 
amined the allegations contained in the Preamble of panies Amal- 


the Bill, and amended the same, by making some &amp;#™ation Bill. 


The South Shields Gas Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


additions to show more clearly what is the present 
amount of the debts and liabilities of the Hartlepool 
Dock and Railway Company, and made other verbal 
Amendments therein; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 





Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
The Sunderland Gas Bill was read the third time. | and be printed. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the! Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the Bridgwater 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. | Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill ; That they had Markets and 

"examined the allegations contained in the Preamble ¥*** Bil 

The House proceeded to take into consideration | of the Bill, and amended the same, by omitting 
the Chester Water Bill, as amended in the Com-| certain recitals with regard to Powers for borrowing, 
mittee. for the determination of an annuity, for paving, 

A Clause (Saving right of Shropshire Union Canal | lighting, improving and watching the Town of 
Company to discharge water into the River Dee),| Bridgwater, which are abandoned, and by stating 
was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. that the recited Act was amended instead of being 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. repealed, in order to make the same in accordance 

_with the altered provisions of the Bill; and found 

The House was moved, That the Standing Order | the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
of the House, No. 179, relative to Reports made under | through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
the authority of the Board of Trade in the case of Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Railway Bills, might be read; and the same being | 
read ; | Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 

Ordered, That the said Standing Order be re-| and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
pealed. | A Public Petition, which was presented upon the yige Votes, 
20th day of. this instant May, was referred to a Se- and Fifth 
Ordered, That if any Report, made under the | lect Committee. Report. 
authority of the Board of Trade, Board of Admi- 
ralty, or other Government Department, upon any 
Private Bill, or the objects thereof, be laid before 
the House, such Report shall stand referred to the 
Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Church 
Return of the Aggregate Value of the Fee-simple of Estates Com- 
the Property dealt with by the Church Estates Com- ™**™ 
missioners since August 1851; the Amounts re- 







Ordered, That the said Order be a Standing Order 
of this House. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill; That the 
Bill having been reported by a Committee in the last 
Session of Parliament before proceedings thereon 
were suspended under the Standiag Orders for the 
suspension of Private Bills of the 12th March last, 
and it being proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposit with the Court of Chancery 

Vou. 112. 





ceived in each year respectively, for the Sales of 
Reversions to the Lessee ; the Amount expended in 
each year fur the buying up Leases ; and the Num- 
ber ot Transactions of each sort in each year. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Sheriff Small 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from each County in Scotland of 


the following Particulars, to show the Operation of . 


the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 80, s. 26, extending the 
z3 jurisdiction 


Debt Courts 
(Scotland. ) 












164 


jurisdiction of the Sheriff Small Debt Court from 
£.8. 6s. 8d. to Claims not exceeding £.12 in 
Amount :— 





Between 


| Between | Between 
a Ist Jan. 1856 


Ist Nov, 1853 , Ist Jan. 1854 Ist Jan, 1855 


da and | and 
Bist Dec. 1853. (81st Dec. 1854. 31st Dec. 1855./S1st Dec. 1856. 





1, The total number of Cases 
sued for - - - - 

2. The number of such Cases not 
exceeding £.8, 68. 8d.in 
amount - . 

3. The number of such 

above £.8. 6s. 8d. and not 
exceeding £.12 in amount 

4. The number of Cases re- 
stricted from sums of larger 
amount to £.12, so as to be 
competent, sued for in the 
Small Debt Court (state the 
maximum sum so restricted) 

5. The number of “ Decrees in 
absence” - ° ° 

6. The number of “ Decrees in 
foro” - ° » » 

7. The number of Cases dis- 
missed, or in which the de- 
fender was assoilzied - - 

8. The number of Cases “ de- 
serted” at the hearing - 

9. The number of Cases above 
£.8. 6s. 8d. and not ex- 
ceeding £.12 (as in No. 3), 

in which decree was pro- 
nounced for a sum exceeding 
£.8. 68. 8d., imprisonment 

for debt not being competent 

in Scotland for suins under 
£.8. 6s. 8d. (except ina 

few special cases) - - 

10. The number of Cases in which 
the warrant of imprison- 
ment in small debt decrees 

(as in No. 9) was put into 
execution by the incarcera- 

tion of the debtor - - 


Ordered, That the said Address be  seiweane to 
Hler Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 

















Police 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
(Ireland. ) 


Copies of any application or sworn information, 
forwarded to the /rish Government, by any Magis- 
trate, the County Inspector, or other Parties, re- 
quiring the attendance of a large body of Police, 
with a Stipendiary Magistrate, to attend a Sale of 
Timber at Claggan, near Ballymena, in the County 
of Antrim, in the latter end of February, on the 
Estate of Mr. John O’ Hara :—And, of any Re- 
port made by any Stipendiary Magistrate to the 
Authorities at Dublin Castle, subsequent to such 
attendance. 


Bankruptcy 


Ordered, That there be laid before this Huuse, 
(freland.) 


Returns of the Total Amount of Fees paid in each 
year for the years 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856; 
specifying what portion of such Fees has been paid 
into the Bankruptey and Compensation Fund, and 
showing the disposition made of Fees which were 
yot so paid :—Of the Amount to credit of the Bank- 
ruptey and Compensation Fund in each of the said 
years, with the Total Payments out of the said Funds 
during the year preceding :—And, of the Amount 
now standing to the credit of the said Fund, with 
the Charges on or Sums payable out of the same in 
respect of Salaries or otherwise (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 433, of Session 1833). 


Court of Chan- Ondered, That there be laid before this House, 
cery (Ireland.) Accounts of the Interest and Produce of the Com- 
pensation and Fee Fund of the Court of Chancery 
in Jreland, and the Charges thereon:—Of the 
Suitors’ Fee Fund in the same, for the years ending 
the 31st day of December 1853, 1854, 1855 and 
1856 :—Of the Names of Persons entitled to An- 
nuities, Salaries and other Charges payable out of 
the Interest and Produce of the Compensation and 
Fee Fund of the Suitors inthe Court of Chancery 


21° Mai. 





A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


in Ireland :—Of the Names of Persons entitled to 
Annuities, Salaries and other Ch payable out 
of the Suitors’ Fee Fund Account :—And, of Pay- 
ments made out of the Consolidated Fund for An- 
nuities and Compensation, so far as relates to the 
Compensation and Fee Fund and Suitors’ Fee 
Fund of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, for the 
said years (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 539, of Session 1853). 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Convict Pri- 
mand,—Copy of Third Annual Report of the Di- sons (Ireland) 
rectors of vict Prisons in Jreland, for the year 
ended 31st December 1856 ; with Appendix. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Order, High Sheriffs 
dated the 13th day of this instant May, for a Return (Ireland. ) 
relative to High Sheriffs (Ireland). 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ordnance 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Survey (Scot- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ) 
House, a Return with regard to the Ordnance Sur- 
vey in each County of Scotland, showing,—1. The 
Scale or Scales of such Surveys, and where different 
Scales have been adopted, the Date when such Scales 
were severally commenced ; 2. The present state of 
such Surveys, and the estimated time for their com- 
— upon each different Scale adopted; 3. The 

xpense incurred in each Survey, from the com- 
mencement to April 1854, and subsequently in the 
several years olen April 1855, 1856 and 1857; 
4. The estimated Cost of completion; 5. Where no 
Survey has yet been commenced, the Scale or Scales 
on which it is intended to make the Survey, with 
the estimated Cost and time of completion. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Audit Board. 
a Return of the state of Business before the Audit 
Board (in continuation of former Return). 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Audit Office. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 12th day of March, in the last Session of 
Parliament, for a Return of the state of Business 
in the Audit Office to the present time (in continua- 
tion of Return presented in Session 1856). 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions Metropolis 
ofan Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table Turnpike 
by the Clerk of the House,—The Thirty-first Re- —_— 
port of the Commissioners of the Metropolis Turn- 
pike Roads North of the Thames. 


Mr. Labouchere presented,—-Return to an Ad- Ceylon. 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of this No. 45. 
instant May, for a Return relative to Ceylon. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be priuted. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Foreign Foreign 
Sugar, which was presented wpon the 20th day of Sugar. 
this instant May, be printed. No. 46. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Sugar, Sugar. 
which was ean soe upon the 20th day of this in- No, 47. 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Danish Danish 
Transit Dues, which was presented upon the 20th Transit Dues. 
day of this instant May, be printed. o. 48. 


A Petition of Stephen Clarke the younger, Wil- Maldon 
liam Gepp, and Samuel Spurgeon, complaining of an Election. 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Maldon, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 40]. 

Ordered, 








Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart 
Baillie Cochrane, of Lamington-house, in the County 
of Lanark, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Shire of Zanark, was presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 41]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Wey- 
be mouth and Melcombe Regis,in the County of Dorset, 


complaining of an undue Election and Return for | 


the said Borough, was presented, and read [Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 42]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of William Unwin Heygate, of Eaton- 
square, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Bridport, was presented, and read [ Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 43]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections, 

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. 


A Petition of Henry John Selwin, complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Ipswich, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 44]. 

A Petition of Henry Orford, William Mumford, 
and Henry Gallant Bristo, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the said Borough, was also 
presented,and read [ Vide Appendix toVotes, No. 45]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of William Forbes, Esquire, of Cal- 
lendar, and James Russell, junior, Esquire, Bank 
Agent, two of the Electors of the Burgh of Falkirk, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Falkirk District of Burghs, was presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 46]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Clare Election, A Petition of Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, of 


Worthing, in the County of Sussex, General in the 
Army, complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the County of Clare, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 47]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
Vou. 112, 














20 Vicrorte. 21° Maiti. 165 


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. 


A Petition of Francis Brodigan, Esquire, of 4, Drogheda 
Garden-court, Middle Temple, Barrister-at- Law, and Election. 
of Pilton-house, in the County of Meath, Justice of 
the Peace, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Drogheda, was presented, 
and read [ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 48]. 

A Petition of Henry Bagnall, of Peter-street,. in 
the Borough of Drogheda, Boot and Shoe-maker, 
and Thomas Kerr, of Peter-street, in the said Borough 
of Drogheda, Merchant Tailor, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
was also presented, and read [Vide Appendix to 
Votes, No. 49]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the County of Sligo, Sligo County 


complaining of an undue Election and Return for the Flection. 
said County, was presented, and read [Vide Ap- 
pendix to Votes, No. 50]. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 
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. 


A Petition of Charles Lewin, of Brington, in the Huntingdon 
County of Huntingdon, Farmer and Grazier, and County 
Jonathan Rogers, of Clapton-hall, in the County of ™!¢cte". 
Northampton, Farmer and Grazier, complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the County of 
Huntingdon, was presented, and read [Vide Ap- 
pendix to Votes, No. 51). 

A Petition of John Moyer Heathcote, Esquire, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the said County, was also presented, and read [ Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 52]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of John M‘Donnell, of the Borough atnione 
of Athlone, in the Kingdom of Ireland, complaining Election. 
of an undue Election and Return for the said Bo- 
rough, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to 
Votes, No. 53}. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her rn be Command, Trade and 
—Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, for Navigation. 
the Month ended 30th April 1857, and Four Months No. 49. 
ended 30th April 1857. 

Mr. Lowe also presented, pursuant to the direc- ph orice 
tions of an Act ot es of Order in (France.) 
Council approving certain Rules or “gene made 
by the Committee of Council for Trade, under the 
6 &amp; 7 Vict. c. 79, for the more effectual perform- 
ance of the Convention with France, concerning the 
Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands 
and France. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Accounts relating to Trade and 
Navigation be printed. 

z4 A Motion 





Dublin Port. 


Maynooth 
College. 


Adjournment. 


Fraudulent 
Trustecs, &amp;c. 


Joint Stock 
Companies. 


Contracts 
(Public De- 
partments ) 


166 
A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House will, immediately, resolve itself into 
a Committee to consider of a Bill to repeal certain 
Duties on Ships entering the Port of Dublin, and 
other Imposts affecting its Trade and Commerce ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the {Mr. Vance, Vow 
Yeas, \Mr. Grogan: _— 

‘Tellers for the ws Hayter, = 53 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: J ~°*" 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House will, immediately, resolve itself into 
a Committee to consider the Acts for the Endow- 
ment of the College of Maynooth, with a view to the 
withdrawal of any Endowment out of the Consoli- 
dated Fund, due regard being had to vested rights 
and interests ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Spooner, 

Yeas, UMr. Newdegate : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, LThe Earl of Mulgrave : 

So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now — :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
make better provision for the Punishment of Frauds 
committed by Trustees, Bankers and other Persons 
entrusted with Property: And that Mr. Attorney 
General, Sir George Grey and Mr. Baines do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the several Acts re- 
lating to Joint Stock Companies, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said Acts: 
—The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Act seven and eight Victoria, chapter One 
hundred and eleven, for facilitating the Winding-up 
the Affairs of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet 
their pecuniary engagements; and also, the Joint Stock 
Companies Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Brand 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Brand accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Act seven and eight Victoria, chapter One hundred 
and eleven, for facilitating the Wadenes the Affairs 
of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet their pecu- 
niary Engagements ; and also, the Joint Stock Com- 
panies Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849 :—And he 
moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. Brand, Mr. Attorney General, Sir 
George Grey and Mr. Attorney General for Jreland 
do prepare, and bring it in, 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the Select Committee on Contracts (Public 
Departments) do consist of seventeen Members ; 


21° Mazz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Lefi. 
Tellers for the (Mr. Hayter, lise 
Yeas, |The Earl of Mulgrave: J°°” 
Tellers for the {Colonel Boldero, 1 
Noes, \Lord John Maniers: J 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Monsell and Colonel Gilpin 
be added to the Committee. 


83. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Married _ 
reading of the Married Women Bill ; Women Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 17th day of June next. 


The Chatham Lands, &amp;c. Bill was, according to Chatham 
Order, read the third time. —— &amp;e. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. . 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of George Hammond Whalley, of Peterborough 
Plas Madoc, in the County of Denbigh, Esquire, a Election. 
Candidate at the last Election of Members to serve 


-|in Parliament for the City or Borough of Peter- 


borough, complaining of an undue Election and Re- 


- | turn for the said City, was presented, and read [ Vide 


Appendix to Votes, No. 54]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Thomas Southwick, of Flemingate, Beverley 
in the Borough of Beverley, in the East Riding of Election. 
the County of York, Tailor, and John Ramshaw, 
of Toll Gavel, in the said Borough of Beverley, 
Gardener, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the said Borough, was presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 55]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Thomas Cowan and Patrick Far- siigo Borough 
rell, complaining of an undue Election and Return Election. 
for the Borough of Sligo, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 56). 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 
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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Queen’s County in Queen’s 

Freland, complaining of an undue Election and Re- a 
- evtion. 

turn for the said County, was presented, and read 
[ Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 57]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Thomas Ellis Owen, an Elector of Portsmouth: 
the Borough of Portsmouth, complaining of an Election. 
undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 58]. 

A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Ports- 
mouth, complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
iurn for the said Borough, was also presented, and 
read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 59]. 

Ordered, 








Taut 
Elec! 


Tps' 
Ele 








Taunton 
Election. 


Ipswich 
Election. 


Chatham 
Election. 


Lymington 
Election. 


Sandwich 
Election. 


Bridport 
Eketion. 








20 VicToriz. 


Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to 
the General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Richard Turle, of High-street; 
John Melhuish, of No. 17, Fore-street; William 
Lee, of the Parade; William James Clay, of Fore- 
street; Henry House, of Fore-street; and Robert 
Harris, of Fore-street; ail within the Parish of 
Taunton Saint Mary Magdalene, Electors of the 
Borough of Taunton, praying to be admitted Par- 
ties to defend the Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 60]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of William Bransby Faiers, of Ber- 
ners-street, Ipswich, Gentleman, and Wi/liam Green, 
of Woodbridge-road, Ipswich, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 61]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Chat- 
ham, complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the said Borough, was presented, and read [ Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 62]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Matthew Martin, of Lower Pen- 
nington Farm, in the Parish of Milford, and County 
of Southampton, Farmer, and John Gatrell, of 
Saint Thomas's street, in the Parish of Lymington, 
and County aforesaid, Cabinet-maker and Uphol- 
sterer, complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the Borough of Lymington, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 63]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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


A Petition of John Reynolds and John Ralph, 
two of the Electors of the Borough of Sandwich, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Town and Port of Sandwich, was presented, 
and read | Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 64]. 

Ordered, That the said I'etition be referred to the 
Genera} Committee of Elections. 

Ordered, Vhat 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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Brid- 
port, in the County of Dorset, cou:p!aining of an 
undue Election anu Return for the said Borough, 
was presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 
No. 65]. 

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167 


Ordered, That the sai: Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Thomas Eycott, of Saint John’s- Gloucester 
lane, in the City of Gloucester and County of the City Election. 
same City, Furniture-broker, and James Poth of 
Suffolk-street, in the same City and County of the 
same City, Tailor, complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the said City, was presented 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 66]. 

A Petition of Electors of the City of Gloucester, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the said City, was also presented, and read [ Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 67]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of New- Newcastle- 
castle-under- Lyme, in the County of Stafford, com- '=4er- Lyme. 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
said Borough, was presented, and read [Vide Ap- 
pendix to Votes, No. 68]. 

A Petition of John Riley, of the Inner Temple, 

London, Esquire, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the said Borough, was also pre- 
sented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 69]. 

Another Petition of John Riley, of the Inner 
Temple, London, Esquire, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the said Borough, was also 
presented, and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, 

No. 70]. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Petition of Electors of the Northern Division Stafford 
of the County of Stafford, complaining of an undue County 
Election and Return for the said Division of the Division). 
said County, was presented, and read [Vide Ap- Election. 
pendix to Votes, No. 71]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 22° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


\ 1 R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
1 Committee on Public Petitions; That they (rink ine- 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 19th port.) 
and 20th 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. 


Mr. Edward Egerton reported the Glasgcw City Glasgow City 
and Suburban Gas Bill, with Amendments. a — 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. ‘ 


Mr. Edward Egerton reported from the Committee Glasgow Gas 
on Group B. of Private Bills ; That in the case of the Bill 
AA Glasgow 








Alva Parish 
Bill. 


Kidsgrove 
Market and 
Town Hall 
Bill. 


Fownhope and 
Holme Lacy 
Bridge Bill, 


Private Bills 
(Group G.) 


Portland 
Harbour Bill. 


Bill 27. 


Saint Helen’s 
Canal and 
Railway Bill. 


Willenhall 
( Wolverhamp- 
ton) Gas Bill. 


168 


Glasgow Gas Bill, they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by reciting therein the several Acts of 
Parliament passed in relation to the Company, and 
the Amounts raised, borrowed and expended by 
them; and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Edward Egerton reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group B. of Private Bills; That the 
Parties promoting the Alva Parish Bill had stated 
to the Committee, that it was not their intention to 
proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Repert do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Lovaine reported from the Committee on 
Group F. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Kidsgrove Market and Town Hall Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee on 
Group G. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the lownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bill, inas- 
much as the object of the said Bill is to authorize 
the incorporation of a Private Company, for the 
purpose of constructing a Bridge, with the neces- 
sary Approaches, over the River Wye, it appeared 
to the Committee that it would be inexpedient to 
dea! with it as a Road Bill, and that it should ac- 
cordingly be referred back to the Committee of Se- 
lection. . 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred back to the 
Committee of Selection. 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee 
on Group G. of Private Bills; That Mr. Colvile, 
one of the selected Members of the said Committee, 
was not present within One hour after the time ap- 
pointed for the meeting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Colvile be discharged from 


further attendance on the said Committee. 


Mr. Ker Seymer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Portland Harbour Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and had amended the same, by 
inserting a recital of the Consent of the Crown ; and 
also a recital of the substitution of a Plan deposited 
at the Admiralty, in lieu of the Schedule originally 
attached to the Bill; that they had found the 
Preamble of the Bill, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-commitied to a 
Committee of the whole House for Monday next. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking 
out all that relates to the Liverpool Dock and Town 
Dues Bill, Provisions relating to which form a 
separate Bill, introduced by special leave of the 
House; and found the same, as amended, 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 Willenhall (Wolverhampton) Gas Bill was | 


read the third time. 
Resolve’, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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| first time; and ordered to be read a second 
\ 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That the Finsbury Park Bill be read a Finsbury Pa, 
second time upon Monday the 8th day of June next. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Westminster Improvements Westminster 


f . , ee , 
_— 2) Bill be read a second time upon Thursday (No 2) Bn 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Birkenhead 
before the Surveying Officers, under the Preliminary Tmprovemens 
Inquiries Act (9 &amp; 10 Vic. c. 106), in respect to the par hate 
Birkenhead Improvement (Gas Works) and Pur- of Birkenheag 
chase of Birkenhead and Claughton Gas Works nd Claughton 
Bill, and the Birkenhead Improvement (Water- Bill, de. (18st) 
works) and Purchase of Birkenhead and Claughton r 
Waterworks Bill, in Session 1847, together with 
the Reports of such Surveying Officers, be referred 


to the Committee on Group C. of Private Bills. 


The Order for the second reading of the Metro- Metropolitan 
litan Railway Bill, was read, and discharged. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Metropolitan 
extend the time for the Purchase of certain Lands ses 
required for the Metropolitan Railway, and for other mn Sy 

urposes: And that Mr. Thomas Duncombe and 
Ir. Cox do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of the Newport, Abergavenny and Newport, 
Hereford Railway Company, praying that Provision a 
may be made in the Newport, Abergavenny and Railway Bill 
Hereford Railway Bill, for enabling the Petitioners : 
to contribute a Sum of Money towards the Capital of 
the Worcester and Hereford Railway Company, and 
to hold shares in the said Company accordingly, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Sixth 
Report. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Penryn and 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Falmouth. 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present '™* 
Parliament for the Borough of Penryn and Fal- 
mouth, in the room of Thomas George Baring, Es- 
quire, who, since his Election for the said Borough, 
hath accepted the Office of one of the Commissioners 
for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Rochdale 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of #lection. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Andrew Stewart and Thomas 
Southworth, relating to the Borough of Rochdale, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Pontefract 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Benjamin Oliveira, relating 
to the Borough of Pontefract, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill to amend Joint Stock 
the Act seven and eight Victoria, chapter One hun- Comp2™s 


dred and eleven, for facilitating the Winding-up the Bill 26. 


Affairs of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet 
their pecuniary Engagements; and also the Joint 
Stock Companies Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next ; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill to make Fraudulent 
better Provision for the Punishment of Frauds com- Trustees &amp; 
mitted by Trustees, Bankers, and other Persons en- 
trusted with Property: And the same was read the 
time 
upon 


Bill 28. 





to eo 


™ MN 


Sai 





tk 
: Cinque Ports 
t Act Amend- 
. ment Bill. 
Bill 29. 
: Convicts. 
@ 
ad 
. Lights for 
7) Steam and 
‘ Sailing Ves- 
sels. 
Local Acts. 
n No. 26. 
L. 
n 
High Sheriffs 
(Ireland. ) 
No. 28-I. 
Metropolis 
Turnpike 
‘ Roads, 
- No. 50. 
ill. 
Cape of 
Good Hope. 
h 
id 
Savings 
Banks. 
Spirits 
(Ireland. ) 
17 
ck 
es 
6. 
Controverted 
Ekctions, 
ont 
, &amp;C 
28. 


Returns of the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits 


20 Vicroriz¢. 


upon Monday the 8th day of June next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill for the Amendment | 
of the Cinque Ports Act: And the same was read | 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second | 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. | 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 


r Majesty, d the 12th d f this instant | 
Sar Rpety, Gules the Tach day oF thee sant | Fergus, Esquire, the Right honourable Sir James 


| Graham, George Hadfield, Esquire, George Granville 


May, for a Return relative to Convicts. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
15th day of this instant May, for a Return relative 
to Lights for Steam and Sailing Vessels. 

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


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty relative 
to applications for Local Acts. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to High Sheriffs 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 21st day 
of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Metropolis 
Turnpike Roads, which was presented upon the 21st 
day of this instant May, be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


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169 
the Honourable Philip Pleydell Bouverie, John 
Boyd, Esquire, John Ivatt Briscoe, Esquire, John 
Brocklehurst, Esquire, William Brown, Esquire, 
Major Cumming Bruce, General Buckley, Sir Charles 
Merrik Burrel/, Sir Charles Henry Coote, David 
Arthur Saunders Davies, Esquire, Richard Davison, 
Esquire, Edmund Denison, ‘Wee, Henry Drum- 
mond, Esquire, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esquire, 
the Right honourable Edward Ellice, the Honour- 
able John Edmund Elliot, Sir De Lacy Evans, John 


Harcourt, Esquire, Archibald Hastie, Esquire, John 
| Isaac Heard, Esquire, John Heathcoat, Esquire, the 
Right honourable Joseph Warner Henley, John 
James Hope Johnstone, Esquire, William Kirk, Es- 

uire, Walter Long, Esquire, the Honourable Colonel 

owther, Thomas Luce, Esquire, George Macartney, 
Esquire, Charles Aaron ‘Booty Esquire, Joseph 

Randolph Mullings, Esquire, George Frederick 
Muntz, Esquire, Sir John Owen, Charles William 
Packe, Esquire, Robert Palmer, Esquire, Viscount 
Palmerston, Sir George Brooke Pechell, Nicholas 
Power, Esquire, David Pugh, Esquire, Osman 
Ricardo, Esquire, Lord John Russell, George Pou- 
lett Scrope, Es uire, Robert Aglionby Slaney, Es 

uire, Richard Spooner, Esquire, Lord James 
Stuart, Henry William Tancred, Esquire, Sir Fre- 
derick Thesiger, Thomas Thorrely, Esquire, George 

Traill, Esquire, James Aspinall Turner, Es- 
quire, Sir William Verner, Harry Spencer Wad- 
dington, Esquire, Admiral Walcott, John Ashley 
Warre, Esquire, Henry White, Esquire, Brodie 





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 Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, respect- | 
ing the Application of the Parliamentary Grant of 
£.40,000 for promoting the Civilization of Native 
Tribes. 

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. | 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of the Savings Banks in the, 
United Kingdom that have failed, stopped payment, | 
or been discontinued, since the 14th day of June | 
1852; and of the Amount of Loss (if any) that has 
been sustained by Depositors in each of these Esta- 
blishments. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 





on which Duty was paid, for Home Consumption 
in Ireland, in each of the years 1854, 1855 and) 
1856 :—Of the Number of Detections, of Persons | 
prosecuted, of Persons convicted, and of Persons | 
confined for Offences in Jreland against the Laws 
for the suppression of Illicit Distillation, in each of 
the years 1854, 1855 and 1856; and distinguishing, | 
in Columns, the Number of such Detections, Pro-| 
secutions or Convictions made by the Constabulary 
from those made by the Revenue Police :—And, of 
the Number of Persons confined in each Gaol in! 
Ireland for Offences against the Laws for the sup- | 
pression of Illicit Distillation, in each of the years | 
1854, 1855 and 1856 (in continuation of Parliament- | 
ary Paper, No. 236, of Session 1856). 


M‘Ghie Willeor, Esquire, Michael Williams, Es- 
quire, William Battie Wrightson, Esquire, Gene- 
ral Wyndham. 

The Right honourable Sir George Grey, one of 
Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, having 
stated that he could not attend Election Commit- 
tees without material inconvenience to the Public 
Service, during the time he may hold the said 
office ; 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Sir George 


| Grey, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of 


State, be excused from serving on Election Com- 
mittees during the time he may hold the said 
office. 

The Right honourable Sir George Cornewall 
Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer, having stated 
that he could not attend Election Commit- 
tees without material inconvenience to the Pub- 
lic Service, during the time he may hold the said 
office ; 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Sir George 
Cornewall Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer, be 
excused from serving on Election Committees 
during the time he may hold the said office. 

The Right honourable Sir Charles Wood, First 
Lord of the Admiralty, having stated that he could 
not attend Election Committees without material 
inconvenience to the Public Service, durmg the 
time he may hold the said office ; 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Sir Charles 
Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty, be excused from 
serving on Election Committees during the time he 
may hold the said office. 

The Right honourable Henry Labouchere, one of 
Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, having 
stated that he could not attend Election Com- 
mittees without material inconvenience to the Public 


Service, during the time he may held the said 


The Clerk read the List of Members who have 
claimed to be excused from serving on Election 
Committees, as being upwards of Sixty years of age, | 
as followeth : 

The Honourable General Arbuthnott, John Bag-| 
shaw, Esquire, Sir Joseph Bailey, Edward Ball, 
Esquire, William Hodyson Barrow, Esquire, Philip 
Bennet, Esquire, the Honourable William Smyth 
Bernard, Adam Black, Esquire, Colonel Boldero, 

Vou, 112. 








| taries of State, be excused from — 


ollice ; 

fesolved, That the Right honourable Heny 
Labouchere, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secre- 
on Election 
Committees during the time he may hold the said 
oflice, 

The Right honourable Robert Vernon Smith, 
President of the Board of Contro!, having siated 
that he could not attend Election Committees with- 

AA2 out 


Education 
of Pauper 
Children. 


Adjournment. 


East India 
(Madras Pre- 
sidency, &amp;c.) 


No. 51. 


Princesa 
Royal. 


170 


out material inconvenience to the Public Service 
during the time he may hold the said office ; 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Robert 
Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Control, 
be excused from serving on Election Committees 
during the time he may hold the said office. 

Sir Richard Bethell, Her Majesty’s Attorney 
General, having stated that he could not attend 
Election Committees without material inconvenience 
to the Public Service, during the time he may hold 
the said office ; 

Resolved, That Sir Richard Bethell, Her Majesty's 
Attorney General, be excused from serving on 
Election Committees during the time he may hold 
the said office. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Children who are now 
provided with Education by aid afforded by the 
Guaydians of Unions to their Parents, according to 
the Provisions of the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 34:—Copy 
of any Orders or Circular issued by the Poor Law 
Board, to regulate the Proceedings of the Guardians 
with reference to the Mode, Time or Place in or at 
which such Relief shall be given, or such Educa- 
tion received :—Returns of the Cost of Relief so 
given in each Union:—And, of the Number of 
Children who have been relieved out of the Work- 
house, having been deserted by their Parents, or 
surviving Parent, or who being Orphans have Re- 
lief granted by the Boards of Guardians, for the 
purposes of Education. 


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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of two Minutes recorded by the Governor of 
Madras, dated respectively the 26th day of October 
1854 and the 12th day of May 1855; and of two 
Letters addressed by the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company to the Government of Madras, 
dated respectively the 2d day of July and the 17th 
day of December 1856, as to the Revised Survey 
and Assessment of the Madras Presidency, and the 
Godavery and Kistna Annicuts. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee to take into consideration Her 
Majesty's most gracious Message of the 18th day 
of this mstant May, relative to the Marriage of the 
Princess Royal. 

(In the Committee.) 


Queen's Message read. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
annual sum of Eight thousand pounds be granted to 
Her Majesty, out of the Consolidated Fund of 
Great Britain and Ireland, the said annuity to be 
settled on Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, 
for her life, in such manner as Her Majesty shall 
think proper, and to commence from the date of the 
Marriage of Her Royal Highness with His Royal 
Highness Prince Frederic William of Prussia: 

Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word 
“ That ” to the end of the Question, in order to add 
the words “‘ in the opinion of this Committee a suit- 
“able marriage portion should be granted to Her 
“ Royal Highness the Princess Royal, in liew of any 
“ annuity,” instead thereof. 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the Question :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn, 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. £i/z- 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

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


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

Ordered, That Her Majesty’s most gracious Mes- Queen’s 
sage of the 18th day of this instant May, relative to ae - 
the Marriage of the Princess Royal, be referred to 
the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 

(In the Committee.) 


1. £.40,000, for the Marriage Portion of Her 
Royal Highness the Princess Royal. 

2. £.46,722, to complete the Sum for divers 
Naval Miscellaneous Services. 

3. £.441,603, to complete the Sum for Half-Pay, 
Reserved Half-Pay and Retirement to Officers of 
the Navy and Royal Marines. 

4. £.278,163, to complete the Sum for Military 
Pensions and Allowances. 

5. £.87,682, to complete the Sum for Civil Pen- 
sions and Allowances. 

6. £.127,000, to complete the Sum for the Freight 
of Ships, for the Victualling and Conveyance of 
Troops, on account of the Army. 

7. £.565,064, to complete the Sum four the Packet 
Service. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

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

Mr. Fitz Roy 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 General Board 


reading of the General Board of Health Bill ; of Health Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second gavings Banks 
reading of the Savings Banks Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Transporta- 
reading of the Transportation and Penal Servitude tion and Penal 
Bill ; i Servitude Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 23° die Maii, 1857: 


And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative :—The Bill was accordingly read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Lishthouses. 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
cive directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing the Names of the Officers _ 
Clerks 













20 Vicroriz. 


Clerks employed by the Corporation of the Trinity 
House, London, the Commissioners of Northern 
Lights, and the Corporation for improving the Port 
of Dublin, for the year ending the 31st day of De- 
cember 1856; the Salaries and other Emoluments, 
if any, and the Duties of such Officers and Clerks 
respectively ; specifying the Names of the Officers 
and Clerks employed in the Business and Manage- 
ment of the Lighthouses and Light Vessels on the 
Coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, aud Total 
Number of such Lighthouses and Light Vessels in 
each Division of the United Kingdom ; showing the 
Total Income received from Light Duties in Eng- 
land, Scotland and Ireland, for the year ending the 
31st day of December 1856, and the Total Expen- 
diture, includmg the Salaries and Emoluments, if 
any, of the Officers and Clerks employed in the 
Business and Management of the Lighthouses and 


Light Vessels, incurred for the maintenance of | 


Lighthouses, &amp;c. in the United Kingdom, for the 
same period :—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Registration The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to amend the 


of Voters  ~— Luw for the Registration of Persons entitled to vote 
(Scotland) Bill. 7 the Election of Members to serve in Parliament 
Bill 30. for Counties in Scotland: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday the Sth day of June next; and to be 

printed. 
Controverted | Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That his War- 
Elections. = rant for the Appomtment of Members to serve on 
No. 52. the General Committee of Elections, was upon the 


Table :—And the said Warrant was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

Pursuant to the Provisions of “ The Election Pe- 
titions Act, 1848,” I do hereby appoint, 

The Right honourable Sir William Meredyth 
Somerville, Baronet, Member for the City of 
Canterbury ; 

The Right honourable Spencer Horatio Wal- 
pole, Member for the University of Cam- 
bridge ; 


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out more fully the Capital of the Company, and 
making some verbal alterations therein; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. 


171 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the partmouth 
Dartmouth aud Torbay Railway Bill ; That, it having and Torbay 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee ®#ilway Bill. 
| that the deposit paid in respect of the Subscription 
| Contract, in pursuance of the Standing Order, No. 64, 
| had not been withdrawn, they had inserted a clause 
in the Bill, enacting that such Contract should be as 
| valid as if the Bill had passed in the lust Session of 
Parliament ; that they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble 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. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on wycombe 
the Wyconbe Railway Bill (which was reported in Railway Bill. 
the last Session); That, pursuant to the Standing 
Order of the House of the 12th day of March last, 
with respect to the suspension of Private Bills, it 
had been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee, that the deposit in respect of the Subscription 
Contract relating to the said Bill has not been 
withdrawn ; and the Committee have inserted in the 
Bill a clause enacting that such Contract shall be 
as valid as if the Bill had passed in the last Session 
of Parliament. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Tralee and Killarney qeatee ana 
Railway Bill, with Amendments. Killarney 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Forth and Clyde Forth and 


Junction Railway Bill, with Amendments. Clyde June- 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; Bi sated 





‘ Colonel John Wilson Patien, Member for the 

. Northern Division of the County of Lan-| 

caster ; 

Sir William Heathcote, Baronet, Member for | 

the University of Oxford ; 
s 


William Miles, Esquire, Member for 
Eastern Division of the County of Somerset ; 
And John Bonham-Carter, Esquire, Member 
for the City of Winchester ; 
To be Members of the General Committee of 
Elections for the present Session. 


the | 


Given under my hand, this 22d day of May 
1857. 
Joun Evetyn Denison, Speaker. 
Ordered, That the said Warrant be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Twelve of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Lune, 25° die Mai; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
N R. FitzRoy reported the Hamilton and 
Strathaven Railway Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill, 


North Eastern 
Railwa 


(Capital) Bill. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
North Eastern Railway (Capital) Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by settin 

Vou. 112. 





r 
o 


| 





and be printed. 


Mr. Fit: Roy reported from the Committee on Great 
the Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier Bill; That the Yarmouth 


Bill having been reported by a Committee in the a 


_last Session of Parliament, before Proceedings 


thereon were suspended under the Standing Orders 
for the suspension of Private Bills of the 12th March 
last; and it being proved to the satisfaction of the 
Committee, that the deposit with the Court of Chan- 


| cery in England, under Standing Order, No. 63, had 


not been withdrawn ; the Committee had, in terms of 
the seventh paragraph of the said Standing Orders 


of the 12th March, inserted a clause enacting that 


the Subscription Contract entered into with respect 
to the Undertaking authorized by the Bill, prior 
to the last Session of Parliament, shall be as valid 
as if the Bill had passed in the said last Session. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Mayor’s Court of the Mayor's Court 
City of London Bill, with Amendments. phar ing: 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. ° 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Margate | 
Margate Water Bill; That, pursuant to the Stand- Water Bill. 
ing Order of the House of the 12th day of March 
last, with respect to the suspension of Private Bills, 
it had been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee, that the deposit in respect of the Subscription 
Contract relating to the said Bill has not been with- 
drawn: and the Committee have inserted in the 
Bill a clause enacting that such Contract shall be as 
valid as if the Bill had passed in the last Session of 
Parliament. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

AAS Lord 





Railway and 
Canal Bills 
(Third Re- 
port.) 

No. 53, 


Public 
Petitions 
(Sixth Re- 
port.) 


Briton Ferry 
Docks Bill. 


Kidsgrove 
Market Bill. 


Fiskerton 
Drainage Bill. 


Cardigan 
Markets and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Clyde Navi- 
gation Bill. 


Cork Gas 
Bill. 


Cork Con- 


sumers’ Gas 
ill. 


Private Bills 
(Group D.) 


172 


Lord Hotham reported from the General Com- 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills ; That they had 
laced the Andover Canal Sale Bill on Group 4 of 
wut Bills; and that they had transferred to 
Group No. 1, the remaining Bills on Group 3, 
namely, Reading Railway Junction Bill, and South 
Eastern (Reading Junction) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had exa- 
mined the Petitions presented upon the 21st and 22d 
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. 


Lord Lovaine reported from the Committee on 
Group F. of Private Bills; 'That in the case of the 
Briton Ferry Docks Bill, they had examined the | 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, | 
and amended the same, by inserting an allegation 
to the effect that there is no existing preference or 
priority in payment of interest or dividend; and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments | 
thereunto. 


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Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Lord Lovaine reported from the Committee on | 
Group F. of Private Bills ; That in the case of the | 
Kidsgrove Market Bill, they had examined the alle- | 
gations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and | 
amended the same, by striking out the second para- | 
graph, to meet alterations in the Bill, by which the 
Powers are vested in the Parties beneficially inte- | 
rested in the land instead of the Trustees ; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Lovaine reported from the Committee on 
Group F. of Piivate Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Fiskerton Drainage Bill had s‘ated to 
the Committee, that it was not their intention to pro- 
ceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Lovaine reported the Cardigan Markets and 
Improvement Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Edward Igerton reported the Clyde Naviga- 
tion Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Packe reported fromthe Committee on Group 
C. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Cork 
Gas Bill, they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by reciting the Capital of the Company ; 
and that the Company have Works in Dublin, Cork 
and Limerick; and that the said Works in Dublin 
are carried on under the Powers aud Provisions of | 
the several Acts therein-mentioned, such Amend- 
ments being made to show more distinctiy the pre- 
sent position of the Company; and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. : 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Packe reported from the Cominittee on Group 
C. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Cork 
Consumers’ Gas Bill, they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, but the 
same had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lic upon the Table. 


Mr. Liddell reported from the Committee on 
Group D. of Private Bills; That at the meeting of 
the Committee this day, the sudden decease of Mr. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Saunders Davies, one of the Members of the Com- 
mittee, was reported to them. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Liddell reported from the Committee on Brighton, Hove 
Group D. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 2nd Preston 
Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service a —S- 
Water Bill, they had examined the allegations con- Bill. 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same, by striking out the recitals referring to the 
expediency of altering the mode of service by the 
Company from the constant service to the intermit- 
tent system, the Bill, as amended, not providing 
for such change ; by striking out the recital referrin 
to the construction of the proposed new works, er 
proposition being abandoned ; and by adding a re- 
cital referring to the expediency of further Provision 
being made for preventing waste or misuse of the 
water supplied by the Company, and the Act 
being otherwise amended ; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Liddell reported from the Committee on Landport 
Group D. of Private Bills; That in the case of the and Southsea 
Landport and Southsea Improvement Bill, they had {provement 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had made Provision in the Bill 
pursuant to the Instruction of the House; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Henry Bai/lie reported from the Committee Railway Bills 
on Group No. 6 of Railway Bills; That for the con- (Group 6.) 
venience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned to 
Thursday the 4th of June, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Committee 
mittee of Selection; That they had made certain of Selection 
alterations in the Groups already formed. (Fitth Report.) 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; No. 54. 
and be printed. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select Standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; ©r4¢rs. 
which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Fownhope and Holme Fownhope and 
Lacy Bridge Petition for additional Provision, the Holme Lacy 
Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with. a oe 

2. That in the case of the Wimbledon and Dorking Wimbledon 
Railway Petition for additional Provision, the Stand- 224 Dorking 
ing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that the ny 
Parties be permitted to introduce their additional 
Provision accordingly, if the Committee on the Bill 
shall think fit. 

3. That in the case of the North Eastern Railway North Eastern 
(Lanchester Valley Branch), Petition for additional Railway (Tan- 
Provision, the Standing Orders ought to be dis- Branch) Bil 
pensed with; that the Parties be permitted to intro- 
duce their additional Provision if the Committee on 
the Bill shail think fit, on proving before the Com- 
mittee the covsent of Proprietors present in person, 
or by Proxy holding at least three-fourths of the 
paid-up Capital of the Company represented at such 
meeting ; that the Committee on the Bill do report 
how far such Order has been complied with on the 
Report of the Bill. 

4. That in the case of tle Islington Parish Acts Islington 
Amendment, Petition for leave to deposit Petition Parish Acts 
for Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed — 
with; that the Parties be permitted to deposit their 
Petition for a Bill. 

5. That in the case of the Zondon and South London and 
Western Railway Acts Amendment, Petition of —_ a 
Corporation of Southampton to dispense with Stand- y tee me 
ing Order 109, and for leave to be heard on their Bill. 
Petition against the Bill, the said Standing Order 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be per- 

mitted 

















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mitted to be heard on their Petition against the Bill, 


notwithstanding the same shall have been deposited | certain Lands required for the Metropolitan Railway, 
later than seven clear days after the second reading | and for other purposes, was read the first time. 


of the Bill. 

6. That in the case of the Charing Cross Bridge, | 
Petition of W. H. Withall for dispensing with 
Standing Order 169, in the case of the Petition of 
Mess's. Ji/lett, and for leave to be heard on their 
Petition against the Bill, the said Standing Order 
ought not to be dispensed with. 

7. That in the case of the Cork and Youghal | 
Railway, Petition from the Cork and Youghal Rail- | 
way Company for dispensing with Standing Order, | 
No. 130, the said Standing Order ought not to be | 
dispensed with. 

The second, third, fourth and fifth Resolutions, 
being read a second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Charing Cross 
Bridge Bill. 


Cork and 
Youghal Rail- 
way Bill. 


Portsmouth 


Sir John Trollope reported from the Committee 
Railway Bill. 


on Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Portsmouth Railway Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out so much 
thereof as related to the construction of the new 
Railway and Branch, the Power to use certain por- 
tions of the Line to Portsmouth belonging to the 
London, Brighton and South Coast, and London 
and South Western Railway Companies, and the 
extension of time for purchase of lands for and for 
completion of the Extension Railway from Godal- 
ming to Shalford, in order to make it consistent 


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with the Provisions of the Bill as passed by the | 


Committee; and found the same, as amended, 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. 


Railway Bills 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group + of Rail- 
(Group 4.) 


way Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of the 
clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Registration 
of Voters Bill. 


Bill 31. 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe presented a Bill to facili- 
tate and afford more frequent opportunities for the 
Registration of the Elective Franchise in England 
and Wales: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 10th day of June next; and to be printed. 


Chester 


; The Chester Water Bill was read the third time. 
Water Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Dublin and 


Wicklow 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

A Clause (Saving rights of the Dublin and Kings- 
town Railway Company), was twice read ; and made 
part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Dumbarton 


Water, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Dumbarton Water, &amp;c. Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 

A Clause (Right of fishing, &amp;c., in reservoir on 
lands of Auchentorlie and Strathleven reserved), was 
twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Great Western 


und Brentford 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Great Western and Brentford Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Islington 
Parish Bill, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Islington Parish Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
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7s 


A Bill to extend the time for the Purchase of Metropolitan 

Railway 

(No. 2) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- 

ners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That Mr. George Henry Cavendish be Private Bills 
added to the Committee on Group G. of Private (Group G.) 
Bills. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Nene Valley 
before the Committees on the ene Valley Improve- Improvement 
: od . » : Bills (1852 
ment Bills of Sessions 1852 and 1854, respectively, na 1854.) 
be referred to the Committee on the Wene Valley 
Drainage and Navigation Improvement Bill. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Birkenhead 
before the Committees on the Birkenhead Docks rg, &amp;e. 
Bill in Session 1844; the Birkenhead Dock Com- (18 &amp;-) 
pany’s Bill in Session 1845; the Birkenhead Docks 
Bill in Session 1847 ; the Liverpool Docks Bill, the 
Birkenhead Dock Company's Bill, the Birkenhead 
Dock Trustees Bill, and the Birkenhead Dock 
Trustees Rating Bill, in Session 1848; the Birken- 
head Dock Trustees Billin Session 1850; the Liver- 
pool Docks Bill in Session 1851; the Birkenhead 
Docks Bill in Session 1852; and the Birkenhead 
Dock Trustees Bill and the Birkenhead Dock Com- 
pany’s Bill in Session 1853, be referred to the Com- 
mittee on Group A. of Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Nene Valley Drainage and Nene Valley 
Navigation Improvement Commissioners, praying a 
that Provision may be made in the Nene Valley Semeavenent 
Drainage and Navigation Improvement Bill for Bill. 
enabling the Petitioners to take certain additional 
lands on the south side of the River Nene for the 
purpose of setting back the bank of the river, and 
the rozd which now runs upon such bank, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Examiners 
of Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Cannock Mineral Railway Cannock 
Company, praying that Provision may be made in Mineral Rail- 
the Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill, for ex- Bil. (No. 1) 
tending the time for the construction of the Cannock 
Mineral Railway, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of the Mallow and Fermoy Railway Mattow 
Company, and of the Great Southern and Western = ama 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 3 - 
Sendo the Mallow and Fermoy Haiway Com- aoa ‘aa 
pany, and to transfer all the Powers of that Com- Railways. 
pany for making and maintaining the Mallow and 
Fermoy Railway to the Great Southern and Western 
Railway Company, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Matthew Dawson, of Pontefract, vontefract 
in the Parliamentary Borough of Pontefract, in the Election. 
County of York, Gentleman ; William Shirtcliff, of 
the same place, Woollen and Linen Draper ; William 
Worfolk, of Knottingley, in the said Parliamentary 
Borough of Pontefract, Ship-builder; and John 
Howard, also of Knottingley aforesaid, Rope-manu- 
facturer, Electors of the said Parliamentary Borough 
of Pontefract, praying to be admitted Parties to de- 
fend the Return for the said Borough, was presented, 
and read [Vide Appendix to Votes, No. 72]. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; yiae Votes, 
and referred to a Select Committee. and Seventh 
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Warcham Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

Election. this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of John Samuel Wanley Saw- 
bridge Erle Drax, relating to the Borough of 
Wareham, is unobjectionable. 

Athlone Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

Election. this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of the Honourable Henry Hand- 
cock, relating to the Borough of Athlone, is unob- 
jectionable. 

Marlborough Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

aietion. this day received « Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of William David Lewis, relating 
to the Borough of Marlborough, is wnobjectionable. 

Wareham Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

Election. this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of John Casher, Henry Little and 
Francis Shepherd, relating to the Borough of Ware- 
ham, is unobjectionable. 

Mallow Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 

= —— one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 

Southern and in respect of non-vompliance with the Standing 

Western Orders in the case of the Petition for the Mallow 

Raliways. and Fermoy and Great Southern and Western 
Railways Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 

Select Committee on Standing Orders. 

Newport, Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 

Abergavenny one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


Ttallway Bill in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the WVewport, Abergavenny and Hereford 
Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 
—s Roads = Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
. one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Orkney Roads Bill. 

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


Keith and 
Dufftown 
Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
deis in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
— in the Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) 

ill. 

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


Contracts for 
Public Depart- 
ments (1856 
and 1857.) 


Ordered, That the Reports fiom the Select Com- 
mittees on Contracts for Public Departments in 
Sessions 1856 and 1857, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them, be referred to 
the Select Committee on Contracts (Public Depart- 
ments). 


meng Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
: Return of the Expenses of every description con- 
necied with the Printing, Publication, Postage and 
Circulation, meurred by the Board of Health for a 
Paper called “ The Weekly Return of the Health 
of the Metropolis,” from the commencement of 

Vol. I. to the present time. 
Marine Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
a Return she wing the Total Amount of Revenve re- 


ceived in the United Kingdom in each year since 
1852, for Stamp Duties on Marine Insurances, and 
the Total Amount of Tonnage belonging to the 
United Kingdom, in cach year during that period. 





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Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Annual Charge upon the Public In- 
come for the Collection of the Excise and Customs 
Duties since 1851, and the Number of Men em- 
ployed in those Departments on the 5th day of 
January in each year; together with the Names of 
any Articles on which the Duties have been re- 
pealed, and the Amount of such Duties. 


Excise and 
Customs. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Civil Service 
Her Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Report of the ve ge 
Civil Service Superannuation Commission, dated a 
15th May 1857; with the Appendices. 

Copy of Twenty-fifth Report from the Board of public Works 
Public Works (/reland); with the Appendices, (Ireland. 
1356. 

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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Tobacco. 
by the Clerk ot the House,— Return to several Or- 
ders, dated the 26th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and the 12th day of this in- 
stant May, for a Return of the several Seizures made, 
and of the Prosecutions for Breach of the Laws re- 
lating to Tobacco, between the 5th day of January 
1855, and the 5th day of January 1857, distinguishing 
those in Great Britain from those in Jreland ; speci- 
fying the Places where and the Names of the Persons 
prosecuted or from whom the Seizures were made ; 
the Quantities and kind of Goods seized ; the precise 
Nature of the Offences charged or for which the 
Seizures were made; the Results of the Examina- 
tions of the Goods by Analysis or otherwise where 
seized for Adulteration ; whether any and what Ju- 
dicial Proceedings were taken in each Case; the 
Result of such Proceedings, whether convicted or 
otherwise ; Amount of Fine paid or Imprisonment 
suffered ; whether the Goods seized were con- 
demned or restored (in continuation of Parliamen- 
tary Paper, No. 429, of Session 1854-55) : —«— 

And, for a Return of the several Seizures made, and Tobacco. 
of the Prosecutions for Breach of the Laws relating to 
Tobacco, between the 5th day of January 1855, and 
the 5th day of January 1857, distinguishing those 
in Great Britain from those in Jreland; specifying 
the Places where and the Names of the Persons 
prosecuted or from whom the Seizures were made ; 
the Quantities and kinds of Goods seized ; the precise 
Nature of the Offences charged or for which the 
Seizures were made; the Results of the Examina- 
tions of the Goods by Analysis or otherwise where 
seized for Adulteration; whether any and what Ju- 
dicial Proceedings were taken in each Case; the 
Result of such Proceedings, whether convicted or 
otherwise ; Amount of Fine paid or Imprisonment 
suflered ; whether the Goods seized were condemned 
or restored (so far as relates to the Excise Branch 
of Inland Revenue, and in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 429, of Session 1854-55). 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of March, National 
in the last Session of Parliament, for Returns showing Collections. 
the Sums expended under the following Heads, in 
each year, from 1846 to 1856 severally: British 
Museum Establishment; British Museum Build- 
ines; British Museum Purchases; National Gal- 
lery; Scientific Works and Experiments: Royal 
Geographical Society; British Historical Portrait 
Gallery ; Science and Art Department; Museum 
of Practical Geology; Royal Society :—And, of 
the Sums expended in the Purchase and laying out 
uf the Grounds, and in Buildings, on the Kensing- 
ton Gore Estate, in each year, from 1851 to 1856 
inclusive. 

Return to an Order, dated the 8th day of this in- Malt, &amp;. 
stant May, for Returns relative to Malt, &amp;c. 

‘The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Land Tas. 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—A Statement 
of the Expenses incurred under the Acts for the 
Redemption 











Public Works" 
(Ireland. ) 


Public Works 
Loan Com. 
mission. 


Harbour, &amp;c. 
Bills. 


No. 


Local Acts. 
No. 26. 


Dover Mail 
Packet 
Contract. 


Diseases of the 


Army in the 
East. 


Adjournment. 


Committees. 


Court of 
Chancery, &amp;c. 
(Ireland. ) 


Sound Dues, 





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Redemption and Sale of the Land Tax, and for dis- 
charging the Incidental Expenses attending the exe- 
cution of those Acts from the 31st March 1856, the 
period to which the last Account was made up, to 
the 31st March 1857. 

An Account of the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Jreland, to the 31st March 1857, of the 
Amounts placed at their disposal for Loans, by the 
Acts 1 &amp; 2 Will. 4, c. 33, and subsequent Acts ; 
showing the Amounts advanced, the Amounts un- 
issued, the Repayments into the Exchequer on ac- 
count thereof, the Balance of Principal and Interest 
outstanding, distinguishing each class of Loans, and 
showing the Amounts advanced and repaid during 
the year ending 31st March 1857. 

Accounts showing the Amounts placed at the 
disposal of the Public Works Loan Commissioners, 
under the Act 57 Geo. 3, c. 34, and subsequent 
Acts; the Amounts advanced, and the Amount re- 
maining unissued on the 31st March 1857, and the 
Amount of Loans advanced by the Commissioners 
under the said Acts ; the Monies received on account 
thereof, and paid into the Exchequer, and the Ba- 
lance of Principal and Interest outstanding on the 
31st March 1857, distinguishing each class of Loans ; 
and also showing the Amounts advanced and repaid 
in respect of each class, during the year ended 31st 
March 1857. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to Order,—A 
further Report from the Board of Trade relative to 
Harbour, &amp;e. Bills. , 

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


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty relative 
to Applications for Local Acts. 

Mr. Osborne also presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 15th day of this instant May, for a Return 
relative to Dover Mail Packet Contract. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the first be printed. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of this 
instant May, for a Return relative to Diseases of 
the Army in the East. 

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


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


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit, 
notwithstanding the adjournment of the House. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Bills of Costs lodged in 
the Offices of the three Taxing Masters of the Court 
of Chancery in Jreland for the last Four years, and 
the Amount to which said Bills have been taxed 
and certified, and the Interval between the lodgment 
of same and their being certified ; also the Number 
of Clerks in said Department, and their respective 
Duties ; and the Hours of said Masters in Term and 
Vacation, with the Salaries of each, and of the other 
Officers in said Department :—And, similar Return 
from the Taxing Office of the Incumbered Estates 
Court. 


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 re- 
lates to the Sound Dues, might be read; and the 
same was read, as followeth : 

We are commanded to inform you, That Her Ma- 
jesty, in conjunction with several other European 
Powers, has concluded a Treaty with the King of 
Denmark for the redemption of the Sound Dues. 
This Treaty, together with a —— Convention 
between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark, 
completing the arrangement, will be laid before you ; 


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175 


and Her Majesty will cause the measures necessary 
for fulfilling the engagements thereby contracted to 
be submitted for your consideration. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday the 
5th day of June next, resolve itself into a Committee 
to consider the redemption of the Sound Dues. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee to Princess 
whom it was referred to consider Her Majesty’s Royal 
most gracious Message of the 18th day of this in- 
stant May, relative to the Marriage of the Princess 
Royal, a Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : 
hat the annual sum of Eight thousand pounds be 
granted to Her Majesty, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, the said annuity 
to be settled on Her Royal Highness the Princess 
Royal, for her life, in such manner as Her Majesty 
shall think proper, and to commence from the date 
of the Marriage of Her Royal Highness with His 
Royal Highness Prince Frederic William of Prussia. 

e said Resolution being read a second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out the word “ Eight,” and inserting 
the word “ Six,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ Eight ” stand part of the Rinteien; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 


hoes. 


Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the; Mr. Coningham, 14 
Noes, { Mr. Cox: } " 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. FitzRoy, the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Viscount Palmerston do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That the Sum of £.40,000 be granted to Her Princess 
Majesty, for the Marriage Portion of Her Royal Royal. 
Highness the Princess Royal. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.46,722, be Naval Mis- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum cellaneous 
necessary to defray the Charge of divers Naval °*"°* 
Miscellaneous Services, which will come in course 
cf payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.441,603, be Half-Pay, &amp;c. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray the Charge of Half Pay, Reserved Half 
Pay, and Retirement to Officers of the Navy and 
Royal Marines, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.278,163, be Military 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum yr meee and 
necessary to defray the Charge of Military Pensions * -"""“*" 
and Allowances, which will come in course of pay- 
ment during the year ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.87,682, be Civil Pensions 
eranted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 2"4 Allow- 
sary to defray the Charge of Civil Pensions and Allow- “"“** 
ances, which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.127,000, be Freight of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Ships, &amp;. 
necessary to defray the Charge for the Freight of 
Ships, for the Victualling and Conveyance of Troops, 
on account of the Army, which will come in course 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.565,064, be Packet 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Service. 
sary to defray the Charge of the Packet Service for 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858. 





Von. 112. 


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The first Resolution 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 Resolution ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the toa Maguire : 
Noes, Mr. Coningham, 
So it was resolved iu the Affirmative. 
Then ‘the ‘subsequent Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 


}se1. 
18. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £. 2,921,017 (in addition to £. 1,467,000already 
voted on account), for ne Allowances of Her 
Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, exclu- 
sive of India. 

2. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 369,055, be granted to Her 
Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £. 184,000 already 
voted on account), towards defraying the Charge 
of the Miscellaneous Charges of Her Majesty's Land 
Forces at Home and Abroad, exclusive of Jndia, 
which will come in course of payment from the 1st 
day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 318,943, be 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£. 184,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of the Miscellaneous Charges of 
Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, 
exclusive of India, which will come in course of pay- 
ment from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 31st day 
of March 1858, inclusive :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

3. £. 86,282 (in addition to £.14,000 already 
voted on account), for Volunteer Corps in Great 
Britain. 

4. £.122,909 (in addition to £.62,000 already 
voted on account), for Departments of the Secretary 
of State for War, and of the General Commanding 
in Chief. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


Supply. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Thurs- 
next. 

r. FitzRoy 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. 


da 


continued to sit till after 
uesday morning ; 


And the House havin 
Twelve of the clock on rf 


Martis, 26° die Maii, 1857: 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jreland) 
Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, Taat Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 


Bankruptcy 
and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. 


to 


}a 


1, 


Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 
Mr. Whiteside, 
— the Mr. George Alexander Hae 
7 milton : J 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


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. FitzRoy 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 Order of, the day being read, for the second Court of 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; yr wer 4 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (octane) Oe. 
upon Friday the 12th day of June next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Portland 
a Committee on the Portland Harbour Bill; and, Harbour Bill. 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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 upon 
Thursday next, 


The Cinque Ports Act Amendment Bill was, ac- Cinque Ports 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Act a 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for’ 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ministers’ 
mittee on the Ministers’ Money (/reland) Bill; ae -_ 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday ‘ a 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second General Board 
reading of the General Board of Health Bill; of Health Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 8th day of June 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 Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented flection 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Expenses. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns from Sheriffs and other Returning 
Officers for Counties and Parliamentary Boroughs 
in Great Britain and Ireland, showing the Charges, 
item by item, made to Candidates by such Sheriffs 
and Returning Officers, in connection with the late 
General Election of Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment; the said Charges, item by item, to be sepa- 
rately, severally, and distinctly enumerated ; with 
the gross Total of each Rill, and also the Proportion 
charged upon each Candidate. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Queen’s Col- 
Return of the Number and Names of Matriculated leges (Ireland.) 
Students on the Books of each of the Queen’s 
Colleges in Jreland, during each of the seven years 
of its existence ; distinguishing the Under-Graduate 
Students of the first, second and third years in each 
case. 


Ordered, That the Board of Trade do present to Railway and 
this House, a Report upon the Railway and Canal Canal Bills. 
Bills of this Session, in compliance with the recom- 
mendation contained in the Fifth Report of the 
Select Committee on Railway and Canal Bills of the 
Session of 1853. 


ill Princess 

Royal’s An- 

nuity Bill. 
Bill 32. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a B 
to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity on Her 
Royal Highness the Princess pass so : And the same 


second time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 
Ordered, 








20 VicrortizZ. 








Fisheries Ordered, That the Paper relative to Fisheries 
(France.) (France), which was presented upon the 21st day 
No. 55. of this instant May, be printed. 

And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Twelve of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till Thursday 

next. 

Jovis, 28° die Maii: 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
_ PRAYERS. 

Cannock M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Mineral Rail- one of the Exammers of Petitions for Private 


Bik (No.1) Bills, in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill. 

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


London Gas- § Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
pm mah se a}. one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the London 
Gas-Light Company (Capital) Bill. 

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


Nene Valley Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Drainage and one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 


oe. respect of non-compliance with the Standin 
— Orders in the case of the Petition for additional 
Provision in the Nene Valley Drainage and Navi- 
gation Improvement Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Conunittee on Standing Orders. 
Metropolitan | Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
Railway ~—s one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; 
(No. 2) Bill. ‘That in the case of the Metropolitan Railway (No. 2) 
Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 
New River Mr. FitzRoy reported the New River Company 
Company Bill. Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Saint Philip's | Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 


Church, = Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool Bill; That they 

Liverpool Bill. had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by omitting 
the 5th paragraph, the substance thereof being stated 
in other parts of the Preamble ; by adding words to 
support a clause introduced in the Bill, requiring 
the Corporation to sell the advowson ; and by other- 
wise verbally amending the same, in order to make 
same an accurate statement of the facts of the case; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Banff, Macduff Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 


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28° Maii. 177 


the Bill pursuant to the Instruction of the House 
of the 19th day of May, proof having been given 
of compliance with the Order of the House of the 
same date with reference to the. said Provision; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the Banff, Po 
Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Bill ; That 204 Strathisla 
the said Bill having been reported from the Com- ®lway Bill 
mittee in the last Session of Parliament, before pro- 
ceedings thereon were suspended under the Standing 
Orders for the suspension of Private Bills of the 
12th March last, and it being proved to the satis- 
faction of the Committee that the deposit with the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland, under Standing 
Order No. 64, had not been withdrawn, the Com- 
mittee had, in terms of the seventh paragraph of the 
said Standing Orders of the 12th March, inserted a 
clause enacting that the Subscription Contracts 
entered into with respect to the undertaking autho- 
rized by the Bill prior to the.last Session of Parlia- 
ment shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed in 
the said last Session. 

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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had sligo Borough 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of the Right honourable John 
Arthur Wynne, relating to the Borough of Sligo, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Maidstone 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Thomas Wells and Thomas 
Standen, relating to the Borough of Maidstone, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had sunderiane 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 

Election Petition of Robert Coxon and James Smith, 

relating to the Borough of Sunderlund, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Maldoa 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of George Montagu Warren Pea- 

coche, relating to the Borough of Maldon, is unob- 
jectionable. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Atlantic 

the Atlantic Telegraph Company Bill, as amended Telegraph 
in the Committee. Company Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Australian 
the Australian Agricultural Company Bill, as ———-. 
amended in the Committee. ompany Bill. 








qd Turritt ~=— Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway 
Railway Bill Bill; That they had made a special inquiry into the 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 





bona fides of the Subscription Contract, and the 
sufficiency of the subscribers, and the same have 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and a clause has been inserted in the Bill, under the 
Standing Orders of the House of the 12th of March, 
enacting that the said Subscription Contract shall be 
as valid as if the Bill had passed in the last Session, 
it having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposits in respect of the Subscription 
Contract have not been withdrawn ; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had made Provision in 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Westminster 
reading of the Westminster Improvements (No. 2) !mprovementes 
Bill ; (No. 2) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Thursday next. 


A Petition of the London Gas-Light Company, London Gas- 
for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating the pay- Light Com- 
ment of Dividends on certain classes of Preference P*°Y (Capita) 
Shares in the London Gas-Light Company, was pre- 

sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on Standing Orders. 





VoL, 112, 





BB2 Mr. 

















Birkenhead 
District Gas 
and Water 
Bill. 




































































Lewes and 
Uckfield Rail- 
vay Bill 


Stratford- 
upon-Avon 
Railway Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group E.) 


Eastern 
Counties Rail- 
way Bill. 


Tilbury, 
Maldon and 
Colchester 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 





Vide Votes, 
and Fighth 
Report. 


Besselsleigh 
Road Bill. 


Bleaching 
Works, 


Divorce Acts, 


178 


Mr. Packe reported from the Committee on Group 
C. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Birken- 
head District Gas and Water Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Biil, but the same had not been proved to their 
satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Trollope reported from the Committee 
on Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill, it was proved 
to the satisfaction of the Committee that the depo- 
sits in respect of the Subscription Contract had not 
been withdrawn ; and they have inserted the clause 
required by the Standing Order of the House of the 
12th day.of March last; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Sir John Trollope reported from the Committee 
on Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bill, it having 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that 
the deposit paid in respect of the Subscription Con- 
tract, in pursuance of the Standing Order, No. 64, 
had not been withdrawn, they had inserted a clause 
in the Bill enacting that such Contract should be as 
valid as if the Bill had passed in the last Session 
of Parliament; 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. 

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


Ordered, That the Committee on Group E. of 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of 
the clock, d ring the sitting of the House. 


The Order, That the Eastern Counties Railway 
Bill be committed, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order, That the Tilbury, Maldon and Col- 
chester Railway Bill be committed, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and ead ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, and 
read ; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Colonel Pennant reported the Besselsleigh Road 
Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Copy of Report of the Com- 
missioner appointed to inquire how far it may be 
advisable to extend the Provisions of the Acts for 
the better regulation of Bleaching Works established 
in certain parts of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, with the Evidence and Ap- 
— which was presented upon the 8th day of 

une 1855, be referred to the Select Committee on 
Bleaching and Dyeing Works. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to He: Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, tl at there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Acts of Parlia- 
ment since the Reformation to the present time, for 
dissolving Marriage, and enabling the Parties to 
marry again; distinguishing the years in which 
such Acts passed. 

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


28° Maiz. 








A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Lord Stanley reported from the Committee on European 
Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 9nd Indian 
European and Indian Junction Telegraph Com- Telegraph 


pany Bill, they had examined the allegations con- Company Bill. 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and verball 

amended the same; and found the same, as amended, 

to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 

made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lord Stanley reported from the Committee on Charing Cross 
Group E. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Bridge Bill. 
Charing Cross Bridge Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
but the same had not been proved to their satis- 
faction. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Poor Relief 
mand,—Copy of Tenth Annual Report of the Com- (Ireland) 
missioners for administering the Laws for the 
Relief of the Poor in Ireland ; with Appendices. 

Mr. oe presented,—Return to an Ad- Court of 

dress to Her Majesty, dated the 10th day of March, Session (Scot- 
in the last Session of Parliament, for Returns of the a.) 
Number of Extra Sittings of the Court of Session in 
Scotland, since the 1st day of January 1840 to the 1st 
day of January 1857, in terms of the Act 2 &amp; 3 Vic. 
c. 36 :—(1.) Of the whole Court or either Division 
thereof; and (2.) Ofall or any of the Lords Ordinary ; 
and by whose directions such Extra Sittings took 
place :—Of the Number of Causes standing in the 
Short Roll of each Division of the Court, and ready 
for Hearing, at the meeting of the Court in Novem- 
ber, during each of the last Ten years :—And, of 
the Number of Cases decided at each of the Extra 
Sittings by each Division and each Lord Ordinary. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- Court of Chan. 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Gene- cery (Ireland.) 
ral Orders in Chancery in Jreland, dated 19th day 
of May 1857. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Tobacco, Tobacco. 
which was presented upon the 25th day of this No, 56. 
instant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Malt, &amp;c., malt, &amp;c. 
which was presented upon the 25th day of this in- No, 57, 
stant May, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to National National 
Collections, which was presented upon the 25th day Collections. 
of this instant May, be printed. No. 58. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Public Public Works 
Works (Jreland), which was presented upon the Ireland.) 
25th day of this instant May, be printed. No. 59. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Public Public Works 
Works Loan Commission, which were presented Loan Com- 


a . mission. 
upon the 25th day of this instant May, be printed. Ne. 60. 


Ordered, That there be laid hefore this House, East India 

a Return showing the Number of Covenanted Civil (Civil Service.) 
Servants of Benga/, Madras, and Bombay, who have 

retired on Annuities, from the Civil Service Annuity 

Fund, of £.1,000 a year, with the maximum and 
minimum period of Service of such Annuitants ; 

and the Number of such Covenanted Servants who 

have retired on Annuities of less than £. 1,000 a 

year; stating, in the latter case, the Amount of 
Annuity which the Retired Officer actually receives, 

and the Number of his years’ Service. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Kerry Writ. 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make outa 
new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire 
to serve in this present Parliament for the County 
of Kerry, inthe room of Henry Arthur Herbert, 
Esquire, who, since his Election for the said County, 
hath accepted the office of Chief Secretary to the 
Lord Lieutenant of Zre/and. 

Ordered, 














Pp» 


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Reading Writ, 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Church Rates, 
&amp;ec. 


China. 


Incumbered 
Estates Court 
(Ireland. ) 


Constabulary 
(Limerick. ) 


Army, &amp;c. 


20 Vicroriz. 


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 Reading, in the room 
of Henry Singer Keating, Esquire, who, since his 
Election for the said Borough, hath accepted the 
office of Her Majesty’s Solicitor General. 


Ordered, That Mr. Pugh have leave of absence 
for three weeks, on account of ill-health. 


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 Return, compiled from Returns before this 
House, of the Amount of Church Rates and other 
Monies received and expended by Churchwardens 
in the years ending Easter 1832, Easter 1839, and 
Easter 1854, respectively; also, an Account of any 
Sum or Sums of Money borrowed under the Provi- 
sions of any Act of Parliament on the security of 
Church Rates, and remaining due on such security, 
in the years 1830 and 1854, respectively. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this eum as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


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 any Correspondence between the 
Foreign Office and the Commercial Association of 
Manchester, relative to Outrages committed on Bri- 
tish Subjects in China, in 1846, 1847 and 1848. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Correspondence between the Lord Chan- 
cellor of Zreland and Mr. Baron Richards, on the 
occasion of the removal of the latter from the office 
of Chief Commissioner of the Incumbered Estates 
Court :—And, of a Letter recently addressed by Mr. 
Baron Richards to the Lord Chancellor of Zreland, 
in relation to certain Arrears of Business in that 
Court. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the date of the first introduction of the 
extra Constabulary Force into the County of Lime- 
rick ; and of the average annual Number of Effec- 
tive men in the County of Limerick Constabulary 
Force, from the said period to the 1st day of March 
1857, actually stationed in that County; and of the 
Amount of annual Payments made by the County 
of Limerick to the Paymaster of Civil Services, or 
otherwise, on account of extra Constabulary Force 
in each year, from the date of the first introduction 
of the said Force to the 1st day of March 1857. 


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 Men of all Ranks 
of the Army from 1828 to 1856-7, both inclusive, 
stating the Numbers in Judia, for Service in the 
Colcnies, and at Home; and the Total Number 
voted, as in Return No. 2, in the Appendix to the 
Report of the Select Committee on Army and Ord- 
nance Expenditure, with the Gross Amount voted 
in each year for the Army Estimates, irrespective 
of Creditsin Aid :—Of the Number of Men voted in 
the same years for Ordnance Services (given in the 
Return No. 47, in the Appendix to the Second Re- 
port of the Select Committee on Army and Ord- 
nance Expenditure), together with the Gross Sums 
voted in each year:—Of the Gross Sums voted 
in each year for the Commissariat, and the Totals 
of the Men voted for the Army and Ordnance 
Services; also the Total of the Sums voted as above, 

VoL. 112. 


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in each year, for Army, Ordnance and Commis- 
sariat :— 


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—And, Similar Return of Men, Boys and Marines 
voted for the Navy, and Gross Sum voted (see Table 
at pages 6 and 7 of Report of the Select Committee 
on Navy, Army and Ordnance Estimates), irrespec- 
tive of Credits in Aid, but deducting the Vote for 
Packets, from the year 1842. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Teens as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s Opium Trade. 
Command,—Papers relating to the Opium Trade 
in China, 1842-1856 (in continuation of Papers on 
the same subject contained in “ Correspondence re- 
lating to China,” presented to Parliament, 1840.) 
. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Enfield 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 11th day of this Factory. 
instant May, for a Return relative to Enfield Fac- No. 62. 


tory. 
—_ to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Ordnance 
21st day of this instant May, for a Return relative Survey 
to Ordnance Survey (Scotland). Guess) 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the tetas 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Cowper presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Edacation. 
mand,—Copy of Minutes of the Committee of Coun- 
cil on Education, Correspondence, Financial State- 
ments, &amp;c., and Reports by Her Majesty’s Inspectors 
of Schools, 1856-7. 
Copy of Minutes of the Committee of Council on 
Education, with Reports by Her Majesty’s Inspec- 
tors of Parochial Union Schools, 1856-7. 
" Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


-- A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Brazil. 
That a Select Committee be appointed to take into 
consideration the relations of this Country with 
Brazil; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Lett. 
Tellers for the (Mr. Roebuck, 
Yeas, Mr. Bramley-Moore : 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, } 
Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave: —_ 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Y 
pit 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Board of 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 4*™iralty- 
into the constitution of the Board of Admiralty, 
with the view of rendering it more efficient, and 
better adapted to the various duties it has to per- 
form ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the (Sir Charles Napier, 7 
Yeas, { Mr. Lindsay : } - 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Hayter, : 
Noes, \ The Earl of Mulgrave: f — 





So it passed in the Negative. 
BB3 A Motios 






























Land Tax. 


Tenant Right 
(Ircland.) 


Medical 

and Surgical 
Sciences 
(Queen’s 
University ) 
(Ireland. ) 


Aggravated 
Assaults 
(Women and 
Children.) 


Scientific 
and Literary 
Societies. 


Ministers’ 
Money 
(Ireland. ) 


Survey 
Branch (War 
Department.) 





180 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
consider the expediency of a more equitable adjust- 
ment of the Land Tax ; also of allowing a further 
redemption of the same ; and whether by any other 
means the Land Tax might be made more bene- 
ficial to the Revenue of the Country, and to the 
Reduction of the National Debt:—And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide Compensation to Tenant Farmers in 
Ireland, for Improvements made by them upon 
Lands in their occupation, and to limit the Power of 
Eviction in certain cases: And that Mr. Moore 
and Mr. Maguire do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for securing the more effectual Promotion of the 
Medical and Surgical Sciences in the Queen's Uni- 
versity in Ireland, by enabling the Ratepayers of 
the Unions of Cork, Belfast and Galway, respec- 
tively, to provide for the enlargement and better 
maintenance of certain Hospitals in the said Cities 
and Towns, and for the further extension of the 
Provisions of the Act of the eighth and ninth years 
of Her present Majesty, to endow new Colleges for 
the advaneement of Learning in Ireland: And that 
Mr. Fagan and Mr. Beamish 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 operation of the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 30, 
for the Punishment of persons convicted of Aggra- 
vated Assaults on Women and Children ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Lett. 

Tellers for the (Viscount Raynham, 

Yeas, { Mr. Bentinck : 


} 84, 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, ly 
J 


Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : a6. 


So it passed in the Negative. 


And the House v5 | continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 29° die Maiti, 1857: 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Act 6 &amp; 7 Vic. c. 36, to exempt 
from County, Borough, Parochial and other Local 
Rates, Land and Buildings occupied by Scientific 
and Literary Societies: And that Mr. Hutt, Lord 
Stanley and Mr. William Ewart do prepare, and 
bring it in, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Houses liable to the pay- 
ment of Ministers’.Money in each of the Cities or 
Boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, 
Drogheda, Kilkenny, Clonmel and Kinsale, under 
the Provisions of the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 11, distin- 
guishing the Number of Houses in each of them 
which are of the rated value of more than £. 10 but 
not more than £.11, of more than £.11 but not 
more than £.12, and so on to the highest value; 
together with the Total Amount of Ministers’ Money 
payable in each of the said Cities or Boroughs, as 
ascertained, approved, and certified under the Pro- 
visions of the said Act. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
osed, That an humble Address be presented to Her 
Jajesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 

directions, that there be laid before this House, a 
Return showing the Names of all Surveyors, Drafts- 
men and Envineers dismissed on the late Reduc- 
tion frem the Survey Branch of the War Depart- 
ment in Great Britain and Ireland, whose period 
of service exceeds Twelve years continuous; the 





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A.1857. Sess. DL. 


Qualifications and Total Number of years’ service 
of each such Officer ; also the Names of such Sur 
veyors, Draftsmen and Engineers as shall have 
been recommended by the respective Officers in 
command for Superannuation, according to Trea- 
sury Minute, 1855-56 :—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Hop Duties, 
to inquire into the ——* of the Excise and Cus- 
toms Duties upon Hops. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sheep, &amp;c. 


reading of the Sheep, &amp;c. Contagious Diseases Pre- ecg 
i iseases Pre- 
vention Bill ; vention Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Joint Stock Companies Bill was, according Joint Stock 


‘to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Companies 


Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 
1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,921,017, be Land Forces. 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£. 1,467,000 already voted on account), towards 
defraying the Charge of the Pay and Allowances of 
Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, 
exclusive of Jndia, which will come in course of 
payment from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st 
day of March 1858, inclusive. 
2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 369,055, be Charge of d°. 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£. 184,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of the Miscellaneous Charges of 
Her Majesty’s Land Forces at Home and Abroad, 
exclusive of India, which will come in course of 
payment from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st 
day of March 1858, inclusive. 
3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 36,282, be Volunteer 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of SPS 
£. 14,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Volunteer Corps in Great 
Britain, which will come in course of payment 
from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 
4. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 122,909, be Secretary of 


granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of — te Wan, 


£. 62,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Cha:ge of the Departments of the Se- 
cretary of State for War, and of the General 
Commanding in Chief, which will come in course 
of payment from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 
dist day of March 1858, inclusive. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Portland | 
reading of the Portland Harbour Bill; ian 
And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 
Sir Charles Wood, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her amie having been 
informed of the amy oa of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 the Cierk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Cinque Ports 
. . war Act Amend- 
into a Committee on the Cinque Ports Act Amend- ont Bill. 
ment Bili; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy re- 
ported, ‘That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 
Ordered, 





Te 


Ee 
Co. 


Sts 


pho 


mee Zz 


onpaey 


Ministers’ 
Money (Ire- 
Jand) Bill. 


Bee 
Royal’s An- 
nuity Bill. 


Medical 

and Surgical 

Sciences 

(Queen’s 

University) 

(Ireland) Bill. 
Bill 33. 


Tenant Right 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 34. 


Ecclesiastical 
Corporations 
Bill, 


Standing 
Orders, 


Rhymney 
Railway Bill. 


90 VicroriZ. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Ministers’ Money (Jredand) Bill; 

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


The Princess Royal’s Annuity Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


Mr. Fagan presented a Bill for securing the more 
effectual Promotion of the Medical and Surgical 
Sciences in the Queen’s University in Zreland, by 
enabling the Ratepayers of the Unions of Cork, 
Belfast and Galway, respectively, to provide for 
the enlargement and better maintenance of certain 
Hospitals in the said Cities and Towns, and for the 
further extension of the Provisions of the Act of the 
eighth and ninth years of Her present Majesty, to 
endow new Colleges for the advancement of Learning 
in Ireland: Aud the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday the 17th day of June next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Moore presented a Bill to provide Compen- 
sation to Tenant Farmers in Ireland for Improve- 
ments made by them upon Lands in their occupa- 
tion, and to limit the Power of Eviction in certain 
cases: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
the 10th day of June next; and to be printed. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Thurs- 
day next, the Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday the 18th day of June next. 


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, 29° die Maii ; 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


C OLONEL.Wilson Patten reported from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, several 
Resolutions ; which were read, as follow : 

1, That in the case of the Rhymney Railway Pe- 
tition for additional Provision, the Standing Orders 


. ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 


Newcastle: 
under-Lyme 
and Leek 
Roads Bill. 


Nene Valley 
Drainage and 
Navigation 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Nene Valley 
Drainage and 
Navigation 

provement 
Bill, 





permitted to introduce their additional Provision ac- 


cordingly, if the Committee on the Bill shall think 


fit. 

2. That in the case of the Newcastle-under- Lyme 
and Leek Roads, Petition from Burslem District 
Local Board of Health, for dispensing with 9th 
Standing Order of 12th March last, and for leave to 
be heard on their Petition against the Bill, the 
Standing Order ought not to be dispensed with. 

3. That in the case of the Nene Valley Drainage 
and Navigation Improvement, Petition of Commis- 
sioners for draining Manea and Welney District, for 
dispensing with 9th Standing Order of 12th March 
last, and for leave to be heard on their Petition 
against the Bill, the Standing Order ought not to 
be dispensed with. 

4. That in the case of the Nene Valley Drainage 
and Navigation Improvement, Petition of Commis- 
sioners for draining Sutton and Mepal District, 
for dispensing with 9th Standing Order of 12th 
March last, and for leave to be heard on their Pe- 
tition against the Bill, the Standing Order ought not 
to be dispensed with. 

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181 


5. That in the case of the Mallow and Fermoy Mallow and 
and Great Southern and Western Railways Petition, ——— 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; ana Western 
pat the Parties be permitted to proceed with their Railways. 

ill. : 

6. That in the case of the Newport, Abergavenny Newport, 
and Hereford Railway, Petition for additional Pro- Abergavenny 


vision, the Standing Orders ought not to be dis- 4 Hereford 


° Rail 
pensed with. cence 


7. That in the case of the Orkney Roads, Petition Orkney 
for additional Provision, the Standing Orders ought Roads Bill. 
to be dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted 
to introduce their additional Provision accordingly, 
if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit. 

8. That in the case of the Keith and Dufftown Keith and 
Railway (No. 2), Petition for additional Provision, — ~ 
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; (No. 2) Bill, 
that the Parties be permitted to introduce their 
additional Provision accordingly, if the Committee 
on the Bill shall think fit. 

9. That in the case of the Tilbury, Maldon and Tilbury, 
Colchester Railway, Petition of Sir Henry B. Paulet Maldon and 
Saint John Mildmay, Baronet, for dispensing with Railway Bill. 
Standing Order 109, and for leave to be heard on 
his Petition against the Bill, the said Standing Order 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties ke 
Naren to be heard on their Petition against the 

ill, notwithstanding the same shall have been 
deposited later than seven clear days after the second 
reading of the Bill. 

10. That in the case of the Zondon Gas-Light London 
Company (Capital) Petition, the Standing Orders See 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be (Capital). 
perwnitted to proceed with their Bill. 

The first, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth 


‘Resolutions, being read a second time, were agreed 


to. 
Ordered;-That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Fraserburgh Harbour Fraserburgh 
Bill, with Amendments. Harbour Bill. 
Ordered, ‘That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr, Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Portsmouth 
Portsmouth Water Bill; That they had examined Water Bill. 
the alleyations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by making alterations to 
show more clearly the constitution of the owners of 
the existing Waterworks, and the district supplied 
by them and to be supplied by the New Company 
incorporated by the bill, and by inserting a state- 
ment of, the agreement entered into for the sale of 
the existing works to the New Company ; and found 
the same, as emended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Slaney River 
Slaney River Improvement Bill ; That they had exa- Improvement 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by inserting a 
statement showing the Capital of the Slaney Navi- 
gation Company; and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Walsh reported from the Committee on Tyne Im- 
Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of the provement 
Tyne Improvement Bill, they had examined the™ 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by omitting those paragraphs 
which related to the removal of a disqualification of 
Commissioners interested in the Northumberland 
Docks, and to the charges proposed to be made 
upon the Tyne Improvement Fund as a collateral 
security, and to the giving of a priority upon the 
funds of the new works to the Northumberland 
Docks Mortgages ; and also by omitting the para- 
graph relating to the rights of various Parties in the 

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soil of the river, which is now unnecessary in con- 
sequence of arrangements as to those rights; and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. ; 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mallow and The House was moved, That the Report from the 

a Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 

and Western the Petition for the Mallow and Fermoy and Great 

Railways. Southern and Western Railways Bill, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to 
dissolve the Mallow and Fermoy Railway Company, 
and to transfer all the Powers of that Company for 
making and maintaining the Mallow and Fermoy 
Railway to the Great Southern and Western Rail- 
way Company: And that Mr. Deasy and Mr. 
Beamish do prepare, and bring it in. 


London Gas- = The House was moved, That the Report from the 
nh nr Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 
ee”) the Petition for the London Gas-Light Company 
(Capital) Bill, might be read ; and the same being 

read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for regulating the Payment of Dividends on certain 
classes of Preference Shares in the London Gas- 
Light Company: And that Sir John Shelley and Mr. 
Hildyard do prepare, and bring it in. 


Public Mr. Gregson reported from the Select Committee 
+ ng Re. On Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
. Petitions presented upon the 25th day of this in- 


t. 
pag stant 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. 
Wublin and The Dublin and Wicklow Railway Bill was read 


Wicklow n the third time. 


ee Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Dumbarton A Motion being made, That the Dumbarton 


—* &amp;c. Water, &amp;c. Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
_ the House may do therein as they shall think 

t. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Great Western The Great Western and Brentford Railway Bill 
Teer tiare Was read the third time. 
wey” Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Islington The Islington Parish Bill was read the third time. 
Parish Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Briton Ferry | The House proceeded to take into consideration 


Docks Bill the Briton Ferry Docks Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


ary we City _ The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Gas prea the Glasgow City andSuburban Gas Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Glasgow Gas 
the Glasgow Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- Bil. 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Kidsgrove 
the Kidsgrove Market Bill, as amended in the Market Bill 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Saint Helen's 
the Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Bill, as Canaland 
amended in the Committee. Railway Bill, 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Scottish 
the Scottish Central Railway Bill, as amended in Central Rait. 
the Committee. radians 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Waterford 
the Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill, as 804 Tramore 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment *#!¥sy Bill 
was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Oxford City 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of William Herbert, James 
Pike, Frederick J. Morell, James Watson, Alfred 
G. Holmes, Joseph Taylor and William Thompson, 
relating to the City of Oxford, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Tewkesbury 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Hlection. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Edward Moore and Joseph 
Knight, relating to the Borough of Tewkesbury, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Lanarkshire 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election, 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of George Vere Irving, relating 
to the County of Lanark, is cnshjectionalile 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Bury Election. 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
ag stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of John Walker and Richard 
Hacking, relating to the Borough of Bury, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Mr. Wrightson reported from the Committee on Wilmslow 
Group K. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 4 fasion 
Wilmslow and Lawton Road Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and verbally amended the same; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Wrightson reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group K. of Private Bills; That for the conve- (Group &amp;) 
nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned to 
Monday the 8th of June, at Twelve o’clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. siemapente 
Vide Eighth 
Report. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Leeds 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 Leeds, in the room 


of Robert Hall, Esquire, deceased. 
Resolved, 


bet weet 


—)| 











; Divorce 
(Scotland. ) 


Cheese. 


) Savings 
' Banks. 


Election 
Expenses. 


Army 
Promotions. 


Barracks, &amp;c. 





20 VicToRIZ. 


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 Return of the Number of Decrees of Di- 
vorce @ vinculo malrimonit in Scotland during the 
last Ten years, distinguishing whether the Suit was 
promoted by Husband or Wife. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Quantities of Cheese imported into 
the several Ports of Great Britain, in each Menth 
of the vear 1856; distinguishing the European, 
United States and Colonial Produce; and of all 
European Cheese, exclusive of British Cheese, ex- 
ported from England in the year 1856 (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 249, of Session 
1856). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return showing whether any, and, if any, what De- 
falcations have been discovered to have taken place 
in Savings Banks, since the 1st day of July 1851 ; 
together with Copies of any Correspoudence in re- 
lation thereto, between the Trustees and Managers 
of such Savings Banks and the Commissioners for 
Reduction of the National Debt. 


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 Return from each Election Auditor of the 
Total Amount of the audited Expenses incurred 
by each Candidate to serve as a Member in the 
present Parliament, especially distinguishing the Ex- 
penses, if any, of conveying Electors to the Poll ; 
the Number and Expenses of the Polling-places, 
and of Rooms engaged as Committee-rooms ; the 
Number and Expenses of Election Agents, Com- 
mittee-men, Clerks, Messengers, Paid Canvassers, 
and others; the Expenses of printing Addresses, 
Placards and Advertisements; setting forth, also, 
the Total Number of Voters on the Registry, and 
the Total Number of Votes polled for each Can- 
didate. 

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. 


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 Return of the Names of all Non-commis- 
sioned Officers of the Army who were promoted to 
Commissions while serving in the Field with the 
Army of the East, between the Ist day of May 1854 
and the Ist day of August 1856; stating the Regi- 
ment to which they belonged, and the Regiment or 
Corps to which they were promoted ; and specifying 
if they received Appointments as Adjutants or 
ane, and if now serving on Full or Half- 

ay. 

Uirdered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members cf this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


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 Return of the several Barracks and En- 
campments occupied by Troops on the Ist day of 
January 1857, with the Number of Rank and File 
they a:e each calculated to contain; showing, in a 
Tabular Form, if the Barrack-rooms and Passages 
are lighted with Gas; if separate Quarters are pro- 
vided for Married Private Soldiers, as di-tinguished 
from Families in Barrack-rooms ; if Ovens, or means 
of Roasting 


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183 
Ovens for instructing Soldiers in baking Bread are 
attached ; if Fives Courts, Skittle-grounds, or the 
means of practising Gymnastic Exercises, are pro- 
vided for Soldiers ; if any Cricket-ground is attached 
to the Station or provided at the Expense of Go- 
vernment ; and also the Amount of Accommodation 
for Libraries and Reading Rooms in each Barrack : 


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Ordered, That the said Address be —— to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Exchequer, 
Accounts of Balance of Votes unissued from the &amp;c. 


Exchequer on the 31st day of March 1857 :—Of 
the Cash Balances at the credit of the several Votes 
of Parliament, and other Accounts in the Pay- 
master’s Books on the 31st day of March 1857 :— 
Return of the Votes under the head of Miscellaneous 
Estimates; specifying each on which there is a Sur- 
plus of Money voted, and setting forth the different 
years in which the accumulation of unexpended 
but unappropriated Money has arisen, to be made 
up to the 31st day of March 1857 :—Balances on 
the Miscellaneous Deposit Funds in the hands of 
the Paymaster General on the 31st day of March 
1857 :—And, Account of all Monies received by the 
Paymaster General, except such as were drawn from 
the Exchequer, orwere Repayments of Monies issued 
for Services from the Exchequer, for the year 
1856-57 (in continuation of Accounts printed in 
Report of Public Monies Committee). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Constabulary 
Return of the Date of the first introduction of the Force 
Extra Constabulary Force into the County of Water- (Waterford. ) 


ford ; and of the Average Annual Number of Effec- 
tive Men in the County of Waterford Constabular 
Force, from the said period to the 1st day of Mare 
1857, actually stationed in that County ; and of the 
Amount of Annual Payments made by the County 
of Waterford to the Paymaster of Civil Services or 
otherwise, on account of Extra Constabulary Force, 
in each year from the date of the first introduction 
of the said Force to the Ist day of March 1857. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Letter addressed by Mr. Chief 
Justice Draper to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, bearing date the 6th day of May 
1857; together with a hom of the Memorandum 
therein referred to, relative to the Hudson’s Bay 
Company. 

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. 


mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by striking out, 
hecause it did not appear expedient to them to 





ure provided in the Kitchens; and if 


sanction the rate of Interest, the words “‘ and bear 
Interest at the rate of Five pounds per centum per 

2? 6 . ° ” “cy; = ”? 
principal ;” and “ interest ;” and found 





annum ; 
the 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hudson’s Bay 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Co™P@"Y- 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee on Mansfield 
Group G. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 24 hh gu 
Mansfield and Worksop Road Bill, they had exa- —"""~ ” 


Private Bills 
(Group G.) 


Liverpool 
Town Dues, 
&amp;c. 


Scientific 
and Literary 
Societies Bill. 


Bill 35. 


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the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee 
on Group G. of Private Bills; ‘That, for the con- 
venience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned to 
Friday the 5th of June, at Twelve o'clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, Tliat there be laid before this House, 
Returns from the Town of Liverpool of earliest Ta- 
riff of Town Dues, including Anchorage :—Of pre- 
sent Tariff of ditto, and any other Taritls used from 
time to time :—Of Changes made in the Tariff from 
time to time, either by way of Imposition of new 
Items, or Abolition of old Items, or by way of Aug- 
mentation or Reduction of, or Composition for, Dues 
previously levied, with the Date of each Change, 
and the Authority by which it was made :—Copies 
of any Tables or Lists in the possession of the Cor- 
poration, which have been at any time used by the 
Corporation, as containing the Tariff of Town Dues, 
with their respective Dates :—Retura of Amount of 
Town Dues for each year, from the time they were 
first received by the Corporation, or from the earliest 
Date at which the Return can be furnished, to the 
present time :—Accounts of the various Amounts 
spent by the Corporation from time to time on Ship- 
ping purposes since they first received Town Dues, 


giving for each Item so spent, the Date; a full and | 


explicit Description of the Shipping purpose to 
which it has been applied; the Authority under 
which it has been expended; in cases where such 
Expenditure has produced any Return, the Amount 


of such Return, whether in the shape of Annual or | 


Temporary Receipts, or of Purchase Money, or both, 
or otherwise :—Of the Amount of the Debt now 
charged directly or collaterally on the Borough Fund, 
giving the Date at which each Portion of the Debt 
was contracted; the Purpose for which it was 
contracted ; the Authority under which it was con- 
tracted; the Terms on which it was contracted :— 
Return of the Quantity of Land reclaimed from the 
Mersey by the Expenditure of Monics belonging to 
the Dock Estate, and claimed by the Corporation 
as their Property, and an Account of any subse- 
quent Grants or Sales of any such Land, giving, in 
the case of each Grant or Sale, the Date of the 
Transaction; the Party to whem such Land was 
granted or sold; the Quantity, Description and 
Situation of the Land granted or sold; the Price or 
Consideration (if any) paid or given by the Dock 
Estate; the Mode in which the Price (if any) was 
determined ; the Authority, whether by Act of Par- 
liament or otherwise, under which the Grant or Sale 
was made; to be accompanied by a Map, showing 
the original and present condition of the Land so 
granted or sold:—Accounts of all Purchases by the 
Corporation of Land on the Cheshire side of the 
Mersey, giving in each case the Date of the Pur- 
chase; the Parties from whom the Purchase was 
made; the Quantity, Description and Situation of 
the Land purchased ; the Price given ; to be accom- 


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panied by a Map, showing the Situation of the | 


Land :—And, of all Sales or Leases by the Corpora- 
tion of Liverpool of Land on the Cheshire side of 


the Mersey, giving in each case the Date of the} 


Sale or Lease; the Parties to whom the Sale or 
Lease was made; the Quantity, Deseription and 
Situation of the Land sold or leased; in case of a 
Lease, the Term for which leased, the Price, Rent 
or other Consideration received ; to be accompanied 
by a Map, showing the Situation of the Land. 


Mr. ZZuté presented a Bill to amend the Act 6 &amp; 7 
Vic, c.36, to exempt from County, Borough, Pa- 
rochial and other Local Rates, Land and Buildings 
occupied by Scientific and Literary Societies: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 





A.1857. Sess. II. 


be read a second time upon Wednesday the 10th 
day of June next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Marsh have leave of absence Leave of 
for three weeks, on account of ill health. bsence. 


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


Ordered, That upon Thursday the 18th day of Public 
June next, and upon every succeeding Thursday Business. 
during the present Session, Government Orders of 
the day shall have precedence of Notices of Motions. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Newcastle. 

this day received a Letter from Messrs. Baxter, Rose ee seme 
~. : : * poise Election. 
and Norton, as Agents for John Riley, Esquire, Pe- 
titioner against the Return for the Borough of New- 
castle-under-Lyme, informing him that it is not in- 
tended to proceed with either of the Petitions of the 
said John Riley, Esquire :— And the said Letter was 
read, as followeth : 
3, Park-street, Westminster, 8. W. 
Sir, 29 May 1857. 

As Agents for John Riley, Esquire, in the matter 
of his Petitions, delivered in on the 21st day of 
May instant, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 
we beg to inform you that it is not intended to pro- 
ceed with the said Petitions, or either of them. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Baxter, Rose and Norton. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, 
The Order for veferring the said Petitions to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


A Petition of the Newry, Warrenpoint and Ros- Newry, | 

trevor Railway Company, praying that Provision W@trenpoint 
2 : ee ° and Rostrevor 

may be made in the Newry, Warrenpoint and Ros- Railway Bill. 

trevor Railway Bill, for altering the Line affecting 

the Junction between the Newry, Warrenpoint and 

Rostrevor Railway, and the Mewry and Enniskillen 

Railway, was presented, and read; and referred to 

the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Massey presented,— Return to an Address to Ecclesiastical 
Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of this instant Commission 
May, for a Return relative to the Ecclesiastical Com- ay 
mission (Jreland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 21st day of this Police 
instant May, for a Return relative to Police (Zre- “teland) 
land), 

ee That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Income Tax. 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 10th day of February, in the last Session 
of Parliament, for a Return showing the Number of 
Persons charged to the Income Tax for the years 
ended the 5th day of April 1855 and 1856, under 
Schedule (D.) ; distinguishing the Number charged 
in each of the following Classes: viz., under £.100 
a year; £.100 and under £.150a year; £.150 a year 
and under £.200; £.200 and under £.300; £.300 
and under £.400; £.400 and under £.500; £.500 
and under £.600; £.600 and under £.700; £.700 
and under £.800; £.800 and under £.900; £.960 
and under £.1,000; £.1,000 and under £.2,000; 
£.2,009 and under £.3,000; £.3,000 and under 
£.4,000 ; £.4,000 and under £.5,000; £.5,000 and 
under £.10,000; £.10,000 and under £. 50,000 ; 
£.50,000 and upwards; and the Amounts of Tax 
received from each Class :—Similar Return under 
Schedule (E.), to £5,000 a year and upwards :— 
Return showing the Net Amount of Property and 
Income Tax fur the same years, classed under the 

several 








Forei gn 
Shipping. 


East India 
(Nawab of 
Surat.) 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty. 


Loan Societies. 


Local Acts. 
No. 26. 


Spirit Licenses 
(Ireland.) 


No. 61. 


Mercantile 
Marine Fund. 


No. 64, 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land.) 


No. 65. 
Princess 


Royal’s An- 
nuity Bill. 


Supply. 





20 Vicroriaz. 


several Schedules (in continuation of Parliamentary 


94°— 30° Marz. 





185 


3. £.278,570 (in addition to the Sum of £.140,000 


Paper, No. 313, of Session 1856) :—And, similar | already voted on account), for Clothing and Neces- 


Return for Zreland. 

Return to an Order, dated the 14th day of this | 
instant May, for a Return relative to Foreign 
Shipping. 

Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this | 
instant May, for a Return relative to East India 
(Nawab of Surat). 

Return to an Order, dated the 19th day of this 
instant May, for a Return relative to Queen Anne's 
Bounty. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table | 
by the Clerk of the House,—Abstract of Accounts 
of Loan Societies in England and Wales, to the 3ist 
December 1857; by John Tidd Pratt, Esquire, the 
Barrister appoirited to certify the Rules of Savings 


Banks. 


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty re- 
lative to applications for Local Acts. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirit Li- 
censes (Jreland), which was presented upon the 
10th day of Juiy 1856, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Mer- 
cantile Marine Fund, which was presented upon 
the 14th day of this instant May, be printed. 


Ordercd, That the Return relative to the Court 
of Session (Sevtland), which was presented upon 
the 28th day of this instant May, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Princess Royal’s Annuity 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cravuse, N° 1 (Her Majesty empowered to grant 
an Annuity of £.8,000 to Her Royal Highness the 
Princess Royal for her life). 

Amendwent proposed, at the end of the Clause, to 
add the words, ‘* Provided, however, that in the 
“event of Her Royal Highness becoming Queen 
“ Consort of Prussia, the said Annuity shall be and 
“ remain suspended from the date of the accession 
“of His Royai Highness Prince Lrederic William 
“ of Prussia to the throne of Prussia, so long as 
“ Her Roval Highness shall remain such Queen 
“ Consort.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendmeut, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, 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 
upon Thursday next. - 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £. 251,238 (in addition to the Sum of £.125,000 
already voted on account), fur Manufacturing De- 
partments, Military Storekeepers, Barrack Masters, 
&amp;e. 

2. £.221,868 (in addition to the Sum of £.111,000 
already voted on account’, for Wages of Artificers, 
Labonrers, &amp;e. 





Vou. 112. 


saries. 

4, £.636,900 (in addition to the Sum of £.319,000 
already voted on account), for Provisions, Forage, 
Fuel and Light, Barrack Furniture, Bedding, &amp;e. 

5. £.400,191 (in addition to the Sum of £.199,000 
already voted on account), for Warlike Stores for 


' Land and Sea Service. 


6. £.163,133 (in addition to the Sum of £.82,000 
already voted on account), for Fortifications at Home 
and Abroad. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 30° die Maii, 1857 : 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

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

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Ministers’ 

into a Committee on the Ministers’ Money (Jre- ey (Tre- 
; . : and) Bill. 

land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, ‘That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Savings Banks Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, ‘hat the Bill be withdrawn. 


Savings Banks 
Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Resolution which, Savings Banks 
upon the 12th day of this instant May, was reported (No-2-) 
from the Committee on Savings Banks, might be 
read; and the same was read, as followeth : 

That it is expedient to amend the Laws re- 
lating to Savings Banks, and to provide for the 
Kstablishment of Savings Banks with the Security 
of the Government. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and to 
provide for the Establishment of Savings Banks 
with the Security of the Government: And that the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do 
prepare, and bring it m. 


The Cinque Ports Act Amendment Bill was, Cinque Ports 

according to Order, read the third time. Act — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —— 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankruptey 
mitiee on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zreland) #04 Insolvency 
Bill : -* (Ircland) 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, upon Friday next, 
reso've itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Commissary 
cc2 Courts (Scotland.) 





Duchy of 
Lancaster. 


Hop Duties. 


Turnpike 
Trusts 

Abolition 
(Treland.) 


Protection 
of Female 
Children and 
Idiots. 


Wrought Iron 
Gun, &amp;c. 


186 99°—30° Mair. A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Courts in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Joint Stock 
Companies Act, 1856, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Act :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to 
move the House, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bill to amend the Joint Stock Companies Act, 
1856. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. FitzRoy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856 :— 
And he moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Lowe and Mr. 
Wilson do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Petition of Mr. Francis Robert 
Bertolacci, Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 
praying the House to appoint a Select Committee 
to inquire into the statements set forth in his Pe- 
tition, presented upon the 19th day of this instant 
May, be printed :—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


The Select Committee on Hop Duties was no- 
minated of Mr. Dodson, Viscount Pevensey, Mr. 
Wykeham Martin, Mr. Beresford Hope, Sir Edward 
Dering, Mr. Bass, Mr. Hanbury, Sir John Shelley, 
Mr. John Locke, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
Mr. Brand, Mr. Beach, Mr. Ball, Mr. Blakemore, 
and Mr. Knight; 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 discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turnpike 
Roads now existing in /reland, and to provide for 
the Maintenance of such Roads as Public Roads, 
and for the Discharge of the Debts due thereon, 
and for other purposes relating thereto: And that 
Mr. Attorney General for Jreland and Mr. Massey 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the Law for the Protection of young Fe- 
males, and of Females of unsound mind: And that 
Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Clive and Mr. Warren 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Correspondence which has taken 
place between the War Department and the Mersey 
Stee. and Iron Company on the subject of the 
13-inch Wrought Iron Gun manufactured by them, 
and presented to Her Majesty’s Government :—Of 
Correspondence which has taken place between the 
War Department and other Manufacturers of 
Wrought Iron Ordnance :—And, Amount of Public 
Money paid to Private Manufacturers for Experi- 
ments in the Construction, or attempted Construc- 
tion, of Wrought or Cast [ron Ordnance; with 





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Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Bill to discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turn- i 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased pike Roads now existing in Ireland, and to provide (ireland) Bill. 





Particulars of the Amount paid to each Firm or 
Private Individual, during the last Five years. 

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 being put, Ecclesiastical 
That there be laid before this House, Returns of pe 
the Revenues derived from Lands by the Arch- “telan4.) 
bishops and Bishops of Ireland, distinguishing the 
Amount received from Rents and the Amount re- 
ceived from Fines, and the Gross and Net Amounts ; 
the Number of Acres of Land from which the Rents 
and Fines are derived ; the Average Vaiue per Acre 
of those Lands, and Total Value: —Of the Re- 
venues derived from the Lands of the Church in the 
hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, dis- 
tinguishing Rent and Fines, and stating to what ex- 
tent Perpetuities have been granted under the Act 
3 &amp; 4 Will. 4:—Of the Number of Acres of Eccle- 
siastical Lands in the hands of the Commissioners :-— 

Of what Leases have been made in Perpetuity by 
Archbishops and Bishops, under the Act 3&amp; 4 Will. 4, 


/c. 37:—Otthe Number of Acres of Church Lands in 


Ireland, whether held by the Archbishops and 
Bi-hops, or by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners :— 
Of the Rents and Fines of all such Lands now pay- 
able :—Of the Actual Value per Acre of all such 
Lands, and of the Total Value :—Of the Total Eccle- 
siastical Tithes of Zreland, as now payable under the 
last Commutation Act :— Of the Total Lay Tithes of 
Ireland :—And, of the Value of Church Leases for 
Twenty-one Years, as ascertained from Sales in the 
Court of Chancery and Incumbered Estates Courts, 
in Years’ Purchase :—It passed in the Negative. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Copy of all Letters, or L’xtracts from Letters, relating (Torture.) 
to Cases of alleged Torture in Zndia, which have 
been received by the Court of Directors of the East 
India Company, since the 12th day of September 
1855; together with a Copy of any Instructions 
issued by the Court of Directors of the East India 
Company, on the same subject. 


Lord Robert Grosvenor presented a Bill to extend Protection 
the Law for the Protection of young Females, and ef Female 
of Females of unsound mind: And the same was faiots Bill. 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read asecond pi) 36. 


time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Savings Banks 
to amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks, and (N°. 2) Bill. 
to provide for the Establishment of te Banks _ Bill 37. 
with the Security of the Government: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented a Bill to amend the Joint Joint Stock 
Stock Companies Act, 1856: And the same was yen enrol 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second — Bil. 


time upon Thursday next ; and to be printed. Bill 38. 


Mr. Attorney General for Zreland presented a Turnpike 


for the Maintenance of such Roads as Public Roads, _ pjj) 39, 
and for the Discharge of the Debts due thereon, 
and for other purposes relating thereto: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Thursday 
next. 








Lisburn 
Election. 


Bury Saint 
Edmund's 
Election. 


Newport 
Election. 


Beverley 
lection. 


Taunton 
Election. 


Bodmin 
Election. 


Weymouth 
and Melcombe 
Regis Election. 


Galway Town 
Election. 


Bath Election. 


Maldon 
Election. 


Lanarkshire 
Election. 





20 Vicroriz. 


Jovis, 4° die Junii; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M* Speaker acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Report from the Ex- 
aminer of Recognizances, stating that the Recog- 
nizance to the Election Petition of John Coulson, 
James Ward and James Bolton, relating to the 
Borough of Lisburn, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 


4° Junii. 





187 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Weymouth 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of #14 Melcombe 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to nes 
the Election Petition of James Dunning Harvey, 

Thomas Shields and John Lee, junior, relating to 
the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Bridport 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of “®*%°™ 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of William Unwin Heygate, 
relating to the Borough of Bridport, is unobjec- 
tionable. 





Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of James Henry Porteus Oakes, 
relating to the Borough of Bury St. Edmund, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Ipswich 
‘this day received a Report from the Examiner of “ction. 
| Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
| the Election Petition of Henry John Selwia, relating 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had | to the Borough of Zpswich, is unobjectionable. 


this day received a Report from the Examiner of | 


Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to | 
the Election Petition of Henry John Turner, James 

George and John Lock, relating to the Borough of | 
Newport, Isle of Wight, is anobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of William Wells, relating to 
the Borough cf Beverley, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of James Hallend, James Bil- 
lings and William Mordle, relating to the Borough 
of Taunton, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Henry Dann and Richard 
Marks, relating to the Borough of Bedmin, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of George Medd Butt, relating 
to the Borough ot Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 
is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 


Mr. Speaker also acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Report from the Examiner 
of Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Henry Orford, William 


Mumford and Henry Gallant Bristo, relating to 
the Borough of Zpswich, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Falkirk 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of William Forbes and James 
Russell, junior, relating to the Burghs of Falkirk, 
Airdrie, Hamilton, Lanark and Linlithgow, is un- 
objectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the Honse, That he had Sligo County 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Dominick M‘Donough, 

John Brihany and Patrick M‘Viffe, relating to the 
County of Sligo, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Huntingdon 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of ewe 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to , 
the Election Petition of Charles Lewin and Jonathan 
Rogers, relating to the County of Huntingdon, is 
unobjectionable. 

Mr. Speaker also acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Report from the Examiner 
of Recognizances, s‘ating that the Recugnizance to 
the Election Petition of John Mayer Heathcote, re- 
lating to the County of Huntingdon, is unobjection- 
able. 





Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Patrick Gunney and An- 
drew Lynch, relating to the Town of Galway, is un- | 
objectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House. That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of | 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to | 
the Election Petition of Arthur Edwin Way, relat- 
ing to the City of Bath, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to’! 
the Election Petition of Stephen Clarke, junior, Wil- 
liam Gepp and Samuel Spurgeon, relating to the 
Borough of Maldon, is unobjectionable. 

Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had | 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of | 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to | 
the Election Petition of Alexander Dundas Ross 
Wishart Baillie Cochrane, relating to the Shire of, 
Lanark, is unobjectionable. | 

Von. 112. 


, Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Peterborough 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 


' the Election Petition of George Hammond Whalley, 


relating to the City of Peterborough, is unobjec- 
tionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Queen's 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of ere 
the Election Petition of Robert Hamilton Stubber, 
Edmund Staples and Thomas Mara Kilroake, relat- 
ing to the Queen’s County, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Portsmouth 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Thomas Ellis Owen, relating 
to the Borough of Portsmouth, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Ipswich 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of #!ection- 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of William Bransby Faier and 

cco3 William 





Chatham 
Election. 


Lymington 
Election. 


Sandwich 
Election. 


Bridport 
Election. 


Gloucester 


City Election. 


Newcastle. 
under-Lyme 
Election. 


Stafford 
County 
(Northern 
Division ) 
Election. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Totnes 
Election. 


Athlone 
Election. 


Sligo Borough 


Election. 


188 


William Green, relating to the Borough of Ipswich, 
is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Thomas Beveridge and Natha- 
niel Elgar Toomer, relating to the Borough of 
Chatham, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the- House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Matthew Martin and John 
Gatrell, relating to the Borough of Lymington, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of John Reynolds and John Ralph, 
relating to the Borough of Sandwich, is unobjection- 
able. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of George Balson, John Greenham 
and George Francis Roberts, relating to the Borough 
of Bridport, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Geo ge Eycott and James Haines, 
relating to the City of Gloucester, is unobjectionable. 

Mr. Speaker also acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Report from the Examiner 
of Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition ot William Morgan Meyler 
and Powell Chandler, relating to the City of Glou- 
cester, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Levi Watkin and James Fox, 
relating to the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 
is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 


this day received a Report from the Examiner of 


Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of James Fox and Thomas Knight, 
junior, relating to the Northern Division of the 
County of Séafford, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Richard Ferrier and Edward 
Harbord Lushingion Preston, relating to the Bo- 
1ough of Great Yarmouth, is wiobjectionable. 


Mr, Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recoguizance to the 
Election Petition of James Thompson Mackenzie, 
relating to the Borough of Totnes, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Kdward Hodson and Robert 
English, relating to the Borough of Athlone, is un- 
objectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 





4° Junu. - 


A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


Election Petition of William Clarke and Thomas 
Reed Wilson, relating to the Borough of Sligo, is 
unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Clare 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Flection. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Sir John Forster Fitz Gerald, 
relating to the County of Clare, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Berwick- 
this day received a Report from the Examiner —w 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the ~~“ _ 
Election Petition of Charles William Gordon, com- 
plaining of the Election of John Stapleton for the 
Town of Berwich-upon- Tweed, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Leitrim 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Francis La Touche and Hugh 
Moore, relating to the County of Leitrim, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Dover 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Frederick Hammond and Wil- 
liam Clayton, relating to the Town and Port of 
Dover, is unobjectionable. 


Mr, Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Finsbury 
this day reccived a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Willicm Tyler, William Mills 
Robinson, George Benneti aid Joseph Hide, relating 
to the Borough of Finsbury, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Aduir reported from the Committee on Railway and 
Group 9 of Railway and Canal Bills; That The —_ a 
O’ Donoghue, one of the Members of the said Com- (GFP *-) 
mittee, was not present during the sitting of the 
Committee this day. 

Ordered, That The O’Donoghoe do attend the 


said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 





A Motion being made, That the Atlantic Tele- Atlantic 
| graph Company Bill be now read the third time ; ne ae 
| Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty's Command, ac- ~P"Y 
| quaiuted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
| informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 Bi!l do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Australian Agricultural Company Bill was Australian 
read the third time. —. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. — 
Ordered, ‘Vhat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Cardigan Markets and Im- Cardigan 
provement Bill be re-committed to the former Com- Markets and 


i I ent 
mittee. — 


The Ilouse proceeded to take into consideration Cork Gas 


the Cork Gas Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Hfouse proceeded to take into considera- Great 
tion the Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier Bill, as — 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment pier Bill 
was made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Mayor's hey 
the Mayor's Court of the City of London Bill, as of the City 0 
. ’ : London Bill. 
amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 





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T . 9 ef 
20 Vicrori@. A? Suniz. 189 
North Eastern The House proceeded to take into consideration | Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had, Lisburn 
ot 9 a the North Eastern and Hartlepool Dock and Rail-|on the Ist day of this instant June, received a Election. 
Railway Com. way Companies Amalgamation Bill, as amended in Letier from Jonathan Richardson, squire, inform- 
panies Amal. the Committee. ing him that it is not his intention to defend his 


gamation Bill. ~~ dered, That the Bill be read the third time. Return for the Borough of Lisburn :—Ani the said 


. The H led k ; Letter was read, as followeth : 

North Eastern 1e House proceeded to take into consideration | : 

® ‘ y . . . Sip 4 7 y &amp; "a ad, J 57. 

we pin, the North Eastern Railway (Capital) Bill, as, wir, a “ ere: wired eet t 

(AG) SO led in the Commie. | I beg to inform you that it is not my intention to 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. defend my Election or Return for the Borough of 


| Lisburn. 
Portsmouth Ordered, That the Portsmouth Railway Bill, as | I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Railway Bill. amended in the Committee, be taken into considera- | Your very obedient servant, 
tion To-morrow. Jonathan Richardson. 
_ To the Right honourable the Speaker 
— The House proceeded to take into consieration | of the House of Commons. 


; » the Tralee and Kiliarney Railway Bill, as amended | a ' 
Railway Bill. in the Geanmaltins y y . ’ Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had, Newcastle- 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time _on the 1st day of this instant June, received a Letter _— 
. ‘from James Coppock, Esquire, as Agent for Levi “*° = 
Metropolitan The Metropolitan Railway (No. 2) Bill was read Vathen and James Fox, in the matter ot their Petition 
Railway _ a second time: and committed. against the Return of Samuel Christy, Esquire, for the 
(No. 2) Bill. : Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, informing him 
Westminster The Order of the dey being read, for the second | that it is not intended to proceed with the said Pe- 


Improvements reading of the Westminster Improvements (No. 2) | tition :—And the said Letter was read, as followeth : 
(No. 2) Bill. Bill: 
? 





| Sir, 40, Parliament-street, June Ist, 1857. 
As Agent for Levi Watkin and James Foz, in 
the matter of their Petition, presented the 21st May 
aa : ; os _. 1857, against the Return of Samuel Christy, Es- 
| soe Or dered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill quire, for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1 beg to inform 
(No. 3.) for facilitating Leases and Sales of Lands mortgaged | you that it is not intended to proceed with the said 
by the Westminster Improvement Commissioners, | Petition. 
and tor Appointment of Managers to wind up the I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Affairs of the Commission, and for other purposes : | Your very obedient servant, 
And that Mr. Mackinnon and Mr. Bulkeley Hughes | James Coppock. 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


| To the Right honourable the Speaker 
| of the House of Commons. 


London il » reoulatine ivi Ss : ‘ ‘ — 
Gas-Light a deeb scare ~~ ll, i gg The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
Company ' ” i i General Committee of Elections, was read, and 


(Capital) Bill. don Gas-Light Company, was read the first time ; 


and ordered to be read a second time. | discharged 
pean | Si . | Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had, Stafford 
see ro" A Bill to dissolve the Mallow and Fermoy Rail- | on the at én of this instant June, received a Letter County 
Great Southern WaY Company, and to transfer all the Powers of y, ; ? (Northern 


from James Coppock, Esquire, as Agent for James jivision) 
Fox and Thomas Knight, junior, in the matter of Election. 
their Petition against the Return for the Northern 
Division of the County of Stafford, informing him 
that it is not intended to proceed with the said Pe- 


and Western that Company for making and maintaining the Ma/- 

Railways Bill. (ow and Fermoy Railway to the Great Southern and 
Western Railway Company, was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


e . “y iti °- ra i 4 Ss l $ 
oa ~ Mr. Adair reported from the Committee on Group | Cian c-— AE SEA SANS ARN EEN 
Pe say "re 9 of Railway and Canal Bills; That the Parties’ Sir, 40, Parliament-street, June 1st, 1857. 


(Bridgewater promoting the North Staffordshire Railway (Bridge-| As Agent for James Fox and Thomas Knight, 

Canals) Bill. qwater Canals) Bill had stated to the Committee, junior, in the matter of their Petition, presented the 
that it was not their intention to proceed with the 21st May 1857, against the Return for the Northern 
same. | Division of the County of Stafford, | beg to form 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; you that it is not intended to proceed with the said 

and be printed. | Petition. 

I have the honour to be Sir, 

oa Sussex Sir John Trollope reported from the Committee | Your very obedient servant, 

ode Group 5 of Railway Bills; That in the case of | James Coppock. 

the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill, the Committee, in pur- To the Right honourable the Speaker 
suance of the Resolutions of the Standing Orders, _f the House of Commons. 
Committee of the 10th of March last, have inquired! The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
into a compliance with the Standing Orders therein; General Committee of Elections, was read, and 
directed to be inquired into by the Committee; and discharged. 
they have to report, that the same have been duly 
complied with, and such compliance proved totheir; The Right honourable Sir William Meredyth Controverted 
satisfaction ; that they had examined the allegations Somerville, Baronet, the Right honourable Spencer "!¢ctions. 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended | Horatio Walpole, Colonel John Wilson Patten, Sir 
the same, by striking out so much thereof as related , William Heathcote, Baronet, William Miles, Es- 
to the construction of the Branch Railway from the | quire, and John Bonham-Carter, Esquire, the Mem- 
Town of Billingshurst to the Town of Petworth, and | bers appointed by Mr. Speaker to serve on the 
inserting in lieu thereof a Branch from Pulborough General Committee of Elections, and not objected to 
to Coultershaw Mill, in the Parish of Petworth, in| by the House, were sworn at the Table by the 


order to make it consistent with the Provisions of the | Clerk. 
Billas passed by the Committee ; and found thesame,| Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through the | this day, during the sitting of the House. 


Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. | Ordered, That the Corrected Alphabetical List 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; | of Members to serve on Election Committees be 
and be printed. referred to the Committee. 
Vou. 112. cc4 The 

































































renee rmeenen, eee tere Se ALE ARG OIE LAS CON AERA OI a eS SS SRS eee eee 
eencomp onemonne am ar pean eneanits = 


Norwich 
and Spalding 
Railway Bill. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 4.) 


190 


The Order, That the Norwich and Spalding Rail- 
way Bill be committed, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Earl of March reported from the Committee 
on Group 4 of Railway Bills; That the Parties 
promoting the Southampton, Bristol and South 
Wales Railway Bill, had stated that the evidence of 
John James Iselin, George Julius Virtue and George 
Mills was essential to enable them to establish their 
case; and it having been proved that their attendance 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


for Returns relating to Savings Banks, in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 23, of Session 
1857, from November 20, 1855, to November 20, 
1856:— And, in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 24, of Session 1857, from November 20, 
i855, to November 20, 1856: 
turns relative to Savings Banks, in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 23, of Session 1857, from 
November 20, 1855, to November 20, 1856 :—And, 
in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 24, of 
Session 1857, from November 20, 1855, to Novem- 
ber 20, 1856. 


And, for Re- Savings 


could not be procured without the intervention of 
the House, he had been instructed by the Com- 
mittee to move, That the said Parties do attend the 


Return to an Order, dated the 20th day of Fe- Coals, Cinders 
bruary, in the last Session of Parliament, for Ac- and Culm, &amp;c. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, 
and Ninth 
Report. 


Carmarthen 
County Writ. 


Newry, 
Warrenpoint 
and Rostrevor 
Railway Bill. 


Prisons. 


Vaccination. 


Electors, &amp;c. 


Registration 

of Voters 

(Scotland) 
ct. 


Bankruptty 
(Treland.) 


Savings 


Barks. 


said Committee forthwith. 

Ordered, That John James Iselin, George Julius 
Virtue and George Mills do attend the said Com- 
mittee forthwith. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, and 
read ; and referred to Select Committees. 


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 Carmar- 
then, in the room of David Arthur Saunders Da- 
vies, Esquire, deceased. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, in 
respect of non-compliance with the Standing Orders 
in the case of the Petition for additional Provision in 
the Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway Bill. 

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


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Twenty-first Report of the Inspec- 
tors appointed under the Provisions of the Act 5 &amp; 6 
Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of Great 
Britain :—I11. Northern and Eastern District. 

Papers from the General Board of Health re- 
lating to the History and Practice of Vaccination. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Further Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
Return of the Number of Electors in every County 
and Division of a County in Great Britain, accord- 
ing to the Register of Electors for 1850, 1851, 1852, 
1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, and as they appear in 
the Register of Electors for 1856 and 1857; distin- 
guishing the different Qualifications under which 
they are registered in 1856 and 1857, with the 
Population of each County and Division of a County, 
according to the Census of 1851:—And, of the 
Names of all Cities and Boroughs in Great Britain, 
showing the Number of Electors on the Register of 
1856 and 1857, and the Population of each City 
and Borough, according to the Census of 1851. ~ 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
24th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, fora Return of the Amount of Assessment, 
aud the Rate per Pound, in each Burgh, under the 
Registration of Voters (Scotland) Act, since the 
passing of that Act. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
18th day of May last, for a Return relative to 
Guano. 

Return to an Order, dated the 2ist day of May 


last, for a Return relative to Bankruptcy (/re/and). 


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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to several Or- 
ders, dated the 27th day of February, in the last 
Session of Parliament, and 11th day of May last, 





counts of the Quantities of Coals, Cinders and Culm, 
and Patent Fuel, shipped at the several Ports of 
England, Scotland and Ireland, Coastways, to other 
Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year 1856 ; 
distinguishing the Quantity shipped at each of the 
said Ports as compared with the year 1855 :—Of 
the Quantities and Declared Value of Coals, Cinders 
and Culm, and Patent Fuel, exported from the se- 
veral Ports of England, Scotland and Ireland, to 
Foreign Countries, and the British Settlements 
Abroad, in the year 1856; distinguishing the Coun- 
tries to which the same were sent, and comparing 
the same with the year 1855; also, distinguishing 
the Ports of the United Kingdom from which the 
same were shipped :—Of the Quantities of Coals, 
Cinders and Culm, and Patent Fuel, exported from 
the United Kingdom in the year 1856, with the 
Rate and Amount of Duty thereon :—And, of the 
Quantities of Coals and Patent Fuel brought Coast- 
ways and by Inland Navigation into the Port of 
London during the year 1856, comparing the same 
with the Quantities brought during the year 1855. 


Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of May Savings 


last, for a Return showing whether any, and, if any, ® 
what Defalcations have been discovered to have 
taken place in Savings Banks since the 1st day of 
July 1851, together with Copies of any Correspond- 
ence in relation thereto, between the Trustees and 
Managers of such Savings Banks and the Commis- 
sioners for Reduction of the National Debt. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions British 
arliament, were also laid upon Fisheries. 


of several Acts of 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,-—Report by 
the Commissioners for the British Fisheries of their 
Proceedings in the year ended 31st December 1856, 
being Fishing, 1856. 


Return to the Lord Chancellor, under the 8 &amp; 9 Lunacy. 


Vic. c. 100, s. 88, of the Number of Visits made, 
the Number of Patients seen, and the Number of 
Miles travelled by the several Commissioners in 
Lunacy, during the Six months ending on the 4th 
February 1857. 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented,—Return to Hudson's Bay 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day of Company. 


May last, for Copy of the Letter addressed by Mr. 
Chief Justice Draper to Her Majesty’s Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, bearing date the 6th day of 
May 1857; together with a Copy of the Memo- 
randum therein referred to, relative to the Hudson’s 
Bay Company. 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Paupers. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns, in a Tabular Form, of the Number 
of Pauper Inmates in each and every Union Work- 
house in Jreland on the 25th day of March last, 
and the Poor-house Accommodation existing in 
each of such Unions; together with the Establish- 
ment Charges for each Union Workhouse for the 
vear ending on that day :—Of the Gross Amount of 
Paupers relieved in Zreland on that day :—Of the 
Gross Amount of Paupers relieved in ee on 

at 








Silk. 


Riff Pirates. 
No. 66, 


Dover Mail 
Packet 
Contract. 
No. 67. 
Ecclesiastical 
Commission 
(Ireland.) 


No. 68, 


Income Tax. 
No. 69. 


Foreign 
Shipping. 
No. 70. 


East India 
(Nawab of 
Surat.) 


No. 71. 


Loan Societies. 


No. 72. 


Poor Rates and 


Pauperism, 


China. 


Local Acts, 
No. 26. 


20 VicrorizZ. 


that day :—And, of the Gross Amount of Paupers 
relieved in Scotland on that day. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Quantities of Silk of the various Kinds 
imported into the United Kingdom from various 
Countries, from 1842 to 1856, both inclusive; dis- 
tinguishing each year’s Importation, and the Coun- 
tries from whence they came. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Riff Pirates, 
which was presented upon the 12th day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Dover 
Mail Packet Contract, which was presented upon 
the 25th day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Eccle- 
siastical Commission (Zreland), which was presented 


upon the 29th day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Income 
Tax, which was presented upon the 29th day of | 
May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Foreign 
Shipping, which was presented upon the 29th day 
of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 


(Nawab of Surat), which was presented upon the 
29th day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Loan So- 
cieties, which was presented upon the 29th day of 
May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns, viz. :-— 


Return A.—Comparative Statement of the | 


Number of Paupers of all Classes (except 
Lunatic Paupers in Asylums and Vagrants 
relieved out of Doors) in receipt of Relief on 
the last Day of each Week in the Quarters 
ended at ialedey 1856 and 1857 respectively, 
in Unions, &amp;c.:—Similar Statement for the 
Quarters ended at Midsummer 1856 and 1857 
respectively :—Similar Statement for the Quar- 
ters ended at Michaelmas 1856 and 1857 re- 
spectively :—Similar Statement for the Quar- 
ters ended at Christmas 1856 and 1857 respec- 
tively : 

Return B.—Statement of the Number of 
Paupers, distinguishing the Number of Adult 
Able-bodied Paupers relieved in Unions, &amp;c. 
on the Ist day of July 1857:—Similar State- 
ment for the 1st day of January 1858: 

Return C. — Statement of the Amount ex- 
pended in Unions, &amp;c. for In-maintenance and 
Out-Relief only ; Half-year ended at Michael- 
mas 1857:—Similar Statement for the Half- 
year ended at Lady-day 1858: 

And, Return D.—Amount of Poor Rates 
levied and expended during the year ended at 
Lady-day 1857. 

Mr. Edward Bouverie accordingly presented the 
said Returns. 
. Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
able. 


Viscount Palmerston presented,—Return to an 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 28th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to China. 

. en That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Oshorne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Furiher Reports from the Admiralty rela- 
tive to Applications for Local Acts. 

VoL. 112, 





4° Juniz. 191 


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


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Voting Papers. 


posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the expediency of collecting the Votes 
at Elections in Counties and Universities by way of 
Voting Papers. 

And the Previons Question being proposed, That 
that Question be now put: — The said Previous 
Question and Motion were severally, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections; That they had selected the "lections. 


following Twelve Members to be the Chairmen’s 
Panel, and ‘to serve as Chairmen of Election Com- 
mittees for the present Session : 
Sir John Yarde Buller, Baronet, ( Devonshire) ; 
John Morgan Coblett, Esquire, (Oldham) ; 
Rickard Deasy, Esquire, (Cork County) ; 
Edward Christopher Egerton, Esquire, (Mac- 
clesfield) ; 
Edward Ellice, Esquire, (Saint Andrew’s) ; 
James Milnes Gaskell, Esquire, (Wenlock) ; 
George Alexander Hamit!ton, Esquire, (Dublin 
University) ; 
Gathorne Hardy, Esquire, (Leominster) ; 
Thomas Emerson Head/am, Esquire, (Newcas- 
tle-on- Tyne) ; 
Robert Ingham, Esquire, (South Shields) ; 
William Scholefield, Esquire, (Birmingham) ; 
Henry Ker Seymer, Esquire, (Dorsetshire). 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 


mittee of Elections; That they had divided into 
Five Panels the List of Members to serve on Elec- 
tion Committees. 

Whereupon the Clerk decided by lot, at the 
Table, the order of the said Panels, and distin- 
guished each of them by a Number, denoting the 
order in which they were respectively drawn, as 
followeth :—No. 1, E; No. 2, D; No.3,C; No. 4, 
B; No. 5, A. 

Ordered, That the said Panels be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Board of 
put, That a Select Committee be appointed to in- Tt4e- 


quire into the Origin, the past and present Constitu- 
tion, and the Powers and Duties of the Board of 
Trade, with the view to its better adaptation to the 
requirements of the Country:—It passed in the 
Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Working 
posed, That, in the opinion of this House, a Stand- Classes. 


ing Committee, or unpaid Commission, be appointed 
to consider and report, from time to time, on prac- 
tical suggestions (free from party differences) to 
give facilities for improvement in the social condi- 
tion of the Working Classes :—And the said Mo- 
tion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


The House was moved, That the Act relating to Alehouse 
Ale-hause Licensing, might be read ; and the same Licensing. 


being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Act:—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Cummittee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to explain and amend the Act to regulate the grant- 
ing of Licenses to Keepers of Inns, Alehouses and 
Victualling Houses in England. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
DD Roy 


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Married 
Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest. 


Duchy of 
Lancaster 
(Bertolacci’s 
Petition). 


Emigration 
(North 
American 
Colonies.) 


County Cess 
(Treland. ) 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Lreland. ) 


Hop Duties. 


192 


Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. FitzRoy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to explain and 
amend the Act to regulate the granting of Licenses 
to Keepers of Inns, Alehouses and Victualling 
Houses in England :—And he moved the House 
accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the 
Bill: And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Atherton and 
Mr. Warren do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
relating to Burials in Consecrated and Unconsecrated 
Ground : And that Mr. Hardcastle and Mr. Hind- 
ley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Married Women to dispose of Reversionary 
Interests in Personal Estate: And that Mr. Malins 
and Mr. Mullings do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the statements set forth in a Petition 
from Mr. Francis Robert Bertolacci, praying for an 
inquiry into the proceedings of certain functionaries 
of the Duchy of Lancaster, in preventing him from 
exercising the rights, powers and privileges of the 
office of Auditor of the Duchy, and in superseding 
him by a near connexion of the Receiver General to 
audit that Officer’s accounts such Committee to con- 
sist of Five Members to be appointed by the General 
Committee of Elections. 


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 Despatches relative to 
Emigration to the North American Colonies (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 14, of 
Session 1, 1857). 

Ordered, That the said Address be 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this 


pene to 
ouse as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to revive and amend certain Acts relating to the 
Collection of County Cess in Jreland, and also to 
provide for the Appointment, in certain cases, of 
Collectors to levy the Charges and Expenses of addi- 
tional Constabulary appointed under the Act nine- 
teen and twenty Victoria, chapter Thirty-six: And 
that Mr. Attorney General for Zre/and and Mr. 
Massey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter the Constitution and amend the Procedure 
of the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland: 
And that Mr. Attorney General for Jreland and 
Mr. Massey do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Select Committee on the Hop 
Duties do consist of Sixteen Members ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 5° die Junii, 1857: 
And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Knatchbull- Hugessen, } , 
Yeas, \Mr.Philip Wykeham Martin:f °° 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, {The Earl of Mulgrave: } = 
So it passed in the Negative. 


4°--5° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Grand Juries 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act (1836) tise) dns 
Amendment Bill ; ment _— 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
the 16th day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; (No. 1) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time’ ~ 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (8% 5) Bill 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burial Acts 
into a Committee on the Burial Acts Amendment aes 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Bill 40 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRo _— 
reported, That the Committee had gone deena 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 
15th day of this instant June. 


The Sheep, &amp;c. Contagious Diseases Prevention Sheep, &amp;c. 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; — 
and committed to a Select Committee. vention Bill. 

The House, according to Order, resclved itself Joint Stock 
into a Committee on the Joint Stock Companies Companies 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. = 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy ™ =~ 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Princess Royal’s Annuity Bill was, according Princess 

to Order, read the third time. Royal's An- 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —- 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.251,238, be Army 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Manufacturing 
£. 125,000 already voted on account), towards de- a 
fraying the Charge of the Manufacturing Depart- ~ 
ments, Military Storekeepers, Barrack Masters, &amp;c., 
which will come in course of payment from the 1st 
day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 221,868, be Wages of 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Attificers, || 
£.111,000 already voted on account), towards de- ~ et 
fraying the Charge of the Wages of Artificers, La- 
bourers, &amp;c., which will come ia course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 3lst day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £,.278,570, be Clothing and 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Nece#snes- 
£. 140,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Clothing and Necessaries, 
which will come in course of payment from the 1st 
day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.636,900, be Provisions, &amp;c. 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£.319,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Provisions, Forage, Fuel and 
Light, Barrack Furniture, Bedding, &amp;c., which will 
come in course of payment from the Ist day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 

5. That 





Warlik e 


Fortifications, 


Ministers’ 
Money (Ire- 
land) Bill. 


Savings Banks 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Turnpike 
Trusts 
Abolition 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Alehouse 
Licensing Bill. 
Bill 42. 


Burials Bill. 
Bill 43. 


Married 
Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 


Bill 44, 


County Cess 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Bill 45, 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 46, 


Army. 


according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 


90 VicroriZ. ye 


5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.400,191, be 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£. 199,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Warlike Stores for Land and 
Sea Service, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 163,133, be 
granted to Her Majesty, (in addition to the Sum of 
£.82,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Fortifications at Home and 
Abrcad, which will come in course of payment from 
the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 
1858, inclusive. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Ministers’ Money (Ireland) Bill was, accord- 
img to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committez of the whole, House, for 
Monday next. 


The Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Zreland) Bill was, 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Fri- 
day next. 


Mr. Atherton presented a Bill to explain and 
amend the Act to regulate the granting of Licenses 
to Keepers of Inns, Alehouses and Victualling 
Houses in England; And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Hardcastle presented a Bill re'ating to Burials 
in Consecrated and Unconsecrated Ground: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Wednesday next; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Malins presented a Bill to enable Married 
Women to dispose of Keversionary Interests in 
Personal Estate: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General fer Jreland presented a Bill 
to revive and amend certain Acts relating to the 
Collection of County Cess in Jreland, and also to 
provide for the Appointment, in certain cases, of | 
Collectors to levy the Charges and Expenses of 
additional Constabulary appointed under the Act 
nineteen and twenty Victoria, chapter Thirty-six: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Tuesday next; and 
to be printed. ‘ 


Mr. Attorney General for Jreland presented a Bill 
to alter the Constitution and amend the Procedure of 
the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Jre/land: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a sccond time upon Tuesday next; and to be 
printed. 


Sir John Ramsden presented, pursuant to the Pro- 
visions of a Royal Warrant,—Return of Sums paid 
to the Relatives of Officers in lieu of Pensions, &amp;c., 
in pursuance of the Provisions of the 10th Clause 
of the Royal Warrant of the Ist March 1856. 





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Juniz. 


193 





Sir John Ramsden also presented,—Return to an Army, &amp;c. 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the 28th day of May 
last, for Returns of the Number of Men of all 
Ranks of the Army from 1828 to 1856-7, both in- 
clusive, stating the Numbers in India, for Service 
in the Colonies, and at Home, and the Total Num- 
ber voted, as in Return No. 2, in the Appendix to 
the Report of the Select Committee on Army and 
Ordnance Expenditure, with the Gross Amount 
voted in each year for the Army Estimates, irre- 
spective of Credits in Aid :—Of the Number of Men 
voted in the same years for Ordnance Services (given 
in the Return, No. 47, in the Appendix to the Se- 
cond Report of the Select Committee on Army and 
Ordnance Expenditure), together with the Gross 
Sums voted in each year:—Of the Gross Sums 
voted in each year for the Commissariat, and the 
Totals of the Men voted for the Army and Ord- 
nance Services ; also the Total of the Sums voted as 
above in each year for Army, Ordnance and Com- 
missariat :— 











for Army, Ordnance and 


Commissariat, 


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And, similar Return of Men, Boys and Marines 
voted for the Navy, and Gross Sum voted (see Table 
at pages 6 and 7 of Report of the Select Committee 
on Navy, Army and Ordnance Estimates), irrespec- 
tive of Credits in Aid, but deducting the Vote for 
Packets from the year 1842. 

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 Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Veneris, 5° die Juni; 


Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 





IR Harry Verney reported from the Committee gunken 
on Group L. of Private Bills; ‘That the Parties Vessels 
romoting the Sunken Vessels Recovery Company Recovery 


Bill had stated to the Committee, that it was not ©°™P@"Y —= 


their intention to proceed with the same. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Byng 4 om from the Committee on Group p,itway Bills 
i 


7 of Railway 
Committee this day, a Letter was received trom Mr. 
Corry, Chairman of the said Committee, stating 
that he was unable, on account of sickness, to attend 
the Committee this day; and that the Committee 
had therefore adjourned till Tuesday next, at Twelve 
o'clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


lls; That at the meeting of the (Group 7.) 


Mr. Henry Baillie reported from the Committee Great 
on Group 6 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the Northern 


Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill, it was proved 
to the Committee that the Order of the House of 
the 17th of March last had been complied with, and 
that they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and ameuded the same, by 

DD2 striking 


Railway 
(Capital) Bill. 





Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Eighth 
Report ) 


Stockton 
New Gas and 
Stockton Gas 
Consumers’ 
Companies 
Bill. 


Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendment. 


Berwick- 
upon-Tweed 
Election. 


Drogheda 
Election. 


Portsmouth 


Election. 


Briton Ferry 
Docks Bill. 


194 


striking out such parts thereof as affirmed the ex- 
ediency of paying the dividend accruing due in 
arch last, and by correcting certain of the state- 
ments of capital therein, and also by setting forth 
the resolution of the meeting of the Company on 
the 12th of March last; and found the same, as 
amended, 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. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and made verbal Amendments 
thereunto; and found the same, as amended, 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. Gregson reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented upon the 28th and 29th days of 
May last; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Buller reported from the Committee on Group 
M. of Private Bills ; That in the case of the Stock- 
ton New Gas and Stockton Gas Consumers’ Com- 
panies Bill, they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and verbally 
amended the same; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. . 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Zs/ington 
Parish Acts Amendment Bill. 

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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
received a Report from the Examiner of Recogni- 
zances, stating that the Recognizance to the Election 
Petition of Charles William Gordon, complaining of 
the Election of Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks for the 
Town of Berwich-upon- Tweed, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Henry Bagnall and Thomas 
Kerr, relating to the Borough of Drogheda, is un- 
objectionable. 

Mr. Speaker also acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Report from the Examiner 
of Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to 
the Election Petition of Francis Brodigan, relating 
to the Borough of Drogheda, is unobjectionable. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 


Revognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the | 


Election Petition of Edwin Low and Samuel Hogg, 
relating to the Borough of Portsmouth, is unob- 
jectionable. 


_ The Briton Ferry Docks Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


5° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Glasgow Gas Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Glasgow Gas 
Bill. 


‘The Kidsgrove Market Bill was read the third Kidsgrove 
time. Market Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Saint Helen’s Canal and Railway Bill was Saint Helen's 
read the third time. — a * 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the (New Title] 
Title be, An Act to authorize the Saint Helen’s 
Canal and Railway Company to increase and re- 
gulate their Capital, and for other purposes relating 
to the Company. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Scottish Central Railway Bill was read the Scottish 
third time. nanny - ae 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. re 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Banff, Macduff 
the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway 204 Turrift 

: ¥ ae Extension 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. ; Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Banff, Portsoy 


Railway Bill be taken into consideration upon Mon- 2n4 Strathisla 
day next. Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Brighton, Hove 
the Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service = Preston 
Water Bill, as amended in the Committee. oe 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration European 
the European and Indian Junction Telegraph Com- 4nd Indian 
pany Bill, as amended in the Committee. Telegraph 

rdered, That the Bill be read the third time. — Company Bill. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Forth and 
the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill, as tag 
amended in the Committee. Bilt ities 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration New River 
the New River Company Bill, as amended in the Company Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Saint Philip's 
the Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool Bill, as Church, Li- 
amended in the Committee. gas 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Wilmslow 
the Wilmslow and Lawton Road Bill, as amended *"4 — 
in the Committee. oe 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Portsmouth 
take into consideration the Portsmouth Railway Bill, Railway Bill 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


A Bill for facilitating Leases and Sales of Lands Westminster 
mortgaged by the Westminster Improvement Com- Improvements 
= A : (No. 3) Bill. 
missioners, and for Appointment of Managers to 
wind up the Affairs of the Commission, and for 
other purposes, was read the first time ; and ordered 

to be read a second time. 


Cwm Amman 


The Order, That the Cwm Amman Railway Bill 
Railway Bill. 


be committed, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
The 








Edinburgh, 
Perth and 
Dundee, and 
Scottish Cer- 


tral Railway 
Companies 
Bill. 
Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendment. 


Controverted 
Elections. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Ninth 
Report. 


Railway Bills 
Group (14.) 


Dietaries for 
Convicts, &amp;c. 


90 VictrorizZ. 


dee, and Scottish Central Railway Companies Bill 
be committed, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


A Petition of the Vestry of the Parish of Saint | 
Mary, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, and of 
Trustees of the said Parish of Saint Mary, Is- 
lington, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend two 
several Acts passed respectively in the fifth year of 
the reign of his late Majesty King George the 
Fourth, and the second year of his late Majesty 
King William the Fourth, intituled respectively, 


5° Juni. 
The Order, That the Edinburgh, Perth and Dun- | 





195 


Quality thereof ; and the Term of Imprisonment in 
each Class, and whether the Guard Bed is substi- 
tuted for a Hammock at any and what intervals :— 
And, of the Dietaries sanctioned for Prisoners in 
the Couniy Gaols of the United Kingdom, specifying 


| the Classes and the Diet of each Class on each Day 


of the Week : 


Days of 
Week. 





Beer. 





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“ An Act to repeal the several Acts for the Relief 
and Employment of the Poor of the Parish of Saint | 
Mary, Islington, in the County of Middlesex ; for, 
Lighting and Watching, and preventing Nuisances | 
and Annoyances therein; foramending the Road from 
Highgate through Maiden-lane, and several other 
Roads in the said Parish ; and for providing a Chapel 
of Ease and an additional Burial-ground for the | 
same, and to make more effectual Provisions in lieu 
thereof;’’ and, “An Act to equalize the Ecclesiasti- | 
cal Burthens of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, | 
in the County of Middlesex ; for partially altering 
the Application of the Rents and Profits of the Stone- 
fields Estate, within the said Parish ; for letting the 


Pews in the Parish Church of Saint Mary, Isling-| 
ton, and the Chapel of Ease thereto, and for other | 


purposes connected therewith,” and to make other 
and more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee 
of Flections; That they had appointed Monday 
the 22d day of June instant, to choose from Panel 
No. 1, the Select Committee to try and determine 
the County of Mayo, the Borough of Cambridge, 
and the Borough of Rochdale Election Petitions ; 
and Tuesday the 23d day of June instant, to choose 
from the same Panel, the Select Committee to try 
and determine the Borough of Pontefract, the Bo- 
rough of Marlborough, and the Borough of Ware- 
ham Election Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon tlie Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hardy reported from the Committee on 
Group 14 of Railway Bills; That the Parties op- 
posing the Great Southern and Western (Extension 
from Tullamore to Athlone) Railway Bill had stated 
to the Committee, that the evidence of Sir John 
Burgoyne was essential to enable them to establish 
their case before the Committee ; and it having been 
proved that his attendance could not be procured 
without the intervention of the House, he had been 
instructed by the Committee to move the House, 
That the said Sir John Burgoyne do attend the said 
Committee on Thursday next. 

Ordered, That Sir John Burgoyne do attend the 
said Committee upon Thursday next. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Further Return to an Ad- 





Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of May Courts of Law 
last, for a Return relative to Courts of Law (Dud- (Dublin.) 

in). 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- Court of Chan- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of General ery (Ireland.) 
Orders of the Court of Chancery in Jreland, respect- 
ing Leases and Sales of Settled Estates ; dated 22d 
day of May 1857. 

— That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Guano, Guano. 
which was presented upon the 4th day of this in- No. 74. 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Electors, &amp;c., Electors, &amp;e. 
which was presented upon the 4th day of this in- No. 4. 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Registra- Registration 


tion of Voters (Scotland) Act, which was presented °% — 
upon the 4th day of this instant June, be printed. = _— 
No. 75. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Savings gavings 
Banks, in continuation of Parliamentary Papers, Banks. 
Nos. 23 and 24 of Session 1857, which was presented Nos. 84, 85, 
upon the 4th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coals, Cin- Coals, Cinders 
ders and Culm, &amp;c., which was presented upon the #4 Culm, &amp;e, 
4th day of this instant June, be printed. No, 76. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Defalcations Savings 
in Savings Banks, which was presented upon the 4th Banks. 
day of this instant June, be printed. 0. 73. 





Ordered, That the Returns relative to Poor Rates Poor Rates and 
;and Pauperism, which were presented upon the 4th Pauperism. 
| day of this instant June, be printed. No. 77. 


| Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army, Amny. 
| which was presented upon the 4th day of this in- No, 78. 
| stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army, &amp;c., Army, &amp;e. 
which was presented upon the 4th day of thisin- No. 79. 
| stant June, be printed. 

Ordered, That there be added to the Return or- Saint James’s 
dered on the 20th day of May last, relative to Sain Pat. 
| James’s Park, a Copy of any Report made to the 
| First Commissioner of Works upon the state of the 
Water from which the Lake in Saint James’s Park 
was supplied. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Metropolis 
ter Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to Rates, &amp;c. 


dress to Her Majesty, dated the 27th day of Febru- | give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
ary, in the last Session of Parliament, for Returns of|a Return from each Vestry and District Board 


the Dietaries sanctioned by the Government for Con- 


elected under the Provisions of the Metropolis Local 





victs at Gibraltar, Bermuda, and the different Con- 
vict Establishments of every Class in England, | 
Wales and Ireland, specifying the Amount of Food | 
provided at each Meal, and the Quality thereof, and | 
the Quantity of Beer or Spirits allowed daily to each | 
Convict :—Of the Dietaries sanctioned by the War | 
Office for the different Classes of Prisoners in the | 
Military Prisons of the United Kingdom, specifying | 
the Amount of Food allowed at each Meal, and the | 


Vou. 112. 





Management Act, 1855, setting forth,—Ist. The 
Value of Property in each Parish and District as 
assessed to the Cuunty Rate; 2d. The Sum on 
which the Rates are assessed for the Relief of the 
Poor; 3d. the Total Amount levied; 4th. The Rate 
in the Pound levied for each of the several purposes 
of County, Police, Poor, Baths and Washhouses, 
Burial Board, Paving, Lighting and Cleansing, Local 
Sewerage, Delt, Payments to Metropolitan Board of 

DD3 Works, 


¢ 















Standing Colonel Wilson Putten reported from the Select | Return of the Number and Amount of Money Money Orders. 
Orders. Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions; | Orders issued and paid at each Shipping Office, 
which were read, as follow : from the commencement of the System, in May 
comet . 1. That in the case of the Cannock Mineral Rail- | 1855, to the 31st day of December 1856. 
ine: Alle 


way (No. 1) 
Bill : 


) 


Nene Valley 


196 | 5° Juniz. 


Works, and any other Charges, the Total Amount 
of Money raised» and the Total expended, for the 
ear ending the 25th day of March 1857 :—Of the 
Geom of all Officers employed as Clerks, Sur- 
veyors, Collectors, Health Officers, Inspectors of 
Nuisances, and other Officers employed under such 
Vestry or District Board ; setting forth the Offices 
they severally hold, with the Amount of Salary, 
Fees, Poundage, Perquisites, Value of House-rent, 
and other Benefits enjoyed by such Officers under 
any General or Local Act, or otherwise :—And, 
from the Local Board of Health at Woolwich, giving 
like Information. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Sajesty s Most honourable Privy Council. 


way (No. 1), Petition for additional Provision, the 
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with ; that 
the Parties be permitted to introduce their additional 
Provision, if the Committee on the Bill shall think 
fit, on proving before the said Committee that all 
the Landowners on the line included in the ad- 
ditional Provision have assented thereto, with the 
exception of a length of two furlongs one chain 
belonging to a Landowner, of two chains over Public 
Roads, and of one chain and a quarter, part of the 
Trent and Mersey Canal. 

2. That in the case of the Nene Valley Drainage 


A, 1857. Sess. II. 


vision of the Assessment in South Arcot :—Of De- 
spatch from the Court of Directors to the Governor 
General of Zndia in Council, on the Proceedings in 
connection with the Meriah Agency in Ganjam and 
Orissa :—Of Despatch from the same to the same, 
on the Abolition of the Moturpha and Veesabuddy 
Taxes at Madras :—Of Despatch from the same to 
the same, on the Hyderabad assigned Districts :— 
And, of three Despatches from the same to the 
same, in the Public Works Department, on the 
Budgets for 1855-56 and 1856-57. 
. Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 

aper. 

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


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all Gas Works established under 
Acts of Parliament in England and Wales, and 
where situated; stating the maximum and minimum 
Charges for 1,000 Cubic Feet of Gas; the Material 
used; the Average Number of Cubic Feet of Gas 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Seamen’s 





Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Gas Works. 





Ts) 


&gt; ~~ 


ent and Navigation Improvement, Petition for additional | produced from a Ton of Coal; and the illuminating 
Improvement Provision, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed | power of Gas as compared with Sperm Candles (in 
Bil with; that the Parties be permitted to introduce | continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 128, of 


their additional Provision, if the Committee on the Session 1, 1857). 


Bill shall think fit, on proving before the said Com-| _ Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
mittee that Notices of the proposed Provision have | Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
been published in the mee and Gazette ; | of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 

that Plans, Sections and Books of Reference have 

been deposited, describing such intended additional Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Joint Stock 
Works ; that application in respect thereto has been | Returns of the Number of Joint Stock Companies Companies. 













made to the Owners, Lessees and Occupiers; and 
that an Estimate of the Expense and Subscription 
Contract, or Declaration in lieu thereof, have been 


formed under the Acts of 1855 and 1856, with the 
Names of the Directors, Number and Amount of 
Shares, Object for which the Company was formed, 













deposited. Number of Shares taken by the Public, Amount 
Newry, | 3. That in the case of the Newry, Warrenpoint | paid up on each Share, and the Place of Business of 
Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway, Petition for additional Pro- | the Company, with Date of Application :—And, 
and Rostrevor . . . A . . “ae . ° 4 
Railway Bill, Vision, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed | similar Return of those applied for and not com- 

with; that the Parties be permitted to introduce | pleted, with the Date of Application. 

their additional Provision, if the Committee on the | 


Bill shall think fit, on proving before the said Com- 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Army Medical 
mittee that Notices of the proposed additional Pro- | to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Expenses. 
vision have been published in the Newspapers and /to give directions, that there be laid before this 

Gazette ; that Plans, Sections and Books of Re-| House, Returns of the Amount paid by Her Ma- 

ference have been deposited for such additional | jesty’s Government for Medical Attendance on the 

Works; and that application in respect thereto has | Permanent Staff of the Militia Regiments of the 


} 





been made to the Owners, Lessees and Occupiers. 
That the Committees on the foregoing Bills do 
report how far such Orders have been complied 
with on the Report of the Bills. 
The said Resvlutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


United Kingdom, and Medical Examination of 
| Volunteers for same, from the Disembodiment of 
| the respective Regiments to the 31st day of March 
1857:—And, of the Amount paid for the Medival 
Examination of Recruits for the Line, Royal Ar- 
tillervy, and Royal Marines, and Deserters, during 
| the Six Months ending on the 31st day of March 










Electoral Law —_-FResolved, That an humble Address be presented to | 1857. 
(Tasmania.) JYer Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to| Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, | Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
a Copy of the Electoral Law of Vusmenia, as sent | of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 
over for the Royal Assent. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Pauper 
Her |ajesty, by such Members of this House as are | Copy of any Communication from the Board of Lunatics 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. | Guardians of Saint Marylebone, in Answer to the Menytshens,) 
. |Report of the Commissioners on Lunacy, in regard 
Leave of Orcered, That Mr. Muntz have leave of absence | to the Treatment of Pauper Lunatics in Marylebone 
Absence. for a fortnight, on account of ill health. Workhouse. 
East India. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of a Despatch from the Court ef Directors 
to the Governor in Council at Aladras, on the Re- 


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 24th day of 
July 1856, for Copies or Extracts of Correspondence 








with 





Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Guano. 













Sound Dues, 


Copy of 
Treaty, &amp;c. 
referred. 


Supply. 


‘Bankruptcy 
and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill, : 








20 VicrorizZ. 


with the Colonial Office, respecting a Grant made 

by the Crown to raise and take away Guano from 

the Islands of Jibleea, Huskie, and Ghwrzoad, on 

the South Coast of Arabia; and, of the License 

under which the Grant has been made. 

. ns That the said Return do lie wpon the 
able. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Sound Dues ; 

Ordered, That the Copy of Treaty, Protocol 
and Convention for the Redemption of the Sound 
Dues, signed at Copenhagen, March 14, 1857, which 
was presented upon the 7th day of May last, be 
referred to the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resulved, That a Sum of £. 1,125,206 be granted 
to Her Majesty, out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for 
the purpose of compensating the King of Denmark 
for the Abolition of the Sound Dues. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come toa 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day 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 £.462,453, be granted to Her Majesty 
(in addition to the Sum of £. 231,000 already voted 
on account), towards defraying the Charge of Civil 
Buildings and Barracks at Home and Abroad, which 
will come in course of payment from the 1st day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 412,453, be granted 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £. 231,000 
already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of Civil Buildings and Barracks at Home 
and Abroad, which will come in course of payment 
from the Ist day of April 1857 to the 31st ep of 
March 1858, inclusive ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Major eg 

Ayes, Mr. Cranch Vivian : 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, \ The Earl of Mulgrave ; 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 


Resvlution to be reported. 


} 99. 
ase. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 6° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

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

Mr. FitzRoy 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 
a Committee on the Teohentes and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed. 
VoL. 112. 


5°— 6§°— 8°? Junit. 











197 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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 Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; eans. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

The Order of the day being read, for the second Protection 
reading of the Protection of Female Children and + &gt; all 
Idiots Bill; Idiots Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Mon- am 
day next, the Registration of Voters (Scotland) % Voters _. 
Bill, was read, and discharged. saeaaiere ie 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Tenant Right 
nesday next, the Tenant Right (Jreland) Bill, was (Ireland) Bill. 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday the 16th day of this instant June. 


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, 8° die Junii; 


Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M Rt. Henry Baillie reported from the Committee Railway Bills 
on Group 6 of Railway Bills; That the Par- (Group 6.) 
ties opposing the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Che- 
shire Junction Railway Bill had stated, that the 
evidence of James Newlands was essential to enable 
them to support their case; and it having been proved 
that his attendance could not be procured without 
the intervention of the House, he had been instructed 
to move, That James Newlands do attend the said 
Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 
Ordered, That James Newlands do attend the 
said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Adair reported from the Committee on Group Railway and 
9 of Railway and Canal Bills ; That there being no ©anal Bills 
business before them, the Committee had adjourned en 
till Wednesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Adair reported from the Committee on Group Shropshire 
9 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Shrop- Union Rail- 


shire Union Railways and Canal, London and North Canal Tandon 


Western Railway, and Shropshire Canal Companies and North 
Bill, they had examined the allegations contaiued in oo - 
the Preamble of the Bill, and made a verbal Amend- edie 
ment therein; and found the same, as amended, to Canal Com- 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made Paies Bill. 
Amendments thereunto. 

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


Lord Lovaine reported the Cardigan Markets Cardigan 
and Improvement (re-committed) Bill, with further Markets and 
Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Thornely reported from the Select Com- Public 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had examined (Ninth Re- 
the Petitions presented upon the 4th and 5th days port.) 
of this instant June, and had directedhim to make a 
Report thereof to the House. 

pp4 Ordered, 


Improvement 
Bill. 


198 


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


Colonel Pennant reported the Backwater Bridge 
and Road Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Backwater 
Bridge and 
Road Bill. 


Sir John Trollope reported from the Committee 
Group 5 of Railway Bills ; That, in the case of 
the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway Bill, it was 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the 
deposits in respect of the Subscription Contract had 
not been withdrawn; and they have inserted the 
clause required by the Standing Order of the House, 
on the 12th of March last, enacting that such 
Contract should be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
in the last Session of Parliament; that, in pursu- 
ance of the Resolution of the House of the 25th day 
of May, the Committee had considered the addi- 
tional Provision proposed to be inserted in the Bill, 
and had made Provision in the Bill accordingly ; 
that they had examined the allegations contained 
in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, 
by stating the expediency of the Epsom and Leather- 
head Railway Company, and all other Companies 
and persons using the Epsom and Leatherhead Rail- 
way, being empowered to use the proposed Line of 
Raiiway, in order to make it consistent with the 
Provisions inserted in the Bill, under the Petition 
for additional Provision ; and found the same, as 
amended, 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. 


Wimbledon 
and Dorking on 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill, it was 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the 
deposits in respect of the Subscription Contract had 
not been withdrawn; and they have inserted the 
clause required by the Standing Order of the House 
of the 12th day of March last; that they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Biil, 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. 


Herne Bay and 
Faversham 
Railway Bill. 


Railway Bills 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 15 of 
(Group 15.) 


Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


‘The Cork Gas Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Great Yarmouth 
Britannia Pier Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mayor’sCourt The Mayor’s Court of the City of Zondon Bill 
= 7 A was ‘ead the third time. 
anes Se Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The North Eastern Railway (Capital) Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Britannia 
Pier Bill. 


North Eastern 
Railway 
(Capital) Bill. 


8° Junie. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Tralee and Killarney Railway Bill was read Tralee and 
the third time. ae 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _— 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Bridgwater 
the Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill, as amended yee 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made ’ 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Burslem and 
the Burslem and Tunstall Gas Bill, as amended in TYstall Gas 
the Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tyne Im- 
the Tyne Improvement Bill, as amended in the Com- — 


mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Wycombe Railway Bill, as Wycombe 
amended in the Committee, be taken into considera- Railway Bill. 
tion To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Banff, Portsoy 
into consideration the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla ta 
Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee. itive 

A Clause (Centre Line of Railway on the shore 
near Town of Banff not to be deviated without 
the consent of the Admiralty), was twice read ; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Company to allow access across 
the Railway to the seashore), was twice read ; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Company not to claim exclusive 
right of frontage to seashore), was twice read ; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Plans and working drawings of 
the Railway along the Quay at Portsoy, &amp;c., to be ap- 
proved by the Admiralty before works commenced), 
was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Admiralty may order a Local Sur- 
vey), was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Works which affect tidal water 
may be removed by Admiralty if allowed to all into 
decay), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Finsbury Park Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Finsbury Park 
Bill. 


The Select Committee on Divorce Bills was no- Divorce Bills. 
minated of Mr. Walpole, Mr. Massey, Mr. Estcourt, 
Sir John Pakington, Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. 
Headlam, Mr. Bonham-Carter, Sir Erskine Perry 
and Mr. Adderley ; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 


Ordered, That if the Chairman shall be absent Railway and 
from a Committee on a Group of Railway or Canal Canal Bills. 
Bills, the Member next in rotation on the list of 
Members, who shall be present, shall act as Chair- 
man, until the General Committee on Railway and 
Canal Bills shall have appointed another Chairman, 
if they shall so think fit. 


A Petition of Grahame, Weems and Grahame, of Carlisle and 
Great George-street, Westminster, Agents for the —" 
Carlisle and Hawick Railway Bill, praying that “ ~" 
Provision may be made in the said Bill for giving 
Power to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Com- 
pany to contribute Funds towards, and to hold 
Shares in the proposed Railway, from the Caledo- 
nian Railway near Mossband Hall, in Cumberland, 
to Hawick, with Lines to Canobie Colliery war = 

e 











20 VicToriZ. 


the Hawick Station of the North British Railway, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of James Lyster O’ Beirne and 
John Joseph Scully, relating to the Borough of 
Cashel, is unobjectionable. 


Cashel 
Election. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her wee 
Command,—Copy of Treaty of Peace between Her 
Majesty and the Shah of Persia. Signed at Paris, 
March 4, 1857. 

Copy of Correspondence respecting relations with 


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


Railway Bills 


(Group 16.) Mr. Hardy reported from the Committee on 


Group 16 of Railway Bills; That the Parties oppo- 
sing the Great Southern and Western (Extension 
from Tullamore to Athlone) Railway Bill had stated, 
that the evidence of James Mahony, County Sur- 
veyor of Westmeath, was essential to enable them to 
establish their case ; and it having been proved that 
his attendance could not be procured without the 
intervention of the House, he had been instructed to 
move, That James Mahony do attend the said Com- 
mittee on Friday next, at Twelve o'clock. 

Ordered, That James Mahony do attend the said 
Committee upon Friday next, at Twelve of the 
clock. 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Biil. 


Lord Hotham reported the Portadown and Dun- 
gannon Railway Bill, with Amendments. 

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


Railway Bills 


Lord Hotham reported from the Committee on 
(Group 15.) 


Group 15 of Railway Bills; That there being no 
Bill for the consideration of the Comnnittee, they 
had adjourned till Thursday next, at Twelve o’clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return from each Savings Bank in England and 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland, containing, in Columns, 
the Names of the Officers, their respective Salaries, 
and other Allowances, if any; the Amount of Se- 
curity each gives; the Numbers of Accounts re- 
maining open 5 the Total Amount owing to Deposi- 
tors; the Total Amount invested with the Commis- 
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; 
the Rate of Interest paid to Depositors on the 
various Amounts of Deposit, and the Average Rate 
of Interest on all Accounts; and the Total Amount 
of the separate Surplus Fund, on the 20th day of 
November 1856 ; the Rate per centum per annum on 
the Capital of the Bank for the Expenses of Ma- 
nagement; the Annual Number of Receipts from 
Depositors ; the Annual Number of Payments; the 
Average Amount of Receipts ; the Average Amount 
of Payments ; the Number and Amount of Annuities 
granted ; the Annual Expenses of Management, 
inclusive of all Payments and Salaries for the year 
ended the 20th day of November 1856; also, the 
year in which Business commenced in each Bank, 
and the Name of the Day or Days, and the Number 
of Hours in the Week on which the Banks are open 
for the Deposit and Withdrawal of Monies (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 128, of Ses- 
sion 1857). 


Lunatic 
Asylums 
(Scotland.) 


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 
Tiouse, a Copy of a Memorial from the Inhabitants 
of Inverness to the Secretary of State for the Home 
on and, of a Minute of a General Meeting 
OL. 112. 


8° Juniz. 








199 


of the Commissioners of Supply of the County of 
Ross, on the subject of a proposed Lunatic Asylum 
for the Northern Counties 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. 


Ordered, That Mr. Neeld have leave of absence f,cave of 
for a fortnight, on account of a domestic affliction. Absence. 


Sir Benjamin Hall presented,—Return to several Saint James's 
Orders, dated the 20th day of May last, and 5th day °*™* 
of this instant June, for Returns relative to Saint 
James's Park. 
. a That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions 


Vide Tenth 
Report. 
Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Steam Vessels. 

the 11th day.of March, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, for a Return, in a Tabular Form, with Conse- 
cutive Numbers, of the whole of the Steam Vessels 
registered in the United Kingdom on or before the 
1st day of January 1857; stating, in separate 
Columns, the following Particulars: 1. Vessels’ 
Names; 2. Port of Registry; 3. Date of Build; 4. 
Registered Owners; 5. Dimensions of Vessels in 
Length and Breadth, and Depth of Hold; 6. Ton- 
nage (exclusive of Engine Room) and Gross Ton- 
nage, distinguishing Vessels built of Iron, and also 
Vessels having Screw Propellers ; 7. Estimated 
Horse Power of their Engines, and giving the Ag- 
gregate Number of Vessels and Amount of Ton- 
nage ; with an Index fur easy reference attached to 
it, giving the Names of the Vessels in Alphabetical 
Order, with Numbers to each, corresponding with 
those in the Return (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 473, of Session 1855). 

‘ — That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of Lunatic 
an Act of Parliament, was laid upon the Table by 4*yiums. 
the Clerk of the House,—Abstracts of Accounts of 
Monies received and paid on account of the several 
County and Borough Lunatic Asylums in England 
and Wales, during the year ending 31st December 
1856. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return toan Address to Church Rates, 
Her Majesty, dated the 28th day of May last, for a &amp;c. 
Return relative to Church Rates, &amp;c. , 

Return to an Order, dated the 21st day of May Court of Chan. 
last, for a Return relative to the Court of Chancery cery (Ireland.) 
(Ireland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 28th day of May Incumbered 
last, for a Return relative to the Incumbered Estates Estates Court 
Court (Jreland). Grelend.) 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- Poor Relief 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of two (eland.) 
General Orders issued by the Commissioners for 
Relief of the Poor in Jreland., 

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


Mr. Osborne presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Local Acts. 
mand,—Further Reports from the Admiralty relative No. 26. 
to ype ten for Local Acts. 

r. Osborne also presented,—Return to an Order, Slave Trade 
dated the 20th day of May last, for a Return relative (C%&gt;#-) 
to Slave Trade (Cuba). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table ; and that the first be printed, 


The Oaths Bill was, according to Order, read a Oaths Bill. 
second time ; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for Monday next. 


EE The 





Supply. 


Message from 


the Lords. 


Probates and 


Letters of 
Administra- 
tion Bill. 


Probates and 


Letters of 
Administra- 
tion Bill. 


Bill 47. 
Supply. 


Civil Buildings 


200 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £.151,744 (in addition to £.76,000 already 
voted on account), for Educational and Scientific 
Branches. 

2. £.17,305 (in addition to £. 9,000 already voted 
on account), for Rewards for Military Service. 

3. £.41,994 (in addition to £.21,000 already 
voted on account), for Pay of General Officers. 

4. £.378,706 (in addition to £.190,000 already 
voted on account), for Pay of Reduced and Retired 
Officers. 

5. £.127,378 (in addition to £.63,000 already 
voted on account), for Pensions to Widows of Of- 
— and of Allowances on the Compassionate 

ist. 

6. '£.31,863 (in addition to £.16,000 already 
voted on account), for Pensions and Allowances tu 
Officers for Wounds. 

7. £.20,941 (in addition to £.11,000 already 
voted on account), for Chelsea and Kilmainham 
Hospitals, and the In-Pensioners thereof. 

8. £.776,688 (in addition to £, 393,000 already 
voted on account), for Out-Pensioners of Chelsea 
Hospital, &amp;c. 

9. £.83,000 (in addition to £.41,000 already 
voted on account), for Superannuation and Retired 
Allowances. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to se- 
veral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Thurs- 
dav next. 

Mr. Fitz Roy 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to amend the Law relating to Probates and Letters 
of Administration in England; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 


The Probates and Letters of Administration Bill 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, a Resolution ; which was read, as followeth: 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 462,453, be granted 


and Barracks. t) Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £.231,000 


Sound Dues, 


aiready voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of Civil Buildings and Barracks at Home 
and Abroad, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of 
March 1858. inclusive. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Fitz Roy 
Souwid’ Dues, a 
followeth : . 

That a Sum of £.1,125,206 be granted to Her 
Majesty, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the 
purpose of compensating the King of Denmark for 
the abolition of the Sound Dues. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘\hat a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr, Fi itz Roy, the Chancellor 


mourns from the Committee on the 
esolution ; which was read, as 





8°—9° 


Junii. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


of the Exchequer and Viscount Palmerston do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
~~ on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jreland) 
ill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday the 
16th day of this instant June, at l'welve of the clock, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


into a Committee on the Joint Stock Companies ¢ 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy re- 
rted, That the Committee had gone through the 
ill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 





vy we = 


(Ireland) Bill, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Joint Stock _ 


ompanies 
ill. 


The Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill was, according Fraudulent ° 


to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Trustees, &amp;c, 


Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


All. 


The General Board of Health Bill was, according General Board 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a of Health Bill. 


Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second § 
reading of the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; 

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 Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 9° die Junii, 1857: 


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 Monday next. 


avings Banks 


(No. 2) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Joint Stock 
into a Committee on the Joint Stock Companies Act Companies 


Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent jyent Bil. 


therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the da 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Bill 48. 


being read, for the second Medical 
Profession 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 


reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill; ( 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Profession 


No. 3) Bill. 


The Alehouse Licensing Bill:was, according to Alehouse __ 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Licensing 


Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Married 


reading of the Married Women’s Reversionary In- 
terest Bill; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
‘« this day fortnight.” 
And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand of the Question ; 
The House divided, 
The 





Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 




















Ways and 
Means. 


Pimlico Im- 
provements. 


Public Offices 
Extension. 


Sheep, &amp;c. 
Contagious 
Diseases Pre- 
vention Bill. 


Contracts 
(Public De- 
partments.) 


Burials Bill. 


Pimlico Im- 
Eavenaye 


Bill 49, 


Public Offices 
Extension Bill, 


Bill 50. 


Sound Dues 
Bill. 


Bill 51. 





20 Vicroriz. 8°—9° 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Mr. Malins, } 181 

Yeas, Mr. Miles: : 

Tellers for thefSir Erskine Perry, } } 

Noes, Viscount Raynham: + . 

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 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
extend the Time for enabling the Commissioners of | 
Her Majesty’s Works to complete Improvements in 
Pimlico and in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham 
Palace: And that Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. 
Brand do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
make further Provision for enabling the Commis- 
sioners of Her Majesty’s Works to acquire a Site 
for additional Offices for the Public Service, near 
Whitehall and Her Majesty’s Palace of Westminster : | 


And that Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Brand do | — 





prepare, and bring it in. 
| 
The Select Committee on the Sheep, &amp;c. Con- | 
tagious Diseases Prevention Bill was nominated of | 
Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Stafford, Mr. Gurdon, Mr. | 
Miles, Mr. Colvile, Mr. Finlay, Mr. Caird, Mr. | 
Seymour Fitzgerald, Sir Thomas Burke and Sir | 
John Shelley ; with Power to send for persons, papers | 
and records. 
Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That Mr. Osborne be discharged from 
further attendance on the Select Committee on 
Contracts (Public Departments). 

Ordered, That Mr. Thomas George Baring be 
added to the Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday next, the Burials Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time, upon 
Wednesday the 24th day of this instant June. 


Sir Benjamin Hall presented a Bill to extend the 
Time for enabling the Commissioners of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Works to complete Improvements in Pim- 
lico and in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham Pa- 
lace: And the same was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 





Sir Benjamin Hall presented a Bill to make fur- 
ther Provision for enabling the Commissioners of | 
Her Majesty’s Works to acquire a Site for addi- | 





tional Offices for the Public Service, near Whitehall 
and Her Majesty’s Palace of Westminster : And the 
same was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- | 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be | 

rinted. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit | 

and proceed forthwith. 


| 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to carry into effect a Convention between Her Ma- | 
jesty and the King of Denmark: And the same | 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 
VoL, 112. 





201 


Junit. 
Mr. Buller reported from the Committee on Lowestoft 
Group M. of Private Bills; That in the case of nr Gas 
the Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Bill, they had Bi, — 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking out 
all reference to the guaranteed Shares ; and feund 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 

unto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Courts of Courts of Law 
Law (Dublin), which was presented upon the 5th (Dublin.) 
day of this instant June, be printed. No. 80. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Court of Court of Chan- 
Chancery (/reland), which was presented upon the “*Y (Ireland. ) 
5th day of this instant June, be printed. No. 81. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Guano, Guano. 
which was presented upon the 5th day of this in- No. 82. 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to East India, East India. 
which was presented upon the 5th day of this m- No. 83. 
stant June, be printed. 


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, 9 die Junii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Corry reported from the Committee on Railway Bille 
Group 7 of Railway Bills; That Mr. Byng (Group 7.) 
and Mr. George Vansittart, two of the Members of 
the said Committee, were not present during the 
sitting of the Committee this day. 
Ordered, That Mr. Byng be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. . 
Ordered, Vhat Mr. George Vausittart do attend 
the said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the 
clock. 


Mr. LitzRoy reported the New Brunswick and New Bruns- 
Canada Railway and Land Company Bill, with ) sane 2, Sa 
Amendments. way and Land 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. Company Bill. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Ipswich 
Ipswich Water Bill; That they had examined the Water Bill 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by altering the statement 
with regard to the purchase and monetary arrange- 
ments of the Company, in order to make the same 
in accordance with the facts of the case; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr, FitzRoy reported the Fownhope and Holme Fownhope and 
Lacy Bridge Bill, with Amendments. Holme Lacy 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. Bridge Bill. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the Bury Gas Bill 
Bury Gas Bill; That they had examined the alle- 
gations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out, that a sum 
therein-mentioned had been raised by a call on the 
shares ; by altering the amount of the sum said to 
be borrowed ; by striking out two recitals with regard 
to the limits of supply, and the Powers to be given 
to the Company; and inserting others, stating that 
under the Bury Improvement Act, the Commis- 
sioners for executing that Act had Powers to light 
the Town, and the advisability of vesting the Works 
of the Company in the Commissioners aforesaid, and 
of carrying into effect an agreement for that purpose ; 

EE2 and 








202 


and lastly, by striking out the words stating that the 
recited Act should be repealed, in order to make the 
same in accordance with the circumstances of the 
case, and the altered Provisions of the Bill; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had made 
Provision in the Bill pursuant to the Instruction of 
the House; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hardy reported from the Committee on 
Group 14 of Railway Bills; That they bad ad- 
journed to Thursday next, at Twelve o'clock, on 
account of the Business before the House at To- 
morrow morning’s sitting. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 14.) 


Standing Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select 

Orders. Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 

Cork and 1. That in the case of the Cork and Youghal 

yovesil. Railway, Petition of the Cork and Youghal Railway 
Company, for dispensing with Standing Order 130, 
the said Standing Order ought to be dispensed with ; 
and, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit, the 
Company shall be authorized to borrow, as the 
Districts named in the said Bill shall have been re- 
spectively completed and opened for Public Traffic, 
any sum not exceeding one-half of the amount which 
the Board of Trade shall certify has been expended 
upon that District. 

ay ae 2. That in the case of the Islington Parish Acts 

Amendment. Amendment Petition, the Standing Orders ought to 


be dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Banff, Macduff The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Rail- 


and Turriff . : 
way Bill was read the third time. 
Railway Bil. esolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Brighton,Hove The Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service 


pm ey Water Bill was read the third time. 
vice Water Rill, Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


European and 
Indian Junc- 

tion Telegraph 
Company Bill. 


The European and Indian Junction Telegraph 
Company Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Forth and The Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill was 
Clyde June read the third time. 
Bill. Y Resolved, That the Bill do pass, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
New River The New River Company Bill was read the third 


Company Bill. time, 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Portsmouth The Portsmouth Railway Bill was read the third 
Railway Bill. time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for enabling the Portsmouth Rail- 
way Company to execute certain Works in connexion 
with their Railway, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Saint Philio's The Saint Philip's Church, Liverpool Bill was 
Sorpool Bill read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


9° Junit. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





Ordered, That the Fraserburgh Harbour Bill, as Fraserburgh 
amended in the Committee, be taken into considera- Harbour Bill. 
tion upon Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Wycombe 
into consideration the Wycombe Railway Bill, as Railway Bill 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, Tiat the Bill be read the third time. 


The London Gas-Light Company (Capital) Bill London Gas- 


: : Light Com- 
was read a second time; and committed. pany (Capital) 


The Mallow and Fermoy and Great Southern and Mallow and 
Western Railways Bill was read a second time ; and Fermoy and 
committed. and Western 
Railways Bill, 

The Order, That the Ringwood, Christchurch and Ringwood, 
Bournemouth Railway Bill be committed, was read, oy seme 
and discharged. soneth teh. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


way Bill. 

The Order, That the Manchester, Sheffield and Manchester, 
Lincolnshire Railway (Romiley, &amp;c.) Bill be com- 5 mir 
mitted, was read, and discharged. Railway 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. Gants, &amp;e.) 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections ; That they had appointed Mon- #lections. 
day the 29th day of June instant, to choose from 
Panel No. 2, the Select Committees to try and 
determine the Maidstone Borough and the Sunder- 
land Borough Election Petitions; and Tuesday the 
30th day of June instant, to choose, from the same 
Panel, the Select Committees to try and determine 
the — City, the Tewkesbury Borough and the 
Bury Borou h Blection Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; vide Votes, 
and referred to a Select Committee. and Eleventh 
Report. 


Lord Naas reported the Wearmouth Bridge Fer- Wearmouth 





ries and Approaches Bill, with Amendments. — ail 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. Anaeeeihen 
Bill. 





Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Charitable 
mand,—Copy of Twelfth Annual Report of the Com- Donations | 
missioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland. ) 
for Ireland. 

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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Wine and 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, SPitits. 
dated the 9th day of February, in the last Session 

of Parliament, for Accounts of the Number of 
Gallons of Foreign Wine imported, of the Quanti- 

ties upon which Duty has been paid for Home 
Consumption, and the Quantities exported; also, 

the Quantities. exported on Drawback, and the 
Quantities retained for actual Consumption in the 
United Kingdom, for the year ended the 31st day 

of December 1856; distinguishing the different 
Countries from whence imported, and whether Red 

or White; together with the Quantities of each 

Sort remaining in Bond on the 31st day of Decem- 

ber 1856, distinguishing London from the Country : 
—And, of the Neubert of Proof Gallons of Rum, 
distinguishing West India, East India and Foreign ; 

also, of Brandy, Genera, and other Foreign, Co- 
lonial or Jersey Spirits imported; of the Quantities 

upon which Duty has been paid for Home Con- 


















sumption, the Quantities exported, and the ——. 
ies 














Marine 
Insurances. 
Silk. 


Saint James's 
Park. 


No. 86. 


Steam Vessels. 


No. 87. 


Church Rates, 


&amp;e. 
No. 88. 


Court of Chan- 


cery (Ireland. 
No. 89, 


Incumbered 
Estates Court 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 90. 
Slave Trade 
(Cuba.) 

No. 91. 


Hops, &amp;c. 


East India 
(Supreme 
Courts of 
Judicature.) 


Poor Law 
({reland. ) 


Westminster 
New Palace. 


20 VictToriZ. 


ties shipped as Stores and used by the Navy, for 
the year ended the 31st day of December 1856; 
together with the Quantities of each Sort remaining 
in Bond on the 31st day of December 1856, distin- 
guishing London from the Country (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 261, of Session 1856). 

Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Marine Insurances. 

Return to an Order, dated the 4th day of this 
instant June, for a Return relative to Silk. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Saint 
James’s Park which was presented upon the 8th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Steam Ves- 
sels, which was presented upon the 8th day of this 
instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Church 
Rates, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 8th day 
_ of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court of 
) Chancery (Jreland), which was presented upon the 
8th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Incum- 
bered Estates Court (Ireland), which was presented 
upon the 8th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Slave Trade 
(Cuba), which was presented upon the 8th day of 
this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Acres of Land under Cul- 
tivation for Hops, and Amount of Duty charged in 
each Collection in each year, from the year ending 
the 1st day of April 1888 to the year ending the 
Ist day of April 1857, inclusive; showing the Aver- 
age Amount of Duty per Acre in each Collection ; 
also, showing whether the Acres in the Sussex, 
Hereford or ‘Worcester Collections are according to 
Statute, or any local or customary Admeasurement; 
and distinguishing the Amount of Old Duty only, 
and showing the Average Price of Barley in each 
of the same years. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Annual Expense incurred 
by the East India Company on account of Her 
Majesty’s Supreme Courts of Judicature at Cal- 
cutta, Madras and Bombay, respectively : — And, 
showing the Number of Cases annually disposed of 
in those Courts respectively, from 1852 to 1856 
inclusive ; distinguishing the Number decided by 
them as Courts of Over and Terminer, and as Courts 
of Law, Equity, Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Juris- 
diction. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of Correspondence that has been had between 
the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland with the 
several Boards of Guardians of Unions in Ireland, 
and other Persons connected therewith, on the Sub- 
ject of the Reduction of the Salaries of Roman 
Catholic Chaplains attached to those respective 
Unions, particularly those of Baltinglass, Mount 
Mellick, Mitchelstown and Castlecomer, Youghal and 
Baillieborough ; and of the Amount and to what 
extent Reductions have been made in respect of 
such Salaries. 


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 of all further Correspondence be- 
tween the Treasury and Sir Charles Barry, and 
between the First Commissioner of the Board of 
= and Sir Charles Barry, respecting his Re- 

"OL. 112. 





9° Junii. 


203 


muneration as Architect of the New Palace at 
Westminster, up to the present time (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 405, of Session 
1856). 

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 
kore 


Ordered, That Mr. John Henry Gurney have Leave of 
leave of absence for a week, on account of a do- Absence. 
mestic affliction. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Emigration 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased — 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Names and Salaries of Her 
Majesty’s Colonial Land and Emigration Commis- 
sioners, and of all Persons of any Desamdbasion in 
their Service or Pay, on the 1st day of July 1856, 
with the Amount of their Salaries :—And, of all 
Monies received and expended by them, during 
the year ending the 31st day of December 1856, 
whether under Votes of Parliament, or from the 
Colonies, or otherwise, for the purposes of Emigya- 
tion ; and how the same have been disbursed, and 
what Number of Emigrants they assisted to go 
out, and whither, during that year. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this sa as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, East India 
a Return, showing under what Tenures, and subject =," 
to what Land Tax, Lands are held under the several ) 
Presidencies of India. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Meteorological 
mand,—Copy of Report of the Meteorological De- ee 
partment of the Board of Trade, 1857. f ws 
- ae That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Grand Juries 
dispense with the attendance of Grand Juries at eS tags 
the Central Criminal Court, and at Courts of Gene- trict.) = 
ral and Quarter Sessions holden within the Metro- 
politan Police District, except in particular Cases : 

And that Sir Frederic Thesiger, Mr. Walpole and 


Mr. Hildyard do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Land Trans- 
to examine into the allegations contained in the Port Corps. 
Petition of the Members of the Land Transport 
Corps, presented upon the 12th day of May last, 
complaining that the War Department had not ful- 
filled the conditions under which they enlisted, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Wills of Bri- 
give validity and effect to the Wills of British Sub- tish Subjects 
jects made Abroad: And that Sir FitzRoy Kelly “ 
and Mr. Malias do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Inclosure Acts 
to amend and explain the Inclosure j oor And Amendment. 
that Mr. George Clive and Mr. Steel do prepare, 

and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Lunatics 
to alter and amend the Laws respecting Lunatics (Scotland. ) 
in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate and Sir 
George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Quit or 
Return of Amount received by Her Majesty’s Com- Crown Rents 
missioners of Woods and Forests in each year, ere 
since the 1st day of October 1854, for Quit or 
Crown Rents, payable out of Ecclesiastical Bene- 
fices in Ireland. 





EE3 Ordered, 



















Highways. 


Message from 


the Lords. 


204 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to the Management of 
the Highways in England and Wales: And that Mr. 
Massey and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 


Great Southem The Lords have agreed to the Great Southern 


and Western 
Railway 


and Western Railway (Capital) Bill, without any 


(Capital) Bill. Amendment : 


Charitable 
Uses. 


Netley 
Hospital. 


Ecclesiastical 


Commission, 
&amp;e, 


Reformatory 
Schools. 


Harbours of 
Refuge. 


Marriages. 


The Lords have agreed to the Inverness and 
Nairn Railway Bill, with an Amendment ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of 
Lands for Charitable Uses: And that Mr. Atherton, 
Mr. Malins and Mr. Hadfield dv prepure, 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, Returns respecting Netley Hospital, show- 
ing by whom the Site was selected; whether any 
Reports were made on its salubrity and general 
eligibility for its purpose previous to selection, and 
by whom :—By whom the original Plans were pre- 
pared, whether they were submitted to any medical 
authority for approval, by whom they were officially 
sanctioned, and whether any Report was made upon 
them, and by whom, previous to their being sanc- 
tioned :— Statement of the alterations of or addi- 
tions to the original Plans which have been deter- 
mined on, by whom they were recommended, to 
whom they were referred tor approval :—And, Cop 
of Correspondence or Reports relating thereto which 
have led to the adoption of the amended Plan. 

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. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
further to amend the Acts relating to the Eccle- 
siastical Commissioners, and to continue the Act 
concerning the Management of Episcopal and Ca- 
pitular Estates in England: And that Sir George 
Grey, Viscount Palmerston and Mr, Massey do 

repare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to promote the Establishment and Extension of 
Reformatory Schools in England: And that Sir 
George Grey, Mr. Baines and Mr. Massey do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 

And the House havin 


Twelve of the clock on 


continued to sit till after 
‘ednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 10° die Junii, 1857: 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
detailed Stetement relative to Harbours of Refuge, 
showing the Total estimated Cost of the Works pro- 
posed ; the Sums already voted by Parliament for each 
Harbour; the Amount required to be voted in the 
present year, ending the 31st day of March 1858 ; 
and the Sums that will be necessary for the com- 
pletion of the Works :—And, Copy of Reports of 
the Engineers in charge of the Works, for the Four 
Quarters of the year ending the 31st day of March 
1857 (in_ continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 
107, of Session 1856). 


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 Return of all Marriages which have taken 





G°—16° Juni. 








A. 1857. Sess. Uf. 


place, under the Provisions of the Act 6 &amp; 7 Will. 
4, c. 85, 8. 21, since the passing of the said Act, up 
to the 31st day of December 1857, specifying the 
Number of such Marriages solemnized in each year. 
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. 


Ordered, That Mr. Ball and Mr. De Vere be Sheep, &amp;. 
added to the Select Committee on the Sheep, te. Fontagious 
Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill. vention Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Militia (Ire- 
amend the Militia (Jreland) Act, 1854: And that —— . 
Mr. Attorney General for Jreland and Sir John a sos 
Ramsden do prepare, and bring it in. 


The County Cess (Jreland) Bill was, according County Cess 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a (ireland) Bill 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


The Court of Exchequer (Jreland) Bill was, ac- Court of 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- a 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for ‘ —. 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Joint Stock 
reading of the Joint Stock Companies Bill ; cae 
And a Motion being made, and the Question , 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
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 
“ Order for the third reading of the said Bill be 
“ discharged,” 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 be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; (No 1) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this ‘“ ) 7 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill; tne) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this © ~ — 
day. 


Sir George Grey presented a Bill further to amend Ecclesiastical 
the Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, —- 
and to continue the Act concerning the Manage- Bill 52 
ment of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in Eng- “°~ 
land: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday the 
18th day of this instant June ; and to be printed. 


Sir George Grey presented a Bill to promote Reformatory 
the Establishment and Extension of Reformatory Schools Bill. 
Schools in England: And the same was read the _ Bill 53. 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Sir Frederic Thesiger presented a Bill to dispense Grand Juries 
with the attendance of Grand Juries at the Central {Metropolitan 
Criminal Court and at Courts of General and trict) Bill. 
Quarter Sessions holden within the Metropolitan — pjq) 54, 
Police District, except in particular Cases: And the 
same was read the first time ; and ordered to be read 


a second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. George Clive presented a Bill to amend and Inclosure Acts 
explain the Inclosure Acts: And the same was read — 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time ~ 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Bill 55. 
Mr. 











pee 
Bill 56. 


Charitable 
Uses Bill. 


Bill 57. 


Militia (Ire- 
land) Act 
(1854) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Bill 58. 


Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendment. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Tenth Re- 
port. ) 


Beverley 
Election. 


wrth Eastern 
an lepool 
Dock and ° 

Railway Com- 
panies’ Amal- 
gamation Bill, 





relating to the Management of the Highways in 


20 Vierortz. 
Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Laws 


England and Wales And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 23d day of this instant June; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Atherton presented a Bill to amend the Law 
relating to the Conveyance of Lands for Charitable 
Uses: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General for Ireland presented a 
Bill to amend the Militia (Jreland) Act, 1854: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next ; and to be 
printed. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in respect of 


9°—10° Juniz. 





the Petition for the Jslington Parish Acts Amend- 
ment Bill, might be read ; and the same being read ; | 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to | 
amend two several Acts passed respectively in the | 
fifth vear of the reign of his late Majesty King George | 
the Fourth, and the second year of the reign of his 
late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled re- | 
spectively, “ An Act to repeal the several Acts for | 
the Relief and Employment of the Poor of the 
Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County of | 
Middlesex ; for Lighting and Watching, and pre- | 
venting Nuisances and Annoyances therein; for | 
amending the Road from Highgate through Maiden- | 
lane, and several other Roads in the said Parish ; | 
and for providing a Chapel of Ease and an additional | 
Burying-ground for the same, and to make more | 
effectual Provisions in lieu thereof ;” and, “ An Act | 
to equalize the Ecclesiastical Burthens of the Parish 
of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County of Middle- 
sex; for pewiy altering the Application of the 
Rents and Profits of the Stonefields Estate, within 
the said Parish; for Jetting the Pews in the Parish 
Church of Saint Mury, Islington, and the Chapel of 
Ease thereto, and for other purposes connected 
therewith,’ and to make other and more effectual 
Provisions in lieu thereof: And that Mr. Thomas 


Duncombe and Mr. Cox do prepare, and bring it in. 


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








Mercurii, 10° die Junii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Wise ews from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined 
the Petitions presented upon the 8th day of this in- 


stant June, and had directed him to make a Report | 


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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Thomas Southwick and John 
Ramshaw, relating to the Borough of Beverley, is 
unobjectionable. 


A Motion being made, That the North Eastern 
and Hartlepool Dock and Railway Companies 
Amalgamation Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. Baines, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 








informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
Von, 112. 








205 


sent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
hom the House may do therein as they shall think 
t. 
Then the Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Landport 
the Landport and Southsea Improvement Bill, as #nd Southsea 
amended in the Committee ; and Amendments were — 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Lewes and 
the Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill, as amended im Uckfield 
the Committee ; and an Amendment was made to Railway Bi, 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Margate Water Bill, as Margate 
amended in the Committee, be taken into considera~ "? Bill. 
tion To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill, as Mid-Sussex 
amended in the Committee, be taken into considera~ ®#ilway Bill. 
tion upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Finsbury Park 
reading of the Finsbury Park Bill; Bil. 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Finsbury Park 
enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to form a (N° 2-) 
Park for the ‘Northern Suburbs of the Metropolis, 
to be called “ Finsbury Park:’ And that Lord 
Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Thomas Duncombe and Mr. 


Cox do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Railway Bills 
before the Committee on Group FF. of Railway (Group FF.) 
Bills, in Session 1853, be referred to the Committee = 
on Group 10 of Railway Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie wpoa the Table. Petitions. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; yige Votes, 
and referred to a Select Committee. and Eleventh 

po 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Wine and Wine and 
Spirits, which was presented upon the 9th day of Spirits. 
this instant June, be printed. No. 92. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Marine In- Marine In- 
surances, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 9th day *47nces, &amp;c. 
of this instant June, be printed. No. 93. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Silk, which Silk. 
was presented upon the 9th day of this instant June, No, 94. 
be printed. 


Mr. Wilson presented, by Her Majesty's Com- Treasury 
mand,—An Account showing all the Sums which Chest. 
have been received into the Treasury Chest (late 
Commissariat Chest Account), and which lave been 
paid out of the same, between 1st April 1855 and 
31st March 1856, and of the Assets and Liabilities 
of the Chest on the latter day. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Reer- 
reading of the Sale of Son, &amp;e. Bill ; &amp;c. Bill 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, ‘That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day six months,” 
EE4 And 








Vroperty 
Qualification 
Bill. 


Election 


Expenses Bill. 


Registration 


of Voters Bill. 


Scientific 
and Literary 


Societies Bill. 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Medical 
Profession 
(No. 1) Bill. 


Medical 
Profession 
(No, 3) Bill. 


‘Vaccination. 


206 


And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for they Mr. Hardy, 
Yeas, { Mr. Headlam: 
Tellers for the (Mr. Ker Seymer, 
Noes, Mr. William Brown: 
So it passed in the N 


}so. 
Jars. 
tive. 


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 Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Property Qualification Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 


10° Junie. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Coningham and Mr. Bar- 
row do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Group N. of Private Bills; That, in consequence (Group N.) 
of there _— no business before them, the Com- 
mittee had adjourned until Friday next, at Twelve 
of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee Metropolitan 
on Group N. of Private Bills ; That in the case of nn 
the Metropolitan New Streets and Improvements Bill, ents Bill. 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
reciting the investments of the Money previously 
appropriated by Parliament to the proposed South- 
warhk Improvement, and the increase of that Money 
from the investment of the Interest thereupon, and 
also by reciting the circumstances which render it 
desirable not to incorporate the whole of the Lands 
Clauses Consolidation Act, in order to make the 





An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Mr. Locke King, 

Yeas, \Mr. Cobbett: 

Tellers for thej Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” 
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. 


}as. 


}o4. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Election Expenses Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Urder be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of Registration of Voters Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Scientific and Literary Societies Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Wednesday the 24th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply 5 

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 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 second 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 1st day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the Ist day of July next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
repeal the Vaccination Act, 1853: And that Mr. 





be added at the end of | 


allegations of the Preamble more consistent with 
| the objects of the Bill as passed by the Committee ; 
| and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group Railway Bills 
7 of Railway Bills ; That, for the convenience of (Group 7.) 
Parties, the Committee had adjourned to Friday 
| the 12th day of June, at Twelve of the clock. 
| Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Mr. Corry reported the Ely Valley Railway Bill, Ely Valley 

_ with Amendments. ” Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 

and be printed. 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group G. of Private Bills; That Mr. Tomline, one (GP &amp;) 
of the Selected Members of the said Committee, 
was not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Tomline be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee Railway Bills 
on Group 13 of Railway Bills; That the Parties (Group 13.) 
opposing the Caledonian Railway (Lines to Gran- 
ton) Bill had stated, that the evidence of Daniel 
Reid and Alexander Adie (Engineer) was essential 
to enable them to establish their case ; and it having 
been proved that their attendance could not be pro- 
cured without the intervention of the House, he had 
been instructed to move, That Daniel Reid and Alez- 
ander Adie do attend the said Committee on Thurs- 
day the 11th day of June, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Daniel Reid and Alexander Adie 
(Engineer) do attend the said Committee To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Bramley-Moore reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Group R. of Private Bills; That the Parties (Group 8.) 
promoting the Watchet Harbour Bill had stated, 
that the evidence of James Abernethy was essential 
to enable them to establish their case ; and it having 
been proved that his attendance could not be pro- 
cured without the intervention of the House, he had 
been instructed to move, That James Abernethy do 
attend the said Committee on Friday next, the 
12th day of June, at ‘Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That Jumes Abernethy do attend the said 
Committee upon Friday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Bramley-Moore reported from the Commitee Private Bills 
on Group R. of Private Bills; That, for the conve- (Group R.) 
nience of Parties, they had adjourned till Friday 
next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the — 

r. 






































90 VicTrorRtiz. 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented, by Her 
Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Seventeenth General 
Report of the Emigration Commissioners. 

Purther Papers on the Subject of Removal of 
Inhabitants of Pitcairn’s Island to Norfolk Island: 
Parts I., II. (in continuation of Papers presented 
5th February 1857). 

Mr. Chiciester Fortescue also presented,—Return 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 22d day 
of May last, for a Return relative to the Cape of 
Good Hope. 

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


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Emigration 
Commission. 


Pitcairn’s 


Island. 


Cape of 
Good Hope. 








Jovis, 11° die Junii ; 
Anno 20° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 
R. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by omitting 
certain works relating to the Tynemouth Extension, 
and by reciting more fuliy the Provisions of the 
existing Act relating to certain Roads for which 
Bridges over the Railway were required to be con- 
structed within a limited period, and also the amount 
of Money which the Company have’ borrowed on 
mortgage ; and found the same, as amended, 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. 


Blyth and 
Tyne Railway 
Bill. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Bill; 
That a Clause has been inserted in the Bill, under 
the Standing Orders of the House of the 12th of 
March, directing that the Subscription Contract 
shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed in the last 
Session, it having been proved to the satisfaction of 
the Committee, that the deposits in respect of the 
Subscription Contract have not been withdrawn ; 
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 ; 
and be printed. 


South Durham 
and Lanca- 
shire Union 
Railway Bill. 


Keith and 
Dufftown 
Railway 
(No, 2) Bill. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) Bill; That 
it having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposit paid in respect of the Sub- 
scription Contract, in pursuance of the Standing 
Order No. 64, had not been withdrawn, they had 
inserted a Clause in the Bill enacting that such con- 
tract should be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
in the last Session of Parliament; that they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking 
out the recital relating to the use of a portion 
of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway by 
the Company ; and found the same, as amended, to 
be true ; that they had made Provision in the Bill 
pursuant to the Instruction of the House ; and that 
they had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

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


West Hartle- 
pool Harbour 
and Railway 
and North 

Eastern Rail- 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway and North 
Eastern Railway Companies Amalgamation Bill ; 
vor Com. That they had examined the allegations contained 
panies Amal. 19 the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, 
gamation Bill. by striking out such parts thereof as related to the 
amalgamation with the North Eastern Railway 
Company, in order to make the same consistent 

Vou. 112. 





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207 


with the Amendments made in the Bill; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. Adair reported from the Committee on Railway and 
Group 9 of Railway and Canal Bills; That The (aon 3 
O’ Donoghoe, one of the Members of the said Com- - 
mittee, was not present during the sitting of the 
Committee this day. 

Ordered, That The O’Donoghoe do attend the 
said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Adair reported from the Committee on Group Cannock 
9 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Cannock cen Rail- 
Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill, pursuant to the Re- Ry = 
solution of the House of the 5th day of June, the 
Committee had considered the additional Provision 
proposed to be introduced into the Bill, and had 
made Provision in the Bill accordingly, it having 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee 
that all the landowners of the Line included in the 
additional Provision have assented thereto, with the 
exception of a length of two furlongs one chain 
belonging to a landowner, of two chains over public 
roads, and of one chain and a quarter part of the 
Trent and Mersey Canal; that they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out all the recitals 
relating to the extensions and to the arrangements 
with the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and 
to the raising of further Moneys; and found the 
same, as amended, 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 Hotham reported from the Committee on Newry, 
Group 15 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Warrenpoiat 
Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway Bill, Railay Bil 
a Clause has been inserted in the Bill, under the 
Standing Orders of the House of the 12th day of 
March last, enacting that the Subscription Con- 
tract shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed in 
the last Session, it having been proved to the satis- 
facticn of the Committee that the deposits in respect 
of the Subscription Contract have not been with- 
drawn ; that the Committee had inserted in the Bill 
the additional Provision which they were authorized 
to insert by the Resolution of the House of the 5th 
June instant, and had taken satisfactory evidence of 
the matters required by the said Resolution to be 
proved before them; that they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out so much as 
describes tlhe Junction at Warrenpoint originally 
intended by the Company; and found the same, as 
amended, 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 Hotham reported from the General Com- Railway and 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills; That they had Canal Bills 


placed the Metropolitan Railway (No. 2) Bill on ans Re- 
Group 1 of Railway Bills. No. 95. 


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


Mr. Robertson reported from the Committee on Birkenhead, 
Group 6 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the Lancashire 
Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Rail- in. 
way Bill, they had examined the allegations con- way Bill. 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same, by making a few formal alterations in pur- 
suance of an arrangement come to between the pro- 
moters and certain of the opponents ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made several Amendments thereunto. 

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

Mr. 


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Vaccination 
Bill 


Bill 59. 


Salford 
Borough 
(No. 1) Bill. 


Salford 
Borough 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Manchester 
Corporation 
Bill. 


Mordon Carrs 
Drainage Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group H.) 


Carlisle and 


Hawick Rail- 


way Bill. 


Salisbury 
and Yeovil 
Railway Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group G.) 


208 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe presented a Bill to repeal 
the Vaccination Act, 1853: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday the 1st day of July next ; 
and to be printed. 


Sir Harry Verney reported from the Committee 
on Group L. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Salford Borough (No.1) Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by reciting several 
Indentures of Lease relating to the said Borough, 
and by setting forth more clearly the present position 
of the said Borough; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir Harry Verney reported from the Committee 
on Group L. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Salford Borough (No. 2) Bill had stated 
to the Committee, that it was not their intention to 
proceed with the same. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir Harry Verney reported from the Committee 
on Group L. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Manchester Corporation Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and amended the same, by reciting that the 
Parish of Manchester has been divided into District 
Parishes, under the District Parish Act; by striking 
out the Clauses empowering the Burial Board to raise 
Money, that part of the Bill having been abandoned ; 
by reciting that an arrangement to revest in the 
Earl of Derby, on payment of the purchase money, 
the land sold for the Parish Cemetery, but in con- 
sequence of the objections of the Bishop and Ge- 
neral Board of Health could not be used for such 
purpose; and by making some verbal alterations 
for the sake of greater distinctness ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Walsh reported from the Committee on 
Group H. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Mordon Carrs Drainage Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, but the same had not been proved to their sa- 
tisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Walsh reported from the Committee on 
Group H. of Private Bills; That on the application 
of the Parties they had adjourned till Monday next, 
at Two of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Carlisle and Hawick Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway 
Company, praying that Provision may be made in 
the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill for enabling 
the Zondon and South Western Railway Company 
to guarantee the amount of Loan which the Peti- 
tioners are authorized to raise, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Colonel Pennant — from the Committee on 
Group G. of Private 


one of the selected Members of the said Committee, 
was not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 


11° Junie. 








{ 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That Mr. Knatchbull be discharged 
from further attendance on the said Committee. 


Colonel Pennant reported the Dexthorpe Turnpike Dexthorpe 
Trust Bill, with Amendments. ——— 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. “"™** 


Colonel Pennant reported from the Committee Haslingden 
on Group G. of Private Bills; That in the case of 4n4 Todmor- 
the Haslingden and Todmorden Roads Bill, they had pin, 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same verbally, in order 
to meet the requirements of the case ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Pennant reported the Otley and Skipton Otley and 
Road Bill, with Amendments. &lt;a Road 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Banff, Portsoy 
and Strathisla 
Railway Bill. 


The Bridgwater Markets and Fairs Bill was read Bridgwater 
the third time. Markets and 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the **"* Bi 
Title be, An Act for regulating the Markets and 

Fairs in Bridgwater, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Zyne Improvement Bill was read the third Tyne Im- 
time. provement 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Waterford and Tramore Railway Bill was Waterford 
read the third time. and Tramore 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the ®#!!¥ey Bill 
Title be, An Act to amend and extend the Provi- 
sions of “ The Waterford and Tramore Railway Act, 
1851;” to revive and extend their Powers and increase 
their Capital, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stratford- 
the Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bill, as amended eg 
in the Committee ; and an Amendment was made to ny 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Margate 
consideration the Margate Water Bill, as amended Water Bill. 
in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


A Bill to amend two several Acts passed respec- Islington 
tively in the fifth year of the reign of his late Ma- Earish Acte 
jesty King George the Fourth, and the second year SL 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled respectively, ‘‘ An Act to repeal 
the several Acts for the Relief and Employment of 
the Poor of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, 
in the County of Middlesex; for Lighting and 
Watching, and preventing Nuisances and Annoy- 
ances therein; for amending the Road from High- 
gate through Maiden-lane, and several other Roads 
in the said Parish; and for providing a Chapel of 
Ease and an additional Burying-ground for the 











altering the Application of the Rents and Profits of 





same; and to make more effectual Provisions in 


ills; That Mr. Knatchbull, | lieu thereof; and, “ An Act to equalize the Eccle- 


siastical Burthens of the Parish of Saint Mary, 
Islington, in the County of Middlesex ; for partially 


the 


























20 VicToRIz. 


the Stonefields Estate within the said Parish ; for 
letting the Pews in the Parish Church of Saint 
Mary, Islington, and the Chapel of Ease thereto; 
and for other purposes connected therewith,” and to 
make other and more effectual Provisions in lieu 
thereof, was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Bill to enable the Metropolitan Board of 
Works to form a Park for the Northern suburbs of 
the Metropolis, to be called “‘ Finsbury Park,” was 
read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- 
ners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Finsbury Park 
(No. 2) Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time the West- 
minster Improvements (No. 3) Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- 
ners of Petitions for Private Bills; and that the 
Examiner have leave to sit and proceed forthwith. 


Westminster 
Improvements 
(No. 3) Bill. 


Fife and Kin- 
ross Railway 
Bill (1855.) 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee on the Fife and Kinross 
Railway Bill in Session 1855, be referred to the 
Cominittee on Group 13 of Railway Bills. 


Railway Bills The Order, That Mr. Byng be discharged from 


(Group 7.) further attendance on the Committee on Group 7 
of Railway Bills, was read, and discharged. 

Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 

Petitions. read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Vide Votes A Public Petition was also presented, and read; 


and Twelfth and referred to a Select Committee. 
Keport. 
Newcastle- Mr. Wrightson reported the Newcastle-under-Lyme 
—— and Leek Roads Bill, with Amendments. 
Roads Bill, Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
SelbyaniMar- Mr. Wrightson reported the Selby and Market 
_ ia” Weighton Road Bill, with Amendments. 

a Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Langport, Mr. Wrightson reported the Langport, Somerton 


Somerton and 
Castle Cary 
Roads Bill. 


and Castle Cary Roads Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Private Bills Mr. Wrightson reported from the Committee on 


(Group K-) Group K. of Private Bills; That Mr. Colvile, one 
of the selected Members of the said Committee, 
was not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Colvile do attend the said 
Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 

Savings The Order made upon the 8th day of this instant 

Banks. June, That there be laid before this House, a Return 
relative to Savings Banks, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Savings Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

anks, 


Returns from each Savings Bank in England and 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland, containing, in Co- 
lumns, the Names of the Officers, their respective 
Salaries, and other Allowances, if any; the Amount 
of Security each gives; the Numbers of Accounts 
remaining open; the Total Amount owing to Depo- 
sitors ; the ‘Total Amount invested with the Commis- 
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; 
the Rate of Interest paid to Depositors on the va- 
rious Amounts of Deposit, and the Average Rate 
of Interest on all Accounts; and the Total Amount 
of the separate Surplus Fund, on the 20th day of 
November 1856; the Rate per centum per annum 
on the Capital of the Bank for the Expenses of 
Management; the Annual Number of Receipts 
from Depositors ; the Annual Number of Payments; 
the Average Amount of Receipts; the Average 
Amount of Payments; the Number and Amount of 
Vou. 112. 


11° Junie. 


209 


Annuities granted; the Annual Expenses of Ma- 
nagement, inclusive of all Payments and Salaries, 
for the year ended the 20th day of November 1856 ; 
also, the year in which Business commenced in each 
Bank, and the Name of the Day or Days, and the 
Number of Hours in the Week, on which the Banks 
are open for the Deposit and Withdrawal of Monies 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 128, 
of Session 1857) :—And, of the Names of each Trus- 
tee and Manager, and the Number that have signed 
any writing making themselves responsible for any 
Deficiency, pursuant to the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 33, 
s. 6, and for what Amount each is so responsible; and 
also showing on how many Days during the year each 
attended at the Savings Bank during the Hours of 
Business. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Accidents on 
Return from the several Coroners of Ireland since Railways, &amp;e. 
the year 1846, of all Accidents occurring to Labour- “°™ ) 
ers or others employed in the Construction of Rail- 
ways or other Public Works where Death has been 
occasioned by the falling in of Embankments of 
Earth or other Materials. 


Mr. Buller reported from the Committee on Group Shrewsbury 
M. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Shrews- &amp;* Bill. 
bury Gas Bill, they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by inserting certain words, in order to 
make it consistent with the Clauses of the Bill; and 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. : 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Buller reported from the Committee on Group South 
M. of Private Bills; That in the case of the South Staffordshire 
Staffordshire Water Bill, they had examined the erin 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by omitting the recitals as 
to the proposed Provisions for the transfer to the 
Company of the Lichfield Conduit Lands, and the 
proposed lease of the Undertaking, which objects 
were withdrawn from the Bill by the Promoters, and 
by reciting that no Money has been borrowed on 
mortgage or bond ; and found the same, as amended, 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Buller reported from the Committee on Group Private Bills 
M. of Private Bills; That Mr. Cheetham, one of (Group M.) 
the Members of the said Committee, was not present 
during the sitting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Cheetham be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Chinese 
Return of the respective Dates of Transmission to Surveys. 
the Admiralty of any Official Surveys that may have 
been made in the Chinese Waters between Macao 
and Hong Kong since the cession of that Island to 
Her Majesty :—And, similar Return as to Official 
Surveys of all other portions of the Chinese Coast. 


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. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Trea- Treasury 
sury Chest, which was presented upon the 10th day Chest. 
of this instant June, be printed. No. 96. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Cape of Cape of 
Good Hope, which was presented upon the 10th day Good Hope. 
of this instant June, be printed. No, 97. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by East India 
the Clerk of the House,— Return to an Order, dated (Torture.) 





the 


FF2 





210 


the 29th day of May last, fora Return relative to 
East India (Torture). 


Statute Law Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
Commission. mand,—Copy of Third Report from Her Majesty's 
Commissioners for consolidating the Statute Law. 


11°—12° Juniz. 





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


Fisheries (Brie Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions of | 
= Islands an Act of Parliament,—Copy of an Order in Council | 
— containing certain Regulations for the more effectual 
carrying out of a Convention between Her Majesty 
and the King of the French, concerning Fisheries 
in the Seas between the British Islands and France. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


Duchy of 


Resvlved, That an humble Address be presented 
Lancaster. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all Manors and Estates now 
belonging to the Crown in right of the Duchy of 
Lancaster; of all Sales, Grants and Enfranchise- 
ments which have taken place since 1838; of the 
Purchases and Exchanges of Land which have been 
made since the same period ; and the Date and Term 
of all existing Leases of the Lands, Mines and Rents 
of the said Duchy. 





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. 
Bengal. A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That, from representations made to this House, 
there is reason to believe that the present adminis- 
tration of the Lower Provinces of Bengal does not 
secure to the Population the advantages of good 
Government, but that the mass of the people suffers 
grievous oppression from the Police, and the want 
of proper administration of Justice. 
And the Previous Question being put, That that 
Question be now put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Lett. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Coz, 
Yeas, Mr. Coningham ; 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, {The Earl of Mulgrave: 
So it passed in the Negative. 


_ 
}io. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 12° die Junii, 1857: 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under 
an Act of the fifteenth year of Her present Majesty, 
to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of a 


Trusts: And that Mr. Massey and Sir George Grey 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee on the Joint Stock Companies Act 
Amendment Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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 
this day. 


Turnpike 
Trusts Ar- 
rangements. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Sound Ducs 


Sou The Sound Dues Bill was, according to Order, 
ii. 


read a second time; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for this day. 


County Cess The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill, mittees on the County Cess (Jreland) Bill, and the 
and Courtof ;; &gt; ° ? 
Exchequer Court of Exchequer (Jreland) Bill; 

(Ireland) Bill. | Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
same Committee, 








A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 

mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 

Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy re- 

ported, That the Committee had gone through the County Cess 
County Cess (Zreland) Bill. (Ireland) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee Court of 
had gone through the Court of Exchequer (Jreland) Exchequer | 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without ‘el#nd) Bill 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Amendment Bill Militia 
(Ireland) Act 
(1854) Amend- 
for ment Bill. 


The Militia (Jreland) Act (1854) 
was, according to Order, read a second time ; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, 


this day. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to confirm certain Turnpike 
Provisional Orders made under an Act of the Trusts Ar- 
fifteenth year of Her present Majesty, to facilitate = 
Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts: i]! go, 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Westminster 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, provements 
, ; : -_? (No. 8) Bill, 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Westminster Improvements 
(No. 3) Bill. 

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


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 Junii; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


OLONEL Wilson Patten reported from the Standing 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, a Re- Orders. 
solution; which was read, as followeth: 

That in the case of the Carlisle and Hawick Carlisle and 
Railway Petition for additional Provision, the Hawick | 
Standing Orders ought to he dispensed with; that ®#lway Bill 
the Parties be permitted to introduce their addi- 
tional Provision, if the Committee on the Bill shall 
think fit. 

The said Resolution, being read a secund time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Cork and 
Cork and Youghal Railway Bill; That, pursuant to Youghal Rail- 
the Resolution of the House of the 9th day of June, **” _ 
the Bill, as passed by the Committee, authorizes the 
Company to borrow any sum not exceeding one-half 
of the amount expended on each district, when 
such district is completed and open to the public ; 
and that the Committee had amended the Pream- 
ble by inserting therein a recital of how much of 
the Capital of the Company had been paid, and the 
Number of the Shares surrendered ; also the expe- 
diency of reducing the Capital of the Company, 
and enabling them to borrow £.90,000 as soon as 
one-half of the reduced Capital shall have been paid 
up, and the whole thereof subscribed ; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. Hardy reported from the Committee on Railway Bills 
Group 14 of Reliver Bills; That the Parties pro- (Group 14.) 
moting the Midland Great Western Railway of Jre- 





land 




















North Eastern 
Railway (Lan- 


chester Val- 
ley Branch) 
Bill. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Eleventh 
Report.) 


Athlone 
Election. 


Pimlico Im- 
provements 
Bill, 


Public Offices 


90 Vicroriz. 12° Junie. 211 


land ( Tullamore Line) Bill had stated, that the evi- That in the case of the Public Offices Extension 

dence of William Dargan was essential to enable | Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 

them to establish their case; and it having been| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 

proved that his attendance could not be procured | 

without the intervention of the House, he had been! Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- Railway Bills 
instructed to move, That William Dargan do attend mittee on Group 11 of Railway Bills; That the (Group 11.) 
the said Committee on Tuesday the 16th day of June. Committee had adjourned till Tuesday next, it being 

Ordered, That William Dargan do attend the jnconvenient to the Members of the Committee to 
said Committee upon Tuesday next. sit before that day. 

Ordered, T i . 

Mr. Adair reported from the Committee on set nieaihratinee iain eneeatnicns 
Group 9 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
North Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley Branch) | 
Bill, it havi n prov the satisfaction of the | 7 , 
= a pg er et ' we me of the Southampton, Bristol and South Wales Railway 
Chancery, under Standing Order, No. 64, had not | 
been withdrawn, the Committee had, pursuant to | 
the Standing Orders for the suspension of Private | 
Biils of 12th March last, inserted a Clause enacting | 
that the Subscription Contract entered into with | 
respect to the proposed Undertaking previously to | 
the commencement of the last Session of Parliament | 


The Earl of March reported from the Committee Southampton, 


on Group 4 of Railw:z ills; " i Bristol and 
p 4 of Railway Bills; That in the case of South Wales 


Rail 
(Southampton and Salisbury, &amp;c.) Bill, they had Gheuthoangten 


examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 24 Salisbury, 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Earl of March reported the Bristol, South Bristol, South 


shall be as valid as if the Bill had been passed in | : . - 
the said last Session; that, in pursuance of the Re- | Wales and Southampton Union Railway Bill, with Sakcmaion 


solution of the House of the 25th day of May, the | Amendments. : = Union Rail- 
Committee had considered the porto editions | Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; way Bill. 
Provision in reference to the purchase by the North and be printed. 

Eastern Railway Company of the Undertaking of 
the Dearness Valley Railway Company, and it| The House proceeded to take into consideration Inverness 
having been proved before the Committee that the ' the Amendment made by the Lords to the Znverness 204 Nairn, 
consent of Proprietors present in person or by and Nairn Railway Bill; and the same was twice ay ae 
proxy, holding at least three-fourths of the paid-up read, and agreed to. 

Capital of both Companies represented at meetings Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

of such Companies specially convened for the pur-| Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

pose, had been given to such purchase, and it ap- | agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


pearing to the Committee that it will be for the | 

interest and conveulence of the public that such! The Burslem and Tunstall Gas Bill was read the Burslem 
purchase should be effected, the Committee had third time. and Tunstall 
inserted the proposed additional Provision for carry- —_ Resolved. That the Bill do pass. Gas Bill. 
ing that object into effect; thatthey had examined Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

the aliegations coutained in the Preamble of the Bill, Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

and amended the same, by striking out so much as 

related to the Power originally proposed to be given! The Wycombe Railway Bill was read the third Wycombe 
to the North Eastern Railway Company to take time, Railway Bill. 
and hold Shares in the Undertaking of the Dear-| Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

ness Valley Railway Company, and by inserting in| Qrdered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

lieu thereof recitals in reference to the proposed Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

sale and purchase of that Undertaking, in order to 


make the Preamble consistent with the Provisions | The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Notth- 
of the Bill as passed by them; and found the same, ‘¢he Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill, as er Railway 
as amended, to be true; and had gone through the amended in the Committee. (Capital) Bill. 


Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. Ordered, That the Bill b d the third time. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the ‘Table ; | ee ey Or ree 
and be printed. | The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Fraserburgh 
into consideration the Fraserburgh Harbour Bill, as “arbour Bill. 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments were 
ade to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Gregson reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented upon the 9th and 10th days of ™ 
this instant June, and had directed him to make a 


Report thereof to the House. | 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table;! The House, according to Order, proceeded to Margate 
ond ~ sulated. iti a ’ take into consideration the Margate Water Bill, as Water Bill. 


‘amended in the Committee. 
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had| dered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of | 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizanceto the, Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee Caledonian 
Election Petition of John M‘Donnell, relating to on Group 13 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Railway (Lines 
the Borough of Athlone, is objectionable. the Caledonian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill, it — 
The Order for referring the said Petition to the had been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and that the deposit with the Court of Exchequer in 
discharged. | Scotland, under Standing Order, No. 64, had not 
been withdrawn, and the Committee had, in terms of 
Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from , the 7th paragraph of the Standing Order for the sus- 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ;| pension of Private Bills of the 12th of March last, 
That in the case of the Pimlico Improvements Bill, inserted a Clause enacting that the Subscription 
the Standing Orders have been complied with. | Contract entered into with respect to the Under- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. _| taking authorized by the Bill prior to the last Session 
‘of Parliament shall be as valid as if the Bill had 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from | been passed in the said last Session ; that they had 


Extension Bill. one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills; | examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 


VoL. 112. FF3 same 








Railway Bills 
(Group 7.) 


Ely Tidal 
Harbour and 
Railway Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 





Vide Votes, 
and Twelfth 
Report. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 10.) 


Duchy of 
Lancaster 
(Bertolacci’s 
Petition). 


Victoria 
(London) 
Docks Bill. 


212 


same to be trve; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

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


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group 
7 of Railway Bills ; That the Parties promoting the 
laff Vale Railway Bill had stated, that the evidence 
of Evan Lewis was essential to enable them to esta- 
blish their case; and it having been proved that 
his attendance could not be procured without the } 
intervention of the House, he had been instructed to | 
move, That Evan Lewis do attend the said Com-| 
mittee on Monday the 15th day of June, at Twelve 





of the clock. ; 
Ordered, That Evan Lewis do attend the said Com- | 


mittee upon Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group 
7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Ely| 
Tidal Harbour and Railway Bill, it having been. 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the | 
deposit with the Court of Chancery, under Standing | 
Order, No. 64, had not been withdrawn, the Com- | 
mittee had, pursuant to the Standing Order for the 
suspension of Private Bills of 12th of March last, | 
inserted a Clause enacting that the Subscription | 
Contract entered into with respect to the proposed | 
Undertaking previously to the commencement of | 
the last Session of Parliament shall be as valid as | 
if the Bill had passed in the said last Session ; that 
they had examined the allegations contained in the | 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, for | 
the purpose of setting out the existing Powers of the | 
Company for raising Money; and found the same, 
as amended, 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. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Several Public Petitions were also presented, and 
read ; and referred to a Select Committee. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 10 of) 
Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That with regard to the Duchy of Lan- 
caster ( Bertolacci’s Petition), the General Committee 
of Elections have leave to make a Special Report. 

Mr. Walpole reported from the said Committee ; 
That in compliance with the Instructions of the 
House of the 4th of June instant, they had appointed 
the following five Members,— Zhomas H. Sotheron 
Estcourt, Esquire, Viscount Goderich, Thomas Wil- 
liam Bramston, Esquire, Lord Harry Vane, and 
James Hans Hamilton, Esquire, to be the Select 
Comunittee on the Duchy of Lancaster ( Bertolacci’s 
Petition). 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition of Mr. Francis Robert 
Bertolacct be referred to the Committee. 


Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee 
on Group N. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Victoria (Lundon) Docks Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by making altera- 
tions to describe more clearly the nature of the 
leases authorized by the Bill as submitted to the 
Commuttee, and by erasing the recital of the ex- 
pediency of making Provision with respect to the 
drawback on coals, coke, cinders and culm, such 
Provision being omitted from the Bill, as amended ; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


12° Juniz. 


/on Group N, of Private 
the Thames and Medway Conservancy Bill, they pj 


A. 1857. Sess. LI. 





Mr. Cornwall Legh reported the Victoria Gas Victoria Gas. 


Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee Thames and 


ills ; 


had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by recit- 
ing the rights of the Crown in sea-flows and re- 
flows; by striking out so much as related to the 
River Medway ; by inserting the agreement between 
the Crown and the Corporation of the City of Lon- 
don; by striking out the recital as to the advance 
of Money by the Corporation in aid of the improve- 
ment of the river; and by making other Amend- 
ments consequent thereon, in order to make the 
Preamble more consistent with the objects of the 
Bill as proved before the Committee; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


° Medway 
That in the case of Conservancy 


Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Seamen's 
the 5th day of this instant June, for a Return rela- Money Orders. 


tive to Seamen’s Money Orders. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


r 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to Lunatic 


Her Majesty, dated the 8th day of this instant 
June, for a Return relative to Lunatic Asylums 
(Scotland). 


Marshal of the City of Dublin, of the Pawnbrokers 
of Ireland, for the year ending 31st December 1856. 

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


an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of 
May last, for a Return relative to Hong Kong. 

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


this instant June, be printed. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Expenditure of the £.3,813,383 
voted for 136,323 Embodied Militia in 1855-6, 
stating the Average Number of Officers and Men 
embodied in that year; the Amount expended on 
the Militia; and a Statement in detail of how the 
Amount remaining was disposed of. 

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. 


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 Return of the Number of Electors in each of the 
Metropolitan Boroughs and City of Westminster on 
the Register of 1856, and the Number of all Houses 
rated to the Relief of the Poor, stating the Number 
in each Parish of the said Boroughs and City, and 
the Population thereof at the last Census. 

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 


Asylums 
(Scotland.) 


Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Pawnbrokers 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Returns of the (teland-) 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Hong Kong. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Bankruptcy Bankruptcy 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 4th day of (Iteland.) 


No. 98, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Militia. 


Electors, &amp;c. 
( Metropolis. } 


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











Supply. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Scotscraig 
Estate Bill. 





| Campbell’s 
Divorce Bill. 








20 Vicroriz®. 


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 £. 136,146, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray, 
to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense of 
Maintenance and Repairs of Royal Palaces and 
Public Buildings. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question again proposed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.118,312, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the 
Expense of Maintenance and Repairs of Royal Pa- 
laces and Public Buildings:—Motion, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Original Question again proposed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.131,646, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the 
Expense of Maintenance and Repairs of Royal Pa- 
laces and Public Buildings. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Motion and Original Question, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Motion made, and Question proposed. That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.75,781, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray, 
to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense of 
maintaining and keeping in repair the Royal Parks, 
Pleasure Grounds, and other Charges connected 
therewith. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 67,711. 6s. 
be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, 
the Expense of maintaining and keeping in repair 
the Royal Parks, Pleasure Grounds, and other 
Charges connected therewith. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.64,096, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the 
Expense of maintaining and keeping in repair the 
Royal Parks, Pleasure Grounds, and other Charges 
connected therewith. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again———put, and agreed to. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
gress 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 Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for enabling the Trustees, in whom the Lands and 
Estate of Scotscraig, in the County of Fife, are 
vested, to grant Feus of certain portions thereof ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to dissolve the Marriage of Alexander Campbell with 
Maria his now Wife, and to enable him to marry 
Vou. 112. 


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213 


again ; and for other purposes ; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the Supply. 
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- Fraudulent 
mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill ; Trustees, &amp;c. 
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; Seams. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Turnpike 
mittee on the ‘l'urnpike Trusts Abolition (Jre/and) Trsts 
Bill: Abolition _ 

r : y (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 second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; Bie (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Protection 
reading of the Protection of Female Children and of Female | 
Idiots Bill; Idiots Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday the 3d day of July next. 


The Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Bill — Stock 


was, according to Order, read the third time. —, 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ment Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 13° die Junii, 1857: 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sound Dues 
mittee on the Sound Dues Bill; 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 
“ this House will, upon this day six months, resolve 
“ itself into the said Committee,” 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 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. FitzRoy 
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 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to County Cess 
take into consideration the County Cess (Jreland) (Ireland) Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Court of Exchequer (Jreland) Bill was, ac- Court of 
cording to Order, read the third time. pen, oy 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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ee 




























Militia (Ire- 
land) Act 

(1854) Amen 
ment Bill, an 


214 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
g. mittees on the Militia (Jreland) Act (1854) Amend- 
d ment Biil, and the Alehouse Licensing Bill ; 


Alehouse Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
Licensing Bill, «sme Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 

Militia (Ire- ‘That the Committee had gone through the Militia 

Jand) Act (Ireland) Act (1854) Amendment Bill, and directed 

— eee him to report the same, without Amendment. 

; Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 

Alehouse Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee 


Licensing Bill. had gone through the Alehouse Licensing Bill; 


Grand Juries 


Ordered, That the Bi:l, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police District) 


(Metropolitan Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; 


Police Dis- 
trict) Bill. 


Inclosure Acts 


Amendment 
Lill 


Coast Guard 


Campbell's 


Divorce Bill. 


Scotscraig 
Estate Bill. 


Dundalk and 


Enniskillen 


Railway Bill. 


and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Tuesday next. 


The Inclosure Acts Amendment Dill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House for 
Thursday next. 


' Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names, Age, Date of Appointment, 
and Gross Pay and Allowances of all Persons now 
employed as Chief Officers of Coast Guard, showing 


12°—13°—-15° Junie. 





| 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group Railway Bills 
7 of Railway Bills; That, at the meeting of the (Group 7.) 
Committee this day, a Letter was received from 
Mr. Byng, one of the Members of the said Com- 
mittee, stating that he was unable, on account of 
illness, to attend the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Byng be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Sir John Walsh reported the Pulteney Town Pulteney Town 
Harbour Bill, with Amendments. Harbour Bill, 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had re 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 11th and toy 
12th days of this instant June, and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee Railway Bills 
on Group 13 of Railway Bills; That Mr. Bruen, (Gtoup 18.) 
one of the Members of the said Committee, was not 
present within one hour after the time appointed for 
the meeting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bruen be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee Caledonian 


on Group 13 of Railway Bills ; That the Parties pro- Railway 
ia : ‘ ; unning 
moting the Caledonian Railway (Running Powers) povers) Bill, 


their previous Services, whether Naval or Civil, | Bill had stated to the Committee, that it was not 
with Date of Appointment to and Discharge there- | their intention to proceed with the same. 


from. 


Campbell's Divorce Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


| 
| 


| 


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


The Earl of March reported from the Committee Dorset 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, | on Group 4 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Central Rail- 


to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
communicate to this House, a Copy of the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before their Lordships in the 
case of the said Bill: And that the Clerk do carry 
the said Message. 


The Scotscraig Estate Biil was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


And thea the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before One of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 





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Lune, 15° die Junii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 

Pye Hotham reported from the Committee 
on Group 15 of Railway Bills; That in the 

case of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill, 
in conformity with the Resolution of the House of 
the 20th day of February last, proof was given to 
the satisfaction of the Committee of the deposit of 
amended plans and sections, and that the second 
reading of the Bill had been deferred until after the 
25th day of March ; that they had examined the alle- 
gations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by omitting allegations relating 
to the abandonment of the Old Quay F.xtension and 
the construction of another Line in heu thereof; and 
found the same, as amended, 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. 


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the Dorset Central Railway Bill, it having been ““? - 


proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the 
deposit paid in respect of the Subscription Contract, 
in pursuance of the Standing Order, No. 64, had 
not been withdrawn, they had inserted a Clause in 
the Bill enacting that such Contract should be as 
valid as if the Bill had passed in the last Session of 
Parliament ; that they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Biil, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

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


The Earl of larch reported from the Committee London and 
on Group 4 of Railway bills ; That in the case of the a 
London and South Western Railway Acts Amend- prone ims 
ment Bill, it was proved to the satisfaction of the Bill 
Committee, that the deposits in respect of the Sub- 
scription Contract have not been withdrawn, and they 
have inserted the Clause required by the Standing 
Orders of the House of the 12th day of March last ; 
that they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
striking out so much as related to the proposed Rom- 
sey and Redbridge Railway, inasmuch as they were 
unanimously of opinion that it was not expedient to 
grant Powers for making that Line, by reason that the 
traffic was not such as to justify so large an outlay ; 
and because they were also unanimously satisfied 
that there was no necessity for two Lines of Railway 
between Salisbury and Southampton; and had also 
amended tiie same, by striking out so much as 
related to the Andover Canal Navigation, which 
became, on the rejection of the proposed Romsey 
and Redbridge Railway, irrelevant; and found the 
same, as amended, 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. 

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20 Victoriz. 


Lord Naas reported from the Committee on Group 
Q. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Weaver 
Navigation Bill, they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, but the same 
had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Weaver Navi- 
gation Bill. 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Deeside Extension Railway Bill ; That a Clause has 
been inserted in the Bill under the Standing Orders 
of the House of the 12th of March last, enacting 
that the Subscription Contract shall be as valid as 
if the Bill had passed in the last Session, it having 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, 
that the deposits in respect of the Subscription Con- 
tract have not been withdrawn; 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 Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and he printed. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Leslie Railway Bill; That a Clause has been in- 
serted in the Bill, under the Standing Orders of the 
House of the 12th of March, directing that the 
Subscription Contract shall be as valid as if the Bill 
had passed in the last Session, it having been proved 
to the satisfaction of the Committee that the deposits 
in respect of the Subscription Contract have not 
been withdrawn; that they had examined the alle- 
gations of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Biil, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

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


Leslie Railway 
Bill. 


Stamford and 
Essendine 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Cobbett reported from the Committee on 
Group 8 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Stamford and Essendine Railway Bill, they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking out 
such parts as relate to the expediency of using 
additional portions of the Line, Works and con- 
veniences of the Great Northern Railway Company ; 
and of authorizing the Sale or Lease of the Under- 
taking of the Company to the Great Northern Rail- 
way Company, the London and North Western 
Railway Company, and the Midland Railway Com- 
pany ; and found the same, as amended, 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. 


Railway Bills 


Mr. Cobbett reported from the Committee on 
(Group 8.) 


Group 8 of Railway Bills; That there being no 
Bill for consideration, the Committee had adjourned 
till Thursday next, at Twelve o’clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Railway Bills 


Mr. Cobbett reported from the Committee on 
(Group 8.) 


Group 8 of Railway Bills; That, at the meeting of 
the Committee this day, a telegraphic message was 
received, stating that Colonel /'ynte was unable to 
attend the Committee this day, on account of ill- 
ness. 

Ordered, That Colonel Tynte be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Sligo Borough 
Election. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Thomas Cowan and Patrick 
Farrell, relating to the Borough of Shgo, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Finsbury Park 


(No. 2) Bill Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
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215 


That in the case of the Finsbury Park (No. 2) 
Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied with. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The Glasgow City and Suburban Gas Bill was Glasgow City 
read the third time. and Suburban 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. os 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Landport and Landport 
— Improvement Bill be now read the third Improvement 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Lewes and Uckfield Railway Bill was read Lewes and 
the third time. Uckfield 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bill was read stratford- 
the third time. upon- Avon 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Wilmslow and Lawton Road Bill was read Wilmslow 
the third time ; and an Amendment was made to the 254 Lawton 
Bill. Road Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cardigan 
the Cardigan Markets and Improvement Bill, as Markets and 
amended in the Committee. suageoventans 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration gly Valley 
the Ely Valley Railway Bill, as amended in the Railway Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Fownhope and 
the Fownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bili, as oa Lacy 
amended in the Committee. einge Be 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Lowestoft 
the Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Bill, as ode Gas 
amended in the Committee. = 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Mansfield 
the Mansfield and Worksop Road Bill, as amended a Worksop 
in the Committee. oad Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Shropshire 


the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Zondon Union Rail- 


and North Western Railway, and Shropshire Canal Canal Tendon 


Companies Bill, as amended in the Committee. and North 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. | Western 
Railway, and 
Shropshire 
Canal Com. 
panies Bill. 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Wearmouth 


the Wearmouth Bridge, Ferries and Approaches Bill, Bridge, q 
as amended in the Committee. Aagmeauhen 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. _ Bill. 


The 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


“Wimbledon 
and Dorking 
Railway Bill. 


Mid-Sussex 


Railway Bill The Order of the day being read, for taking into 


consideration the Mid-Sussez ‘Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be taken into consideration 
To-morrow. 


The Order for referring the Andover Canal Sale 
Bill to the General Committee on Railway and 
Canal Bills, as an Opposed Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Andover Canal 
Sale Bill. 


Private Bills 


Mr. Bramley-Moore reported from the Com- 
(Group R.) 


mittee on Group R. of Private Bills; That, for the 
convenience of Parties, the Committee had adjournea 
to Wednesday next, the 17th of June, at Twelve 
of the clock. 

Ordere/, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Railway Bills 


Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on 
(Group 2.) 


Group 2 of Railway Bills; That Mr. Fortescue, one 
of the Members of the said Committee, was not 
present during the sitting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Fortescue do attend the said 
Committee To-morrow. 


\ Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Votes, Several Public Petitions were also presented, and 


andThirteenth read; and referred to Select Committees. 
Report. 


Private Bills 
(Group N.) 


Public 


Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee 
on Group N. of Private Bills; That, for the con- 
venience of the Parties, the Committee had adjourned 
to Wednesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Savings 


&gt; Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
anks. 


Return from the Savings Banks in the United King- 
dom, showing on how many days, if any, during 
the year ended the 20th day of November 1856, the 
business of receiving and paying Deposits was trans- 
actel without the presence of a Trustee or Ma- 
nager. 


Leave of 


Ordered, That Mr. Kershaw have leave of absence 
Absence. 


for ten days, on urgent business. 


Salisbury 
and Yeovil 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill, 
the Standing Orders have been complied with. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have Power to make 
Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the said 
Petiticn. 


Scotscraig 


Eetste Ba. Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 


one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 
That in the case of the Scotscraig Estate Bill, no 
Standing Orders are applicable. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Copper, &amp;c. The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Cierk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 12th day of May last, for a Return relative to 


Copper, &amp;e. 


Harbour, &amp;c- 
Bills. 


No, 2. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to Order,— Further 
Report from the Board of Trade relative to Harbour, 
&amp;c. Bills. 

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


15°—16° Juni. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Oaths Bill. 
into a Committee on the Oaths Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Cravse, N° 1 (Oath to be taken instead of Oaths 
of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration). 
Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 11: To leave 
out the words “ Ecclesiastical or Spiritual,” in order 
to insert the words “ Temporal or Civil.” 
Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 
Tellers for the Mr. Deasy, 
Noes, Mr. Roebuck: 
Another Amendment proposed, in |. 11: After 
the word “ Spiritual” to insert the words “ by law.” 
Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the / Mr. Deasy, 
Yeas, {Mr Roebuck : 
Tellers for the {The Earl of Mulgrave, lo 
Noes, UMr. Brand: J 43. 
Another Amendment proposed, in ], 12: After 


}ars. 
83 


68. 


the word “ Realm”’ to insert the words “and I do 
“ make this promise, renunciation, abjuration and 
“ declaration, heartily, willingly and truly, on the 
“ true faith of a Christian.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the; Sir Frederic Thesiger, 201 

Yeas, \ Mr. Stanhope : }2 ‘ 

Tellers for the fMr. Hayter, ] 341 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave; J°*"* 

Question proposed, That Clause 1 stand part of 
the Bill. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for ther Mr. Bentinck, } 

Yeas, Lord Robert Cecil: 143. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 1 - 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: 7° 


Clause agreed to. 

Criavses, N® 2 to 5, agreed to. 
Crause, N° 6, disagreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





continued to sit till after 
uesday morning ; 


And the House havin 
Twelve of the clock on 


Martis, 16° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Friday 
next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Cinque Ports Act 
Amendment Bill, without any Amendment. 


Cinque Ports 
Act Amende 
mert Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Chepstow Gas Bill, 
without any Amendment. : ; 
The Lords have agreed to the Reversionary Inte- Reversionary 


rest Society Bill, without any Amendment. Society Bill 


Chepstow 
Gas Bill. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act -_ Divorce 
to dissolve the Marriage of Edward Ley, Oil Cooper, 
with Rosanna Sarah Ley his now Wife, and to 


enable him to marry again; and for other purposes 
therein 

















90 VicTorRi&amp;. 


therein mentioned; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 


General Board The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
of Health Bill. nittee on the General Board of Health Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Sound Dues Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sound Dues 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Reformatory Schools Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


The County Cess (Ireland) Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


County Cess 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Militia (Ire- The Militia (Jreland) Act (1854) Amendment Bill 


_— a a. Was, according to Order, read the third time. 
one Fall Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. _ 
Fraudulent The House. according to Order, resolved itself into 
_— &amp;¢. g Committee» n the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill; 
~~ and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
Bill 61. resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Friday next. 
Turnpike The Turnpike Trusts Arrangements Bill was, ac- 
a cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
Bill” raitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 


Thursday next. 


Probatesand The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Tatvere of Ad- yeading of the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
Bill. tion Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Thurs- 
day next. 
Supply. 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. 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Burial Acts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Gapetenns mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Savings Banks 
(No. 2) Bill. 
Bill 62. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Savings Banks (No. 2) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 

Vou. 112. 





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217 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Married 
mittee on the Married Women’s Reversionary In- ¥omen's 
7 : eversionary 
terest Bill ; ss : ; Interest Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Charitable 
reading of the Charitable Uses Bill ; Uses Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of Chan- 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Zreland) Bill; —_cety (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Alehouse _ 
into consideration the Alehouse Licensing Bill, as Licensing Bill. 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Breakwaters, 
Detailed Statement of the Names of Places on the * : 
Coast of England which have been surveyed by Or- 

der of the Admiralty, with a view to the formation 

of Breakwaters, Piers or Harbours of Refuge, the 

Works of which have not been commenced, and where 

the Recommendations have not been adopted :— 

And, of the Nature of Works recommended; the 

Period required for Completion; the Estimate of 

Total Cost; and the Outlay, recommended per 

annum. 


Ordered, That Lord Naas be added to the Select Sheep, &amp;c. 
Committee on the Sheep, &amp;c. Contagious Diseases na ag 
Prevention Bill. vention Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Insurance on 
continue the Act for extending for a limited time Lives (Abate- 
the Provision for Abatement of Income Tax in re- mas 
spect of Insurance on Lives: And that Mr. Wilson tinuance. 
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Leases and 
amend the Act of the nineteenth and twentieth years Sales of Settled 
: ons ~ Estates Acts 
of Her Majesty, to facilitate Leases and Sales of amendment. 
Settled Estates: And that Mr. Whiteside and Mr. 


Matlins do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hong Kong. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence 
with Sir John Bowring on the subject of his appli- 
cation for a Vote from Parliament to defray the 
Expense of Measures of Precaution and Defence at 
pote Kong, required by the state of Affairs in 
China. 

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 Select Committee on the Land Transport Land Trans- 
Corps was nominated of Mr. Thomas Duncombe, port Corps. 
Sir John Ramsden, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, 

Sir William Codrington, Mr. Roebuck, Sir John 
Trollope, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Solicitor General and 
Colonel Pennant. 


Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Election 
for regulating the Presentation and Withdrawal of Petitions. © 
Election Petitions: And that Mr. Adderley and 
Mr, Child do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order, That leave be given to bring in the Wills of Bri- 
Wills of British Subjects Abroad Bill, was read, and ee 
discharged. — 


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218 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law relating to the Wills and to the 

nting of Administration of the Personal Estate 
of British Subjects resident or domiciled elsewhere 
than in England: And that Sir Fitz Roy Kelly, Mr. 
Malins and Lord Stanley do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to continue the Act 

§ for extending br a limited time the Provision for 

a Abatement of Income Tax in respect of Insurance 

tinuance Bill on Lives: And the same was read the first time ; 

Bill 63. and ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next ; and to be printed. 


Wills, &amp;c of 
British Sub- 
jects Ab: 


Insurance on 
Lives (Abate- 


Leases and Mr. Whiteside presented a Bill to amend the Act 


Sales of Settled of the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Ma- 
Estates Act 


Amendment 
Bill. 


jesty, to facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled 
Estates: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
the 1st day of July next; and to be printed. 


Bill 64. 


Election Mr. Adderley presented a Bill for regulating the 
Petitions Bil. Presentation and Withdrawal of Election Petitions : 
Bill 65. And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 

to be printed. 


Wills, &amp;c. of 
British Sub- 
my Abroad 


Bill 66. 


Sir FitzRoy Kelly presented a Bill to amend the 
Law relating to the Wills and to the granting of 
Administration of the Personal Estate of British 
Subjects resident or domiciled elsewhere than in 
England: And the same was read the first time ; 
ey ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday 
next; and to be printed. 


= ty Divorce  Ley’s Divorce Bill was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Licensed 
Passenger 
Brokers (Port 
of Liverpool.) 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,— Return to 
an Order, dated the 15th day of May last, for a Re- 
turn relative to Licensed Passenger Brokers (Port of 
Liverpool). 

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


Seamen’s Ordered, That the Return relative to Seamen’s 

ward Orders. Money Orders, which was presented upon the 12th 
No. 99. day of this instant June, be printed. 

Lunatic 


Asylums 
(Scotland.) 


No. 100. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lunatic 
Asylums (Scotland), which was presented upon the 
12th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Hong Kong. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hong Kong, 
No. 101. 


which was —— upon the 12th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 16° die Junii ; 


Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


Fraserburgh PRAYERS. 


snes ae. A MOTION being made, That the Fraserburgh 
Harbour Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty's Command, ac- 
quainted 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


15°—16° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill was Great North- 
read the third time. (Ca weal) 2 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the ‘“*? : 
Title be, An Act to make Provision with respect to 
Capital fraudulently created in the Great Northern 
and Kast Lincolnshire Railway Companies. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Margate Water Bill was read the third time. Margate 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Water Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Keith and 
the Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) Bill, as —- 
amended in the Committee. (No. 2) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Sittingbourne and Sheerness sittingbourne 
Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee, af oy 
taken into consideration To-morrow. mennaied 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Mid-Sussex 
take into consideration the Mid-Sussex Railway Bill, Bailway Bill. 
as amended in the Committee; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Islington Parish Acts Amendment Bill was Islington 


read a second time; and committed. Parish Acts 
care 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Staines, 
before the Committee on the Staines, Wokingham bee ee 
and Woking Railway (Reading Junction) Bill in boar _ 
Session 1855, be referred to the Committee on (Reading 


Group 1 of Railway and Canal Bills. “188. Bill 


The Order, That the Manchester, Sheffield and Manchester, 
Lincolnshire Railway (Buxton and Cleethorpes) Bill Sheffield and 
be committed, was read, and discharged. ~—— - 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Buxton and 
leethorpes) 
Bill. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Ley’s Divorce 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to Bill 
communicate to this House, a Copy of the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before their Lordships in the 
case of Ley’s Divorce Bill: And that the Clerk do 
carry the said Message. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Four- 
teenth Report. 
The House, accordin 


into a Committee on the 
(Ireland) Bill. 


to Order, resolved itself Bankruptcy 

nsolvency 
ankruptcy and Insolvency ieee 4) Bill 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Crausgs, N° 1 to N° 33 inclusive, with Amend- 
ments to several of them, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 34, disagreed to. 

Crauses, N° 35 to N° 45 inclusive, with Amend- 
ments to one of them, agreed to. 

Crauss, N° 46, postponed. 

Crauses, N° 47 to N° 83 inclusive, with Amend- 
ments to several of them, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 84 (Retiring allowance to present 
Commissioner of Insolvent Court in Zreland). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 20,1. 36: After the 
word “ Jreland” to insert the words “ and such of 
“ the officers thereof whose period of service shall 
“ exceed Thirty years.” 

Question 











20 Vicrori. 


Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Clause agreed to. 
Cravuses, N°85 to N 152 inclusive, with Amend- 
ments to several of them, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
ss 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of 
Recognizances, stating that the Recognizance to the 
Election Petition of Robert Hobart and Daniel 
Lyons, relating to the City of Dublin, is unob- 
jectionable. 


Dublin City 
Election. 


A Message from the Lords by Baron Watson and 

Baron Channell : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity on 
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, without 
any Amendment :—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Princess 
a An- 
nuity Bill. 


Lord Hotham reported from the Committee on 
Group 15 of Railway Bills; That the Parties op- 
posing the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill had 
stated, that the evidence of George Wood and Wil- 
liam Lewis was essential to enable them to establish 
their case; and it having been proved that their 
attendance could not be procured without the inter- 
vention of the House, he had been instructed to 
move, That George Wood and William Lewis do 
attend the said Committee on Wednesday the 17th 
day of June, at ‘Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That George Wood and William Lewis 
do attend the said Committee ‘To-morrow, at Twelve 
of the clock. 


Railway Bills 
(Group 15.) 


Monkland Mr. Yatton Fgerton reported from the Com- 
Railways Bill. mittee on Group 12 of Railway Bills; That in the 
case of the Monkland Railways Bill, it had been 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the 
deposit with the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 
under Standing Order, No. 64, had not been with- 
drawn; and the Committee had, in terms of the 
seventh paragraph of the Standing Orders for the 
suspension of Private Bills of the 12th of March 
last, inserted a Clause enacting that the Subscription 
Contract entered into with respect to the Under- 
taking authorized by the Bill prior to the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament shall be as valid as if the Bill 
had been passed in the said last Session; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Standing Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select 
Orders. Committee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; which 
was read, as followeth : 
Westminster That in the case of the Westminster Improve- 
(No.3) Bil ments (No. 3) Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 
British A Petition of the Trustees of the British Museum 
Museum, 


being offered to be presented ; 

Sir George Grey, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having 
been informed of the contents of the said Petition, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

VoL. 112. 





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219 


Then the said Petition was brought up, and read ; 
setting forth, That the only Funds belonging to the 
Petitioners for the support of the British Museum 
consist of Thirty thousand pounds, Three per centum 
Reduced Bank Annuities, the annual dividend 
whereof amounts to Nine hundred pounds ; of a be- 
quest of the late Earl of Bridgewater, the annual 
proceeds of which amount to about Four hundred and 
fifteen pounds ; and also of a bequest of the late 
Lord Farnborough, the annual proceeds of which 
amount to Eighty-six pounds three shillings and four- 
pence; 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 Huuse to grant them 
such further support towards enabling them to carry 
on the execution of the trust reposed in them by Par- 
liament for the general benefit of learning and useful 
knowledge as to the House shall seem meet. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an British 
Account of the Income and Expenditure of the Bri- Museum. 
tish Museum for the financial year ended the 31st day 
of March 1857; of the estimated Charges and Ex- 
penses for the year ending the 31st day of March 
1858 ; of the Sum necessary to discharge the same ; 
and of the Number of Persons admitted to visit the 
Museum in each year, from 1851 to 1856, both years 
inclusive ; together with a Statement of the Progress 
made in the Arrangement of the Collections, and an 
Account of Objects added to them in the year 1856. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Sewage of 
mand,—Copy of Report on the means of deodoriz- Towns. 
ing and utilizing the Sewage of Towns ; addressed 
to the Right honourable the President of the Gene- 
ral Board of Health, by Henry Austin, c. £., Chief 
a Inspector of the Board. 

Mr. Massey also presented,— Return to an Address Schools in 
to Her Majesty, Sated the 12th day of May last, Rural Dis- 
for a Return relative to Schools in Rural Districts. ““** 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Marriages. 
9th day of this instant June, for a Return relative 
to Marriages. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Committals 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—Returns from (reland.) 
the Clerks of the Crown and Clerks of tlie Peace of 
the several Counties, &amp;c., in Zreland, of the Number 
of Persons committed to the different Gaols thereof 
for Trial, in the year 1856. 

Accounts of Presentments made by the Grand Grand Jury 
Juries of the several Counties, Cities and Towns of Presentments 
Ireland, for the year 1856. ata 
; Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Wilson presented,— Return to an Address to Westminster 
Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of this instant New Palace. 
June, for a Return relative to Westminster New Pa- 
lace. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Copper, &amp;c., Copper, &amp;c. 
which was presented upon the 15th day of this in- No, 102. 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Licensed Licensed 
Passenger Brokers (Port of Liverpool), which was Passenger 


presented upon the 15th day of this instant June, of Lavensact} 


be printed. No. 103. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Hud- Hudson's Bay 
son’s Bay Company, which was presented upon the ©°™P#"Y: 
4th day of this instant June, be printed. No. 104. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Common 
Copy of any Reports made to the General Board of —e 
Health on Common Lodging-houses. : 


6a3 Resolved, 








Hop Grounds. 


Australian 
Colonies 
(Land Sales.) 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Workhouges, 
&amp;c. (Ireland.) 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Guildford 
Water Bill. 
Giustiniani’s 
Oath Bill. 


Smith’s 
Divorce Bill. 


220 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
oe directions, that there be laid before this House, 

turns of the Number of Officers, Non-commis- 
sioned Officers and Men enlisted in each of the Fo- 
reign Legions during the late War; stating in de- 
tail all Expenses incurred for —Recruiting, Embody- 
ing and Concentration of each Corps; Arming, 
Equipping, and Clothing ; Bounty, Pay and Cost of 
Sebless while serving ; any Gratuities on Dis- 
charge, and Allowance for-Conveyance to their 
Homes ; the Number of each employed on Active 
Service during the War, and the Stations at which 
the remainder were quartered :—Of the Date of 
Embodiment and of the disbanding of each :—Of 
the Quantity of Land granted to each Officer, Non- 
commissioned Officer, and Soldier of any Foreign 
Legion, either at the Cape of Good Hope, or else- 
where :—Of the Amount of any Gratuity given to 
each, either for the erection of Houses, or in lieu of 
them, or other purpose :—Of the Amount of any 
Pay or Allowance granted to each, and the Services 
they are expected to perform :—And, of the Annual 
Expense of arming, clothing and subsisting these 
Soldiers ; together with the Numbers of each Rank 
who have been thus located. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the extraordinary Rent-charge per Acre, 
in respect of Hop Grounds in different Parishes in 
the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, 
Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Nottinghamshire. 


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 Return of the Total Amount of Monies 
received from the Land Sales effected in each of 
the Australian Colonies from 1846 to 1856, both 
inclusive. 

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. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bruen have leave of absence 
for three weeks, on urgent business. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee he — to in- 
quire into the present state of the Workhouse System 
in Jreland, and into the Laws relating to Medical 
Churities and the Relief of the Sick Poor, and to 
report thereupon to the House :—And the said Mo- 
tion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from theLords, by one of their 
Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Guildford Water 
Bill, without any Amendment. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for authorizing Maria Cecilia Agatha Anna Josepha 
Laurentia Donata Melchiora Balthassara Gaspara, 
Princess Giustiniani, widow of Charles Marquess 
Bandini, to take the Oath proper to be taken by her 
prior to her Naturalization before Her Majesty’s 
Envoy Extraordinary to the Grand Duke of Tus- 
cany, or any other Member of Her Majesty’s Le- 
gation at the Court of Tuscany, and to give her 
consent in writing to the passing of the Bill for her 
Naturalization; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House. 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intitualed, An Act 
to dissolve the Marriage of Henry Smith, Esquire, 
with Julia his now Wife, and to enable him to 


16°—17°? Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


marry again; and for other purposes therein men- 
tioned ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

The Lords communicate to this House, a Copy Campbell's 
of Minutes of Evidence taken upon the second Pivorce Bill. 
reading of Campbells Divorce Bill, as desired by 
this House. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Poor Rates 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire (Metropolis.) 
into the Causes of the inequality of the Poor Rates 
in the Metropolitan District, and whether any 
measures should be adopted to render the Rates 
more equal; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers fur they Mr. Ayrton, 

Yeas, { Mr. Townsend : 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: 

So it passed in the Negative. 


81. 


123. 


, 
1 
J 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Divisions. 
posed, That the Standing Order on Divisions re- 
lating to turning the two-minute sand-glass be re- 
pealed ; 


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


Mercurii, 17° die Junii, 1857 : 


And the Question being put :—It passed in the 
Negative. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy (Volun— 
Returns of First Class Volunteers, Naval Cadets, teers, &amp;c.) 
Midshipmen and Naval Instructors, for each year, 
from 1836 to 1856 inclusive :— 





Naval 


First Class Volunteers, Naval Cadets, and Midshipmen. 
Instructors. 














Number 
on the 
List on 

3lst Dec. 
in each 
Year, 


Number discharged. 





Number 


Y 
F 


Misconduct. | Voluntarily. | smnettone, 


i 
E 


employed 
Afloat 








in each 


Year. 


Fresh Entries during the Year. 





Non-Collegians. 
Non-Collegians. 


Collegians. 












































| 


—Of Mates for 


inclusive : 


each year, from 1836 to 1856, 





Number 
on the List 
on 
31st December 
in each Year. 


Number discharged. 





Misconduct. | Voluntarily. | Promotions. 





Non-Collegians. 
Non-Collegians. 
Non-Collegians. 
Non-Collegians, 
Collegians. 
Non-Collegians. 


Collegians 





| Number made during the Year. 


| 


—Similar Return of Lieutenants :—And, similar 
Return of Commanders. 






































The 














Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Act 
(1836) Amend- 
ment Bill, 








20 VicroriZ. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Grand Juries (Jreland) 
Act (1836) Amendment Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do repurt Progress, and ask leave to sit again—-— 
put, and negatived. 


Crause, N° 1 (When no contract entered into 
for works approved of at Sessions, Grand Jury 
may do so). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1.6, to leave out 
the words “ or construction.” 

Question put, ‘That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Magan, 

Yeas, Mr. Patrick O’ Brien: 

Tellers for the { Lord Naas, 

Noes, USir Thomas Burke : 

Another Amendment proposed, in lines 8 and 9, | 
to leave out the words “ or if they shall see fit to | 
“ direct the county surveyor to execute the same.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left | 





‘out stand part of the Clause ; 


The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Magan, 
Yeas, \UMr. Patrick O’ Brien: f 
Tellers for the {Sir Robert Ferguson, 25 
Noes, Sir Thomas Burke : } — | 
Clause agreed to. 


CuiausE, N° 2 (Treasurer to advance on certifi- 
cate of surveyor any sum not exceeding that pre- 
sented for). 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Magan, 37 
Yeas, (Mr. Patrick O’ Brien : J 
Tellers for the{ Sir Robert Ferguson, } 19 

Noes, Sir Thomas Burke: , 

Crause, N° 3, agreed to. 

Clause (That if no Justice attend at the time and 
at the place appointed by the Grand Jury for hold- 
ing Presentment Sessions, the Secretary of the 
Grand Jury shall have authority to adjourn the 
time for holding such Sessions to a future day, of 
which due notice shall be given by such Secretary 
to each Justice resident in the barony for which 
such Sessions should be holden, and to each cess- 
payer selected to be associated with the Justices at 
Presentment Sessions; and it shall be lawful for ' 
such adjourned Presentment Sessions to execute all 
matters and things which the original Sessions were 
authorized to execute by said recited Act)—— | 
brought up, and read 1°. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave 
to sit again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Afterwards Motion made, and Question, That the 
Clause be read a second time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (That it shall and may be lawful 
for the Justices at Petty Sessions, before whom a 
complaint by any county surveyor against a con- 
tractor for repairing a road shall be established, to 
award such reasonable expenses to be paid by the 
contractor, or his sureties, as may be incurred by 
such surveyor in the prosecution of the suit, in- 
cluding the costs in Court; and such costs and 
expenses may be recovered in same manner and 
under same restrictions as provided for levying 
the amount for completing such contract in the Act 
19 &amp; 20 Vic. 6. 63)——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause 
be read a second time——put, and negatived. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill to be reported. 


1 36. 





16°—17° Junie. 





Vou. 112. 


221 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

P Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
ay. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Tenant Right 
reading of the Tenant Right (Jreland) Bill ; Ireland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 2¥rnpike 
— on the Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Jreland) lition (Ireload) 
Ul 5 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- Grand Juries 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan 
District) Bill; trict) Bil, 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
a 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 
“ this House will, upon this day week, 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 :—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.) 


Preamble postponed. 


Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Ayrton, 
Yeas, LMr. Scholefield ; - 
Tellers for the (on Frederic Thesiger, 
Noes, Mr. Napier : } os 
Cxause, N°1 (Attendance of Grand Jury not to 
be required at Central Criminal Court, &amp;c.) 
Question proposed, That the Clause stand part 
of the Bill. 


Notice taken, That Forty Members were not 


| present :—Committee counted; and Forty Members 


not 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 half an hour 
after Two of the clock on Wednesday morning :— 
The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without 
a Question first put, till this day. 








Mercurii, 17° die Junii ; 
Anno 20° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M* Bonham-Carter reported from the Select pubtie 
I Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 15 — 
day of this instant June, and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 


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


Mr. Wrightson reported the Prestwich, Bury and Prestwich, 


Radcliffe Roads Bill, with Amendments. a = — 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. piy), . 


Ga4 Ordered, 











222 


Ordered, That the Birkenhead, Lancashire and 
Cheshire Junction Railway Bill, as amended in the 
Committee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Birkenhead, 
Lancashire, 
and Cheshire 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


Herne Bay and 
Faversham 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment 
was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Metropolitan 
New Streets 
and Improve- 
ments Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Metropolitan New Streets and Improvements 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; and an Amend- 
ment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Portadown and Dungannon Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Portsmouth 


, The House proceeded to take into consideration 
W ater Bill. 


the Portsmouth Water Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. . 

A Clause (Regulating mode of carrying main pipe 
across Hillsea Creek), was twice read; and made 
part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Admiralty may remove aban- 
doned pipes), was twice read ; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bil! be read the third time. 


roceeded to take into consideration 
am and Lancashire Union Railway 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


South Durham The House 
and Lancashire S 

Walon Hall the South Dur 
way Bill. 


West Hartlee The House proceeded to take into consideration 
pool Harbour the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Bill 
Bill Gchamona (changed from “ West Hartlepool Harbour and 
from “West Ra':lway and North Eastern Railway Companies 
Amalgamation,”) as amended in the Committee. 


Hartlepool 
Harbour and "Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Railway and 
North Eastern 
Railway Com- 
panies Amal- 
gamation.”) 


Sittingbourne 


and Sheerness 
Railway Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail- 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
To-morrow. 


Campbell's Divorce Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they do hear Counsel and examine 
Witnesses for the said 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. 

Ordered, That the Copy of Minutes of Evidence 
taken upon the second reading of the said Bill, 
which was communicated from the Lords upon the 
16th day of this instant June, be referred to the 
Comuuittee. 

Smith's 


Divorce Bill Smith’s Divorce Bill was read the first time ; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 

Orilered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
request that their Lordships will be pleased to com- 
municate to this House, a Copy of the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before their Lordships in the 
case of the said Bill: And that the Clerk do carry 
the suid Message. 


Giustiniani’s 


Oath Bill. Ordered, That in the case of Giustiniani’s Oath 


Bill, the Standing Orders be suspended. 
Th: said Bill was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


17° Junie. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed and to report forthwith. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Four- 
teenth Report. 
Ordered, That Mr. Shirley have leave of absence Leave of 
for six weeks, on account of illness in his family ;— Absence. 
and Mr. Henry Foley a week, on account of a 
domestic affliction. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Board of 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, Health. 
dated the 25th day of May last, for a Return re- 
lative to the Board of Health. 

Return to an Order, dated the 5th day of this Pauper 
instant June, for a Return relative to Pauper Luna- —. 
tics (Marylebone). aan 

Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of this British 
instant June, fora Return relative to the British Museum. 
Museum. 0. 105, 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of East India 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table , oneal 
by the Clerk of the House,—1. An Account of the . 
Receipts and Disbursements of the Home Trea- 
sury of the East India Company, from 1st May 
1856 to 30th April 1857 :—2. Estimate of the Re- 
ceipts and Disbursements of the Home Treasury of 
the East India Company, from 1st May 1857 to 
30th April 1858 :—3. An Account of the Debts and 
Credits in England of the Government of India on 
Ist May 1857 :—4. A List of the several Establish- 
ments of the East India Company in Eng/and, and 
the Salaries and Allowances payable by the Court 
of Directors in respect thereof, on the Ist May 1857: 

—5. An Account of new or increased Salaries, 
Establishments or Pensions payable in Great Bri- 
tain, granted or created between Ist May 1856 and 
ist May 1857 :—6. Allowances, Compensations, 
Remunerations 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 1st May 1856 and 1st May 1857 :—Com- 
—- granted between 1st May 1856 and Ist 

ay 1857, under the Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, c. 85, s. 7: 

—7. To the Widows and Children of deceased 
Officers and Servants of the East India Company 
in England. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the British British 
Museum be referred to the Committee of Supply ; Museum. 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Marriages, Marriages. 


which was presented upon the 16th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


No. 106. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Schools in Schools in 
Rural Districts, which was presented upon the 16th — Dis- 
day of this instant June, be printed. No 107 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Westminster Westminster 
New Palace, which was presented upon the 16th New Palace. 
day of this instant June, be printed. No. 108. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Accounts re- Grand Jury 
lative to Grand Jury Presentments (Jreland), which Preseutments 
were presented upon the 16th day of this instant (men) 
June, be printed. No. 109. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- Registration 
mittees on the Registration of Long Leases (Scot- ph te 
land) Bill, and the Industrial Schools Bill ; Bill, and 
Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the Industrial 
same Committee. Schools Bill. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 


mittee. 
(In 








20 VicToriZ. 


(In Committee on Industrial Schools Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cuausss, N° 1 to N° 4, agreed to. 

Cuavsz, N° 5 (Children taken into custody for 
begging or vagrancy may be remanded while inqui- 
ries are being made). 

Amendments made. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause, as 
amended, stand part of the Bill put, and ne- 
gatived. 

Crausez, N° 6, disagreed to. 

Cuavusz, No. 7 (Justice may require security for 
the child’s good behaviour). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 22: 
After the word “ period” to insert the words “ not 
“ exceeding Two years.” 

Question proposed, 
inserted. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put ; 

The Committee divided. 

Mr. Deasy, 





That those words be there 


\ 
Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Cullagh . f 63. 
Tellers for the Noes,/ Lord Lovaine, \ 197. 


(Mr. Adderley: 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, to add, at the 

end of the said Amendment, the words “ Provided 

“ also, that no child shall be sent to any industrial 

“school, except it be within the county or the 

“ adjoining county in which the child shall be ap- 

‘« prehended.” 

Question put, That those words be there added ; 
The Committee divided. 

+ on 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ Henley, 


Mr. Napier : 
Tellers for the Noes,{ — a “4 } 200. 


Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
Cxiavse, N° 8, postponed. 


Cravuse, N° 9 (Parent may (under conditions) 
have child sent to school which he approves). 


Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Yeas,{ Thy. rot &lt;i ee } 16. 

Tellers for the Noes,{ Mr oe P } 192. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 36: To 
leave out the words “and pays or finds good secu- 
“‘ rity to pay any expenses which may be incurred 
“ in consequence of his objection.” 

And, it being a quarter before Six of the clock, 
the Chairman left the chair. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 

reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
* Registration of Long Leases (Scotland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Wednesday 
the 1st day of a next; and be printed. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee 
had made Progress in the Industrial Schools Bill; 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. ‘ 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 8th day of July next, again resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Registration 
of Long Lease 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Bill 67. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Married Women Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 

Vou 112. 


Married 
Women Bill, 


17° Juniz. 


223 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Medical and 
reading of the Medical and Surgical Sciences te Sci- 
(Queen's University) (Jreland) Bill ; Univesity) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon (Ireland) Bill. 
Wednesday the 1st day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Reformatory 
reading of the Reformatory Schools Bill ; Schools Bill. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


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, upon Friday next, 

resolve itself into the said Committee. 

| 
| The Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend- Grand Juries 


; ; eq (Ireland) Act 
‘ment Bill was, according to Order, read the third (1836) Amend- 
time. ment Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Cle:k do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Alehouse 
reading of the Alehouse Licensing Bill ; Licensing Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankruptcy 
mittee on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zreland) 24 Insolvency 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, Grand Juries 
resolve itself into a Committee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan 
(Metropolitan Police District) Bill. ro cD Bi 

Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Group N. of Private Bills; That, in order to (Group N.) 
meet the convenience of the Parties, the Com- 
mittee had adjourned to Monday next, at Twelve of 
the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on Westminster 
Group 1 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Terminus 
Westminster Terminus Railway Extension (Clapham 5 wetemn 
to Norwood Abandonment) Bill, they had examined (Clapham to 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the y tee on 
Bill, and verbally amended the same; and also nent) Bill 
amended the same, by reciting that the Company 
had not commenced the Railway, nor entered into 
any Contract, nor given any Notice for entering 
upon, taking or using any land; and found the 
same, as amended, 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. Mowbray reported from the Committee on Railway Bills 
Group 10 of Railway Bills; That the Parties op- (Group 10.) 
posing the Doncaster and Wakefield Railway Bill had 
stated, that the evidence of Admiral John Milligan 
Laws was essential to enable them to establish their 
case ; and it having been proved that his attendance 
could not be procured without the intervention of the 
House, he had been instructed to move, That Admi- 
ral John Milligan Laws do attend the said Committee 
on ee the 18th day of June, at Twelve of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That Admiral John Milligan Laws do 
attend the said Committee To-morrow, at Twelve 
of the clock. 





Sir 


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224 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That, for the conve- 
nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned till 
Friday the 19th day of June, at Twelve of the clock. 

O-dered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Private Bills 
(Group A.) 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on 
Group 1 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the 
South London Railway Bill, they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, but the same had not been proved to their 
satisfaction. 

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


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Land 
Transport Corps have Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Land 
Transport Corps, which was presented upon the 21st 
day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, be 
referred to the Committee. 


And then the House adjotrned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 18° die Junii; 
Anno 20° Victorize Regine, 1857. 


PrayERSs. 
M R. Tollemache reported from the Committee 
on Group R. of Private Bills; That in the 
case of the West Somerset Mineral Railway Bill, 
which had been referred to this Committee by the 
Committee of Selection, in pursuance of a special 
Resolution of the House, it was proved to the satis- 
faction of the Committee, that the deposits in respect 
of the Subscription Contract had not been with- 
drawn ; and they have inserted the Clause required 
by the Standing Order of the House of the 12th day 
had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out certain recitals, 
and amending others, for the purpose of showing the 
amount and position of the share capital of the 
Company; and had also struck out a recital which 
had become unnecessary in consequence of the 
Amendments made in the Bill; and found the same, 
as amended, 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. 


West Somerset 
Mineral Rail- 
way Bill. 


of March last; that ~ 


Mr. Rich reported from the Committee on Group 
O. of Private Bills; That Captain Magan, one of 
the Members of the said Committee, was not present 
during the sitting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Captain Magan do attend the said 


Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Private Bills 
(Group 0.) 


A Motion being made, That the Cardigan Mar- 
kets and Improvement Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

Mr. Monsell, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted 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 
shal: think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Cardigan 
Markets and 
Improvement 
Bill. 


The Ely Valley Railway Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


17°—18° Junii. 





A. 1857. Sess. Il. 


The Fownhope and Holme Lacy Bridge Bill was Fownhope and 
read the third time. a — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
° 
The Lowestoft Water, Gas and Market Bill was Lowestoft 
read the third time. Water, Gas 
Resolved, Tliat the Bill do pass. a aes 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Mansfield and Worksop Road Bill was read Mansfield 
the third time. _ a 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. . 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Zon- Shropshire 
don and North Western Railway, and Shropshire — a a 
Canal Companies Bill was read the third time. Canal, London 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. and North 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Western 
; : Rail 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. one ane 


Shropshire 
Canal Com- 
panies Bill. 


Tearmouth Wearmouth 


A Motion being made, That the 
Bridge, 


Bridge, Ferries and Approaches Bill be now read [rose 
the third time ; Approaches 
Mr. Monsell, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- Bill. 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Wimbledon and Dorking Qailway Bill was Wimbledon 
read the third time. and Dorking 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the ®aiway Bill. 
Title be, An Act for making a Railway from the 
London and South Western Railway at Wimbledon 
to Epsom, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Blyth and 
the Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill, as amended in Tyne Railway 
the Committee. =—= 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Dartmouth and Torbay Rail- Dartmouth 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee, be taken 24 Torbay 
, 9 . omy Railway Bill. 
into consideration ‘To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Birkenhead, 
into consideration the Birkenhead, Lancashire and a. 
Cheshire Junction Railway Bill, as amended in the Function 
Committee. Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Sittingbourne 
consideration the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail- nd Sheets 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the New Brunswick and Canada New Bruns- 
Railway and Land Company Bill be re-committed oe 
to the former Committee. way and 
Company Bill. 

Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group Railway Bills 
7 of Railway Bills; That Mr. Griffith, one of the (Group 7.) 
Members of the said Commitiee, was not present 
during the sitting of the Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Griffith do attend the said 


Committee To-morrow, at I'welve of the clock. ss 
r. 








Giustiniani’s 
Oath Bill. 


Newquay Pier 
and Harbour 
and Railway 
Bill 


Newtown and 
Machynlleth 
Railway Bill. 


London (City 
Coal Duties ) 
Bill. 


Elie Harbour 
Bill 


West Somerset 


Railway Bill. 





20 Victrori2z. 





18° Junez. 225 


Mr. FitzRoy reported Giustiniani’s Oath Bill, | and found the same, as ‘amended, to be true; and 


without Amendment. 


had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- | thereunto. 


morrow. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 
Newquay Pier and Harbour and Railway Bill; That 


it was proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, | 


that the deposit in respect of the Subscription Con- 
tract had not been withdrawn; but the Contract 
having been entered into since the commencement 
of the last Session of Parliament, and not being re- 
stricted to an application in that Session, the Com- 
mittee have not inserted the Clause required by the 
Standing Order of the House of the 12th day of 
March last ; that they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by inserting recitals of the death of the 
late ‘Trustee of Treffry’s estate, and the appointment 
of his successors; and by making an alteration in 
the mode of reference to two causes in the said Pre- 
amble mentioned ; and found the same, as amended, 
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. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Bill; That it 
having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee, that the deposit with the Court of Chancery, 
under Standing Order, No. 64, had not been with- 
drawn, the Committee had, pursuant to the Standing 
Orders for the suspension of Private Bills of the 
12th March last, inserted a Clause enacting that the 
Subscription Contract entered into with respect to 
the proposed Undertaking previously to the com- 
mencement of the last Session of Parliament shall 
be as valid as if the Bill had passed in the said last 


Session; that they had examined the allegations | 


contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by striking out so much as related to 
future agreements with the Shrewsbury and Here- 
ford and Severn Valley Railway Companies ; and 
found the same, as amended, 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. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the West of Fife 


West of Fife Mineral Railway Bill; That it had been Mineral Rail- 
: way Bill. 


proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the 
deposit with the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 
under Standing Order, No. 64, had not been with- 
drawn, and the Committee had, in terms of the 7th 
paragraph of the Standing Order for the suspension 
of Private Bills of the 12th of March last, in- 
serted a Clause enacting that the Subscription Con- 
tract should be as valid as if the Bill had been passed 
in the last Session; that they had examine:l the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out so much 
thereof as related to the construction of the Branch 
Railway from the intended Branch or Extension 
Railway authorized by the said Bill at Easter 
Craigduckie Brick and Tile Works, in the Parish 
of Dunfermline, to Braehead, in the Parish of Beath, 
in order to make it consistent with the Provisions 
of the Bill as passed by the Commitiee ; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Great Yar. 
the Great Yarmouth Water Bill; That they had exa- — Water 
/mined the allegations contained in the Preamble” 


of the Bill, and amended the same, by adding to 
the recital, which describes the pecuniary condition 
of the Company, that “no preference shares had 
been created,” in order to make the same in ac- 
cordance with the facts of the case ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had made Pro- 
vision in the Bill, pursuant to the Instruction of 
the House; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





















Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 












Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; | read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
and be printed. Vide Fifteenth 
Report. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the| Mr. Mowbray reported from the Committee on Oldham, 
London (City) Coal Duties Bill; That they had ex- Group 10 of Railway Bills; That in the case of Ashton-under- 
amined the allegations contained in the Preamble of | the Oldham, Ashton-under- Lyne, and Guide Bridge Guide’ Bridge 
the Bill, and amended the same, so as to make the | Junction Railways Bill, it was proved to the satisfac- Junction 
same a more accurate statement of the objects of| tion of the Committee, that the deposit in respect of Railways Bill 


the Bill; and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Elie Harbour Bill, 
with Amendments. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on the 


the Subscription Contract had not been withdrawn, 
and they have inserted the Clause required by the 
Standing Order of the House of the 12th of March 
last; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group R. of watchet 





West Somerset Railway Bill; That a Clause has | Private Bills have leave to make a Special Report Harbour Bill. 
been inserted in the Bill, under the Standing Orders | relative to the Watchet Harbour Bill. 

of the House of the 12th of March last, enacting that} Mr. Tollemache reported from the said Com- (Special Re- 
the Subscription Contract shall be as valid as if the | mittee; That in the case of the Watchet Harbour Port) 









Bill had passed in the last Session, it having been | Bill, it aeeeners by the Bill to enable the West 


proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the | Somerset 


ineral Railway Company to advance 


deposits in respect of the Subscription Contract have | the Sum of £.10,000 to the Commissioners for 


not been withdrawn; that they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out therefrom a 
recital as to the expediency of altering and exercising 
Powers over the West Somerset Mineral Railway, 
and also making a Branch to that Railway, such 
Powers having been abandoned by the promoters ; 
Vou, 112, 








the improvement of the Harbour, on mortgage 
of the tolls, and to raise the necessary Capital 
for the purpose; that it had been proved to the 
satisfaction of the Committee, that the speedy im- 
provement of the Harbour was of great public im- 
portance ; and inasmuch as the West Somerset Mi- 
neral Railway Company are greatly interested in 

HH2 such 











Report on 
Bill. 


Banffshire 
Writ. 


Duchy of 
Lancaster 
(Bertolacci's 
Petition.) 


Stratford- 
upon-Avon 
Gas Bill. 


Dublin Port. 


Portpatrick 
and Donag- 
hadee Har- 
bours. 


Savings Banks The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, upon Monday next, on the Savings 
Banks (No. 2) Bill, was read, and discharged. 


(No. 2) Bill. 








226 


such improvements being made with reference to | 
the mineral and other traffic to be developed and | 
carried by their Railway, the Committee are of opi- | 
nion that such advance of money may be made with | 
advantage to the interests of the public and all | 
parties concerned, and that the restriction imposed 
by Standing Order, No. 133, ought not to ke en- 
forced. 

Mr. Tollemache further reported from the said | 
Committee; That they had examined the allega- | 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out several recitals | 
and parts of recitals which had become unnecessary | 
in consequence of the arrangement come to between | 
the Promoters of the said Gill and the Promoters of ' 
the Watchet Harbour Trust Bill; and had also made 
certain verbal Amendments therein ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto, 

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


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 Commissioner to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Shire of Banff, in the 
room of the Right honourable James Earl of Fife, 
who, since his Election for the said Shire, hath 
accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty’s 
Manor of Hempholme. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to the Earl Granville, the Earl of Har- 
rowby and Lord Belper to attend to be examined as 
Witnesses before the Select Committee on the Duchy 
of Lancaster ( Bertolacci’s Petition): And that the 
Clerk do carry the said Message. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 


Mr. Mitchell reported the Stratford-upun-Avon 
Gas Bill, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Accounts of all Receipts and Disburse- 
ments by the Corporation for preserving and main- 
taining the Port of Dublin, from the 31st day of 
December 1855 to the latest period to which the 
same has been made up; distinguishing the same 
under different heads, and under what authority :— 
Of all Monies borrowed by Debenture or otherwise 
under the authority of the Act 26 Geo. 3, c. 19, and 
of the Act 32 Geo. 3, c. 35, or of any other Act; 
the Rate of Interest at which the same was bor- 
rowed; what part of the same has been paid off; 
and the Annual Amount of Interest payable on the 
subsisting Debt or Debts (in continuation of Par- 
liamentary Papers, No. 57, of Session 1851; No. 
105, of Session 1853; and No. 271, of Session 
1855):—And, Statement of the Surplus Receipts 
above Disbursements for the year ending on the 31st 
day of December 1856; and of the Total Surplus 
on the above day, and of the Application or Invest- 
ment of such Surplus, and the Dates thereof, and 
of the Dividends received therefrom, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Report made by the Admiralty upon 
the Harbours of Portpatrick and J)onaghadee, 
lately examined by Captain Vetch, r. N.; together 
with the Estimate for improving the same suffi- 
ciently, so as to afford Accommodation to Vessels 
capable of undertaking the Carriage of Mails 
between Scotland and Ireland. 


18° Juniz. 














A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Last 





East India. 


India, which were presented upon the 17th day of No. 110. 


this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Pauper 
Lunatics (Marylebone), which was presented upon 
the 17th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty's Com- 


order of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State 
for the Home Department ; comprising—1. Police 
and Constabulary (Forms of); Statements of the 
Police Establishments, and Expenses ; of the Number 
of Offences committed, and Offenders apprehended ; 
also, Statements of the Number of Inquests held by 
Coroners :—2. Criminal Proceedings; Number of 
Persons committed for Trial at the Assizes and Ses- 
sions, with the Result of the Proceedings, and the 
Costs of Prosecution :—3. Prisons; State of the 
Prisons ; Number of Prisoners, Establishments, and 
Expenses; with Returns of Reformatory Schools 
and Criminal Lunatics :—being Judicial Statistics 
(Part I.): England and Wales—Police—Criminal 
Proceedings— Prisons. 

Mr. Massey also presented,— Return to an Order, 
dated the 28th day of May last, for a Return rela- 
tive to Ministers’ Money (Jreland). 


Pauper 
Lunatics 
(Marylebone.) 


No. 111. 
Judicial 


'mand,—Returns for the year 1856, compiled by Statistics. 


Ministers’ 


Money (Ire- 
land.) 


Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- Constabulary 


rections of an Act of Parliament,—Return of 
Amount of the Constabulary Force employed in 
each County, County of a City, and County of a 
Town in Ireland, on the 1st day of January 1857. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 


(Ireland. ) 


Supply. 


1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.151,744, be Army, 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Educational 


£.76,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of the Educational and Scientific 
Branches, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 


and Scientific 
Branches. 


2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.17,305, be granted Rewards 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £.9,0v0 oh noma 


already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of Rewards for Military Service, which will 
come in course of payment from the 1st day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclu- 
sive. 


3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.41,994, be granted Pay of General 


to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £. 21,000 
already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of the Pay of General Officers, which will 
come in course of payment from the 1st day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 


Officers. 


4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.378,706, be Payof Reduced 


granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of Of chy. 


£. 190,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraving the Charge of the Pay of Reduced and Re- 
tired Officers, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 


d Retired 


5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.127,378, be Pensions to 


granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£. 63,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Pensions to Widows of Offi- 
cers, and of Allowances on the Compassionate List, 
which will come in course of pepenent from the 1st 
day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 31,863, be granted 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £.16,000 
already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge 


Widows, &amp;c. 


Pensions and 
Allowances 
for Wounds. 





























Chelsea and 
Kilmainham 
Hospitals. 


Out-Pension- 
ers of Chelsea 
Hospital, &amp;c. 


Superannua- 
tion and Re- 
tired Allow- 
ances. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


South Shields 
Gas Bill. 
Sunderland 


Gas Bill. 


South Devon 
Railway Bill. 


Meriton’s 

and Hagen’s 
Sufferance 
Wharves Bill. 


Ley’s Divorce 
Bill, 


20 Vicroriz. 


Charge of Pensions and Allowances to Officers for 
Wounds, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

7. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.20,941, be granted 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £. 11,000 
already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals, and 
the In-Pensioners thereof, which will come in 
course of payment from the 1st day of April 1857 
to the 31st day of March 1858, inclusive. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.776,688, be 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£.393,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of Out-Pensioners of Chelsea 
Hospital, &amp;c., which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st dav of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 83,000, begranted 
to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of £. 41,000 
already voted on account), towards defraying the 
Charge of Superannuation and Retired Allowances, 
which will come in course of payment from the Ist 
day of April 1857 to the 3ist day of March 1858, 
inclusive. 

The first Resolution being read a second time, an 


Amendment was proposed to be made thereunto, by | 


leaving out “ £.151,744,” and inserting “ £.115,744” 
ialedd thereof. 
And the Question being put, That “ £.151,744” 
stand part of the Resolution ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, Lies 
Yeas, {The Earl of Mulgrave: Jo ™ 
Tellers for the (Sir Denham Norreys, }i7 . 
Noes, (Mr. Edward Ellice: “ 
So it passed in the Negative. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 19° die Junii, 1857: 


And the Question being put, That “£.115,744” 
be inserted instead thereof; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, loon 

Yeas, {phe Earl of Mulgrave : : pes 

Tellers for the; Mr. Blackburn, 29 

Noes, { Mr. Stuart: } . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the said Resolution, so amended, was agreed 
to, as followeth : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £,115,744, be 
granted to Her Majesty (in addition to the Sum of 
£.76,000 already voted on account), towards de- 
fraying the Charge of the Educational and Scientific 
Branches, which will come in course of payment 
from the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of 
March 1858, inclusive. 

Then the subsequent Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as folleweth : 

The Lords have agreed to the South Shields Gas 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Sunderland Gas 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the South Devon Rail- 
way Bill, without any Amendment : ° 

The Lords have agreed to Meriton’s and Hagen’s 
Sufferance Wharves Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords communicate to this House, the Mi- 


18°—19° Junii. 


227 


Ley’s Divorce Bill, as desired by this House, with 
a request that the same may be returned. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence relative Ley’s Divorce 
to Ley’s Divorce Bill, which were this day commu- Bill. 
nicated from the Lords, be referred to the Select 
Committee on Divorce Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; of Health Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


_ The Etclesiastical Corporations Bill was, accord- Ecclesiastical 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed — 
to a Select Committee. 


The Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;e. Bill was, ac- £cclesiastical 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Commission, 
mitted to a Select Committee. oo = 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 





itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Turnpike 
into a Committee on the Turnpike Trusts Arrange- Trusts Ar- 
ments Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Rin” am 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Viscount 
Duncan 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 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Burial Acts 
mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; Amendment 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bil. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Insurance on Lives (Abatement of Income Insurance on 
Tax) Continuance Bill was. according to Order, Lives (Abate- 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee So 

f the whole House, for this d —_ 
oO e, tor this day. ance Bill 

The Order of the day being read, for the second Reformatory 
reading of the Reformatory Schools Bill; Bchvols Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Inclosure Acts 
mittee on the [nclosure Acts Amendment Bill ; Amendment 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ® 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Married 
into a Committee on the Married Women’s Re- Women’s 
versionary Interest Bill. Revensionary 


Interest Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Ciause, Ne1 (Married women may dispose of 
reversionary interests in personal estate, and release 
their rights to a settlement out of such estate in 
possession). 

Amendment proposed, in p. J, 1. 5: To leave out 
the words “from and after the passing of this Act 
“it shall be lawful for every married woman,” in 
order to insert the words, “it shall be Jawful for 
“every married woman who shall be married after 
“ the passing of this Act.” 

Question, That the words “ from and after the 
“ passing of this Act” stand part of the Clause 
put, and agreed to. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 9: After 
the words “ feme sole,” to insert the words, “ Pro- 
“ vided always, That where any such future or re- 
“ versionary interest is sold, the proceeds of the sale 
“ shall be paid to, and held by, such married woman 
“ to her own use as if she were a feme sole.” 








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228 


Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravuses, N° 2 to N° 5, agreed to. 

Clause (Provided always, That it shall be lawful 
to provide by any deed or will that the Powers of 
disposition hereby given to a married woman 
shall not be exercised as to the personal estate 
conveyed, or the trusts whereof are declared by 
such deed, or to the personal estate bequeathed 
by such will), brought up, and read a first time. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second time 
—— put, and negatived. . 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Viscount 
Duncan reported, ‘That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next, 


The Charitable Uses Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Tuesday next. 


Charitable 
Uses Bill. 


Court ofChan- The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bill (Ireland) reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the sth day of July next. 


Weights and 
Measures. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Sets of Exchequer 
Standards of Weights and Measures now in use, 
when issued, and the Dates when adjusted and 
re-verified. 


Weights and 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
Measures. 


amend the Laws relating to uniformity in Weights 
and Measures: And that Mr. Adderley, Mr. Child 
aud Mr. Bass do prepare, and bring it i. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number and Description of Persons 
employed on each of the Railways in England and 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland respectively, on the 
30th day of June 1857, which may at that Date be 
open for Traffic ; also the Length of Line, with the 
Number of Stations open for Public Traffic, on the 
same day :—And, similar Return for each Line and 
Branch Line of Railway which has been authorized, 
but which may not be open for Traffic on the 30th 
day of June 1857, distinguishing the Length of each 
such Line or Branch Line on which the Works may 
be in Progress, and the Length on which they may 
not be in Progress at that Date ; and specifying the 
Act or Acts authorizing such Railways (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 409, of Session 
1856). 


Railways. 


Sites for Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 

Workhouses. facilitate the procuring of Sites for Workhouses in 
certain cases: And that Mr. Edward Bouverie and 
Mr. Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the policy of making further Grants 
of Public Money for the improvement and extension 
of Harbours of Refuge. 


Harbours of 
Refuge. 


Duchy of 
Lancaster 
( Bertolacci’s 
Petition.) 


Ordered, That Mr. Coningham be appointed to 
serve on the Select Committee on the Duchy of 
Lancaster (Bertolacci’s Petition), to examine Wit- 
nesses, but without the power of voting. 


Parochial 
Elections. 


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 Return setting forth, in Columns, the 
Names of the Parishes in Schedule (A.) of the Act 
18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 120; the Names or Numbers of 





18°—19° Juni. 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


the Wards into which each Parish has been divided 
under the Provisions of the said Act; the Number 
of Parochial Representatives for each Ward ; the 
Number of Ratepayers entitled to vote at the Pa- 
rochial Election, 1857, in each Ward; the Number 
of Persons who voted at that Election (if there was 
not any Contest, the Column to be filled up “ No 
Contest”); and the Number not voting: —And, 
similar Return for Parishes in Schedule (B.) : in case 
any Parish has not been divided, the Returns are 
to set forth, the Name of the Parish; the Number 
of Ratepayers entitled to vote at the Parochial 
Election, 1857; the Number of Persons who voted 
at that Election (if there was not any Contest, the 
Column to be filled up “ No Contest”); and the 
Number not voting (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 3, of the present Session). 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Poor Law 
Returns of the following Particulars for 1853, 1854, (Contested 
1855 and 1856 :— eames 








Name | Number of 
of | Contested Elections 
| of Guardians 
Union. in each Union. 


Namber of Complaints to 
the Poor Law Board 
of Default in the Delivery, 
Collection, and Casting-up 
of Voting Papers. 


Result, showing the 
Namber of 
Elections set aside 
in consequence of such 

fault. 








| 








| 
And, of the Number of Voting Papers sent out and 
collected at the contested Elections for Boards of 
Guardians in Parishes and Wards under the Act 
4&amp;5 Will. 4, c. 76, in the year 1857. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to alter and Lunatics __ 
amend the Laws respecting Lunatics in Scotland ; (Scotland) Bill. 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered _ Bill 68. 
to be read a second time upon Friday next; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Hong Kong. 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of 
this instant June, for a Return relative to Hong 
Kong. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Adderiey presented a Bill to amend the Laws Weights and 
relating to uniformity in Weights and Measures : Measures Bill. 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered _ Bill 69. 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Grey presented a Bill to facilitate the pro- sites for 
curing of Sites for Workhouses in certain cases: Workhouses 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered ~*~. 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and Bill 70. 
to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Veneris, 19° die Junii : 
Anno 20° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Wrightson reported the Lowestoft and Lowestoft and 


oh ies ill, with Burgh Saint 
Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and Roads Bill, with pure’ Ferry 


Amendments. and Roads 


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











Bleaching and 


Dyeing Works. 


Bathgate, 
Airdrie and 
Coatbridge 
Railway Bill. 


Fife and Kin- 
oss Railway 
Bill. 


Kinross-shire 
Railway Bill. 


Burial of the 
Dead within 
the City and 
Liberties of 

London Bill, 


Public 
Petitions 
(Fourteenth 
Report. ) 


20 VicrorizZ. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Bleach- 
ing and Dyeing Works have leave to sit this day 
till Five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 





Mr. Tatton Egerton reported from the Committee 
on Group 12 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Bathgate, Airdrie and Coatbridge Railway Bill, 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not been 
proved to their satisfaction. 

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


Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee 
on Group 13 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the Fife and Kinross Railway Bill, it was proved 
to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the de- 
posits in respect of the Subscription Contract had 
not been withdrawn; and they have inserted a 
Clause required by the Standing Order of the House 
of the 12th March last, enacting that such Con- 
tract should be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
in the last Session of Parliament; that they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking out 
part of the proposed Extension Line and the pro- 
posed Branch to Kelty, it having appeared to the 
Committee that the Fife and Kinross reag o! were 
precluded by their agreement with the Edinburgh, 
Perth and Dundce Railway Company, dated Ist 
May 1855, from making any extension of their Line 
from Kinross to join the Dunfermline Branch of 
the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway ; and by 
reciting the expediency of making a Line from 
Milnathort to the Town of Kinross; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

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


Sir Erskine Perry reported from the Committee 
on Group 13 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of 
the Kinross-shire Railway Bill, a Clause had been 
inserted in the Bill, under the Standing Orders of 
the House of the 12th March, directing that the 
Subscription Contract shall be as as valid as if the 
Bill had passed in the last Session, it having been 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the 
deposits in respect of the Subscription Contract have 
not been withdrawn; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Burial of the Dead within the City and Liberties 
of London Bill ; That they had examined the alle- 
gations contained in the Propusite of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by adding a recital, stating that 
under the 37th section of the recited Act, a Table 
of Fees to be paid to incumbents on interments had 
been agreed upon, and that the same should apply 
to the whole of the Parishes within the City of Zon- 
don, in order to make the same accord with the Pro- 
visions of the Bill; and found the same, as amended, 
to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Wise reported from the Select Committee on 


Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Peti- 
tions presented upon the 16th and 17th days of 
this instant June ; 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. 112, 





19° Junzz. 








229 


The Mid-Sussexr Railway 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, Brighton and South Coast _ at Hors- 
ham, through Billingshurst, to Pulborough, with a 
Branch from Pulborough to Caultershaw Mill, in the 
Parish of Petworth, all in the County of Sussex. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mid- Sussex 
Railway Bill. 


Giustiniani’s Oath Bill was, according to Or- Giustiniani’s 
der, read the third time. Oath Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and atquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Caledonian 
the Caledonian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill, as aye An 
amended in the Committee. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House 
the Cork and Youghal Railway Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


roceeded to take into consideration Cork and 
Youghal 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ely Tidal 
the E/y Tidal Harbour and Railway Bill, as amended — Ly 
in the Committee. aes 

A Clause (Saving rights of the Cardiff Water- 
works Company), was twice read ; and made part of 
the Bill. 

Another Clause (Saving rights of owners of Ely 
Miil), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Ordercd, That the Bill be read the taird time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Hamilton and 
the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway Bill, as en 
amended in the Committee. aoa 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ipswich — 
the Ipswich Water Bill, as amended in the Com- Water Bill 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newcastle- 
the Newcastle-under-Lyme and Leek Roads Bill, as under-Lyme 
amended in the Committee ; and an Amendment was Roads Bill. 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration North Eastern 
the North Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley Railway (Lan- 
Branch) Bill, as amended in the Committee. Branch) Bil 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newry, War- 
the Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway Tenpoint and 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. Railway Bal. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill Salford 
be re-committed to the former Committee. Borough 
(No. 1) Bill 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Shrewsbury 
the Shrewsbury Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- &amp;s Bill. 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration South Staf- 
the South Staffordshire Water Bill, as amended in frdshire 
the Committee. eas 

A Clause (Power for Justices to order repair of 
ua was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Another Clause (Form of order, and proceedings 

HH4 thereunder), 








230 


thereunder), was twice read ; and made part of the 
Bill. 
Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Dartmouth 
and Torbay 
Railway Bill. 


The House, Seeding to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Dartmouth and Torbay Rail- 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (For protection of railway near the 
sea), was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Saving rights of property in the 
soil of the Harbour of Dartmouth), was twice read ; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Scotscraig 


Estate Bill The Scotscraig Estate Bill was read a second 


time; and committed. 
Midland Mr. Hardy reported from the Committee on Group 
Bills That in the case of the Mid- 
land Great Western Railway of Ireland ( Tullamore 
Line) Bill, it having been proved to the satisfaction 
of the Committee that the deposit paid in respect of 
the Subscription Contract, in pursuance of the 
Standing Order, No. 64, had not been withdrawn, 
they had inserted a Clause in the Bill, enacting that 
such Contract should be as valid as if the Bill had 
been passed in the last Session of Parliament, as 
required by the Standing Order of the 12th March 
last; that they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the reamble of the Bill, and amended the 
same, by substituting “ Clara” for “ Tullamore” as 
the Southern Terminus of the Railway; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. 


Great Western : 
Railway of 14 of Railwa 


Ireland (Tulla- 


more Line) 
Bill. 


Great 
Southern 
and Western 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Hardy reported from the Committee on Group 
14 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the Great 
Southern and Western Extension Railway Bill, it 
having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposit with the Court of Chancery, 
under the 64th Standing Order, had not been with- 
drawn, the Committee had, pursuant to the Standin 
Orders for the suspension of Private Bills of the 
12th March last, inserted a Clause enacting that the 
Subscription Contract entered into with respect to 
the proposed Undertaking previously to the com- 
mencement of the last Session of Parliament shall 
be as valid as if the Bill had passed in the said last 
Session ; that they had examined the allegations 
contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and amended 
the same, by striking out so much thereof as related 
to the compulsory use of the Athlone Station, and a 
portion of the Railway of the Midland Company ; 
and found the same, as amended, 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. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections; That they had selected the 
following four additional Members :— George Clive, 
Esquire, William Hutt, Esquire, the Right honour- 
able Sir John Somerset Pakington, the Kizht hon- 
ourable Sir John Trollope, to be Members of the 
Chairmen’s Panel, and to serve as Chairmen of 
Election Committees for the present Session. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Controverted 


r Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
Elections. 


inittee of Elections; That they had appointed Mon- 
day the 6th day of July, to choose from Panel 
No. 3, the Select Committees to try and determine 
the Bury Saint Edmund’s Borough, the Newport 
(J:Je of Wight) Borough, and the Taunton Borough 
Election Petitions; and Tuesday the 7th day of 


19° Junie. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


July, to choose from the same Panel, the Select 
Committees to try and determine the Lambeth Bo- 
rough, the Bodmin we the Galway County of 
the Town, and the Bath City Election Petitions. 
Ordered, ‘That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Rich reported from the Committee on Group Private Bills 
O. of Private Bills; That, for the convenience of the (Group 0.) 
Parties before them, they had adjourned till Tues- 
day next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Rich reported from the Committee on Group Private Bills 
O. of Private Bills; ‘That Colonel Wynn and Mr. (Gtup 0.) 
Hopwood, two of the Members of the said Com- 
mittee, were not present during the sitting of the 
Committee this day. 

Ordered, That Colonel Wynn be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hopwocd do attend the said 
 Soemneline upon Tuesday next, at ‘T'welve of the 
clock. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. Fetitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and vide Votes, 

read; and referred to Select Committees. and Fifteenth 
A Public Petition presented upon the 17th day BePert- 

of this instant June, was referred to a Select Com- 

mittee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Broadhaven 
Copy of Report of Captain Bedford, of the Royal Harbour, &amp;. 
Navy, to the Admiralty, upon the Harbour of 
Broadhaven and Bay of Wick. 


Mr. Bramley- Moore reported from the Committee Watchet 
on Group R. of Private Bills; That in the case of -— Trust 
the Watchet Harbour Trust Bill, they had examined  ~ 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, but the same had not been proved to their 
satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


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


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s Neuchatel. 
Command,—Copy of Treaty between Her Majesty, 
the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, 
the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia and 
the Swiss Confederation, relative to Neuchdtel. 
Signed at Paris, May 26, 1857. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Trade and 
—Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, for Navigation. 
the Month ended 31st May 1857, and Five Months No. 49. 
ended 31st May 1857. 

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


Mr. Vernon Smith presented, pursuant to the East India, 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of Acts 
of the Jndian Government, from 1851 to 1856, with 
Indices. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table East India 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, (Railways) 
dated the 3d day of March, in the last Session of 
Parliament, for Returns showing the whole Outlay 
sanctioned by the East India Company for the pur- 

oses of Railways in Jndia, independently of the 
Cost of Land; specifying the Amount for each 
several Railway, and the Rates of Interest at which 
the different Sums have been guaranteed :—Showing 
the whole Amount which has been paid into — 

st 











Cheese. 


East India 
(Tenures of 
Land.) 


Common 
Lodging- 
houses. 


Margate Pier 
and Harbour. 


Ministers’ 
Money 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 113. 
Constabul. 
(Ireland. ) mal 

No. 114. 


Hong Kong. 
No. 115. 


Vessels and 
Tonnage, &amp;c. 


Netley 
Hospital. 


le 
Election 
(Newall’s 
Petition). 





20 VicTrorizZ. 


East India Company’s Treasury on account of 
Indian Railways, and the whole Amount which has 
been paid out of the East India Company’s Trea- 
sury on account of Indian Railways, down to the 
latest Period for which Accounts have been received 
in England :—Showing the direction of Lines of 
Railway sanctioned in /ndia, sketched ona Skeleton 
Map of that Country, marking the Principal Sta- 
tions, with their Distance from the Principal Termi- 
nus on each of the said Lines ; distinguishing the 
Portions of the said Lines completed, or to be com- 
leted within a given time, or already open for 
raffic, from those Portions not yet completed or 
commenced upon; and specifying the Number of 
Miles of Railway open for Traffic in each Presi- 
dency, with the Date at which the Construction of 
each several Indian Railway was begun, so far as 
the above Particulars are already known in England: 
—And, showing the Number of Miles of New Roads 
or Navigable Canals opened for Traffic in each 
several Presidency of Jndia since the year 1848, and 
the Total Amount of —— expended on their Con- 
struction; specifying the Localities of the above 
Lines of Communication, and distinguishing the 
Number of Miles, and the direction of such of the 
said New Roads as are continuously Stoned and 
Bridged and of the First Class throughout, and the 
Number of Miles and direction of such of the said 
Canals as are available for Steam Navigation. 

Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Cheese. 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of this 
instant June, for a Return relative to East India 
(Tenures of Land). 

Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of this in- 
stant June, for a Return relative to Common 
Lodging-houses. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—An Account of 
the Receipt and Application of all Monies which 
have been received by the Directors of the Margate 
Pier and Harbour Company, from the 17th day of 
April 1856 to the 11th day of April 1857, both days 
inclusive. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Ministers’ 
Money (Jreland), which was presented upon the 18th 
day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Constabulary 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 18th day of 
this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hong Kong, 
which was presented upon the 18th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return showing the Number of Vessels and 
Tonnage entered inwards and outwards at each of 
the ‘T'welve principal Ports of the United Kingdom ; 
also, the Official Value of Imports and Exports for 
each of the said Ports during the year 1856 (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 262, of Ses- 
sion 1856). 


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 of the Original Plans of the Hospital 
at Netley, with the Alterations subsequently made. 

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 Petition of John Newall, Parliamentary Agent, | 
alleging that Peter Johnson had offered the Sum | 
of £.50 to Abraham Rothwell, a Witness, 
had been served with the Speaker’s Warrant to at- | 


tend before the Select Committee to be appointed to 
Vow. 112. | 


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231 


try the Petition complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the &gt; ream of Rochdale, to induce 
him to go to New Orleans for the purpose of avoiding 
to give Evidence before the said Committee; and 
praying the House to make such Order thereon as to 
the House shall seem meet, was presented, and read, 

Ordered, That John Newall and Abraham Roth- 
well do attend this House forthwith. 

John Newall and Abraham Rothwell, attending 
according to Order, were called in, and at the Bar 
examined in relation to the matter contained in the 
said Petition: And then they withdrew. 

Ordered, That Peter Johnson and John Lord do 
attend this House forthwith. 


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


mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
ae 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 
“ it be an Instruction to the Committee, That if a 
“ Member raises a discussion on any item of the 
“Estimates, by proposing that it be omitted or 
‘“* modified, the Chairman shall confine the discussion 
“to that item, until it shall have been disposed of 
“ by the Committee ; and that the Question shall be 
“ put to the Committee on the item under discussion 
“separately and apart from the other items com- 
*“‘ prising the total amount to be voted,” 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 Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 39,691, be granted to Her 
Majesty, for the Maintenance and Repair of the 
Royal Palaces, for one year, from the 1st day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 34,765, be granted to 
Her Majesty, for the Maintenance and Repair of the 
Royal Palaces, for one year, from the 1st day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858 :—Mo- 
tion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question again proposed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.35,191, be granted to Her 
Majesty, for the Sitdntenenes and Repair of the 
Royal Palaces, for one year, from the Ist day of 
April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858 put, 
and negatived. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 60,386, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary for Main- 
tenance and Repair of Public Buildings, for pro- 
viding the necessary Supply of Water for the same, 
for Rents of Houses for the temporary Accommoda- 
tion of Public Departments, and Charges attendant 
thereon, for one year, from the Ist day of April 
1857 to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 55,661, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary for 
Maintenance and Repair of Public Buildings, for 
providing the necessary Supply of Water for the 
same, for Rents of Houses for the temporary Ac- 
commodation of Public Departments, and Charges 





who | attendant thereon, for one year, from the 1st day of 


April 1857 to the 31st day of March 1858 :—Mo- 


tion, by leave, withdrawn. 


II Original 










Message from 
the Lords. 


Bedale and 
Leyburn Rail- 
way Bill. 
Fleming’s 
Estate Bill. 


Duchy of 
Lancaster 
¢Bertolacci'’s 
Petition.) 


Sniith’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Smith's 
Divorce Bill. 


232 


Original Question 

3. £. 36,069 for 
ments. 

4. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 75.781, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray, 
to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense of 
maintaining and keeping in repair the Royal Parks, 
Pleasure Grounds, &amp;c., and other Charges connected 
the: ewith. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 63,796, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense 
of maintaining and keeping in repair the Royal 
Parks, Pieasure Grounds, &amp;c., and other Charges 
connected therewith :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question again proposed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 57,865, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense 
of maintaining and keeping in repair the Royal 
Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &amp;c., and other Charges 
connected therewith ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ( Mr. Blackburn, 

Yeas, \Mr. Bentinck : 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Original Question again proposed. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That a 

Sum, not exceeding £. 67,711. 6s. be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense 
of maintaining and keeping in repair the Royal 
Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &amp;c., and other Charges 
connected therewith——put, and negatived. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


ut, and agreed to. 
Saniine for Public Depart- 


1 os 


210. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 20° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to se- 
veral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Monday next. 

Mr. Fitz Roy 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by oue of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Bedale and Leyburn 
Railway Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to umend and explain Fleming’s Estate Act, 1852 ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords give leave to the Earl Granville (the 
Lord President), the Earl of Harrowby (the Lord 
Privy Sexl), and the Lord Be/per, to attend to give 
Evidence before the Select Committee on the Duchy 
of Laacaster ( Bertolacci’s Petition), as desired by this 
House (their Lordships in their places consenting): 

The Lords communicate to this House, Minutes 
of Evidence taken upon the second reading of 
Smith’s Divorce Bill, as desired by this House, with 
a request that the same may be returned. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence relative 
to Smith's Divorce Bill, which were this day com- 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


municated from the Lords, be referred to the Select 
Committee on Divorce Bills. 


The Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House re- Rochdale 
ported, That Peter Johnson and John Lord had been Election 


served with the Order of this House; that John . 


Lord was in attendance, but that Peter Johnson was 
not in attendance, pursuant to the said Order. 

Ordered, That Peter Johnson, having been served 
with the Order of this House to attend the House 
forthwith, and having neglected to attend, be taken 
into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House; and that Mr. Speaker do issue his 
Warrant accordingly. 

Then John Lord was called in, and examined 
at the Bar, with reference to the allegations of 
Newall’s Petition:—And then he was directed to 
withdraw. 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the matter of the Petition of John 
Newall, and to report their opinion thereupon to the 
House. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That John Lord do attend the said Com- 
mittee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ John 
“ Lord,” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “ be taken into the custody of the 
“ Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House,” 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. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by leaving out from the words 
“ John Lord” to the end of the Question, in order 
to add the words “ be re-called to the Bar,” 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 Nves to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 

Tellers for thef Mr. Buté, - 

Noes, UMr. Bowyer : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by adding at the end thereof the 
words “ upon Monday next, at One of the clock.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment and Motion were severally, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of the 
following Members: Mr. Attorney General, Lord 
John Russell, Mr. Henley, Mr. Attorney General 
for Ireland, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Edward Egerton, 
Sir Henry Willoughby, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Macaulay 
and Mr. Serjeant O’ Brien; with Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet this day 
at One of the clock. 

Ordered, That John Lord and Abraham Rothwell 
do attend the Committee at its meeting at One of 
the clock this day. 

Ordered, That the Petition of John Newall, and 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken at the Bar of 
this House relative thereto, be referred to the Com- 
mittee. 


} a2. 


ewall’s 
‘etition). 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Oaths Bill. 


consideration the Oaths Bill, as amended in the 
Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Monday next. 
The 












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The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Fraudulent 
Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Ways and 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Means. 


into the Committee of Ways and Means. 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, the Sum of £.8,000,000 
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. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

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

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


Turnpike 
Trusts Ar- 
rangements 
Bill. 


The Turnpike Trusts Arrangements Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Insuranceon The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
yan nel mittee on the Insurance on Lives (Abatement of 


Tax) Continu- Income Tax) Continuance Bill; 


ance Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Grand Juries The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
——— mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police 
trict) Bil. | District) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Contracts Ordered, That Mr. Muniz be discharged from 
(Public further attendance on the Select Committee on Con- 


a eemeates tracts (Public Departments). 
Ordered, That Mr. Newdegate be added to the 
Committee. 
Oyster . Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
pay st ge Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
and France.) give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any directions given by the Lords Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, the Lords 
Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Commis- 
sioners of the Customs, for giving effect to certain 
Rules or Bye-Laws made by the Committee of 
Council for Trade on the 21st day of May 1857, 
respecting the Oyster Fisheries in the Seas between 
the British Islands and France, as well as on all 
Parts of the Coast of Great Britain within the 
British Fishery Limits. 
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. 


Bankruptcy Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

de ll to remove doubts as to the Law of Bankruptcy and 

(Scotland.) Real Securities in Scotlund: And that the Lord 
Advocate and Sir George Grey do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Crown, &amp;e. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

— to regulate the Institution of Suits at the Instance of 


the Crown and the Public Departments, in the 
Courts of Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 

Von. 112. 





P__99° Juniz. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Court of 
regulate the Distribution of Business in the Court of Session (Scot- 
Session in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Municipal 
provide for the Extension of Municipal Boundaries Boundaries 
in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate and Sir S°o#é-) 
George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Assessments 
improve and render less expensive the mode of im- (S¢etland.) 
posing and collecting Assessments in Scotland; And 
that the Lord Advocate and Sir George Grey do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Bill Chamber 
regulate Procedure in the Bill Chamber in Scotland ; Scotland.) 
And that the Lord Advocate and Sir George Grew 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Civil Contin- 

Account of the Amount voted for Civil Contingen- 8°2¢ies- 
cies, and the Amount received in Repayment of 
Advances out of that Fund, together with the 
Amount expended in the year ended the 31st day 
of March 1857, showing the Balance at the Com- 
mencement and at the Termination of the year :— 
And, Statement of outstanding Advances made from 
Civil Contingencies, made during the year ending 
the 31st day of March 1857 (in continuation of Par- 
liamentary ate No. 347, Session 1856). 


Mr. Wilson presented,— Return to an Order, Harbours of 
dated the 9th day of this instant June, for a Return Refuge. 
relative to Harbours of Refuge. No. 116. 

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


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 


Lune, 22° die Junii ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 

R. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 

Committee on Public Petitions; That the (Fifteenth 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 18th Report.) 
and 19th days of this instant June, and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House. 


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





Mr. Mitchell reported from the Committee on Wexford 
Group S. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Ly Bridge 
Wexford Free Bridge Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by introducing werds expla- 
natory of certain Clauses of the Bill; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on Reading Rail- 
Group 1 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Ralwey Bil 
Reading Railways Junction Railway Bill, it was 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee, that the 
deposit in respect of the Subscription Contract had 
not been withdrawn, and they have inserted the 
Clause required by the Standing Order of the House 
of the 12th day of March last; 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 Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 

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234 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on 
Group 1 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
&amp;.) South Eastern Railway (Reading, &amp;c.) Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, but the same had not been proved 
to their satisfaction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The East Kent Railway (Extension to Dover) 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


East Kent 
Railway (Ex- 
tension to 
Dover) Bill. 


Herne Bay and 
Faversham 
Railway Bill. 


The Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Keith and 
Dufftown 
Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


The Keith and Dufftown Railway (No. 2) Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Metropolitan 
New Streets 
and Improve- 
ments Bill. 


The Metropolitan New Streets and Improvements 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurreuce. 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railway Bill. 


The Portadown and Dungannon Railway Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Portsmouth Water Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Portsmouth 
Water Bill. 


South Durham 
and Lancashire 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for making a Railway commencing 
by a Junction with the Haggarleazes Branch of the 
Stockton and Darlington Railway, near the Lands 
Colliery, in the County of Durham, and terminating 
by a Junction with the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail- 
way, at or near T’ebay, in the County of Westmore- 
land, and for making Arrangements with the Stock- 
ton and Darlington Railway Company, and for 
other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Bill 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorize the West Hartlepool 
Harbour and Railway Company to convert Loans 
into Debenture Stock ; to raise further Capital ; to 
arrange with Holders of Shares or Stock for Conver- 
sion thereof into other Shares or Stock, and for other 
purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


West Hartle- 
pool Harbour 
and Railway 
Bill. 


Backwater 
Bridge and 
Road Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Backwater Bridge and Road Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Bury Gas 


_ The House proceeded to take into consideration 


and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cannock 
the Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill, as Minera} Rail- 
amended in the Committee. ° Bill —_—s 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Deeside 
the Deeside Extension Railway Bill, as amended in ag 
the Committee. seated 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Langport, 
the Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Roads Bill, Somerton and 
: ‘ astle Cary 
as amended in the Committee. ads Bill; 
~ Ordered, That the Bill be read the third tinie. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Manchester 
the Manchester Corporation Bill, as amended in the Corporation 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Monkland 
the Monkland Railways Bill, as amended in the Railways Bill, 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Slaney River 
the Slaney River Improvement Bill, as amended in }mprovement 
the Committee. 

A Clause (Masters of vessels to report arrival and 
deliver account), was twice read ; and made part of 
the Bill. 

Another Clause (Evidence of tonnage of exempted 
a was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stamford and 
the Stamford and Essendine Railway Bill, as amended Essendine | 
in the Committee ; and Amendments were made to #way Bill. 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stockton 
the Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gas Consumers’ oe _ 
Companies Bill, as amended in the Committee. y son at 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. Cunpanine 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Victoria 
the Victoria Gas Bill, as amended in the Com- Gas Bill. 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Victoria 
the Victoria (London) Docks Bill, as amended in (London) 
the Committee. a Se. 

A Clause (Company not to interfere with Crown 
Land without consent of the Secretary of State 
—— was twice read; and made part of the 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Sittingbourne 
consideration the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail- ae 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee ; ented 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Finsbury Park (No. 2) Bill be Finsbury Park 
read a second time To-morrow. (No. 2) Bill. 


Ley’s Divorce Bill was read a second time ; 
committed. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they do hear Counsel and exainine 
Witnesses for the said Bill; and also that they do 


and Ley’s Divorce 
Bill. 


the Bury Gas Bill, as amended in the Committee ;| hear Counsel and examine Witnesses against the 


Biil, if the Parties concerned think fit to be heard 
by Counsel or produce Witnesses. 
Smith’s 








21 Victorre2. 


Smith’s Smith’s Divorce Bill was read asecond time ; and 
Divorce Bill. committed. 
Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 

mittee, That they do hear Counsel and examine 
Witnesses 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 Coun- 
sel or produce Witnesses. 

Westminster Ordered, That the Westminster Improvements 

Improvements (No, 3) Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday 

(No. 3) Bill. J 
next. 

Fleming's Fleming’s Estate Bill was read the first time. 

Estate Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- 
ners of Petitions for Private Bills. 

Metropolitan Mr. Cornwall Legh reported from the Committee 


— ed Group N. of Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, and amended the same, by reciting more 
fully the Provisions of the Act of 14 &amp; 15 Vic. ¢. 61, 
and the Proceedings taken under them, in order to 
make the Preamble more fully describe the objects 
of the Bill; and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


—_ Eastero Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on 
nan Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Junctionto South Eastern Railway (Greenwich Junction to 


Dartford, &amp;c.) Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill, it was proved to the satisfaction 
ae of the Committee, that the deposit with the Court of 
Chancery, under Standing Order, No. 64, has not 
been withdrawn, and that the Committee had in- 
serted a Clause, in pursuance of the Standing Order 
of the 12th of March 1857, with respect to the sus- 
pension of Private Bills, enacting that the Subscrip- 
tion Contract entered into with respect to the pro- 
posed Undertaking previously to the commencement 
of the last Session of Parliament shall be as valid as 
if the Bill had been passed during that Session ; 
that they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
striking out so much thereof as related to the pur- 
chase of additional land for the purpose of the 
London-bridge Station, the portion of the Bill to 
which that part of the Preamble related having been 
abandoned by the promoters as unnecessary ; and 
found the same, as amended, 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. 


East Somerset 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Railway Bill, 


East Somerset Railway Bill; That a Clause has 
been inseried in the Bill, under the Standing Orders 
of the House of the 12th of March, enacting that 
the Subscription Contract shall be as valid as if the 
Bill had passed in the last Session, it having been 
proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the 
deposits in respect of the Subscription Contract 
have not been withdrawn; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Private Bills 


Mr. Mitchell reported from the Committee on 
(Group S.) 


Group S. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Belfast Improvement Bill bad stated to 
the Committee, that the evidence of George Archibald 
Leach and Charles Lanyon was essential to enable 
them to establish their case; and it having been 
proved that their attendance could not be procured 
without the intervention of the House, he had been 
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235 


instructed to move, That the said George Archibald 
Leach and John Lanyon do attend the said Com- 
mittee on Tuesday the 23d day of June, at Eleven 
of the clock. 

Ordered, That George Archibald Leach and 
Charles Lanyon do attend the said Committee To- 
morrow, at Eleven of the clock. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Private Bills 
before Committees on Local and Private Bills re- (Belfast-) 
lating to Belfast, since Session 1840, be referred to 
the Committee on Group S. of Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and vide Votes, 
read ; and referred to Select Committees. "and Sixteenth 
Report. 
A Petition of William Connolly, of Market-square, Lisburn 
in the Borough of Lisburn, Innkeeper ; John Boomer, Election. 
of Bow-street, in the said Borough, Innkeeper; Joha 
M‘Intyre, of Market-square, in the said Borough, 
Cabinet-maker; and Zhomas 11 ‘Calister, Castle- 
street, in said Borough, Tailor ; Electors and Voters 
for the said Borough of Lisburn, praying to be 
admitted Parties to defend the Return for the said 
Borough, was presented, and read [Vide Appendix 
to Votes, No. 73]. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the General Committee of Elections. 
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. 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Committee on Blackburn 
Group 10 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the Railway Bill. 
Blackburn Railway Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out so much 
thereof as related to the extension of the Railway 
from the Northern end of the Croal Viaduct or near 
thereto to the City of Manchester, and alsoa Branch 
Railway out of that Extension Railway to or near 
to the Southern end of the Tonge Viaduct, as the 
Committee did not consider that portion of the Pre- 
amble proved to their satisfactiou ; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; but that in conse- 
quence of such Amendment of the Preamble, the 
Promoters had stated to the Committee that it was 
not their intention to proceed with the Bill. 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Convicts and 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Misdemean~ 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “"* 
House, Returns of all Convicts sentenced to Trans- 
portation or Penal Servitude, confined in the several 
County Gaols in Zreland on the 1st day of Novem- 
ber 1856; specifying the Date of Conviction, Age 
and Period of Sentence of each Convict :—Of all 
other Prisoners convicted by a Jury and undergoing 
Punishment in the several County Gaols in Zreland 
on the 1st day of November 1852; specifying the 
Date of Conviction and Extent of Punishment :— 
Showing the entire Cost of maintaining all Convicts 
and all other Prisoners convicted by a » eo confined 
in the several County Gaols in Jreland for the years 
1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, to the 31st day 
of December last, paid out of County Rates :—Of 
all Sums repaid to Counties in bobod from the 
Consolidated Fund for the Maintenance of Convicts 
and Misdemeanants (if any Payment made) during 
said years :—And, of all Sums paid out of the Con- 
solidated Fund to reimburse the several Counties in 
England and Wales for the Maintenance of Con- 
victs and Convicted Misdemeanants confined in the 
several Gaols during the said years; such Return 
to specify the Number in each Class, and the Ave- 

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County Rates. 


Divorce Acts. 


Queen’s Col- 


22° Juni. 


rage cost per head (in continuation of Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 412, of Session 1853). 

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. 


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 Return of the Expenditure of the Grants 
made by Parliament for the years 1852, 1853, 1854, 
1855 and 1856, in aid of County Rates, distin- 


guishing the proportion paid for Expenses of Pro- |’ 


secutions, and for Conveyance of Convicts ; show- 
ing the Amount paid by each County, Borough and 
Liberty, and the Total Amount in each year (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 66, of Ses- 
sion 1852). 

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. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 28th day of May last, for a 
Return relative to Divorce Acts. 

Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of May 


leges (Ireland.) tact, for a Return relative to Queen’s Col eges (Ire- 


East India 
(Torture.) 


No. 117. 


Cheese. 
No. 118. 


Common 
Lodging- 
houses. 

No. 119. 
East India 
(Railways. ) 

No. 120. 


East India 
(Tenures of 
Land.) 


No. 112. 


Board of 
Health. 


No. 121. 


Oaths Bill. 


land). 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Torture), which was presented upon the 11th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Cheese, 
which was presented upon the 19th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Common 
Lodging-houses, which was presented upon the 
19th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Railways), which was presented upon the 19th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India 
(Tenures of Land), which was presented upon the 
19th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Board 
of Health, which was presented upon the 17th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Oaths Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

A Clause (Act not to enable persons professing 
the Jewish religion to hold certain offices), was 
brought up, and read a first and second time, and 
amended ; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Jews not to present to Benefices 
in right of office), was twice read; and made part 
of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Jews not to advise in the ap- 
pointment of offices in the Established Church), was 
twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.102,861, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Charge for Works and Expenses at the 








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New Houses of Parliament, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 82,861, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Charge for Works and Expenses at the New 
Houses of Parliament, to the 31st day of March 1858; 
— Committee divided. 
ellers for the {Sir Henry Willoughby, 

Yeas, Mr. Griiees : ae } sas 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, } 4 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: a6. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

2. £.443, for Port Patrick Harbour. 

3. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.77,557, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expense of repairing and 
maintaining the several Public Buildings in the De- 
partment of the Commissioners of Public Works in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £.76,455, 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 
1858 :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

4. £.15,100, to complete the Sum for Works and 
Establishment of Kingstown Harbour. 

5. £.87,967, for Salaries and Expenses in the 
Offices of the two Houses of Parliament. 

6. £.85,171, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses of the Department of Her Majesty’s Trea- 
sury. 

7. £.16,466, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Office of Her Majesty’s Se- 
cretary of State for the Home Department. 

8. £.45,169, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 

9. £.20,160, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for the Colonies. 

10. £.46,426, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Most honourable Privy Council, and Committee of 
Privy Council for Trade. 

11. £.1,700, to complete the Sum for the Salary 
of the Lord Privy Seal, &amp;e. 

12. £.11,510, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Paymaster General. 

13. £.4,218, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of the Comptroller 
General of the Exchequer. 

14. £.18,614, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Office of the Commissioners of 
Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. 

15. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.15,145, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum wes Ag pay the 
Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Woods, Fo- 


rests and Land Revenues, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.13,664, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to pay the 
Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Woods, 
Forests and Land Revenues, to the 31st day of 
March 1858——put, and negatived. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

16. £.13,876, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Department of Public Records. 

17. £.217,240, for Expenses connected with the 
Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor. 

18. £.36,195, for the Establishment of the Mint. 

19. £.14,995, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Inspectors of Factories, 
Mines, &amp;c. 

20. £,6,054, 








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20. £.6,054, for Salaries of the Department of 
the Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer 
in the Exchequer and Offices in Scotland, of certain 
Officers in Scotland, and other Charges, formerly 
paid from the Hereditary Revenue. 

21. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.6,431, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of Salaries for the 
Officers and Attendants of the Household of the 
Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,857, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Salaries for 
the Officers and Attendants of the Household of the 
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the 31st day of March 
1858; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for thef Mr. William Williams, t os 
Yeas, Mr. Roebuck : hom 
Tellers for they Mr. Hayter, lees 


Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: J 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

22. £.15,358, for Salaries and Expenses of the 
Offices of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieute- 
nant of Ireland in Dublin and London, 

23. £.5,118, to complete the Sum for the Depart- 
ment of the Paymaster of Civil Services in Jreland. 

24. £.1,783, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Office of the Inspectors of 
Lunatic Asylums in Jreland. 

25. £.15,997, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Board of Public Works in 
Ireland. 

26. £. 26,575, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of the Commis- 
sioners for auditing the Public Accounts. 

27. £.11,753, to complete the Sum for the Copy- 
hold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission. 

28. £.8,130, to complete the Sum for Imprest 
Expenses under the Inclosure and Drainage Acts of 
the Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission. 

29. £.26,300, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of the General 
Register Office, England and Wales. 

30. £.2,432, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of the General 
Register Office, Dublin. 

31. £.4,085, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses in the Department of tle Registrar Ge- 
neral of Births, &amp;e., Edinburgh. 

32. £.8,921, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses in the National Debt Office. 

33. £.1,805, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Establishment under the Pub- 
lic Works Loan Commissioners. 

34. £.1,170, to complete the Sum for the Esta- 
blishment under the West India Islands Relief 
Commissioners. 

35. £.1,320, to complete the Sum for Contingent 
Expenses of the Office of the Commissioners in 
Lunacy. 

36. £.684, to complete the Sum for Salary and 
Expenses of the General Superintendent of County 
Roads in South Wales. 

37. £.1,659, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses in the Department of the Registrars 
of Friendly Societies in Lngland, Scotland and 
Ireland. 

38. £.22,000, to complete the Sum for Her Ma- 
jesty’s Foreign and other Secret Services. 

39. £. 300,745, to complete the Sum for Expense 
of Stationery, Printing and Binding for the several 
Public Departments, and for Printing, &amp;c. for the 
two Houses of Parliament, including the Expense 
of the Stationery Office. 

40. £.88,045, to complete the Sum for Postage 
of Letters on the Public Service in the several De- 
partments, 

41. £.24,130, to complete the Sum for Law 
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237 


Charges, and the Salaries, Allowances and Inci- 
dental Expenses in the Office of the Solicitor for 
the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury, including 
Prosecutions relating to Coin; also the Salary and 
Allowance of Counsel for advising the Treasury on 
matters relating to the Slave Trade. 

42. £.250,000, for Prosecutions at Assizes and 
Quarter Sessions, formerly paid out of County 
Rates, including Salaries in licu of Fees to Clerks 
of Assize and other Officers under the Criminal 
Justice Act. 

43. £.105,980, to complete the Sum for certain 
Charges connected with the Police in Counties and 
Boroughs in England and Wales. 

44. £.1,140, tor Expenses of the Crown Office, 
Chancery. 

45. £.2,140, for Expenses of the Crown Office, 
Queen’s Bench. 

46. £.16,319, for Expenses incurred by Sheriffs, 
and the Deficiency of the Fees in the Office of the 
Queen’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer. 

47. £.6,480, for Salaries and Expenses in the 
Department of the Registrar of the Admiralty, and 
the Expenses of the Admiralty Court, Dublin. 

48. £.7,226, for Salaries of the Commissioners 
and other Officers, and the Expenses of the [Insolvent 
Debtors’ Court. 

49. £.109,062, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
aud Expenses of the County Courts. 

50. £.19,625, to complete the Sum for Expenses 
of the Police Courts of the Metropolis. 

51. £. 63,645, to complete the Sum for Expenses 
of the Metropolitan Police. 

52. £.2,715, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Queen’s Prison. 

53. £.2,342, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
of the Lord Advocate and of the Solicitor General, 
Scotland. 

54. £.11,767, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Court of Session in Scotland. 

55. £.10,029, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Lixpenses of the Court of Justiciary in Scot- 
land. 

56. £.5,550, for Expenses of Criminal Prosecu- 
tions carried on under the authority of the Lord 
Advocate. 

57. £.1,080, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Legal Branch of the Exchequer 
in Scotland. 

58. £.50,000, for the Charge of Sheriffs and 
Stewards, including Procurators Fiscal not paid by 
Salaries, and the Expenses of Criminal Prosecu- 
tions, &amp;c. in Sheriff Courts in Scotland. 


59. £.7,955, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
of such of the Procurators Fiscal in Scotland as are 
no longer paid by Fees. 

60. £.6,553, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
of such of the Sheriff Clerks, Scotland, as are not 
chargeable on the Revenues of Customs and Excise. 

61. £.2,200, for the Salary of the Solicitor of the 
Crown, and Expenses in matters of Tithes, and the 
Expenses of the Agent of the Officers of State in 
maintaining Rights of the Crown in Civil Actions, 
&amp;e. in Scotland. 

62. £.11,067, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the several Offices in Her Majesty’s 
General Register House, Edinburgh. 

63. £.739, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses in the Department of the Commissary 
Clerk, Eviinburgh. 

64. £.1,878, for Salaries and Expenses in the 
Department of the Accountant in Bankruptcy in 
Scotland. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again—— 
put, and negatived. 

65. £.51,470, for Criminal Prosecutions and other 
Law Charges in Jreland. 

66. £. 6,979, to complete the Sum for Salaries of 

14 certain 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Chester 

Water Bill. 
Guildford Gas 
Bill. 
Transporta- 
tion and Penal 
Servitude Bill. 


Calcutta and 


238 
certain Officers of the Court of Chancery in Jreland 
formerly charged on the Consolidated Fund. 

67. £.1,778, to complete the Sum for Salaries of 
certain Officers, and the Incidental Expenses of the 
Court of Queen’s Bench in Jreland. 

68. £.1,801, to complete the Sum for Salaries of 
certain Officers, and the Incidental Expenses of the 
Court of Common Pleas in Jreland. 

69. £.1,510, to complete the Sum for Salaries of 
certain Ofticers, and the Incidental Expenses of the 
Court of Exchequer in Ireland. 

70. £.100, to complete the Sum for the Salary of 
the Clerk to the Taxing Officers for the Three Law 
Courts, Jreland. 

71. £. 3,232, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
of the Registrars to the Judges in Jrelund. 

72. £.1,788, to complete the Sum for certain 
Salaries and the Incidental Expenses in the Office 
for the Registration of Judgments in Ireland. 

73. £.200, to complete the Sum for Fees to Ad- 
vocates appointed to act as Commissioners of the 
High Court of Delegates in Ireland. 

74. £. 1,866, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses of the Insolvent Debtors’ Court in Jre- 
land. 

75. £.167, to complete the Sum for Salary of 
the Clerk to the Court of Errors in Jreland. 

76. £.1,100, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
of the Police Justices of Dublin Metropolis. 

77. £.24,500, to complete the Sum for Expense 
of the Divisional Police Courts and the Metropolitan 
Police, Dublin. 

78. £. 394,820, to complete the Sum for the Ex- 
pense of the Constabulary Force in Ireland. 

79. £.1,479, to complete the Sum for the Ex- 
penses of the Four Courts Marshalsea Prison, 


Dublin. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House a continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 23° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to se- 
veral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Fitz Roy 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Chester Water 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Guildford Gas Bill, 
without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Transportation and 
Penal Servitude Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Ca/cutta and South 

rn Railway Company Bill, with Amendments ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.39,691, be 
granted to Her Majesty, for the Maintenance and 
Repair of the Royal Palaces, for one year from the 
Ist day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 60,386, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary for Maintenance and Repair of Public 
Buildings, for providing the necessary Supply of 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Water for the same, for Rents of Houses for the 
temporary accommodation of Public Departments, 
and Charges attendant thereon, for one year, from 
the 1st day of April 1857 to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 36,069, be Furniture. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the wey for 
Supply and Repair of Furniture in the various Public 
Departments, for the year 1857, ending 31st March 
1858. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.75,781, be Royal Parks, 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum Pleasure 
necessary to defray, to the 31st day of March 1858, eee 
the Expense of maintaining and keeping in repair 
the Royal Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &amp;c., and other 
Charges connected therewith. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. ° 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Ways and 
Ways and Means, a Resolution; which was read, Means. 
as followeth : 

That, towards making good the Supply granted Consolidated 
to Her Majesty, the Sum of £. 8,000,000 be granted Fand. 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom 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 
Resolution: And that Mr. Fitz Roy, the Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Wilson do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
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 heing read, for the second Probates and 
reading of the Probates and Letters of Administra- K*tters of 
tion Bill; tion Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Turnpike 
mittee on the Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Ireland) _. 
Bill ; : ; (Ireland) 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- Bankruptcy 
— on the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jreland) (irelsnd) Bil. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill ; of Health 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- Burial Acts 
mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; Amendment 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Reformatory 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Schools Bill, 


reading of the Reformatory Schools 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 Right ; 
The Noes to the Lett. 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the; Mr, Alcock : 6 
Noes, Mr. Garnett, ; 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The Bill 
was accordingly read a second time ; and committed 
to 


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to a Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 


21 Vicroriz. 


Fraudulent 
Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Insurance on 
Lives (Abate- 
ment of Income 
Tax) Continu- 
ance Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Insurance on Lives (Abate- 
ment of Income Tax) Continuance Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him 
to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


Inclosure The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Acts — mittee on the Inclosure Acts Amendment Bill ; 
—_ Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Sites for The Sites for Workhouses Bill was, according to 
a Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 
Election The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Petitions Bill. »eading of the Election Petitions Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Married The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
es - consideration the Married Women’s Reversionary 
Interest Bill, Interest Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 
Transporta- Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
pd mee tg Lords to the Transportation and Penal Servitude 
, ’ Bill be taken into consideration this day; and be 
Bill 71. &gt; 
printed. 
Tenant Right The Order for reading a second time, this day, 
(ireland) Bil. the Tenant Right (Jreland) Bill, was read, and 
discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 8th day of July next. 
_—_ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Charities. for the Incorporation of Public Charities : And that 
Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. Headlam and Mr. Evans do 
prepare, and bring it in. 
Banking. The House was moved, That the several Acts re- 


lative to Banking, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will immediately re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the said 
Acts :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 
Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 


the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Law relating to Banking Companies, 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Flitz Roy accordingly reported a Resolution ; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the House, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Law relating to Banking Companies:—And he 
moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Lowe and the Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


2%° Juniz. 


239 


The Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Cor- Ecclesiastical 
porations Bill, and the Ecclesiastical Commission, gor 
&amp;c. Bill, was nominated of Lord John Russell, Sir Eeciesiastical 
George Grey, the Marquis of Blandford, Sir James Commission, 
Graham, Mr. Walpole, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir * Bill 
John Pakington, Mr. Ingham and Mr. Mowbray. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum, 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Emigration 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of (North 
this instant June, for a Return relative to Emigration Colonies.) 
(North American Colonies). 
. es That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to regulate Court of 
the Distribution of Business in the Court of Session ay &gt; gee 
in Scot/and: And the same was read the first time ; 


and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday Bill 72. 
next; and to be printed. 
Mr. Hardcastle presented a Bill for the Incorpo- Public 


harities Bill. 


ration of Public Charities: And the same was read © , 
Bill 73. 


the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 


upon Wednesday the 1st day of July next; and to 
be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to regulate Crown, &amp;c. 
the Institution of Suits at the Instance of the Crown, a — 
and the Public Departments in the Courts of Scot- 3:1) 94 
land: And the same was read the first time; and oe 
ordered to be read a second time upon Friday next; 

and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to remove Bankruptcy 
doubts as to the Law of Bankruptcy and Real Se- and Real 
curities in Scotland: And the same was read the fostlona) Bill. 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time pj) 75, 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to regulate Bill chamber 
Procedure in the Bill Chamber in Scotland : And (Scotland) Bill. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be _ Bill 76. 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be 

printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 23° die Junii; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


RDERED, That the Committee on Group 1 Railway Bills 
of Railway Bills have leave to sit this day (GtuP !) 
till Five of the clock, during the sitting of the 

House. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Mallow and Fermoy Mallow and 
and Great Southern and Western Railways Bill, with Fermoy and 
Amendments. ee 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; Ralweye Bill. 


and be printed. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the galisbury 
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill; That they had and Yeovil 
made Provision in the Bill, in accordance with the allway Bill 
Power conferred upon them by the Instruction of 

the House of the 15th day of June instant; that 

they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 

striking out two allegations having reference to the 
expediency of a proposed deviation at Fisherton 

Anger, the Provisions relative to which were omitted 

from the Bill as submitted to the Committee; and 

found the same, as amended, to be true; and had 

gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 





Vou. 112. 


thereunto. 
KK Ordered, 





























































Aareremanegaanat RAR Cen stapeineeiAamaeiilitttatie: concomina 


and be printed. 


New Bruns- 
wick and 
Canada Rail- 
way and Land 
Company Bill. 


Coniston 
Railway Bill. 


Bourn and 
Eesendine 
Railway Bill. 


Scotscraig 
Estate Bill. 


Campbell’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Private Bills 
(Group O.) 


Mayo Election. 


Cambridge 
Borough 
Election, 


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Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


Mr. Fitz Roy re the New Brunswick and 
Canada Railway and Land Company (re-committed) 
Bill, with further Amendments. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Coniston Railway Bill; That they had examined 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and made verbal Amendments therein ; and 
found the same, as amended, 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. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Bourn and Essendine Railway Bill ; That it having 
been proved to the satisfaction of the Committee 
that the deposits paid in respect of the Subscription 
Contract, in pursuance of the Standing Order, No. 
64, had not been withdrawn, they had inserted a 
Clause in the Bill, enacting that such Contract 
should be as valid as if the Bill had passed in the 
last Session of Parliament; 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 ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported the Scotscraig Estate Bill, 
without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


A Petition of Edward Walmisley, of Abingdon- 
street, Westminster, Agent of the Solicitor of Alex- 
ander Campbell, praying that service of the Orders 
of the House and of the Copy of Campbell's Divorce 
Bill upon William Sim, Solicitor of Maria Camp- 
bell, or Richard Henry Wyatt, his Agent, may be 
deemed good service, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That service of the Orders of the House 
and of the Copy of the said Bill upon the said 
Richard Henry Wyatt be deemed good service; and 
that personal service thereof on the said Maria 
Campbell be dispensed with. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group O. of 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and determine 
the matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the County of Mayo, to 
which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto, and the Lists 
of Voters severa!ly delivered in to the Committee on 
behalf of the Petitioner and of the Sitting Member : 
—Sir John Hanmer, Baronet, Colonel orth (Ox- 
fordshire), Christopher Puller, Esquire, George 
Tomline, Esquire ; Chairman, William Scholefield, 
Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


93° Juniz. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 
Wyvill, Esquire; Chairman, Rickard Deasy, Es- 


ulre, 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. ie reported from the General Com- Rochdale 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of Election. 
the Select Committee appointed to try and determine 
the matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Rochdale, 
to which they had annkxed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto :— Viscount 
Curzon, William Henry Gregory, Esquire, Augustus 
Stafford O’ Brien Stafford, Esquire, Henry Hussey 
Vivian, Esquire; Chairman, Sir John Yarde Buller, 
Baronet. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group A. of Private Bills 
Private Bills have leave to sit this day till Five of (Group A.) 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Hud- Hudson’s Bay 
son’s Bay Company have leave to sit this day till Five CO™P@PY- 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


The Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Birkenhead, 


Railway Bill was read the third time. Lancashire 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. — Cana 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Railway Bill. 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Caledonian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill Caledonian 

was read the third time. ppg A 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Soe Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Cork and Youghal Railway Bill was read Cork and 
the third time. Youghal Rail- 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. os 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Dartmouth and Dartmouth 
Torbay Railway Bill be now read the third time ; ae Rag 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her aes interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therein as they shall think 
fit. 

And Notice being taken that the interest of the 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is concerned 
therein ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as faras the Prince of Wales’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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the E/y Tidal Har- Ely Tidal 
bour and Railway Bill be now read the third time; Harbour and 





Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- | 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of | 
the Select Committee appointed to try and determine 
the matter of the Petition complaining of an undue | 
Election and Return for the Borough of Cambridge, 
to which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto, and the Lists 
of Voters severally delivered in to the Committee 
on behalf of the Petitioner and of the Sitting Mem- 
ber:—The Marquis of Blandford, Allan Eliott 
Lockhart, Esquire, Viscount Melgund, Marmaduke 








Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- a 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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: And that the 
Title be, An Act for enabling the Penarth Harbour 
Dock and Railway Company (heretofore called 
“The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company,”) 
to construct Railways to, and a Dock and other 
Works 














Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill. 


Ipswich 
Water Bill. 


Newry, War- 
renpoint and 
Rostrevor 

Railway Bill. 


North Eastern 
Railway (Lan- 
chester Valley 
Branch) Bill. 


South Staf- 
fordshire 
Water Bill. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Water Bill. 


Newtown and 
Machynlleth 
Railway Bill. 


Westminster 
Terminus Rail- 
way Exten- 
sion (Clapham 
to Norwood 
Abandonment) 
Bill. 


Finsbury Park 
(No. 2) Bill. 








91 VicroriZ. 


Works on or adjoining the South West Bank of the 
River Ely, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Hamilton and Strathaven Railway Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Zpswich Water Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway 
Bill was read the tbird time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The North Eastern Railway (Lanchester Valley 
Branch) Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The South Staffordshire Water Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the South Staffordshire 
Waterworks Company to alter and extend their 
Works, and obtain an additional Supply of Water, 
and for other purposes. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Great Yarmouth Water Bill, as amended in the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Bill, as, 


amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Prestwich, Bury and Radcliffe Roads Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Westminster Terminus Railway Extension (Clap- 
ham to Norwood Abandonment) Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Finsbury Park (No. 2) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day six months.” 

And the Question bein 
“ now” stand part of the Q 
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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thei; Mr. Miles, 


proposed, That the word 
uestion :—And a Debate 


Yeas, (Mr Malins : aie. 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Thomas Duncombe, hi 93 
Noes, Mr. Cor: : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Vou. 112. 





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241 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Thurs- 
day next. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 178 be suspended Islington 
in the case of the Islington Parish Acts Amend- Parish Acts 
ment Bill; and that the Committee of Selection — 
have Power to fix the first meeting of the Com- 
mittee on the said Bill, upon giving three clear days’ 
notice thereof. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group Taff Vale 
7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Taff Railway Bill. 
Vale Railway Bill, they had examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
verbally amended the same; and found the same, 
as amended, to be true; but the Parties promoting 
the Bill had stated to the Committee, that it was 
not their intention to proceed with the same. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Railway Bills 
Group 7 of Railway Bills; That, for the conve- (Group 7.) 
nience of Parties, the Committee had adjourned till 
Thursday the 25th of June, at Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on Mid-Kent 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Railway 
Mid-Kent Railway (Croydon Extension) Bill, they (Croyoo5 
had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not been 
proved to their satisfaction. 

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


Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on yid-Kent and 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; ‘That in the case of the South Kent 
Mid-Kent and South Kent Railway Bill, they had ®ilway Bill. 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 

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


Mr. Rich reported the Milford Improvement Bill, yiifora 
with Amendments. Improvement 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 3 


Mr. Mowbray reported from the Committee on poncaster 
Group 10 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of the and Wakefield 
Doncaster and Wakefield Railway Bill, they had Beilway Bill 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 

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


Mr. Fenwick reported from the Committee on Tweed River 
Group P. of Private Bills; That in the case of the Fisheries Bill 
Tweed River Fisheries Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill,‘but 
the same had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- Lancaster 
mittee on Group 11 of Railway Bills ; That in the °*4 —, 
case of the Lancaster and Carlisle and Ingleton Railway Bill. 
Railway Bill, it having been proved to the satis- 
faction of the Committee that the deposit with the 
Court of Chancery, under Standing Order, No. 64, 
had not been withdrawn, the Committee had, pur- 
suant to the Standing Orders for the suspension of 
Private Bills of the 12th of March last, inserted a 
Clause enacting that the Subscription Contract en- 
tered into with respect to the proposed Undertaking 
previously to the commencement of the last Session 
of Parliament shall be as valid as if the Bill had 
sed in the said last Session of Parliament; that 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 





KK 2 Preamble 











242 


Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by in- 
serting in the recital as to the advantage of the pro- 
posed Line of Railway the following words: “ for the 
“ purposes as well of local and other traffic as of 
“through traffic between Carlis/e and the Southern, 
“ Midland, Eastern and other parts of England,” 
the Committee being desirous of showing, as well by 
a Statement in the Preamble as by Provisions in the 
Bill, that the Line was not sanctioned by them solely 
for local purposes ; and had also amended the Pre- 
amble for the purpose of setting out more fully the 
Capital and borrowing Powers of the Company; 
and found the same, as amended, 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. Hardy reported from the Committee on 
Group 14 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Great Northern and Western of Ireland Railway 
il. Bill, it having been proved to the satisfaction of 

the Committee, that the deposit with the Court of 
Chancery, under the 64th Standing Order, had not 
been withdrawn, the Committee had, pursuant to 
the Standing Orders for the suspension of Private 

Bills of the 12th March last, inserted a clause enact- 

ing that the Subscription Contract entered into with 

respect to the proposed Undertaking previously to 
the commencement of the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed in 
the said last Session ; that they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking cut the words refer- 
ring to agreements with the Great Southern and 
Western Railway Company, the Clauses relating 
thereto being struck out of the Bill; and found the 
same, as amended, 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. 


North Western Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- 
Railway Bill. mittee on Group 11 of Railway Bills; That in the 
case of the North Western Railway Bill, they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same by striking 
out therefrom all that related to the construction of 
a new Line of Railway, and the extension of time 
for completing a Railway already authorized, and 
also what related to the granting of facilities by 
other Companies; and found the same, as amended, 
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 Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select 

Orders. Committee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; which 
was read, as followeth : 

Metropolitan That in the case of the Metropolitan Railway 

Railway (No. 2), Petition of John Wood, for dispensing with 


(No. 2) Bill. Standing Order 109, in the case of the Petition of 


Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of |! 


Saint Botolph, and otivers, aguinst the Bill, the said 
Standing Order ought not to be dispensed with. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Midland lr. Hardy reported from the Committee on 
Great Western Grcup 14 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 


Ireland’ (Sligo Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Sligo 
Extension) Extension) Bill, it having been proved to the Com- 


mittee that the deposit paid in respect of the Sub- 
scription Contract, in pursuance of the Standing 
Order No. 64, had not been withdrawn, they had 
provided that such Contract shall be as valid as if 
the Bill had been passed in the last Session of Par- 
liament, as required by the Standing Order of the 


93° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


gations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
verbally amended the same; and found the same, 
as amended, 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 Mr. Percy have leave of absence Leave of 
fora month, on account of ill health ;—and Sir John Abseace. 
Trelawny a week, on account of a domestic afflic- 
tion. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Foreign Corps. 
dress to Her Majesty, dated ihe 3d day of March, 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a Return of 
the Names and Places of Abode of Officers of dis- 
banded Foreign Corps who are in receipt of Half- 
pay and reduced Allowances for Service in the War 
which ended in 1815; of the Annual Payment 
made to each Officer; and of the Date when such 
Payment commenced :—Like Return of Pensions 
for Wounds :—And, like Return of Allowances for 
Widows and Children. 

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


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Sessions, &amp;¢. 
to Sessions, &amp;c. (Jreland), which was presented upon (ireland. ) 
the 27th day of May 1856, be printed. No. 122. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Divorce Acts. 
to Divorce Acts, which was presented upon the 22d _ No. 123, 
day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Queen’s Col- Queen's Col- 
leges (Ireland), which was presented upon the 22d les (ne. 
day of this instant June, be printed. No. 124. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Emigration Emigration 
° ° rs &gt; 
(North American Colonies), which was presented (North 


upon the 22d day of this instant June, be printed. Oolenien) 


No. 125. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Major General 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Beso. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Expenses of the Court of 
Inquiry in the case of Major General Beatson, in- 
cluding the Cost of procuring Evidence, the Travel- 
ling Expenses of Officers summoned as Witnesses, 
and the employment of Government Steamers for 
such purposes. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this ines as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Hops, &amp;c. 
Return of the Number of Cwts. of Hops exported 
and imported in each year, from the year 1837 to 
the year 1856 inclusive ; also showing the Declared 
Value of Beer exported in each of the same years. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Lunacy. 
Copy of the Eleventh Report of the Commissioners 
in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Fiscal Affairs 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to (Irelanc.) 
provide for the Management of the Fiscal Affairs of 
Counties in Ireland by Electoral Boards :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being India. 
proposed, That, in the opinion of this House, it is 
expedient that Parliament shall direct its immediate 
attention to the best mode of removing the obsta- 
cles whieh impede the application of British capital 
and skill to the improvement of the productive 





12th March last; that they had examined the alle- 





powers of Jndia; 


And 

















21 VicroriZ. 


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


Mercurii, 24° die Junii, 1857: 


And the Previous Question being proposed, That 
that Question be now put :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Tues- 


day next. 
Cruelty to Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Animals Act t&gt; amend the Acts for the more effectual Prevention 


all Cruelty to Animals: And that Viscount fayn- 


ham, Sir James East and General Buckley do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Inspectors A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
of Taxes | That it is the opinion of this House, that the Sala- 
(Scotland) ries of the Scotch Inspectors and Surveyors of Taxes 
are inadequate for the duties they have to discharge, 
and, as these duties are not less onerous than those 
performed by the same Officers in England, that the 
remuneration for their services should be placed on 
the same scale as those of England and Ireland :— 
It passed in the Negative. 
Railway Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
ee to alter and amend the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 31, 
called “ The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 :” 
And that Mr. Griffith and Sir William Russell do 
prepare, and bring it in. 
Evidence Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
upon Oath to empower the House of Commons and its Com- 
os) mittees to take Evidence upon Oath: And that Mr. 
: Warren, the Marquis of Blandford, and Mr. Edward 
Egerton do prepare, and bring it in. 
Summary Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Proceedings to improve the Administration of the Law in Eng- 
before Justices 


land, so far as respects Summary Proceedings before 
Justices of the Peace: And that Mr. Massey, Sir 
George Grey, and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


of the Peace. 


Municipal Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Corporations. +4 amend the Acts concerning Municipal Corpora- 
tions in England: And that Mr. Massey, Sir George 
Grey aud Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Hanley Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Biil 

nee ha to amend the Charter of Incorporation granted to 
the Borough of Hanley, in the County of Stafford : 
And that Mr. Massey and Sir George Grey do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 

Christ Church Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

rhe Hartle- t&gt; render valid certain Marriages in Christ Church, 


West Hartlepool, in the Parish of Stranton, in the 
County of Durham: And that Mr. Massey and Sir 
George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of Persons employed in the 
Assessment and Collection of Income Tax and Land 
and Assessed Taxes in the City of London, during 
the years ending the 5th day of April 1856 and the 
5th day of April 1857; the Capacity in which em- 
ployed, Rate of Poundage, Amount of Salaries or 
Allowances received, and whether employed in other 
Duties or not; and, of the Total Amount of Income 
Tax, Land Tax and Assessed Taxes in the same 
period (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 
358, of Session 1856). 


Income Tax, 
&amp;e. (London. ) 


Message from 


Mr. i . 
early Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Great Western and 
ax ore Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 
OL. 112. 


Great Western 
and Brentford 
Railway Bill. 





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245 


The Lords have agreed to the Exeter and Ex- Exeter and 
mouth Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which aa 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: ¥ 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Hereford 
for authorizing the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral 
to raise Money for the Repair of the Cathed 
Church of Hereford; to which the Lords desire the 


concurrence of this House. 


Restoration 
ral Bill 


The Order of the day being 
read ‘ng of the Highways Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


read, for the second Highways 
i. 


The Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects Abroad Bill Wills, &amp;c. of 
was, according to Order, read a second time ; and aay ear 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for Bill, es 
Tuesday next. 


The Alehouse Licensing Bill was, according to Alehouse 
Order, read the third time. Licensing Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself charitable 
into a Committee on the Charitable Uses Bill ; and, Uses Bill. 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Grand Juries 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan 
a, ce ‘ olice Dis- 
District) Bill ; trict) Bill. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.102,861, be Works, &amp;. at 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- New Houses 
sary to defray the Charge for Works and Expenses * P*tliament. 
at the New Houses of Parliament, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 443, be granted Port Patrick 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Pay “*rbour. 
of the Establishment and the necessary Works at 
Port Patrick Harbour, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.77,557, be Public Works 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Ireland.) 
repairing and maintaining the several Public Build- 
ings in the Department of the Commissioners of 
Public Works in Zreland, to the 31st day of March 
1858. . 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £.15,100, be Kingstown 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Harbour. 
sary to defray the Expense of the Works and Esta- 
blishment of Kingstown Harbour, to the 3ist day of 
March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 87,967, be Houses of 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and Parliament. 
Expenses in the Offices of the two Houses of Par- 
liament, and Allowances to the Retired Officers, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.35,171, be Treasury. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the De- 
partment of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the 31st day 
of March 1858, 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 16,466, be Home 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Vepartment. 
sary 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 1858. 





KK3 8. That 









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8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.45,169, be 


Department. granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 


sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
artment of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for 
oreign Affairs, and also of the Queen’s Messengers 
and Extra Couriers attached to that Department, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.20,160, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
partment of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for 
the Colonies, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 46,426, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
partment of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy 
Council, and Committee of Privy Council for Trade, 
including the Railway and Marine Departments, 
and the Registrar of Merchant Seamen, to the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,700, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salary of the Lord Privy Seal, and 
the Expenses of his Establishment, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.11,510, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
partment of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,218, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the De- 
partment of the Comptroller General of the Exche- 
quer, to the 31st day of March 1858, 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 18,614, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the Office 
of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Works and 
Public Buildings, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 15,145, be 


granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the Office 


of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, to the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 13,876, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the De- 
— of Public Records, including the State 

aper Office, to the 3ist day of March 1858. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £.217,240, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray Expenses con- 
nected with the Administration of the Laws relating 
to the Poor, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 36,195, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
the Establishment of the Mint, including Expenses 
of the Coinage, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £.14,995, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Inspectors of Factories, Mines, &amp;c., to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

20. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,054, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries of the 
Department of the Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s 
Remembrancer in the Exchequer and Offices in 
Scotland, of certain Officers in Scotland, and other 
Charges, formerly paid from the Hereditary Revenue, 


~ 93°94° Junii. 





‘31st da 





defray the Salary and Expenses of the General 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


23. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 5,118, be Paymaster of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- oa 
cessary to defray the Charge of the Department of ) 
the Paymaster of Civil Services in Jredand, to the 
31st day of March 1858. 

24. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,783, be Lunatic Asy. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- !¥™s (Ireland) 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Office of the Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums in J/re- 
land, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

25. That a Sum, not exceeding £.15,997, be Board of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- i 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the ° 
Board of Public Works in Jreland, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

26. That a Sum, not exceeding £.26,575, be Audit Office. 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the 
Department of the Commissioners for auditing the 
Public Accounts, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

27. That a Sum, not exceeding £.11,753, be Copyhold, 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- /nqosure and 
cessary to defray the Expense of the Copyhold, In- jission, 
closure and Tithe Commission, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

28. That a Sum, not exceeding £.8,130, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to pay the Imprest Expenses under the In- 
closure and Drainage Acts of the Copyhold, Inclosure 
and Tithe Commission, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

29. That a Sum, not exceeding £.26,300, be General Re- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- sister Office. 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the 
Department of the General Register Office, Eng- 
land and Wales, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

30. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,432, be General 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Register Office 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the (7am) 
Department of the General Register Office, Dublin, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

31. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,085, be Registrar 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- General of 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the (Edinburgh) 
Department of the Registrar General of Births, &amp;c. 
Edinburgh, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

32. That a Sum, not exceeding £.8,921, be National Debt 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Office. 
cessary to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the 
National Debt Office, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

33. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,805, be Public Works 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Loan Com- 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the ™**°"**- 
Establishment under the Public Works Loan Com- 
missioners, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

34. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,170, be granted West India 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to Tslands_ 
defray the Expenses of the Establishment under the missioners.” 
West India Islands Relief Commissioners, to the 
of March 1858. 

35. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,320, be granted Commissioners 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to i" Lunacy. 
pay the Contingent Expenses of the Office of the 
Commissioners in Lunacy, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

36. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 684, be granted Superintend- 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to $®* of County 


Roads, South 
Wales. 


— et TP 


i te Di 


Superintendent of County Roads in South Wales, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

37. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,659, be granted Registrars 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to of Briendiy 

‘ . . ocieties. 

pay the Salaries and Expenses in the Department of 
the Registrars of Friendly Societies in England, 
Scotland and Jreland, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

38. That a Sum, not exceeding £.22,000, be Secret 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Services. 
cessary to defray the Charge of Her Majesty’s 


oreign 


to the 31st day of March 1858. 
21. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,431, be| 
ated to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 

Salaries for the Officers and Attendants of the 

Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, to 

the 31st day of March 1858. 

22. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 15,358, be 
ranted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
xpenses of the Offices of the Chief Secretary to 
the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland in Dublin and Lon- 
don, to the 31st day of March 1858. 


Household of 
Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Ire- 
land. 


Chief Secre- 
tary to Lord 
Lieutenant of 
Ireland. 








Stationery, 
Printing and 
Binding. 


Postage (Pub- 
lic Service.) 


Law Charges. 


21 Viecrori2. 


Foreign and other Secret Services, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

39. That a Sum, not exceeding £.300,745, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Expense of Stationery, Print- 
ing and Binding, for the several Public Depart- 
ments, and for Printing, &amp;c. for the Two Houses of 
Parliament, including the Expense of the Stationery 
Office, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

40. That a Sum, not exceeding £.88,045, be 
granted to Fler Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the ry ae for Postage of Letters 
on the Public Service in the several Departments, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

41. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 24,130, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray Law Charges, and the Salaries, 


- Allowances, and Incidental Expenses in the Office 


Prosecutions 
at Assizes and 
Quarter 
Sessions. 


Police in 
Counties and 
Boroughs. 


Crown Office, 
Chancery. 


Crown Office, 
Queen’s Bench. 


Sheriffs’ 
Expenses, &amp;c. 


Admiralty 
Court 


(Dublin. ) 


Insolvent 
Debtors’ Court. 


County Courts, 


Police Courts, 
Metropolis. 


Metropolitan 
Police 


Queen's 
Prison, 


Lord Advo- 
cate, &amp;c. 
(Scotland. ) 


of the Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury, including Prosecutions relating to Coin ; 
also the Salary and Allowance of Counsel for ad- 
vising the Treasury on matters relating to the Slave 
Trade, to the 31st day of March 1848. 

42. That a Sum, not exceeding £.250,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray,’ to the 31st day 
of March 1858, the sponeed of Prosecutions at 
Assizes and Quarter Sessions, formerly paid out of 
County Rates, including Salaries in lieu of Fees to 
Clerks of Assize and other Officers under the Cri- 
minal Justice Act. ' 

43. That a Sum, riot exceeding £. 105,980, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray certain Charges connected with 
the Police in Counties and Boroughs in England 
and Wales. 

44. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,140, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expenses 
of the Crown Office, Chancery, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

45. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,140, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expenses of 
the Crown Office, Queen’s Bench, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

46. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 16,319, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day 
of March 1858, the Expenses incurred by Sherifis, 
and the Deficiency of the Fees in the Office of the 
Queen’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer, 


47. That a Sum, not exceeding £.6,480, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and Expenses 
in the Department of the Registrar of the Admiralty, 
and the Ex nses of the Admiralty Court, Dublin, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

48. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 7,226, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries of the Com- 
missioners and other Officers, and the Expenses 
of the Insolvent Debtors’ Court, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

49. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 109,062, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
County Courts, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

50. That a Sum, not exceeding £.19,625, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Expenses of the Police Courts 
of the Metropolis, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

51. That a Sum, not exceeding £.63,645, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary towards defraying the Expenses of the Me- 
tropolitan Police, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

52. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,715, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Queen’s Prison, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

53. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,342, he 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Charge for the Salaries of the 
Lord Advocate and of the Solicitor General, Scot- 
land, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

VoL, 112. 


93°— 94° Juni. 








Q45 


be Court of 
Session (Scot. 
land.) 


54. That a Sum, not exceeding £,11,767, 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Court of Session in Scotland, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

55. That a Sum, not exceeding £.10,029, be Count of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- “usticiary 
cessary to defray the Selarien and Expenses of the eet 
Court of Justiciary in Scotland, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

56. That a Sum, not exceeding £.5,550, be Criminal 

ranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of *Tosecutions 
Criminal Pesala carried mt under the au- S¢#and) 
thority of the Lord Advocate, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

57. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,080, be Exchequer 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- (Scotland. ) 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Legal Branch of the Exchequer in Scotland, to the 
31st day of March 1858. 

58. ‘That a Sum, not exceeding £.50,000, be Sheriffs, &amp;e. 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day (Scotland.) 
of March 1858, the Charge of Sheriffs and Stewards, 
including Procurators Fiscal not paid by Salaries, 
and the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions, &amp;c, in 
Sheriff Courts in Scotland. 

59. That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,955, be Procurators 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- ¥ — 
cessary to defray the Salaries of such of the Pro- ~~ 
curators Fiscal in Scotland as are no longer paid by 
Fees, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

60. That « Sum, not exceeding £.6,553, be Sheriff Clerks 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- (Sotland.) 
cessary to defray the Salaries of such of the Sheriff 
Clerks, Scotland, as are not chargeable on the Re- 
venues of Customs and Excise, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

61. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,200, be Solicitor of 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day a 
of March 1858, the Salary of the Solicitor of the . 
Crown, and Expenses in matters of Tithes, and the 
Expenses of the Agent of the Officers of State in 
maintaining Rights of the Crown in Civil Actions, 

&amp;ce. in Scotland. 

62. That a Sum, not exceeding £.11,067, be General Re- 

granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- sister House 
, (Edinburgh.) 

cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 

several Offices in Her Majesty’s General Register 

House, Edinburgh, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

63. That a Sum, not exceeding £.739, be Commissary 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- —— 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses in the “”® ) 
Department of the Commissary Clerk, Edinburgh, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

64. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,878, be Accountant in 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and (Scotland) 
Expenses in the Department of the Accountant in ‘ 
Bankruptcy in Scotland, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

65. That a Sum, not exceeding £.51,470, be Law Charges 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of (Ireland.) 
Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

66. That a Sum, not exceeding £.6,979, be Court of Chan- 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- cery (Ireland.) 
cessary to defray the Salaries of certain Officers of 
the Court of Chancery in Jreland formerly charged 
on the Consolidated Fund, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

67. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.1,778, be granted Court of 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to Queen’s Benclz 
defray the Salaries of certain Officers, and the inci- (*!#"¢) 
dental Expenses of the Court of Queen’s Bench in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

68. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,801, be granted Court of 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to © 
defray the Salaries of certain Officers, and the inci- 
dental Expenses of the Court of Common Pleas in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 


K k4 69. That 














Court of 
Exchequer 
(Ireland. ) 


Clerk to the 
Taxing Off- 
cers (Ireland.) 


Registrars 
to Judges 
Cireland.) 


Registration 
of Judgments 
(Treland.) 


High Court 
of Delegates 
(Treland.) 


Insolvent 
Debtors’ Court 
(Ireland.) 


Clerk to Court 
ot Errors 
( Ireland.) 


Police Justices 
(Dublin. ) 


Police Courts 
and Metro- 
pclitan Police 
( Dublin.) 


(Dublin. ) 


Insurance on 
Lives (Abate- 
ment of Income 
Tax) Continu- 
ance Bill. 


Married 
Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 


Bill 77. 


Transporta- 
tion and Penal 
Servitude Bill. 


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69. ThataSum, not exceeding £.1,510, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Salaries of certain Officers, and the inci- 
dental Expenses of the Court of Exchequer in Jre- 
lund, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

70. That a Sum, not exceeding £.100, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Salary of the Clerk to the Taxing Officers 
for the Three Law Courts, Jreland, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

71. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 3,232, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum —— to 
defray the Salaries of the Registrars to the Judges 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

72. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,788, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray certain Salaries and the incidental Expenses 
in the Office for the Registration of Judgments in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

73. That a Sum, not exceeding £.200, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Fees to Advocates appointed to act as 
Commissioners of the High Court of Delegates in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

74, That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,866, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Salaries and Expenses of the Insolvent 
Debtors’ Court in Jrelund, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

75. That a Sum, not exceeding £.167, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Salary of the Clerk to the Court of Errors 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

76. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,100, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Salaries of the Police Justices of Dublin 
Metropolis, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

77. That a Sum, not exceeding £.24,500, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary towards defraying the Expense of the 
Divisional Police Courts and the Metropolitan 
Police, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

78. That a Sum, not exceeding £.394,820, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Expense of the Constabulary 
Force in Ireland, to the 3ist day of March 1858. 

79. That aSum, not exceeding £.1,479, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Expenses of the Four Courts, Marshalsea 
Prison, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Insurance on Lives (Abatement of Income 
Tax) Continuance Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Married Women’s Re- 
versionary Interest Bill, «s amended in the Com- 
mittee; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
= Lords to the Transportation and Penal Servitude 

ill. 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
one was disagreed to; and the other was agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for dis- 
agreeing to the Amendment to which this House 
hath disagreed :—And a Committee was appointed 
of Sir Georye Grey, Mr. Malins, Mr. Attorney 


93°—-94° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


General for Ireland, Mr. Massey, Sir William 
Jolliffe, and Viscount Goderich :—And they are to 
withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Thurs- 
day next, the Weights and Measures Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
detailed Statement of the Estimates for Civil Ser- 
vices (Classes I. to VII.), for the year 1852, showing, 
in parallel Columns, the “‘ Increase ” or ‘‘ Decrease ” 
in each item of those Estimates for every subsequent 
year (to 1856 inclusive); with a Summary of the 
Classes into which the Estimates are divided, and 
Explanations of the principal Causes of Increase 
in those years as compared with 1852 :—And, State- 
ment of Cost of Collection of the Revenue in the 
year 1852, with a comparison of Costs of Collection 
in each subsequent year (to 1856 inclusive) ; show- 
ing Increase of Charge as compared with 1852, and 
Explanation of the Cause of Increase. 

Mr. Wilson accordingly presented the said Paper. 

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


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to apply a Sum out 
of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the 
year One thousand eight hundred and Fifty-seven : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time this day. 


Mr. Griffith presented a Bill to alter and amend 
the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 31, called “The Railway 


and Canal Traffic Act, 1854:” And the same was ji 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Tuesday next ; and to be printed. 


Viscount Raynham presented a Bill to amend the 
Acts for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to 


Animals: And the same was read the first time; p 


and ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Warren presented a Bill to empower the 
House of Commons and its Committees to take 
Evidence upon Oath: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to improve the Ad- 
ministration of the Law in England, so far as respects 
Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Peace : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Friday next; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. rsa | presented a Biil to amend the Acts 
concerning Municipal Corporations 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. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Charter 
of Incorporation granted to the Borough of Hanley, 
in the County of Stafford: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
this day ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to render valid certain 
Marriages in Christchurch, West Hartlepool, in the 
Parish of Stranton, in the County of Durham: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be 
printed. 

Viscount 









Weights and 
Measures Bill, 


Civil Services, 
&amp;e. 


No. 126. 














Consolidated 

nd 
(£.8,000,000) 
Bill. 








Railway 
Traffic Act 
Amendment 






. 
. 


Bill 78. 








Cruelty to 
Animals Act 
Amendment 
ill. 


Bill 79. 










Evidence upon 
Oath (House 
of Commons) 
Bill. 

Bill 80. 









Summary 
Proceedings 
before Justices 
of the Peace 
Bill. 

Bill 81. 










Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


Bill 82. 
















Hanley 
Borough 
Incorporation 
Bill. 

Bill 83. 









Christchurch . 

(Weat Hartle- 

pool) Bill. 
Bill 84. 
















Canton. 


Public 
Petitions. 


—_—- 


Vide Seven- 
teenth Report. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Sixteenth 
Report.) 


Pontefract 


Election. 


Marlborough 
Election. 


Wareham 
Election 


Mayo Election. 


21 Vicroriz. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Further Papers relating to the Pro- 
ceedings of Her Majesty’s Naval Forces at Canton. 

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


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Tuble. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Mercurii, 24° die Junii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
N R. Charles Forster reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 22d 
day of this instant June, and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


93°—24° Junii. 


247 


The Blyth and Tyne Railway Bill was read the Blyth and 
third time. ee 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. en 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Shrewsbury Gas Bill was read the third Shrewsbury 
time. Ges Be. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Bristol, South 
the Bristol, South Wales and Southampton Union i ne 
Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee. “y 


. f Union Rail- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. — way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great 
the Great Southern and Western Extension Railway Southern and 
‘ 4 P Western Ex- 
Bill, as amended in the Committee; and Amend- tension Rail- 
ments were made to the Bill. way Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration West Somerset 
the West Sou:erset Railway Bill, as amended in the Railway Bill. 








| Committee. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com-| Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Select Com- | 
mittee appointed to try and determine the matter of | 
the Petition complaining of an undue Election and | 
Return for the Borough of Pontefract, to which they | 
had annexed the Petitions referred to them by the 
House relating thereto :—Honourable Dudley Fran- | 
cis Fortescue, Lord Henry George Lennox, Richard | 
Brinsley Sheridan, Esquire, Sir Michael Shaw Stew- | 
art, Baronet; Chairman, Thomas Emerson Heud- | 


The Westminster Improvements (No. 3) Bill was, Westminster 


according to Order, read a second time ; and com- /™provements 
mitted. — (No. 3) Bill. 


The Hereford Cathedral Restoration Bill was read Hereford 
the first time. } ereeee m 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- pj). 


ners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


lam, Esquire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to try and determine the matter of 
the Petition complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Marlborough, to which 
they had annexed the Petition referred to them by 
the House relating thereto, and the List of Voters 
delivered in to them by the Petitioner :—Lord 
Robert Talbot Cecil, Robert Porreté Collier, Es- 

uire, Frederic Dundas, Esquire (Orkney), Richard 

Malins, Esquire; Chairman, Henry Ker Seymer 
Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


? 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Select Com- 


mittee appointed to try and determine the matter | 


of the Petitions complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the aoneh of Wareham, to which 
they had annexed the Petitions referred to them by 
the House relating thereto, and the Lists of Voters 
severally delivered in to them on behalf of one of 
the Petitioners, and of the Sitting Member :—Sir 


William Dunbar, Baronet, George Carr Glyn, Es- | 


5 ome John Robert Mowbray, Esquire, Honourable 
— Lygon; Chairman, James Milnes Gaskell, 
squire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the County 
of Mayo, were called over; and being come to the 
Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the Petition and Lists relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Twelve of the clock. 

Vou. 112. 


Ordered, That the Taff Vale Railway Bill be re- Taff Vale 
‘committed to the former Committee:—And that Railway Bill 
they have leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. P — 
Vide Seven- 
teenth Report. 
The Names of the five Members appointed to try Rochdale 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- Election. 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
| rough of Rochdale, were called over; and being come 
| to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 
| Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 








The Names of the five Members appointed to try Cambridge 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- Borough 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- ection. 
rough of Cambridge, were called over; and being 
| come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 
| Ordered, That the Petition and Lists relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 





Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Factories 
mand,—Copy of Reports of the Inspectors of Fac- 
tories to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State 
for the Home Department, for the half-year ending 
30th April 1857. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Lunacy. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 23d day of this instant June, for a Return 
relative to Lunacy. 
LL The 











Bridlington 
and 
Harbour. 


Foreign Corps. 
No. 127. 


Burials Bill. 


Transporta- 


tion and Penal 
Servitude Bill. 


Judgments 


—_— &amp;¢. into a Committee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. 


248 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Abstract of the Gene- 
ral Annual Account of the Commissioners of Brid- 
lington Piers and Harbour, from the 26th day of 
July 1855 to the 26th day of July 1856. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Foreign 
Corps, which was presented upon the 23d day of 
this instant June, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Burials Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Sir George Grey reported from the Committee ap- 
pointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the 
Lords for disagreeing to one of the Amendments 
made by their aotabien to the Transportation and 
Penal Servitude Bill; That they had drawn up a 
Reason accordingly, which they had directed him 
to report to the House; and the same was read, as 
followeth : 

The Commons disagree to the Amendment, Clause 
A. for the following Reason : 

Because the object of that Clause is already 
provided for by the enactment contained in the 
7th Section of the Act 16 &amp; 17 Vic. c. 99, 
which by the 6th Clause of the present Bill is 
to be read as one Act. 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
communicate the said Reason (with the Bill and 
Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry the 
same. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Cuausg, N° 7 (Courts at Westminster and Dublin 
to have same control over registered copy or extract 
as over warrants of attorney to confess judgment). 

Amendment again proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words, “and may set aside, 
“ satisfy or otherwise deal with it accordingly.” 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there added. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Colonel French, 


Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Ayrton: 31. 
Tellers for the Noes,{ Mr. —~ “og } 93. 


Question again proposed, That those words be 
there added. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair ; 
The Committee divided. 
} 73. 
\1os. 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ oo eae 
iia ibid Mr. Craufurd, 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr. pe 
Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
mat do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again ; 
The Committee divided. 
{Colonel French, 


Tellers for the Yeas,) Mr. Af‘ Mahon: 


’ asin Mr. Craufurd, 
lellers for the Noes,{ yr Duniop : 


Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuavse, N° 8 (Incase of bankruptcy or insol- 
vency, registered copy or extract not to be of greater 
effect than warrant of attorney to confess judgment). 


24° Junie. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 

Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 

again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 

stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. ‘ 
Mr. Craufurd, 

Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Dun Hh ; 


Tellers for the Noes,| O° — — 


1 

196. 
J 
\ 38. 
CuiausE, N° 9 (Copy or extract to be filed, and 
satisfaction or discharge may be endorsed thereon, 
and certificate thereof to be evidence). 

Motion made, and Question pat, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again; 

The Committee divided. 

+ 60 


Tellers for the Yeas, {Mtr Gr French, 
lane, 


Mr. Grogan: 
Tellers for the Noes,{ Mir Datos’ 
Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 8: To leave out 

the word “ extract,” in order to insert the words 

“ authenticated copy.” 

Question proposed, That the word “extract” 
stand part of the Clause. 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
ress 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 Wednesday 
the 15th day of July next, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Bill. (In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cravuse, N° 1, amended, and agreed to. 

CravseE, N° 2 (Lands, &amp;c., occupied exclusively 
by any society instituted for purposes of science, 
not to be rated to county or other local rates or 
cesses). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 14: To leave 
out the words “ science, literature.” 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair ; 

The Committee divided. 

} 76. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hutt, 100 

Noes, (Mr. William Ewart ; } , 


Tellers for the f Mr. Spooner, 
Yeas, Sir William Heathcote : 

And it being a quarter before Six of the clock, 

the Chairman left the Chair. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
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 Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Married Women Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 15th day of July next. 


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 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 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Scientific 


a Committee on the Scientific and Literary Societies 24 Literary 
Societies Bill. 


Married 
Women Bill. 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means. 





eS a 








21 Vicroriz. 


Burial Acts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Amendment mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Grand Juries The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Metropolitan mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police 
BL District) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 2d day of July next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 

Consolidated The Consolidated Fund (£. 8,000,000) Bill was, 
Fund according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
——- mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- 
“ morrow. 
Hanley The Hanley Borough Incorporation Bill was, ac- 
Borough In- cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
— mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- 
morrow. 
Private Bills Ordered, That Mr. Ingham (Chairman), Mr. Clive 
(Group J-) and Sir John Potter be discharged from further 
attendance on the Committee on Group J. of Pri- 
vate Bills. 

Ordered, That Mr. Divett (Chairman), Mr. Craw- 
shay Bailey and Mr. Ridley be added to the Com- 
mittee. 

Railway Bills Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- 

(Group 11.) mittee on Group 11 of Railway Bills ; That, for the 
convenience of the Parties, the Committee had ad- 
journed till Twelve of the clock on Friday. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Rochdale Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Roch- 
ce dale Election (Newall’s Petition) have Power to 
ation.) report their Observations thereupon to the House, 


No. 128, together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
efore them. 

Mr. Henley 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, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them. 

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


Worksop 
and Attercliffe 
Road Bill. 


Mr. Wrightson reported the Worksop and Atter- 
cliffe Road Bull, with Amendments. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


North Level Mr. 


Ingham reported from the Committee on 
Drainage Bill. Gr oup 


J. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
North Level Drainage Bill, they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, verbally; and also by 
striking out in page 5, with respect to certain lands 
in Sutton Saint James, Peekirk, Glinton, and else- 
where, such lands having been exempted by the 
Committee from taxation for purposes of the Bill; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Norfolk Mr. Ingham reported from the Committee on 
ys army Group J. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Bill. Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment Bill, the Com- 


mittee had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
inserting additional paragraphs to show more clearly 
at what periods and in what parts the contributions 
of the Eau Brink Drainage Commissioners and the 
Municipal Corporation of Zyun are payable under 
the existing Acts, the amounts which they respec- 
tively have already paid, the raising by the said 
Coumissioners of certain loans on mortgage and 
bond, the sale by them of part of their lands, and 
Vou, 112. 





D4? Junii. 


249 


the payment into Court of the purchase money, the 
expediency of reducing the respective contributions 
of the said Commissioners and Corporation, and 
making their whole balance payable during the pro- 
gress of the works, of disewarging the Company 
from all liability to repay such contributions, and of 
providing for the discharge of the debt of the said 
Commissioners, and the balance of their contribu- 
tion; and by making other verbal alterations and 
corrections ; and found the same, as amended, to be 
true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Rich reported from the Committee on Group Swansea Har- 
O. of Private Bills ; That in the case of the Swansea pon Pe 
Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Company Bill, pock — 
they had examined the allegations contained in the pany Bill. 
Preamble of the Bill, and verbally amended the 
same; and also amended the same by omitting all 
recitals with reference to the Vale of Neath Railway, 
that portion of the Bill having been abandoned b 
the Promoters ; and found the same, as mea 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on Richmond 
Group 1 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the = na 
Richmond and Kew Extension Railway Bill, it way Bill. : 
having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposits paid in respect of the Sub- 
scription Contract, in pursuance of the Standing 
Order, No. 64, had not been withdrawn, they had 
inserted a Clause in the Bill, enacting that such 
Contract should be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
in the Jast Session of Parliament; 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 Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Colonel Smyth reported from the Committee on West London 
Group 1 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the etn 
West London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill, in way Bin, 
compliance with the Resolution of the House of the 
6th of March last, the promoters have struck out of 
the Bill all Provisions enabling the three Companies 
named in the Bill to contribute towards making of 
the Crystal Palace Railway and Extension to Farn- 
borough Railway ; that they had examined the alle- 
ga:ions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by striking out so much thereof 
as related to the proposed alteration of the name of 
the Crystal Palace Railway Company, and of leasing 
the Crystal Palace Railway ; and had made other 
Amendments in the Preamble, in order to make it 
consistent with the Provisions of the Bill as passed 
by the Committee; and found the same, as amended, 
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. Cobbett reported from the Committee on Stockport, 
Group 8 of Railway Bills; That in the cise of the Disley and 
Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway Bill, br th —_ 
it was proved to the satisfaction of the Committee , 
that the deposits in respect of the Subscription Con- 
tract had not been withdrawn, and they have in- 
serted the Clause required by the Standing Order of 
the House of the 12th day of March last; that, in 
conformity with the Reshition of the House of the 


18th day of lebruary last, all Provisions relating to 
the proposed Hayfield Branch Railway have been 
struck out of the Bill; that they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, by striking out the allega- 











tions of the expediency of the Hayfield (ranch 
LU2 


Railway, 












Newry and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bill. 


Cork and 
‘Bandon Rail- 
way Bill. 


Carlisle and 
Hawick Rail- 
way Bill. 


Calcutta and 
South Eastern 
Railway Com- 
pany Bull. 


Backwater 
Bridge and 
Road Bill. 


250 


Railway, and of no preference or priority in payment 
of interest or dividend having been granted by the 
Company (the Clauses to which those allegations 
related being omitted from the Bill), and by adding 
words to show more clearly the ground on which a 
revision of a portion of the tolls is applied for ; and 
found the same, as amended, 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. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 25° die Junii ; 
Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
ORD Hotham reported from the Committee on 
Group 15 of Railway Bills; That in the case 
of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill, a Clause 
has been inserted in the Bill, under the Standing 
Orders of the House of the 12th day of March last, 
enacting that the Subscription Contract shall be as 
valid as if tie Bill had passed in the last Session, it 
having been proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that the deposits in respect of the same Sub- 
scription Contract have not been withdrawn; that 
they had received satisfactory evidence of the matters 
required to be proved before them by the Orders of 
the House of the 18th February last ; and that they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and verbally amended the same, 
and inserted therein a recital of the expediency of 
repealing and consolidating the existing Acts of the 
Company ; and found the same, as amended, 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 Hotham reported from the Committee on 
Group 15 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the 
Cork and Bandon Railway Bill, the Committee 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, but the same had not been proved 
to their satisfaction. 

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


Mr. £gerton reported from the Committee on 
Group 12 of Railway Bills ; That in the case of 
the Carlisle and Hawick Railway Bill, they had exa- 
mined the allegations contained in the Preamble of 
the Bill, but the same had not been proved to their 
satisfaction. 

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 Calcutta 
and South Eastern Railway Company Bill ; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


A Motion being made, That the Backwater 
Bricge and Road Bill be now read the third time; 

Mr. Hayter, by ter Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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. 





94°—D5° Junie. 


| tion of the Cannock Mineral Railway. 








A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 






The Bury Gas Bill was read the third time. Bury Gas 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Bill. 
Title be, An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of 
Bury, avd other Townships and Places in the Pa- 
rish of Bury, in the County of Lancaster. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 









The Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 1) Bill-was Cannock 
read the third time. Mineral Rail- 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the pat 7 
Title be, An Act to extend the Time for the Comple- 







Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 






The Deeside Extension Railway Bill was read the Deeside 
third time. Extension | 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. any oe. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 









The Manchester Corporation Bill was read the Manchester 
third time. Corporation 

Resolved, ‘That the Bill do pass. _ 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 







The Monkland Railways Bill was read the third Monkland 
time. Railways Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence, 


A Motion being made, That the Slaney River Slaney River 
Improvement Bill be now read the third time ; a 
Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- ~ 
quainted 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Stamford and Essendine Railway Billi was Stamford and 
read the third time. Essendine | 
Resolved, That the Bi!l do pass. a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gas Con- Stockton 
sumers’ Companies Bill was read the third time. | New Gas and 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ) nee ; 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Companies 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. Bill 


A Motion being made, That the Victoria (Lon- Victoria (Lon- 
don) Docks Bill be now read the third time ; _ Docks 
Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac-” 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Dundalk and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Conimittee ; und Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
The 














Sittingbourne 
and Sheerness 
Railway Bill. 


Finsbury Park 


(No. 2) Bill. 


North Western 


Railway Bill. 


Swansea 
Docks Bill. 


Pontefract 
Election. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Votes, 
and Eighteenth 
Report. 


Newport, 

Abergavenny 
and Hereford 
Railway Bill. 


Marlborough 
Election. 


Wareham 
Election. 








21 Vicrori 2. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail- 
way Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 23d day of this instant June, was proposed 
to be made to the Question, That the Finsbury 
Park (No. 2) Bill be now read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Tuesday next. 


A Petition of the North Western Railway Com- 


pany, prayine that Provision may be made in the, 
eB 4 D J | 


North Western Railway Bill, giving Power to the 
said Company to lease their Railway to the Mid- 
land and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Companies, 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


The Order, That the Swansea Docks Bill be com- 
mitted, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Pontefract, were called over;'and being 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk 
Assistant. 

Ordered, That the Petitions relative to the said 
Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group 
7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the New- 


95° Juniz. 


251 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Scientific 
Committee upon Wednesday next, on the Scientific 4 Literary 
and Literary Societies Bill, was read, and discharged. a 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 15th day of July next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Vancouver's 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Island. 

'to give directions, that there be laid before this 

| House, Copies or Extracts of any Despatches that 

have been received by Her Majesty’s Secretary of 

| State for the Colonies, on the subject of the Esta- 

| blishment of a Representative Assembly at Van- 

_couver’s Island, 

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. 

| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Metropolitan 

| Copy of Report, dated the 21st day of June 1857, Improvements. 

| made to the Treasury by the First Commissioner of 

| Works, in relation to the present state of the Me- 
tropolitan Improvements under the direction of his 
Department; together with a Copy of the Corre- 
| spondence referred to in that Report. 

‘ Sir Benjamin Hall accordingly presented the said 

aper. 
| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
| Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a select 
Return of the Names of all the Members of the last Committees. 
Parliament who were never appointed to a Select 
Committee on a Private Bill during the last Parlia- 
ment; distinguishing those who were excused from 
Election Committees in consideration of their age. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Further Return to an National 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of Collections. 
February, in the last Session of Parliament, for a 
| Return showing how far, in the different National 
| Collections of Works of Art, Objects of Historical 
Interest, or of Science (in the National Gallery, Bri- 
tish Museum, Hampton Court Palace, and all similar 
public Repositories maintained or assisted by the 








port, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway Bill, tley | Money Votes of Parliament, as well as in Ancient, 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre-| Religious or Civil Edifices or Monuments so assisted 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by striking | or maintained), the rule has been observed of attach- 
out the recital as to the expediency of relieving the | ing to the Objects of Aita brief Account thereof, in- 
Company from the necessity of obtaining the con- | cluding their Date, their Subject, the Name, with the 
sents referred to in their Act of 1853, as to the; Date of the Birth and Death of the Artist, and the 
Branch to the Rhymney Company’s Tramway ; and | School to which he belonged; and in the case of 
found the same, as amended, to be true; and had | Objects of Science or of Historical Interest, a brief 


gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

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


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Marlborough, were called over; and being come 
to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the Petition and List relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-morrow, 
in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, at 
Eleven of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petitions com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Wareham, were called over ; and being 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the Petitions and Lists relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-morrow, 
in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, at a 
quarter after Eleven of the clock. 

Vou. 112. 


Description thereof, with the view of conveying useful 
information to the Public, and of sparing them the 
Expense of a Catalogue. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Divorce 
29th day of May last, for a Return relative to (Scotland.) 
Divorce (Scotland). 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Turnpike 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Abstract of the Trusts (Ire- 
General Statements of the Income and Expenditure 
of Turnpike Trusts in Ireland, for the year 1855, 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Hops, &amp;c. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 9th day of this instant June, for a Return re- 
lative to Hops, &amp;e. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of East India 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table (Territorial 
by the Clerk of the House,—Accounts respecting cate 
the Territorial Revenues and Disbursements of the 
East India Company, for the year 1856; with an 
’stimate of the same for the succeeding year, and 
Appendices, containing Comparative Statements for 
the years 1853-54, 1854-55, 1855-56, and Estimate 


1856-57. 





LL3 


The 








Printed 
Papers. 


Oxford 
University. 


Cambridge 
University. 


Oaths Bill. 


Supply. 


Metropolitan 
Workhouses, 
&amp;e. 


952 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majes'y’s Command,-—Return of the Cost of 
Reports and Papers presented by Command of Her 
Majesty, including Paper, Printing and Binding, 
during the Session of 1856, specifying the Number 
of Copies printed, with the Name of the Public De- 
partment which authorized the same. _ 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


Table. . 


Mr. Cowper presented, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament,— Copy of Ordinances 
framed by the Oxford University Commissioners, 
under the 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 81, in relation to New 
Worcester, Balliol, Oriel, Brasenose, Wadham, Tri- 
nity, All Souls, Jesus, Magdalen and Merton 
Colleges respectively. 

Copy of Reatutes relating to the Fellowships at 
Saint John’s College, Cambridge, and to the Scholar- | 
ships and Exhibitions at the same College, under | 
the 19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 88. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Oaths Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

An Amerdment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Questiun, adding 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 Right; 

The Noes to the Lefi. 


Tellers for thes Mr. Hayter, loon 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: on 
Tellers for the ; The Marquis of Blandford, es 
Noes, (Mr. Drummond: J ° 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Bi!l be now read the third time : 


—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 


25°—26° Junii. 





Resolved, Tnat the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being yead, for the Com- | 
mittee of Supply ; | 

And a Motion being made, and the Question | 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the | 
Charr ; 

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 | 
“ the condition and administration of Metropolitan | 
“ Workhouses, and into the arrangements made and | 
“ carried out by the parochial authorities of the , 
‘“‘ Metropolis for giving Relief to the Poor,” 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 f Mr. Hayter, L a3 
Yeas, The Earlof Mulgrave: ff ‘| 

Tellers for the ( Viscount Raynham, 1 50. | 
Moes, UMr. Briscoe : Pas 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
O:dered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the) 
Chair: —The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) | 


1. £.11,504, to complete the Sum for —— | 
and General Superintendence over all the 
in the United Kingdom. 


risons 








A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


2. £.426,670, for Government Prisons and Con- 
vict Establishments at Home. 

3. £.183,523, for Maintenance of Prisoners in 
County Gaols, Reformatory Institutions, and Lu- 
natic Asylums, and the Expenses of the Removal of 
Convicts. 

4, £.43,815, for Transportation of Convicts, &amp;c., 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. £.259,405, for Convict Establishments in the 
Colonies. 

6. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 361,233, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Charge for Public Education in Great Britain, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 271,213, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge for Public Education 
in Great Britain, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again put, and negatived. 

Question again proposed ; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That the 
Chairman do now leave the Chair——put, and 
negatived. 

Question again proposed ; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again——put, and negatived. 

Question put, ThataSum, not exceeding £.271,213, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Charge for Public Education 
in Great Britain, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Viscount Melgund, } 7 

}res. 





Yeas, (Mr. Hadfield: 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, {The Earl of Mulgrave : 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Resvlutions to be reported. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 26° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. FitzRoy also acquainted the House, that 
1e 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. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Peebles Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Willenhall ( Wolver- 
hampton) Gas Bill, without any Amendment : 


Message from 


the Lords. 


Peebles 
Railway Bill. 


Willenhall 


(Wolverhamp- 
ton) Gas Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Saint Helen’s Canal gaint Helen's 


and Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Tralee and Killar- 
ney Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act to 
amend the Law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes in England ; to which the Lords desire the 


| concurrence of this House : 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act for 
the Abatement of the Nuisance arising from the 
Smoke of Furnaces in Scotland ; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The 


Canal and 
Railway Bill. 


Tralee and 
Killarney 
Railway Bill. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
auses Bill. 


Smoke Nui- 
sance (Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 





Th —— 





Transporta- 
tion and Pena 
Servitude Bill. 


Savings Banks 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


Bill 85. 


Fraudulent 
Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund 
(£.8,000,000) 
Bill. 


Hanley Bo- 
rough Incor- 
poration Bill. 


Inclosure Acts 


Amendment 
Bill. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


Charitable 
Uses Bill. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Bill 86. 


Adulteration 
of Food or 
Drink. 


Attornies 

and Solieitors 
(Colonial 
Courts ) 


21 Vicrori¢. 


The Lords do not insist upon their Amendment 
to the Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill, to 
which the Commons have disagreed. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday | 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


D5°— 26° Juniz. 





253 
Fortescue and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and 
| bring it in. 


Ordered, That Viscount Goderich be discharged Bleaching 
' from further attendance on the Select Committee on W. tk 


Bleaching and Dyeing Works. 
Ordered, That Mr. Crook be added to the Com- 
mittee. 


| 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
' 


into a Committee on the Reformatory Schools Bill ; | 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Constabulary 
to amend the Act of the eleventh and twelfth years ee y (Ire- 


and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re-| of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, so far as re- 


sumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill; 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Consolidated Fund 
(£. 8,000,000) Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Fitz Roy reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, aud directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time | 


this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Hunley Borough Incorpo- 
ration Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy re- 

orted, That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


into a Committee on the Inclosure Acts Amend- 
ment Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
~ ie That the Committee had gone through the 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Election Petitions Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Charitable Uses Bill was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill was 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday the 6th day of July next; and 
to be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


for preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food 


or Drink: And that Mr. Scholefie/d, Viscount Gode- 


rich, Lord Claud Hamilton and Mr. Wise do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to regulate the Admission of Attornies and Solicitors 
of Colonial Courts in Her Majesty’s Superior Courts 
of Law and Equity in England, in certain cases: 


And that Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Mr. Chichester | Herbert do prepare, and bring it in. 


VoL. 112. 


‘lates to the Distribution of the Constabulary Force 
in Ireland: And that Mr. Herbert and Mr. Attor- 
‘ney General for Ireland do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Harbours of 
posed, That Mr. Wilson be one of the Members of Refuge. 


the Select Committee on Harbours of Refuge ; 

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 nomination of the Select Committee on Har- 
“* bours of Refuge be postponed,” 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 now adjourned :—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. 
Ordered, That Mr. Wilson be one of the Members 
| of the Select Committee on Harbours of Refuge. 
Then Mr. Lowe, Mr. Baring, Lord Naas, Lord 
Adolphus Vane Tempest, Mr. Kendull, Mr. Liddell, 
Sir Frederic Smith, Mr. Philips, Mr. Hassard, Mr. 
| Augustus Smith, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. John 
Henry Gurney, Mr. Traill and Lord John Hay 
were nominated other Members of the said Com- 
mittee. 
Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 





to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns for each Collection in Scotland, for 
the years 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856 ; 
stating the Number of Persons convicted in each 
year of selling Excisable Liquors without a License, 
and the Number convicted more than once; speci- 
fying how often such Persons have been convicted : 
—Of the Number of Persons who have paid Fines, 
the Gross Amount of the Fines paid, and the Num- 
ber of Persons who have been committed to Prison 
for seiling Excisable Liquors without a License :— 
Returns to the same effect for Glasgow, Edinburgh, 
Dundee and Greenock and Paisley :—Returns for 
each year of the Number of Persons who have been 
taken when drunk to the Police Offices of each of 
the above-named Towns; specifying the Number 
liberated without having been brought before the 
Mugistrate :—And, of the Gross Amount of the Fines 
levied, ineach year in each of the above-named Towns, 
upon Licensed Victuallers, the purposes to which 
they have been applied, and the Proportion in which 
they have been applied to such purposes. 

Ordered, Vhat the said Address be presented to 
| Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
| of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Justices and 


}amend the Acts relating to the Justices and Police Police Force 
} ie ( Dublin. ) 


| Force of the Dublin Metropolitan Police Distric 
_ And that Mr. Aitorney General for Jredgnd and Mr. 


LL4 Ordered, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Excisable 





Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin.) 


Bank of 
Australasia. 


Assistant 
Commis- 
sioners, &amp;c. 


Bleaching 
and Dyeing 
Works. 


Attornies 

and Solicitors 
Colonial 
ourts) Bill. 


Bill 87. 


Assessments 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 88. 


Constabulary 
Force (Ire- 
land) Bill. 


Bill 89. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Bill 90. 


Banking Bill. 
Bill 91. 


Justices and 
Police Force 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Bill 92. 


25: 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to 
enable the Lord Lieutenant to appomt Revising 
Barristers for the Revision of Lists and Registry of 
Voters for the City of Dublin: And that Mr. Her- 
bert and Mr. Attorney General for Jre/and do pre- 
pare, 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 the Charter of the Bank of Australasia. 

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. 


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 every Department of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Government under which Assistant Commis- | 
sioners or Inspectors were employed ; showing the | 
Date of the Act of Parliament or other authority 


25°—26° Juniz. 





under which they were appointed :—Of the Number 
and Names of the Assistant Commissioners or In- | 
spectors employed in each Department :—Of the | 
Dates of their several Appointments :—Of the Ser- | 
vices in which they have been employed :—And, of | 
the whole Amount of 'Salaries and Allowances that | 
were paid to each during the last Financial year. 

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. 


Ordered, That Mr. Fergus be disvharged from | 
further attendance on the Select Committee on | 
Bleaching and Dyeing Works. | 

Ordered, That’ Mr. Dalglish be added to the | 
Committee. | 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented a Bill to re- 
gulate the Admission of Attornies and Solicitors of 
Colonial Courts in Her Majesty’s Superior Courts 
of Law and Equity in England in certain cases: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; 
and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to improve 
and render less expensive the mode of imposing and 
collecting Assessments 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. 


Mr. Herbert presented a Bill to amend the Act of 
the eleventh and twelfth years of Her Majesty, 
chapter seventy-two, so far as relates to the Dis- 
tribution of the Constabulary Force 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, 





Mr. Herbert presented a Bill to enable the Lord 
Lieutenant to appoint Revising Barristers for the | 
Revision of Lists and Registry of Voters for the City 
of Dublin: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a secord time upon Monday | 
next; and to be printed. 

Mr. Lowe presented a Bill to amend the Law re- | 
lating to Banking Companies: And the same was | 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday the 6th day of July next ; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General for Jreland presented a Bill 
to amend the Acts relating to the Justices and Police 
Force of the Dublin Metropolitan Police District : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next; and 
to be printed. 











A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Mr. Scholefield presented a Bill for preventing the Adulteration 
Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink : And the &lt; neg Oy 
same was read the first time ; and ordered to be — -~ 
read a second time upon Thursday the 16th day of ™ -. 
July next; and to be printed. 





Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Australian 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the i6th day of Colonies 
this instant June, for a Return relative to Australian (124 Sales.) 
Colonies (Land Sales). 

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


The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abatement Bill Smoke Nui- 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a S#ce (Scot- 


: : land) Abate- 
second time upon Monday next; and to be printed. aan Bil 


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


Veneris, 26° die Junii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


S! R Harry Verney reported the Salford Borough Salford 


(No. 1) (ve-committed) Bill, with further Amend- Borough 
ments. (No. 1) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Fleming's 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; "state Bill. 


| That in the case of F leming’s Estate Bill, no Stand- 


ing Orders are applicable. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Wise reported from the Select Committee on Public 
Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Peti- a th 
tions presented upon the 23d and 24th days of this come tg 
instant June; 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 House proceeded to take into consideration Exeter and 
the Amendmeuts made by the Lords to the Exeter Exmouth 
and Exmouth Railway Bill; and the same were neta tide 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 












The Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Roads Langport, 
Bill was read the third time. , Somerton and 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ee 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 








The Newcastle-under-Lyme and Leek Roads Bill Newcastle- 
was read the third time. pm 5 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Roads Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 







The Newtown and Machynileth Railway Bill was Newtown and 
read the third time. Machynlleth 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Setiwey BO. 
Ordered, That the Cleik do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 







The Prestwich, Bury and Radcliffe Roads Bill Prestwich, 
was read the third time. se Aang 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Roads Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. -" 
e 













Scotscraig 
Estate Bill. 


Westminster 
Terminus 
Railway 
Extension 
(Clapham to 
Norwood 
Abandonment) 
Bill. 


Dorset Central 


Railway Bill. 


Fife and Kin- 
ross Railway 
Bill. 


Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den Roads Bill. 


Kinross-shire 
Railway Bill. 


Whitchaven 
and Furness 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


London 
Gas-Light 
Company 
(Capital) Bill. 


Rhymney 
Railway Bill. 





21 Vicrori®. 





The Scotscraig Estate Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Westminster Terminus Railway Extension 
(Clapham to Norwood Abandonment) Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘That the Cle:k do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration | 
the Dorset Central Railway Bill, as amended in the 
Committee; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Fife and Ainross Railway Bill, as amended in 
the Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration | 
the Haslingden and Todmorden Roads Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments were 
made to the bill. be. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Kinross-shire Railway Bill, as amended in the 
Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Bill; 
That they had examined the allegations contained in 
the Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, 
by stating the reasons for relinquishing the two 
Branches referred to in the Report, and by stating 
the amount of Money borrowed and expended, and 
the number and amount of forfeited and unissued 
Shares cancelled by the Bill, and the amount of 
Capital to be raised by preference shares in lieu 
thereof, in order that the same may correspond with 
the Clauses and Amendments in the Bill; and found 
the same, as amended, 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. FitzRoy reported the Metropolitan Railway 
(No. 2) Bill, with Amendments. 

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


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
London Gas-Light Company (Capital) Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and amended the same, by omitting 
recitals stating the Resolutions passed at meetings of 
the several classes of shareholders for an arrangement 
or compromise for the payment of arrears of interest, 
the said Resolutions not being adopted in the Provi- 
sions of the Bill; and by adding a recital describing 
a new atrangement, in accordance with which the 
Clauses of the Bill were amended; and found the 
same, as amended, to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group 
7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Rhym- 
ney Railway Bill, it was proved to the satisfaction of 
the Committee, that the deposits in respect of the 


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255 


Subscription Contract had not been withdrawn ; and 
they have inserted the Clause required by the Stand- 
ing Orders of the House of the 12th day cf March 
last, enacting that such Contract should be as valid 
as if the Bill had passed in the last Session of Par- 
liament; that in pursuance of the Resolution of the 
House of the 29th day of May, the Committee had 
considered the additional Provisions proposed to be 
inserted in the Bill, and had made Provisions in the 
Bill accordingly ; 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. 

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


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Royal Assent. 


| 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, 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 Acts therein mentioned ; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an An- Princess 
nuity on Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal: Royal’s An- 

nuity Bill. 

An Act for the Amendment ef the Cinque Ports Cinque Ports 
Act: Act Amend- 

ment Bill. 

An Act "9 — _ of the sixteenth and Transposte- . 
seventeenth years of Her Majesty, to substitute, in tion and Pena 
certain sg other Peaidhinaas 4 lieu of Trans- aaa 
portation : 

An Act to enable the Great Southern and Western Great Southern 


Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money : 224 Western 
_ Railway 
(Capital) Bil 
‘An Act to incorporate a Company for supplying Chepstow 
Gas to Chepstow, and the Neighbourhood : Gas Bill. 


An Act for granting further Powers to “The Re- Reversionary 
et a 4 : 2? nterest 
versionary Interest Society : Society Bill 
An Act to amend “The Znverness and Nairn Inverness 
Railway Act, 1854,” to enable the Juverness and 24 —_, 
Nairn Railway Company to create a Preference pe 
Stock, and to raise further Sums of Money, and for 

other purposes : 

An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Guildford 
Guildford Waterworks; and to confer further Water Bill 
Powers for the Supply of Water to the Borough of 
Guildford : 

An Act for lighting with Gas the Borough of South Shields 
South Shields, and Neighbourhood thereof, in the &amp;% Bill 
County of Durham; 

An Act for more effectually supplying with Gas Sunderland 
the Town and Borough of Sunderland, and the Ges oe. 
Neighbourhood thereof, in the County of Durham: 

An Act for enabling the South Devon Railway South Devon 
Company to raise additional Capital, and for other ®#i!way Bill. 
purposes : 

An Act for the Regulation of certain Public Meriton’s — 
Sufferance Wharves in the Port of London, known ——— 
as “ Meriton’s Sufferance Wharf” and “ Hugen’s Wharves Bill. 
Sufferance Wharf”: 

An Act for regulating the Capital of the Bedale Bedale and 
and Leyburn Railway Company, and for other Hallway Bill 
purposes : 

An Act to make further Provision for supplying Chester 
with Water the City of Chester, and Suburbs Water Bill 





Vor. 112, 


thereof : 
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256 


An Act to incorporate the Guildford Gas-Light 
and Coke Company, and to confer upon them further 
Powers for the Supply of Gas to Guildford and the 
Vicinity : 

An Act to enable the Great Western and Brent- 
ford Railway Company to raise additional Capital, 
and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the Peebles Railway Company 
to create additional Shares in their Undertaking, 
and for other purposes : 

An Act for incorporating the Willenhall Gas 
Company, and for other purposes : 


Guildford 
Gas Bill. 


Great Western 
and Brentford 
Railway Bill. 


Peebles Rail- 
way Bill. 


Willenhall 
(Wolverhamp- 
ton) Gas Bill. 


Saint Helen’s 
Canal and 
Railway Bill. 


An Act to authorize the Saint Helen’s Canal and 
Railway Company to increase and regulate their 
Capital, and for other purposes relating to the 
Company : 

An Act to alter the borrowing Powers of the 
Tralee and Killarney Railway Company : 


Tralee and 
Killarney 
Railway Bill. 
Giustiniani’s 


An Act for authorizing Maria Cecilia Agatha 
Oath Bill. 


Anna Josepha Laurentia Donata Melchiora Bal- 
thassara Gaspara Princess Giustiniani, Widow of 
Charles Marquess Bandini, to take the Oath proper 
to be taken by her prior to her Naturalization before 
Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Grand 
Duke of Sonn, or any other Member of Her 
Majesty’s Legation at the Court of Tuscany, and to 
sive her Consent in writing to the passing of the 
Bill for her Naturalization. 


Leslie Rail- 
way Bill. 

mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Midland ‘The House proceeded to take into consideration 
— Western the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland 
pry med ( Tullamore Line) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 


f Ircland : ‘ . ° 
(‘Tullamore Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Line) Bill. 
Otley and The House proceeded to take into consideration 
— (or Road the Otley and Skipton Road Bill, as amended in 
the Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


SelbyandMar- The House proceeded to take into consideration 
ket Weighton ¢he Selby and Market Weighton Road Bill, as 
Road Bil, amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Stratford- 
upon- Avon 
Gas Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Watchet _ The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Marbour Bill. the Watchet Harbour Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


‘The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the West Somerset Mineral Railway Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


West Somerset 
Mineral Rail- 
way Bill. 


Railway Bills 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group 11 of 
(Group 11.) 


Railway Bills be revived. 


North Western Ordered, That the North Western Railway Bill 

Railway Bill |e re-committed to the former Committee :—And 
that they have leave to sit and proceed upon Tues- 
day next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Coutroverted 
Llections. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections ; That they had named days for 


26° Junii. 








A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


the appointment of Select Committees on the Elec- 
tion Petitions following, from Panel No. 4 :— 
Maldon Borough, Petition of 
S. Clarke and others, | 
Maldon Borough, Petition of | 
J. M. Peacocke, 
Lanark County, Petition of Monday the 
A. Dundas and others, | 13th day of 
Lanark County, Petition of {| July, at One 
G. V. Irving, of the clock. 
Weymouth, &amp;c. Borough, Petition 
[ of J. D. Harvey and others, 
1™ eymouth, &amp;c. Borough, Petition 
of G. M Butt, 


7 
Falkirk, &amp;c. Burghs, i 
“Huntingdon County, Petition of 
C. Lewin and another, 
Huntingdon County, Petition of 
E. Fellowes, 
Huntingdon County, Petition of 
J. vA Heathcote, 
Peterborough Borough, 
Queen’s County, } 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Tuesday the 
14th day of 
July, at One 
of the clock. 





Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Eighteenth 
Report. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Group P. of tweea 


The House proceeded to take into consideration | Private Bills have leave to make a Special Report, Fisheries Bill. 
the Leslie Railway Bill, as-amended in the Com- | so far as relates to the Tweed Fisheries Bill. 


Mr. Fenwick reported from the said Committee ; (Special 
That in the case of the Tweed Fisheries Bill, they Report-) 
had agreed to the following Special Report : 

That the Committee had received evidence which 
shows that the breed of salmon and fish of the 
salmon kind has materially decreased in the River 
Tweed, and to such an extent that unless strict 
remedies are applied their utter extermination may 
be expected, and the supply of a nutritious and 
favourite article of food from that river entirely 
destroyed. 

That this result has been produced by the con- 
currence of many causes, which are partly natural 
or such as no legislation can provide against, and 
partly such as may be modified if not entirely done 
away with by such means. 

That among the former may be reckoned the spread 
of manufactures in the districts through which the 
river flows, and the consequent increase of popula- 
tion and the extended system of drainage now every- 
where in operation. 

That among causes which may be remedied by 
legislation are the killing of unclean and unwhole- 
some fish, the killing of fish in the spawning beds, 
or when approaching them by means of the leister 
or spear and the severe fishing by nets of all kinds, 
more especially of those nets which operate as a bar 
to the fish proceeding up the river. 

That for the causes first enumerated, the Com- 
mittee have no remedies to suggest. 

That an organised trade in unclean and unwhole- 
some fish has been for some time in operation, the 
extent of which may be inferred from the fact that 
between the 15th February and 1st May of the 
present year, one fishing Company at Berwick alone 
exported to Paris upwards of 3,200 kelts of salmon 
utterly unfit for human food. 

That the system of leistering or spearing salmon 
both by poachers and others has heen most exten- 
sively practised, and has contributed much to the 
decrease of fish, and that this system has not met 
with the opposition it would otherwise have done in 
consequence of those on whose property the young 
salmon were bred having little or no interest in their 
preservation. 

That another and perhaps the greatest cause of 

injury 








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Orkney 
Roads Bill. 


Banks, 





21 VictorizZ. 


injury has been done by nets, which taking a few 
fish operated as a bar to the progress of many up 
the river to their spawning beds. 

That witnesses were examined who stated that 
they had seen shoals of salmon thus driven back on 
their approaching such nets. 

That the habits of the salmon on the Tweed have 
been much later of recent years than formerly, 
coming up the river later, and not spawning in con- 
— at such favourable seasons. 

‘hat this result is in the opinion of the Committee 
mainly attributed to the operation of those nets. 

That Mr. Pfennell, one of the Commissioners of 
Fisheries in Jreland, was examined before the Com- 
mittee, and gave very valuable evidence. 

That similar causes to those above enumerated 
had in that country produced similar results to those 
observable in the Zweed, when the Legislature passed 
general Acts of Parliament for the better preservation 
of fish in that country. 

That the remedies contained in those Acts of 
Parliament, and carried out by Commissioners ap- 
pointed for the purpose, have been most beneficial 
m their operation, and the breed of salmon has been 
increased to an extraordinary degree, and is still 
increasing. 

That the Committee have applied many of the 
remedies contained in the Jrish Fisheries Acts to 
the River 7weed. 


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257 


the Shareholders in every such Bank, whether the 
Liability is limited or unlimited, and, if limited, to 
what extent. 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Sales of Stores 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Tower, &amp;c.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns, in Tabular Form, of the Sales made 
at the Tower and the several Naval Yards of the 
Home Establishment, since the 1st day of January 
1855; stating the Amount received for each De- 
scription of Store, with the Average Rate, and Num- 
ber of Purchasers at each Sale. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Seamen. 
Returns of the Number and Ages of Seamen, at the 
present Date, Inmates of the several Poor Law 
Unions or Workhouses in England; showing also 
the Weekly Cost of their Maintenance in such 
Unions :—And, of the Number of Seamen in actual 





That they have inserted clauses abolishing all ' 
fixed nets whatever, the destruction of usclean fish, | 
and the complete prohibition of the use of the leister | 
or spear. 

They have also placed the commencement of the , 
annual close time one month earlier than heretofore, | 
taking the principle of the Scotch Fisheries Acts as | 
their guide, and they believe that the salmon ef 
be expected to resume the earlier habits from whic 
they have been driven, a result which the Committee 
believe to be very desirable. 

That the Committee have increased the time for 
rod-fishing after the net-fishing has closed from three | 
weeks to one month, and in this respect they have 
followed the operations of the Trish Fisheries Acts. 

They believe that this will be found, as it has | 
been in Jreland, to be a great inducement to the | 
preservation of fish in the upper parts of the River | 
Tweed, 

‘Yhat, the causes of the diminution of salmon being | 
to a greater or less extent the same throughout the 
entire kingdom, the Committee had under their 
consideration to recommend that the general subject 
of salmon fisheries should receive the early attention 
of Parliament, but they abstain from doing so 
because they feel that such a recommendation is not 
within the natural scope of the functions which they | 
were called upon to discharge. 

Mr. Fenwick also reported the Tweed Fisheries 
Bill, with Amendments. 


Ordered, That the Reports do lie upon the Table. | 


| 








Mr. Fenwick reported from the Committee on 
Group P. of Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Orkney Roads Bill, they bad examined the allega- 
tions contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
verbally amended the same; and found the same, 
as amended, to be true ; and had made Provision in 
the Bill pursuant to the Instruction of the House ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


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 Return of the Name of every Bank, other 
than Private Banks, whether Unincorporate or In 
corporate, trading in the United Kingdom or the 
Colonies, specifying the Nature of the Liability of 


receipt of Out-door Relief from the same. 


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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Water _ 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Companies. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
Eouse, a Return showing during each of the years 
1854, 1855 and 1856, the Gro&lt;s Receipts for Water 
supplied by each of the Public Companies incorpo- 
rated for the Supply of Water in England, and 
showing the Aggregate Amount at and on which 
each such Company was, in each of the same years, 
assessed to and liable to pay the Poor Rate. 

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. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Sheep, Sheep, &amp;c. 
&amp;e. Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill have Power ©o“tagious 
to report their Observations thereupon to the House, amen 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken No 499, 
before them. 

Mr. Bentinck reported from the said Select Com- (special 
mittee ; That they had considered the matter of the Report.) 
said Bill, which they had directed him to report to 
the House, together with the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence taken before them ; and the Report was read, 
as followeth : 

Your Committee have heard important Evidence 
on the Bill referred to them. 
| Your Committee are strongly impressed with the 
\necessity for adopting every available precaution 
‘against the spread of all infectious and contagious 
| disorders amongst Sheep, Cattle and Horses in this 
| Country ; but the Evidence brought before them 
| shows the difficulty, ifnot the impossibility, of legis- 


lating further upon the subject without seriously 
| interfering with, and hampering the legitimate ope- 
rations of trade in these animals; and your Com- 
‘mittee are not. therefore prepared to recommend to 
| the House to proceed further with the Bill referred 
| to them. 

With reference to the Question of the spread of 
such disorders being increased by the importation 
of Sheep and Cattle affected with any such disorders 
from Abroad, your Committee are of opinion that 
the same diflicultics present themselves in the way 
of further legislation vpon that subject as have 





VoL. 112. 


MM 2 already 








(Report of 
Bill) 


Metropolitan 
Improvements. 


No. 130. 


National 
Collections. 


No. 131. 


Divorce 
«Scotland. ) 


No. 123. 


Turnpike 
“Trusts (Ire- 
land.) 


No, 133. 


Hops, &amp;c. 
No. 134. 


East India. 
(Territorial 
Accounts.) 


No. 135. 


Australian 
Colonies 
(Land Sales.) 


No. 136. 


Science and 
Art. 


Vrobates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
Bill. 


Fraudulcnt 
‘Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


258 


already been adverted to in this Report with re- 
ference to the Home Trade. 

Your Committee are also of opinion that ample 
Powers for the purposes of precaution are already 
vested in the Executive, and they would earnestly 
recommend the utmost vigilance on the part of the 
proper authorities in dealing with a question of such 
vital importance to both the producers and consumers 
of animal food in this Country. _ 

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

Mr. Bentinck also reported from the said Select 
Committee; That, having regard to the Special 
Report of the Committee, they had not considered 
it expedient to go through the said Bill; which 
they had directed him to report to the House, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Metropo- 
litan Improvements, which was presented upon the 
25th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to National 
Collections, which was presented upon the 25th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Divorce 
(Scotland), which was wpm wee upon the 25th 
day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Turnpike 
Trusts (Zreland), which was presented upon the 
25th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hops, &amp;c., 
which was presented upon the 25th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Hust India Territorial Accounts, 
which were presented upon the 25th day of this in- 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That tle Return relative to Australian 
Colonies (Land Sales), which was presented upon the 
25th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Mr. Cowper presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Fourth Report of the Department 
of Science and Art. 

Ordered, That the ssid Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Probates and Letters of Administration Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cravuse, N’ 1 (Any person committing any of the 
following offences to be guilty of a Misdemeanor : 
Trustees fraudulently disposing of Property). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1,1. 8: To leave out 
the word “ property,” in order to insert the words 
“ estate or interest in land of any tenure, or of any 
share or interest in any public stock or fund, 
whether of this Kingdom or of Great Britain or 
of Jreland, or of any Foreign State, or in any 
stock or fund of any body corporate, company 
or society, or of any security for money what- 
soever, or of any chattel.” . 

Question, That the word “ property ” stand part 
of the Clause——put, and agreed to. ” 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Cravuss, N° 2, 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 Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 27° die Junii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
gress in the Bill; und 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. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill ; of Health Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself sites for 
into a Committee on the Sites for Workhouses Bill; Workhouses 
and, after s time spent therein, Mr. Speaker Bi 
and, after some 1 . peake 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of 
reading of the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; a 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon “" ium 

Monday the 6th day of July next. 


The Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill was, ac- Crown, &amp;c. 
cording to Order, read a second time ; and com- — o- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- -— 
day the 6th day of July next. 


The Bankruptcy and_ Real Securities (Scotland) Bankruptcy 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; and — 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, (Scotland) Bill. 


for Monday the 6th day of July next. 


The Bill Chamber (Scvtland) Bill was, according Bill Chamber 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scotland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday the 6th 
day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Proceedings before Justices Proceedings 


of the Peace Bill; po — 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon Bill. 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Municipal 
reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill ; Corporations 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon _ 
Thursday next. 


The Christchurch (West Hartlepool) Bill was, Christchurch 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- (West Hartle- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- pool) Bill. 
day next. 


The Hanley Borough Incorporation Bill was, ac- Hanley Bo- 
cording to Order, read the third time. rough Incors 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. poration Bis. 
Ordcred, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Consolidated Fund (£.8,000,000) Bill was, Consolidated 
according to Order, read the third time. Fund 

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 Fifty-seven. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


(£.8,000,000) 
Bill. 


Mr. 





rr 


— es’ 85 bee 


Supply. 


Inspection 
and Superin- 
tendence of 
Prisons. 


Prisons and 
Convict Esta- 
blishments. 


Maintenance 
of Prisoners, 
&amp;e. 


Transporta- 
tion of Con- 
victs, &amp;e. 


Convict Esta- 
blishments 
(Colonies. ) 


Education 
(Great 
Britain.) 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Lunatics 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Evidence upon 
Oath (House 
of Commons) 
Bill. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


Contracts 
{Public De- 
partments. ) 


Harbours of 
Refuge. 


31 Vicrorta. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.11,504, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Charge of Inspection and General Su- 
perintendence over all the Prisons in the United 
Kingdom, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 426,670, be 
eranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
Government Prisons and Convict Establishments at 
Home, to the 3ist day of March 1858. 

3. That a Sum, not execeding £.183,523, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
the Maintenance of Prisoners in County Gaols, Re- 
formatory Institutions, and Lunatic Asylums, and 
the Expenses of the Removal of Convicts, to the 
5ist day of March 1858. 

4. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.43,315, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray Expenses connected with 
the Transportation of Convicts, Xc., to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.259,405, be 
granted to ler Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
the Convict Establishments in the Colonies, to the 
31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not excecding £. 361,233, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defiay the Charge for Public Education 
in Great Britain, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


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 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 Lunatics (Scot/and) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday the 6th day of July next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Evidence upon Oath (House of Com- 
mons) Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, ‘\hat the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Election Petitions 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 ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion and Original Question were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Ordered, That Sir John Hanmer, Mr. Puller and 
Colonel North be discharged from further attend- 
ance on the Select Committee on Coutracts (Pub- 
lic Departments). 

Ordered, That Lord Clarence Paget, General 
Codrington and Mr. Jackson be added to the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Harbours 
of Refuge do consist of sixteen Members. 

Ordered, That Mr. Fergus be added to the Com- 
mittee. 

Vou. 112. 





26°—-27°—29° Juniz. 








259 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Probates and 
amend the Law relating to Probates and Letters of Letters of Ad- 
Administration in Ireland: And that Mr. Attorney (ireland). 
General for Zreland and Mr. Herbert do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


‘Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Glebe Lands 
enable Ecclesiastical Persons in Ireland to grant “reland.) 
Building Leases of Glebe Lands in certain cases : 

And that Mr. Attorney General for Zreland and Mr. 
Herbert do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to East Quay 
abolish the Rate known as the East Quay Wall Wall Tax 
Tax, in the City of Dublin, and make other Provision -_ 
in lieu thereof: And that Mr. Herbert and Mr. 
Attorney General for Zreland do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Mr. Attorney General for Ireland presented a Bill Probates and 
to amend the _ ne relating to Probates and Letters Letters of Ad- 
of Administration in Zreland: Aud the same was (ireland) Bill. 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second i) 95, 


time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Attorney General for Jreland presented a Bill Glebe Lands 
tu enable Ecclesiastical Persons in Jredand to grant (Ireland) Bill. 
Building Leases of Glebe Lands in certain cases; Bill 96. 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Friday next; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Herbert presented a Bill to abolish the Rate East Quay 
known as the East Quay Wall Tax, in the City of Wall Tax 
Dublin, and make other Provision in lieu thereof: apace am. 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered Bill 97. 
to be read a second time upon Friday next ; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to an Electoral Law 
Address to Her Majesty, dated the 5th day of this (Tasmania.) 
instant June, for a Return relative to Electoral Law 
( Tasmania). 

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


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Oae of the clock 
on Saturday morning, adjourned till Mon- 
day next. 


Lune, 29° die Junii ; 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
R. Bouham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they Petitions 
had examined the Petitions presented upon the 25th fou 
and 26th days of this instant June; and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Hereford 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; oo 
That in the case of the Hereford Cathedral Resto- py) 
ration Bill, the Standing Orders have been complied 
with. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from North Western 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; Railway Bill. 
That in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- 
vision in the North Western Railway Bill, the 
Standing Orders have been complied with, 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill, that they have Power to make 
Provision therein pursuant to the prayer of the said 
Petition. 


MMS Ordered, 


Railway Bills 
(Group 7.) 


"and Trans- 
port Corps. 


Sunderland 
Election. 


Tweed 
Fisheries Bill. 


Bristol, South 
Wales and 
Southampton 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


Dundalk and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bill. 


Great South- 
erp and West- 
ern Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Great 
. Yarmouth 
Water Bill. 


West Somerset 
Railway Bill. 


Burial of the 
Dead within 
the City and 
Liberties of 
London Bill. 


260 
Ordered, That the Committee on Group 7 of 


Railway Bills have leave to sit this day till Six of 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Land 
Transport Corps have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. George T. Gib- 
son, as Agent for Robert Coxon and James Smith, 
informing him that it is not their intention to proceed 
with their Petition complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Borough of Sunderland :—And 
the said Letter was read, as followeth : 

To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 
York Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 
Sir, London, 27th June 1857. 

As Agent for the Petitioners, Robert Coxon and 
James Smith, in the matter of the Petition against 
the Return of George Hudson, Esquire, as a Member 
for the Borough of Sunderland, I beg to inform you 
that it is not intended to proceed with the said Pe- 


tition. : 
I am, Sir, 


Your very obedient servant, 
George T. Gibson. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Ordered, That the Special Report which, upon 
the 26th day of this instant June, was made from 
the Committee on the YZweed Fisheries Bill, be 
printed. 


A Motion being made, That the Bristol, South 
Wales and Southampton Union Railway Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their cencurrence. 


The Dundaik and Enniskillen Railway Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Great Southern and Western Extension Rail- 
way Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Great Yarmouth Water Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Tne West Somerset Railway Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, Vhat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


‘Lhe House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Burial of the Dead within the City and Liberties 
of London Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


24° Junz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration East Somerset 
the East Somerset Railway Bill, as amended in the Bailway Bill, 


Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great 
the Great Northern and Western of Ireland Railway Northern 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; and Amen , 
ments were made to the Bill. Railway Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Zondon and South Western London ana 
Railway Acts Amendment Bill be re-committed to South Westerg 
the former Committee :—And that they have leave Ravmay Acts 
to sit and proceed To-morrow, at Twelve of the Bill. 


clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London (City) 
the London (City) Coal Duties Bill, as amended in Coal Duties 
the Committee. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Mallow and 
the Mallow and Fermoy and Great Southern and _——— and 
Western Railways Bill, as amended in the Com- it Wo 
mittee. 


Railways Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration milfora 
the Milford Improvement Bill, as amended in the Improvement 
Committee. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration the New Bruns- 
New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land wick and — 
Company Bill, as amended in the Committee. Canada Rail- 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time.  Gonpeny Bil 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newquay Pier 
the oes oy Pier and Harbour and Railway Bill, and Harbour 
and an Amendment = Railway 


as amended in the Committee ; 
was made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ojdham, 
the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Ashton-under- 
Junction Railways Bill, as amended in the Com- as - 
mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. ioaien - 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time. —_ Railways Bill. 
Ordered, That the South Eastern Railway (Green- south Eastern 
wich Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill, as amended Railway 
in the Committee, be taken into consideration To- (Greenwich 


ae - Junction to 
morrow. Dartford, &amp;c. ) 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration west of Fife 
the West of Fife Mineral Railway Bill, as amended Mineral Rail- 
in the Committee. way Bill. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration wexfora 
the Weaford Free Bridge Bill, as amended in the Free Bridge 
Committee. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Worksop and 
the Worksop and Attercliffe Road Bill, as amended Attercliffe 
in the Committee. a a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Sittingbourne 
take into consideration the Sittingbourne and Sheer- and Sheerness 
ness Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee.  ®##way Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Pimlico Improvements Bill be Pimlico Im- 


read a second time To-morrow. — 
: 1 


Ordered, That the Public Offices Extension Bill Public Offices 
be read a second time To-morrow. Extension Bill. 
Ordered, 





Pulteney Town 
Harbour Bill. 


Railway 
Traffic Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


—— 


Vide Nine- 
teenth Report. 


Public Record 
Office. 


Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Charters of 
Justice, &amp;e. 
(Colonies. ) 


Marlborough 
Election. 


Minutes 
ordered. 


Audit Office. 
No, 137. 


Oxford 
University, 


No. 138, 


Cambridge 

University. 
No. 139, 

Electoral Law 


(Tasmania. ) 
No. 140. 


Fire In- 
surances, 


Hops, &amp;e. 


21 Vicrort2. 


Ordered, That the Pulteney Town Harbour Bill 
be re-committed to the former Committee :—And 
that they have leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


The Order for reading a second time, To-morrow, 
the Railway Traffic Act Amendment Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday the 7th day of July next. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all Monies voted by Parliament for the 
Erection of a Public Record Office on the Rolls 
Estate, and to whom and when, and for what par- 
ticular Contracts, the same have been paid or 
applied ; also, the Amount of every Contract entered 
into for the erection of such Record Office, and the 
Names of the Architect and Clerk of the Works 
engaged to superintend the Works. 


Mr. John Locke reported from the Committee on 
the Islington Parish Acts Amendment Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
altering the recitals; and found the ‘same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


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 of any Charter of Justice or Orders 
in Council in the nature of Charters of Justice for 
any Colony or Dependency of the Crown (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 323). 

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. Ker Seymer, from the Select Committee ap- 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- 
tition of William David Lewis, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Marlborough, informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had determined, 

That Henry Bingham Baring, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Marlborough. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Audit 
Office, which was presented upon the 21st day of 
May last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Oxford Uni- 
versity, which was presented upon the 25th day of 
this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Cambridge 
University, which was presented upon the 25th day 
of this instant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Electoral 
Law (Tasmania), which was presented upon the 
26th day of this instant June, be printed. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 12th day of May last, fora Return re- 
lative to Fire Insurances. 

Return to an Order, dated the 23d of this instant 
June, for a Return relative to Hops, &amp;c. , 

Vou. 112. 





29° Juniz. 








261 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Civil List 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon Pensions. 


the Table by the Clerk of the Heuse,—A List of all 
Pensions granted between the 20th day of June 
1856, and the 20th day of June 1857, and charged 
upon the Civil List. 


The Finance Accounts (I. to VIII.) of the United Finance. 


Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the 
Financial year 1856-57, ended 31st March 1857, 


Mr. Corry reported from the Committee on Group Taff Vale 
7 of Railway Bills; That in the case of the Tuff Railway Bill. 


Vale Railway (re-committed) Biil, it having been 


| proved to the satisfaction of the Committee that the 


deposit with the Court of Chancery, under Standing 
Order, No. 64, had not been withdrawn, the Com- 
mittee had, pursuant to the Standing Orders for the 
suspension of Private Bills of 12th March last, in- 
serted a Clause enacting that the Subscription Con- 
tract entered into with respect to the proposed 
Undertaking previously to the commencement of 
the last Session of Parliament shall be as valid as if 
the Bill had passed in the said last Session; that 
they had examined the allegations contained in the 
Preamble of the re-committed Bill, and verbally 
amended the same; and found the same, as 
amended, 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. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, Broadhaven 
dated the 19th day of this instant June, for a Return Harbour, &amp;e. 


relative to Broadhaven Harbour, &amp;c. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Supply. 


into the Committee of Supply. 
(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 48,855, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to — the Sum necessary to defray 
the Expenses of the General Management of the 
Department of Science and Art, of the Schools 
throughout the Kingdom in connexion with the 
Department, and of the Geological Surveys of Great 
Britain and Ireland, &amp;c., to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 45,087, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to de- 
fray the Expenses of the General Management of 
the Department of Science and Art, of the Schools 
throughout the Kingdom in connexion with the 
Department, and of the Geological Surveys of Great 
Britain and Ireland, &amp;c., to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 34,000, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to de- 
fray the Expenses of the General Management of 
the Department of Science and Art, of the Schools 
throughout the Kingdom in connexion with the 


Department, and of the Geological Surveys of Great 
Britain and Ireland, &amp;c., to the 31st day of March 
1858 ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Spooner, 33 
Yeas, UMr. Ball: } 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, } 
Noes, |The Earl of Mulgrave: ve 
Question put, That a Sum, not exceeding £.45,087, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum 
necessary to defray the Expenses of the General 
a we of the Department of Science and Art, 
of the Schools throughout the Kingdom in eonnexion 
with the Departmeut, and of the Geological a 
MM4 Q 








Message from 
the Lords. 


een A 
oney (Ire- 
Jand) Bill, 


262 


of Great Britain and Ireland, &amp;e., to the 31st day | 


of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Dillwyn, 

Yeas, Mr. Coningham : 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
2. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 


62. 


Sum, not exceeding £.143,030, be granted to Her | 


Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Charge for Public Education in Ireland, under 


tion in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That Church (Liverpool) Bill, with an Amendment ; t 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 125,150, be granted to Her! which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
| House : 
: 
| "The Lords request that this House will be pleased Shrewsbury 


Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Charge for Public Education in Jreland, under 


29°— 30° Junie. 


| 
| &amp;e. Bill, without any Amendment : 


he 


' Amendment : 
the Charge of the Commissioners of National Edu- : 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Lords have agreed to the Portsmouth Railway Portsmouth 
Bill, without any Amendment : Railway Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the North Eastern Rail- North Eastern 
ht } i 4 : allway 
way (Capital) Bill, without any Amendment (Capit!) Bil 
The Lords have agreed to the Dumbarton Water, Dumbarton 
Water, &amp;c. Bill. 
‘The Lords have agreed to the Jslington Parish Islington 
Bill, without any Amendment : Parish Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Brighton, Hove and Brighton, Hove 


Preston Constant Service Water Bill, without any a 
vice Water 
Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Suint Philip's Saint Philip's 
to Church (Li- 
verpool) Bill. 


the Charge of the Commissioners of National Edu- | to give leave to the Viscount Jngestre (a Member of Peerage: 


cation in Jreland, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Blackburn, s4 
Yeas, (Mr. Mowbray: } ’ 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, leo 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave : _— 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

3. £.405, to complete the Sum for the Salary of 
the Secretary and the Expenses of the Office of the 
Commissioners of Education in Jreland. 

4. £.3,602, for Expenses of the University of 
London. 

5. £.5,010, to complete the Sum for Grants to 
Scottish Universities, formerly defrayed from the 
Hereditary Revenues of the Crown. 

6. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £. 1,625, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to complete the Sum necessary to defray the Ex- 
penses of the Queen’s University in Ireland, to the 
31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the f Viscount Galway, 

Noes, Mr. William Williams : 

7. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 3,200, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray cer- 
tain Expenses of the Queen’s Colleges in Jreland, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

8. £.300, to complete the Sum for the Expense 
of the Royal Irish Academy. 

9. £.200, tocomplete the Sum for the Expense of 
the Royal Hibernian Academy. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


hoo. 


\ 55. 





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


Martis, 30° die Junii, 1857: 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 


reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. FitzRoy also acquainted the House, That he 
wis directed to move, that the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Ministers’ Money 
(Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment : 


| this House) to attend their Lordships, to be sworn, 
in order to his being examined as a Witness before 
the Committee for Privileges, to whom the Petition 
of Henry John Chetwynd Earl Talbot to Her Ma- 
jesty, praying Her Majesty that the Title, Dignity 
and Peerage or Honours of Earl of Shrewsbury may 
be declared and adjudged to belong to him; toge- 
ther with Her Majesty’s reference thereof to their 
Lordships’ House, and the Report of the Attorney 
General thereon, stands referred. 

And Viscount Ingestre, 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 Viscount Zngestre, have leave to 
go to the House of Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships, if he think fit. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
acquaint them, that this House hath given leave to 
Viscount Ingestre to go to the House of Lords, as 
desired by their Lordships, if he think fit: And that 
the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Turnpike 
into a Committee on the Turnpike Trusts Abolition [rusts Abo- 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had gone throug 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


tion (Ireland) 
Bill. 


The Constabulary Force (Jreland) Bill was, ac- Constabulary 
cording to Order, read a second time ; and com- Force (ire- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for anata 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Revising 
reading of the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill ; oe 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time on 
upon Thursday next. 


The Sites for Workhouses Bill was, according to Sites for 
Order, read the third time. —_— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Christchurch 
a Committee on the Christchurch (West Hartlepool) ——— 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker ?” ) 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment. 

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, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
The 











d) 





Married 
Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 


Weights and 
Measures Bill. 


Inclosure Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


Smoke Nui- 
sance (Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill, 


Protection 
of Female 
Children and 
Idiots Bill. 


Bank Acts. 


Coroners. 


21 Vicroriz. 


The Married Women’s Reversionary Interest Bill 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Weights and Measures Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Inclosure Acts Amendment Bill, 
as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Election Petitions Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 


And the Question being proposed, That the word | 


“‘ now” stand part of the Question :—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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Yeas, (Mtr Hnkey ' 

Tellers for the Noes, { str — P \ 77. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Question ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 

ut, That this House do now adjourn:—It passed 
in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question:—It was re- 
solved 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. 


or 
cq 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Smoke Deieue (Scotland) Abate- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Friday 
next, the Protection of Female Children and Idiots 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
give leave to Lord Overstone to attend to be exa- 
mined as a Witness before the Select Committee on 
the Bank Acts: And that the Clerk do carry the 
said Message. 


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, Copy of a General Order, signed “ G. J. 
Williams,” addressed to the Constabulary of the 
West Riding of Yorkshire, dated “‘ Chief Constable’s 
Office, Wakefield, April 2, 1857,” instructing the 
Police Constables of the County in their duty with 
Vou. 112. 


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263 


regard to giving Notice to Coroners in cases of 
Death ; also, of the Name of the Person or Persons 
by whose authority the said Order was issued. 
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. 


Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to in- Expiring 

quire what temporary Laws of a public and general 14s. 
nature are now in force, and what Laws of the like 
nature have expired since the last Report upon the 
subject ; and also what Laws of the lke nature are 
about to expire at particular periods, or in conse- 
quence of any contingent public event; and to 
report the sume, and their Observations thereupon, 
to the House :—And a Committee was appointed of 
Mr. Wilson, Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Attorney General, 
Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Cowper, Mr. Hardy, 
Mr. Hayter, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. William Wil- 
liams, Mr. Herbert, Sir Benjamin Hall and Viscount 
Duncan; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That Lord Robert Cecil, Sir William Ecclesiastical 
Heathcote and Mr. John Abel Smith be added to Corporations 
the Select Committee on the Ecclesiastical Corpo- se he 


rations Bill, and the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Commission, 
Bill. &amp;c. Bill. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Micit Distilla- 
continue and amend an Act of the seventeenth and tion (Ireland.) 
eighteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, chapter 
eighty-nine, and also the Laws for the suppression 
and prevention of Ilhcit Distillation in Ireland : And 
that Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the oo ee 
Cruelty to Animals Act Amendment Bill, was read, 4movinent 
and discharged. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to continue and Illicit Distilla- 
amend an Act of the seventeenth and eighteenth ——— 
years of Her Majesty’s reign, chapter Eighty-nine, 1) 9g 
and also the Laws for the Suppression and Preven- ° 
tion of Illicit Distillation in Ireland: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Mitchell reported from the Committee on Private Bills 
Group S. of Private Bills; That the Parties oppos- (Group 5.) 
ing the Belfast Improvement Bill had stated, that 
the Evidence of Mr. William Tracey was essential to 
enable them to establish their case; and it having 
been proved that his attendance could not be pro- 
cured without the intervention of the House, he had 
been instructed to move, That the said William Tra- 
cey do attend the said Committee forthwith. 

Ordered, That William Tracey do attend the said 
Committee forthwith. 


A Petition of Richard Henry Wyatt, Parliament- Times, 
ary Agent, praying that Provision may be made in Atheneum 
the Times, Atheneum and Beacon Assurance Com- y pte 
panies Amalgamation Bill, for amalgamating the Companies’ 
said Companies with the State Fire Insurance Com- Amalgama- 
pany, for uniting the Capitals of the said Comapnies, “ Bill 
and for other purposes, was presented, and read; 
and referred to the Examiners of Petitions.for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


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























264. 
Martis, 30° die Junii ; 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
Bodmin M: Speaker acquainted the House, That he 
Election. 4 had this day received a Letter from Messrs. 


Baxter, Rose and Norton, as Agents for Henry 
Dann and Richard Marks, informing him that it is 
not their intention to proceed with their Petition 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Bodmin :—And the said Letter was read, 


as followeth : 
3, Park-street, Westminster, 
Sir, June 29th, 1857. 

As Agents for Henry Dann and Richard Marks, 
in the matter of their Petition delivered in on the 
20th day of May last, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Bodmin, 
we hereby beg to inform you that it is not intended 
to proceed with the said Petition. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Baxter, Rose and Norton. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and 
discharged. 


Dorset Central The Dorset Central Railway Bill was read the 
Railway Bill. third time. . 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


FifeandKin- The F ife and Kinross Railway Bill was read the 
Bill Railway third time. 
’ Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the Fife and Kinross 
Railway Company to divert part of their Main Line, 
and to make an Extension from Milnathort to Kin- 
TOSS. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
ae Ordered, That the Haslingden and Todmorden 
den Roads 0ads Bill be read the third time To-morrow. 
Bill. 
Kinross-shire Ordered, That the Kinross-shire Railway Bill be 
Railway Bil. read the third time To-morrow. 
Leslie Railway Ordered, That the Leslie Railway Bill be read the 


third time To-morrow. 
omen ae The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland 
war of Irclana (5!7eamstown and ClaraJunction) Bill, changed from 
(Streamstown Midland Great Western Railway of Jreland (Tul- 
— Clara ‘amore Line), was read the third time. 
- mes ' Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Midland Great Title be, An Act to enable the Midland Great Wes- 
Western Rail- tern Railway of Ire/and Company to make a Railway 
way of Ireland fiom Streamstown to Clara, and for other purposes. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


(Tullamore 
Line.) 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





Beipenthen- Ordered, That the Selby and Market Weighton 
— a _— Road Billi be read the third time To-morrow. 
Stratford- The Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Bill was read the 
a third time. 
: Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Watchet A Motion being made, That the Watchet Har- 


Harbour Bill. 


bour Bill be now read the third time ; 
Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 





30° Juniz. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her ajesty’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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the West Somerset 
Mineral Railway Bill be now read the third time; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Mer 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 








West Somerset 
Mineral Rail- 


way Bill. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Pon- Pontefract 
tefract Election Petitions have leave, on the appli- lection. 


cation of the Parties, to adjourn from this day till 
Twelve of the clock on Thursday next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London 


the London Gas-Light Company (Capital) Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

A Clause (Orders, &amp;c. not to extend to the driving 
of cattle imported by sea to their lairs), was twice 
read; and made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the North Level Drainage Bill, as amended in the 


Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Orkney Roads Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Reading Railways Junction Railway Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and an Amendment 
was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Swansea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock 


Company Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the South Eastern Railway 
(Greenwich Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill be read the third 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 “ further consideration of the Bill, as amended 
“ in the Committee, be adjourned till this day three 
“ months,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed 


Gas-Light 
Cc 


ompany 


(Capital) Bill, 


Metropolitan 


Cattle Market 
Bill. 


North Level 
Drainage Bill. 


Orkney 
Roads Bill. 


Reading Rail- 
ways Junction 
Railway Bill. 


Salisbury 
and Yeovil 
Railway Bill. 


Swansea Har- 
bour Trust 
and Swansea 
Dock Com- 
pany Bill. 


South Eastern 
Railway 
(Greenwich 
Junction to 
Dartford, &amp;c.) 
Bill. 








Pimlico Im- 
— 


Public Offices : 


21 Vicroriz. 


osed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
t was resolved in the Affirmative. oie 
Ordered, That the Bill.be read the third time. 


The Pimlico Improvements Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to 
Sir Benjamin Hall, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir 
John Shelley, Mr. Brand, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Holford, 
and five Members to be added by the Committee of 
Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed on giving two days’ notice. 


The Public Offices Extension Bill was, according 


Extension Bills +, Order, read a second time; and committed to 


Finsbury Park 
‘No. 2) Bill. 


Pulteney Town 
Harbour Bill. 


London and 
South Western 
Railway Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


* 


Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Twen- 
tieth Report. 


Poor Law 
Union Schools, 


Sir Benjamin Hall, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir 
John Shelley, Mr. Brand, Mr. Ridley, Mr. Holford, 
and five Members to be added by the Committee 
of Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed on giving two days’ notice. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 23d day of this instant June, was proposed 
to be made to the Question, That the Finsbury 
Park (No. 2) Bill be now read a second 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 Question :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate :—And 
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 ; aud committed. 


Sir John Walsh reported the Pulteney Town 
Harbour (re-committed) Bill; with further Amend- 
ments, 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Earl of March reported from the Committee 
on the London and South Western Railway Acts 
Amendment (re-committed) Bill; That they had 
amended the Bill, by striking out the Provisions 
thereof relating to the Wimbledon Railway Company 
entering into arrangements with the London and 
Brighton and the South Western Railway Com- 
panies regarding the Wéimbledon Line, and the 
mode of carrying such arrangement into effect, and 
of managing and working the Wimbledon Railway 
under such arrangement, and amended the Preamble 
qeeereinghy 5 and made other Amendments in the 

ill. 

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


Ordered, That Standing Orders 75, 181 and 182, 
be suspended in the case of the Islington Parish 
Acts Amendment Bill, and that the Bill, as amended 
in the Committee, be considered upon due Notice 
thereof being given at the Private Bill Office, and 
upon amended Prints being deposited with the 
Doorkeepers one clear day before such consideration. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 


dated the 13th day of February, in the last Session 

of Parliament, for Returns of all Poor Law Unions 

in England and Wales where the School is main- 
Vou. 112. 


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265 


tained in a separate Building from the Union Work- 
house :—And, of such Unions under the Poor Law 
Board as have united for the purpose of educating 
the Pauper Children separately ; stating the Names 
of such Unions, and the Average Number of Children 
in such Union School during the year 1856. 
The following Papers, pursuant to the directions Caledonian 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon Canal. 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Fifty-second No. 141. 
Report of the Commissioners for making and main- 
taining the Caledonian Canal. 
Copy of Warrant granting Compensation for loss Sheriff 
of Fees to the Sheriff Substitute at Perth, and to Substitute at 
several Sheriff Clerks in Scotland. rayne 
The Thirty-fifth Report of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests 
Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 24 Land 
in obedience to the Acts 10 Geo. 4, c. 50, and ec 
Will. 4, c. 1, being the Sixth Report under the Act 
of the 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 42. 
Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Caledo- 
nian Canal, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Fire In- Fire In- 
surances, which was presented upon the 29th day surances. 
of this instant June, be printed. No, 142, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hops, &amp;c., Hops, &amp;c. 
which was presented upon the 29th day of this in- No. 143. 
stant June, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Civil List Civil List 
Pensions, which was presented upon the 29th day Pensions. 
of this instant June, be printed. No. 144. 


Ordered, That the Finance Accounts, which were Finance. 
presented upon the 29th day of this instant June, No, 145. 
be privted. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Printed Pa- Printed 
pers, which was sg en upon the 25th day of Papers. 
this instant June, be printed. No. 146. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bankruptcy 


into a Committee on the Bankraptcy and Insolvency 4 msolvency 
(Ireland). Bill. situs 7 Godend) Bt 
(In the Committee.) 

Ciauses, N° 153 to N° 160, inclusive, agreed to. 

Cravse, N° 161 (No suit by acreditor of a Com- 
pany against the person or property of any indivi- 
dual member to affect his right to file petition of 
bankruptcy or prove against the Company ; and a 
petition of bankruptcy, or a proof or proceeding 
thereon, not to affect any action by a creditor against 
the person or property of any individual member ; 
8&amp;9 Vic. c. 98, s. 9). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 42,1. 2: To leave out 
from the word “ no” to the word “ against,” in |. 6, 
m order to insert the words “ action, suit or other 
“ proceeding shall be taken by any creditor of such 
“ Company.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ such pe- 
“ tition or proof” stand part of the Clause. 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause disagreed to. 

Cravuses, N° 162 to N® 314, inclusive, with an 
Amendment to one of them, agreed to. 

Criavuse, N° 315, disagreed to. 

Cravusses, N° 316 to N° 408, inclusive, with an 
Amendment to one of them, agreed to. 

Postponed Ciause, N° 46, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Clauses added. 

Schedules A. to Y. inclusive, agreed to. 

Schedule Z. amended, and agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

2 


NN Ordered, 



















266 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


British and 
Irish Grand 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- 
mittee on Group 11 of Railway Bills; That in the 
case of the British and Jrish Grand Junction Rail- 
way Bill, a Clause has been inserted in the Bill, 
under the Standing Orders of the House of the 12th 
day of March last, enacting that the Subscription 
Contracts shall be as valid as if the Bill had passed 
in the last Session, it having been proved to the 
satisfaction of the Committee that the deposits in 
respect of the same Subscription Contracts have not 
been withdrawn; that they had examined the alle- 
gations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, and 
amended the same, by confining the arrangements 
with other Companies to such as are specified in the 
Bill; and found the same, as amended, 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. 


North Western 


Sir James Buller East reported from the Com- 
Railway Bill. 


mittee on the North Western Railway (re-committed) 
Bill; That they had amended the Preamble, by 
adding a recital as to the expediency of Powers 
being granted for the Sale or Lease of the North 
Western Railway to the Midland Railway Company, 
and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company ; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
made Amendments in the Bill for carrying such 
Powers into effect. 

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


Sir Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty's 
Command,—Copy of Report on the Ordnance Sur- 
vey, by Lieutenant Colonel James, R. k. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Names of the Parishes and Places 
in Durham and Northumberland which have been 
surveyed upon the Twenty-five inch Scale; dis- 
tinguishing those portions of the Survey which have 
been already published from those which yet remain 
unpublished. 


Ordnance 
Survey 
(Durham and 
Northumber- 
land.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of all Correspondence relative to the ground- 
ing of the Prussian Bark “ Memel” while in charge 
of a Newport Pilot in February last, including the 
»Minutes of Evidence taken before the Sub-Com- 
missioners of Pilotage at Vewport; with the Opinion 
expressed by the Board of Trade upon the case. 


Prussian Bark 
** Memel.” 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
Ner Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Petitions or Memorials which have 
been presented to the Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, complaining of the present 
system of Burials within the Metropolitan Police 
District :—And, Copies of any Reports made by 
Government Inspectors thereon. 

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 being put, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to cause the 
Votes of the Parliamentary Electors of Great Bri- 
tainand Ireland to be taken by way of Ballot; 

The House divided. 


30° Juniz.—1° Julit. 





A.1857. Sess. II. 


The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Henry Berkeley, : 
Yeas, oa John Shelley - “ 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Grey, 
Noes, Viscount Galway : J 

So it passed in the Negative. 


257. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to tie Forth and C/yde Forth and 
Junction Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which Clyde June- 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. nw 


Mr. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, Chinese 
dated the 11th day of this instant June, for a Return Surveys. 
relative to Chinese Surveys. 

Mr. Osborne also presented, pursuant to the di- Naval Prize 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—An Account Money, &amp;c. 
showing the Receipt and Expenditure of Naval Prize, 

Bounty, Salvage and other Monies, between the 1st 
April 1856 and 31st March 1857. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Registration of 
That there be laid before this House, a Copy of Newspapers, 
the Case submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, - 
respecting the Registration of Newspapers and other 
Printed Papers, and their Opinion thereon :—It 
passed in the Negative. 


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


Mercurii, 1° die Julii, 1857: 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Superannua- 
to repeal the twenty-seventh Section of the Super- tion Act 
annuation Act, 1834: And that Lord Nuas and ae. 
Mr. Hankey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Poor Rate, &amp;c. 
Return showing the Gross estimated Rental and Net (Metropolitan 
Rateable Value of Property assessed to the Poor Districts) 
Rate; also the Annual Value thereof assessed to the 
Income Tax under Schedule (A.) in the year 1856 ; 
the Gross Amount expended from Poor’s Rate, and 
the Amount expended in Relief of the Poor, and the 
Rate in the Pound on the Gross estimated Rental, 
and on the Net rateable Value respectively of each 
Amount, in every Parish, and in every Extra-paro- 
chial Place within the Metropolitan Districts, as de- 
fined by the Act 18 &amp; 19 Vic. ¢. 140, called ‘‘ The 
Metropolitan Local Management Act,” for the years 
ending the 29th day of March in 1830, 1835, 1840, 

1845, and from 1850 to 1857; the Parishes in Unions 
being placed under the Head of their respective 
Unions. 


Ordered, That Mr. Dodson, Mr. Clay, Mr. Jo- Harbours of 
seph Ewart and Mr. Macartney be added to the Refuge. 
Select Committee on Harbours of Refuge. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Conveyance 
make further Provision for the Conveyance of Mails of Mails by 
by Railways: And that Mr. Wilson and the Chan- ®#!¥ay*- 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, ana bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming India. 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 23d day of June last, That the Question 
which was then proposed, relative to India, be now 


put ; . 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills, &amp;c. of 
mittee on the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects Abroad British Sub- 
Bill; —y Abroa 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

The 








21 VicTorRI2z. 


Burial Acts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Amendment mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; 

= Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Supply. Mr. Wilson reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

Department 1. That a Sum, not exceeding £, 48,855, be 

of Science and granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 

aden cessary to defray the Expenses of the General Ma- 
nagement of the Department of Science and Art, of 
the Schools throughout the Kingdom in connexion 
with the Department, and of the Geological Surveys 
of Great Britain and Ireland, &amp;c., to the 31st day 

of March 1858. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 143,030, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Charge for Public Education 
in Ireland, under the Charge of the Commissioners 
of National Education in Ireland, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

Commissioners 3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 405, be granted 

of Education to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 

acai pay the Salary of the Secretary and the Expenses 
of the Office of the Commissioners of Education in 
Treland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

University of 4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,602, be granted 

London. to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expenses of 
the University of London, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

Scottish 5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 5,010, be granted 

Universities. to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
pay Grants to Scottish Universities, formerly de- 
frayed from the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Queen's 6. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.1,625, be granted 


Education 
(Ireland. ) 


University to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 

(Ireland.) = defray the Expenses of the Queen’s University in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Queen’s 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,200, be granted 

Colleges to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 

ss defray certain Expenses of the Queen’s Colleges in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Royal Irish 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.300, be granted 

Academy. to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary 


towards defraying the Expense of the Royal Jrish 
Academy, to the 31st day of March 1858. 
Royal — 9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 200, be granted 
— to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary 
eeen'y’ towards defiaying the Expense of the Royal Hiber- 
nian Academy, to the 31st day of March 1858. 
The said Resolutions, being rad a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Inclosure Acts 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
ca, 5 


into consideration the Inclosure Acts Amendment 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Provision for protecting from nuisances town and 
village greens, and allotmen‘s for exercise and re- 
creation) :—And the said Clause was brought up, 
and twice read, with a blank; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House :—The House ac- 
cordingly resoived itself into the Committee; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Bonham-Carter reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Clause, and 
made en Amendment thereunto. 

Ordered, ‘hat the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bonham -Carter accordingly reported the 
Clause; and the Amendment was read, and agreed 
to; and the said Clause was made part of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 
caerenane. Lord Naas presented a Bill t&gt; repeal the twenty- 
Amendment S¢Venth Section of the Superan uation Act, 1834: 
Bill And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
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30° Juntt.—1° Juliz. 267 


to be read a second time upon Monday next ; and 
to be printed. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to make further Pro- Conveyance 
vision for the Conveyance of Mails by Railways : of Mails by 
. ‘ Railways Bill. 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered Rill 100 
to be read a second time upon Monday the 13th ? 
day of this instant July ; and to be printed. 


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


Mercurii, 1° die Julii ; 


Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
OF D ERED, That the Committee on Group A. Mersey Con- 


of Private Bills have leave to make a Special pete Fo 
Report relative to the Mersey Conservancy and , 
Docks Bill. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Controverted 
of Elections ; That they had selected the following Elections. 
two additional Members, the Right honourable 
E. Horsman and the Lord Stanley, to be Members 
of the Chairmen’s Panel, and to serve as Chairmen 
of Election Committees for the present Session. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Maidstone 
of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select Election. 
Committee appointed to try and determine the 
matter of the Petition complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the Borough of Maidstone, to 
which they had annexed the Petition referred to them 
by the Hewes relating thereto:—Sir H. Ferguson 
Davie, Baronet, Sir William Payne Gallwey, Baronet, 
Samuel Gregson, Fsquire, Anthony Wilson, Esquire ; 
Chairman, George Alexander Hamilton, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Oxford City 
of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select Election. 
Committee appointed to try and determine the 
matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the City of Oxford, to 
which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto:—Peter Black- 
burn, Esquire, Sir Thomas Burke, Baronet, Colonel 
Gilpin, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, Esquire ; 
Chairman, Edward Christopher Egerton, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Tewkesbury 
of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select Election. 
Committee appointed to try and determine the 
matter of the Petition complaming of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the Borough of Tewkesbury, 
to which they had annexed the Petition referred 
to them by the House relating thereto :— William 
Henry Adams, Esquire, Walter Buchanan, Esquire, 

Lord Haddo, William Wyndham, Esquire, (S. Wilts); 
Chairman, Edward Ellice, junior, Esquire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Bury Election. 
of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select 
Committee appointed to try and determine the 
matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Bury, to 
which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto :— Francis Ber- 
nard Beamish, Esquire, Colonel the Honourable 
Percy Herbert, the Honourable Charles Wentworth 
Howard, William Francis Knatchbull, Esquire ; 
Chairman, William Hutt, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 








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268 
The Otley and Skipton Road Bill was read the 


ird time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Otley and P 
Skipton Roa 
Bill. th 


Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den Roads Bil 


The Haslingden and Todmorden Roads Bill was, 
1 according to Order, read the third time. 
"Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Kinross-shire The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Railway Bill reading of the Kinross-shire Railway Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Leslie Rail- 


The Leslie Railway Bill was, according to Order, 
way Bill. 


read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Selby and Mar- 
ket Weighton 
Road Bill. 


The Selby and Market Weighton Road Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Elie Harbour The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Bill. the Elie Harbour Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Lancaster and Carlisle and 
Ingleton Railway Bill, as amended in the Committee, 
be taken into consideration upon Friday next. 


Lancaster 
and Carlisle 
and Ingleton 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Metropolitan Railway (No. 2) Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Midland 
Great Western 
Railway of 
Ireland (Sligo 
Extension) 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Midland Great Western Railway of Jreland 
(Sligo Extension) Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Newport, 

Abergavenny 
and Hereford 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill, as amended 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Newry and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bul. 


Thames and 
Medway Con- 
servancy Bill. 


West London 
and Crystal 
Palace Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the West London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time, 


Fleming's Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed, 


Fleming’s 
Estate Bill. 


1° Sula. 


Ordered, That the Thames and Medway Conser- | 
van’y Bill, as amended in the Committee, be taken 
into consideration upon Friday next. 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 70 and 199 be Times, 
suspended in the case of the Petition for additional a, 
Provision in the Times, Atheneum and Beacon Remeanian 
Assurance Companies Amalgamation Bill; and that Companies’ 
the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills have 4™!gama- 


; ° tion Bi 
leave to sit and proceed forthwith. — 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had (Nineteenth 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 29th day Report, ) 
of June last; 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. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. eaaayranee 
Vide Twen- 
tieth Report. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a New Govern- 
Copy of a Letter, dated the 30th day of June 1857, ment Offices. 
addressed by the First Commissioner of Works, &amp;c. 
to the Lords of Her Majesty’s Treasury, containing 
the Award of the Judges appointed to report upon 
the Designs for the proposed New Government 
Offices. 
Sir Benjamin Hall accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hong Kong. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of, or Extracts from, any Papers con- 
nected with the Confinement of Chinese Prisoners at 
Hong Kong, and with the Trial of a Baker and 
others on the Charge of Poisoning. 

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 Order of the day being read, for the second Medical 
reading of the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; Fxofession 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being a 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 

“ now ”’ stand part of the Question—— 


Mr. Deasy reported from the Select Committee Cambridge 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the yy men 
Petition of Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, com- aie 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Cambridge; That on the meeting of the 
Committee this day, at the hour to which they had 
adjourned from the previous sitting, the Marquis of 
Blandford, one of the Members of the said Com- 
‘mittee, did not attend, and was not present within 
one hour after the meeting of the Committee, and 
| that he, the Chairman, had received a Certificate 
from Edward Headland, Surgeon, verified upon 
Oath before Joseph Prior, Mayor of Woodstock, 
and stating that the Duke of Marlborough was 
alarmingly ill, and in a state that made his recovery 
very improbable ; that the Marquis of Blandford 
was at the bedside of his father, and it seemed ab- 
solutely necessary, on every ground, that he should 
remain with him; and that a Letter had since been 
received by the Chairman from the Marquis of 
Blandford, stating that his father’s death had sub- 
sequently taken place. 

hen the said Certificate was delivered in, and 
read, as followeth : 

“Thereby state that the Duke of Marlborough 








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91 Vicroriz. 


is alarmingly ill, and in a state that makes his re- 
covery very improbable. 

Lord Blandford is at the bedside of his father, 
and it seems abolutely necessary on every ground 
that he should remain with him. 


Edw. Headland, Surgeon. 
Blenheim, June 30, 1857. 


Deposed and sworn before me, Joseph Prior, 
Mayor of Woodstock.” 


Ordered, That the Marquis of Blandford be 
excused for not attending, and be discharged from 
further attendance on the*said Committee. 

Mr. Deasy further reported from the said Select 
Committee; That they had adjourned till this day, 
at half after One of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Medical And the Question being put, That the word 
the 1) Bil “now ” stand part of the Question ; 
-_ ; The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thes Mr. Headlam, } 295 
Yeas, Sir William Heathcote : aes 
Tellers for the { Lord Elcho, De 8 
Noes, Mr. Craufurd: | how 
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. 
Medical The Order of the day being read, for the second 
P ee. reading of the Medical Profession (No. 3) Bill ; 
ome Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
Vaccination The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bill. reading of the Vaccination Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 
Leases and The Order of the day being read, for the second 
ae reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates 
Amendment Act Amendment Bill ; 
Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 
Registration The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
(Senta Di consideration the Registration of Long Leases (Scot- 
ae land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Monday next. 
Medicaland ©§ The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Surgical Sci- 
ences (Queen’s 
University) 
(Ireland) Bill. 


reading of the Medical and Surgical Sciences 
(Queen’s University) (Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 15th day of this instant July. 


Public The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Charities Bil. reading of the Public Charities Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 
Burials Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Burials Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 
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. 
Christchurch The Christchurch (West Hartlepool) Bill was, 
pool) Bin according to Order, read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
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269 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Rill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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. 


Sir John Yarde Buller, from the Select Committee Rochdale 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the Election. 
Petition of Electors complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the Borough of Rochdale, in- 
formed the House, That the Committee had deter- 
mined, 

That Sir Alexander Ramsay, Baronet, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment for the Borough of Rochdale. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Sir John Yarde Buller, from the said Select Com- 
mittee, further informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

1. That it appeared from the evidence of 
Abraham Rothwell, Mary Ann Hughes, Richard 
Hughes and Martin Daley, that the said Abraham 
Rothwell, Richard Hughes and Martin Daley were 
bribed by various sums of money being given to and 
offered to them, but the evidence was socontradictory 
and unsatisfactory that the Committee feel that 
very little reliance can be placed upon it. 

2. That there was no evidence to show that the 
aforesaid acts of bribery were committed with the 
knowledge and consent of the said Sir Alexander 
Ramsay or his agents. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Probates 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of imposing 94 Letters of 
pi . Administra- 

a Stamp Duty on every Person admitted as a Proc- tion tstamps.] 
tor in the Court of Probate to be established by any 

Act of the present Session relating to Probates and 

Letters of Administration in England; and of 

authorizing the Collection, by means of Stamps, of 

the Fees to be received under the said Act. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee Mersey Con- 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That in the case of cote Fa 
the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, they had (Special Ree 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble port and Re- 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by the alteration Pt of Bill.) 
of recitals to meet the requirements of the case, and 
by the substitution of the term “ agreement for a 
lease” for “a lease;” and found the same, as 
amended, to be true. 

That the Committee, in considering the Liverpool 
and Birkenhead Docks Bills, and the Mersey Con- 
servancy Bill, referred to them, had given their first 
and immediate attention to the latter measure, in 
conformity with the Special Report of the Com- 
mittee of 1855, presented when the Liverpool and 
Birkenhead Docks were amalgamated by an Act of 
that Session. 

The first recommendation of that Committee, over 
which Mr. Labouchere presided, is announced in the 
following terms :—“That the earliest opportunity 
should be taken of carefully considering the consti- 
tution of the Dock Trust, with reference to the 
altered circumstances in which it will be placed in 
consequence of this amalgamation.” 

The Committee have endeavoured to give full 
effect to this recommendation, by vesting the ma- 
nagement of the Docks of Liverpool and Birkenhead 
in an independent public body, elected by the persons 
who pay rates and dues levied on shipping frequent- 
ing the Port of Liverpool; and furthermore they 
have provided, that all rates and dues so levied, 
other than rates and dues payable to Her Majesty, 
shall henceforth be applied fur the benefit of the 
Port of Liverpool, and of the shipping that frequent 
that Port, and for no other purpose. 

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With a view to the full attainment of these objects, 
the Committee have found it necessary and just to 
transfer to the New Dock Trust the Birkenhead 
Dock Estate, and the entire debt incurred for its 
purchase, and for works now in progress there. 

They have also thought it necessary to include in 
this transfer the Fore-shore at the northern extre- 
mity of the Birkenhead Works, so that every 
obstacle to their future development may at once be 
removed; and to secure this object they have 
charged the Dock Trust with a sum which more 
than covers the price recently paid by the ~—— 
tion of Liverpool for the purchase of this Fore- 
shore. 

The question of the Liverpool Town Dues was 
necessarily brought before the Committee, inasmuch 
as these dues are levied on shipping, and seem 
rightly to form part of the funds available for ship- 
ping purposes, under the sole control and at the 
disposal of the Dock Trust. They have hitherto 
been administered by the Ccrporation of Liverpool, 
henceforth they will be levied and applied by the 
Dock Trust, without prejudice to any question as to 
the legality of such dues, and with a strict reser- 
vation of all claims of creditors upon them. 

The debt of the Corporation, for which the Town 
Dues are in part security, amounts in round numbers 
to £.1,100,000. 

ortion of this debt may be justly charged on the 
Dock Funds, in consideration of land given by the 
Corporation for Docks in the last century; in con- 
sideration, also, of outlay from time to time on the 
part of the Corporation which may fairly be regarded 
as expenditure for the benefit of shipping, and for 
the improvement of the Port. 

The Committee have therefore transferred to the 
Dock Trust a charge greater than a moiety of the 
Corporation debt. They have relieved the Corpo- 
ration Estate to the extent of £. 600,000, and have 
transferred this charge to the Dock Funds, but 
without prejudice to the claims of creditors ; their 
rights and securities are fully preserved, notwith- 
standing the division of the debt and the transfer of 
the Town Dues. 

The Committee have provided that the Dock 
Trust shall render to Parliament an annual account 
of their receipts during the preceding year, and of the 
manner in which the proceeds have been applied. 

It would be desirable to frame a Schedule of the 
dues to be levied, and to fix a maximum beyond 
which no existing rate shall be raised, and no new 
rate imposed without the consent of Parliament. 

An independent audit of the annual accounts, and 
an annual publication of the accounts, ought also to 
be provided. 

The debt at present existing on the Dock Funds 
amounts to no less a sum than £. 6,000,000; and 
for the gradual extinction of this debt, for the supply 
of additional Dock accommodation, and for annual 
Harbour expenditure, the Dock Rates, even with 
the additional aid of the Town Dues, will be barely 
sufficient. Both these funds are a charge on the 
trade of the Port, and it is therefore a matter of 
urgency that the re-constitution of the trust, re- 
commended in the Special Report of the Com- 
mittee of 1855, should at once be enacted. ‘The 
Committee have imposed on the new trust in the 


present Bill the duty of applying to Parliament | 


i the next Session for a measure consolidating the 
Dock Acts. 

The fitting opportunity will then present itself for 
supplying any additional checks and provisions 
which may be found wanting. The Bill, as it is 
now submitted to the House, is an immediate remedy 
to Lany existing evils. 

Sir James Graham further reported ; That they 
had goie through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

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


1°—2° Juliz. 


A, 1857. Sess. IT. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee Private Bills 
on Gronp A. of Private Bills; That Mr. Philipps, (Group A.) 
one of the Selected Members of the said Committee, - 
was not present during the sitting of the Committee 
this day. 

Ordered, That Mr. Philipps be discharged from 
further attendance on the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Times, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, 5 oan 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Or- Assurance. 
ders in the case of the Petition for additional Pro- Companies’ 
vision in the Times, Atheneum and Beacon Assu- A™algama- 


rance Companies Amalgamation Bill. a 





In the opinion of the Committee a | 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
‘lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty's Com- Accidents on 
mand,—-Copy of Reports of the Inspecting Officers Railways. 
of the Railway Department to the Lords of the 
Committee of Privy Council for Trade upon certain 
Accidents which have occurred on Railways during 
the months of January, February, March and April 
1857: Part IT. 

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


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was Marlborough 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— Election. 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Marlborough Election Petition. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Law Poor Law 
Union Schools, which was presented upon the 30th Union Schools. 
day of this instant June, be printed. No. 132, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Woods, Fo- Woods, Foresta 
rests and Land Revenues, which was presented upon 224 Land 
the 30th day of this instant June, be printed. 


Revenues. 
No. 148, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Chinese Chinese 
Surveys, which was presented upon the 30th day of Surveys. 
this instant June, be printed. No. 149, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Naval Prize Naval Prize 
Money, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 30th day Money, &amp;c. 
of this instant June, be printed. No. 150. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Jovis, 2° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. ' 
S IR James Graham reported from the Committee Birkenhead 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That the Parties Docks (Ma- 
Ewe the Birkenhead Docks (Management) cs 
ill had stated to the Committee, that it was not 
their intention to proceed with the same. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Sir James Graham reported from the Committee Birkenhead 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That the Parties Docks (Coe 
py the Birkenhead Docks (Construction) *7*°™ 

ill had stated to the Committee, that it was not 
their intention to proceed with the same. 

Ordered, ‘That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee Liverpool and 
on Group A. of Private Bills; That in the case of re 
the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks Bill, they had“°™ 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Wareham 
Wareham Election Petitions have leave to sit this Election 
day till Five of the clock, during the sitting of the 
House. 

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91 Vicroriz. 2° Juliz. 


Nene Valley Mr. Divett reported from the Committee on | Then the Bill was read the third time. 
Drainage and Group J. of Private Bills; That in the case of the | Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Naviga’iment Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement _— Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


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on Bill, they had examined the allegations contained in | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
the Preamble of the Bill, but the same had not been | 
proved to their satisfaction. | The Great Northern and Western of Ireland Great 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. , Railway Bill was read the third time. pe one 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. pe i 
Belfast Im- Mr. Mitchell reported from the Committee on Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Railway Bill. 


— Group 8. of Private Bills; That the Parties pro- | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
” moting the Belfast Improvement Bill had stated to | 
the Committee, that it was not their intention topro-| The Zondon (City) Coal Duties Bill was read the London (City) 
ceed with the same. | third time. bay Duties 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. | Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ° 
_ Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Maidstone The Names of the five Members appointed to try Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Election. and determine the matter of the Petition complain- | 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo-; The allow and Fermoy and Great Southern and Mallow and 
rough of Maidstone, were called over; and being! Western Railways Bill was read the third time. Fermoy and 
- : 4 2 my : Great Southern. 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. Resolved, ‘That the Bill do pass. and Western 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the; | Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the Railways Bil. 
Committee. | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- | 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House,| The -Wi/ford Improvement Bill was read the third Milford Im- 
at Twelve of the clock. | time. — 
|  Resoived, That the Bill do pass. 
Oxford City The Names of the five Members appointed to try| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Biection- and determine the matter of the Petition complain- | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the City of 
a were called over ; and being come to the | The New Brunswick and Canada Railway and New Bruns- 


Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. | Land Company Bill was read the third time. pened 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the| Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the cwrenl Land 
Committee. ; Title be, An Act for the Transfer of the Interests of Company Bil. 
. Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- | the Class A. Shareholders of the Saint Andrew’s and 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, | Quebec Railroad Company to “ The Mew Bruns- 
at Eleven of the clock. wick and Canada Railway and Land Company 
ta (Limited).” 
Tewkesbury © The Names of the five Members appointed to try| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Election. and determine the matter of the Petition complain- | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Tewkesbury, were called over; and being} The Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Oldham, 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. | Bridge Junction Railways Bill was read the third oe 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the | time. Gaide Bridge 
Committee. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Junction Rail- 
Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor-| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the ¥#78 Bill 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House,| Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
at ‘I'welve of the clock. 
A Motion being made, That the Sittingbourne and Sittingbourne 
Bury Election. The Names of the five Members appointed to try | Sheerness Railway Bill be now read the third time ; 44 Sheemess 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain-| Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- wai 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo-| quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
rough of Bury, were called over; and being come| informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 


to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. sent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the | that the House may do therein as they shall think 
Committee. fit. 


Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- Then the Bill was read the third time. 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House,| Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
at Eleven of the clock. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Saint Philip's Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
Liverpeal Bil to the Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool Bill be| The Wexford Free Bridge Bill was read the third Wexford Free 
" taken into consideration To-morrow. time. Bridge Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
silb ry of the The Burial of the Dead within the City and| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Biil to the 
oo Liberties of London Bill was read the third time. Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
y an ‘ 
Liberties of Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
London Bill. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 





The Worksop and Attercliffe Road Bill was read Worksop and 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. the third time. ——— 
e | Resolved, That the Bill do pass. oe 
eng A Motion being made, That the East Somerset} Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
"ay *™ Railway Bill be now read the third time; | Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


And Notice being taken, That the interest of the | 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is concerned The House proceeded to take into consideration Clyde Navi- 
therein ; the Clyde Navigation Bill, as amended in the Com- gation Bill. 
Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac-| mittee. 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been| A Clause (Plans to be deposited at Admiralty 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con-| Office), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 


sent, as far as the Prince of Wales’s interest is con-| Another Clause (Periods for completion of works), 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shall! was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 
think fit. | Another Clause (Officers of Customs not to clear 


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972 


ships outwards till rates are paid), was twice read ; 
and made part of the Bill. 
Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Lowestoftand The House proceeded to take into consideration 

Soe Bere the Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and 

and Roads Bill. Roads Bill, as amended in the Committee ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Salford 
Borough 
(No. 1) Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, as amended in 
the Committee ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Stockport, The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Disley and 


Whaley Bridge the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway 
Railway Bill Bill, as amended in the Committee; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Whitehaven 
and Furness 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Standing 


Sir John Yarde Buller reported from the Select 
Orders. 


Committee on Standing Orders, a Resolution; which 
was read, as followeth : 

That in the case of the Times, Atheneum and 
Beacon Assurance Companies’ Amalgamation, Pe- 
tition for additional Provision, the Standing Orders 
ought to be dispensed with; that the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill on proving 
before the Committee on the Bill that the Amalga- 
mated Company effect no Insurances on Lives; that 
the Committee on the Bill do report how far such: 
Order has been complied with on the Report of the 
Bill. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Times, 
Atheneum 
and Beacon 
Assurance 
Companies’ 
Amalgamation 
Bill. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
Petitions. and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Votes, A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 


and Twenty- and referred to a Select Committee. 
first Report. 


Portpatrick The Order made upon the 18th day of June last, 

= tars That there be laid before this House, a Return re- 

' Jative to Portpatrick and Donaghadee Harbours, 
was read, and discharged. 


Portpatrick Ordered, That there be laid hefore this House, 
and Bonasha- Copies of Captain Vetch’s Report to the Admiralty 
, ’ of the 22d day of July 1856 :—Of the Letter ad- 
dressed to the Treasury by the Admiralty the 23d 
day of July :—And, of Captain Vetch’s further Re- 
ports to the Admiralty, dated the 29th day of Sep- 
tember 1856 and the 30th day of June 1857, upon 

the Llarbours of Portpatrick and Donaghadee. 


New Govern- 
ment Offices. 
No. 152. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the New 
ist day of this instant July, be printed. 


Chamber of 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 
London. "7 


several Acts of Parliament, was laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Annual Accounts from 
the Chamber of London. 
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 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 


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the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty Statute Law 
“ praying Her Majesty to dispense with the present Commission, 
“ Statute Law Commission,” 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.) 


1. £.46,400, to complete the Sum for Salaries and 
Expenses of the British Museum Establishment. 

2. £.29,314, to complete the Sum for New 
Buildings and Fittings at the British Museum. 

8. £.944, to complete the Sum for the Purchase 
of Objects for the British Museum. 

4. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.23,165, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the National 
Gallery, including the Purchase of Pictures, to the 
31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.22,615, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the National 
Gallery, including the Purchase of Pictures, to the 
31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,974, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the National 
Gallery, including the Purchase of Pictures, to the 
31st day of March 1858 :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn, * 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.16,624, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the National 
Gallery, including the Purchase of Pictures, to the 
31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for ther Mr. Coz, 1 9 

Yeas, Lord Elcho : . 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 194 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave: = 

Question put, That a Sum, notexceeding £. 22,615, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses 
of the National Gallery, including the Purchase of 
Pictures, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the) Lord Elcho, 

Yeas, (Mr. Spooner: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, |The Earl of Mulgrave: 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

5. £.3,539, to complete the Sum for Magnetic 
Observations Abroad, including the Superintendent’s 
Establishment at Woolwich ; also, for Observations 
and Services under the direction of the Astronomer 
Royal, and for Meteorological Observations at Sea. 

6. £.500, to enable the Royal Geographical 
Society to provide accommodation for their Meet- 
ings, &amp;e. 

7. £.1,000, to enable the Royal Society to carry 
on certain Experiments for Public Objects. 

8. £.3,050, to complete the Sum for the Civil 
Establishment of the Bermudas. 

9. £.6,878, for the Ecclesiastical Establishment 
of the British North American Provinces. 

10. £.3,541, for the Zndian Department in 
Canada. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 3° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to se- 
veral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this ~~. 

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91 Vicrorizg. 


Mr. FitzRoy also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, 'Vhat this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated Fund 
(£.8,000,000) Bill, without any Amendment : 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Consolidated 
Fund 
(£.8,000,000) 
Bill. 


Insurance on The Lords have agreed to the Insurance on Lives 
Lives (Abate- (Abatement of Income Tax) Continuance Bill, 
ren y ner without any Amendment : 

ance Bill. 


Court of The Lords have agreed to the Court of Exchequer 
Exchequer reland) Bill, without any Amendment : 

Een) Bill (Lreland) Bill, without any 

County Cess The Lords have agreed to the County Cess (Jre- 


(Ireland) Bill. Jand) Bill, without any Amendment : 


Cork Gas The Lords have agreed to the Cork Gas Bill, 

Bill. without any Amendment : 

Kidsgrove The Lords have agreed to the Kidsgrove Market 

Market Bil. Bil], without any Amendment : 

Waterford The Lords have agreed to the Waterford and 

and Tramore . 7 Raj 7 : 

Railway Bill. Tramore Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 

Great The Lords have agreed to the Great Yarmouth | 

Yarmouth = and Britannia Pier Bill, without any Amendment: 

Britannia 

Pier Bill. 

Dublin and The Lords have agreed to the Dublin and Wick- 

Wicklow low Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 

Railway Bill. - 

Bridgwater The Lords have agreed to the Bridgwater Markets 

Markets and and Fairs Bill, without any Amendment: 

Fairs Bill. 

Australian The Lords have agreed to the Australian Agri- 

Somes . 

Bill. ‘ - 

Company ®*"" the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 

Savings Banks The Order of the day being read, for the Com-| 

(No.2) Bills mittee on the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monda 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Attornics The Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial Courts) 

a Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; 

Courts) Bil, 22d committed to a Committee of the whole House, | 


for Monday next. 


Justices and 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Police Force 


reading of the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Fraudulent The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Trustees, &amp;. mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Summary The Summary Proceedings before Justices of the 
Proceedings Peace Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
before Justices |. : ae . 
of the Peace time; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
Bill. House, for Monday next. 
emo The Municipal Corporations Bill was, according 
Ri «to «Order, read a second time; and committed to 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday 
next. 
Constabulary _ The House, accerding to Order, resolved itself 
nd) Bi into a Committee on the Constabulary Force (Zre- 


land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
os That the Committee had gone through the 

il. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 

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273 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Revising 
reading of the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill; Barristers 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (D&gt;!) Bill 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Mlicit Distilla- 
reading of the Illicit Distillation (Zreland) Bill ; tion (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates and 
into a Committee on Probates and Letters of Admi- Letters of Ad- 


nistration [Stamps]. as 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That the same amount of Stamp 
Duty as is now payable on the admission of a Proc- 
tor to any Ecclesiastical Court, shall be payable by 
every person admitted as a Proctor in the Court of 
Probate to be established by any Act of the present 
Session relating to Probates and Letters of Admi- 
nistration in England. 

2. Resolved, That the Fees payable to the Officers 
of the said Court of Probate, or of any County 
Court, in respect of business under the said Act, 
shall be collected by means of Stamps. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





| District) Bill ; 

| Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
. hs se Tl- | the 14th day of this instant July, at Twelve of the 
cultural Company Bill, with Amendments ; to which | clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


| 


| reading of the Weights and Measures Bill ; 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy 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 Com- Grand Juries 


mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan 


Police Dis- 
trict) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Weights and 
Measures Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


y | upon Wednesday next. 


The Inclosure Acts Amendment Bill was, accord- Inclosure 
ing tu Order, read the third time. Acts Amend- 
| Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a 
| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


| 
| 


| The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
‘ Estates Act 
Act Amendment Bill; Amendumnt 
| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill 


| upon Monday next. 
} 
| 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a probates and 

| Committee, this day, on the Probates and Letters of Letters of Ad- 

Administration Bill, was read, and discharged. _— 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

‘next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Gaskell, from the Select Committee appointed Wareham 
to try and determine the matter of the Petitions Election. 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Wareham, informed the House, That 
the Committee had determined, 

That John Hales Calcraft, Esquire, is duly elected 
a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for 
the Borough of Wareham. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Gaskell, from the said Select Committee, fur- 
ther informed the House, That the Committee had 
come to the following Resolutions : 

That it was proved to the Committee, that two per- 
sons hereinafter named were bribed and unduly influ- 
enced by William Joseph Pike, a member of the 

O02 Committee 











Town Clerk 
of Wareham 
to amend 
Register. 


Minutes 
ordered. 


New Zealand. 


Pauper 
Lunatics 
(Scotlan¢.) 


274 


Committee constituted to promote the Election of 
John Hales Calcraft, Esquire. 

That there was no evidence to show that the said 
acts of bribery and undue influence were committed 
with the knowledge and consent of the said John 
Hales Calcraft, ahora and that the said John 
Hales Calcraft, Esquire, was not guilty of the 
same. | 

That George Baker was induced to vote for the | 
said John Hales Culciaft, Esquire, by a promise | 
made to the said George Baker, by the said William | 
Joseph Pike, that he would endeavoar to procure | 
for him money or valuable consideration from the | 
said John Hales Calcraft, Esquire, that is to say, | 
that he would see the said George Baker righted by | 
a repayment of money alleged by the said George | 
Baker to have been overpaid by him as rent of a 
meadow held under the said John Hales Calcraft, | 
Esquire. 

That Charles Davis was induced to vote in favour 
of the said John Hales Calcraft, Esquire, by a pro- 
mise conveyed to him through his wife on the part 
of the said William Joseph Pike, to pay certain 
arrears of rent amounting to about £. 17. 

That the said Charles Davis was unduly influ- 
enced to vote in favour of the said Juhn Hales Cai- 
craft, Esquire, by a threat conveyed to him through 
his wife on the part of the said William Joseph 
Pike, his employer, that he the said Charles Davis 
should lose his employment if he did not vote in 
favour of the said John Hales Cualcraft, Esquire, 
and by various other acts on the part of the said 
William Joseph Pike. 

That William Bridle was induced to refrain from 
voting in favour of the said John Hales Calcraft, 
Esquire, by the sum of £.5 given to him by John 
Meaden and William Best, in order that the said 
William Bridle might go to Portsmouth, and thereby 
absent himself from the Borough of Wareham on 
the day of Election. 

Mr. Gaskell, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had altered the poll taken at the last Election for 
the Borough of Wareham, by striking off the names 
of John Angel Talbot. Edward Aplin, Charles Da- 
vis, William Joseph Pike, John Meaden, William 
Best, George Baker and Richard Chaffey, as not 
having had a right to vote at such Election; and 
had also altered the poll, by striking off the names 
of Samuel Baker, No. 266, and Henry Galton, 
No. 33, on the Register, as not having had a right to 
vote at such Election ; and who ought not to have 
been placed on the Regi&lt;ter of Voters for the said 
Borouch. 

Ordered, That the Town Clerk of the Borough of 
Wareham do, pursuant to the Act 2&amp;3 Wil. 4, c. 
45, forthwith amend the Register of Electors for the 
said Borough, by striking out the names of Samuel 
Baker, No. 266, and Henry Galton, No. 33, on the 
said Register, in conformity with the Report of the 
said Committee. 

Ordered, Vat the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the expediency of guaranteeing by 
Act of Parliament, the liquidation of a Loan to be 
contracted in pursuance of an Act passed by the 
Legislature of New Zealand, for defraying the Debt 
of the Colony tothe New Zea/and Company, towards 
extinguishing the Native Title to Lands in certain 
porucns of the Colony, and for other purposes. 


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 Return of all Cases in each Parish in 
Scotland of Pauper Lunatics exempted from Con- 
finement during the five years ending the 1st day 
of August 1856, by the Board of Supervision for 


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the Relief of the Poor; stating the Weekly Allow- 
ance given for the Maintenance of each such Pauper 
to the time of such exemption. 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Lunacy 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Scotland. ) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Correspondence between the 
Sheriffs of Counties and the Lord Advocate, on the 
Report of the Commissioners on Lunacy (Scoéland). 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House 
er Majesty's Most honourable Privy 


to 
as are of 
Council. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Caledonian 
to amend the Acts relating to the Caledonian and 24 Crinan 
Crinan Canals, and to make further Provision for ae. 
the Accommodation of the Traffic thereon: And 
that Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ordnance 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased — — 
to give directions, that there be laid before this wWestmore. 
House, a Return of the Names of the Parishes and land.) 
Places in Cumberland and Westmoreland which have 
been surveyed upon the twenty-five inch scale ; dis- 
tinguishing such portions of the Survey, if any, 
which have been already published from those which 
remain unpublished. 

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. Wilson reported from the Committee on Expiring 
Expiring Laws ; That they had examined the matters Laws. 
to them referred, and directed him to make a Re- No. 153. 
port thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to amend the Acts Caledonian 


and Crinan 
Canals Bill. 


Bill 101. 


relating to the Caledonian and Crinan Canals, and 
to make further Provision for the Accommodation 
of the Traffic thereon: And the same was read the 
first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exami- 
ners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Survey of _ 
Copy of recent Correspondence between the War Great Britain. 
Department and the ‘Treasury in respect of the No. 154. 
Scale on which the Survey of Great Britain is to be 
drawn in future. 

Mr. Wilson accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to Hong Kong 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 1st day of this 
instant July, for a Return relative to Hong Kong. 
Ordered, That the said Retura do lie upon the 
Table. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Friday morning, ad- 
journed till this day. 











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Veneris, 3° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


Liverpool! S! R James Graham reported from the Committee 
tng on Group A. of Private Bills; That in the case 
(Saint Helen’s of the Liverpool Town and Dock Dues (Saint 
~- Helen's Canal and Railway Company) Bill, they had 
pany) Bill. examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, but the same had not been proved to 
their satisfaction. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Pontefract Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Pon- 
Eiection. tefract Election Petitions have leave to sit this day 
till Five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 
- &gt;. The House proceeded to take into consideration 
ph Railway the Amendments made by the Lords to the Forth 
Bill. and Clyde Junction Railway Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 
Saint Philip's The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
Cool Bill take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool 
Bill; and the same was twice read, and; with an 
Amendment thereto, agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships, 
with an Amendment; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 
London Gas-e = The London Gas-Light Company (Capital) Bill 
Light Cont: 1) Was read the third time. 
pany (Capital) "Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Metropolitan The Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill was read 
— Market the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


North Level 


t | A Motion being made, That the North Level 
Drainage Bill, 


Drainage Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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 
verbal Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Orkney Roads A Motion being made, That the Orkney Roads 
Bill, Bill be now read the third time ; 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty, being informed of the purport of the Bill, 
gives Her Consent, as far as Her Majesty’s in- 
terest 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Reading Rail- 
ways Junction 
Railway Bill, 


A Motion being made, That the Reading Rail- 
ways Junction Railway Bill be now read the third 
time; 

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275 


_ The Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
Jesty’s Command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty, having been informed of the purport of 
the Bill, gives Her Consent, as far as Her Ma~ 
jesty’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: And that the 
Title be, An Act to empower the Staines, Woking- 
ham and Joking Railway Company to make a 
Railway to connect the Reading, Guildford and 
Reigate Railway with the Great Western Railway, 
and for other purposes. ' 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill was read Salisbury 
the third time. a 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. iad 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the South Eastern South Eastern 
Railway (Greenwich Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill Railway | 
be now read the third time ; Sonasien a 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- Dartford, &amp;c.) 
jesty’s Command, acquainted the House, That Her Bil. 
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 Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the South Eastern Rail- 
way Company to make a Railway from the North 
Kent Railway near Greenwich to Dartford; and 
also to make or complete a short Line of Railway 
at Tunbridge, and for other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Swansea Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Svan me 
Company Bill was read the third time. Pas 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Dock Com. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the pany Bill. 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Victoria Gas Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Victoria 
Gas Bill. 


The West of Fife Mineral Railway 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to enable the West of Fife Mine- 
ral Railway Company to construct a Branch Rail- 
way to Roscobie, and for certain other purposes. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bill was West of Fife 
Mineral Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Bours rand 
Tee ; a] j ssendine 
the Bourn and Essendine Railway Bill, as amended Railway Bill 
in the Committee. atl 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration iilagion , 
- me ‘ avish Acts 
the Islington Parish Acts Amendment Bill, as fen Se 
amended in the Committee. i i 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Rhymney 
the Ahymney Railway Bill, as amended in the Railway Bill. 
Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tweed __ 
the Tweed Fisheries Bill, as amended in the Com- Fisheries Bill 
mittee. 








Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
003 A Message 






3° Jultt. 


Royal Asrent. 
man Usher of the Black Rod : 
Mr. Speaker, 


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


An Act to amend and extend the Provisions of Wins 

9 ° 7 2? an ramore 
“ The Waterford and Tramore Railway Act, 18513" ailway Bill 
to revive and extend their Powers, and increase their 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s | Capital, and for other purposes : 


Commission, for declaring Her Royal Assent to the | 
several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, desire the | at Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, to be 5% 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in called “The Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier :” 


the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 
Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, 
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- 
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 Acts therein mentioned; and that the 
Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the Royal 
Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 


Consolidated 
Fund 
(£.8,000,000) 
Bill. 


the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the year 
One thousand eight hundred and Fifty-seven : 


Insurance on 
Lives (Abate- 
ment of Income 
Tax) Continu- 
ance Bill. 


Ministers’ 
Money 
(Ireland) Bill. 


An Act to continue the Act for extending, for a 
limited time, the Provision for Abatement of Income 
Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives : 


An Act to amend the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. ec. 11, 
with a view to the Abolition of Ministers’ Money in 
Ireland: 

County Cess An Act to revive and amend certain Acts relating 
(Ireland) Bill. to the Collection of County Cess in Ireland; and 
also to provide for the Appointment, in certain cases, 


of Collectors to levy the Charges and Expenses of | 
additional Constabulary appointed under the Act | 


19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 36: 
Court of 
Exchequer 


Ireland: 


Sees and = =An Act for conferring upon the Calcutta and 
—- “ae South Eastern Railway Company certain Powers : 
Company Bill. 

Portsmouth An Act for enabling the Portsmouth Railway 
Railway Bill. Company to execute certain Works in connection 
with their Railway, ard for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the North Eastern Railway 
Company to cancel unissued and forfeited Shares, 
to create New Shares in lieu thereof, and raise 
authorized Capital, and for other purposes : 

An Act for supplying the Burgh of Dumbarton 
and Places adjacent with Water; for embanking 
and reclaiming the Broad Meadow there; and for 
extending the Municipal Boundaries of the said 
Burgh : 

An Act to amend an Act made and passed in the 


North Eastern 
Railway 
(Capital) Bill. 


Dumbarton 
Water, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Islington 
Parish Bill. 


George the Fourth, intituled, “An Act to repeal 


the several Acts for the Relief and Employment of | 
the Poor of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in | 


the County of Middlesex; for Lighting and Watching 
and preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein ; 


for amending the Road from Highgate, through | 


Maiden-lane, and several other Roads in the said 


went | 


An Act to apply the Sum of Eight millions out of 


An Act to alter the Constitution and amend the | 
(Ireland) Bit, Procedure of tne Court of Exchequer Chamber in | 


' 


fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King ;® second time ; and committed. 


An Act for constructing and maintaining a Pier Great 
Yarmouth 
Britannia 
Pier Bill. 


An Act to confirm the Incorporation of the Under- Dublin and 
taking of the Dublin and Bray Railway Company Baiiway Bul. 
| with that of the Dublin and Wicklow Railway and 

pany; to dissolve the former Company, and to 

extend the Railway in the City of Dublin : 

| An Act for regulating the Markets and Fairs in Bridgwater 


idaw Poy * pur ° Markets and 

| Bridqwater, and for other purposes : Fairs Bill, 

|. An Act for enabling the Trustees in whom the Scotscraig 
Lands and Estate of Scotscraig, in the County of Estate Bill. 
Fife, are vested, to grant Feus of certain Portions 

| thereof. 


| The House, according to Order, proceeded to Lancaster 
take into consideration the Lancaster and Carlisle - — 
and Ingleten Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- Railway Bill. 
mittee ; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Thames and 
take into consideration the Thames and Medway Medway — 
Conservancy Bill, as amended in the Committee. © **”°"°Y 

A Clause (Saving the rights of the Duchy of 
Cornwall), was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, in p. 17,1.19, by inserting after the 
word “ Plantations” the words “and one other of 
| « such Conservators shall be appointed by the 
|“ Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Corpora- 
“tion of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond.” 
| And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 





posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 


drawn, 
| And the Question being put, That those words 
| be there inserted :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 

tive. 

| Then cther Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
The Hereford Cathedral Restoration Bill was read Hereford ' 
Cathedral 
Restoration 
Bill. 

Ordered, That Standing Orders 178 and 204 be Finsbury Park 

suspended in the case of the Finsbury Park (No. 2) (No. 2) Bill. 
Bill; and that the Committee of Selection have 

Power to fix the first meeting of the Committee on 
the Bill upon giving three clear days’ Notice 


| thereof. 


Parish, and for providing a Chapel of Ease, and an | 


additional Burial-ground for the same, and to make 


more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof,” and for | 


other purposes : 

An Act to grant further Powers to “ The Brighton, 
Hove and Preston Constant Service Waterworks 
Company,” and to amend the Act relating to the 
Company : 


Brighton, Hove 
and Preston 
Constant Ser- 
vice Water 
Bill. 


Exeter and 
Exmouth 


., Purenase of Lands for Parts of the Exeter and Ex- 
Railway Bill. 


mouth Railway : 

An Act for more effectually empowering the 
‘ united General Gas-Light Company to light the 
City of Cork and the Suburbs thereof with Gas: 


An Act to establish Markets and Fairs in the 
Parish of Kidsgrove, in the County of Stafford : 


Cork Gas 
Gas Bill. 


Kidsgrove 
Market Bill. 


| ments (No. 3) Bill; and that the Committee of Selec- 


An Act to extend the Time for the compulsory | 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 178 and 204 be Westminster 
Improvements 


suspended in the case of the Westmi rove- 
Pp e Westminster Improve (Ne 3) Bill. 


tion have Power to fix the first meeting of the 
Comittee on the Bill upon giving three clear 
days’ Notice thereof, 


Ordered, That in the case of the Caledonian and Caledonian 
Crinan Canals Bill, the Examiner of Petitions for and Crinan 
Private Bills have leave to sit and proceed upon a 
Monday next. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections; That they had named days for Elections. 





the 








Tewkesbury 
Election. 


East Kent 
Railway 
(Strood to 
Saint Mary’s 
Cray) Dill. 


East India 
(Bengal Mili- 
tary Fund,) 


21 Vicrori2. 


the appointment of Select Committees on the Elec- 
tion Petitions following, from Panel No. 5:— 


Ipswich Borough, Petition of 
W. B. Faier, 
Ipswich Borough, 
H. J. Selwyn, 
Ipswich Borough, Petition 
| HH. Orford and others, 
Chatham Borough, 
Lymington Borough, 
Sandwich Borough, 


Petition of Monday the 


| 20th day of 
of July, at One 
of the clock. 





Bridport Borough, Petition of 
G. Balson and others, 
Bridport Borough, Petition of 
. W. U. Heygate, . 
—— “City, Petition of be ~ te 
J. Eycott and another, J , : nS 
|Gloucester City, Petition of of _ eer an 


\  W. M. Meyler and another, 
Great Yarmouth Borough, 
Sligo County, 

Totnes Borough, 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Mr. Edward Ellice, from the Select Committee | 


appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Petition of Edward Moore, and Joseph Knight, com- | 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the | 
Borough of Tewkesbury, informed the House, That | 
the Committee had determined, 

That John Martin, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Tewkesbury. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 


Mr. Moody reported from the Committee on 
Group 2 of Railway Bills; That in the case of 
the East Kent Railway (Strood to Saint Mary’s 
Cray) Bill, they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, but the same 
had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies or Extracts of Despatch from the Court of 
Directors to the Governor General of India in 
Council in the Military Department, dated the 
22d day of February 1811. Paragraphs 50-62 :— 
Of Letter from the Governor General of India in 
Council to the Court of Directors in the Military 
Department, dated the 30th day of September 
1820. Paragraphs 178-183:—Of Despatch from 
the Court of Directors to the Governor General of 
India in Council in the Military Department, dated 
the 26th day of February 1823. Paragraphs 2-30: 
— Of Letter from the Governor General of Jndia in 
Council to the Court of Directors in the Military 
Department, dated the 19th day of March 18 
Of Despatch from the Court of Directors to the 
Governor General of India in Council in the Mili- 
tary Department, dated the Ist day of February 
1826. Paragraph 5:—Of Despatch from the Court 
of Directors to the Governor General of Zndia in 
Council in the Military Department, dated the 12th 
day of July 1826. Paragraph 16:—Of Despatch 
from the Court of Directors to the Governor General 
of India in Council in the Military Department, 
dated the 30th day of August 1826 :—Of Despatch 
from the Court of Directors to the Governor General 
of India in Council in the Public Department, dated 
the 4th day of July 1832:—Of Despatch from the 
Court of Directors to the Governor General of India 
in Council in the Financial Department, dated the 
10th day of April 1838. No. 7:—Of Letter from 
the Governor General of India in Council to the 
Court of Directors in the Financial Department, 
dated the 12th day of January 1854, No. 2:—Of 

Vou. 112. 


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3° Julie. 





277 


| Letter from the Governor General of Jndia in 
Council to the Court of Directors in the Military 
Department, dated the 4th day of February 1854. 
No. 30:—Of Letter from the Governor General of 
India in Council to the Court of Directors in the 
Military Department, dated the 14th day of March 
1854. No. 60:—Of Despatch from the Court of 
Directors to the Governor General of Jndia in 
Council in the Financial Department, dated the 
| 18th day of April 1855. No. 32:—And, of De- 
patch from the Court of Directors to the Governor 
General of India in Council in the Financial De- 
| partment, dated the 25th day of June 1856. 
| No. 50. 








Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Poor Law _ 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased joe — 
to give directions, that there be laid before — 
House, Returns in respect of each Parish or Com- 
bination of Parishes in Scotland, of the Amount 
paid annually during the last Five years for Me- 
dical Relief to Paupers, distinguishing the Amount 
paid to the Medical Officers from that expended in 
Purchase of Medicine :—Of the Amount contri- 
buted from the Grant in Aid, where the Minimum 
established by the Board of Supervision has been 
found by the Parish:—And, of the Amount paid 

where there is no Contribution from the Grant in 
Aid. 

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. 





Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Foreign 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of June Legions. 
last, for a Return relative to Foreign Legions. 

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


Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Prussian Bark 
the 30th day of June last, for a Return relative to “ Memel.” 
the Prussian Bark “ Memel.” 

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


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid Wareham 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- lection. 
| nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
| mittee on the Wareham Election Petitions. 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of Richmond 
an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Table 5ridge- 
by the Clerk of the House,—Richmond Bridge: 

Cash Accounts for the years 1855 and 1856. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 
which was presented upon the 2d day of this instant No, 155. 
July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the Cham- Chamber of 
ber of London, which were presented upon the 2d ianéen. 
day of this instant July, be printed. No. 156. 


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


Mr. Headlam, from the Select Committee ap- Pontefract 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- Election. 
tition of Benjamin Oliveira, complaining .of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of Pon- 
tefract, and to defend which Return Matthew Dawson 
and other Electors were admitted Parties, informed 
the House, That the Committee had determined, 
| That William Wood, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Pontefract. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Headlam, from the said Select Committee, 

004 further 















Minutes 
ordered. 


New Writs. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


New River 
Company Bill. 


Supply. 


278 
further informed the House, That the Committee had 
agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That it has not been established to the satisfac- 
tion of the Committee that any acts of bribery, | 
treating or undue influence were committed at the 
last Election for the Borough of Pontefract. 

That the Committee think it, however, right to 
report to the House, That by the Evidence of the 
Petitioner, Benjamin Oliveira, Esquire, and Emma 
Oliveira his Wife, it appears that at the Election 
for Pontefract in the year 1852, the said Benjamin 
Oliveira paid, at and shortly after the time of the 
Election, a very large sum, amounting to about 
£. 3,000, through William Wood, Solicitor of Pon- 
tefract,and William Clough; and that the said Ben- 


jamin Oliveira was cognizant of the fact that the 


same or a considerable part thereof was employed 
in illegal expenses. 

That, after the Election of 1852, a Petition was 
presented against the Return of the said Benjamin 
Oliveira, and that the said Emma Oliveira procured 
the same to be withdrawn by the payment of a sum 
of £. 2,000 into the hands of Thomas Routledge and 
Mr. Moxon. | 

That, in addition to the payment of the said sums | 
of £.3,000 and £. 2,000, a further sum of £. 1,250 | 
was sent down to Pontefract by the said Benjamin | 
Oliveira for the payment of stil outstanding claims | 
arising out of the Election of 1852; and it was, 
clearly made known to the said Benjamin Oliveira, | 
that the same was employed in discharging claims | 
in the nature of bribery and treating. 

Ordered, That the * tert do lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken | 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That in all cases when the Seat of any Mem- 
ber has been declared void by an Election Com- 
mittee, on the grounds of bribery or treating, no 
Motion for the issuing of a new Writ shall be made 
without seven days’ previous Notice being given in 
the Votes :—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Joint Stock Com- 
panies Act Amendment Bill, with Amendments ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have agreed to the New River Com- 
pany Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a| 


Sum, not exceeding £. 24,728, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Salaries of the | 
Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and others, in the 
West Indies, and certain other Colonies, to the 31st. 
day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 21,228, be granted to | 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Salaries of 
the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and others, in | 
the West Indies, and certain other Colonies, to the 31st. 
day of March 1858 :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. | 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 


3°—4° Juliz. 


A. 1857. Sess. IE. 


6. £.3,831, for the Charge of the Falkland Is- 
lands. 

7. £.5,700, for the Charge of Labuan. 

8. £.10,000, for Expenses occasioned to the Co- 
lony of Hong Kong, for measures of precaution and 
defence consequent upon the state of Affairs in 
China. 

9. £.13,424, for the Charge of the Emigration 
Board, and of the Emigration Officers at the diffe- 
rent Ports of this Kingdom, also to defray certain 
Expenses connected with Emigration. 

10. 2,175, on account of Emigration Expenses in- 
curred in Canada and New Brunswick. 

11. £. 120,000, for Works at the New Packet 
Harbour and Harbour of Refuge at Holyhead, &amp;c. 

12. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £. 224,000, be granted to Her 
Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of con- 
structing certain Harbours of Refuge, to the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.90,000, be granted to Her 
Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of con- 
structing certain Harbours of Refuge, to the 31st 
day of March 1858——put, and negatived. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

13. £.12,000, for the Support of Captured 
Negroes and Liberated Africans, and other Chane 
under the Acts for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 

14. £. 11,050, for Salaries and Expenses of the 
Mixed Commissions established under the Treaties 
with Foreign Powers for suppressing the Traffic in 
Slaves. 

15. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 


_ Sum, not exceeding £. 125,089, be granted to Her 


Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Expense of the Consular Establishments Abroad, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.122,556, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Expense of the Consular Establishments 
Abroad, to the 31st day of March 1858 :—Motion,,. 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

16, £.22,500, for Extraordinary Disbursements 
of Her Majesty’s Embassies and Missions Abroad. 
| Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
| Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 4° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

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

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 





Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That aSum, not exceeding £.46,400, be granted 


Supply. 


British 


_to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to Museum (Es- 


2. £. 21,450, for Salaries, Allowances and Con-/ defray the Salaries and Expenses of the British tablishment.) 


timgencies of Stipendiary Justices inthe West India | 
Colonies, and the Mauritius. | 

3. £.10,230, for Civil Establishments on the | 
Western Coast of Africa. 

4. £. 19,609, to complete the Sum for Charges 
connected with the Island of Saint Helena. 

5, £.960, for the Charge of Heligoland. 


Museum Establishment, to the 31st d 
1858. 

2. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.29,314, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Expense of New Buildings and Fittings 
at the British Museum, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 


ay of March 


3. That 


British Mu- 
seum (New 
Buildings and 
Fittings.) 











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21 VicroriZ. 





British 3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.944, be granted | Ecclesiastical Court, shall be payable by every 

, aw al of to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to} person admitted asa Proctor in the Court of Probate 

Gajects.) enable the Trustees of the British Museum to defray | to be established by any Act of the present Session 
the Expenses incurred for the Purchase of Objects | relating to Probates and Letters of Administration 
for the Museum. in England. 

National 4. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 23,165, begranted| 2. That the Fees payable to the Officers of the 

Gallery. to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the| said Court of Probate, or of any County Court, in 
National Gallery, including the Purchase of Pictures, | respect of Business under the said Act, shall be 
to the 31st day of March 1858. collected by means of Stamps. 

Magnetic 5. That « Sum, not exceeding £.3,539, be granted | The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 


Observations to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to | were agreed to. 





os defray the Expense of Magnetic Observations | 
Abroad, including the Superintendent’s Establish-| The House, according to Order, proceeded to Constabulary 
ment at Woolwich; also, for Observations and | take into consideration the Constabulary Force (Zre- Foree (Ire- 
Services under the direction of the Astronomer | land) Bill, as amended in the Committee. aa dee 
Royal, and for Meteorological Observations at Sea,| Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
to the 31st day of March 1858. / upon Monday next. 

Royal 6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.500, be granted | 


oy , : 
Geographical to Her Majesty, to enable the Royal Geographical) The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Election 








Society. Society to provide accommodation for their Meet- | mittee on the Election Petitions Bill; Petitions Bill. 
___ ings, &amp;c., to the 31st day of March 1858, | Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Monday 
RoyalSociety. 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,000, be granted | next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
to Her Majesty, in the year ending the 31st day of | 
March 1858, to enable the Royal Society to carr P 
a certain Experiments rma Public Objects y The Order of the day being read, for the second Cruelty to 
Bermudas. 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,050, be granted — of the Cruelty to Animals Act Amendment —o 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary | “"&gt; e , , Bill. 
towards defraying the Charge of the Civil Establish- ‘s a That the Bill be read a second time upon 
ment of the Bermudas, to the 31st day of March | *¥@S4@y next. 
1858. a ‘ ‘ 
Ecclesiastical ~~ 9. ‘That a Sum, not exceeding £.6,878, be granted | va Order Pye hi a read, for resuming India. 
(iuitish North to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Eccle-| ¢ eer a. ' tJ _ M - — proposed 
America.) siastical Establishment of the British North American | UPD the 23d day of June last, That t je Question 
Provinces, to the 31st day of March 1858. which was then proposed, relative to India, be now 
Indian De- 10. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.3,541, be granted | PUt; ‘ 
Manas.) to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Indian ae That the Debate be further adjourned 
Department in Canada, to the 31st day of March | t¥! tuesday next. 
1858. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Court of Chan- 
were agreed to. nesday next, the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill, —_ (Ireland ) 
was read, and discharged. na 
jw wer gf The Order of the day being read, for the Com-| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
mittee on the Reformatory Schools Bill ; upon Monday the 13th day of this instant July. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday probates and 
a : The Ord —— + tint next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of — - Ad- 
or ery e Order of the day being read, for the second | authorizing the Collection by means of Stamps of ests" 
ene reading of the Assessments (Scotland) Bill ; the Fees payable to the Officers of the Court of Cceampe) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon | Probate, or of any Assistant Barrister’s Court, in 
Monday next. respect of Business under any Act of the present 
Session relating to Probates and Letters of Admi- 
ane See ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | nistration in Jreland. 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; 
Resoln i —- this —— = upon Thursday!  Qydered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to Public Health 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. apply the Public Health Act, 1848, to the Parish of —- 
— , hott, and to constitute a Local Board of Heaith ‘ 
Probates and ==The Probates and Letters of Administration (Jre- ae 
&gt; : ~ : I , Mr. do 
ne on land) Bill was, according to Order, read a second Reet LO SN NOS 


(Ireland) Bill. time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Friday next. 


Glebe Lands The Glebe Lands (Jreland) Bill was, according 

Cockend) BIE. ,, Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 

wa ny The East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill was, ac- 


(Dablin) Bill, cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
‘mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Fri- 
day next. 


i as 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. 
tees and = Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
of Ad- “a , ~ 
ministration Probates and Letters of Administration [Stamps], 
[Stamps.} several Resolutions; which were read, as follow : 


1. That the same amount of Stamp Duty as is 
now payable on the admission of a Proctor to any 
Vor, 112, 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Land Tax 
appoint additional Commissioners for executing the ee 
Acts for granting a Land Tax and other Rates and “* “*™°* 
Taxes: And that Mr. Wi/son and the Chancellor of 
the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Boundaries of 
make further Provision for defining the Boundaries Land (Ireland. 
of certain Denominations of Land in Jreland for 
Public Purposes: And that Mr. Herbert and Mr. 

Attorney General for Zreland do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


The Select Committee on New Zealuzd was nomi- New Zealand. 
nated of Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord John 
Russell, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, Mr. 
Adderley, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Henley and 
Mr. Wise; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 











Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


PP Mr. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Special Re- 
port ) 


Peblie 
Pctitions 

( Twentieth 
lc port.) 


Public Health 
Act (Alder- 
shott) Bill. 


Bill 102. 


Land Tax 
Commission- 
ers’ Names 
RHUL 

Pill 103. 


28) 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had 
agreed to a Special Report; and the same was read, 
as followeth : 

Your Committee have from time to time published, 
for the information of Members, the Orders and 
Practice of the House which regulate the framing 
and presentation’ of Public Petitions. Amongst 
other rules is the following : 

Every Petition must be signed by the Parties 
whose names are appended thereto, by their names 
or marks, and by no one else, except in case of inca- 
pacity by sickness.—- Vide Commons’ Journals, 1675, 
November 8; 1689, November 14; 1774, June 2; 
1826, December 13 ; 1836, June 28. 

Your Committee, as instances of Petitions in dis- 
regard of this rule have come under their notice, 
have reported them to the House, at the same time 
informing the Member presenting the Petition of 
such irregularity. 

Your Committee observe with regret, that, not- 
withstanding such publicity, Petitions more or less, 
in contravention of this rule, are frequently pre- 
sented 

Your Committee have this day had under their 
concideration a Petition in which the violation of 
this rule is so marked and obvious, that they feel 
bound to report the same to the House. 

The Petition is headed as “The Memorial of the 
Inhabitants of Tullaghobegley and Roymunterdoney.” 
It states, that the Memorialists are Farmers, Occu- 
piers and Inhabitants, in pumbers, as is affirmed in 
the body of the Petition, 2,079. 

Your Committee observe, that, upon the shect 
containing the Prayer of the Petition, there are three 
signatures which appear to be authentic, including 
that of the writer of the Petition, but all the subse- 
quent names, the whole number being 2,072, appear 
to your Committee to be in the handwriting of one 
and the same individual; that, to the great majority 
of these, a mark is affixed ostensibly as a compliance 
with the rules of the House, but that such mark 
appears to be that of the writer of the names, and is 
i) cvery case unattested. On certain of the sheets 
it has apparently been affixed subsequently, in the 
handwritng of another person, and a large number 
of ‘he names have no mark attached. 

Your Committee refrain from any remark on the 
subject-matter of the Petition itself, but they consider 
that the affixture to a Petition of a large number of 
names and marks purporting to be those of persons 
secking redress from this House, such names being 
appended by some other person than the presumed 
Petitioners, is calculated to mislead the House as to 
the character of such Petition, and is so wide a 
departure from the proper exercise of the right of 
Petition, as to call for some special mark of dis- 
approval. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Bonham- Carter reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions ; That they had examined 
the Petitions presented upon the 30th day of June 
last, end Ist day of this instant July ; and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Monsell presented a Bill to apply the Public 
Ilealth Act, 1848, to the Parish of Aldershott, and 
to ccnstitute a Local Board of Health therein: And 
tlie same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to appoint additional 
Commissioners for executing the Acts for granting 
a Land Tax and other Rates and Taxes: And the 
same was read the first time ; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 





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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Mr. Herbert presented a Bill to make further Boundaries 
Provision for defining the Boundaries of certain of Land (Ire. 
Denominations of Land in Jreland for Public Pur- 4) Bil 
poses: And the same was read the first time; and Bill 104. 
orcered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next ; and to be printed. 






Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
A Public Petition, presented upon the 30th day of y;a, Votes, 


June last, was referred to a Select Committee. and Twenty- 
: : .. first Report. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 


till half an hour after One of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next. 





Luna, 6° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
N AI Rt. FitzRoy reported Fleming’s Estate Bill, Fleming's 
with Amendments. Estate Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 2d and —— 
3d days of this instant July, and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

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








Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Caledonian 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, a a 
‘That in the case of the Caledonian and Crinan ~~ ; 
Canals Bill, the Standing Orders have been com- 
plied with. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


A Motion being made, That the Clyde Naviga- Clyde Navi- 
tion Bill be now read the third time ; gation Bill. 
Mr. Fitz Roy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her 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: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue or renew the Powers 
conferred on the Trustees on the River Clyde and 
Harbour of Glasgow to take Lands and execute 
Works for the Improvement of the Navigation, and 
for other purposes. 
Ordered, t hat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Elie Harbour riie Marbour 
Bill be now read the third time ; Bill. 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Eler 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the Metropolitan Metropolitan 
Railway (No. 2) Bill be now read the third time ; Railway 
Mr. Fitz Roy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ag OP 57™ 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
_ the House may do therein as they shall think 

t. 








Then 








Qi Vicroriz. 


Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Midland Great The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland 

Wortee Be (Sligo Extension) Bill was read the third time. 

(shgo Exten- § Itesolved, That the Bill do pass. 

sion) Bill. Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Newport, The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway 

ary mim | Bill was read the third time. 

Railway Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Newquay Per A Motion being made, That the Wewquay Pier 
and Harbour : ‘ : 
and Railway #24 Harbour and Railway Bill be now read the third 
Bill. time ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Lier Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therein as they shall think 
fit. 

And Notice being taken, that the interest of the 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is concerned 
therein ; 

Mr. Fitz Roy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as the Prince of Wales’s interest is con- 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shall 
think fit. 

Then the Pill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and dezite their concurrence. 

Newry and The Newry and Enniskillen Railway Bill was read 
Railway Bill the third time. 
"Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act enabling the Newry and Ennis- 
killen Railway Company to construct their Railway 
as far as the City of Armagh; for changing the 
Name of the Company, and for consolidating their 
Acts. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Salford Bo- The Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill was read the 


a (No.1) third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Stockport, The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Rail- 
Wey ek go Way Bill was read the third time; and a verbal 


Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That. the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Railway Bill. 


Whitehaven The Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway 
| og Bill was read the third time. 
Railway Bill Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

West London The West London and Crystal Palace Railway 
ota Bill was read the third time. 
way Bill. Resolved, \hat the Bill do pass: And that the 


Title be, An Act for authorizing Traffic Arrangements 
between the West !!nd of London and Crystal Pa- 
lace, and the Londen, Brighton and South Coast, 
the South Eastern, and London and South Western 
Railway Companies ; for Sale of the West London 
and Crystal Palace Railway; for extending the 
Time for completing Railways, and for other purposes. 
Vor. 112. 





6° Julii. 





281 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections; That they had appointed El&lt;&lt;ticn-. 
Tuesday the 21st day of July instant, to choose 
further, from Panel No. 5, Select Committees 
severally to try and determine the matter of the 
Petitions complaining of undue Elections and Re- 
turns for the Borough of Athlone and the County of 
Clare. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration British and 
the British and Irish Grand Junction Railway Bill, Itish Grand 
as amended in the Committee. Railway Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Coniston 
the Coniston Railway Bill, as amended in the Com- ®ailway Bill. 
mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the said Bill; and that the Bill be 
read the third time To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dexthorpe 
the Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill, as amended in Turnpike 
the Committee; and Amendments were made to _ 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the said Bill; and that the Bill be 
read the third time To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the London and South Western Railway Acts South Western 
Amendment Bill, as amended in the Committee.  2ilway Acts 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. _ Bill. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration Mersey Con. 
the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, as setvancy and 
amended in the Committee. a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Norfolk 
the Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment Bill, as [stuary Acts 
amended in the Committee. 7 

A Clause (Certificate of Woods and Forests Com- 
missioners to release Crown lien on lands), was 
twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Notice to mortgagees of Crown 
reverter), was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Another Clause (Treasury Surveyor to report 
what part of the tracts of land shall not have been 
embanked within Twenty-one years), was twice read ; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Nort! Western 
the North Western Railway Bill, as amended in the Railway Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Pu'tency Town 
the Pulteney Town Harbour Bill, as amended in the Harbour Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Richmond and 
the Richmond and Kew Extension Railway Bill, as Kew =xten- 
amended in the Committee ; and Amendments were Hor **!"*Y 
inade to the Biil. 

Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the said Bill; and that the bill be 


read the third time To-morrow. 


The House 
the Taff Vale 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 

PP2 Ordered, 


ema: to take into consideration Taff Vale 
ailway Bill, as amended in the Com- Railway Lill. 








Bleaching 
and Dyeing 
Works (First 
Report. ) 


No. 151. 


Public 
Petitions 


Vide Twenty- 
second Report. 
Cambridge 


Borough 
Election. 


“Marriages, 


Irish Fishery 
Cv aunissio) « 


282 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Bleaching 
and Dyeing Works have Power to report the Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken befure them from time 
to time to the House. 

Lord John Manners reported from the said Select 
Committee; That they had taken Evidence with 
regard to a portion of the matters to them referred, 
and had agreed to report the same to tlie House. 

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


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie vpon the Table. 


Mr. Deasy, from the Select Committee appointed 
to try and determine the matter of the Petition of 
Robert Alexander — Adair, Esquire, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Cambridge, informed the House, That 
the Committee had determined, 

That Andrew Steuart, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Cambridge. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Deasy, from the said Select Committee, fur- 
ther informed the House, That the Commiitee had 
come to the following Resolutions : 

That John Halsey, Richard Stamford and George 
Mills the younger, had, after the said Election, re- 
ceived money on account of having voted at the said 
Election. 

That such money was so received without the 
knowledge and consent of the Sitting Member or his 
Agent. 

Mr. Deasy, from the said Select Committee, fur- 
ther informed the House, That the Committee have 
altered the poll taken at the last Election for the | 
said Borough, by striking off the names of the afore- 


6? Juliz. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Clock Tower 
Returns of the Amount in Weight of Gold Leaf neg 
used in decorating the outside of the Clock Tower ment.) 
of the New Houses of Parliament up to the 30th 
day of June 1857 :—Of the Cost of the same; dis- 
tinguishing the Cost of the Gold Leaf from the 
Amount paid as Wages to the Artificers employed 
thereon up to the same Date:—And, Estimate of 
the entire further Sum which will be required for the 
completion of the Work. 


Ordered, That Mr. Muntz have leave of absence Leave of 
| for a month, ou account of ill health. Absence. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Agricultural 
|mand,—'Tables relative to Agricultuial Statistics eae 
(Ireland), showing the estimated Average Produce C™*) 
for the year 1856, also the diversity of Weights used 
in buying and selling Corn, Potatoes and Flax in 
Jreland; and the Emigration from Jrish Ports, from 
1st January to 31st December 1856. 

Mr. Massey also p'esented,—Return to an Ad- Oyster 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of June Fisheries (Bri- 
last, for a Return relative to Oyster Fisheries 's) mal 
(British Islands and ath. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Fines and 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—An Abstract of the Penalties 
Accounts of all Fines and other Penal Sums in Jre- “r!an.) 
land accounted for under the Provisions of the Act 
14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 90, for the year ending the 31st 
March 1856, showing the ‘Total Amount imposed 
within said Period, the Proceedings had in respect 
thereto, and the Money received on account thereof, 
as well as on account of Arrear cases, up to 31st 
March 1857. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Liverpool 
the Clerk of the Sesenendiheaen to an Oder, Town Dues, 
dated the 29th day of May last, fora Return relative ™ 





said John Halsey, Richard Stamford and George 
Mills the younger, on the ground aforesaid ; and | 
have also altered the poll, by stiiking off the names | 
of Frederick Nicholson, William Bavey, William | 
Henry Lawrence, William Gaylor, William Banham, | 
Charles Bevill, Bradbury Last and Benjamin Crouch, | 
as not having had a right to vote at such Election ; 
and have also altered the poll, by striking off the 
name of William Henry Nutt, No. 1573 on the 
Register, such Voter having also voted at the same 
Election in respect of the qualification, No. 760 on 
the Register; and have also altered the poll, by 
adding to the votes given for Andrew Steuart, Es- 
quire, the vote of Robert Moore, whose name appears 
on the poll as having only voted for Kenneth 
Macaulay, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


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 Return of all Marriages which have taken 
place in England and Wales from the commence- 
ment of the Act 6 &amp; 7 Wil/. 4, c. 85, to the 31st 
day of December 1855; specifying the Numbers 
solemnized in each year according to the Rites of 
the Established Church, and also in Registered 
Places of Worship, in Superintendent Registrar's 
Offices, between Quakers and between Jews. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Mirures of the Evidence taken before 
the Jrish Fishery Commiss:oners, on which they 
founded a Bye-law fixing the close season for Salmon 
Fishing in the Shannon near the City of Limerick. 





to Liverpool Town Dues, &amp;c. 


Mr. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, Portpatrick 
dated the 2d day of this instant July, for a Return and Donagha- 
relative to Portpatrich avd Donaghadee Harbours. “°°? ¥*the™*- 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented property Tax 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased and Popula- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ""- 
House, Returns of the Annual Value of all Real 


| Property rated under Schedule (A.) of the Income 


Tax, for the year ended the 5th day of January 
1857, in each County or Parliamentary Division of 
a County in the United Kingdom, exclusive of the 
Real Property in each Parliamentary Borough com- 
prised within each such County or Division :—Of 
the Annual Value of all Real Property, rated under 
Schedule (A.) of the Income Tax, for the year ended 
the 5th day of April 1857, in each Parliamentary 
Borough in each such County :—Of the Population 
of each County or Parliamentary Divisizn of a 
County, from the Census of 1851, not including the 
Population within any Parliamentary Borough in 
such County:—And, of the Population of each 
Parliamentary Borough within each County. 
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 being pro- New Writs. 
posed, That in all cases when the Seat of any Mem- 
ber has been declared void by an Election Com- 
mittee, on the ground of bribery or treating, no 
Motion for the issuing of a new Writ shall be made 
without two days’ previous Notice being given in the 
Votes ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, 








Refurmatory 
Schcols Lill. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bili. 


Crown, &amp;c. 
Suits (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Bankruptey 
and Real Secu- 
rities (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Bill Chamber 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Assessments 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Lunatics 
(Scotland) Bill 


Election 
Vetitions Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
Bill. 





21 Vicrortz. 





Question, by leaving out the word “two” and 
inserting the word “ seven’ instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word “two” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 1 
Yeas, {The Earl of Mulgrave: § oon 

Tellers for the i r. Estcourt, 1 138 
Noes, Mr. Thomas Duncombe: J°~~* 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That in all cases when the seat of any 
Member has been declared void by an Election 
Committee, on the ground of bribery or treating, 
no Motion for the issuing of a new Writ shall be 
made without two days’ previous Notice being given 
in the Votes. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | 


mittee on the Reformatory Schools Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, at ‘Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being rad, for the second 
reading of the Court of Session (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 Crown, &amp;c. Suits (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 and Real Securities (Scot- 
land) 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 Bill Chamber (Scot/and) 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 Assessments ( Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Lunatics (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 Election Petitions Bill; 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of 
Administration Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Preamble postponed. 

Crause, N° 1, agreed to. 

Crause, N°* 2 (Interpretation Clause). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1.11: To leave out 
the word “Court,” in order to insert the word 
“ Office.” 

Question proposed, That the word “Court” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Crauses, N“ 3 and 4, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 5, amended, and agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 6 to N° 9, agreed to. 


Cuause, N° 10 (District Registries to be es- 
tablished). 
Von. 112. 


6° Juli. 


} 
} 


283 


Amendment proposed, in p. 4,1. 28: To leave out 
from the word “established” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to insert the words “ District Courts 
“ to be presided over by the County Court Judge in 
“all County Court Districts except those of the 
“* Metropolis (Nos. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47 and 
“ 48), and a public registry shall be attached to 
“each Court, the Registrar whereof shall be under 
“ the control of the Court of Probate.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ for each 
“of the districts” stand part of the Clause :— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Crause, N° 11, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 12, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 13 (Clerks and other officers of Pre- 
rogative Court to be transferred to like offices in 
Court of Probate). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 13: After the 


word “ Court” to insert the words “ and all mana- 





| “ ging clerks who have been continuously employed 


‘in any Diocesan Court for fifteen years and up- 
* wards, immediately before the passing of this Act.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 14, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 15 (Appointment to offices). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 37: After the 
word “‘ Judge” to insert the words “ there shall be 
“ paid to the several officers mentioned in Schedule 
“ B. to this Act the several salaries set opposite to 
“their respective titles in the same Schedule, and 
“ the said district registrars shall, as the remunera- 
“ tion for the performance of their duties under this 
“ Act, including the services of any clerks they 
“* may employ, be entitled to take in respect of the 
‘‘ business in their respective district registries such 
“fees as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided ; 
“ and, except as aforesaid, there shall be paid to the 
“ several clerks and other officers appointed under 
“ this Act, such salaries or other remuneration as the 
“ Judge, with the consent of the Commissioners of 
“ Her Majesty’s Treasury, shall from time to time 
“ in each case direct.” 

Amendment proposed to the said proposed 
Amendment, in p. 5,1. 39: ‘To leave out from the 
word “Schedule ”’ to the word “ and,” in p. 6, 1. 3. 

Question, That the words “ and the said district 
“ registrars ”’ stand part of the said proposed Amend- 
ment——put, and agreed to. 

Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 16 to N° 23, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 24 (Registrars, &amp;c. to have power to 
administer oaths). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, l. 31: After the 
word “ Probate * to insert the words “ provided that 
“ in every city, borough and town throughout Eng- 
“ Jand, containing not less than Five thousand in- 
“ habitants, the Judge shall appoint the Registrar of 
“the County Court of the district in which such 
“ city, borough or town is situate, or some other fit 
“and proper person within such city, borough or 
“town, to be such Commissioner or Commis- 
“ sioners.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cuavuse, N° 25, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 26 (Procedure of the Court). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 9, Is. 14 and 
15: To leave out the words “so far as the circum- 
“ stances of the case will admit.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 











inserted :—A mendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
PP3 Other 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Turnpike 
Trusts Ar- 
rangements 
Bill. 
Hanley Bo- 


rough [ncor- 
poration Bill. 


Wilmslow 
and Lawton 
Road Bill. 


Fraserburgh 
Jlarbour Bill. 


284. 


Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 27, disagreed to. 

Cuauszs, N° 23 to N° 31, agreed to. 

Cuauses, N® 32 and 33, postponed. 

Crausz, N° 34 (Appeal to the House of Lords). 

An Amendment made. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 11, 1. 20: To leave 
out the words “ House of Lords,” in order to insert 
the words “Judicial Committee of Her Majesty’s 
“ Most honourable Privy Council.” 

Question put, That the words “ House of Lords ” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Malins, 

Noes, Mr. Locke King: 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N® 35 and 36, agreed to. 

Crausr, N° 37, amended, and agreed to. 

Crauses, N® 38 and 39, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 40 (Probates and Administrations 
may be granted in common form by district regis- 
trars in certain cases). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 13, 1. 30: To leave 
out from the word ‘‘affidavit” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to insert the words “ and such Pro- 
“ bate or Letters of Administration shall have effect 


“over the personal estate of the deceased in all 
Clause ; 
}ia1. 
Tellers for the; Mr. Westhead, 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
inserted ; 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, liso. 


“ parts of England accordingly.” 
Question put, That the words “and that the 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the! Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, \Sir John Trollope : =e. 
Question prvposed, That the proposed words be 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 
The Commitiee divided. 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Westhead, 
Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : J 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


. 
. 
. 


27 


j 


“ personal estate of the deceased ” stand part of the 
Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 
there inserted. 
Question put, That the proposed words be there 
xs WY } 141. 
Yeas, Sir John Trollope: J 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning : 


Martis, 7° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 


reported, ‘ihat the Committee had made Progress | 


in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, Th it 

the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Turnpike Trusts 
Arrangemeuts Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Hanley Borough 
Incorporation Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Wilmslow and 
Lawton Koad Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Fraserburgh Har- 
bour Bill, without any Amendment : 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Lords have agreed to the North Eastern and North Eastern 
Hartlepool Dock and Railway Companies Amalga- eel 
mation Bill, without any Amendment: Railway Com. 
panies Amal. 
gamation Bill, 


The Lords have agreed to the Grand Juries (Zre- Grand Juries 
land) Act (1836) Amendment Bill, with Amend- (Ireland) Act 
ments ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence ese, a 
of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Town Byelaws 
to enable one of Her Majesty’s Secretaries of State Revision Bill. 
to revise Byelaws in certain cases therein provided ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act shephera’s 
to enable Robert Shepherd, Clerk, to exercise his Disabilities 
Office of a Priest, and to hold any Benefice or Pre- &amp;™oval Bill 
ferment in the United Church of England and Ire- 
land ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House : 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Overstone to Bank Acts. 
attend to give Evidence before the Select Committee 
appointed by this House on the Bank Acts, as 
desired by this House. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Fraudulent 
mittee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill; Trustees, &amp;¢. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 7 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Summary 
i i . __, Proceedings 
into a Committee on the Summary Proceedings j¢fore pc 
before Justices cf the Peace Bill. of the Peace 


* Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Ciause, N° 1 (Justice, on application of a party 
aggrieved, to state a case for the opinion of superior 
court). 

Amendmeut proposed, in p-1, 1.17: To leave out 
the words “at Westminster.’ 

Question proposed, That the words “at West- 
“ minster” stand part of the Clause. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. LitzRoy reported from the Committee of supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.24,728, be granted Governors and 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Salaries others (West 
of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and others, saree, 
in the West Indies, and certain other Colonies, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.21,450, be granted Stipendiary 
| to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries, Allowances, Justices 

A tag 4° . , : (West Indies 
and Contingencies of the Stipendiary Justices in the ind Mauri- 
West India Colonies and the Mauritius, to the 31st tius.) 

| day of March 1858, 

| 3. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 10,230, be granted Western Coast 

ito Her Majesty, towards defraying the Charge of of Africa. 
the Civil Establishments on the Western Coast of 

| Africa, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

| 4. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.19,609, be granted Saint Helena 

to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 

defray Charges connected with the Island of Saint 

| Helena, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.960, be granted Heligoland. 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Heligoland, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,831, be granted Falkland 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Charge of !s!an¢s- 
the Falklund Islands, to the 31st day of March 








1858. 
7. That 











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Labuan. 7. ThataSum, not exceeding £.5,700, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Labuan, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 

Hong Kong. 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.10,000, be granted 


to Her Majesty, to defray Expenses occasioned to 
the Colony of Hong Kong, for measures of pre- 
caution and defence consequent upon the state of 
affairs in China, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

9. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.13,424, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Emi- 
gration Board, and of the Emigration Officers at 
the different Ports of this Kingdom, also to defray 
certain Expenses connected with Emigration, to the 
31st day of March 1853. 

10. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.2,175, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to pay the Balance due to the 
Commissariat Chest, on account of Emigration Ex- 
penses incurred in Canada and New Brunswick. 


Emigration 
Board, &amp;c. 


Emigration 
(Canada and 
New Bruns- 
wick.) 


Holyhexd 


[larbour, ke. granted to Her Majesty, on account uf the Works 


at the New Packet Harbour and Harbour of Refuge 
at Holyhead, &amp;c., to the 31st day of March 1858. 


Uarbours of 12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.224,000, be 


Refuge. granted to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Ex- 
pense of constructing certain Harbours of Refuge, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Captured 13. That a Sum, not exceeding £.12,000, be 

Negroes, granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day 

Liberated ; : 


of March 1858, Expenses incurred for the Support 
of Captured Negroes and Liberated Africans, and 
other Charges under the Acts for the Abolition of 
the Slave Trade. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £.11,050, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of 
March 1858, the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Mixed Commissions established under the Treaties 
with Foreign Powers for suppressing the Traffic in 
Slaves. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £.125,089, be 


Africans, &amp;c. 


Mixed Com- 
missions 
(Slave Trade.) 


Consular Esta- 


ilishments. granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Expense of the Consular 
Establishments Abroad, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

Embassies 16. That a Sum, not exceeding £.22,500, be 


and Missions. 


granted to Her Majesty, for the Extraordinary Dis- 
bursements of Her Majesty's Embassies and Mis- 
sions Abroad, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Supply. 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. 
a and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
eans. 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ininistration 
(Treland ) 
{Stamps. ] 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Probates and Letters of Ad- 
ministration (Jreland) [Stamps]. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Fees to be paid to the Officers 
of the Court of Probate, or of any Assistant Bar- 
rister’s Court, in respect of business under any Act 
of the present Session relating to Probates and Let- 
ters of Administration in Jre/and, shall be collected 
by means of Stamps. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill ; 
Vo, 112, 


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285 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Banking Bill. 
reading of the Banking Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Turnpike 
take into consideration the Turnpike Trusts Aboli- Trusts Abo- 
tion (Ireland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. a eaten 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this ~ 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Bankruptcy 
consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre- 2” Insolvency 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; Gaps 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Superannua- 
reading of the Superannuation Bill ; tien 2, 
Ordered, Vhat the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Savings Banks 
mittee on the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; (No. 2) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Attornies 
into a Committee on the Attornies and Solicitors ee 
(Colonial Courts) Bill; and, after some time spent Seer Bill 
therem, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 

FitzRoy 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 upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second ave and 
. : ee Io Pi, . ‘olice Force 
— of the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) (Dublin) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Revising 
reading of the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill ; ne 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this (84) Bull 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Illicit Distilla- 
reading of the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill ; tion (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Glebe Lands 
mittee on the Glebe Lands (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Constabulary Force (Zreland) Bill was, ac- Constabulary 
cording to Order, read the third time. oe } . 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. a 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill was, Land Tax 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- oe 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for this $3), °"* 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Boundaries of 
reading of the Boundaries of Land (Jreland) Bill; Land (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abatement Bill Smoke Nui- 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and pane — 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for aan Fy is 
Wednesday next. . 

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286 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Registration of Long Leases 
(Scotland) Bill, as amended in the Committee; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Thursday next. 


Registration 
of Long Leases 
(Scotland) Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates 
Act Amendment Bill : 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Leases and 
Sales of Settled 
Estates Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Joint Stock Companies Act Amend- 
ment Bill be taken into consideration this day. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Grand Juries Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
(Ireland) Act Lords to the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) 


ee Amendment Bill be taken into consideration this 
day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the 
Militia of the United Kingdom: And that Sir John 
Ramsden and Mr. Brand do prepare, and bring it 
in. 


Militia Ballots 
Suspension. 


Ordered, That Mr. Lowe be added to the Select 
Committee on Wew Zealand. 


New Zealand. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
the Incorporation and Regulation of lnsurance Com- 
panies: And that Mr. Wilson, the Chancellor of 
the Exchequer and Mr. Lowe do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Insurance 
Companies. 


Ordcred, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Incorporation of Mutual Companies: And 
that Mr. Wilson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
and Mr. Lowe do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mutual 
Companies. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for raising a Sum of Money for building and im- 
proving Stations of the Metropolitan Police, and to 
amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan Po- 
lice: And that Mr. Massey and Sir George Grey do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 
tions, &amp;e. 


The Order, That the Petition of Inhabitants of 
Tullaghobegly and Roymunterdoney, which was 
presented upon the 29th day of June last, complain- 
ing of Distress in Jreland, and praying for Relief, 
do lie upon the Table, was read, and discharged. 


Distress 
(Ireland. ) 


Sir John Ramsden presented a Bill to suspend the 
making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of 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. 


Militia Ballots 
Suspension 
Bill. 

Bill 105. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill for raising a Sum 
of Money for building and improving Stations of the 
Metropolitan Police, and to amend the Acts con- 
cerning the Metropolitan Police: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 
tions, &amp;c. Bill. 


Bill 106. 


Insurance 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill for the Incorpora- 
=— 


tion and Regulation of Insurance Companies: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Bill 107. 


Mutual Com- 
panies Bill. 
Bill 108. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill for the Incorpora- 
tion of Mutual Companies : And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, Probates ana 
this day, resolve itself into a Committee to consider Letters of Ad. 
of authorizing the payment, out of the Consolidated ia 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Judge, &amp;e.} 
Ireland, of the Salary and Retiring Annuity to be 
granted to a Judge of the Court of Probate to be 
established under any Act of the present Session 
relating to Probates and Letters of Administration 
in England, and also of all Compensations to be 
granted under the said Act ; 

Sir George Grey, by Her Majesty’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, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock ou Tuesday morning, adjourned till this 


day. 
Martis, 7° die Julii; 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 


\ | R. Walpole reported from the General Com- Bury Saint 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members Edmund's 
of the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- “ection. 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of Bury 
Saint Edmund's, to which they had annexed the 
Petition referred to them by the House relating 
thereto: — Charles Bowyer Adderley, Esquire, the 
Honourable George Byng, Alexander Murray Dun- 
lop, Esquire, James Banks Stanhope, Esquire ; 
Chairman, Gathorne Hardy, Esquire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Newport 

of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select Election. 
Committee appointed to try ard determine the 
matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Newport, 
Isle of Wight, to which they had annexed the Pe- 
tition referred to them by the House relating thereto: 
—James Brown, Esquire, Sir Richard William 
Bulkeley, Baronet, Earl of Dalkeith, the Honourable 
Arthur Duncombe; Chairman, John Morgan Cob- 
bett, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Committee Taunton 
of Elections, the names of the Members of the Select Election. 
Committee appointed to try and determine the 
matter of the Petition complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Taunton, 
to which they had annexed the Petitions referred 
to them by the House relating thereto :— Wentworth 
Blachett Beaumont, Esquire, Charles Cowan, Es- 

uire, William Henry Hornby, Esquire, Lord Naas; 
hairman, Right honourable Sir John S. Pakington, 
Baronet. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration New River 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the New Company Bill. 
River Company Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Bourn and Essendine Railway Bill was read Bourn and 
the third time. Besendins 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. anata 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. . 
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Ad. 
on 





21 VictrorizZ. 


ary The Islington Parish Acts Amendment Bill was 
yee nee read the third time. 


Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. ; 


Lancaster 
and Carlisle 
and Ingleton 


The Lancaster and Carlisle and Ingleton Railway 
Bill was read the third time. 


Railway Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Lowestoftant Ordered, That the Lowestoft and Burgh Saint 


ee Peter Ferry and Roads Bili be read the third time 


and Roads Bill. To-morrow. 


Rhymney 


Railway Bill. The Rhymney Railway Bill was read the third 


time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Thames Con- Ordered, That the Thames Conservancy Bill 
servancy Bill 


(changed from (Changed from Thames and Medway Conservancy) 


Thames and be read the third time To-morrow. 
Medway Con- 
servancy. ) 
Tweed The Tweed Fisheries Bill was read the third time. 
Fisheries Bil. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Coniston 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Coniston Railway Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Kailway Bill. 


eee The Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust Bill was, according 
Tren Bill. to Order, read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Richmondand The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Ralwey Bil reading of the Richmond and Kew Extension Rail- 
way Bill; 
And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 
Mr. FitzRoy, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the Honse, 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrenve. 
eee Shepherd's Disabilities Removal Bill was read 
Removal Bil, the first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 
British and Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
Taer"d in the case of the British and Jrish Grand Junction 
Railway Bill. Railway Bill; and that the Bill be read the third 

time To-morrow. 


Pulteney Town 
liardour Bill. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the Pulteney Town Harbour Bill; 
end that the Bill be read the third time To-morrow. 


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Ordered, That Standing Order 203 be suspended Caledonian 
in the case of the Caledonian and Crinan Canals le a 
Bill; and that the Bill be read a second time To- 


morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 

read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Vide Twenty- 
second Report. 


The Order made upon the 15th day of June last, Breakwaters, 
That there be laid before this House, a Return re- &amp;* 
lative to Breakwaters, &amp;c., was read, and discharged. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Breakwaters, 
Statements of the Names of Places on the Coasts &amp; 
of Great Britain and Ireland which have been sur- 
veyed or reported on by Order of the Admiralty, 
with a view to the formation of Breakwaters, Picrs 

or Harbours of Refuge, the Works of which have 
not been commenced, and when the Recommenda- 
tions have not been adopted :—And, of the Nature 

of the Works recommended ; the Period required 
for Completion ; the Estimate of Total Cost; and 
the Outlay recommended per annum. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burial Acts 
into a Committee on the Burial Acts Amendment 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Curausz, N® 1, agreed to. 

Crauses, Nes 2 and 3, amended, and agreed to. 
Cuause, N° 4 (With the approval of Secretary of 
State, a Burial Board may be appointed for a district 
not maintaining its own poor, and which has not 
had a separate burial-ground, 18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 128, 
s. 12.) 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, Is. 8 and 9: To 
leave out the words “to one of Her Majesty’s 
“ Principal Secretaries of State.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause——put, and negatived. 

Question, That the Clause, as amended, stand part 
of the Bill put, and negatived. 

Ciause, N° 5 (Guardians may provide burial- 
grounds for paupers). 

An Amendment made. 

Question, That the Clause, as amended, stand part 
of the Bill——put, and negatived. 

Crausss, Nos 6 and 7, disagreed to. 

Crauses, N° 8 to N° 13, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 14, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 15 (Burial Boards may, in certain 
cases, purchase cemeteries which have been closed). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6,1. 18: After the 
word “ discontinued,” to insert the words “ it sha'l 
“ be lawful, and be it enacted, That interments may 
“be permitted in existing cemeteries beyond the 
“ Metropolis in family graves, or in family vaults 
“ purchased prior to the passing of the Act to amend 
“the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in 
“« England ; and where any such cemetery in which 
“ burials are so to be discontinued.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 

Crause, N° 16 (Orders in Council may be made 
for regulating burial-grounds, &amp;c.) 

Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 30: To leave out 
from the beginning of the Clause, to the words “ for 
* the protection.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ it shall be 
“ Jawful for Her Majesty,’ stand part of the Clause: 
—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed in p. 7, 1.7: After 








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288 


} 79, 


the word “ground ” to insert the words, “ Provided 
“ always, That no more than one body shall be 
“buried in any vault or grave in any cemetery 
“or burial-ground within the Metropolitan Dis- 
“ trict, except in a vault or grave purchased for 
* the exclusive use of a family.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Locke King, 33 

Yeas, | Colonel Freestun : } : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, hiss 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave : : 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words, “ Provided also, That such 
“ regulations shall not prohibit the burial of any 
“ number of bodies, not exceeding Six, in the same 
“common grave on the same day in any of the 
“ cemeteries mentioned in Scheduie (B.) of the Act 
“ fifteenth and sixteenth Victoria, chapter 85, or in 
“any cemetery established in pursuance of any 
“ Act of Parliament, provided that every coffin so 
“ buried shall be separated from any other coffin by 
“ at least a foot of earth, and be buried at least Four 
“ feet below the surface of the ground, and provided 
“that such grave shall be filled in on the day of 
“ burial, and never again opened until the remains 
“ of the bodies buried therein shall be completely 
“ decayed.” 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment, by leaving out the word “ Six;” in order to 
insert the word “ Four.” 

Question put, That the word “ Six ” stand part of 
the proposed Amendment ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 

Tellers for thef Mr. Miles, jist 
Noes, Sir William Heathcote : ys 
And it being ten minutes before Four of the clock, 
the Chairman left the Chair. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, upon Thursday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Bankruptcy 
and Insolvency 
(Ireland ) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre- 
fand) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Thursday next, ut Twelve of the clock. 


Leave of 


Ordered, That Mr. Ker Seymer have leave of 
Absence, 


absence for a month, on account of illness in his 
family ;—and Mr. Serjeant O’Brien a month, on 
account of urgent business. 


Statute Law 
Commission. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return showing how the Balance of £.3,029. 11s. 7d. 
remaining in the Treasury on the 30th day of April 
1856 (Parliamentary Paper, No. 216, of Session 
1856), on account of the Statute Law Commission, 
has been expended :—Account in Detail of the Ex- 
penditure of the Sum of £.1,911, voted in 1856 for 
the Statute Law Commission :—Of Total Amount 
voted for the Statute Law Board and Commission 
since its first Appointment in 1853; together with 
the Total Amount paid to each of the Officers and 
Persons employed under the Board or Commission 
since that Period, and the Names of such Persons: 
—And, Return of the Names of the Draftsmen 
employed to prepare Consolidation Bills, and the 
Fees paid to each Draftsman siuce the last Return 
in 1856. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Railway Acts. 
—A Return of the Railway Acts passed in the 
Session of 1856, showing the Length of each Line ; 
the proposed Capital Stock; the Sums authorized 
to be raised on Loan, and the other principal Pro- 
visions contained therein (in continuation of Return 
of Acts passed in the Session of 1855, Parliamentary 
Paper, No. 8, of Session 1856). 

Mr Lowe also presented, pursuant to the direc- Pilotage. 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy of Order 
in Council, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, 
approving a Bye-Law made by the Trinity House 
Corporation of Hull, reducing the Rates of Pilotage 
at Spalding, in respect of Coasting Vessels. 

Copy of two Orders in Council, suspending during Copyright. 
the continuance in force of an Ordinance and Act 
passed in Watal and Jamaica respectively, the pro- 
hibition into such Colony and Island of Foreign Re- 
prints of British Books. 

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


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Barracks, &amp;, 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Barracks, &amp;c. 
. Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid Pontefract 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- lection. 
nutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee 
on the Pontefract Election Petition. 

The following Paper was also laid upon the Table East India 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, (Bengal Mili- 
dated the 3d day of this instant July, for a Return ‘"Y imate 
relative to East India (Bengal Military Fund). 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lunacy, Lunacy. 
which was presented upon the 24th day of June No, 157. 
last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Foreign Foreign 
Legions, which was presented upon the 3d day of Legions. 
this instant July, be printed. No, 158. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Liverpool Liverpool 
Town Dues, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 6th — Dues, 
day of this instant July, be printed. No 159 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Broadhaven Broadhaven 
Harbour, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 29th Harbour, &amp;c. 
day of June last, be printed. No. 160. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Oyster Oyster ; 
Fisheries (British Islands and France), which was Fisheries (Bri- 


presented upon the 6th day of this instant July, be a — ) 
printed. 


No. 161. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Portpatrick Portpatrick 
and Donaghadee Harbours, which was presented 2”4 Donagha- 
upon the 6th day of this instant July, be printed ee 

: iat 3 No. 162. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Wareham 
before the Select Committee on the Wareham Elec Election. 
tion Petitions, which were presented upon the 3dday No. 168. 
of this instant July, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Bengal Mili- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to in- ty Fund. 
= into the present state of the Bengal Military 

und, and the relations existing between the East 
India Company and that Fund :—And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Lord Licu- 
posed, That in the opinion of this House, the Office a 
of Lord Lieutenant of Jreland ought to be abolished. ee 

And the Previous Question being put, That that 
Question be now put ; 

The House divided, 

The 








Message from 
the Lords. 


Militia (Ire- 
land) Act 
(1854) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Oxford Uni- 
versity Bill. 


: Newport 
Election. 


Taunton 
Election. 


Portsmouth 
Election. 








91 VicrorizZ. 


The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thes Mr. Roebuck, 


} 
Yeas, Mr. Hadfield: J om 

Tellers for the Mr. Hayter, loge 
Noes, |The Earl of Mulgrave: J~ 


So it passed in the Negative. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Militia (Jreland) 
Act (1854) Amendment Bill, without any Amend- 
ment: 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to continue the Powers of the Commissioners under 
an Act of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of 
Her Majesty, concerning the University of Oxford 
and the College of Saint Mary, Winchester, and 
further to amend the said Act; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from J. Henry Hearn, 
Agent for the Peti:ion of Henry John Turner and 
others, complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the Borough of Newport, stating that it is not 
intended to proceed with the said Petition :—And 
the said Letter was read, as followeth : 

Sir, Newport, Isle of Wight, 7 July 1857. 

As Agent for Henry John Turner, James George 
and John Lock, Esquires, in the matter of their Pe- 
tition delivered in on the 19th day of May last, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Newport, | hereby beg to inform 
you, that it is not intended to proceed with the said 

etition. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
J. Henry Hearn. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 

Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 

upon the said Petition. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from James Coppock, 
Agent for tke Petition of James Kallend and others, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Taunton, stating that it is not intended 
to proceed further with the said Petition :—And the 
said Letter was read, as followeth : 


Sir, 40, Parliament-street, 7 July 1857. 
As Agent for James Kallend, James Billings, 
and William Mordle, in the matter of their Petition 
against the Return of Arthur Miils, Esquire, for the 
Borough of Taunton, I beg to form you that it is 
not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
James Coppock. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 
Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from H. and R. W. Ford, 
Avents for the Petition of Edwin Low and Samuel 
Hogg, Esquires, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Borough of Portsmouth, stating 
that it is not intended to proceed with the said Pe- 
tition: — And the said Letter was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

Sir, Portsmouth, 7 July 1857. 

As Agents for Edwin Low and Samuel Hogg, Es- 
quires, in the matter of their Petition delivered in on 
the 21st day of May last, complaining of an undue 
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289 


Election and Return for the Borough of Portsmouth, 
we hereby beg to inform you that it is not intended 
to proceed with the said Petition. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
H. and R. W. Ford. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


the said Petition to the 


The Order for referrin 
‘Elections, was read, and 


General Committee of 
discharged. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Steamers. 
posed, That there be laid before this House, a Re- 
turn of the Names and Rates of the reserved 
Steamers at each Port, their Horse Power, whether 
High or Low Pressure, Screw or Paddle, Number of 
Officers, Men and Boys, Engineers and Stokers 
employed to take care of them, and how many were 
ready for Commission on the 1st day of June 1857: 
—And, Similar Return of the Steamers in Commis- 
sion at the various Ports, with their Crews, how 
many Coastguard Men are borne on their Books, the 
Number of Coast Volunteers enrolled, and how 
many have been called out and drilled ; 


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


Mercurii, 8° die Julit, 1857: 


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 ea withdrawn. 

Then the Main Question being put :—It passed in 
the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Adjournment. 
That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Mr. Hankey, 
Tellers for the! Mr. Philip Wykeham Mar-}140. 
Yeas, \ tin: 


Tellers for the {Sir Charles Napier, 
Noes, Mr. Magan: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


} 54. 


And it being then a quarter of an hour before 
One of the clock on Wednesday morning :—The 
House accordingly adjourned till this day. 





Mercurii, 8° die Juli; 
Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
HE Names of the five Members appointed to Bury Saint 
try and determine the matter of the Petition — 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Bury St. Edmund, were called 
over; and being come to the Table, they were sworn 
by the Clerk. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee. 
Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at. Eleven of the clock. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections; That they had selected Wil- Elections. 
liam Tatton Egerton, Esquire, Lord Robert Gros- 
venor, and John Abel Smith, Esquire, to be Mem- 
bers of the Chairmen’s Panel, and to serve as 
Chairmen of Election Committees in the room 
of Edward Ellice, junior, Esquire, Rickard Deasy, 
Esquire, and Henry Ker Seymer, Esquire, who 
have claimed to be excused during the remainder cf 
the Session. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

QeQq2 Mr. 





290 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of Zam- 
beth, to which they had annexed the Petition referred 
to them by the House relating thereto :—Charles 
Robert Colvile, Esquire, Alexander Matheson, Es- 
quire (Inverness), Viscount Sandon, Major Wortley 
(Honiton); Chairman, Robert Ingham, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Lambeth 
Election. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the County of the 
Town of Galway, to which they had annexed the 


Galway Town 
Election. 


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Petition referred to them by the House relating | 
thereto, and the List of Voters delivered in to the | 
Committee on behalf of the Petitioner : —Joseph 
Christopher Ewart, Fsquire, Alexander William 
Kinglake, Esquire (Bridgwater), Lord Lovaine, 
Henry Gerard Sturt (Dorset); Chairman, George 
Clive, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Bath Election. Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the letition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the City of Bath, 
to which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto, and the Lists 
of Voters severally delivered in to the Committee on 
behalf of the letitioner and of the Sitting Member : 
—John Cheetham, Esquire, William Seymour Fitz- 
gerald, Esquire, Viscount Galway, Sir Harry Ver- 
ney, Baronet ; Chairman, Right honourable Edward 
Horsman. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


British and 
Irish Grand 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


The British and Jrish Grand Junction Railway 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordcred, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter 
Ferry and Roads Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as fur as Her Majesty’s interest is concemed, 
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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Lowestoft and 
Burgh Saint 
Peter Ferry 
and Roads Bill. 


Pulteney Town 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Harbour Bill. ‘ : 


reading of the Pulteney Town Harbour Bill; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
real the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as faras Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and «lesire their concurrence. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Thames Con. 
reading of the Zhames Conservancy Bill (changed re tm. — 
from Thames and Medway Conservancy) ; Teese “i. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question Medway Con. 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third S*Fvancy-) 
time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted 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. 

And Notice being taken, that the interest of the 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is concerned 
therein ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, ‘That Her Majesty having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as the Prince of Wales’s interest is con- 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shail 
think fit. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Lett. 

Tellers for the {Sir James Duke, 

Yeas, LMr. Alderman Cubitt: 
Tellers for the {General Codrington, 
‘Noes, Mr. Ayrton: 

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: And that the 
Title be, An Act to provide for the Conservation of 
the River Thames, and for the Regulation, Manage- 
ment and Improvement thereof. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Besselsleigh 
the Besselsleigh Road Bill, as amended in the Com- ®4 Bill. 
mittee ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


The Caledonian and Crinan Canals Bill was, ac- Caledonian 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- and Crna 
mitted to a Select Committee. — 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Railway Railway Acts. 
Acts, which was presented upon the 7th day of this No. 164. 
instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Barracks, Barracks, &amp;c. 
&amp;c., which was presented upon the 7th day of this No. 165. 
instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India _ 
(Bengal Military Fund), which was presented upon (Bengal Mili- 


vom ao : tary Fund.) 
the 7th day of this instant July, be printed. No. 166, 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Persian. 
Her Majesty's Command,—An Estimate of the Sum Expedition. 


required to be voted in the year 1857, towards the No. 167. 
re-imbursement to the East India Company of a 

Moiety of the Extraordinary Expenses of the Ex- 

pedition to Persia. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in China (Naval 
the year 1857, towards defraying the Expense of = nos | 
the Naval and Military Operations in China, beyond ~PO*"e"™ 
the ordinary Grants for Navy and Army Ser- i 
vices. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the said Estimates be referred 
to the Committee of Suppiy:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now a.ljourned :—And 

the 








Yon- 
Bill 
rom 


Yon- 





the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Public Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
Petitions. read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Twenty- 

second Report. 

Coroners’ Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 


Inquests to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 

(Cardiff. ) to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Coroners’ In- 
quests held at Cardiff in the years 1855, 1856 and 
— respectively ; together with the several Ver- 
icts. 

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. 


Public The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Charities Bill. reading of the Public Charities Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
W ednesday the 22d day of this instant July. 


Burials Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Burials Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Weightsand § The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Measures Bill. yeadiag of the Weights and Measures Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Court of Ses- | The Order of the day being read, for the second 
rca reading of the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Crown, &amp;c. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
fond) ge mittee on the Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill; 
, Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Bankruptcy The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


areal mittee on the Bankruptcy and Real! Securities (.Scot- 


(Scotland) Bill, 4and) Bill; ; = 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


solve itself into the said Commiitee. 


BillChamber (The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

(Scotland) mittee on the Bill Chamber (Scot/and) Bill ; 

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


Assessments § ‘Lhe Order of the day being read, for the second 
ene) reading of the Asse-sments (Scotland) Bill; 
- Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Lunatics The Order of the day being read, for the second 
| fee reading of the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Smoke Nui- The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
lange (Scot= mittee on the Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abate- 
) Abate- : 
ment Bill. ment Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Railway The Order of the day being read, for the second 
auiie Act reading of the Railway Traffic Act Amendment 
om Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
‘Tuesday next. 
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Q1 Vicroni@. 8° Juliz. 291 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- .. 
mittee on the Wills, &amp;c., of British Subjects Abroad nae = 
Bill; jects Abroad 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday Bill 
next, 1esolve itself into the said Conimittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming | .. 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed 
upon the 23d day of June last, ‘That the Question 
which was then proposed, relative to Jndia, be now 

ut ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 

till Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- , 
mittee on the Election Petitions Bill ; ——. Pill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself oe 
into a Committee on the Industrial Schools Bill. — gthools pill 


(In the Committee.) 


Crausg, N°9. Amendment again proposed, in 
p. 3, Is. 36 and $7: To leave out the words “ and 
“ pays or finds good security to pay any expenses 
“ which may be incurred in consequence of his ob- 
“ jection.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ and pays or 
“ finds good security ” stand part of the Clause :— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Auother Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words: “ Provided however that 
“the regulations of every such Industrial School 
“ shall provide that a book shall be kept by the 
“ managers, in which the religious denomination or 
“church to which every child admitted to such 
“ school, or the parents or the father of such child, 
“shall belong, shall be entered; and that every 
“ minister or clergyman officiating in any chapel or 
“ other place of worship duly licensed according to 
“ law in the parish within which such Industrial 
“¢ School shall be situated, shall have free access to 
“such book, and also to every child who shall 
“ appear by such book to belong to the religious 
“ denomination or church of which such minister is 
* a teacher.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 10 to N° 12, agreed to. 

Criauset, N° 13 (Child not to be detained when 
15 years old). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 23: To leave 
out the word “ Fifteen,” in order to insert the word 
“ Twelve.” 

Question put, That the word “ Fifteen” stand 
part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Yeas, { og pre : }169. 

; oP 

Tellers for the Noes, — \ 59. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cuiavussr, N° 14 (On application of manager the 
parent may be summoned, and ordered to pay ac- 
cording to his ability). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 32: To leave 
out the word “ Fifteen,” in order to insert the word 
“ Twelve.” 

Question put, That the word “ Fifteen” stand 
part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ Mfr pyrety } 161. 
: _{Mr. Barrow 
Tellers for the Noes, LMr. ilies } 78. 


Amendments made. 
QQ3 Clause, 





Oxford City 
Election. 


292 


Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 15 to N° 17, agreed to. 

Crausz, N° 18 (Penalties on persons inducing 
children to abscond, &amp;c.) 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 19 to N° 24, with an Amendment 
to one of them, agreed to. 

Postponed Ciause, N° 8, disagreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Clause (The Justices may forthwith, if the pa- 
rent be found, or otherwise, at the time and place 
mentioned in the aforesaid Notice, make full in- 

uiry into the matter; and may, if they think fit, 
y sa the child altogether, or deliver him up to 
his parents, on their giving an assurance in writing 
(according to Form B.) that they will be respon- 
sible for the good behaviour of the child, for any 
period not exceeding twelve months; and in de- 
fault of such assurance being given, may, by writing 
under their hands and seals (Form C.) order the 
child to be detained for such period as they think 
necessary for his education in any certified Indus- 
trial School, the managers of which are willing to 
take charge of him: Provided, however, if within 
the county when the child was taken into custody, 
or any adjoining county, there shall be any certified 
Industrial School conducted on the principles of the 
religious persuasion to which the parent of the child 
in the opinion of the Justices shall belong, and the 
managers of which school shall be willing to receive 
him, such child shall be sent to such last-mentioned 
school, and not to any other), brought up, and read 
M, 3. 

"An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, after the words 
“ think necessary,” to insert the words “ not ex- 
“ ceeding six months.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to; and added, 

Other Clauses added. 

Clause (No order of the manager or managers of 
such Industiial Schools, nor any bye-law, shall com- 
pel any inmate of any such school to attend or be 
present at any religious service which may be cele- 
brated in a mode contrary to the religious principles 
of such inmate, nor shal! authorize the education of 
any child in such school in any religiouscreed other 
than that professed by the parents or surviving pa- 
rent of such child), brought up, and read 1°, 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Schedule A. 

An Amendment mide. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and usk leave to sit 
ugain :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment made. 

Schedule A, as amended, agree] to. 

Schedules B. C. and D., amended, and agreed to. 

And it being a quarter before Six of the clock, 
the Chairman left the Chair. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; an:l Mr. Fitz- 
R.y veported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
eress in the Billi; and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again, 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
reso!ve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Edward Egerton, from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Pctition compluining of an undue Election and Re- 


8° Julti. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


turn for the City of Ozford, informed the House, 
That the Committee had determined, 

That Charles Neate, Esquire, is not duly elected 
a Citizen to serve in this present Parliament for the 
City of Oxford. 

hat the last Election for the said City, so far as 
regards the Return of the said Charles Neate, Es- 
quire, is a void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Edward Egerton, from the said Select Com- 
mittee, further informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That Charles Neate, Esquire, was, by his Agents, 
guilty of bribery at the last Election for the City of 
Oxford. 

That it was proved before the Committee, that 
during the said Election 198 persons were employed 
by the Committee of the said Charles Neate, Es- 
quire, as poll-clerks and messengers, 152 of whom 
voted for the said Charles Neate, Esquire, and who 
subsequently received from the Agents of the said 
Charles Neate, Esquire, payment in sums varying 
from £.1 to 2s. 6d. 

That among the number so employed and paid, 
Charles William Harbud was bribed with 15s. ; 
Thomas Faulkner with £.1 ; James Haynes with 5s. ; 
Walter Simmons Cartwright with 5s.; William 
Bossom with 5s.; Thomas Golding with 5s.; Thomas 
Beesley with 10s.; Thomas Tipping with 7s. 6d. ; 
John Goodall with 15s.; Robert Harry Cross with 
5s.; Thomas Bolwell with 5s.; Peter Prickett with 
78. 6d.; Thomas Knight with 5s. ; William Henry 
Beesley with £.1; William Fox with 5s.; Henry 
George with 7s. 6d.; Charles Shurrock with 15s. ; 
and Abraham Hilisden with £.1. 

That these sums were paid under the pretence of 
remuneration for services as messengers and runners 
during the Election; and although it was not proved 
before the Committee that these payments to the 
voters were the primary motive in deciding their 
votes, yet it appeared to the Committce that, in many 
of the cases, no adequate services or work were in 
reality performed. 

That it was proved to the Committee that the 
aforesaid acts of bribery were committed without 
the knowledge and consent of the said Charles 
Neate, Esquire. 

That it was proved to the Committee that there 
was treating to some extent at the last Election for 
the said City ; but it was not proved to have taken 
place by the order or authority of the said Charles 
Neate, Esquire, or his Agents. 

That the Committee do not think it right to re- 
commend that the issue of a new Writ for the said 
City of Oxford should be suspended. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Minutes 
ordered. 


before the Committee be laid before this House. 


Mr. George Alexander Hamilton, from the Select Maidstone 
Committee appointed to try and determine the matter Election. 


of the Petition of Tomas Wel/s and Thomas Standen, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borouzh of Maids:one, informed the House, 
That the Committee had determined, 

That Alexander James Beresford Beresfurd Hope, 
Esquire, and Captain Edward Scott, are duly elected 
Burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Maiéstone. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Georye Alexander Hamilton, from the said 
Select Committee, further informed the House, That 
the Committee had agreed to the following Re- 
solution : 

That the Evidence given before them has been 
very unsatisfactory and contradictory ; and although 
there has been no sufficient proof of corrupt practices 
at the late Election, the Committee think it neces- 

sary 














21 VicrortizZ. 





sary to state that it appears that a sum of £.3,500 
was paid in the year 1847, for the expenses of one 
Candidate, although there was no contest for the 
Borough on that occasion. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Tenant Right The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Tenant Right (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next. 


Medical The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Profession § mittee on the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; 

(No. 1) Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Vaccination The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bill. reading of the Vaccination Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday the 22d day of this instant July. 


Supply. 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. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means, mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Probatesand Mr, Afassey reported from the Committee on 
letters of Ad- Prohates and Letters of Administration (Ireland) 


inistrati . ; - 
(hesed) [Stamps], a Resolution; which was read, as fol- 


(Stamps. ] loweth : 

That the Fees to be paid to the Officers of the 
Court of Probate, or of any Assistant Barrister’s 
Court, in respect of Business under any Act of the 
present Session relating to Probates and Letters of 
Administration in Ireland, shall be collected by 
means of Stamps. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 


was agreed to. 


Turnpike The Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Jreland) Bill was, 
Trusts Abo- according to Order, read the third time. 
oy (Ireland) Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Justices and The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Police Force reading of the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 
(Dublin) Bill. pi}. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Revising The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Barristers _ reading of the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Biil; 

(Dublin) Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


GlebeLands § The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Glebe Lands (Jreland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


Land Tax The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Commission- mittee on the Laud Tax Commissioners’ Names 
A Names Bill: 
Sill, ? , 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Joint Stock The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
ompanies consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
—a to the Joint Stock Companies Act Amendment Bill; 
F Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 

into consideration To-morrow. 


Vou, 112, 





8° Sulit. 293 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Grand Juries 


consideration the Amendments made by the Lords ara | 
to the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend- aa — 


ment Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates and 
into a Committee on Probates and Letters of Ad- Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
[Salary of 
Judge, &amp;c.] 


ministration [Salary of Judge, &amp;c.] 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That Provision be made, out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for payment of the Salary and 
Retiring Annuity to be granted toa Judge of the 
Court of Probate to be established under any Act of 
the present Session relating to Probates and Letters 
of Administration in England, and also of all Com- 
pensations to be granted under the said Act. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Massey 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to public Works 
authorize the Commissioners of Public Works in (Ireland.) 


Ireland to sell Mill Sites and Water Power, notwith- 
standing Final Award, in any Drainage or Naviga- 


tion District: And that Mr. Wilson and the Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, To- Probates and 
¢ etters of Ad- 
of authorizing the payment, out of the Consolidated (treland) 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and [Salary of 
Ireland, of the Salary and Retiring Annuity to be Judge, &amp;e.] 


morrow, resolve itself into a Committee to consider © 


granted to a Judge of the Court of Probate to be 
established under any Act of the present Session 
relating to Probates and Letters of Administration 
in Ireland, aud of all Compensations to be granted 
under the said Act, and also of imposing a Stamp 
Duty on every person admitted as a Proctor in the 
said Court ; 

Mr. Attorney General for Zreland, 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, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





By virtue of an Act passed in the twenty-fourth 
ear of the reign of his late Majesty King George 
the Third, intituled, “ An Act to repeal so much of 
two Acts made in the tenth and fifieenth years of 
the reign of his present Majesty, as authorizes the 
Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his 
Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out 
Writs for the Election of Members to serve in Par- 
liament, in the manner therein-mentioned, and for 
substituting other Provisions for the like purposes ;” 
I do hereby nominate, appoint and authorize the 
Honourable Harry George Vane, commonly called 
Lord Flarry Vane, the Right honourable Robert 
Grosvenor, commonly called the Right honourable 
Lord Robert Grosvenor, Thomas Henry Sutton 
Sotheron Estcourt, Esquire, Colonel John Wilson 
Patten, and Thomas William Bramston, Esquire; 
being Members of the House of Commons, or any 
one or more of them, to execute all and singular 
the Powers given to the Speaker of the House of 
Commons for the time being, for issuing Warrants 
Qee4 to 





§ ee 


294, 


to the Clerk of the Crown, in cases as in the said | 


Act specified. 

Given under my hand and seal, this Eighth day 
of July in the year of our Lord One thousand 
eight hundred and Fifty-seven. 


Joun Evetyn Denison, (L. 8.) 
Speaker. 





Jovis, 9° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 
HE Jondon and South Western Railway Acts 
Amendment Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk du carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


London and 
South Western 
Railway Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill. 


A Motion being made, That the Mersey Conser- 
vancy and Docks Bill be now read the third time ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as faras Her 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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, ard desire their concurrence. 


Norfolk A Motion being made, That the Norfolk Estuary 

a Acts Amendment Bill be now read the third time ; 

Bill. Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as Her Majesty's interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therein as they shall think 
fit. 

And Notice being taken that the interest of the 
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, is concerned 
therein ; 

Mr. Hayter, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her Con- 
sent, as far as the Prince of Wales’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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


North Western 


The North Western Railway Bill was read the 
Railway Bill. 


third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act authorizing the North Western 
Railway Company to divert a portion of their Rail- 
way, and to sell or grant a Lease of their Undertaking 
to the Midland and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 
Companies. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Taff Vale 


The Taff Vale Railway Bill was read the third 
Railway Bill. 


time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Caledonian 
and Crinan 
Canals Bill. 


The Select Committee on the Caledonian and 
Crinan Canals Bill was nominated of Mr. Wilson, 
Viscount Duncan, Mr. Caird, Mr. Henry Baillie, 
Mr. Finlay and Mr. Blackburn; and five Members 
to be added by the Committee of Selection. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 








Juli. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


and proceed on three days’ notice being given in the 
Private Bill Office. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and Vide Votes, 


read ; and referred to Select Committecs. and Twenty- 
third Report. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Reformatory 
mittee on the Reformatory Schools Bill ; Schects Bis. 
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, re- 
“solve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Questicn—— 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try Bath Election, 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the City of 
Bath, were called over; and being come to the 
Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 
Ordered, That the Petition and Lists relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-morrow, 
in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try Galway Town 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- Election. 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Town 
of Galway, were called over; and being come to 
the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk Assistant. 

Ordered, That the Petition and List relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-morrow, 
in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, at 
Twelve of the clock. 





And the Question being put, That the words pro- Reformatory 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; Schools Bill. 
The House divided. Bill 109. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the; Mr. Alcock, 
Noes, { Mr. Hanbury : 
So it was resolved in the Attirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cause, N° 1 (Justices of a county or Council of 
borough sessions may grant money in aid of Refor- 
matory Schools). 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 14: To 
leave out the words “subject to such conditions as 
“ the Justices or Council may think fit.” 

Question, That the words “subject to such con- 
“ ditions” stand part of the Clause——put, and 
agreed to. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, stand 
part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the{Sir Henry Willoughby, 

Noes, UMr. Knatchbull Hugessen : 


}ap. 


le. 


Criauses, N° 2 and N° 8, amended, and agreed to. 
CLAUSE, 











Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill, 


Bankruptcy 


and Insolvency 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Glebe Lands 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bury Election. 


Lambeth 
Election. 


21 Vicroriz. 


Cuauss, N° 4, agreed to. 

Crausez, N° 5, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 6 (Contribution by parents to the 
maintenance of offenders in a Reformatory School 
how to be enforced). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1. 7: To leave out 
the words “ Five shillings,” in order to insert the 
words “ Two shillings and sixpence.” 

Question, That the words “ Five shillings” stand 
part of the Clause—— put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 3, 1.14: After 
the word “ sitting,” to insert the words “ or from 
“ which such offender shall have been committed.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Curauses, N° 7 to N° 12, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Tuesday 
next ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Glebe Lands (Jreland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy re- 
— That the Committee had gone through the 

ill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Mr. Hutt, from the Select Committee appointed 
to try and determine the matter of the Petition of 
Electors complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Bury, informed the 
House, That the Committee had determined, 

That Robert Needham Philips, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Bury. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Hutt, from the said Select Committee, further 
informed the House, That the Committee had agreed 
to the following Resolution : 

That it has been proved by uniform Evidence 
before the Committee, that the late Election for the 
Borough of Bury was conducted with unusual 
sobriety and order, and that although in the course 
of it some practices of an illegal complexion were 
resorted to by partisans of the Sitting Member, 
nothing was adduced to show, and the Committee 
has no reason to believe, that such practices were in 
any way authorized by the Sitting Member. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Lambeth, were called over; and being come to 
the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk Assistant. 
Vout. 112. 


9° Juliz. 








295 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-morrow, 
in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, at 
Eleven of the clock. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select Standing 
Committee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; which Orders. 
was read, as followeth : 

That in the case of the Scinde Railway Company, Scinde 
Petition for leave to deposit a Petition for Bill, the Railway 
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; that C°™P™Y- 
the Parties be permitted to deposit their Petition 
accordingly. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence taken Pontefract 
before the Select Committee on the Pontefract Election. 
Election Petitions, which were presented upon the No. 169. 
7th day of this instant July, be printed. 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was Oxford City 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— Election. 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select No. 170. 
Committee on the Orford City Election Petition. 

The following Paper was also laid upon the Table Income Tax, 
by the Clerk of the House,—Retum to an Order, &amp;« (London.) 
dated the 23d day of June last, for a Return re- 
lative to Income Tax, &amp;c. ( London.) 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directiuns Convict Esta- 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the fa 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of a Trea- Creme) 
sury Minute, dated 19th June 1857, granting a 
Special Superannuation Allowance to Mr. Thomas 
Smith, late Chief Warder in the Convict Establish- 
ment, Gibraltar. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Oxford City 
Election Petition, be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Coal Mines. 
mand,—Copy of Reports of the Inspectors of Coal 
Mines to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State, to De- 
cember 1856. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Order, Constabulary 
dated the 28th day of May last, for a Return rela- (Limerick.) 
tive to Constabulary (Limerick). 

Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of May Constabulary 
last, for a Return relative to Constabulary Force eng (Water- 
(Waterford). mony 

Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of June Hop Grounds. 
last, for a Return relative to Hop Grounds. 

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


Sir Benjamin Hall reported from the Select Com- pimlico tm- 
mittee on the Pimlico Improvements Bill; That provements 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and BU 
found the same to be true; and had gone through Bill 110. 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Sir Benjamin Hallreported from the Select Com- Public Offices 
mittee on the Public Offices Extension Bill; That Extension Bill. 
they had examined the allegations contained in the Bill 111. 
Preamble of the Bill, and amended the same, by 
inserting in p. 1, 1. 13, after the word “ the,” the 
word “ first;’’ and found the same, as amended, to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Jew New Zealand. 
Zealand have Power to report their opinion to the No. 171. 
House, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

RR Mr. 





296 9° Juli. 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere reported from the said 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred, and had agreed to report their 
Opinion thereupon to the House, together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them ; 
and the Resolution of the Committee was read, as 
followeth : 

That it is the opinion of this Committee, that, 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Lunatics (Scotland) Bill was, according to Lunatics 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scotland) Bill, 
Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


. The House, according to Order, resolved itself Fraudulent 
into a Committee on the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c., pin, tees, &amp;c. 


Bill. Bill 112, 


Times, 
Athenwsum 
and Beacon 
Assurance 
Companies’ 


Amalgamation 


Bill. 


Ordnance 
Survey. 


Pensions, &amp;c. 


(Ireland. ) 


Mr. Richard 
Hall. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Mayo 
Election. 


under the peculiar circumstances of the case, it is 
expedient that the guarantee of the Imperial Go- 
vernment should be given to a Loan for a Sum not 
exceeding Five hundred thousand pounds, which it 
is proposed to raiseunder the New Zealand Loan 
Act, 1856, upon such conditions as may be best 
calculated to secure the regular liquidation of the 
principal and interest of the debt. 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
the Times, Atheneum and Beacon Assurance Com- 
panies’ Amalgamation Bill; That the Parties pro- 
moting the Bill had stated to the Committee, that! 
it was not their intention to proceed with the same. | 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. | 





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 Statement of the Number of Men employed | 
in the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ire- | 
land, including the Establishment at Southampton, | 


on the 1st day of January 1857, as compared with | 


the Number actually employed at the present time. | z 
Ordered, Vhat 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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im) 


| 

| 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of all Persons now receiving | 
from the Exchequer either Pension or Compensa-} 


. ° . ° . . . 6 
tion in Jreland (in continuation of Parliamentary | 


Paper, No. 383, of Session 1856). 
| 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Correspondence between Mr. &amp;ichard | 
Hall and the Poor Law Commissioners, relating to | 
his Retirement and Superannuation :—And, of all’ 
Correspondence between the Poor Law Commis- | 
sioners and the Treasury on the same subject. | 

| 

Ordered, That Sir George Forster have leave of 
absence for a month, on account of ill health, 


« 


Mr. Scholefield reported from the Select Com-) 
mittee appointed to try and determine the matter of, 
the Petition of George Gore Ouseley Higgins, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
County of Mayo; That two Letters addressed to 
Colonel Higgins, and duly verified, had been pro- 
duced before the Committee, alleging that one of the 
Witnesses, John M’Laughlin, examined before the 
said Committee, had been maltreated; and another 
Witness, John Gannon, had been so seriously in- 
jured, by a mob led on by one John Sheridan, that 
his life is in danger, such maltreatment and injury 
having been inflicted upon them in consequence of 
Evicence given before the said Committee; the 
Committee have, therefore, instructed him to report | 
the circumstances to the House, in order that the 
House may take such steps as may seem to the 
House to be proper and necessary. 

And the House being informed that several 
persons had already been apprehended, and that | 
measures were being taken to bring them to Trial, 
at the approaching Assizes, for the Tenages referred 
to in the said Report ; 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





(In the Committee.) 


Cause, N° 3, agreed to. 


CiausE, N° 4 (Bailees fraudulently converting 
property to their own use). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, |. 5: After the 
word “ property” to insert the words “or being 
“ entrusted with any property of any description for 
“ the purpose of performing or causing to be per- 
“ formed any work or labour upon or in respect of 
“ the same.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 


Cuiavses, N° 5 to N° 11, with Amendments to 
two of them, agreed to. 


CraAvss, N° 12 (No prosecution shall be com- 
menced without the sanction of some Judge or the 
Attorney General). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3,1. 21: To leave 
out from the word “ commenced ” to the end of the 
Clause, in order to insert the words “ or carried on 
“ otherwise than in the manner hereinafter men- 
‘ tioned (that is to say) :—If in any civil proceeding 
against a Trustee, or if in any proceeding under 
the bankruptcy of any person being a Trustee, it 
shall appear to the Court or Judge before whom 
such proceeding shall be pending that there is 
‘ reasonable and probable cause for a criminal pro- 

secution against such Trustee under this Act, it 
“ shall be lawful for such Court or Judge to make 
‘an order sanctioning such prosecution ; and such 
“ order sanctioning a prosecution may be made at 
any stage of the proceeding pending before such 
Court or Judge, and may be obtained upon motion 
or petition in a summary way; and if the Court 
or Judge, on an application being made to sanction 
such prosecution, shall be of opinion that the 
Trustee should be held to bail until either such 
‘sanction shall be refused, or until a warrant for 
the arrest of such Trustee shall be issued in due 
course of law, it shall be lawful for the Court or 
Judge to direct a writ or writs of ne exeat regno to 
issue against the Trustee, marked for such sum as 
the Court or Judge shall think fit, not exceeding 
the estimated value of the property alleged to have 
been misappropriated ; and such writ or writs of 
ne exeat regno shall thereupon be issued and ex- 
ecuted, and shall be returnable in the usual 
“ manner, provided that the Court or Judge shall 
“have power to require from the person applying 
“for any such writ security to answer any damages 
“in case it shall be found that such writ was im- 
“ properly obtained.” 
Question proposed, That the words “ without the 
“ sanction of some Judge” stand part of the Clause : 
—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Clause agreed to. 


Cuiausgs, N° 13 to N° 18, with an Amendment 
to one of them, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


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Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next ; and be printed. 

Mr. 

















Q1 VicroriZ. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Sound Dues The Lords have agreed to the Sound Dues Bill, 
Bill without any Amendment: 

on The Lords have agreed to the Sites for Work- 
bsg . houses Bill, without any Amendment : 

Landport The Lords have agreed to the Landport and South- 
tt sea Improvement Bill, without any Amendment: 
Cardigan The Lords have agreed to the Cardigan Markets 
emer and Improvement Bill, without any Amendment : 
Bill. 

bs sg The Lords have agreed to the Wearmouth Bridge, 
ey ee Ferries and Approaches Bill, without any Amend- 
Bill. ment : 

South —- The Lords have agreed to the South Durham and 
Union Rail. L@acashire Union Railway Bill, without any Amend- 
way Bill. ment: 

Peaway Bill The Lords have agreed to the Ely Valley Rail- 


way Bill, without any Amendment: 
The Lords have agreed to the Glasgow Gas Bill, 


Glasgow Gas 
= without any Amendment: 


— The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made 

yerpool Bill, by this House to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships to the Saint Philip’s Church, Liverpool 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

Burslem and The Lords have agreed to the Burslém and Tun- 

_— Gas stall Gas Bill, with an Amendment; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

Dulwich 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commis- 
sioners for the Ccllege of God’s Gift in Dulwich, in 
the County of Surrey, with certain alterations ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 


College Bill. 


House. 
} asd The Order of the day being read, for the second 
hand) Bal reading of the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three 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 to a Committee of the whole 
House for Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 

Veneris, 10° die Julii, 1857: 
Crown, &amp;c. The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
land) — mittees on the Crown, &amp;c., Suits (Scotland) Bill, the 
Bankruptcy Bankruptcy and Real Securities (Scotland) Bill, and 
a. the Bill Chamber (Scotland) Bill; 
(Scotland) Ordered, T hat the said Bills be committed to the 
Bill; and, Bill same Committee. 
Chamber Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Crown, &amp;e. Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill, and the Bank- 
teed) - . ruptey and lieal Securities (Scotland) Bill, and 
Bankruptcy directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
and Real ment. 
(Bootle BA. a” That the Bills be read the third time 
is day. 
a Chamber Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee 
gitand) had gone through the Bill Chamber (Scotland) 


Bill. 
Vou. 112. 


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297 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Assessments 
reading of the Assessments (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time - 
upon Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; of Health Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Municipal 
into a Committee on the Municipal Corporations Corporations 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. i 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


‘mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 


next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Public Health 
reading of the Public Health Act ( Aldersheté) Bill; ret yg 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time * ) 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Probates and 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- Letters of Ad- 
tion Bill ; — 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- summary 
mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices Proceedings 
of the Peace Bill ; pe —" 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Bil, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Banking Bill was, according to Order, read Banking Bill. 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Thursday next, at Twelve of 
the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Mlicit Distilla- 
reading of the Illicit Distillation (Jreland) Bill ; tion (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Boundaries of Land (Jreland) Bill was, ac- Boundaries 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- pte wee on 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for hig OO) 
day. 


The Militia Ballots Suspension Bill was, according Militia Ballots 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Suspension 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. = 


The Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill was, Metropolitan 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- Police Sta-_ 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 4% ® Bill. 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Land Tax 
mittee on the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Commission- 
Bill ; a Names 

Ordered, That the Knights of Shires do prepare 
Lists of the Christian and Surnames of Commis- 
sioners for executing the Land Tax Acts for their 
respective Counties. 

Ordered, That the Members for Cities, Boroughs 
and Places having Commissioners exercising exclu- 
sive jurisdiction within the same, under the said 
Acts, do prepare similar Lists of Commissioners for 
executing the said Acts within such Cities, Boroughs 
and Places respectively. 

Ordered, That the Members for other Cities, 
Boroughs and Places which have been admitted to 
return Members of Parliament since the passing of 

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298 


the Act 2 Will. 4, c. 45, do prepare similar Lists of 
Commissioners for executing the said Acts for the 
Counties in which such last-mentioned Cities, Bo- 
roughs and Places are respectively situated. 

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


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amend- 
anent Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Joint Stock Companies Act Amend- 
ment Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Grand Jeri , — 
(irelan a) Act The Order of the day being read, for — into 


(1836) Amend- Consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
ment Bill. to the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend- 
ment Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Probates and 

Letters of Ad- 

ministration 
Salary of 
udge, &amp;c.] 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
Probates and Letters of Administration [Salary of 
Judge, &amp;c.], a Resolution; which was read, as 
followeth : 

That Provision be made, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, for payment of the Salary and Retiring 
Annuity to be granted toa Judge of the Court of 
Probate to be established under any Act of the 
present Session relating to Probates and Letters of 
Administration in England, and also of all Compen- 
sations to be granted under the said Act. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) 
Salary of 
udge, &amp;c.] 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Probates and Letters of Ad- 
ministration (Jreland) [Salary of Judge, &amp;c.] 


(In the Committee). 


1. Resolved, That Provision be made, out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for the payment of the Salary 
and Retiring Annuity to be granted to a Judge of 
the Court of Probate to be established under any 
Act of the present Session relating to Probates and 
Letters of Administration in Jreland, and also of all 
Compensations to be granted under the said Act. 

2. Resolved, That the same amount of Stamp 
Duty as is now payable on the admission ofa Proctor 
to any Ecclesiastical Court, shall be payable by 
every person admitted asa Proctor in the said Court 
of Probate. 

Resolutions to be reported. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Registration The Registration of Long Leases (Scotland) Bill 
(footed) was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


Bill 113. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee on the Industrial Schools Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Schedules E. to K., with Amendments to three 
of them, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 


9°—10° Juli. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Cruelty to Animals Act Cruelty to 


Amendment Bill be read a second time this day. —: —y 
Bill. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Edinburgh, 
to abolish the Annuity Tax levied within the City See 
of Edinburgh, Parish of Canongate, and Burgh of ite 
Montrose, and to make Provision for the future Abolition. 
Payment of the Stipends of the Ministers therecf: 

And that the Lord Advocate and Sir George Grey 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Dulwich College Bill was read the first time ; Dulwich Col- 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday lege Bill 
next; and to be printed. Bill 114. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Savings Banks 
Committee, this day, on the Savings Banks (No. 2) (No, 2) Bill. 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to authorize the Public Works 
Commissioners of Public Works in Jreland to sell (ireland) Bill, 
Mill Sites and Water Power, notwithstanding Final Bill 115. 
Award, in any Drainage or Navigation District: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve stamp Acts. 
itself into a Committee to consider the several Acts 
imposing Duties of Stamps. 


The Lord Advocate 
the Annuity Tax levied within the City of Edin- “Nisiene 
burgh, Parish of Canongate, and Burgh of Montrose, annuity Ter 
and to make Provision for the future Tenens of the Abolition Bill. 
Stipends of the Ministers thereof: And the same _ Bill 116. 
was read the first time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills; and be 

rinted. 

Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit 

and proceed forthwith. 


_—— a Bill to abolish Edinburgh, 


Canongate 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till One of the clock on Friday morning, ad- 
journed till this day. 








Veneris, 10° die Julii; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
QRDE RED, That the Select Committee on Contracts 
Contracts (Public Departments) have leave to (Public De- 
sit this day till Five of the clock, during the sit- periments.) 
ting of the Rowe. 


Mr. Wise reported from the Select Committee pypjic 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions 
Petitions presented upon the 6th, 7th and 8th days meen) 
of this instant July ; and had directed him to make “"™* “*?° 
a Report thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Controverted 
mittee of Elections ; That they had named days for Elections. 
the 














Land Trans- 
port Corps. 
No. 172. 


Bath Election. 


, 


Finsbury Park 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Votes, 
| and Twenty- 
third Report. 


Convict 
Prisons. 


Burials, 


Spirits 
(Ireland. ) 


Hop Grounds. 
No, 173. 





91 Vicrortz. 10° 


the am of Select Committees on the Elec- 
tion Petitions following, from Panel No. 1 :— 


Berwich-upon-Tweed Town, Two 
Petitions of C. W. Gordon, 
Leitrim County, 
Dover Borough, 
Finsbury Borough, 
Drogheda Borough :— 
Petition of i. Beguall, and | 
another, 
Petition of F. Brodigan, 


Portsmouth Borough, 
Cashel Borough, 
Beverley Borough :-— 
Petition of W. Wells, 
Petition of F. Southwick, 
and another, 


Monday the 
27th day of 
July, at One 
of the clock. 





Tuesday the 


Sligo Borough :— \ 28th day of 
Petition of W. Clarke, and’ July, at One 
another, | of the clock. 


Petition of Right honourable | 


J. A. Wynne, 
Petition of 7. Cowun, | 
Dublin City, 


Lisburn Borough, J 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Land 
Transport Corps have Power to report their Obser- 
vations to the House, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Thomas Duncombe reported from the said 
Committee ; That they had examined 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 
an Appendix. 

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


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Bath 
Election Petition have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 

Ordered, That the said Committee have leave, on 
the application of the Parties, to adjourn till Mon- 
day next. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Finsbury 
Park (No. 2) Bill have leave to sit this day till Five 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Seveial Public Petitious were also presented, and 
read ; and referred to Select Committees. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of te of the Directors of Con- 
vict Prisons on the Discipline and Management of 
Pentonville, Millbank and Parkhurst Prisons, and 
of Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, Chatham and 
Brixton Prisons, with Fulham Refuge, and the In- 
valid Hulks, for the year 1856. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 30th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Burials. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 22d day of May last, for a Return relative to 
Spirits (Jreland). 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Hop 
Grounds, which was presented upon the 9th day of 
this instant July, be printed. 

Vou. 112. 






Juli. 299 


charged in the Civil Contingencies for Robes, Col- 
lars, Badges, &amp;c., for Knights of the several Orders : 
—Of the Sum of £.2,136. 6s. 8d., charged in the 
Civil Contingencies for Fees payable on the nomi- 
nation of eight General Military Officers, three Ad- 
mirals, and others, to the dignity of Knights Grand 
Cross of the Order of the Bath :—And, of the Sum 
of £.389, charged in the Civil Contingencies for 
Fees payable on the nomination of several other 
Officers to the dignity of Knights Commanders 
and Companions of the Order of the Bath. 


for a month, on account of ill health. 


and Docks of Leith to the Government on the Ist 
day of May 1837 :—Similar Return of the Amount 
due on the 1st day of May 1857:—Of Amount of 
Interest, if any, paid to the Government on the 
above Debt since the 1st day of May 1837 :—And, 
Copy of the Correspondence, since the Ist day of 
May 1856, between the Admiralty and the Commis- 
‘sioners for the Docks and Harbour of Leith, or 








| other Parties connected with Leith, relative to the 
' Upper or Queen’s Dock at Leith. 


| 


| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Leith Harbour 
Return of the Revenue and Income of the Harbour 24 Docks. 


and Docks of Leith since 1847, and of the Amount 

due to Government at the present time :—Copies of 
the Correspondence between the Treasury and the 
Harbour and Dock Commissioners authorizing and 
explaining the Expenditure of nearly £. 50,000 
more than the estimated Expense of the Plan sanc- 
tioned and executed :—And, of the Correspondence 
between the Treasury and the Harbour and Dock 
Commissioners, regarding the proposed Graving 
Dock, with the estimated Cost and estimated Re- 
turns. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return, in a Tabular Form, of the Sums 
received by the Sale of Maps of the Ordnance Sur- 
vey of Ireland, on Scale of One inch and of Six 
inches to the Mile, for each County in Jreland; and 
of the Number and Value of Maps supplied to Go- 
vernment Departments, and to Literary and Scienti- 
fic Institutions, gratuitously. 

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. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Memorials and Addresses relating 
to the Franklin Expedition which have been re- 
cently transmitted to the Government, or to the 
First Lord of the Treasury, from the Merchants of 
New York, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal 
Dublin Society, and other Public Bodies. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Memhers of this House as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


into a Committee on the Probates and Letters o 
Administration Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 40, as amended, agreed to. 





RRS CLAUsEs, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Orders of 
Account, in detail, of the Sum of £. 4,625. 10 s. 7 d. Knighthood. 


Ordered, That Mr. Duff have leave of absence Lame of 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Leith Harbour 
Return of the Amount of Debt due by the Harbour 2®4 Docks. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ordnance 


y 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Franklin 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased =*Pedition. 


PA ae Sn 


Resolved, ‘That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates and 
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300 


Criausss, N° 41 to N° 46, with an. Amendment 
to one of them, agreed to. 

Cuiausz, N° 47 (Where personalty under £. 200, 
and real property under £.300, County Court to 
have jurisdiction). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 15, 1. 28: To leave 
out the word “ Two,” in order to insert the word 
“ Three.” 

Question proposed, That “Two” stand part of 
the Clause. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cuiauses, N° 48 to N° 50, agreed to. 

Cravsez, N° 51 (Appeal from Judge of the County 
Court). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 17, l. 4: To leave 
out from the word “to” to the end of the Clause, 
in order to add the words “the Court of Probate, 
“« whose decision shall be final.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ any of the 
“ Superior Courts” stand part of the Clause. 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Crause, N° 52, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 53, disagreed to. 

Crauses, N° 54 to Ne 84, with an Amendment 
to two of them, agreed to. 


Criause, N° 85 (53 Geo. 3, c. 127, ss. 8 and 9, 
repealed in part as to the Court of Probate). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 26, 1. 33: To leave 
out from the word “ from” to the end of the Clause, 
in order to add the words “ allowing any attorney 
“or solicitor to participate in the profits of and 
“ incidental to the transaction of any contentions, 
“ causes and matters.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ acting as 
“ agent ” stand part of the Clause. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cuiauses, N° 86 to N° 88, with an Amendment 
to one of them, agreed to. 

Postponed Ciauses, N°32 and N°33, disagreed to. 

Clause (lhere shall be paid to the Judge the net 
yearly salary of Four thousand pounds, and to his 
Secretary the net yearly salary of Three hundred 
pounds, ‘and to his Usher the net yearly salary of 
One hundred and fifty pounds), brought up, and 
read 1°, 2°. 

Amendment proposed, to leave out the word 
‘¢ Four,” in order to insert the word “ Five.” 

Question, That the word “ Four” stand part of 
the Clause——put, und agreed to. 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause added. 

Clause (Her Majesty, by Letters Patent under 
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, may grant 
unto any person executing the office of Judge of 
Her Majesty's Court of Probate an Annuity, not 
exceeding Two thousand pounds, or if such person 
be also executing the office of Judge of the said 
Court of Admiralty, not exceeding Three thousand 
five hundred pounds, to commence immediately 
after the day when the person to whom such An- 
nuity shall be granted shall resign the said office or 


10° Juliz. 








A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


such person shall have held such office for the period 
of Fifteen years, or have held such office and any 
of the offices of Judge in any of the Superior Courts 
of Law or Equity or the High Court of Admiralty 
for periods amounting together to Fifteen years, or 
shall be afflicted with some permanent infirmity 
disabling him from the due execution of his office, 
which shall be distinctly recited in the said Grant), 
brought up, and read 1°, 2°. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, l. 8: To leave out 
the word “Three,” in order to insert the word 
“ Two.” 

Question, That “‘ Three ” stand part of the Clause 
——put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Other Clauses added. 

Clause (In compensation for such claim, title and 
interest as aforesaid, the said Robert Moore, his 
executors or administrators, shall be entitled to 
receive such sum of money, and in such instalments, 
as shall be agreed upon by two competent persons, 
one of whom shall be appointed by himself, his 
executors or administrators, and the other by the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and in 
case such persons disagree they shall appoint a third, 
whose award shall be final, and such compensation 
shall be paid to the said Robert Moore, his executors 
or administrators, out of the fund standing in the 
names aforesaid, entitled “The Testamentary Fee 
Fund Account”), brought up, and read 1° 

Motion made, and Questicn proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Clauses added. 

Clause (The acting Judge and Registrar of every 
Ecclesiastical, Royal, Peculiar, Manorial or other 
Peculiar Court, and other person now having juris- 
diction to grant Probate or Administration, and 
every person having the custody of the documents 
and papers of or belonging to such Court or person, 
except the Registrars of the Courts mentioned in 
Schedule A. to this Act annexed, shall, upon re- 
ceiving a requisition for that purpose under the Seal 
of the Court of Probate from a Registrar, and at 
the time and in the manner mentioned in such 
requisition, transmit to the District Court of Pro- 
bate in which such Ecclesiastical, Royal, Pecu- 
liar, Manorial or other Peculiar Court is locally 
situate, all records, wills, grants, probates, letters of 
administration, administration bonds, notes of ad- 
ministration, court books, calendars, deeds, pro- 
cesses, acts, proceedings, writs, documents, and every 
other instrument relating exclusively or principally 
to matters or causes testamentary, to be deposited 
and arranged in such District Registry so as to be 
easy of reference), brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :—Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Schedule A. (Districts and Places of District 
Registries throughout England and Wales). 
Amendment proposed in p. 34, Is. 5 and 6: To 
leave out the words “ ewcastle-on- Tyne.” 
Question, That “ Mewcastle-on-Tyne” stand part 
of the Schedule-——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed in p. 34, 1.9: To 





offices, and to continue during his natural life ;_ pro- 
vided that Her Majesty may, in and by such Letters 
Patent, limit the duration of payment of such An-| 
nuity, or any part thereof, to such periods of time | 
daring the natural life of such person in which he) 
shall not exercise any office of profit under Her 
Majesty, so that such Annuity, together with the 
salary and profits of such other office, shall together 
not exceed in the whcle the said sum of ‘Two thou- 
sand pounds or Three thousand five hundred 
pounds, as the case may be: Provided also, that 
no Annuity granted to any person having executed 
the office of Judge under this Act, except the present 
Judge of the Prerogative Court, shall be valid unless 








leave out from the word “ Westmoreland” to the 
words “ County of Lancaster,” in 1. 17, in order to 
insert the word “ Yorkshire.” 
Question put, ‘That the words “West Riding of 
the County of York”’ stand part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, Lied 
Yeas, L\The Earl of Mulgrave: J°" 
Tellers for the Sir John Johnstone, 
Noes, Colonel Smyth: 
Amendments made. 
Another Amendment proposed, in p. 34, 1. 41: 
To insert before the words “ County of Suffolk,” the 
words “ Eastern Division of the.” 


67. 


Question 


Lanarkshire 
Election. 


Lymington 
Election, 


91 Vicroriz®. 


Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Earl Jermyn, lisi 

Yeas, UMr. Bennet : . 

Tellers for the {Sir FitzRoy Kelly : } 59 

Noes, LMr. Adair : . 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 34, Is. 41 
and 42: To leave ont the words “ and North 
“ Division of the County of Essex.” 

Question, That the words “ and North Division 
“‘ of the County of Essex ”’ stand part of the Sche- 
dule put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 34, Is. 14 
and 15: To leave out the words “ Counties of 
“ Glamorgan and Monmouth.” 

Question, That the words “‘ Counties of Glamor- 
“ gan and Monmouth” stand part of the Schedule 
put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 34, |. 32: 
To insert before the words “ County of Devon,” the 
words “ Northern Division of the.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Schedule A. as amended, agreed to. 


Schedule B. added. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 














And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 11° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Messrs. Baxter, Rose 
and Norton, as Agents for George Vere Irving, Es- 

uire, and Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie 
Cosloens Esquire, informing him that it is not their 
intention to proceed with their respective Petitions 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Shire of Lanark :—And the said Letter was 
read, as followeth : 

3, Park-street, Westminster, 
Sir, 10 July 1857. 

As Agents for George Vere Irving, Esquire, aad 
Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie Cochrane, 
Esquire, in the matter of their Petitions delivered 
in on the 19th and 21st days of May last, complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the County 
of Lanark, we hereby beg to inform you, that it is 
not intended to proceed with the said Petitions. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Baxter, Rose and Norton. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Orders for referring the said Petitions to the 
General Committee of Elections, were read, and dis- 
charged. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. Thomas Wells, 
as Agent for Matthew Martin and John Gatrell, 
informing him that it is not their intention to preceed 
with their Petition complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the Borough of Lymington :— 
And the said Letter was read, as followeth : 


20, Great George-street, Westminster, 
Sir, 10 July 1857. 


As Agent for Matthew Martin and John Gatrell, 
in the matter of the Petition delivered in on the 21st 


10°-—11° Juliz. 301 


and Return of William Alexander Mackinnon the 
younger, Esquire, for the Borough of Lymington, I 
hereby beg to inform you, that it is not intended to 
proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Thomas Wells. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Mr. Adair reported the Finsbury Park (No. 2) Finsbury Park 
Bill, with Amendments. (No. 2) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- propates and 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administration Letters of 


(Ireland) Bill ; — ‘Treland) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, on 


resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill was, ac- Crown, &amp;c. 
cording to Order, read the third time. Suits (Scot- 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. uadlinns 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Bankruptcy and Real Securities (Scotland) Bankruptcy 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. and Real 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Securities 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Bill Chamber 
take into consideration the Bill Chamber (Scot/and) (Scotland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bu. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Land Tax 
mittee on the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill ; Commission- 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ¥5 anne 

P / ; i ill. 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Public Health Act (Aldershott) Bill was, ac- Public Health 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Act (Alder- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Bill. 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into militia Ballots 
a Committee on the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill ; Suspension 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker Bill. 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


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 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- East Quay 
mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill; phe Btn . 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday cee 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Probates and 
Probates and Letters of Administration (Jreland) — — 
[Salary of Judge, &amp;c.], several Resolutions ; which (freland) 


were read, as follow : Salary of 





day of May last, complaining of an undue Election 
Von. 112. 


1. That Provision be made, out of the Consoli- Judge, &amp;¢- 
RR4 dated 





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HG 
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i 
' 


pnocnternenanceanamntatranstte been 


Sage aR Re ae aT 


eer tek NRE Ne RSET 


Glebe Lands 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Boundaries 
of Land 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Stamp Acts. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


302 


dated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland, for the payment of the Salary and 
Retiring Annuity to be granted to a Judge of the 
Court of Probate to be established under any Act 
of the present Session relating to Probates and 
Letters of Administration in Jreland, and also of all 
Compensations to be granted under the said Act. 

2. That the same amount of Stamp Duty as is 
now payable on the admission of a Proctor to any 
Ecclesiastical Court, shall be payable by every per- 
son admitted as a Proctor in the said Court of 
Probate. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Glebe Lands (Jre/and) Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

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 Boundaries of Land (Jreland) 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 on the Stamp Acts. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That, upon the admission as an At- 
torney or Solicitor in any Court of Law or Equity 
in England of any person who shall have been pre- 
viously admitted an Attorney or Solicitor in any 
Court of Law or Equity in any of Her Majesty’s 
Colonies or Dependencies, there shall be paid to 
Her Majesty, in addition to the Stamp Duty now 
payable on any such admission as first mentioned, 
such further Stamp Duty as, together with the 
amount of Starap Duty paid on Articles of Clerkship 
and admission as an Attorney or Solicitor in such 
Colony or Dependency, shall be equal in amount to 
the Duty payable at the time of the said first men- 
tioned admission on Articles of Clerkship in order 
to any such admission in England. 

2. Resolved, That there shall be paid for every 
License to keep a Private Lunatic Asylum in Scot- 
land, a Stamp Duty of Ten shillings. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Election Petitions Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Pease, 

Noes, Viscount Raynham : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


} 95. 


25. 


And it being then a quarter of an hour after 
One of the clock on Saturday morning :— 
The House aceordingly adjourned till Mon- 
day next. 


10°—11°—13° Juli. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 
Luna, 13° die Julii ; 


Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRrayERs. 


M®*® Speaker acquainted the House, That he Sandwich 
had this day received a Letter from Mr. Ed- Election. 
ward Drew, as Agent for John Reynolds and John 

Ralph, informing him that it is not their intention 

to proceed with their Petition complaining of an 

undue Election and Return for the ‘Town and Port 

of Sandwich:—And the said Letter was read, as 
followeth : 


Sir, Sandwich, 10th July 1857. 
As Agent for John Reynolds and John Ralph, in 
the matter of their Petition delivered in on the 21st 
day of May last, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Borough of Sandwich, I hereby 
beg to inform you that it is not intended to proceed 
with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Edwd. Drew. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Edinburgh, 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, a 
That in the case of the Edinburgh, Canongate and as 
Montrose Annuity Tax Abolition Bill, no Standing Abolition Bil. 
Orders are applicable. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Thursday next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Fleming's 
Fleming’s Estate Bill, as amended in the Com- Estate Bill 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Bury Bury Saint 
Saint Edmund's Election Petition have leave to sit Edmund’s 
this day till Five of the clock, during the sitting of a 
the House. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to Duchy of 
request that their Lordships will be pleased to give —. 
leave to the Duke of Newcastle to attend to be Petition) 
examined as a Witness before the Select Committee 
on the Duchy of Lancaster (Bertolacci’s Petition) : 

And that the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


Mr. Gregson reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Fetitions 
Petitions presented upon the 9th and 10th days of —- 
this instant July ; and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Walpole reported Ley’s Divorce Bill, with- Ley’s Divorce 
out Amendment. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Walpole reported Smith’s Divorce Bill, with- Smith’s _ 
out Amendment. Divorce Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Walpole reported Campbell's Divorce Bill, Campbell's 
without Amendment. Divorce Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- Royal Assent. 
man Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring Her Royal Assent to 
several 








h, 


Lrose 
Tax 


| — al 


int 
's 


f 
or 
cci’s 


vorce 


II's 
Bill. 


ssent- 


Turnpike 
Trusts Ar- 
rangements 
Bill. 


Hanley Bo- 
rough Incor- 


poration Bill. 


Militia (Ire- 
land) Act 


(1854) Amend- 


ment Bill 


Sound Dues 
Bill. 


Sites for 
Workhouses 
Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act Amena- 
ment Bill. 


Wilmslow 
and Lawton 
Road Bill. 


Fraserburgh 


Harbour Bill. 


North Eastern 


91 Vicrori2. 


several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 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 Acts therein mentioned ; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders 
made under an Act of the fifteenth year of Her pre- 
sent Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the 
Relief of Turnpike Trusts : 

An Act to amend the Charter of Incorporation 
granted to the Borough of Hanley, in the County of 
Stafford : 

An Act to amend “ The Militia (Zreland) Act 
1854? 


An Act to carry into effect a Convention between 
Her Majesty and the King of Denmark: 


An Act to facilitate the procuring of Sites for 
Workhouses in certain cases : 


An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies 
Act, 1856 : 


An Act for continuing the Term and amending 
and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to 
the Wilmslow and Lawton Turnpike Road, ina the 
County of Chester: 

An Act to enable the Fraserburgh Harbour Com- 
missioners to purchase Lands, and to borrow 
a further Sum of Money : 

An Act for amalgamating the Hartlepool Dock 


and Hartlepool and Railway Company with the North Eastern 


Dock and 


Railway Com- 
panies’ Amal- 


Railway Company, and for vesting the Undertaking 
of the former Company in that of the latter, and 


gamation Bill, for other purposes : 


Forth and 
Clyde Junc- 
tion Railway 
Bill. 


Landport 
and Southsea 


Improvement 
Bill. 


Cardigan 
Markets and 


Improvement 
Bill. 


Wearmouth 

ridge, 
Ferries and 
Approaches 
Bill. 


South Durham 


and Lanca- 
shire Union 
Railway Bill. 


Ely Valley 
Railway Bill. 


An Act to cancel certain forfeited Shares in the 
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Company, and 
to enable the Company to create new and additional 
Shares, and for other purposes : 

An Act for the Improvement of ZLandport and 
Southsea, and the Neighbourhoods in the Parishes 
of Portsmouth and Portsea, inthe County of South- 
ampton : 

An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
gesses of the Borough of Cardigan to provide a 
Market-house ; and establish and regulate Markets 
and Fairs; and to regulate the Supply of Water 
within the Borough; and to pave, light, cleanse, regu- 
late and improve the Borough, and for other pur- 
poses : 

An Act to repeal the Provisions of the Acts re- 
lating to the Bridge and Ferries across the River 
Wear, in the Borough of Sunderland, and to grant 
further Powers for the Maintenance and Improve- 
ment of such Bridge and Ferries, and the Ap- 
proaches and Landing-places connected therewith, 
or for the Erection of a New Bridge, in lieu of the 
existing Bridge across such River: 

An Act for making a Railway, commencing by 
a Junction with the Haggarleazes Branch of the 
Stockton and Darlington Railway, near the Lands 
Colliery, in the County of Durham, and terminating 
by a Junction with the Lancasfer avd Carlisle Rail- 
way, at or near Zebay, in the County of Westmore- 
land; and for making Arrangements with the Stock- 
ton and Darlington Railway Company, and for 
other purposes : 

An Act for making a Railway from the Llan- 
trissant Station of the South Wales Railway to Pen- 
rhiwfer,in the Parish of Llantrissant, in the County 





13° Juliz. 303 


Mynydd Gellyrhaidd, both in the said Parish of 
Llantrissant : 

Aun Act for enabling the Glasgow Gas-Light Glasgow 
Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and for Gas Bill. 
other purposes : 

An Act for uniting the Offices of Minister and gaint Philip’s 
Chaplain of Saint Philip’s Church, in Liverpool: Church, Li- 

verpool, Bill. 

An Act to enable the New River Company to New River 
raise a further Sum of Money, to construct other Company Bill. 
Sewers at Hertford, and to amend the Acts relating 
to the Company : 

An Act to authorize the West Hartlepool Harbour West Hartle- 
and Railway Company to convert Loans into Deben- P00! Harbour 
ture Stock, to raise further Capital, to arrange with = — 
Holders of Shares or Stock for Conversion thereof 
into other Shares or Stock, and for other purposes: 


An Act for the Mansfield and Worksop Turnpike Mansfield 


4 Topps e and Workso 
Road, in the County of Nottingham: Road Bill, 


An Act for better supplying with Water the In- portsmouth 
habitants of the Borough of Portsmouth, in the Water Bill. 
County of Southampton : 

An Act for making a Bridge over tle River Wye, Fownhope and 
near to the Even Pitt Ferry, and Approaches Holme Lacy 
thereto; for discontinuing and regulating Ferries ——— 
near to the Bridge, and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the North Eastern Railway North Eastern 
Company to make a Branch from their Bishop Railway (Lan- 
Auckland Branch Railway to the Conside Iron Branch) Bil. 
Works, to acquire additional Lands, and for other ; 
purposes : 

An Act for better supplying with Water the Town Ipswich 
of Ipswich. Water Bill. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 


Mr. George Clive, from the Select Committee ap- Galway Town 
ointed to try and determine the matter of the Election. 
etition of Electors complaining of an undue Elec- 

tion and Return for the Town and County of the 
Town of Galway, informed the House, That the 
Committee had determined, 

That Anthony O’ Flaherty, Esquire, is not duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Town and County of the Town of Galway. 

That the last Election for the said Town and 
County of the Town of Galway, so far as regards 
the Return of the said Anthony O’ Flaherty, Esquire, 
is a void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. George Clive, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That the said Anthony O’ Flaherty, Esquire, was 
by his Agents guilty of bribery at the last Election 
for the said Town and County of the Town of 
Galway. 

That it was proved to the Committee that Edward 
Hynes, Thomas M‘Loughlin, William M‘ Loughlin, 
James Connor, Benjamin Matthews, Timothy Newell 
and Michael Codyre, were bribed hy Dr. James 
Valentine Browne and John Oliver. 

That David Corcoran, Malachi Maloney, John 
Duggan, Michael Murphy, Michael Codyre and 
Patrick Glyn were attempted to be bribed by Myles 
Ward. 

That it was not proved that these acts of bribery 
were committed with the knowledge or consent of 
the said Anthony O’ Flaherty. 

That the Evidence given before the Committee 
appears to establish the fact, that systematic bribery 
of certain classes of the Electors has prevailed at 
the last and former Elections for the said Towa. 
That cases of treating were proved at the last 
Election for the said Town, but the consent of the 








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Said Anthony O’ Flaherty or his Agents was not 
proved thereto. 
Ordered, That the Report 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 Oxford, in the room of 
Charles Neate, Esquire, whose Election has been 
determined to be void. 


Mr. Ingham reported from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Petition of Patteson Nickalls and Robert Henry 
Bristowe, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Lambeth; That Joseph 
Tredre had been duly summoned by the Warrant 
of the Speaker of the House of Commons to appear 
before the said Committee, and that the said Joseph 
Tredre had disobeyed the said Warrant; that such 
a disobedience having been satisfactorily proved to 
the said Committee on Saturday the 11th day of 
this instant July, and the House not being then 
sitting, by the direction of the Committee he had, 
by a Warrant under his hand, required the Serjeant- 
at-Arms to take the said Joseph Tredre into custody ; 
and the Serjeant had informed the Committee that 
he had not succeeded in apprehending the said 
Joseph Tredre. 

Resolved, That Joseph Tredre, having been duly 
summoned by the Speaker’s Warrant to attend the 
said Committee, and having disobeyed such War- 
rant, and not having appeared before the said Com- 
mittee, has been guilty of Contempt and of a Breach 
of the Privileges of this House. 

Ordered, That Joseph Tredre, having been guilty 
of Contempt and of a Breach of the Privileges of 
this House, be for his said offence taken into the 
custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this 
House; and that Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
accordingly. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. George Bu- 
chanan, as Agent for Thomas Beveridge and Na- 
thaniel Elgar Toomer, informing him that it is not 
their intention to proceed with their Petition com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Chatham:—And the said Letter was 
read, as followeth : 


Sir, Chatham, 13 July 1857. 
As Agents for Thomas Beveridge and Nathaniel 
Elgar Toomer, in the matter of their Petiticn against 
the last Election for the Borough of Chatham, re- 
ported upon the Ist day of June last, | beg to inform 
you that it is not intended to proceed with the said 

Petition. 
I have the honour to be, 
Your very obedient servant, 
George Buchanan, 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
Ge :eral Committee of Eleetions, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Mr, Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 


13° Juli. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


the 21st day of May last, I beg to inform you that 
it is not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 


James Coppock. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Netley 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of June Hospital 
last, for a Return relative to Netley Hospital. No. 174. 
Return to an Order, dated the 30th day of June Ordnance Sur. 
last, for a Return relative to Ordnance Survey vey (Durham 
(Durham and Northumberland). — 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table; and that the Return relative to Netley 
Hospital be printed. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table Coinage. 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 14th day of May last, for a Return relative 
to Coinage. 

Return to an Order, dated the 19th day of June Civil Contin- 
last, for a Return relative to Civil Contingencies. 


gencies. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Burials, Burials. 
which was presented upon the 10th day of this in- No. 175. 
stant July, be printed. 


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

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
rw 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 
“in the present position of the Ordnance Survey of Ordnance 
“ Great Britain, the Survey on the Six-inch Scale 54*YeY- 
“ ought not to be proceeded with without further 
“ inquiry ; and this House is of opinion, that an 
“humble Address should be presented to Her Ma- 
“ jesty, praying Her Majesty to be graciously pleased 
“ to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the 
“ whole subject of the National Survey, and report 
“ upon the Scale or Scales on which it should be 
‘¢ made and published,” 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.) 


1. £.109,842, to complete the Sum for Super- 
annuation Allowances and Compensations to Per- 
sons formerly employed in the Public Service. 

2. £.2,058, for Relief to Zoulonese and Corsican 
Emigrants, Saint Domingo Sufferers, Amcrican 
Loyalists, and others. 

3. £. 1,300, to complete the Sum for the Expense 
of the National Vaccine Establishment. 

4. £.325, for the Refuge for the Destitute. 





this day received a Letter from Mr. James Coppoch, 
as Agent for Dominick M‘Donogh and others, in- | 
form ng him that it is not their intention to proceed | 
with their Petition complaining of an undue Election | 
and Return for the County of Sligo :—And the said | 
Letter was read, as followeth : | 


40, Parliament-street, 
Sir, 13 July 1857. 

As Agent for Dominick M‘Donogh and others, 
Petitioners against the Return for the County of 
Sligo, in this present Parliament, in the matter of 
their Petition delivered in to the House of Commons 





5. £. 2,680, to complete the Sum for Polish Re- 
fugees, and Allowances to distressed Spaniards. 

6. £. 4,281, for Miscellaneous Allowances formerly 
defrayed from the Civil List, the Hereditary Reve- 
nues, &amp;c., and for which no permanent provision has 
been made by Parliament. 

7. £,1,895, for Treasurers of Public Infirmaries 


| in Ireland. 


8. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.3,135, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to defray 
the Expense of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, 
Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon 
















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21 Vicroriz. 


Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.1,750, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to de- 
fray the Expense of the Westmoreland Lock Hos- 
pital, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858—— 
put, and negatived. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

9. £.700, to complete the Sum for the Lying-in 
Hospital, Dublin. 

10. £.300, to complete the Sum for the Coombe 
Lying-in Hospital, Dub/in. 

11. £.4,6v0, to complete the Sum for the House 
of Industry, Dublin. 

12. £.2,500, to complete the Sum for the House 
of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-street, Dub- 
lin. 

13. £.400, to complete the Sum for the Meath 
Hospital, Dublin. 

14. £.150, to complete the Sum for Saint Mark's 
Ophthalmic Hospital, Dublin. 

15. £. 1,805, for Doctor Steevens’ Hospital, Dub- 
in. 

16. £.427, for the Board of Superintendence of 
Hospitals in Dublin. 

17. £.4,338, to complete the Sum for Charitable 
Allowances charged on the Concordatum Fund in 
Ireland, and other Allowances and Bounties formerly 
defrayed from Grants for the Lo:d Lieutenant’s 
Household, Civil Contingencies, &amp;c. 


18. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Majesty, to defray the Expense of Non-conforming, 
Seceding and Protestant Dissenting Ministers in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Non-conform- 
ing, Seceding and Protestant Dissenting Ministers 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Y or \ 41. 
eas, (Mr. Gilpin: 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hayter, 219 

Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : } . 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Sum, not exceeding £.1,600, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to pay the 
Salaries of the Theological Professors and the Inci- 
dental Expenses of the General Assembly’s College 
the Belfast Academical Institution, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.700, be granted to Her 
the Salaries of the Theological Professors and 
the Incidental Expenses of the General Assembly’s 
College at Be/fast, and Retired Allowances to Pro- 
fessors of the Be/fust Academical Institution, to the 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

20. £.575,482, to complete the Sum for the Cus- 
toms Department. 

21. £.979,133, to complete the Sum for the 

22. £.43,120, to complete the Sum for the Re- 
venue Police, Lreland, and “* Seamew ” Steamer. 

23. £. 1,268,181, to complete the Sum for Post 
Office Services, and the Collection of the Revenue. 
annuations and Compensation Allowances, Pensions, 
and other Non-effective Charges, in the Departments 
of Customs, Inland Revenue and Post Office. 

25. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of Civil Contingencies, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £. 94,597, be granted to 


13° Julit. 


305 


Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Civil Con- 
tingencies, to the 31st day of March 1858 :— 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 
Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


Agent for the Honourable Henry Handcock, and 
for Edward Hodson and Robert English, informi 
him that it is not their intention to proceed with 
their Petitions complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Baccus of Athlone :—And the 
said Letter was read, as followeth : 


Sir, Athlone, 9 July 1857. 
As Agent for the Honourable Henry Handcock, 
and for Kdward Hodson and Robert English, in the 
matter of their Petitions reported on the 25th of 
May and the 2d of June last, complaining of the 
Return for the Borough of Athlone, | beg to inform 
you that it is not intended to proceed with either of 
the said Petitions. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
J. W. Fair. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 

The Orders for referring the said Petitions to the 
General Committee of Elections, were read, and dis- 
charged. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the West Hartlepuol 
Harbour and Railway Bill, without any Amend- 
ment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Mansfield and 
Worksop Road Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Portsmouth Water 
Bill, without any Amendment: 

The Lords have agreed to the Fownhope and 
Holme Lacy Bridge Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the North Eastern 
Railway (Lanchester Valley Branch) Bill, without 
any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Ipswich Water Bill, 
without any Amendment: 

The Lords have agreed to the Margate Water 
Bill, with an Amendment; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to render more effectual the Police in Counties and 
Burghs in Scotland; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House. 


The House, a to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill (Any 
tion for the purpose of performing, or causing to be 
of the same, who shall fraudulently sell, transfer, 


fact, to his own use or benefit such property, or any 





Sum, not exceeding £.39,008, be granted to Her 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.366, be granted to 

Tellers for thef Mr. Baxter, 

19. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
at Belfast, and Retired Allowances to Professors of 
Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to pay 
31st day of March 1858——&gt;put, and negatived. 
Inland Revenue Department. 

24. £. 323,150, to complete the Sum for Super- 
a Sum, not exceeding £. 100,000, be granted to Her 

VoL. 112. 


ss 2 


person entrusted with any property of any descrip- 


performed, any work or labour upon, to, or in respect 


part 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Athlone 
this day received a Letter from Mr. J. W. Fair, as Election. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


West Hartle- 
pool Harbour 
and Railway 
Bill. 
Mansfield 
and Worksop 
Road Bill. 


Portsmouth 
Water Bill. 


Fownhope and 
Holme Lacy 
Bridge Bill. 


North Eastern 
Railway (Lan- 
chester Valley 
Brauch) Bill. 


Ipswich 
Water Bill. 


Margate 
Water Bill. 


Police (Scot- 
land) Bill, 


Fraudulent 
Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


pledge, dispose of, or convert, in point of law or of 





panne ss someestaans feses 


5 SONNE AR ye 


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306 


part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor) :— 
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. 

Then an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by leaving out Clause 10. 

And the Question being put, That Clause 10 
stand part of the Bill:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


Conveyance 
of Mails by 
Railways Bill. 


Courtof Chan- The Order of the day being read, for the second 

cery (Ireland) reading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, fur the second 
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Attornies The Order of the day being read, for the third 
und Solicitors reading of the Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial 
Cees) Dal Courts) Bill; 
: Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time after 
the other Orders of the day. 


Leases and The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Sales of Settled reading of. the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates 
Estates Act = Act Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Insurance Companies Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Insurance 
Companies 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Mutual Companies Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Mutual Com- 
panies Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Smoke Nuisance (Scot/and) Abate- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Smoke Nui- 
sance (Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 


Justices and 
Police Force 


(Dublin) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 
Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 


And the Hous: having continucd to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 
Martis, 14° die Juliit, 1857: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 


13°—14° Julii. 





A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the { Mr. Grogan, 

Noes, \Mr. Vance: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be new read a second 
time :—The Biil was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day. 


The Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill was, ac- Revising 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- (Dublin) Bill 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Bankruptcy 
consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zre- a 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; (reland) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- Pimlico Im. 
mittees on the Pimlico Improvements Bill, and the Piy"cmens 
Public Offices Extension Bill; Public Offices 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the Extension Bill, 
same Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bills, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time upon 

Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration the Municipal Corporations Bill, as Corporations 
amended in the Committee; Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this Rome do now adjourn :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 


And it being then One of the clock on Tuesday 
morning, the House accordingly adjourned till this 


day. 








Martis, 14° die Julii; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Walpole reported from the General Com- Weymouth 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members and Melcombe 
of the Select Committee appointed to try and de- Resis Election 
termine the matter of the Petitions complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, to which they had 
aunexed the Petitions referred to them by the House 
relating thereto, and the List of Voters delivered 
in to the Committee on behalf of the Petitioners : 
— William Fagan, Esquire, Thomas Berry Horsfall, 
Esquire, Sir John B. Walsh, Baronet, Henry W. 
Wickham, Esquire; Chairman, William Tatton Eger- 
ton, Esquire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Maldon 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of Election. 
the Select Committee appointed to try and determine 
the matter of the Petitions complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Maldon, to 
which they had annexed the Petitions referred to 
them by the House relating thereto :— Henry James 
Baillie, Esquire, William Edward Baxter, iisquire, 
Honourable Henry Arthur Cole, Robert Duncombe 
Shafio, Esquire; Chairman, Sir John Trollope, 
Baronet. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Mr. 











Controverted 
Elections. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 


Grand Juries 
(Metropolitan 
Police Dis- 
trict) Bill. 


ill 


ney 
ill, 


eg 
Bill, 


Lambeth 
Election. 


Superannua- 
tion Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


tion, Wills, &amp;c. of 
British Sub- 
jects Abroad 
Bill 


Mayo 
Election, 





91 Vicrort. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the amended Panels. 
Ordered, That the said Panels be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan 
Police District) Bill. 

({n the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 1. Question again proposed, That 
the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for thef Mr. Bowyer, 1 80 
Yeas, LMr. Ayrton: as 
Tellers for the {Sir Frederic Thesiger, Mier 


Noes, (Colonel Taylor : 
Question again proposed, That the Clau 
amended, stand part of the Bill. 


Se, as 


And it being ten minutes before Four of the clock, 
the Chairm:n left the Chair. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fit=- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 





eress inthe 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 Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House, in-| 
formed the House that, pursuant to their Order of | 
the 13th day of this instant July, he had taken 
Joseph Tredre into his custody. | 

Ordered, That the Serjeant-at-Arms do take the’ 
said Joseph Tredre to thé Select Committee ap-' 
pointed tu try and determine the matter of the Pe-| 
tition complaining of an undue Election and Return | 
for the Borough of Lambeth, when and so often as | 
he shall be required by the said Committee so to do. | 


The Order of the day being read, for the second | 
reading of the Superannuation Act Ainendment 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 Burial Acts Amendment Bill; . 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday | 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects Abroad 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Scholefield, from the Select Committee ap-| 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- 
tition complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the County of Mayo, informed the House, That 
the Committee had determined, 





That George Henry Moore, Esquire, is not daly 
elected a Knight of the Shire to serve in this present 
Parliament for the County of Mayo. 

That the last Election for the said County, so far’ 
as regards the Return of the said George Henry | 
Moore, Esquire, is a void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Scholefield, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

1. That George Henry Moore, Esquire, was by 
his Agents guilty of .undue influence at the last 
Election for the County of Mayo. 

VoL. 112. 





14° Julie. 307 


2. That undue influence and spiritual intimidation 
prevailed to a considerable extent at the last Election 
for the County of Mayo. 
3. That in the exercise of such undue influence 
and spiritual intimidation, the Reverend Peter Con- 
way and the Reverend Luke Ryan were so promi- 
nently active, that the Committee deem it their duty 
specially to report their conduct to the House, in 
order that such steps may be taken as may seem to 
the House to be proper and necessary. 
4. That it does not appear to the Committee that 
the said George Heury Moore, Esquire, personally 
sanctioned, or was cognisant of, the said undue in- 
fluence and spiritual intimidation. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Minutes 
before the Committee be laid before this House. —Fdered. 


Mr. Hardy, from the Select Committee appointed Bury Saint 
to try and determine the matter of the Petition of — 
James Henry Porteus Oakes, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Bury Saint 
Edmund, informed the House, That the Committee 
had determined, 

That Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Bury Saint Edmund. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Hardy, trom the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That James William Clark undertook, through 
Edward Brabrook the brother of one Joseph Bra- 
brook, to pay the sum of £.15 to the said Joseph 
Brabrook, which sum was alleged to have been 
promised to the said Joseph Brabrook for his vote 
ut a former Election. 

That the said James William Clark is proved to 
have supplied a person named Henry James with 
small sums of money, to be spent at beer-shops and 
public-houses, with the view of influencing the votes 
of the keepers of those houses. 

That a voter named William Clark was detained 
by William Scates and Henry James in a drunken 
state, and supplied with food and drink at a public- 
house during the night previous to the polling day, 
and taken up in a drunken state to poll by the said 
William Scates and Henry James, but it was not 
clearly shown to the Committee at whose expense 
the said food and drink was supplied. 

That the Evidence generally was most unsatisfac- 
tory, and disclosed venality among many Electors, 
though there was no Evidence to show that any 
bribes were given to them or promises made, except 
in the case above specified. 

Tliat the said James William Clark was proved 
to have taken an active part on behalf of the Sitting 
Member, and was not called before the Committee 
as a Witness to rebut the Evidence given respecting 
him ; but the Committee were not entirely satisfied 
that he had such authority as to call upon them to 
make the Sitting Member responsible for his acts. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Ordnance 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 5urvey- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Detailed Report of the state of the Survey 
on the 12th day of June 1857, showing, 1. The 
Names of the Parishes, either in England or Scot- 
land, of which the Maps were completed on the 
25-inch Scale, and were then ready for Reduction, 
or Publication by Engraving, or any other Copying 
process. 2. The Names of Parishes the Maps of 
which were so far advanced that the Primary and 
Secondary Triangulation had been laid down, and 
the filling-in of Detail was in Progress, on the da 
named. (If the Maps of Portions only of Parishes 
were completed, or were in the state referred to in 

ss 3 No. 2, 















308 


No. 2, the Number of Sheets so completed, or so 
far in Progress, is to be stated.) 

Ordered, That tlie said Address Le presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this eon as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That Mr. Woods have leave of absence 
for the remainder of the Session, on account of a do- 
mestic affliction. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Public Income 
and Expen- 
diture. 

No. 176. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Gross Public Income and Expendi- 
ture for the year ended the 30th day of June 1857, 
together with the Balance in the Exchequer at the 
commencement and at the termination of the year, 
and the Amount of Funded or Unfunded Debt 
created or redeemed in the said year. 

Mr. Wilson accordingly presented the said Ac- 
count. 

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


Persian 
Expedition. 
No. 177. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty’s Command,—An Estimate of the Ex- 
traordinary Expenditure on account of the Expedi- 
tion against Persia. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Criminal 
Offenders 
(Ireland. ) 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Tables showing the Number of Persons 
committed or held to Bail, for Trial at the Assizes 
and Quarter Sessions in each County in /reland, in 
the year 1856, and the Result of the Proceedings, 
with other Particulars. 

Copy of Special Report of the Inclosure Com- 
missioners, 1857. 

Copy of Thirty-fifth Report of the Inspectors- 
general, on the General State of the Prisons of Jre- 
land, 1856; with Appendices, 

Courtof Chan- Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Or- 
cery (Ireland.) der, dated the 14th day of May last, for a Return 
relative to the Court of Chancery (Jreland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of May 


Inclosure 
Commission. 


Prisons 
(Ireland.) 


Court of 
Chancery, &amp;c. 
(Ireland. ) 


Militia 
(Ireland.) 


cery, &amp;e. (Ireland). 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—A Return of 
Qualifications of Officers of Militia delivered to 
Clerks of the Peace in Jreland. 

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


Netley 


ne A Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- 
ospital, 


dress to Her Majesty, dated the 19th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Wet/ey Hospital. 
Ordnance 
Survey 
(Cumberland 
and West- 
moreland. ) 


2d day of this instant July, for a Return relative 
to Ordnance Survey (Cumberland and Westmore- 
land). 


Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the | 


Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Spirits (Jre- 
land), which was presented upon the 10th day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


Spirits 
(Ireland. ) 
No. 178. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Ordnance 
urvey (Durham and Northumberland), which was 
presented upon the 13th day of this instant July, be 
printed, 


Ordnance 
Survey 
(Durham and 
Northum.- 
berland.) 


No. 179. 


S 


wm 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coinage, 
which was presented upon the 13th day of this in- 
staut July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Civil Con- 
tinyencies, which was presented upon the 13th day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


Coinage. 
No. 180. 


Civil Contin- 
gencies. 


No, 181. 


14° Juli. 


last, for a Return relative to the Court of Chan-! 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 


A.1857. Sess. IT. 


Resolved, That in the opinion of this House, the Civil Service, 

experience acquired since the issuing of the Order 
in Council of the 21st day of May 1855, is in favour 
of the adoption of the principle of Competition as a 
condition of entrance to the Civil Service, and that 
the application of that principle ought to be extended, 
in conformity with the Resolution of the House, 
agreed to on the 24th day of April 1856. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of “he Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Deeside Extension Deeside 
Railway Bill, without any Amendment : Extension 

Railway Bill, 

The Lords have agreed to the Scoltish Central Scottish 
Railway Bill, with an Amendment; to which the ©e!ral Rail 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : adnan 

The Lords have agreed to the Tyne Improvement Tyne Im- 
Bill, with an Amendment; to which the Lords desire — 
the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Ely Tidal Harbour E!y Tidal 
‘and Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which the fae” aud 
| Lords desire the concurrence of this House : _— 
| The Lords have agreed to the Wimbledon and Wimbledon 
| Dorking Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which Haller at 
| the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : ” 

__ The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Sale of Obscene 
for more effectually preventing the Sale of Obscene ——. ec. 

| Books, Pictures, Prints and other Articles; to which — 

| the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 





| A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Privateering. 
/posed, 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 Mr. Marcy's Letter to the French Govern- 
ment, in answer to the communication of the Reso- 
lution of the Paris Conference upon the subject of 
| Privateering :—And, of-any other Papers or Seas 
| pondence that may have passed between the British 
_Government and other Powers upon the same sub- 
| ject:—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
| House, withdrawn. 
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Slave Trade 
to Her Majesty, praying that She will be graciously (Africa) 
pleased to employ all the means in Her power, in 
order to put down the African Slave Trade, and to 
obtain the execution of the Treaties made for that 
oe with other Powers. 
rdered, That the said Address be presented to 
| Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
% Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 
_ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed County and 
| to inquire into the duties, functions and mode of District Sur- 
remuneration of County and District Surveyors and Cond) 
| Assistant Surveyors in Jreland, and also as to the 
best mode of Examination t» be henceforth adopted 
in reference to such Officers, with a view to esta- 
blish a system of Competition, and secure to the 
Public the services of the best qualified Candidates. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Railways 
to enable Baronies and other Districts in Ireland (teland.) 
to give guarantees for the construction of Railways 
passing through such Districts: And that Mr. Buit 
and Mr, Beamish do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Public Health 
amend the Public Health Act, 1848, and to make Act (1848) 
further Provision for Town Improvement: And that — 
Mr. Cowper aud Mr. Monsell do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Clerks of | 
to authorize the Payment of Clerks of Petty Ses- Hetty Sissons 
sions in Ireland, by Salaries instead of Fees, and _— 
amend the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851: And 

that 

















‘om 


(th 





Loan 
Societies. 


Commons 
Inclosure. 


Valuation of 
Lands (Scot- 
land) Act 

Amendment, 


Land and 
Assessed 
Taxes, &amp;c. 
(Scotland) 
Acts Amend- 
ment. 


Sale of Corn, 
&amp;e. 


Boundaries 
of Burghs 
Extension 
(Scotland. ) 


Railway 
Traffic Act 
Amencment 
Bill. 


Falkirk 


Election. 


21 Vicroriz. 


that Mr. Herbert and Mr. Attorney-general for 
Ireland do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
revive and continue an Act to amend the Laws re- 
lating to Loan Societies: And that Mr. Massey and 
Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pur- 
suance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Com- 
missioners for England and Wales: And that Mr. 
Massey and Sir George Grey do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to amend the Act seventeenth and eighteenth of 
Victoria, for the Valuation of Lands in Scotland: 
And that Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relating to the Payment of the Land 
and Assessed Taxes, and Property and Income 
Tax in Scotland: And that Mr. Wilson and the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for uniformity of Measure in the Sale of Corn and 
other Grain: And that Mr. Adderley, ‘Mr. Child 
and Mr. Bass do prepare. and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
— for the Extension of the Boundaries of 

urghs in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and sir George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Railway Traffic Act Amendment 
Bill ; 


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


Mercurii, 15° die Julii, 1857: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“‘ this day three months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn :—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 


And it being then a quarter of an hour before 
One of the clock on Wednesday morning, the House 


accordingly adjourned till this day. 








Mercurii, 15° die Juli ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Walpole reported from the General Com- 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- 


bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and | 


determine the matter of the Petition complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the Fa/kirk Dis- 
trict of Burghs, to which they had annexed the 
Petition referred to them by the House relating 
thereto :—J. Booker Blakemore, Esquire, Robert 
Steyning Holford, Esquire, James Kershaw, Es- 
quire, Francis William Russell, squire (Limerick) ; 
Chairman, Sir John Somerset Pakington, Baronet. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Vou, 112. 


14°—15° Juliz. 








309 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Huntingdon 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of } ed 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petitions complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the County of Hun- 
tingdon, to which they had annexed the Petitions 
referred to them by the House relating thereto, and 
the Lists of Voters severally delivered in to the Com- 
mittee on behalf of the Petitioners and of the Mem- 
bers returned :—Sir Edward Dering, Baronet, 
C. Newdigate Newdegate, Esquire, Henry William 
Schneider, Esquire, William Stirling, Esquire; 
Chairman, John Morgan Cobbett, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Peterborough 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of Election. 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the City of Peter- 
borough, to which they had annexed the Petition re- 
ferred to them by the House relating thereto :— 
Charles William Grenfell, Esquire (Windsor), 
General Hall, Lord Edwin Hill, Charles Wykeham 
Martin, Esquire (W. Kent); Chairman, John Abel 
Smith, Esquire. 

Ordered, That tie Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try Weymouth 
and determine the matter of the Petitions com. and Meleombe 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the Rage neten, 
Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, were 
called over; and being come to the Table, they 
were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the Petitions and List relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Tweive of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try Maldon 
and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- Election. 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Maldon, were called over; and being come to 
the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Burslem and 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Burslem Tunstall Gas 
and Tunstall Gas Bill; and the same was twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Finsbury Park 
the Finsbury Park (No. 2) Bill, as amended in the (No.2) Bill. 
Committee. 

Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the said Bill; and that the Bill be 
read the third time To-morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
fourth Report. 
Mr. Herbert presented a Bill to authorize the Clerks of 

Payment of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, ae mg 
by Salaries instead of Fees, and to amend the (ena - 
Petty Sessions (Jreland) Act, 1851: And the same Bill 117. 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 

second time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to revive and con- Loan Societies 
tinue an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Bill. 
Societies: And the same was read the first time; Bill 118. 

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310 


and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow ; 
and to be printed. 


Sale of Corn, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Bill 119. 


Mr. Adderley presented a Bill for uniformity of 
Measure in the Sale of Corn and other Grain: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed, 


Commons 
Inclosure Bill. 


Bill 120. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to authorize the In- 
closure of certain Lands, in pursuance of a Special 
Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England 
and Wales: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow ; 
and to be printed. 


Falkirk 


A Petition of James Merry, Esquire, alleging that 
Election. 


the Falkirk Election Petition presented to the 
House is not the Petition in respect of which the 
Recognizanee dated the 19th of May was en- 


tered into, but that an entirely new and different | 
Petition was presented, being the Petition before | 


the House; or, if not an entirely new Petition, that 
the Petition presented is so obliterated, altered and 
erased, as to render not only the said Recognizance 
null and void, but also to invalidate-and make the 
said Petition of no force or effect ; and praying for 
inquiry, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock; 
and be printed. 


Sligo Borough 


} A Petition of John Putrick Somers, Esquire, 
Election. 


15° Jultz. 





A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do now leave the Chair——put, and agreed to. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Married Women Bill; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the{ Sir Erskine Perry, 
Yeas, UMr. Monckton Milnes: 
Tellers for the (Sir John Yarde Buller, 
Noes, Mr. Spooner : 
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. 


Married 
Women Bill, 





}20. 


1 os, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Scientific 
into a Committee on the Scientific and Literary plese A 
Societies Bill. cieties Bi 


(In the Committee.) 





stating that actions have been brought and_pro- 
secuted in the Court of Queen's Bench in Jreland 
by Charles Sedley and James Ferguson, against the 
Returning Officer for the Borough of Sligo, for re- 
fusing their Votes at the last Election for that Bo- 
rough; and judgments have been obtained therein, 
being the same charges as are contained in the Pe- 
tition complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for that Borough, and yet to be tried and determined 
by a Committee of the House; and praying the 
House to take the premises into consideration, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock ; 
and be printed. 





Industrial 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Schools Bill. 


consideration the Industrial Schools Bill,as amended 
in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion To-morrow. 


Mayo 
Election. 
No. 182, 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
mittee on the Mayo Election Petition. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence be 
printed. 


Election 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
Vetitions Bill. 


resolve itself into a Committee on the Election Pe- 
titions Bill. 


Judgments The House, according to Order, resolved. itself 
—_— into a Committee on the Judgments Execution, &amp;c. 


Bil’. 
(In the Committee.) 


Ciausz, N° 9. Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 


Crause, N° 2, Amendment again proposed, in 
p. 2, 1. 14: To leave out the words “ Science, Litera- 
“ ture.” 

Question put, That the words “ Science, Litera- 
“ ture,” stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ a se — 1; }131. 


{ Mr. Spooner, 81 
"Mr. John Locke : } , 
Another Amendment proposed, same line: To 
leave out the word “ Education.” 
Question put, That the word “ Education” stand 
part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 


' Mr. Hult, 
Tellers for the Yeas,| yy, William Ewart J 82. 


Tellers for the Noes,J Mr. Spooner, f1ll. 


Tellers for the Noes 


\Mr. Hardy : 
Another Amendment proposed, same line: After 
the word “the,” to insert the word “ fine.” 
Question put, That the word “fine” be there 
inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the Yeas, he Py sig } 97. 
tii Mr. Hutt, 
Tellers for the Noes, {M. William Ewart: § 9° 
Another Amendment proposed, same line: After 
the word “ Arts” to insert the words “ or elemen- 
“ tary instruction.” 
Question, ‘That those words be there inserted—— 
put, and negatived. 
Another Amendment proposed, same line: After 
the word “ Arts” to insert the word ‘‘ exclusively.” 
Question put, That the word “exclusively” be 
there inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the Yeas,/ air. ssavey A jaa, 
(Mr. Spooner : 
Mr. Hutt, } oe 
Mr. William Ewart: 7 
Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do now leave the Chair——put, and agreed to. 


Tellers for the Noes, 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 





Tellers for the 2 bg te } 33. 
; Mr. Craufurd, 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr Dunlop 2 } 58, 


The 











Medical and 
Surgical Sci- 
ences (Queen’s 
University) 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Medical 
Profession 
(No. 1) Bill. 


Supply. 


Court of Chan- 
cery (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Smoke Nui- 

sance (Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 


Bill 121. 


Grand Juries 
(Metropolitan 
Police Dis- 
trict) Bill. 


Tenant Right 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


Supply. 


Superannua- 
tion Allow- 
ances, &amp;c, 


Toulonese 
and Corsican 
Emigrants, &amp;c. 


National 
Vaccine Esta- 
blishment, 


Refuge for the 
Destitute, 


Polish 
Refugees, &amp;c. 


Miscellaneous 
Allowances. 


21 VicrToRizZ. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Medical aiid Surgical Sciences 
(Queen’s University) (Jre/and) 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 on the Medical Profession (No. 1) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, ‘\hat the Bill be withdrawn. 


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 Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Court of Chancery (Zreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Smoke Nuisance (Scot/and) 
Abatement Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Thornely 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police 
District) 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 
reading of the Tenant Right (Jreland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking 
into consideration the Reformatory Schools Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Friday next. 


Mr. Grey reported from the Committee of Supply, 
several Resolutions ; which were read, as follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 109,842, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray the Charge of Superannuation Allow- 
ances and Compensations to Persons formerly em- 

loyed in the Public Service, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

2. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 2,058, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to enable Her Majesty to grant 
Relief, to the 31st day of March 1858, to Toulonese 
and Corsican Emigrants, Saint Domingo Sufferers, 
American Loyalists, and others who have heretofore 
received Allowances from Her Majesty. 

3. That aSum, not exceeding £.1,300, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to 
defray the Expense of the National Vaccine Esta- 
blishment, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

4, That a Sum, not exceeding £.325, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards the support of “ The Refuge 
for the Destitute,” to the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,680, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary for 
Payment of the Subsistence of the Polish Refugees, 
al Allowances to distressed Spaniards, to the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,281, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of March 
1858, Miscellaneous Allowances formerly defrayed 
from the Civil List, the Hereditary Revenues, &amp;c., 
and for which no permanent provision has been made 
by Parliament. 

Vou. 112. 


15° Julzz. 





311 


7. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,895, be granted Treasurers of 
to Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of March I»firmaries 
1858, to the Treasurers of Public Infirmaries in Jre- (Setend.) 
land, the Allowances granted under certain Acts of 
Parliament. 

8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.3,135, be granted Westmoreland 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary to Lock Hospital 
defray the Expense of the Westmoreland Lock Hos- — 
pital, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.700, be granted Lying-in Hos- 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary Pital (Dublin.) 
towards defraying the Expense of the Lying-in 
Hospital, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 300, be granted Coombe 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary Lying-in Hos- 
towards defraying the Expense of the Coumbe Pit! Dublin.) 
Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,600, be House of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Industry 
sary to defray the Fxpense of the Hospitals of the (P8™&gt; 
House of Industry, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

12. That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,500, be Heuse of 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Recovery, &amp;c. 
sary towards defraying the Expense of the House _—— 
of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-street, Dublin, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 400, be granted Meath Hos- 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary Pital (Dublin.) 
towards defraying the Expense of the Meath Hes- 
pital, Dublin, to the 31st cay of March 1858. 

14. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 150, be granted Saint Mark's 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum necessary Ophthalmic 
towards defraying the Expense of Saint Mark’s (Dublin) 
Ophthalmic Hospital, Dublin, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,805, be Doctor 
granted to Her Majesty, towards detraying the Ex- — 
pense of Doctor Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, to the (Dublin. 
31st day of March 1858. 

16. That a Sum, not exceeding £.427, be granted Board of 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Board Superintend- 
of Superintendence of Heapleal in Dublin, to the pitals(Dublin.) 
31st day of March 1858. 

17. That a Sum, not exceeding £.4,338, be Charitable 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- Allowances, 
sary to pay, to the 31st day of March 1858, Chari- “TS ) 
table Allowances charged on the Concordatum Fund 
in Jreland, and other Allowances and Bounties 
formerly defrayed from Grants for the Lord Lieu- 
tenant’s Household, Civil Contingencies, &amp;c. 

18. That a Sum, not exceeding £.39,008, be Nor-zonform- 

ranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of ing, Xe. 
Henancheoninn, Seceding, and Protestant Dissent- (Ireland) 
ing Ministers in Jreland, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 

19. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,600, be Theological 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- (Belfaet,)” &amp;e. 
sary to pay the Salaries of the Theological Professors 
and the Incidental Expenses of the General As- 
sembly’s College at Belfast, and Retired Allowances 
to Professors of the Belfast Academical Institution, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

2u. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 575,482, be Customs 
eranted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- Department. 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Customs Department, which will come in course of 
payment during the year ending the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

21. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 979,133, be Inland 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- oo 
cessary to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the ; 
Inland Revenue Department, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

22. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 43,120, be Revenue Police 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- (Irelanc.) 
cessary to defiay the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Revenue Police, Zreland, and “ Seamew” Steamer, 

TT which 





Post-office 
Services. 


Superannua- 
tions, &amp;c. 


— 
partments.) 


Civil Con- 
tingencies. 


Justices and 
Police Force 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Bankruptcy 
and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Summary 
Proceedings 
before Justices 
of the Peace 


ill, 


Illicit Distilla~ 
tion (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 
tions, &amp;c. Bill. 


Savings Banks 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill Chamber 
Scotland) 
Lill. 


Land Tax 
Commission- 
ers’ Names 
Bill. 


312 


which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending the 31st day of March 1858. 

23. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,268,181, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum _ne- 
cessary to defray the Charges for Post-office Services, 
and the Collection of the Revenue, which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending the 
31st day of March 1858. 

24. That a Sum, not exceeding £.323,150, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum ne- 
cessary to defray the Charge for Superannuations and 
Compensation Allowances, Pensions, and other Non- 
effective Charges, in the Departments of Customs, 
Inland Revenue, and Post-office, which will come 
in course of payment during the year ending the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

25. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 100,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
Civil Contingencies, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

The first twenty-four Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

The last of the said Resolutions being read a 
second time; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 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- 
mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) 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 
consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zre- 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 
of the Peace Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Illicit Distillation (Jre/and) Bill; 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill; 

Resolved, ‘Vhat 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 Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public Works (Jrelund) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The 8ill Chamber (Scotland) Bill was, according 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, Vhat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names 
Bill; 

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


15° Juliz. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Public Health 
mittee on the Public Health Act (Aldershott) Bill; Act (Alder. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- *8°t? Bill 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Militia Ballots Suspension Bill was, according Militia Ballots 
to Order, read the third time. Suspension 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. om. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Fast Quay 
mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill; Wall Tax — 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- (&gt;in) Bill. 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Glebe Lands (Jreland) Bill was, according Glebe Lands 
to Order, read the third time. (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bourdaries 
mittee on the Boundaries of Land (Jreland) Bill; - — Bill 
Resolved, That this House wili, To-morrow, &gt; 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Lord Advocate reported from the Committee gtamp Acts. 
on the Stamp Acts, several Resolutions ; which were 
read, as follow : 

1. That, upon the admission as an Attorney or 
Solicitor in any Court of Law or Equity in England 
of any person who shall have been previously ad- 
mitted an Attorney or Solicitor in any Court of Law 
or Equity in any of Her Majesty’s Colonies or De- 
pendencies, there shall be paid to Her Majesty, in 
addition to the Stamp Duty now payable on any 
such admission as first aaa such further 
Stamp Duty as, together with the amount of Stamp 
Duty paid on Articles of Clerkship and admission 
as an Attorney or Solicitor in such Colony or De- 
pendency, shall be equal in amount to the Duty 
payable at the time of the said first mentioned 
admission on Articles of Clerkship in order to any 
such admission in England. 

2. That there shall be paid for every License to 
keep a Private Lunatic Asylum in Scotland a Stamp 
Duty of Ten shillings. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Grand Juries 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords (Ireland) -_ 
to the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend-  ~— " 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Cruelty to 
reading of the Cruclty to Animals Act Amendment —— as 
. mendment 
Bill ; ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Attornies 
reading of the Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial —— 
Courts) Bill ; Courts) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Superannua- 


: “| . ats tion Act 
as of the Superannuation Act Amendment yn 
? 


Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 








morrow. 
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91 VicToriz. 


Lambeth Mr. Ingham, from the Select Committee appointed 
Biection. to try and determine the matter of the Petition of 
Patteson Nickhalls and Robert Henry Bristowe, com- 
laining of an undue Election and Return for the 
| of Lambeth, informed the House, That the 
Committee had determined, 
That William Roupell, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Lambeth. 
And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 
Mr. Ingham, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Petition of 
Patteson Nickalls and Robert Henry Bristowe was 
frivolous and vexatious. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Peterborough Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

este. this day received a Letter from Mr. S. M. Crosse, 
as Agent for George Hammond Whalley, informing 
him that it is not his intention to proceed with his 
Petition complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the City of Peterborough :—And the said 
Letter was read, as followeth : 


20, Great George-street, 
Sir, Westminster, 15th July 1857. 


As Agent for George Hammond Whalley, Es- 
quire, in the matter of his Petition delivered on the 
2ist day of May last, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the City or ‘Borough of 
Peterborough, | hereby beg to inform you that it is 
not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
Sl. Massey Crosse. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 
Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition. 


Totnes 
Election. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Messrs. Baxter, 
Rose and Norton, as Agents for James Thompson 
Mackenzie, Esquire, informing him that it is not 
his intention to proceed with his Petition com- 
—— of an undue Election and Return for the 

orough of Totnes :—And the said Letter was read, 
as followeth : 

3, Park-street, Westminster, 
Sir, July 15, 1857. 

As Agents for James Thompson Mackenzie, Es- 
quire, in the matter of his Petition presented on the 
19th day of May last, complaining of the Return 
for the Borough of Totnes, we beg to inform you 
that it is not intended to proceed with such Peti- 
tion. 

We have the honour to remain, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
Baxter, Rose and Norton. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 

The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and 
discharged. 


Landand As- Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to amend the Laws 
sessed Taxes, D 


&amp;e. (Scotlanay telating to the Payment of the Land and Assessed 
Acts on ng Taxes, and Property and [ncome Tax, in Scotland : 
ment Bill. And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 


Bill 122. to be read a second time To-morrow; and to be 
printed. 
Valuation of _ Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to amend the Act 
— seventeenth and eighteenth of Victoria, for the Va- 
Amendment luation of Lands in Scotland: And the same was 
Bill read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
Bill 123, time To-morrow; and to be printed. 


Vou. 112. 


15°—16° Julia. 


313 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to amend the Public Public Health 
Health Act, 1848, and to make further Provision Act (1848) 
for Town Improvement: And the same was read the — 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time Bill 124. 


upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Turnpike Acts 
to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain ; Continuance. 
And that Mr. Massey and Sir George Grey do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Highways. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing the particulars of the Re- 
ceipts and Expenditure on account of the Highways 
in each County of England and Wales for the year 
ending the 25th day of March 1855, made out in the 
form required by the Act 12 &amp; 13 Vic. c. 35, dis- 
tinguishing Cities, Boroughs, Towns, Boards of 
Health, and Places under Local Acts from the ordi- 
nary Highways. 

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. Massey presented a Bill to continue certain Turnpike Acts 
Turnpike Acts in Great Britain: And the same was Continuance 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a seccnd Bill 195 
time upon Friday next; and to be printed. . : 


The Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Prevention Bill Sale of Obscene 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a Books, &amp;e. 


second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. — 


And it being Six of the clock, Mr. Speaker Bill 126. 
adjourned the House till To-morrow, without 
putting the Question. 





Jovis, 16° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
M R. Walpole reported from the General Com- Queen's 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- oe 
bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and — 
determine the matter of the Petition complaining of 
an undue Election and Return forthe Queen’s County, 
to which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto :—Beriah Bot- 
field, Esquire, James Wentworth Buller, Esquire, 
George Cornwall Legh, Esquire, Sir John Ogilvy, 
Baronet; Chairman, Lord Robert Grosvenor. — 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Australian 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Austra- 7 mnt A 
lian Agricultural Company Bill ; and the same were _—— 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Margate 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Margate Water Bill. 
Water Bill; and the same was twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


The Besselsleigh Road Bill was read the third Besselsleigh 
penny Road Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 





Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


TT2 + Campbell's 





Campbell's 
Divorce Bill. 


Fleming’s 
Estate Bill. 


Ley’s Divorce 


Finsbury Park 


(No. 2) Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 


fifth Report. 


Galway Town 


Election. 


Falkirk 
Election. 


Huntingdon 
County 
Election. 


314 16° Julii. 


Campbell's Divorce Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Fleming’s Estate Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. , 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That Ley’s Divorce Bill be read the 
third time To-morrow. 


The Finsbury Park (No. 2) Bill was, according 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Galway Town 
Election Petition be laid before this House. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Fal- 
kirk District of Burghs, were called over; and 
being come to the Table, they were sworn by the 
Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the 
County of Huntingdon, were called over; and Sir 
Edward Dering not being in the House, Mr. 
Speaker informed the House, that he had received a 
Letter from Sir Edward Dering, stating that his 
health rendered him incapable of a protracted at- 
tendance upon the Committee ; and that Dr. Latham 
was prepared to give Evidence at the Bar, that his 
attendance from day to day would materially injure 
his health :—And the said Letter was read, as fol- 
loweth : 


Sir, House of Commons, July 14, 1857. 

I have been selected by the General Committee 
to serve on the Huntingdon Election Committee, 
and I beg to submit to you some reasons why I ven- 
ture to hope that the House may be pleased to dis- 
pense with my attendance. I was sent abroad last 
year on account of my health, and the result is, that 
am now quite competent to discharge the ordinary 
duties of attendance in the House; but as the Hun- 
tingdon Committee involves a scrutiny of a very 
protracted nature, [ think it only fair towards the 
Committee, as well as to myself, to express my 
conviciion that I am not at this moment physically 
capable of undergoing the labour attendant on a 
lengthened investigation. My medical adviser (Dr. 
Latham) is prepared to state at the Bar of the 
House, that he is clearly of opinion that a close at- 
tendance from day to day for a considerable period 
would materially injure my health, and be likely to 
bring back those infirmities for which he sent me 
abroad last year. Under these circumstances, Sir, 
I beg to leave my case entirely in the hands of the 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


House, and to express my entire readiness to abide 
cheerfully by their decision. 
I have the honour to remain, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Edward Cholmy. Dering. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker, 
c &amp;e. &amp;c. 


Whereupon Dr. Latham was called in, and came 


to the Bar :—And then he withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Dr. Latham be again called in ; 
Sir Edward Dering entered the House, and in his 
lace stated that his health was such as to disable 
im from a lengthened service upon the Committee, 
but entirely submitted himself to the House. 
And the Question being put, That Dr. Latham be 
again called in :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Dr. Latham was accordingly called in, and exa- 
mined upon oath in relation to the health of Sir 
Edward Dering :—And then he withdrew. 
A Motion was made, and the Question was 
proposed, That the attendance of Sir Edward De- 
ring upon the said Committee be dispensed with, 
and that the said Committee shall be taken to be 
discharged :—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, suffi- 
cient cause has been shown to this House why the 
attendance of Sir Edward Dering, as a Member 
of the said Committee, should be dispensed with. 


Esquire, which was presented upon the 15th day of 
this instant July, relative to the Falkirk Election; 
and the same was again read. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That it be an Instruction to the General 
Committee of Elections, that they do appoint a 
Select Committee, consisting of Five Members, to 
consider the case of the Petition of James Merry, 
Esquire, relative to the Falkirk Burghs, presented 
on the 15th instant, and to whom the said Petition 
shall be referred:—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 

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


Somers, Esquire, which was presented upon the 
15th day of this instant July, relative to the Sligo 
Borough Election ; and the same was again read. 

Another Petition of John Patrick Somers, Es- 
quire, Member of Parliament for the Borough of 
Sligo, stating, that in his Petition presented on the 
15th instant, he alleged as a fact that an Action 
had been brought in the Court of Queen’s Bench in 
Ireland by Charles Sedley against John M’Gowan, 
Returning Officer of the Borough of Sligo, for un- 
fairly rejecting the vote of the said Charles Sedley 
at the last Election for that Borough ; that the Pe- 
tition complaining of the Return of that Election, 
alleges that the Shane of Sligo did, at the last 
Election, unfairly reject votes which ought to have 
been received; that he has seen a Copy of the 
Plaint filed in the said Court, and that it appears 
that the Action was brought as stated; that at the 
trial of the said Action the whole proceedings at 
the Election were made matters of discussion and 
evidence; that at the Trial the Attorney for the 
Plaintiff stated that he had brought the Action at 
the expense of the Right honourable John Wynne, 
and that he had received £.100 from him to cover his 
expenses ; and that the Petitioner has this morning 
received information that application has been made 
to the Judge at Sligo for liberty to send up Bills of 
Indictment against the Mayor and some of the poll- 
clerks for a conspiracy to procure his Return ; and 








praying for inquiry, was also presented, and -_" 
he 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Falkirk 
take into consideration the Petition of James Merry, Election. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Sligo Borough 
take into consideration the Petition of John Patrick Election. 














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Q1 Vicroriz. 


The House was moved, That the Entry in the 
Journal of the Proceedings of the House of the 
26th day of January 1703, in relation to the Ayles- 
dury Election, might be read; and the same was 
read, as followeth : 

“Mr. Freeman (according to Order) re- 
ported from the Committee of the whole House, 
to whom it was referred to consider of the 
Report of the Journals of the House of Lords, 
touching the case of Ashby and White, and the 
ease of Barnardiston and Soame, the Resolu- 
tions, which they had directed him to report to 
the House; which he read in his place, and 
afterwards delivered in at the Clerk’s Table; 
where the same were read, aud are as follow; 
viz.: 

« Resolved, That it is the opinion of this 
Committee, That, according to the known laws 
and usage of Parliament, it is the sole right 
of the Commons of England, in Parliament 
assembled (except in cases otherwise provided 
for by Act of Parliament) to exumine and 
cetermine all matters relating to the right of 
Election of their own Members. 

‘© Resolved, That it is the opiuion of this 
Committee, That, according to the known laws 
and usage of Parliament, neither the qualifica- 
tion of any Elector or the right of any person 
elected, is cognizable or determinable else- 
where than before the Commons of England, in 
Parliament assembled, except in such cases as 
are specially provided for by Act of Parliament. 

“ Resolved, That it is the opinion of this 
Committee, That the examining and determi- 
ning the qualification or right of any Elec- 
tor, or any person elected to serve in Parlia- 
ment, in any Court of Law or elsewhere than 
before the Commons of England in Parliament 
assembled (except in such c#ses as are spe- 
cially provided for by Act of Parliament), will 
expose all mayors, bailiffs and other officers 
who are obliged to take the poll, and make a 
return thereupon, to multiplicity of actions, 
vexatious suits, and insupportahle expenses, 
and will subject them to different and inde- 
pendent jurisdictions, and inconsistent determi- 
nations in the same case, without relief. 

“ Resolved, That it is the opinion of this 
Committee, That Mathew gf om having in 
contempt of the jurisdiction of this House com- 
menced and prosecuted an action at Common 
Law against William White and others, the Con- 
stables of Aylesbury, for not receiving his vote 
at an Election of Burgesses to serve in Parlia- 
ment for the said Borough of Aylesbury, is guilty 
of a Breach of the Privilege of this House. 

“5, Resolved, That it is the opinion of this 
Committee, That whosoever shall presume to 
commence or prosecute any action, indictment 
or information at Common Law, which shall 
bring the right of the Electors, or persons 
elected to serve in Parliament, to the determi- 
nation of any other jurisdiction than that of 
the House of Communs (except in cases spe- 
cially provided for by Act of Parliament), stich 
person and persons, and all attorucys, solicitors, 
counsellors and serjeants-at-law, soliciting, pro- 
secuting or pleading in any such case, are 
guilty of a high breach of the Privilege of this 
House. 

“The 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th Resolutions, being 
severally read a second time, were, upon the 
Question severally put thereupon, agreed unto 
by the House. 

“The 5th Resolution being read a second 
time ; 

“ An Amendment was proposed to be made 
thereunto, by leaving out ‘at Common Law.’ 

“ And the same was, upon the Question put 
thereupon, agreed unto by the House. 

Vou, 112. 





16° Juliz. 315 


“ Resolved, That the House doth agree with 
the Committee in the said Resolution, so 
amended, That whoever shall presume to com- 
wence or prosecute any Action, Indictment, or 
Information, which shall bring the right of the 
electors, or persons elected to serve in Parlia- 
ment, to the determination of any other juris- 
diction than that of the House of Commons 
(except in cases specially provided for by Act 
of Parliament), such person and persons, and 
all attorneys, solicitors, counsellors and serjeants- 
at-law, soliciting, prosecuting, or pleading in 
any such case, are guilty of a high breach of the 
Privilege of this House. 

“ Ordered, That the said Resolutions be fixed 
upon Westminster Hall Gate, signed by the 
Clerk.” 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the proper Officer of the Court of 
Queen’s Bench in Jreland do forthwith return to this 
House, Copies of the Summons and Plaint, and 
other proceedings in tne Action that now is or was 
lately depending in that Court, in which Charles 
Sedley is Plaintiff, and John M‘Gowan, Mayor of the 
Town of S/igo, is Defendant ; and also Copies of the 
same in the Action in which James Ferguson is 
Plaintiff, and the same Juhn M‘ Gowan is Defendant. 

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 
“ Petitions of John Putrick Somers, Esquire, pre- 
“ sented upon the 15th and 16th days of this instant 
“ July, be referred to a Select Committee to inquire 
“ into the matters stated therein, and to report their 
“ opinion, how far there are any circumstances in the 
“ case affecting the Privileges of this House,” instead 
thercof. 

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 
“ Petitions of John Patrick Somers, Esquire, pre- 
“ sented upon the 15th and 16th days of this instant 
“ July, be referred to a Select Committee to inquire 
“ into the matters stated therein, and to report their 
“ opinion, how far there are any circumstances in 
“ the case affecting the Privileges of this House,” be 
added instead thereof:—It was resolved in the Af- 
firmative. ‘ 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Petitions of John Patrick 
Somers, Esquire, presented upon the 15th and 16th 
days of this instant July, be referred to a Select 
Committee, to inquire into the matters stated therein, 
and to report their opinion, how far there are any 
circumstances in the case affecting the Privileges of 
this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Lunatics 
into a Committee on the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill. —— 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cuauses, N° 1 to N° 12, with Amendments to 
five of them, agreed to. 

Cuavuse, N° 13 (Secretary to be appointed). 

Proposed, in p. 7,1. 32: To fill the blank with 
“ Eight hundred pounds.” 

Afterwards proposed to fill the blank with “ Five 
“ hundred pounds.” 

Question, That the blank be filled with “ Five 
“ hundred pounds” put, and agreed to. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crausses, N° 14 to N° 16, with an Amendment 
to one of them, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 17 (Appointment and duties of In- 
spector-general). 

Amendments made. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill. 

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the Chairman left the Chair. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Assessments 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


Banking Bill. 
Bill 128. 


Westminster 
Improvements 
(No. 3) Bill. 


Army Pro- 
motions. 


Army Medical 


Expenses, 


Vessels and 
Tonnage, &amp;c. 


Queen's 
County 
Election. 


Tea and Sugar. 


No. 184. 


And it being ten minutes before Four of the clock, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Litz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
= 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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; 

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


The Assessments (Scotland) Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Banking Bill ; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Tuesday next, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Egerton reported from the Committee on the 
Westminster Improvements (No. 3) Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, but the same had not been proved 
to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Army Promotions. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
5th day of June last, for a Return relative to Army 
Medical Expenses. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Retuin to an Order, dated 
the 19th day of June last, for a Return relative to 
Vessels and Tcnnage, &amp;e. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. James Coppock, 
as Agent for Robert Hamilton Stulber, Edmund 
Staples and Thomas Mara Kilroake, informing him 
that it is not their intention to proceed with their 
Petition complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the Queen’s County :—And the said Letter 


was read, as followeth : 
40, Parliament-street, 


16° Juliz. 


A. 1857. Sess. IL. 


Sir Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty’s Navy. 
Command,—Supplementary Estimate of Her Ma- No, 183, 


jesty’s Navy, for the year 1857-58. 


Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Australian 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Colonies. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Correspondence between the 
Australian Colonists in London and the Colonial 
Office, on the subject of a Federal Association of the 
Australian 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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Municipal 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Corporations. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing, in detail, Receipts and 
Expenditure by Municipal Corporations in England 
and Wales, on account of Public Works and Im- 
provements : 

City or Borough of 








Nature of the £.s. d. Sources of Income. £. s. d, | Authorizing 
Work. Statute ¢ 
Public Buildings = - Borough or other Rate on 
Harbours - - a Rental of at 
Docks - - = inf. - = - 
Wharfs - - - Dues on Articles of Con- 
Piers - - - sumption - : 
Bridges - - - Port Dues and Light 
New Streets - - Charges - - - 
Sewers - - - Tolls and Market Dues - 
Paving - - - Real and Personal Fstate 
Lighting - - in Trust for Municipal 
Other Works - - Purposes - - - 
Fees - - - ° 
Other specified sources of 
Ineome - - - 














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. 


Ordered, That Sir John Carnac have leave of Leave of 
absence for a fortnight, on account of ill health ;— Absence. 
and Mr. Dobbs a fortnight, on account of a domestic 
affliction. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Maidstone 
before the Select Committee on the Maidstone Elec- Election. 
i tion Petition be laid before this House. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Galway Town 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to Writ. 
the Clerk of the Crown in Jre/and, to make out a 











16 July 1857. 

As Agent for Robert Llamilton Stubber and others, 
Petitioners against the last Election and Return tor 
Queen’s County, reported the Ist day of June last, 
I beg to inform you that it is not intended to proceed 
with their said Petition. 


Sir, 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obt. servt., 
James Coppoch. 
To the Right Honorable the Speaker 
0° the House of Commons. 


Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts relating to the Consumption of Tea and 
Sugar in the United Kingdom. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Accounts. 

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





new Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Town of Galway, 
‘in the room of Anthony O’ Flaherty, Esquire, whose 
| Election has been determined to be void ; 
| 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 Writ for the Town of Galway be suspended 
| until Thursday next,” 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 the Writ for the Town of Galway 
be suspended until Thursday next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do not issue his Mayo Writ. 
Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, 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 Mayo, before Thursday next. 7 
1e 













































21 Vieroria”. 


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

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 
“the War with Persia was declared, prosecuted and 
“concluded without information of such transac- 
“tions being communicated to Parliament; while | 
“expensive armaments were equipped without | 
“the sanction of a vote of this House,” instead | 
thereof. 

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

nd the House having continued to sit till after | 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 17° die Julit, 1857: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {rn r. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the( Mr. Roebuck, 
Noes, \Mr. Ayrton: 
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. FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the matter to them referred, and that he was di- 
rected 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. 


. Supply. 


War with 
Persia. 








}ss2. 
38. 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

Banff, Macduff The Lords have agreed to the Banff, Macduff 
and Turriff — and Turriff Extension Railway Bill, without any 


Extension 
Railway Bill. Amendment : 


Stockton The Lords have agreed to the Stockton New Gas 
pt ~ and Stockton Gas Consumers’ Companies Bill, with- 
Consumers’ out anv Amendment : 

Companies 

Bill. 

Banff, Portsoy The Lords have agreed to the Banff, Portsoy and 


and Strathisla 
Railway Bill. 


Stamford and 
Essendine 
Railway Bill. 


Strathisla Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Stamford and 
Essendine Railway Bill, with an Amendment; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Glasgow City and 
Suburban Gas Bill, with Amendments ; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Briton Ferry 


Glasgow City 
and Suburban 
Gas Bill, 


Briton Ferry 


Docks Bill. Docks Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: 

Victoria The Lords have agreed to the Victoria (London) 

fonder) Docks Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

Duchy of The Lords give leave to His Grace the Duke of 

ee. Newcastle to attend the Select Committee of this 


House on the Duchy of Lancaster ( Bertolacci's Pe- 
tion), and to give evidence before the said Select 
Committee : 

The Lords request, that this House will give 
leave to the Viscount Goderich and the Right 
honourable William Ewart Gladstone, Members of 
this House, to attend the Select Committee of their 
Lordships “on the operation of the Coalwhippers 
Act, 14 &amp; 15 Vic., and on the state of the Trade of 
Coalwhipper since the expiration of said Act,” and 
to give evidence before the said Select Committee. 
VoL. 112, 


Petition. ) 


Coalwhippers. 


16°—17° Juliz. 


317 


And Mr. Gladstone, being present in his place, de- 
clared that he was willing, with leave of the House, 
to go to the House of Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships. 

Resolved, That the Right honourable William 
Ewart Gladstone 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 the Right honourable William Ewart Gladstone 
togo to the House of Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships, if he think fit: And that the Clerk do carry 
the said Message. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Supply. 
take into consideration the last of the Resolutions 
which, upon the 15th day of this instant July, were 


reported from the Committee of Supply; and the 


same was again read, as followeth: 

25. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 100,000, be Civil Con- 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of “™sencies. 
Civil Contingencies, to the 31st day of March 
1848. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Mlicit Distilla- 
reading of the Illicit Distillation (Jreland) Bill; _ tion (Ireland) 
P Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this = 

ay. 


The Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill was, according Fraudulent 
to Order, read the third time. Trustees, &amp;c. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. = 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Land Tax 
mittee on the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Commission- 
Bill : ~~ Names 
_ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day heing read, for the second Insurance 
reading of the Insurance Companies Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Mutual Com- 
reading of the Mutual Companies Bill ; panies Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Dulwich College Bill was, according to Dulwich 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a College Bill. 
Select Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; of Health Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Edinburgh, 
reading of the Edinburgh, Canongate and Mon- V2nonsite 
5 ‘ a, é and Montrose 
trose Annuity Tax Abolition Bill ; Annuity Tax 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Abolition Bill. 


upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Burial Acts 
mittee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; — 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at’ 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills, &amp;c. of 


mittee on the Wills, &amp;c., of British Subjects Abroad British Sub- 
Bill ; jects Abroa} 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 





next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
TT 4 The 








318 


Loan Societies The Loan Societies Bill was, according to Order, 


Bill. read a second time; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 
Commons The Commons Inclosure Bill was, according to 


Inclosure Bill. Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Courtof Chan- The Order of the day being read, for the second 
—f (Ireland) yeading of the Court of Chancery (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Grand Juries The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


——— mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police 
trict) Bil. District) Bill; 


Resolved, That this House wil, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Justices and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Police Force mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 
(Dublin) Bill. Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

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 put, That Mr. Speaker 
do now leave the Chair :—It passed in the Negative. 

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


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill ; 

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


Bankruptcy The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
and Insolvency i ti "to 
(ireland) BIL consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Zre 


land) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day. 


Public Works The Public Works (Jreland) Bill was, according 
(Ireland) Bill. to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


Public Health 
Act (Alder- 
shott) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Health Act (Aldershott) Bill; 

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


East Quay 
Wall Tax 
(Dublin) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the East Quay Wal! Tax (Dublin) Bill; 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
nto a Committee on the Boundaries of Land (TIre- 
‘and) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the | 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. | 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a} 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Boundaries 
of Land 
(Irelana) Bill. 


Bill 129. 


Land and As- 
sessed ‘Taxes, 
&amp;c. (Scotland) 
Acts Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Land and Assessed Taxes, Kc. (.Scot- 
land) Acts Amendment Bill; 

: Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


Valuation of | The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Lan is (Scot- peading of the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act 
poet Amendment Bill ; 
Bil, Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 


day. 


16°—17° Julti. 














~ A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Grand Juries 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords (Ireland) Act 
to the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act (1836) Amend- ees) Amsend. 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Adulteration 
reading of the Adulteration of Food or Drink Bill; of Food or 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ?™"* Bil 
upon Thursday the 30th day of this instant July. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Industrial 
into consideration the Industrial Schools Bill, as Schools Bill. 
amended in the Committee. Bill 130. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill (In 
every Industrial School a book shall be kept by the 


managers, to which access shall be had at all reason- 


| able hours, in which the religious denomination of 


the child when admitted to the Industrial School 
shall be entered ; and it shall be lawful, upon the 
representation of the parent, or, in case of an orphan, 
then of the guardian or nearest adult relative, of any 
inmate placed in such Industrial School, for the 
officiating minister of the religious persuasion of the 
inmate of such Industrial School, officiating within 
the district in which such Industrial School shall be 
situated, at certain fixed hours of the day, which 
shall be fixed by the managers for the purpose, to 
visit such schools for the purpose of aftording re- 
ligious assistance to such inmate, and also for the 
purpose of instructing such inmate in the principles 
of his religion) :—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the said Clause be now read a unl 
time ; 

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. 

Ordered, That the said Clause be now read a 
second time :—The said Clause was accordingly read 
a second time, and made part of the Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Cruelty to 
reading of the Cruelty to Animals Act Amendment Animals Ac: 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Attornies 
reading of the Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial and Solicitors 
Courts) Bill ; (ooo Bill 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. Bill 131. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :—The House immedi- 
ately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day ; and be 


| printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Superannua- 


ine : ; tion Act 
— of the Superannuation Act Amendment 0m ee ient 


Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ; 
upon Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Conveyance 
reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways ° 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


f Mails by 
Railways Bill. 


The 





Lunatics 


( 
Bill. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Freight Money 


(Greenwich 
Hospital.) 


Slave Vessels, 
&amp;e. 


Order of the 
Bath. 


Committees 
of Supply. 


Canada and 

New Bruns- 

wick Bound- 
aries. 


Chelsea 
New Bridge. 


Rochdale 
Election. 


County and 
District Sur- 
veyors, &amp;c. 
(Ireland. ) 


Police (Scot- 
land) Bill, 


Bill 127. 





91 Victronriz. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Twelve 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Biil; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at Twelve | 
of the clock, resolve itself into the said Committee. | 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a | 
Return of the severul Sums of Freight Money re- 
ceived by the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital since | 
the 11th day of May 1855, with the Date of such | 
Payments, and whether on Public or Private ac- 
count; and of the Name of the Ship or Vessel in 
which the Treasure was conveyed, and of the Captain | 
or Officer commanding the same (in continuation of | 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 238, of Session 1855). 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a | 
Return, in detail, of the manner in which the Sums | 
of £.3,568. 8s. 1d. for Expenses incurred relative | 
to Slave Vessels captured by the Officers and Crews | 
of Her Majesty’s Ships, and £.662, 7s. 2d. for the | 
Maintenance and Care of Emancipated Slaves, voted 
in the Estimates for Civil Services, Class 5, have 
been expended. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be ery 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this | 
House, a Return of the Names of the Persons upon | 
whom Her Majesty has been pleased to confer the 
dignity of Knight Grand Cross of the Most honour- 
able Order of the Bath, from the year 1847 to the | 
present time ; stating the Amount of Fees actually 

aid by each Individual, and, in cases where Fees 
ave not been paid, the Causes of such Non-pay- 
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. 





Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to | 
consider the present forms for the conduct of Public 
Business in Committees of Supply, with Power to | 


report their Observations thereupon to the House. | 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | 
to explain an Act for the Settlement of the Bound- | 
aries between the Provinces of Canada and New | 
Brunswick: And that Mr. Secretary Labouchere | 
and Mr. Chichester Fortescue do prepare, and bring 
it in. | 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to | 
repeal so much of the Act of the ninth and tenth | 
years of Victoria, c. 39, as authorizes a Toll to be | 
taken for Foot Passengers on the Bridge now erect- 
ing across the River Tames, pursuant to such Act: 
And that Sir Benjamin Hali and Mr. Brand do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Rochdale Elec- 
tion Petition be laid before this House. 


The Select Committee on County and District 
Surveyors, &amp;c. (Jreland) was nominated of Mr. 
George Alexander Hamilion, Mr. Herbert, Lord 
Naas, Mr. Lygon, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Sey- 
mour Fitzgerald, Mr. Macarthy, Mr. Macartney, 
Mr. Deasy, Mr. Magan, Mr. Waldron, Mr. Hassard 
and Mr. Cooper; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


The Police (Scotland) Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


16°—1 


‘T 


7° Sulit. 319 

Mr. Secretary ZLabouchere presented a Bill to Canada and 
explain an Act for the Settlement of the Boundaries — _ 
between the Provinces of Canada and New Bruns. ¥* p"® 


: : aries Bill. 
wick: And the same was read the first time; and pin 4 32. 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday next ; 


| and to be printed. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,— Return to an Ad- yrijitia, 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 12th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Militia. 

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


Sir Benjamin Hall presented a Bill to repeal so Chelsea New 


| much of the Act of the ninth and tenth years of Bridge Bill. 


Victoria, c. 39, as authorizes a Toll to be taken for Bill 133. 


Foot Passengers on the Bridge now erecting across 
the River J/hames, pursuant to such Act: 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, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 





Veneris, 17° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


HE Louse proceeded to take into consideration Ely Tidal 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Harbour and 
Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Bill; and the same **lway Bill. 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Tyne Im- 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Tyne provement 
Improvement Bill; and the same was twice read,” ” 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, That this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration wimbledon 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Wim- and Dorking 
bledon and Dorking Railway Bill; and the same Bailway Bill 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That Smith’s Divorce Bill be read the smith’s 
third time upon Monday next. Divorce Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of Ley’s Divorce Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Ley’s Divorce 
ill. 


Ordered, That Shepherd’s Disabilities Removal shephera’s 


Bill be read a second time upon Monday next. Disabi ities 
Removal Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Lunatics 
into a Committee on the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill. —— 
13 


(In the Committee.) Bill 134. 


Cuauses, N° 17 to N° 49, with Amendments to 
19 of them, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 50, disagreed to. 

Crause, N° 51, amended, and agreed to. 





VoL. 112. 


UU 


CLAUSE, 








320 


Crause, N° 52 (Expense of district asylum, how 
to be raised). 

Amendment -proposed, in p. 23, Is. 18 and 19: 
To leave out the words “ for the first year after the 
“ opening of the same.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ for the first 
“ year stand part of the Clause.” 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crausss, N° 53 to N° 56, with Amendments to 
one of them, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N* 57 (District Boards may agree with 
existing asylums for the reception of, pauper lu- 
natics). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 26, 1. 18: To leave 
out from the word “ them” to the end of the Clause, 
in order to add the words, “ the district Boards of 
“ such districts shall, before proceeding to assess for 
“ or erect any district asylum, contract with the pro- 
“ prietors or parties interested in any such asylum, 
“ for the use of the whole or any part of the same, 
“ or for the reception and maintenance of the pauper 
“ Junatics of such district, or any portion of them, 
* upon such terms as shall be arranged between the 
district Board and such proprietors or parties in- 
“ terested; and in case of difference between the 

district Board and proprietors or parties interested 

relative thereto, such difference shall be subject to 
the decision of the Board; and where any such 
agreement shall be completed with a public asy- 

Jum, the portion of such asylum which shall, in 

terms thereof, be appropriated to the reception of 

such pauper lunatics, shall be equivalent to a dis- 
trict asylum for pauper lunatics, according to the 
meaning of this Act, and shall be and remain 
under the care and management of the proprietors 
or parties interested therein, subject to the power 
of inspection and visitation, and power of making 
regulations hereinbefore conferred upon the Board ; 
and further, in the case of any county or district 
availing itself of the accommodation afforded by 
the existing public asyium, the district Board is 
hereby empowered to assess such county or dis- 
‘trict for such portion of the debt due by such 
asylum as shall be arranged, after due regard 
being had to the accommodation afforded between 
such district Board and the proprietors or parties 
interested in such asylum; and, in case of their 
difference in opinion, as shall be fixed by the 
“ Board,” instead thereof. 
Question, That the words “ it shall be lawful for 
“ the district Boards” stand part of the Clause —— 
put, and negatived. 

Proposed words amended, and added. 

Clause, as amended, agrecd to. 

Criauses, N° 58 to N° 93, with Amendments to 
10 of them, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 94, disagreed to. 

Ciavses, N°95 to N° 108, with Amendments to 
five of them, agreed to. 

‘Three Clauses added. 

Another Clause (The whole provisions of this 
Act, with respect to licenses, shall subsist after 
as before the expiration of the said period of five 
vears, with this variation, that, after the expira- 
tion of the said period, the whole powers and 
Cuties of the Board and the Secretary, in the matter 
of licenses, shall devolve upon the Inspectors Ge- 


“ce 


‘ 


real subject to the directions of Her Majesty’s | 


Secie'ary of State for the Home Department, who 
shall have Power to make all such rules and regula- 


tions in regard to licenses as he may deem proper, | 


) Table. 


with a view to give substantial effect to the provi- 
sions of this Act, in that matter after as before the 
said period of five years) ——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 

. = | So 

Four other Clauses added. 


17° Julit. 





A, 1857. Sess. II. 


Schedules (A.) to (K.), with Amendment to one 
of them, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Burial Acts 
a Committee on the Burial Acts Amendment Bill. cae 


(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 16, an Amendment made. 
Proposed words, as amended, added. 
Other words added. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cause, N° 17, amended, and agreed to. 
Ciause, N° 18, disagreed to. 

Crause, N° 19, agreed to. 

Cuiause, N° 20, amended, and agreed to. 
Cravuses, N° 21 and N° 22, agreed to. 
Five Clauses added. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed theChair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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 Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; Session (Scot- 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve land) Bill. 

itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Wise reported from the Select Committee public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the too 
Petitions presented upon the 13th, 14th and 15th) Nine port,) 
days of this instant July; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

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


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Gontroverted 
mittee of Elections; That they had selected the Elections. 
Right honourable Sidney Solus, the Earl of 
March and General Peel, to be Members of the 
Chairmen’s Panel, and to serve as Chairmen of 
Election Committees during the present Session, in 
the room of £. C. Egerton, Esquire, G. A. Ha- 
milton, Esquire, and Gathorne Hardy, Esquire, who 
have claimed to be excused during the remainder 
of the Session. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the General Committee of Elec- Controverted 
tions have leave to sit To-morrow, notwithstanding Plections. 
any adjournment of the House. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. eamagnanens 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read; Vide Votes, 
and referred to a Select Committee. and Twenty- 

fifth Report. 

Mr. Lowe presented, — Return to an Order, Joint Stock 
dated the 5th day of June last, for a Return rela- Companies. 
tive to Joint Stock Companies. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 9th day of June last, for a Return relative 
to Quit or Crown Rents (Jreland), 


Quit or 
Crown Rents 
(Ireland.) 


Return 

















21 Vicroriz. 


Select Return to an Order, dated the 25th day of June 
Committees. ast, for a Return relative to Select Committees. 

Public Record Return to an Order, dated the 29th day of June 
Office. last, for a Return relative to the Public Record 


Office. 
Leith Harbour Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of this 
and Docks. instant July, for a Return relative to the Amount of 
Debt due by the Harbour and Docks of Leith. 
Leith Harbour Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of this 
and Docks. instant July, for a Return relative to the Revenue 
and Income of the Harbour and Docks of Leith. 


Rochdale The following Papers, pursuant to Orders, were 
Election. also laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House, 
No. 185. —Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Rochdale Election Petition. 
Maidstone Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Election. Committee on the Maidstone Election Petition. 
No. 186. 
Galway Town Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Election. Committee on the Galway Town Election Petition. 
No. 187. Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence be 
printed. 
Army Pro- Ordered, That the Return relative to Army Pro- 
“a motions, which was presented upon the 16th day of 
o. 188. 


this instant July, be printed. 
Army Medical Ordered, That the Return relative to Army Me- 


“7. on dical Expenses, which was presented upon the 16th 
a ae day of this instant July, be printed. 
Vessels and Ordered, Th&amp;t the Return relative to Vessels 


Tonnage, &amp;¢. and Tonnage, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 
No. 190. 16th day of this instant July, be printed. 


Militia. Ordered, That the Return relative to the Militia, 

No. 189. which was presented upon the 16th day of this in- 
stant July, be printed. 

Bath Election. Mr. Horsman, from the Select Committee ap- 


pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- 
tition of Arthur Edwin Way, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the City of Bath, 
informed the House, That the Committee had de- 
termined, 

That William Tite, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Citizen to serve int this present Parliament for the 
City of Bath. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Jou:nals of this House. 

Mr. Horsman, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolution : 

That it was proved to the Committee that Mark 
Dunscombe was bribed by James Dolphin, by a 
promise of employment to vote in favour of Arthur 
Edwin Way, Esquire, but that it was not proved 
that such bribery was committed with the knowledge 
and consent of the said Arthur Edwin Way, Esquire. 

Mr. Horsman, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That they had altered 
the poll taken at the last Election for the City of 
Bath, by striking otf the names of Jesse Corbould, 
William Franks, John Smith, Francis Davis, Francis 
Clarke, William Smith, Edward Pearce, Thomas 
Brabazon Aylmer, William Reynolds, Daniel Bread- 
man, Samuel Giles, Charles Cockle, Joseph Wood, 
Salvador Marchione, Daniel Thomas Green, William 
Henry Walmsley, Jesse Stamp, Edwin Bartlett, 
John Vaughan, Mark Dunscombe, James Dolphin 
and George Lewis, as not having had a right to vote 
at such Election ; and had also altered the poll, by 
striking off the name of Benjamin Bailey from the 
votes given for William Tite, Esquire, and by adding 
it to the votes given for Arthur Edwin Way, Es- 
} eo and had also altered the poll, by adding 
thereto the names of John Perry Sinclair, Joseph 
Perry Sinclair, William Moore and Francis Yerbury, 
as having had a right to vote at such Election. 

Ordered, ‘That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Vou. 112. 


17° Julie. 


321 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Select gtanaing 
Committee on Standing Orders, a Resolution ; which Orders. 
was read, as followeth : 

That in the case of the Eastern Bengal Railway EasternBengal 
Company, Petition for leave to deposit a Petition for Railway 
Bill, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with; ©°™P*"Y- 
that the Parties be permitted to deposit their Petition 
for Bill accordingly. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant woodstock 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Woodstock, in the 
room of John Winston Spencer Churchill, Marquis 
of Blandford, now Duke of Marlbvrough, called up 
to the House of Peers. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Coalwhippers. 
that part of the Message from the Lords, of the 16th 
day of this instant July, wherein their Lordships 
request that this House will give leave to Viscount 
Goderich, a Member of this House, to attend the 
Select Committee of their Lordships on the opera- 
tion of the Coalwhippers Act, 14 &amp; 15 Vic., and on 
the state of the Trade of Coalwhipper since the ex- 
piration of said Act, and to- give evidence before 
the said Select Committee. 

And Viscount Gederich, 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 Viscount Goderich have leave to 
go to the House of Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships, if he think fit. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint them that this House hath given leave 
to Viscount Goderich to go to the House of Lords, 
as desired by their Lordships, if he think fit: And 
that the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


Mr. Wilson reported from the Select Committee Caledonian 
on the Caledonian and Crinan Canals Bill; That and Crinan 
they had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- ©42#ls Bill. 
ments thereunto. Bill 135. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by East India 
Her Majesty’s Command,—An Estimate of the Sum Company _ 
required to be voted in the year 1857, ending 31st (¥ainChina.) 
March 1858, for the Final adjustment of the Account No. 191. 
with the East India Company, for the Expenditure 
in connection with the late War in China. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, poor Law 
Returns from each Poor Law Union in Jreland of (Ireland.) 
the Name of the Electoral Division in which the 
Expenditure on the Valuation was the Highest, and 
of the Electoral Division in which the Expenditure 
was the Lowest, with the Poundage Rate in each 
case, for the years ending 29th day of September 
1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 

1854 and 1855 :—Of the Rate which would have 
been required for the Support of the Poor for each 
of the above years, levied as a Union Rate :—Of the 
Rate which would have been required for the Sup- 
port of the Poor for each of the aliove years, levied 
asa National Rate:—Of the Average Amount of 
Rate for the Five years ending the 29th day of Sep- 
tember 1849 in the highest rated Electoral Division 
in each Union :—Of the Average Amount of Rate 
for the Five years ending the 29th day of September 
1855 in the highest rated Electoral Division in each 
Union :—Of the Average Amount of Rate for the 








Five years ending the 29th day of September 1849 
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Adjournment. 


‘Ecclesiastical 
Corporations 
Bill, and 
Ecclesiastical 
Commission, 
-&amp;c. Bill 
(Special Re- 
port.) 


No. 192. 


Ecclesiastical 
Commission, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Bill 136. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


‘Bristol, South 
Wales and 
“Southampton 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


Newcastle- 
under-Lynie 
and Leek 
Roads Bill. 


Langport, 

: Somerton and 
Castle Cary 
Roads Bill. 


Lowestoft 
Water, Gas 
and Market 
Bill. 


{Keith and 
Dufftown 
“Railway 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Manchester 
Corporation 
Bill. 


Great 
Northern 
Railway 
&lt;Capital) Bill. 


Vessels (Suez 
and Mel- 
bourne.) 


322 


in the lowest rated Electoral Division in each Union: 
—Of the Average Amount of Rate for the Five 
years ending the 29th day of September 1855 in 
the lowest rated Electoral Division in each Union : 
—Of the Average Amount of Union Rate for each 
of the above periods of Five years:—And, of the 
Average Amount of National Rate for the same 
periods. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
osed, That this House will, at the rising of the 
Louse this day, adjourn till Monday next ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now +? :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

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


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Ec- 
clesiastical Corporations Bill, and the Ecclesiastical 
Commission, &amp;c. Bill, have Power to report their 
Observations thereupon to the House. 

Sir George Grey reported from the said Com- 
mittee ; That they had considered the matter of the 
said Bills, and agreed to a Report, which they had 
directed him to make to the House; and the same 
was read, as followeth : 

That the object of the two Bills committed to 
them is, to a great extent, the same; but the Com- 
mittee are not prepared to recommend to the House 
to proceed further with the Ecclesiastical Corpora- 
tions Bill. 

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

Sir George Grey also reported from the said 
Select Committee ; That they had gone through 
the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as folleweth : 

The Lerds have agreed to the Bristol, South 
Wales and Southampton Union Railway Bill, with- 
out any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the NMewcastle-under- 
Lyme and Leek Roads Bill, without any Amend- 
ment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Langport, Somerton 
and Castle Cary Roads Bill, without any Amend- 
ment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Lowestoft Water, 
Gas and Market Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Keith and Dufftown 
Railway (No. 2) Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 


The Lords have agreed to the Manchester Corpo- 
ration Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Great Norihern 
Rai way (Capital) Bill, with Amendments ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Names and Tonnage of the Vessels 
placed on the Line between Suez and Melbourne, ac- 
cording to the Contract with the Australian Mail 
Company ; with the Dates of their Departure from 
England and Arrival at their Stations :—And, the 
Voyages performed by each Vessel; giving the Day 
of Departure from Port, and Arrival at Port. ; 





17°—18° Juliz. 








A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


A Petition of Joseph Tredre, now a Prisoner in 
the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this 
House, acknowledging the magnitude of his offence 
in not having appeared before the Lambeth Election 
Committee when summoned, and praying the House 
to view his case with clemency, and that, in consi- 
deration of his distressed pecuniary circumstances, 
he may be discharged without payment of his Fees, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That Joseph Tredre, now in custody of 
the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House, be dis- 
charged without payment of his Fees. 


The Oxford University Bill was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next; and to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Election Petitions 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 Industiial Schools Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


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

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
—_ 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, 





Lambeth 
ection, 


Oxford Uni- 
versity Bill. 


Bill 137. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


Supply. 


“ the slow progress of the East Indian Railways in- East Indian 


“ volves danger to the military occupation of India, 
“and retards the development of the industrial re- 
“‘ sources of that country,” 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.) 


1. £. 500,000, towards the Reimbursement to 
the East India Compauy, of a moiety of the Extra- 
ordinary Expenses of the Expedition to Persia. 

2. £.400,000, for Naval and Military Operations 
in China, beyond the Ordinary Grants for Navy 
and Army Services. 

3. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
2,000 additional Men be employed for the Sea Ser- 
vice for Nine Months ending on the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn, 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

4, £.70,082, for Wages to additional Seamen. 

5. £.28,276, for Provisions and Victualling Stores 
and other Charges for additional Seamen. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbali, 18° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

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

Mr. Fitz Roy also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 


Resolved, 


Railways. 











21 VicroriZ. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


[ilicit Distilla- The Illicit Distillation (Jreland) Bill was, ac- 

tion (Ireland) eording to Order, read a second time; and com- 

Bill mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- 
day next. 


Reformatory 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
Schools Bill. 


into consideration the Reformatory Schools Bill, as 
amended in the Committee; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next. 


Summary 
Proceedings 
before Justices 
of the Peace 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 
of the Peace Bill; 


Bill. Resolved, That this Louse will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Metropolitan © The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. 
‘ Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Revising The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
a ae mittee on the Revising Barristers ( Dublin) Bill; 
(Dubin) "Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
East Quay The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Mutiny Bill, Mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill ; 
( "Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Bankruptcy The Order of the day being read, for taking into 


and Insolvency 


(ireland) Bill consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre- 


land) Bill,as amended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Justices and 
Police Force 
(Dublin) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Probatesand The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Letters of Ad- mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
ministration : . 
Bill. tion Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Probatesand ‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
————— mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
1Inistratio) : : 
‘i tion (Zreland) Bill; 
Treland) Bill. f oe ‘ 
apnea Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Pimlico Im- The Order of the day being read, for the third 
provements yeading of the Pimlico Improvements Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 
Public Offices The Order of the day being read, for the third 


Extension Bill. yeading of the Public Offices Extension Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday next. 


Savings Banks 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(No. 2) Bill. 


mittee on the Savings Banks (No. 2) Bill ; 
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 of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Vou, 112. 





17°—18° Julii. 


323 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill was, ac- Turnpike 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Acts Continu- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- “" ™ 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Assessments 
mittee on the Assessments (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- Land Tax 
mittee on the Land ‘Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill ; — 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday next, Ri, 


resolve itself into the suid Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for tre Com- Public Works 
mittee on the Public Works (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon M-nday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Conveyance 

reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways of Mails by 

Bill ; Railways Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 

Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Public Iealth 
mittee on the Public Health Act (A/dershott) Bill; Act (Alder- 

Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Monday eeneienes 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Land and Assessed Taxes, &amp;c. (Scotland) Land and As- 
Acts Amendment Bill was, according to Order, read nmned Taxes, 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of $¢,Scouan)) 


Acts Amend- 
the whole House, for Monday next. ment Bill. 


The Valuation of Lands (Scot/and) Act Amend- Valuation of 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read a second — (Scot- 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 3" oon 


Amendment 
House, for Monday next. Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Seitled Estates Sales of Settled 
pen ia d t Bill - Estates Act 

¢ menament Dill ; Amendment 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second SaleofObscene 


reading of the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Preven- Books, &amp;c. 
‘ : Prevention 
tion Bill; Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Grand Juries 
into consideration the Amendments made by the (Ireland) Act 
Lords to the Grand Juries (Zreland) Act (1836) a 
Amendment Bill. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time 
(and it appearing that the Amendment in p. 2, 1. 6, 
was a more diffuse description of the works compre- 
hended in the foregoing words of the Commons), 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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, according to Order, proceeded to take Attornies 
into consideration the Attornies and Solicitors (Co- — 
lonial Courts) Bill, as amended in the Committee. Soua&gt; Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upen Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of | 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; Session (Scot 
Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Tuesday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 





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324 


o- . Ordered, That the Municipal Corporations Act 

yy Amendment Bill, as amended in the Committee, be 

ment Bill. taken into consideration upon Monday next. 

Adjournment. A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn :—It passed in the 
Negative. 

Oaths Validity A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 

— posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 


amend the Act 1 &amp; 2 Vic. c. 105, intituled, “ An 
Act for removing Doubts as to the Validity of 
certain Oaths ;” 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Mewdegate, 


1 6 


Yeas, \Lord Burghley: 
Tellers for the we General for| sa 
’ . 
Noes, \ Mr. Ridley : if 


So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Act 
1 &amp; 2 Vic. c. 105, intituled, “ An Act for removing 
Doubts as to the Validity of certain Oaths :’—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 


17°—18°—20° Juliz. 






A. 1857. Sess. IT 


consider of guaranteeing a Loan to be raised for the 
Service of New Zealand ; 

Sir George Grey, by Her Majesty’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, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Westminster 
to consider the state of Westminster Bridge, and the Bridge. 
course to be taken in relation to the Works which 
have heen suspended. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Mutual 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of Companies 
imposing Stamp Duties on the Memorandum of S#™p*] 
Association and the Articles of Association to be 
executed by any Mutual Company, in pursuance of 
any Act of the present Session for the Incorporation 
of Mutual Companies. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Four of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next. 





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being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 


the Vane / Mr. Warren, 
Tellers for the Yeas,) Mr. Newdegate : } 52. 
od ,.. Mr. Roebuck, 7 
Tellers for the Noes, LMr. Dilheyn : 200. 


So it passed in the Negutive. 


And the Question being again proposed, That 


leave be given to bring in a Biil to amend the Act 
1 &amp; 2 Vic. c. 105, intituled, “ An Act for removing 
Doubts as to the Validity of certain Oaths ;” 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Yeas,| Mr ao 51. 
Nore for tha Nose { Mr. Roebuck, 
Tellers for the Noes,) Mr. Dillwyn : J 97. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Act 
1 &amp; 2 Vic. c. 105, intituled, “ An Act for removing 
Doubts as to the Validity of certain Oaths :”—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 Right; 

The Noes to the Lett. 

Tellers for the{ Sir Brooke Bridges, 


Yeas, (Mr. Knightley: } - 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 83 
Noes, Mr. Dillwyn: — 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Act 
1 &amp; 2 Vie. c. 105, intituled, “ An Act for removing 
Doubts as to the Validity of certain Oaths;” 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion and Original Question were severally, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Now Zealand A Motion being made, That this House will, upon 


Loan Guaran- Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee to 
Oe, 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. FitzRoy reported the Hereford Cathedral yerefora 
Restoration Bill, without Amendment. Cathedral 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. a 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had eee 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 16th and hepart} —_ 
17th days of this instant July, 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 Briton Ferry 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Briton Docks Bill. 
Ferry Docks Bill; and the same were twice read, 

and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Glasgow City 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Glasgow and Suburban 
City and Suburban Gas Bill; and the same were . 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Scottish 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Scottish Central Rail- 
Central Railway Bill; and the same was twice read, **Y 5! 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 

ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Stamford and 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Stam- eon 
ford and Essendine Railway Bill; and the same —_ 
was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

— to the Amendment made by their Lord- 

ships 


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Victoria 
(London) 
Docks Bill. 


Ley’s Divorce 
Bill. 


Smith’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Shepherd's 
Disabilities 
Removal Bill. 


Eastern 
Bengal Rail- 
way Coinpany. 


Huntingdon 
County 
Election. 


Controverted 
Elections. 


Falkirk 
Election. 


91 Vicrortm. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Victoria 
(London) Docks Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ley’s Divorce Bill was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Lords in the case of the said Bill, be re- 
turned to their Lordships: And that the Clerk do 
deliver the same. 


Smith’s Divorce Bill was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Lords in the case of the said Bill, be re- 
turned to their Lordships: And that the Clerk do 
deliver the same. 


Shepherd’s Disabilities Removal Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted, 


Ordered, That in the case of the Petition for the 
Eastern Bengal Railway Company Bill, the Exa- 
miner of Petitions for Private Bills have leave to sit 
and proceed forthwith. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee secondly appointed to try and 
determine the matter of the Petitions complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the County of 
Huntingdon :— Mr. Alderman Copeland, Joseph 
Locke, Esquive, Henry W. Schneider, Esquire, Wil- 
liam Stirling, Esquire; Chairman, John Morgan 
Cobbett, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Right honourable Sidney Her- 
bert be discharged from continuing on the Chair- 
men’s Panel. 


Sir John Pakington, from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Petition of William Forbes and James Russell, 
junior, complaining of an undue Election and Return 
for the Falkirk District of Burghs, informed the 
House, That the Committee had determined, 

That James Merry, Esquire, is not duly elected 
a Commissioner to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Lalkirk District of Burghs. 

That the last Election for the said Burghs is a 
void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Sir John Pakington, from the said Select Com- 
mittee, further informed the House, That the Com- 
-mittee had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That the said James Merry, Esquire, was by his 
Agents guilty of bribery at the last Election. 

‘That it was proved to the Committee that Patrick 
Quigley was bribed with the payment of 10 /. 

That it was proved to the Committee that a bribe 
of 201. was offered to Richard Lyon if he would 
give his own vote and secure the votes of. two other 
Electors named Wilson and Munro, in favour of the 
said James Merry, Esquire. 


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That it was proved to the Committee that a bribe 
was offered to Thomas Wyse, through his Wife; but 
that it was not proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee that these acts of bribery were committed 
with the knowledge and consent of the said James 
Merry, Esquire. 

That James Merry, Esquire, was by his Agents 
guilty of treating at the last Election; but that it 
was not proved to the Committee that such treating 
was committed with ‘the knowledge and consent of 
the said James Merry, Esquire. 

That it has been proved to the Committee that 
the requirements of the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 102, 
intituled, “ An Act to consolidate and amend the 
Laws relating to Bribery, Treating and undue In- 
fluence at Elections of Members of Parliament,” were 
not complied with at the last Election for the said 
Burghs, inasmuch as no Agent or Agents for Elec- 
tion Expenses were duly appointed by James Merry, 
Esquire, in the manner specified in 31st section of 
that Act ; and that of the Total Expenses of the Elec- 
tion returned by Mr. Merry’s Agents to the Auditor, 
amounting to £.2,436. 15s. 7d., only £.1,611. 8s. 5d. 
were paid by the said Auditor, as required in section 
18 of the said Act, and the Auditor does not know 
by whom the balance of 825 /. 7s. 2d. was paid. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


before the Committee be laid before this House. 


this day received a Letter from Messrs. Baxter, 
Rose and Norton, as Agents for William Unwin 
Heygate, Esquire, and George Bulson, senior, John 
Greenham and George Francis Roberts, informing 
him that it is not their intention to proceed with 
their Petitions complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Borough of Bridport :—And 
the said Letter was read, as followeth : 
3, Park-street, Westminster, 
Sir, 18 July 1857. 

As Agents for William Unwin Heygate, Esquire, 
and for George Balson, senior, John Greenham and 
George Francis Roberts, in the matter of their Pe- 
titions delivered in'on the 21st day of May last, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Bridport, we hereby beg to inform 
you that it is not intended to proceed with the said 
Petitions. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Baxter, Rose and Norton, 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petitions to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Directors of the East India Company upon the 
Railways in Jndia sanctioned and projected ; with 


Map. 


Ireland paid into the Exchequer in the year ended 
the 31st day of December 1856 :—Accounts of the 
Net Public Income and Expenditure of Lreland, for 
the year ended the 31st day of December 1856; 
and showing the whole of the Ways and Means 
provided within the same Period, together with the 
Application thereof :—Of the Amount of Duties of 
Excise in each Inland Revenue District of Zre/and, 
in the year ended the 31st day of December 1856: 





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Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Minutes 
ordered. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Bridport 
Election. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
sixth Report. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Copy of the Memorandum laid before the Court of (Railways.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Revenue j 
an Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of (Heland-) 


























































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Persian 
Expedition. 
No. 193. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Grand Jury 
Presentments 
CIreland) 
(1842). 


Rating of 
Mines. 


East India 


(King of Oude.) 


East India 
(Mutinies.) 


Savings Banks 
(No, 2) Bul. 


326 


—Of the Amount of Duties of Customs collected at 
each Port of Zrelund, in the year ended the 31st day 
of December 1856:—Of the Amount of Stamp 
Duties collected in Dublin, and in each Stamp Dis- 
trict of Ireland, in the year ended the 31st day of 
December 1856 :—Of the Amount of Postage col- 
lected in each County of Ireland, in the year ended 
the 31st day of December 1856 : — Statements 
showing the Quantities of the following Articles 
retained for Home Consumption in Ireland, in the 
vear ended the 31st day of December 1856, viz. : 
Wine, Spirits, Foreign and Home-made, ‘Tobacco, 
Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Flax Seed, Cotton Yarn, Cotton 
Wool, Weollen and Worsted Yarn, Silk, Raw and 
Thrown, Iron Unwrought, Timber, Deals and Coals: 
—And, showing the Quantities of the following Ar- 
ticles exported from Jreland, in the year ended the 
3ist day of December 1856; distinguishing the 
Exports to Great Britain from those to Foreign 
Countries, viz.: Oxen, Sheep, Swine, Horses, Bacon 
and Hams, Beef and Pork, Butter, Wheat and 
Wheat Flour, Oats and Oatmeal, Jrish Spirits, Linen 
Manufactures, Linen Yarn, and Cotton Manufac- 
tures (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 
381, Session 1856). 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty's Command,—Supplemental Estimate 
of the Sum required to be voted in the year 1857, 
towards the reimbursement to the East Jndia Com- 
pany of a moiety of the Extraordinary Expenses of 
the Expedition to Persia. 

Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Davison have leave of absence 
for a month, on urgent business. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Grand Jury 
Presentments (Ireland), which was presented upon 
the 18th day of April 1842, be referred to the Select 
Committee on County and District Surveyors, &amp;c. 
(Ireland). 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on Rating of Mines on 
the 3d day of March, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this Housr, 
Copies of any Minute by the Right honourable Lord 
Auckland, the Governor General of Jndia, on the 
signature of the Treaty of 1837 with Mohummud 
Allie Shah, the then King of Oude :—Of the De- 
spatch from the Right honourable the Governor 
General, announcing the Negotiation of such Treaty : 
—Of any Orders from the Secret Committee or from 
the Court of Directors of the East India Company 
to the Governor General of India, abrogating or 
disallowing such Treaty, or any part thereof :—Of 
any Minute recorded by the Governor General in 
Council, on the receipt of such Orders :—Of a Letter 
written in the month of January 1839 by the Right 
honourable Lord Auckland to the King of Oude, on 
the subject of such Treaty :—And, of a Letter 
written in November 1847, by the Right honourable 


Lord Hardinge, the Governor General of Zndia, to | 


the King of Oude. 


My. Vernon Smith presented, by Her Majesty's 
Command,— Papers relating to Mutinies in the 
East Indies. 

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


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, upon Friday next, on the Savings Banks 
(No. 2) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn, 





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A, 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Police (Bengal 
Copy of the Despatch from the Government of India Presidency. ) 
to the Court of Directors of the East India Com- 
pany, dated the 14th day of May 1857, with its 
several Enclosures, relating to the system of Police 
in the Bengal Presidency. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Rastern 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Bengal Rail. 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing Ws Company. 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Eastern 
Bengal Railway Company Bill. 

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


A Petition of Members of the Provisional Com- fgastern 
mittee of the proposed Eastern Bengal Railway Bengal Rail- 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorpo- ¥*Y Company, 
rating the Eastern Bengal Railway Company, and 
for other purposes, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- girths, Deaths 
mand,—Copy of Eighteenth Annual Report of the and Marriages. 
Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages 
in England. 

Copy of Report of the Commissioners appointed National 


to determine the Site of the New National Gallery, Gallery Site. 


Copy of Eighth Report on the District, Criminal Lunatic 
and Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; with Ap- Asylums 
pendices. (Ireland. ) 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- Paupers. 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Paupers. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Lunacy 
2d day of this instant July, for a Return relative to (Scotland.) 
Lunacy (Scotland). 

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


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Pilotage, &amp;e. 
mand,—Copy of two Orders in Council approving 
certain Bye-laws made by the ‘Trinity House Cor- 
poration, in respect of Pilotage and Pilots, under 
the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 
- —— That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented, by Her Ma- church Affairs 
jesty’s Command,—Copy of Correspondence on the (Canada and 
subject of Colonial Church Affairs in the Dioceses Vitti) 
of the Colonies of Canada and Victoria (in con- 
tinuation of the House of Commons Paper, No. 131, 

Session 1856). 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Retarn to an Ad- Ordnance 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 9th day of this in- Survey. 
stant July, for a Return relative to Ordnance Survey. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Dover Mail 
an amended Return of the Number and Names of — Con- 
the Vessels employed in the Mail Contract Service — 
from Dover, their Steam Power, Tonnage, and 
Names of Commanders, and whether manned by 
British Seamen, and how often and when last 
officially surveyed; such Return being made up 
year by year since the commencement of the Con- 
tract; stating whether, during the same period, any 
Government Vessels have been lent to the Con- 
tractors, and, if so, how often, and for what time 
and on what terms, 

Mr. 














engal 
y:) 


Supply. 


Expedition to 


Persia. 


l. Naval and 

Military 
rations 

oPenina. 


Additional 
Men for the 
Sea Service. 


Wages to d°. 


Provisions, &amp;c. 
for d°. 


hs 
2S. 


Finsbury 
Election. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
Bill. 


21 VicrortzZ. 20°—-2 


Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Return. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.500,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, towards the Reimburse- 
ment to the East Lndia Company of a Moiety of 
the Extraordinary Expenses of the Expedition to 


Persia. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.400,000, be 
granted to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Ex- 
pense of the Naval and Military Operations in China, 
beyond the Ordinary Grants for Navy and Army 
Services. 

3. That 2,000 additional Men be employed for 
the Sea Service for Nine Months ending on the 
3ist day of March 1858. 

4. That a Sum, rot exceeding £.70,082, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
Wages to additional Seamen, which will come in 
course of payment during the Nine Months ending 
on the 31st day of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £.28,276, be 
granted to Her Majesty, for the Purchase of Pro- 
visions and Victualling Stores and other Charges 
for additional Seamen, which wi'l come in course of 
payment during the Nine Months ending on the 
31st day of March 1858. 


The said Resolutions, being read a second time, | 


were agreed to. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 


this day received a Letter from Wi 


lliam Shaen, as | 


1° Julie. 327 


probate or letters of administration granted contrary 
to this provision shall be subject to revocation by 
the Court of Probate; but all acts done under the 
probate or letters of administration before revocation, 
in respect of any property other than any such 
Government Stock, Funds, Annuities or Securities, 
or any Stock of the Governor and Company of the 
Bank of England, or of the East India Company, 
or any such cther stock or shares as aforesaid, shall 
be as valid as if such probate or letters of adminis- 
tration had been lawfully granted ; and, for the pur- 
poses of this provision, the Metropolitan District 
shall include all places within the jurisdiction of the 
Court of Probate not included in the districts 
specified in Schedule (A.) to this Act) brought 
up, and read 1°. 

| Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
‘read a seccnd time——put, and negatived. 

| Clause (Any party who shall be dissatisfied with 
| the determination of the Judge of the County Court, 
| in point of law or upon the admission or rejection of 
any evidence in any matter or cause under this Act, 
may appeal from the same to the Court of Probate, 
in such manner and subject to such regulations as 
‘may be provided by the rules and orders to be made 
under this Act)——brought up, and read 1°. 

| Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
| Clause be read a second time; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That tie Chairman do report Pr. gress, and ask leave 
to sit again :— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

| Clause read 2°, and added. 

| Another Clause added. 

| Clause (No probate or letters of administration 
granted by any District Registrar shall be of any 
force or effect so far as relates to any stock trans- 








Agent for William Tyler, William Mills Robinson, ferable at the Bank of England or the East India 
George Bennett and Joseph Hide, informing him | House, unless and until the same shall have been 
that it is not their intention to proceed with their | sealed with the seal of the principal Registrar of 
Petition complaining of an undue Election and Re- | the Court of Probate in London; and such probate 


turn for the Borough of Finsbury :-—And the said 
Letter was read, as followeth : 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, 
8, Bedford-row, N.C, 


Sir, 20 July 1857. 

As Agent for William Tyler, William Mills Ro- 
binson, George Bennett and Joseph Hide, in the 
matter of the Petition delivered on the 20th day of 
May last, complaining of the undue Election and 
Return of William Cox, Esquire, for the Borough 
of Finsbury, I hereby beg to inform you that it is 
not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
William Shaen. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and 
discharged. 


and letters of administration when so sealed shall 
be of the same force and effect as if originally 
granted by the said Court of Probate; and it shall 
be lawful for the principal Registrar of the said 
Court of Probate, and he is hereby required, unless 
good cause be shown to the contrary, to seal all such 
probates and letters of administration, upon appli- 
cation made to him for that purpose, by or on behalf 
ef the executor or administrator therein named) 
brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time —— put, and negatived, 


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, 21° die Julii, 1857: 


_ Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself | 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of | 


Administration Bill. | 


(In the Committee.) 


Four other Clauses added. 


oress 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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, ‘That a Mes- Message from 
Clause (Provided always, That no probate or} sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
letters of administration shall be granted by aj their Clerks, as followeth : 
District Registrar, where the deceased was at the! ‘Ihe Lords have agreed to the Shrewsbury Gas Shrewsbury 
time of his death possessed or entitled, either bene- | Bill, without any Amendment: Gas Bill. 
ficiully or as a trustee, of or to any Government} The Lords have agreed to the Joint Stock Com Joint stock 
Stock, Funds, Annuities or Securities, or any Stock | panies Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords Companies 
of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Engz- | desire the concurre: ce of this House: _ 
land, or of the East India Company, or of or to any The Lords have agreed to the Cork and Youghal Cork and 
stock or shares of the capital of any other Company, | Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords Youghal Rail- 
corporate or unincorporated, of which stock or shares | desire the concurrence of this House : = 
the transfers are usually either made, or registered,} ‘The Lords have agreed to the Backwater Bridge Backwater 
or perfected, by entry in books kept in London or |aud Road Bill, with Amendments; to which the Bridge and 
elsewhere within the Metropolitan District; and any | Lords desire the concurrence of this House : omens 
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328 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, “ An 
Act to regulate certain Proceedings in relation to 
the Election of Representative Peers for Ireland ;” 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


Representa- 
tive Peers 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Adminis- 
tration (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, reso!ve itself into the said Committee. 


Nllicit Distilla- 
tion (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Biil 138. 


The House, accordiug to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the [Illicit Distillation (Jreland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and amended the Title, as followeth : 

A Bill to continue and amend an Act of the seven- 
teenth and eighteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, 
chapter eighty-nine, and also the Laws for the Sup- 
pression and Prevention of Illicit Distillation in Jre- 
land; and to constitute the Constabulary Force 
Officers of Customs for certain purposes. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


Reformatory 


‘The Reformatory Schools Bill was, according to 
Schools Bill. 


Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


Clerks«f Petty The Clerks of Petty Sessions (Jreland) Bill was, 
oi according to Order, read a second time; and com- 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Fri- 
day next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Public Health The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Act (1848) — yeading of the Public Health Act (1848) Amend- 
Amendment . 
Bill. ment Bill; . 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Edinburgh, The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Canongate 

and Montrose 
Annuity Tax 
Abolition Bill. 


reading of the Edinburgh, Canongate and Mon- 
trose Annuity Tax Abolition Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Loan Societies 
Bill, Commons 
Inclosure Bill, 
and Bound- 
aries of Land 


(Ireland) Bill. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittees on the Loan Societies Bill, the Commons’ 
Inclosure Bill, and the Boundaries of Land (Zreland) 
Bil; 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
same Comunittee. 

‘Then the House resolved itself into the Committee; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bills, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time 
this dey, at Twelve of the clock. 


Police (Scot- 


The Police (Scotland) Bill was, according to 
land) Bill. 


Order, rvad a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House for Friday next, at 
‘Twelve of the clock. 


The Canada and New Brunswick Boundaries 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
fur Thursday next, 


Canada and 
New Bruas- 
wick Bound- 
arics Bill. 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Che 
reading of the Chelsea New Bridge Bill ; B 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayéer, i 

Yeas, \The Earl of Mulgrave: J 

Tellers for the { Mr. Bentinck, } 

Noes, Mr. Patrick O’ Brien: 

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 Select Committee. 


lsea New 
ridge Bill, 


94, 


74. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Lunaties 
consideration the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill, as (Scotland) 
amended in the Committee ; -_ 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Friday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Caledonian 
mittee on the Caledonian and Crinan Canals Bill; 4 Crinan 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Cn#ls Bill. 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 
Then the House resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bi!l, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- New Zealand 
mittee on New Zealand Loan Guarantee ; Loan Guarane 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve - 

itself into the said Committee, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Mutual | 
into a Committee on Mutual Companies [Stamps]. Companies 


{Stamps.] 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Memorandum of Association, 
and the Articles of Association, to be executed by 
Mutual Companies under the Provisions of any Act 
of the present Session for the Incorporation of 
Mutual Companies, shall respectively bear the same 


Stamps as if they were Deeds, or were contained in 
Deeds. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fiiz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


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

Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, wpon Wednesday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Bankruptcy 
into consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency = mea) Bi. 
(Ireland) Bill, as amended in the Committee ; (aa 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 

tion this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Justices and 

mittee on the Justices and Police Force (J)ublin) pewter 

Bill ; —— 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





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91 Vicroriz. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Ways and 
Means. 


Turnpike Acts The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 


Cotten’ Tax mittees on the Turnpike Acts Continuance Biil, 
- Commission. the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill, the Pub- 

ers’Names_ ic Works (/reland) Bill, and the Land and Assessed 

tay = Taxes, &amp;c. (Scotland) Acts Amendment Bill ; 


land) Bill, and Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
Land and As- sgme Committee. 
sessed Taxes, Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 


gene mittee; and, after some time spent therein, Mr, 

ment Bill. © Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 

Turnpike Acts ‘Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, and the Land Tax 

Continuance Commissioners’ Names Bill. 

a Ordered, That the Bills, as amended in the Com- 

ers’ Names mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 

Bill Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee 

Public Works had gone through the Public Works (Zreland) Bill, 

(Ireland) Bill, and the Land and Assessed Taxes, &amp;c. (Scotland) 

— and Acts Amendment Bill, and directed him to report the 

Taxes, &amp;c. same, without Amendment. 

(Scotland) . Ordered, That the Bills be read the third time 

Act SL this day, at Twelve of the clock. 

Valuation of The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Lands (Scot- mittee on the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act 

land) Act A d t Bill : , 

Amendment menament Du ; 

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

Attornies The Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial Courts) 

—— Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Courts) Bill. 


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329 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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 this 
day, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Representative Peers (Zredand) Bill was read Representa- 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time (ireland) Bill 
upon Thursday next; and to be printed. Bill 139. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill New Zealand 
to amend the Act for granting a Representative oe 
Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand: And inent. 
that Mr. Secretary Labouchere and Mr. Chichester 
Fortescue do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India. 
Return giving the Names of the Stations in Bengal, 
Burmah, Orissa, North Western and Central Pro- 
vinces, Scinde and the Punjaub, which have been 
occupied by Bombay and Madras Native Cavalry 
and Tathantiy Regiments since January 1855. 


The Select Committee on Committees of Supply Committees 

was nominated of Sir Denham Norreys, Lord John of Supply, 
Russell, Sir George Grey, Mr. Disraeli, Sir Francis 
Baring, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. 
Henley, Sir James Graham, Mr. Walpole, Sir Henry 
Willoughby, Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. Dillwyn 
and Lord Hotham; with Power to send for per- 
sons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Bath Election, 
before the Select Committee on the Bath Election 
Petition be laid before this House. 


The Select Committee on the Dulwich College Dulwich_ 
ll was nominated of Mr. Baines, Mr. Miles, Mr. College Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into} William Ewart, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Headlam, Mr. 
consideration the Municipal Corporations Bill, as} Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. 
| Alcock, Mr. Knight, Mr. John Locke, Mr. Taverner 


Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consider-| Miller, Mr. Wickham, Mr. George Clive and Mr. 


| amend the Acts relating to the County Courts : 


| Cross; 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 County Court 


to supply an Omission in a Schedule to the Act to Judges (Fal- 
coner ond 


And Yates's Sala- 


| that Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the Exche- ries ) 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bil amended in the Committee ; 
ation upon Wednesday next. 
; 
Leases and The Order of the day being read, for the second | 
— reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates | 
‘Amendment Act Amendment Bill ; | 
Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | 
this day. 
oy of Corn, The Order of the day being read, for the second 
oe reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;c. Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | 
this day. 
CourtofChan- The Order of the day being read, for the second 


pit “rland) reading of the Court of Chancery (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Grand Juries The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


— mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police 
trict) Bill. District) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 
Election 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Election Petitions Bull; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Petitions Bill. 


Industrial 


Shon ae. The Order of the day being read, for the third 


reading of the Industrial Schools Bill ; 
Ordered, Tiiat the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


Public Health 
Act (Alder. 
shott) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Public Health Act (AL 
dershott) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 





Vou. 112. 


| quer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Copyright — 
for consolidating the Laws relating to Copyright in —— 
Works of Literature and Art: And that Mr. Wi/son ; 
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The Select Committee on Westminster Bridge was Westminster 

nominated of Sir Benjamin Hall, Mr. Henley, Mr. Bridge. 
Bramston, Colonel boldero, Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. 
Tite, Sir William Jolliffe, Mr. Jackson and Sir John 
Shelley; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Select Committee on the Shgo Borough Sligo Borough 
Election (Mr. Somers’ Petitions) was nominated of yell - 
Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General, Sir James Petitions. ) 
Graham, Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Sir 
Frederic Thesiger, Mr. Baines, Mr. Butt, Mr. Roe- 
buck, Mr. George Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Gregory, 

Mr. Hildyard and Mr. Warren; with Power to 
send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Copy of the Report by the [n- Alien 
spector, under the Act 14 &amp; 15 Vic. c. 49, to the jh Mand 


Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the case fmprovemea 
xx ot Bill, 















































































































































East India 

(European 

Troops.) 
No. 194. 


New Zealand 
Government 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Bill 140. 


Boundaries 

of Burghs 
Extension 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bill 141. 


Copyright 
Acts Consoli- 
dation Bill. 


Bill 142. 


County Court 
Judges (Fal- 
coner and 
Yates’s Sala- 
ries) Bill. 


Bill 143. 


County Courts 
[Judges’ 
Salaries. | 


Ipswich 
Election. 


Huntingdoa 
County 
Election. 





330 


of the A/dborough Harbour of Refuge and Improve- 
ment Bill, be referred to the Select Committee on 
Hatbours of Refuge. 


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Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a | 
Copy or Extracts of the Correspondence which has | 
passed, since the 1st day of April 1856, between the , 
Court of Directors of the East India Company and 
the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, and | 
between the Court and the Governor General in 
Council, relating to the Number of European Troops 
in India. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly 
Paper. 

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


presented the said 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented a Bill to) 
amend the Act for granting a Representative Cor 
stitution to the Colony of New Zealand: And the | 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be | 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be 
printed, 


of 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to provide 
for the Extension of the Boundaries of Burghs in 
Scotland: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Wi/son presented a Bill for consolidating the | 
Laws relating to Copyright in Works of Literature 
and Art: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Wr/son presented a Bill to supply an Omission 
in a Schedule to the Act to amend the Acts relating 
to County Courts: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Thursday next ; and to be printed. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, this 
day, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
authorizing the payment, out of the Consolidated 
Fund cf the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Treland, vi the Salaries of certain Judges of County 
Courts: 

Sir George Grey, by Her Majesty’s Command, ac- 
quainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been | 
informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, re- 
comuiends it to the consideration of the House. 

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


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Two of the clock on ‘Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 


Martis, 21° die Julii; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 

N R. Walpole reported from the General Com- 

mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- 
bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and 
deterinine the matter of the Petitions complaining 
of ar undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Ipswich, to which they had annexed the Petitions 
referred to them by the House relating thereto :— 
Henry Austin Bruce, Esquire, John Hatchell, Es- | 
quire, Rainald Knightley, Esquire, Honourable | 
Henry George Liddell; Chairman, Lord Stanley. | 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. | 








The Names of the five Members appointed to try | 


and determine the matter of the Petitions com- | 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for th: | 


| 








° Jultz. A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


County of Huntingdon, were called over; and Jo- 
seph Locke, Esquire, not being present, Mr. Speaker 
acquainted the House, that he had received a Letter 


_ from Mr. Locke's Solicitors, Messrs. Swift and Wag- 


staff, stating that Mr. Locke had gone abroad under 
medical advice, and explaining the circumstances 
attending the health of himself and Mrs. Locke, 
which had induced him to go last week to Aix-la- 
Chapelle, after he had ascertained that all the Com- 
mittees had been struck from the Panel in which 
his name was included :—And the said Letter was 
read, as followeth : 

32, Great George-street, 

Westminster, 21 July 1857. 

Sir, Ss. W. 

As Solicitors for Mr. Joseph Locke, we write to 
explain his non-attendance at the House this day, 
to ke sworn as one of the Huntingdon Election 
Committee. 

Mr. Locke met with a serious accident to his 
cnee in November 1855, which confined him to 
his couch for several months, and in the autumn of 
last year he tried the effect of, and received much 
benetit from, the application of the douche baths at 


| Air-la-Chapelle. 


Some short time since, having experienced a 
return of lameness, he was recommended by his 
medical attendant again to have recourse to the 
same application, from which he had received so 
much benefit last vear; and he determined to adopt 


' the recommiendation as svon as his Parliamentary 


duties would permit. 

Having served as Chairman of one Private Com- 
mittee during the present Session, and having ac- 
certained at the beginning of last week that all the 
Election Committees of the Panel in which his name 
was included had been struck, he did not consider 
it necessary to obtain leave of absence, but started 
for Aix-la-Chapelle at 1°30 p. M. on ‘Thursday last, 
in company with Mrs. Locke, and arrived there after 
almost continuous travelling at 7°30 on Friday 
evening. 

On that same day a new Committee for the Hun- 
tingdon Petition was struck in consequence of the 
discharge of Sir Edward Dering, and Mr. Locke 
was nominated one of such Committee. 

A communication was at once made to Mr. Locke 
by Telegraph and by Letter, and a reply was re- 
ceived yesterday, intimating the length of the jour- 
ney, the fatigue of Mrs. Locke, the fact of his having 
placed himself under medical advice, that it would 
be impossible for him to attend the Committee, and 
that he had left town under the impression that he 
had been absolved from all liability to attend. 

Mr. Locke’s medical adviser has been seen, and 
will be in attendance at the sitting of the House ; he 
will be prepared to prove that Mrs. Locke has been 
for several months in a very delicate state of health 
and that he has advised quiet and freedom from 


-|excitement; that he was strongly opposed to her 


accompanying Mr. Locke, thinking the long journey 
would be too exciting, but he reluctantly gave his 
consent, from an impression that, considering the 
nervous irritability of her system, it would probably 
be productive of as much injury to her to separate 
her from her husband as would be occasioned by the 
excitement of the journey. That he considers the ex- 
citement and fatigue, consequent on her immediate 
return, might be productive of serious consequences, 
and that if instead of returning with Mr. Locke, she 
were to stay at Aix-la-Chapelle, and allow him to 
return alone in order to attend the Committee, the 


' same evils and injurious effects would probably be 


produced, and in an aggravated degree, for the 
avoidance whereof he reluctantly assented to Mrs. 
Locke's undertaking the journey. 

A Telegraphic Message was sent t» Mr. Locke 
yesterday, urging bim to return, if possible ; to which 
he replied late lust evening, “That he is unwell, that 
Mrs. Loche cannot travel, and he cannot leave her.” 


We 














Berwick- 
upon-Tweed 
Election. 


Keith and 
Dufftown 
Railway 
(No, 2) Bill. 








21 Vicroriz. 





We trust that this explanation, which we are pre- 
pard to verify on the oath of the writer and of 
Mr. Aitkin (Mr. Locke's medical attendant), will be 
considered by the House a sufficient case of neces- 
sity to admit of discharging Mr. Locke from at- 
tendance on the Committee. 


' We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient, humble servants, 
Swift &amp; Wagstaff. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker, 
&amp;e. &amp;e. 

And the House being iaformed of the state of 
Mr. Locke’s health by a Member in his place ; 

Mr. Wagstaff was called in, and examined upon 
oath in relation to the circumstances attending Mr. 
Locke’s health, and his departure for Aix-la-Cha- 
pelle :—And then he withdrew. 

Resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, 
sufficient cause has been shown to the House why 
the attendance of Joseph Locke, Esquire, should be 
dispensed with. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted tie House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. Weatherhead, 
as Agent for Charles William Gordon, informing him 
that it is not the Petitioner’s intention to proceed with 
his Petition complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Town ot Berwichk-upon- Tweed, so far 
as concerns the Election of Zohn Stapleton, Esquire : 
—And the said Letter was read, as followeth : 

Berwick-upon- Tweed, 
Sir, 20 July 1857. 

As Agent for Captain Charles William Gordon, 
in the matter of his Petition delivered in on the 19th 
day of May last, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Town of Berwich-upon-Tweed, 


so far as concerns the Election of John Stapleton, | 


Esquire, I hereby beg to inform you that it is not 
intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


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


R. R. Weatherhead. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


Mr. Speaker also acquainted the House, That he 
had this day received a Letter from Mr. Weather- 
head, as Agent for Charles William Gordon. informing 
him that it is not the Petitioner’s intention to proceed 
with his Petition complaining of an undue Election 


and Return for the Town of Berwick-upon- Tweed, so | 


far as concerns the Election of Dudley Coutts Mar- 


joribanks, Esquire :—And the said Letter was read, 


as followeth : 
Berwick-upon- Tweed, 
Sir, 20 July 1857. 

As Agent for Captain Charles William Gordon, 
in the matter of his Petition delivered in on the 19th 
day of May last, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the Town of Berwick-upon- Tweed, 
so far as concerns the Election of Dudley Couits 
Marjoribanks, Esquire, I hereby beg to inform you 
that it is not intended to proceed with the said Peti- 
tion. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
R. R. Weatherhead. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 
The Orders for referring the said Petitions to the 
General Committee of Elections, were read, and dis- 
charged. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Keith 


and Duffiown Railway (No. 2) Bill; and the same 
were twice read, and agreed to. 
Vow, 112. 


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331 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Manchestee 
Lords to the Manchester Corporation Bill be taken Corporation 
into consideration upon Thursday next. 7 


Ordered, That in the case of the Petition for the Scinde Rail- 
Scinde Railway Company Bill, the Examiner of Pe- way Company. 
titions for Private Bills have leave to sit, and pro- 
ceed forthwith. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and y;:3, yo, 
. ? Vide Votes, 
read ; and referred to Select Committees. and Twenty- 
sixth Report. 


A Petition of the Scinde Railway Cempany, for Scinde Rail- 
leave to bring in a Bill for authorizing the Scinde ¥#¥ Company. 
Railway Company to extend their Operations, and 
for regulating the Capital of the Company, and for 
other purposes, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Scinde Rail- 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, YY Comp@ny- 
in respect of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders in the case of the Petition for the Scinde 
Railway Company Bill. 

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


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Banking Bill. 
into a Committee on the Banking Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cravuses, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Cxrause, N° 3 (Repeal of section 2 of Joint Stock 
Companies Act, 1856). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 16: To leave 
out from the word “ Banking” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question proposed, ‘That the words “ subject to 
“ this proviso” stand part of the Clause :— Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 4 to N° 18, with an Amendment to 
one of them, agreed to. 
| Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Loan Societies Bill was, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


according to Order, Loan Societies 
Bill, 





The Commons Inclosure Bill was, according to Commons 
Order, read the third time. Inclosure Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Boundaries of Land (Jrelund) Bill was, ac- Boundaries 
cording to Order, read the third time. &gt; ser 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. (ecend) = 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
| Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
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332 


Bankruptcy The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
and Insolvency eonsideration the Bankraptcy and Insolvency (Ire- 
Gas. land) Bill, as awended in the Committee ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
after the other Orders of the day, at Twelve of the 
clock. 


Public Works The Public Works (/reland) Bill was, according 
(Ireland) Bill. ¢4 Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Land and As- 
sessed Taxes, 
&amp;c. (Scotland) 
Acts Amend- 


The Land and Assessed Taxes, &amp;e. (Scotland) 
Acts Amendment Bill was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 


ment Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Public Health The Public Health Act (Aldershott) Bill was, ac- 


Act (Alder- 


‘ding to Order, read the third time. 
shot) Bill. cording to Order, re " 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bankruptcy The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
and Insolvency jnto consideration the Bankruptcy and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. ; 


(Ireland) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Providing for the Examination of Wit- 
nesses at a distance from Dudbiin), was twice read ; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Court may stay prosecution of 
action), was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (That, so soon as any vacancy shall arise in 
the office of Judge of said Court of Bankruptcy and 
Insolvency, it shall and may be lawful for the present 
Judge of the Court of lusolvent Debtors in Lreland 
to succeed thereto, and until such vacancy and suc- 
cession thereto shall arise, the said Judge shall be 
entitled to receive, during his life, by way of re- 
tiring pension, an annual sum equivalent to his 
present salary, payable out of the same funds and 
in the same manner as his present salary: Provided 
always, ‘That in case of his declining to perform the 
duties of Judge of said Court of Bankruptcy and 
Insolvency when any vacancy shall arise, then and 
in that case the said before-mentioned retiring pen- 
sion shall cease and determine; and further, should 
he so succeed to such office of Judge of said Court, 
or hereafter be appointed to any other office, the 
amount of the salary which he may be entitled to 
receive in respect of such oftice shall be deducted 
from the amount of such retiring pension which 
he is entitled to under this Act):—And the said 
Clause was brought up, and read the first tine. 

A Motion was made, avd the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time :—And the said Motion aud Clause were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
sill (The Judges of said Court shall, on or before 
the Thirty-first of December in each year, direct 
an estimate to be made of the probable incidental 
expenses of said Court for the ensuing year (not to 

exceed Five hundred pounds a year), and to be fur- 
nished by the Chief Registrar to the office of the 
Chief Secretary of Jreland, for examination and 
approval, to be provided out of such funds as Par- 
lhanicnt shall direct for the purpose, to be applied 


salaries of temporary or additional clerks for the 


21° Julit. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


And the said Clause was brought up, and read the 
first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time :—And the said Motion and Clause were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (The first officers of said Court of Bank- 
ruptcy and Insolvency shall he— 

1 Chief Registrar, the Lord Chancellor’s Se- 
cretary of Bankruptcy. 

1 Chief Clerk of Insolvency, the present 
Chief Clerk, Insolvent Debtors’ Court. 

2 Assistant Registrars, the present Registrars 
of the Court of Bankruptev. 

1 Deputy Assistant Registrar, the First As- 
sistant Clerk, Court of Insolvent Debtors. 

2 First Clerks Town and Country Depart- 
ment, the present Junior Court Registrar, and 
the present First Clerk Country Department of 
the Insolvent Debtors’ Court. 

Ist Assistant Clerk, the Second) 

Clerk Town Department. | All of the 
2d Assistant Clerk, the Second (| Insolvent 
Clerk Country Department. Debtors’ 
3d Assistant Clerk, the Second; Court. 
Assistant Clerk. 

2 Official Assignees. 

2 Messengers: — And the said Clause was 

brought up, and read the first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time :—And the said Motion and Clause were seve- 
rally, with leave of the Llouse, withdrawn. 

‘Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 








tition of George Warren Montague Peacocke, and of 
the Petition of Stephen Clarke, and others, severally 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the Borough of Maldon, informed the House, That 
the Committee had determined, 

That Thomas Sutton Western, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in the present Parliament 
for the Borough of Maldon. 

That John Bramley-Moore, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in the present Parlian: nt 
for the Borough of Maldon. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Sir /ohu Trollope, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That it was proved to the Committee that Josepi 
Riley attempted to bribe Henry Gozzelt, by the 
promise of a contract for work at a church of which 
the said Joseph Riley was the Churchwarden. 

That the said Joseph Riley offered to bribe 
Thomas Webb, by the promise of a supply of flour 
for one year under the market price. 

That the said Joseph Riley was proved to have 
engaged rooms at the Wedlington Inn, where tieating 
was extensively carried on upon the day of polling, 
but it was not proved to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittce that the acts of bribery or treating were com- 
mitted with the cognizance or privity of the said 
Lhomas Sutton Western, or his Agents. 

That, in the opinion of the Committce, the meaniiiz 


‘and intent of the Act of the 17th &amp; 18th Ji. 
pursuant to said estimate in the payment of the | 


¢. 102, s. 15, for the appointment of an Election 





time being, court-keeper, tipstaff, stationery, coal 
and candle for the use of the Court, and other in- | 
cidental expenses, the accounts for such incidental | 
expenses to be audited annually by the Chief Re- 


Auditor, was rendered nugatory by the fact that the 
son and partner of the Agent of the Sitting Member 
held that office, whereby he became the Aud tor ci 
his own accounts, : 
That the Petition presented against the Return of 


gistrar of said Court, and certified under his hand, | the said John Bramley-Moore, Esquire, was frivolous 
previous to being transmitted to the Treasury) :— | and vexatious. 


That 








Sir John Trollope, from the Select Committee ap- Maldon 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- Pectivn. 











Falkirk 
Election. 


No. 185. 


Rating of 
Mines. 


Excise and 
Customs. 


Public Debt. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land.) 


Lights for 
Steam and 
Suiling Vessels. 
No. 196, 
Income Tax, 
&amp;c. London. 


No. 197. 


Ordnance 
Survey (Cum- 
berland and 
Westmore- 
land.) 


No, 179. 


Police (Bengal 
Presidency.) 
No. 198. 


Lunacy 
(Scotland. ) 


No. 199, 


Dover Mail 

Packet 

Contract. 
No. 67. 


Trade and 
Navigation. 


Standing 
Orders, 


Eastern Bengal 
Railway 
Company. 


Scinde Rail. 
way Company, 


91 Vicroriz. 


That the said Petition was presented chiefly with 
the view of inducing other persons to withdraw a 
Petition presented against the Return of Thomas 
Sutton Western, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





The following Papers, pursuant to Orders, were 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Falkirk Election Petition. 

Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on Rating of Mines on the 3d day of | 
March, in the last Session of Parliament. 

The following Paper was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 25th day of May last, for a Neturn relative 
to Excise and Customs. 

The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon 
the Table by the Clerk of the House,—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. 

Copy of Act of Sederunt, extending the next 
Winter Session of the First Division of the Court of 
Session. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence relative 
to the Falkirk Election be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lights for 
Steam and Sailing Vessels, which was presented 
upon the 22d day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Income Tax, 
&amp;e. London, which was presented upon the 9th day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return reiative to Ordnance 
Survey (Cumberland and Westmoreland), which was 
presented upon the 14th day of this instant July, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Police ( Ben- 
gal Presidency), which was presented upon the 20th 
day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lunacy 
(Scotland), which was presented upon the 20th day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Dover 
Mail Packet Contract, which was presented upon 
the 20th day of this instant July, be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
—Accounts re'ating to Trade and Navigation, for 
the Month ended 30th June 1857, and Six Months 
ended 30th June 1857. 

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


Sir John Yarde Buller reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, several Resolutions ; 
which were read, as follow : 

1. That in the case of the Eastern Bengal Rail- 
way Company Petition, the Standing Orders ought 
to be dispensed with ; that the Parties be permitted 
to proceed with their Bill, provided that they prove 
before the Committee on the Bill that the guarantee 
of the East India Company has been given, and 
also the recommendation of the Board of Control ; 
that the Committee on the Bill do report how far 
such Order has been complied with on the Report 
of the Bill. 

2. That in the case of the Scinde Railway Com- 
pany Petition, the Standing Orders ought to be 
dispensed with; that the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill, provided that they prove 
before the Committee on the Bill that the guarantee 

Vou. 112, 











21° Julte. | 333 


of the East India Company for the Capital required 
for the Indus Steam Flotilla, mentioned in the Bill, 
has been given, and also the recommendation of the 
Board of Control; that the Committee on the Bill 
do report how far such Order has been complied 
with on the Report of the Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Eastern Ben- 
Select Committee on Standing Orders in respect of gl Railway 
the Petition for the Eastern Bengal Railway Com- a 
pany Bill, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for incorporating the Eastern Bengal Railway Com- 
pany, and for other purposes: And that Mr. Greg- 
son and Mr. Cheetham do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, ‘That he had Lisburn 
this day received a Letter from Messrs. Lawford Electicn. 
and Waterhouse,as Agents for Juhkn Coulson, James 
Ward and James Bolton, informing him that it is not 
their intention to proceed with their Petition com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Lisburn :—And the said Letter was 
read, as followeth : 

Drapers’ Hail, 
: (Entrance 28, Austin Friars), 
Sir, London, 21st July 1857. 

As Agents for John Coulson, James Ward and 
James Bolton, Petitioners against the last Election 
and Return for the Borough of Lisburn, in the 
County of Antrim, in Ireland, we beg to inform you 
that it is not intended to proceed with their said 
Petition. 

We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient servants, 


Lawford § Waterhouse. 


To the Right honourable 
The Speaker of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Articles of 
Returns of the Names of such imported Articles of ¥ 
Food as are also produced in the United Kingdom, 
on which the Customs Duties still continue to be 
levied ; giving the Differential Duties on such Ar- 
ticles, if of Foreign and Colonial Production ; spe- 
cifying the Variations in the Rates of such Duties 
since the year 1835; showing also the Quantities 
of such Articles (distinguishing the Foreign and 
Colonial) imported into the United Kingdom in each 
year since the year 1835 :—And, of the Value of 
similar Articles, the Produce of the United King- 
dom, exported in each year for the same period. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Militia, 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of all Regiments of Militia in the 
United Kingdom who shall not lave completed 
their respective Quotas; and also the Number of 
Men required to complete the Establishment in 
each of such Regiments :—And, of the Number of 
Men in each Regiment of Militia in the United 
Kingdom whose Period of Service shall expire 
within Six Months from the present time. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this tlouse 
as are of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy 
Council. 


The House was moved, That the Report from the Scinde Rail- 
Select Committee on Standing Orders in respect of way Company. 
the Petition for the Scinde Railway Company Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

xx4 Ordered, 


334 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for authorizing the Scinde Railway Company to 
extend their Operations, and for regulating the Ca- 
pital of the Company, and for other purposes; and 
that Colonel Pinney, Mr. Gregson and Mr. Francis 
William Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the 
Act first and second Victoria, c. 105, intituled, “ An | 
Act for removing Doubts as to the Validity of certain 
Oaths ;” 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Lett. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 

Tellers for thef Mr. George Alex. Hamiltun,\, . , 

Noes, Colonel Taylor : | satan 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And that | 
Lord John Russell, Sir James Graham and Mr. | 
John Abel Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


Oaths Validity 
Act Amend- 
ment. 


}oac. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as fulloweth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Lewes and Uckfield 
Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Lewes and 
Uckfield 
Railway Bill. 


Newry, 
Warrenpoint 
and Rostrevor 
Railway Bill. 


Mallow and 
Fermoy and 
Great Southern 
and Western 
Railways Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Newry, Warren- 
point and Rostrevor Railway Bill, without any 
Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Mallow and Fer- 
moy and Great Southern and Western Railways Bill, 
without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Bury Gas Bill, 
without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Cannock Mineral 
Railway (No. 1) Bill, without any Amendment; 


Sury Gas 


Bill. 


Cannock 
Mneral Rail- 
way (No. 1) 
Bill. 
Selbyand Mar- 
ket Weighton 
Turnpike 
Road Bill. 
West Somerset The Lords have agreed to the West Somerset 


—— Mineral Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Selby and Market 
Weighton Turnpike Road Bill, without any Amend- 
ment: 


The Lords have agreed to the S/ratford-upon-Avon 
Gas Bill, without any Amendment : 


Stratford- 
upon-Avon 
Gas Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Newtown and 
Machynlleth Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to 


Newtown and 
Machynlleth 


21°—22” Julie. 





Railway Bil, hich the Lords desire the concurrence of this 


House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Prestwich, Bury | 
and Radcliffe Roads Bill, with Amendments ; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: 

The Lords have agreed to the Shropshire Union 
Railways and Canal, London and North Western 
Railway, and Shropshire Canal Companies Bill, 
with Amendments; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House : 


Prestwich, 
Bury and 
Radcliffe 
Roads Bill. 


Shropshir¢ 
Union Rail- 
ways and 
Canal, London 
and North 
Western 
Railway, and ‘ ; 
Shropshire Canal Companies Bill. 
Dundalk and The Lords have agreed to the Dundalk and En- 
eae niskillen Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which 
tailway . ag i 

tne Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
East Somerset 


The Lords have agreed to the East Somerset 
tailway Bill. 


Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
Dartmouth 
and Torbay 
Railway Bill, 


The Lords have agreed to the Dartmouth and 
Torbay Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
Atlantic 


Telegraph 
Company 


The Lords have agreed to the Atlantic Telegraph 
Company Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
‘ Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Baring’s 
to dissolve the Marriage of William Frederick Pivorce Bill 
Baring, Esquire, with Emi/y his now Wife, and to 
enable him to marry again, and for other purposes ; 
to which the Lords desire the cencurrence of this 
House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Agricultura 
to provide for the Collection of Agricultural Sta- 5™tistics. 
tistics in England and Wales: And that Mr. Caird 
and Mr. Garnett do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. FitzRoy and Sir Robert Committees 
Ierguson be added to the Select Committee on f Supply. 
Comniittees of Supply. 


Sales of Waste 
Lands (New 
Zealand. ) 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for discharging Claims of the New Zealand Com- 
pany on the Proceeds of Sales of Waste Lands in 
New Zealand ; And that Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. 
Mangles and Mr. Hutt do prepare, and bring it in. 


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


die Julit, 1857: 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Militia 
to prepare Estimates of the Charge of the Disem- Estimates. 
bodied Militia of Great Britain and Ireland, for 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1858 :— 
And a Committee was appointed of Sir John Rams- 
den, the Judge Advocate, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Ellice, 
Colonel North, Colonel Wilson Patten, Colonel 
Smyth, General Peel, Colonel Gilpin, Mr. Massey, 
Mr. Brand, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, the Farl of 
Mulgrave, and a\l Colonels of Militia. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


990 


Mercurii, 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Gold Coast. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy or Extracts of a Letter addressed to 
the Right honourable Henry Labouchere, om. p., by 
Mr. MW. Forster, dated the 24th day of June 1857; 
together with Copy of the Correspondence accom- 
panying the same (in continuation of Papers already 
before the House, entitled “ Gold Coast,” No. 483.) 

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. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Sugar, &amp;. 
Returns of the Quantities of Unrefined Sugar im- 
ported and cleared for Consumption in each year 
ending the 5th day of July, from 1842 to 1857, both 


| years inclusive; distinguishing the Produce of the 


West Indies, Mauritius, and East Indies ; showing 
a Total of the Produce of British Possessions, Fo- 
reign Countries, and the Aggregate of the whole 
for each year :—Of the same in every respect of Re- 
fined Sugar :—Of the same in every respect of Melas- 
ses :—Of the same in every respect of the Aggregate 
of Unrefined and Refined Sugar and Melasses, cen- 
verting Melasses into Sugar at the rate of Three 
Pounds of Melasses to One Pound of Sugar :—Of 
the same of Rum :—Of the Amount of Duty re- 
ceived on Refined and Unrefined Sugar and on Me- 
lasses, in each of the above years; distinguishing 
the Amounts paid on Foreign and on Colonial Pro- 
duce, and the Rates of Duty chargeable in each 
year :—Of the Ameount of Duty received on Rum 
in each year, and the Rate at which it was charged: 
—And, of the Average Prices per Cwt. of Musco- 
rado Sugar, exclusive of Duty, from the London 
Gazette ; and the Average Prices per Cwt. of Ha- 
vaniah Sugar (ordinary Yellow), exclusive of Duty, 
from the London Mercantile Prices Current, for 
each of the above years (in recapitulation and con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 396, of Ses- 
sion 1856). 

Orcered, 











ys 


e Bill, 


Itural 
ics, 


ttees 
aly. 


Waste 
New 





. Dublin Police 





91 Vicroriz. 





sligo Borough Ordered, That Sir John Pakington be added to 
Election, the Select Committe on the Sligo Borough Election 
Onions) (Mr. Somers’ Petitions). 

Chelsea New Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Chel- 
Bridge Bill. sea New Bridve Bill be nominated by the Com- 


mittee of Selection. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Fund. Return of the Amount of the City of Dublin Police 
Fund realized in the year ending December 31, 
1856; stating also, severally, the Amount derived 
from the Police Tax ; the Amount received from the 
Consolidated Fund ; the Amount derived from other 
Sources of Revenue; distinguishing the Amount 
received from each Source. 


General Board The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
of Health Bill. mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
miitee on the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects Abroad 
Bill ; 


Wills, &amp;c. of 
British Sub- 
jects Abroad 


Bill. ‘ ‘ ah 

; Resolved, That this House will, upon Tliursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Oxford Uni- The Oxford University Bill was, according to 


versity Bill. Order, read a second time; and cominitted to a 


Committee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


Summary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Proceedings mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 


ae — of the Peace Bill; 


Bill. Resolved, Vhat this House will, this day, resolve 
itself inte the said Committee. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 
tions, &amp;c. Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Revising The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Barristers IL mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill ; 
ede Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
East Quay The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Wall Tax mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill; 
Goan Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Assessments The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Scotland) into a Committee on the Assessments (Scotland) 
; Billi; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, ‘That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 
Court of The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Session (Scot- 


land) Bill mittee on the Court of Session (Scot/and) Bill; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Caledonian 
and Crinan 
Canals Bill, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Caledonian and Crinan Canals 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


New Zealand The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
{oan Guaran- into a Committee on the Wew Zealand Loan Gua- 
rantee. 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That Her Majesty be authorized to 
Vou. 112. 


21°—229 Juliz. 





335 
guarantee the repayment of a Loan, to an amount 
not exceeding £. 500,000, for the service of the Pro- 
vince of New Zealand, together with the Interest 
thereon, not exceeding Four pounds per centum per 
annum, and that Provision be made, out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for the payment from time to 
time of such Sums of Money as may become payable 
by Her Majesty under such Guarantee. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fisz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on Mutual 
Mutual Companies [Stamps], a Resolution; which Companies 
was read, as followeth: [Geampe.] 

That the Memorandum of Association, and the 
Articles of Association, to be executed by Mutual 
Companies under the Provisions of any Act of the 
present Session for the. Incorporation of Mutual 
Companies, shall respectively bear the same Stamps 
as if they were Deeds, or were contained in Deeds. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Turnpike Acts 
consideration the ‘Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, Continuance 
as anended in the Commit‘ee ; Bill. 

O:dered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Land Tax 
into consideration the Land Tax Commissioners’ Commission- 
Names Bill, as amended in the Commiitee. Bill _— 

Ordered, Tivat the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


fhe House, according to Order, resolved itself Valuation of 
into a Committee on the Valuation of Lands (Scot- —_ _— 
lund) Act Amendment Bill; and, after some time pk a 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Bill. 
Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
hoe d t Bill: Estates Act 

ct Amendment Bill; _ Amendment 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill 


upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Corn, 
reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;e. Bill ; &amp;c. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Grand Juries 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan 
“eer “1, ; Police Dis- 
District) Bill; trict) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Industrial 
readiug of the Industrial Schools Bill ; Schools Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Bill be now read the third time ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Nves to the Lett. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Adderley, } - 
Yeas, UMr. Kinnaird: _— 
Tellers for thef Mr. Cobbett, Lay 
Noes, LSir John Trelawny : : owen 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative:—The Bill 
was accordingly read the third time. 
YY Resolved, 








336 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on County Courts [Judges 
Salaries]. 


County Courts 
Judges’ 
ries. ] 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That Provision be made, out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for the payment of the Salaries 
of certain Judges of County Courts. 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come toa 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Baring’s 


Bariny’s Divorce Bill was read the first time ; 
Divorce Bill. 


and ordered to be read a second time. 


Sale of Obscene 
Books, &amp;c. 
Prevention 
Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the 
Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Prevention Bill, was 
read, and (ischarged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee, this day, on the Smoke Nuisance (Scot- 
land) Abatement Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Smoke Nui- 

sance (Scot- 

land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 


Oaths Validity 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Bill 144. 


Mr. John Abel Smith presented a Bill to amend 
the Act first and second Victoria, c. 105, intituled, 
“ An Act for removing Doubts as to the Validity 
of certain Oaths :” And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Friday next ; and to be printed. 


Sales of Waste 
Lands (New 
Zealand) Bill. 


Bill 145, 


Mr. John Abel Smith presented a Bill for dis- 
charging Claims of the New Zealand Company on 
the Proceeds of Sales of Waste Lands in New Zea- 
land: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Caird presented a Bill to provide for the Col- 
lection of Agricultural Statistics 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. 


Agricultural 
Statistics Bill. 
Bill 146. 


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


Mercurii, 22° die Julii : 


Anno 21° Victorize Regine, 1857. 





PRAYERS. 
N It. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- 
bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and 
determine the matter of the Petition complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Great Yarmouth, to which they had annexed the 
Petition referred to them by the House relating 
thereto :—Henry Morgan Clifford, Esquire, Caledon 
George Du Pre, Esquire, William James Garnett, 
Esquire, Colonel the Honourable James P. Maxwell; 
Chairman, the Earl of March. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Clare Election. Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 


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A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the County of Clare, 
to which they had annexed the Petition referred to 
them by the House relating thereto :—Sir Thomas 
Edward Colebrooke, Baronet, Edward Holland, Es- 
quire, William Bulkeley Hughes, Esquire, John 
Tollemache, Esquire ; Chairman, General Peel, 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Gloucester 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of City Election. 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petitions complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the City of Glou- 
cester, to which they had annexed the Petitions re- 
ferred to them by the House relating thereto :—Ste- 
phen Edward De Vere, Esquire, Edward Basil Farn- 
ham, Esquire, George Ridley, Esquire, George Scla- 
ter, Esquire; Chairman, Lord Robert Grosvenor. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Clare Election, 
this day received a Letter from Mr. R. H. Wyatt, as 
Agent for Sir Join Forster itz Gerald, intorming 
him that it is not the Petitioner's intention to proceed 
with his Petition complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the County of Clare :—And the said 
Letter was read, as followeth: 


28, Parliament-street, Westminster, 
Sir, 22 July 1857. 

As Agent for Sir John Forster FitzGerald, m 
the matter of his Petition delivered on the 21st day 
of May last, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the County of Clare, I hereby beg to in- 
form you that it is not intended to proceed with the 
said Petition. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most cbedient servant, 
R. H. Wyatt. 
The Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try Ipswich 
and determine the matter of the Petitions com- Election. 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
Borough of Ipswich, were called over; and being 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great North- 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Great erm Railway 
Northern Railway (Capital) Bill. ce) ee 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
several were agreed to; and one was disagreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 
draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for 
disagreeing to the Amendment to which this House 
hath disagreed :—And a Committee was appointed 
of Mr. Spooner, Mr. Headlam, Mr. William Brown, 

Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Lowe and Mr. Briscoe :—And 
they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


A Bill for authorizing the Scinde Railway Com- Scinde Rail- 
pany to extend their Operations, and for regulating W4y Compary 
gal Bill. 
the Capital of the Company, and for other purposes, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Bill for incorporating the Eastern Bengal Eastern Ben- 
Railway Company, and for other purposes, was read 8%! Railway. 
. ; Company Bill. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 


time. 
Several 








Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Votes, 


and Twenty- 
sixth Report. 


Education 
(Ireland. ) 


Marriages. 


Burials 
(Ireland. ) 


Trish Fishery 
Commission. 


Excise and 
Customs. 


No. 201. 
Public Debt. 
No, 202. 


Trade and 
Navigation. 


No. 49. 


Bath Election. 


Exchequer, 
&amp;e. 


Vaccination 
Bill, 


Leave of 
Absence. 


Public 
Charities Bill. 


Married 
Women Bill, 


Tenant Right 
(Ireland) Bill. 








21 Vicrort. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; 
and referred to a Select Committee. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Annual Report of the Commissioners of 
Education in Jre/and, 1856-1857. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of this in- 
stant July, for a Return relative to Marriages. 

Return to an Order, dated the 19th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Burials (Zreland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 6th day of this in- 
stant July, for a Return relative to the Jrish Fishery 
Commission. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Excise and 
Customs, which was presented upon the 21st day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Public 
Debt, which was presented upon the 21st day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Trade and 
Navigation, which were presented upon the 21st day 
of this instant July, be printed. 


The followmy Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee 
on the Bath Election Petition. 

The following Paper was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 29th day of May last, fora Return relative 
to Exchequer, &amp;e. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Vaccination Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That Viscount Bury have leave of 
absence for the remainder of the Session, on account 
of ill healthy;—Sir John Shelley a week, on account 
of ill health ;—and Mr. Bramley-Moore the re- 
mainder of the Session, on urgent business. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public Charities Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

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 this day three months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—1t 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 three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Married Women Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, 'Ihat the Bill be committed to a Select 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Tenant Right (Jre/and) Bill ; 
Ordered, That tlie said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
VoL. 112. 


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337 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burial Acts 


into a Committee on the Burial Acts Amendment 
Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Another Clause added. 

Clause (In any Burial-ground provided under the 
powers of the Acts hereinbefore recited or this Act, 
respecting which one of Her Majesty’s Principal 
Secretaries of State shall have certified that the 
necessary provisions have been complied with, it 
shall be lawful for the incumbent of such parish, or 
his curate, or such duly qualified person as such in- 
cumbent may authorise, to bury in such Burial- 
ground) ——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the fMr. Massey, 108 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : } , 

Tellers for the {ren Puller, 1 69 

Noes, Mr. Hardy : ; 

Amendment proposed to the said Clause: After 
the words “ complied with,” to insert the words 
“ upon such Certificate being sent to the Bishop of 
“the diocese in which such Burial-ground is situ- 
“ ated, the Bishop shall consecrate such ground.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there in- 
serted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to ; and added. 

Another Clause (Unconsecrated part of Burial- 
ground, when certified, to be part of parish Burial- 
yround)——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time :— Motion and Clause, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Three other Clauses added. 

Another Clause (That it shall not be lawful for 
any Bishop, previous to or as a condition for conse- 
cration, to require the production of, or to examine 
into, the title-deeds concerning the purchase and 
conveyance of any Burial-ground ; nor shall any sum 
exceeding the sum of £. be allowed in pay- 
ment of the fees charged for the deed of consecra- 
tion, and any other charges and expenses connected 
therewith)——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


Amendment 
Bill. 


Bill 147. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- gupply. 


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- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself iuto the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Municipal 
into consideration the Municipal Corporations Bill, — 


as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Overseers of the poor to make out bur- 
gess roll on or before first day of September in every 
year), was twice read; and made part of the Pill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Banking Bill 
into consideration the Banking Bill, as amended in 
y¥¥2 


the 





338 


the Committee ; and Amendments were made to 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Bankruptcy The Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jreland) Bill 
and Insolvency was, according to Order, read the third time. 
(Irelan¢) Bill. Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Summary The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Proceedings mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 
before Justices &gt; : : a 
of the Peace Of the Peace Bill; 
Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 
Assessments The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
(Scotland) —_ into consideration the Assessments (Scotland) Bill, 
” as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 
Caledonian The Caledonian and Crinan Canals Bill was, ac- 


and Crinan 


cording to Order, read the third time. 
Canals Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


New Zealand Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
Loan Guaran- )Vew Zealand Loan Guarantee, a Resolution ; which 
tee. was read, as followeth : 

That Her Majesty be authorized to guarantee the 
repayment of a Loan, to an amount not exceeding 
£.500,000, for the service of the Province of New 
Zealand, together with the Interest thereon, not 
exceeding £.4 per centum per annum, and that 
Provision be made, out of the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, for the payment from time to time of such 
Sums of Money as may become payable by Her 
Majesty under such Guarantee. 

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. FitzRoy, Mr. Secretary 
Labouchere and Mr. Chichester Fortescue do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Turnpike Acts Continuance 
Bill, as amended in the Committee ; 
ment wis made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow, ut ‘Twelve of the clock. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Land Tax 
Commission- 
ers’ Names 
Bill. 


The Land Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill was, 
according to Oder, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Valuation of 
Lands (Scot- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) 
Act Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on 
County Courts (Judges’ Salaries), a Resolution; 
which was read, as followeth : 

That provision be made, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Jreland, for the payment of the Salaries of cer- 
tain Judges of County Courts. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


County Courts 
{ Judges’ 
Salaries. ] 


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Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law concerning detached parts of 
Counties, so far as respects the Establishment of 
County Constables: And that Sir George Grey and 
Mr. Massey do prepare, and bring it in. 


Constables 
(detached 
parts of Coun- 
ties. ) 


Mr. Egerton, from the Select Committee ap- Weymouth 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- and Melcombe 
tition of George Medd Butt, Esquire, and also of sis Election, 
the Petition of James Dunning Harvey, Thomas 


| Shields, and John Lee, junior, complaining of an 


undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, informed the House, 
That the Committee had determined, 

That Robert James Roy Campbell, Esquire, is 
duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Par- 
liament for the Borough of Weymouth and Mel- 
combe Regis. 

That Colonel William Lockyer Freestun is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment for the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe 
Regis. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Egerton, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 


That it was proved to the Committee that Samuel 
Simmonds bribed Thomas Newman, to induce Thomas 
Bonella to give his vote, with the sum of Six pounds, 
for the payment of his travelling expenses at a pre- 
vious Election. 

That Samuel Simmonds bribed Samuel Edmonds 
for the purpose of giving his vote. 

That it was not proved to the satisfaction of the 
Committee that the said acts of bribery were com- 
mitted with the cognizance or privity of the Sitting 
Members, or their Agents. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Spooner reported from the Committee ap- Great 
pointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Northem 
Lords for disagreeing to one of the Amendments (Capital) Bill. 
made by their Lordships to the Great Northern 
Railway (Capital) Bill; That they had drawn up a 
Reason accordingly, which they had directed him 
to report to the House: And the same was read, 
as followeth : 

Because the Amendment, if adopted, would 
decide a question of Law in dispute between 
the preference and ordinary Shareholders of the 
Great Northern Railway Company, which ought 
to be left to the decision of a Court of Law. 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
communicate the said Reason (with the Bill and 
Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry the 
same. 


Sir John Ramsden reported from the Select Com- Militia 
mittee on Militia Estimates; That they had pre- Estimates. 
pared the said Estimates, and directed him to make No. 200. 
a Report thereof to the House. 

And a Motion being made, That the Report be 
referred to the Committee of Supply ; 

Mr, Attorney General for Zreland, 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 Report be referred to the Com- 
mittee of Supply; and be printed. 


end the Law Constables 

“7 far ag (detache 

so far as parts of Coun- 
* ties) Bill. 


Mr. Massey presented a Bill to am 
conceruing detached parts of Counties, 
respects the Establishment of County Constables 


And the same was read the first time; and ordered — pj) 148. 
to be read a second time To-morrow, at Twelve of 
the clock ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, 











Dulwich 
College Bill. 


Sligo Borough 
Election. 
ion, 


Rating of 
Mines. 


Huntingdon 
County 
Election. 


Controverted 
Elections. 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Gloucester 
City Election. 


Backwater 
Bridge and 
Road Bill. 








21 Vicroria#. 22°—-2 

Ordered, That all Petitions presented this Session 
relative to the Dulwich College Bill be referred to the 
Select Committee on the Bill; and that such of the 
Petitioners as pray to be heard by Counsel be heard 
accordingly, if they think fit. 





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Julri. 339 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Cork and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Cork i Bill 
and Youghal Railway Billi; and the same weretwice 
read, and agreed to. . 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


| Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


Ordered, That the Petition of John Patrick | agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


Somers, Esquire, which was presented upon the 16th 
day of this instant July, relative to certain ‘Trials 
connected with the late Election for the Borough of | 
Sligo, be printed. 





Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken | 


before the Select Committee on Rating of Mines on | 
the 3d day of March, in the last Session of Parlia- | 
ment, which were presented upon the 21st day of 

this instant July, be referred to the Select Committee 

on Rating of Mines. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 23° die Juli; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
"PRAYERS, 


M R. Walpole reported from the General Com- 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Members 
of the Select Committee thirdly appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the County 
of Huntingdon :—Sir John Johnstone, Baronet, 
Henry Paull, Esquire, Thomas Matthias Weguelin, 
Esquire, Wilitam Watkin Wynne, Esquire (Merio- 
neth); Chairman, John Morgan Cobbett, Esquire. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections; ‘That they had selected Tho- 
mas Sotheron Lstcourt, Esquire, and Sir Edward 
North Burton, Baronet, to be Members of the 
Chairmen’s Panel, and to serve as Chairmen of 
Election Committees, in the room of the Right 
honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington, Baronet, 
and the Right honourable Edward Horsman, who 
have claimed to be excused during the remainder of 
ithe Session. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rouzh of Great Yarmouth, were called over; and 
being come to the Table, they were sworn by the 
Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Peti:ion be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet 'To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the City of 
Gloucester, were called over; and being come to 
the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Back- 
water Bridge and Road Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 

Vou. 112. 


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ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Manchester 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords Corporation 
to the Manchester Corporation Bill; _ 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Hereford Cathedral Restoration Bill was read Hereford 

the third time. rene 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. —" 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 203 be suspended Baring’s _ 
in the case of Baring’s Divorce Bill; and that the Piverce Bill. 
Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Several Public Petitions were also presented, and yige Votes, 

read ; and referred to a Select Committee. and Twenty- 

seventh Re- 
port. 

Petitions of Henry Tritton, of Lombard-street, in Chelsea New 

the City of Zondon, Banker, and others, being Brilge Bill. 

Proprietors of the Bridge over the River Thames, 

from Battersea, in the County of Surrey, to Chelsea, 

in the County of Middlesex ;—and, of the Vauxhall 

Bridge Company ; praying that they may be heard 

by themselves, their Counsel, Agents and Witnesses, 

before the Committee to whom the Chelsea New 

Bridge Bill is referred, against the Preamble and 

Clauses thereof, and in support of such Clauses and 

Amendments as they may submit for the protection 

of their property, rights and interests, were pre- 

sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on the Bill; with Power to be heard by 

Counsel, if they think fit. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Superannu- 
reading of the Superannuation Act Amendment {ion 4ct 
Bill ; Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
heing proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “now” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Banking Bill. 
reading of the Banking Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Assessments 
reading of the Assessments (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the said Order be cischarged. 
Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill was, accord- Turnpike Acts 
ing to Order, read the third time. — 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. ' 
YY3 The 





Valuatien of 
Lands (Scot- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Constables 
(Detached 


parts of Coun- 


ties) Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 


Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) Bill. 


New Zealand 
Loan Guaran- 
tee Bill. 


Bill 149. 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Education 
( Ireland.) 
No. 204. 


Marriages. 


No, 106-1, 


Exchequer, 
&amp;e. 


No. 205. 


Highweys 


Fast Tadia 
(Railways. ) 


East India. 


Railways. 


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The Order of the day being read, for the third | 


reading of the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act 
}&gt;53 


Amendment ! 


23° Juli. 


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dlits 


A.1857. Sess. IL. 


Length of Railway open at the commencement and 
at the termination of the half-year ; compiled from 
Returns made in pursuance of the Provisions of the 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this | Act 3 &amp; 4 Vie. c. 97 ; together with a Summary, com- 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second | 
reading of the Constables (Detached parts of Coun- | 
ties) 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 Probates and Letters of Administra- 
tion Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
tion (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a | 
Bill to guarantee a Loan for the Service of New 
Zealand: And the same was read tlie first time ; and | 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


The Order for taking into consideration, upon 
Monday next, the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, as 
amended in the Committee, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, Vhat the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Education 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 22d day | 
of this instant July, be printed. | 


Ordered, \hat the Return relative to Marriages, 
which was presented upon the 22d day of this instant | 
July, be printed. 
' 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Exche- 
quer, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 22d day of | 
this instant July, be printed. 


! 
| 
| 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address 
te Her Majesty, dated the 15th day of this instant 
July, for a Return relative to Liighways. 

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


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 20th day of this instant July, for a Return rela- 
tive to East India (Railways). 

The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were also laid upon 
the Tuble by the Clerk of the House,—Resolutions 
of the Court of Directors of the Eust India Com- 
pany, being the Warrants or Instruments granting 
any Salary or Gratuity. 

Resolutions of the Court of Directors of the Eas? 
India Company, being the Warrants or Instruments 
granting any Pension. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty's Com- 
mand,—A Return showing the Number of Passen- 
vers conveyed on all the Railways in Eng/and and 
Wales, Scotland and Jreland respectively, during 
the half-year ended the 31st December 1856, dis- 
tinguished in different Classes, and the Receipts | 
from each Class of Passengers, and from Goods, &amp;c. ; 
the Aggregate Number of Miles travelled by each 
Class of Passengers; the Number of Passenger | 
Trains and of Goods Trains respectively ; the Num-| 
ber of Miles travelled by such Trains; and the | 


tion (Mr. Somers’ Petitions); That they had con- 


reading of the Edinburgh, Canongate aud Mon- 


| Mr. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, 


paring the Traffic with that in the corresponding 
period in 1855. 

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


Mr, Attorney General for Zre/and reported from Sligo Borough 


the Select Committee on the Sligo Borough Elec- Election 
. (Mr. Somers 


Petitions. ) 


sidered the matters to them referred, and had come yo, 206 


to a Resolution, which they had directed him to re- 
port to the House: And the Resolution of the 
Committee was read, as followeth : 

That, assuming the allegations of fact made in the 


| Petitions of J. P. Somers, Esquire, to be correct, 


this Committee is of opinion that there are no cir- 
cumstances in the case affecting the Privileges of 
this House. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the second Rainburgh, 
Canongate 
and Montrosc 
Annuity Tax 


trose Annuity Tax Abolition Bill; 
Abolition Bill. 


Ordered, That the said Order be discharged, 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Return of the Area and Population of each Division a Popu- 
‘ ; ation, &amp;c.) 
of each Presidency of Jndia, from the latest In- 
quiries; comprising also the Area and estimated 
| Population of Native States. 


Freight Money 
(Greenwich 


dated the i6th day of this instant July, for a Return Hospital ) 


relative to Freight Money (Greenwich Hospital). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 
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 
“ there be laid before this House, Copies of any Cor- Drying Room 
‘responcence which has taken place between the 
“ War Department and Mr. Huthnance, relative to 


“his Apparatus for a Drying Room to be attached 


“to a Laundry, and of any Reports which have 
“been mace on this subject by any Officers to 
“ whoin the question has been referred,” 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.) 


1. £.400,000, towards the Reimbursement to the 
East India Company of a moicty of the Extraordi- 
nary Expenses of the Expedition to Persia. 

2. £.590,693, for the adjustment of the Account 
with the Kast India Company, for the Expenditure 
in connexion with the late War in China. 

3. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £.7,125, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to complete the Sum required to defray the Expense 
of the General Board of Health, to the 31st day of 
March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Afulgrave : 

Tellers for the ing William Williams, 

Noes, Mr. Mowbray : 


yan. 


J 
1 ao. 


4. Motion 











igh 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Turnpike 

a rasta Abo- 
ition (Lre] 
Bill (Ireland) 








91 Vicroriz. 

4. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £.2,548, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to complete the Sum required to defray a portion of 
the Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
for England, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {Mr. Hayler, } 

Yeas, LThe Earl of Mulgrave : a 

Tellers for the {Sir John Trelawny, + 

Noes, UMr. William Williams:  § % 

5. £.11,080, to complete the Sum for the Charity 
Commission for England and Wales. 

6. £.1,911, for the Statute Law Commission. 

7. £.4,924, to complete the Sum for the Civil 
Service Commissioners. 

8. £.3,524, to complete the Sum for sundry tem- 
porary Commissions. 

9. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, net exceeding £.20,988, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum required to defray 
the Fees, Salaries, Expenses and Compensations, 
payable under the Provisions of the Patent Law 
Amendment Act, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.15,578, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
defray the Fees, Salaries, Expenses and Compen- 
sations, payable under the Provisions of the Patent 
Law Amendment Act, to the 31st day of March 
1858 :—-Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question again proposed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.18,988, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum required to defray the 
Fees, Salaries, Expenses and Compensations, pay- 
able under the Provisions of the Patent Law 
Amendment Act, to the 31st day of March 1858 ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the, Mr. Mowbray, l a9 
Yeas, Mr. Spooner : a 
Tellers for the ; Mr. Bayer, lise 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: ia 


Original Question put, and agreed to. 

10. Motion made, and Question proposed, That 
a Sum, not exceeding £.8,843, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to complete the Sum required to pay the 
Salaries and Expenses of the Board of Fisheries in 
Scotland, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That a Sum, not exceeding £.2,160, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to pay 
the Salaries and Expenses of the Board of Fisheries 
in Scotland, to the 31st day of March 1858 :— 
Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Resolutions to be reported. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 24° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. litz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Fitz oy also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will this day again re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 


their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Turnpike Trusts 
Abolition (Zreland) Bill, without any Amendment : 


Von. 112, 


2539 — 24° Sulri. 





541 


The Lords have agreed to the Constabulary Force Constabulary 


Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment: Force (Ire- H 
( ) ? ) ” ' land) Bill. / 
The Lords have agreed to the Zendon Gas-Light London Gas- 
Company (Capital) Bill, without any Amendment: Light Com~- ; 
? pany (Capital) 

Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Milford Improve- Milford Im- 
ment Bill, without any Amendment : — 

The Lords have agreed to the Orkney Roads Orkney 
Bill, without any Amendment : Roads Bill. 

‘The Lords have agreed to the East Kené Rail- East Kent 
way (Extension to Dover) Bill, without any Amend- Railway (Ex- 
ment: &gt; tension to 

a Dover) Bill. ki 
The Lords have agreed to the Midland Great Midland 
Western Railway of Ireland (Sligo Extension) Bill, — ae 
i any » P ailway o 
without any Amendment : Ireland (Sligo 
Extension) 
Bill, 

The Lords have agreed to the Monkland Rail- Monkland 
ways Bill, without any Amendment : Railways Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Midland Great Midland 
Western Railway of Zreland (Streamstown and Clara + area = 
Junction) Bill, with Amendments; to which the inkelieeen 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : town and Clara ; 

Junction) Bill. 


The Lords have passed: a Bill, intituled, An Act Offences 
to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of Eng- against the 
land relating to Offences against the Person; to Fences Ss. 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Malicious 
to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of Eng- oe ~ 

‘ “ai Seber perty Bill. 

land relating to Malicious Injuries to Property; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Forgery Bill. 
to consolidate the Statute Law of England relating 
to Indictable Offences by Forgery; to which the \ 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Libel Bill. 
to consolidate the Statute Law of England and Ire- 
land relating to Libel; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Coinage _ 
to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of the Offences Pill 
United Kingdom against Offences relating to the 
Coin; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Accessories 
to consolidate the Statute Law of England and Jre- #0 Abettors 
land relating to Accessories to, and Abettors of,” 
Indictable Offences; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: 

The Lords have passed a Biil, intituled, An Act Larceny, &amp;e. 
to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of Eng- Pill. 
land relating to Larceny and other similar Offences ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence cf this 
House. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- Feclesiastical 
mittees on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill, Commission, 
the Canada and New Brunswick Boundaries Bill, nen 
the Oxford University Bill, and the Illicit Distilla- New Bruns- 
tion (Jreland) Bill; wick eet 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the Oxford Uni- 
same Committee :—Then the House resolved itself versity Bill, 


i Lhe nl and Illicit 
into the Committee. ioe 
(In Committee on the Ecclesiastical (Ireland) Bill, 


Commission, &amp;e. Bill.) 


Preamb‘e postponed. 

Crauses, N’ 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N°3 (Lands sufficient to afford the net 
statutory income to be secured to each See). 

Amendments made. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill ; 

yxy4 The 





$42 


The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the) Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, \The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the; Mr. Ayrton, es 
Noes, \ Mr. White: } ; 
Ciause, N° 4 (Like arrangement may be made 
before next avoidance on request of the Bishop). 
Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again 
put, and negatived. 
C'ause agreed tu. 
Cuauses, N° 5 and N° 6, agreed to. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


(In Committee on the Illicit Distillation 
(Ireland) Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Ecclesiastical 
Commission, 
&amp;c. Bill. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Iitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
gress in the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill; 
and that he was directed to move, That the Com- 
mittee may have leave to sit again. 

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


@anada and 
New Bruns- 
wick Bound- 
arics Bill, , 

same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this | 


day. 
Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Oxford University Bill. 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 
Mlicit Distilla- Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee 
Bill (Ireland) had made Progress ia the Illicit Distillation (Zre- 
land) 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. 


Oxford Uni- 
versity Bill. 


Conveyanee 
of Mails by 
Railways Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn :—It passed in the 
Negative. 


Adjournment. 


Insurance 
Companies 
Bill. 


The Insurance Companies Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Mutual Companies Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


Mutual Com- 
panies Bill. 


Public Heath The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Act (1848) peading of the Public Health Act (1848) Amend- 

Amendment iF 

Bill. ment Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Wednesday next. 


Boundaries The Order of the day being read, for the second 
&lt;a - reaaing of the Boundaries of Burghs Extension 
land) Bal, (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 Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


23°—294° Julr?. 


lios. | 
J 


Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee | 
had gone through the Canada and New Brunswich 
Boundaries Bill, and directed him to report the. 


reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways 


A.1857. Sess. II. 


| The Order of the day being read, for the Com- East Quay 

| mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill; Wall Tax 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday (P&gt;H#s) Bill 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Justices and 
mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) Police Force 
Bill: (Dublin) Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Election 
into a Committee on the Election Petitions Bill ; Petitions Bill 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker Bill 150. 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, ‘That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


| The Representative Peers (Ireland) Bill was, ac- Representa. 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- tive Peers — 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for this (¢!¢) Bill. 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second County Court 

‘reading of the County Court Judges (Falconer and J¥dges (Fal- 

Yates’s Salaries) Bill ; Yates's Sale 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this ries) Bill, 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills, &amp;e. of 
mittee on the Wills, &amp;e. of British Subjects Abroad British Sub- 
Bill - jects Abroad 

Ut - : ’ 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 Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates SalesofSettled 


Act Amendment Bill; pon bed 


| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this Bill. 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Grand Juries 
mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan 
“areal . Police Dis- 
District) Bill ; trict) 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 SaleofObscene 
Books, &amp;e. 
Prevention 
Bill. 


reading of the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Preven- 
, tion Bill; 
| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 
_ The Order of the day being read, for the second Sales of Waste 
reading of the Sales of Waste Lands (New Zealand) Lands (New 
| Bill; Zealand) Bill. 
_ Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 
_ _The Order of the day being read, for resuming the Superannua- 
| adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, upon ye Act 
| . mendment 
the 23d:day of this instant July, was proposed to be pin), 
made to the Question, That the Superannuation Act 
Amendment Bill be now read a second time ; 
| Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


The Banking Bill was, according to Order, read Banking Bill. 
the third time. 
| Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


| Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third ne ny ote 
reading of the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act jinay pp 
Amendment Bill; Amendment 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this Bill 
day. 
The 








’ Constables 
: Detache 
Bia j ats of Coun- 
ties) Bill. 
nd 
ree 
Bill. British Spirits. 
Bill. 
0, 


London Writ. 


sill. 


rt 

1. 
Amy. 

A+ 

of 

1 
Offences 
against the 
Person Bill. 

led No, 151. 
Malicious 
Injuries to 
Property Bill. 

Bill 152. 
: 
n Forgery Bill. 


Bill 153. 


Coinage 
Offences Bill. 


Bill 154. 


Accessories 
and Abettors 
Bill. 


Bill 155. 
Larceny, &amp;c. 
Bill. 

Bill 156. 


Libel Bill. 
Bill 157. 


Huntingdon 
County 
Election, 





91 Vicroria. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Constables (Detached parts of 
Counties) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Biil be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return showing the Number of Proof Gallons of 
British Spirits on which Duty was paid in Lreland 
in the year ending the 31st day of December 1256 ; 
the Amount of Duty received on same; the actual 
Deficiency in Proof Gallons; and the Allowance 
made by the Inland Revenue for such Deficiency in 
Proof Gallons and Money (in continuation of Par- 
liamentary Paper, No. 224, of Session 1856). 


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 Zondon, in the room of 
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, who, since his 
Election for the said City, hath accepted the office of 
Sieward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s three Chiltern 
Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in 
the County of Buckingham. 


23°—24° Juliz. 





Sir John Ramsden presented, by Her Majesty’s | the Amendments made by the Lords 
Command,—List of Officers, Non-commissioned | and Enniskillen Railway Bill; and the same were 





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0 


43 


Ordered, That the Petitions and Lists relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Twelve of the clock. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Atlantic 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Atiantic Telegraph 
Telegraph Company Bill; and the same were twice ©°™P#2Y Bill. 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Dartmouth 
the Amendinents made by the Lords to the Dart- 2nd Torbay 
mouth and Torbay Railway Bill; and the same were way Bill. 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 

s ps. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dundalk and 


Enniskillen 
to the Dundalk Railway Bill. 


Officers and Men, selected to receive the 400 War | twice read, and agreed to. 


Medals for Military Valour, presented by His Ma- 
jesty the King of Sardinia to the British Army 
engaged in the late War in the East. 

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


The Offences against the Person Bill was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next ; and to be printed. 


The Malicious Injuries to Property Bill was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


The Forgery Bill was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Friday next ; 
and to be printed. 


The Coinage Offences Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday 
next ; and to be printed. 


The Accessories and Abettors Bill was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


The Larceny, &amp;c. Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday 
next ; and to be printed. 


The Libel Bill was read the first time ; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Friday next; 
and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Veneris, 24° die Juli ; 
Anno 21° Victorize Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
H E Names of the five Members appointed to 
try and determine the matter of the Petitions 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the County of Huntingdon, were called over; and 
being come to the Table, they were sworn by the 
Clerk. 





Vou. 112. 





Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Kast Somerset 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the East Railway Bill. 
Somerset Railway Bill; and tle same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
mg to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newtown and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the New- Machynlleth 
town and Machynlleth Railway Bill; and the same ®#!way Bill. 
were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Prestwich, 
the Amendmeuts made by the Lords to the Pres¢- Bury and 
wich, Bury and Radcliffe Roads Bill; and the mong 
same were twice read, and agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Shropshire 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Shrop- Union Rail- 
shire Union Railways and Canal, London and North Fetes Totes 
Western Railway, and Shropshire Canal Companies and North 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to, Western 

Ordered, Tirat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the ia 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath Canal Com. 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- Pauies Bill. 


ships. 


Baring’s Divorce Bill was, according to Order, Baring’s 
read a second time; and committed. Divorce Bill. 
Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they do hear C:unsel and examine 
Witnesses for the said Bill; and also that they do 
hear Counsel and examine Witnesses against the 
Dill, if the Parties concerned think fit to be heard 
by Counsel, or produce Witnesses. 


ZZ Several 





344 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Public 
Petitions, 


Vide Twenty- 
seventh Re- 
port. 


Lunatics The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
ene) take into consideration the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill, 
as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Repeal in part of 8&amp; 9 Vic. c. 83), 
was twice read; and made part of the Bill. 


Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by leaving out Clause 23. 

And the Question being proposed, That Clause 23 
stand part of the Bill :—'The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by inserting, in p. 24, 1. 3, after the 
word ‘ necessary,” the words “and the expense 
“of such portion of any public asylum as may be 
“used by the District Board under this Act, or such 
“ part of said expense as may be agreed on by the 
“ District Board, and parties interested therein or 
“ failing their agreement, as may be fixed by the 
“ Board.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in p. 27, 1. 6, by leaving out the words “ or 
“ any portion of them.” 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Bill:—It was 
resolved in the Affirmative. 

‘Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Anoth:r Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by leaving out Clause 113. 

And the Question being put, That Clause 113 
stand part of the Bill:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Police (Scot- | The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
ae Ae mittees on the Police (Scotland) Bill, the Court of 
sion (Scotland) Session (Scotland) Bill, the Clerks of Petty Sessions 
Bill, Clerks of (Ireland) Bill, and the Summary Proceedings before 
treks ni) Bill, Justices of the Peace Bill; 

and Summary Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
Proceedings same Committee:—Then the House resolved itself 


before Justices ; ‘ . 
of the Peace into the Committee. 


_ (In Committee on the Police (Scotland) Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Ciavuses, N° 1 and N° 2, amended, and agreed 
to 


Crause, N° 3 (Rules for government, &amp;c. of 
Constables to be made by Secretary of State). 
Amendment proposed, in p. 3, |. 20: After the 
word “ government ” to insert the word “ pay.” 
Question put, That the word “pay” be there 


inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the( Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for the {Sir John Ogilvy, 
Noes, {Colonel Sykes : 
Auother Amendment made. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to, 
Crauses, N° 4 to N° 23, with Amendments to 
13 of them, agreed to. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


1 os 


47. 


(In Committee on Court of Session 
(Scotland) Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


(In Committee on Clerks of Petty Sessions 
(Ireland) Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


(In Committee on Summary Proceedings before 
Justices of the Peace Bill.) — 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- Police (Scot. 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 8nd) Bil. 
gress in the Police (Scotland) 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. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee Court of 
had made Progress in the Court of Session (Scot- Session (Scot- 
land) Bill; and that he was directed to move, That one) 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

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

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee Clerks of 
had made Progress in the Clerks of Petty Sessions Hetty Sessions 
(Jreland) Bill; and that he was directed to move, ‘ aeeieiaees 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee Summary 
had made Progress in the Summary Proceedings eng 
before Justices of the Peace Bill; and that he was Pefore — 
directed to move, That the Committee may have Bill. 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee, 





Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had ex- (Twentpestath 
amined the Petitions presented upon the 20th, 21st Report.) 
and 22d days of this instant July; 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 Fines and Fines and 
Penalties (Ireland), which was presented upon the Penalties 


6th day of this instant July, be printed. got 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Highways, Highways. 
which was presented upon the 23d day of thisinstant No. 208. 
July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Railways), which was presented upon the 23d day (Railways.) 
of this instant July, be printed. No, 209. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Return of East India Importations (in continuation = 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 928, of Session 1853). , 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Grant's Appa- 
Return showing the Names of Her Majesty's Ships Patus for Sips 
and Vessels which have been fitted with Grant’s“™° °°" 
Apparatus for obtaining Fresh Water distilled from 
the Sea :—And, Copies of any Reports made on the 
same. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Public Income 
an Account of the Public Income and Expenditure and Expen- 
of the United Kingdom, in the years ending the 31st 
day of March 1856 and 1857; distinguishing the 
Actual Payments for the Expenses incurred in the 
Collection and Management of the Revenue ; for 
the Charges on the Public Debt (the Terminable 
Annuities being valued by Estimate); for the Ex- 
penses of the Civil Government; the Allowances to 
the Royal Family and to his Majesty the King of 
the Belgians; the Establishment of the Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Ireland; the Expenses of each of the Two 
Houses of Parliament, and the Civil a eee . 

the 








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the other Pensions on the Consolidated Fund, on 
the Gross Revenue, and the Civil List; also the 
Payments for the Administration of Justice, Diplo- 
matic Expenses, and on accouut of the Sums voted 
for the Army, Navy, Ordnance and Miscellaneous 
Services; also Public Works, Bounties, Post Office, 
the Quarantine and Warehouse Establishments ; 
and all other Payments not coming under any of the 
foregoing Heads; with an Appendix, showmg the 
several Items composing each Head of the Account 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 382, 
of Session 1856). 





Leave of Ordered, That Mr. George Henry Vansittart have 

Absence. leave of absence fora fortnight, on urgent business ; 
—and Mr. Percy the remainder of the Session, on 
account of ill health. 

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

Ordnance Sir John Ramsden presented, by Her Majesty’s 


Survey Command,—Army Estimates:—Vote 13. Amended 


“on Estimate, Ordnance Survey of Scotlund, 1857-58. 

vies Ordered, That the said Estimate be referred to 
the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 

Breakwaters, Mr. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, 


C dated the 7th day of this instant July, for a Return 
relative to Breakwaters, &amp;c. 


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


Leitrim Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
Election. this day received a Letter from James Coppock, as 
Agent for the Petitioners, Francis La Touche and 
Hugh Moore, informing him that it is not their in- 
tention to proceed with their Petition complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the County of 
Leitrim :—And the said Letter was read,as followeth: 
40, Parliament-street, 
Sir, 24 July 1857. 

As Agent for the Petitioners, Francis La Touche 
and Hugh Moore, in the matter of their Petition 
against the Election and Return for the County of 
Leitrim, delivered in to the House of Commons on 
the 20th day of May last, I beg to inform you that it 
is not intended to proceed with their said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
James Coppock. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 


charged. : 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 
Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day month; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Henley, hh 30 

Yeas, (Mr. Bowyer : . 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 

Noes,  \The Earl of Mulgrave: 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Ordered, That tlie Bill be read a second time upon 
Thursday next. 


eon 
 - - 


Message from 


the Lords, Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 


their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Great Northern 

and West ‘ 5 - - - 

of —_° and Western of Jreland Railway Bill, without any 

Railway Bill, Amendment: 


Great Northern 





24° Sulit. 345 


The Lords have agreed to the Great Southern Great Southern 
and Western Extension Railway Bill, without any %24 Western 


Extension 
Amendment : Railway Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Leslie Railway Leslie Rail- 
Bill, without any Amendment : way Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Fleming's 
by this House to Fleming’s Estate Bill, without any state Bill 
Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Islington Parish Islington 
Acts Amendment Bill, with an Amendment; to Parish Acts 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this a 
House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Blyth and T'yne Blyth and 
Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Et Railway 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: : 

The Lords have agreed to the Stratford-upon- Stratford- 
Avon Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which aang 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : acini! 


The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan New Metropolitan 
Streets and Improvements Bill, with Amendments ; New Streets 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this ya Bi 
House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Crowded 

for the Prevention of Overcrowding in the Dwel- Dwellings Tre- 
lings of the Poor; to which the Lords desire the” 
concurrence of this House: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Deer, Game 
to consolidate the Statute Law of England relating snd Rabbits 
to Deer, Game and Rabbits ; to which the Lords~ * 

desire the concurrence of this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Mlicit Distilla. 
into a Committee on the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) — (Ireland) 
Bill. : 

(In the Committee.) 


CriausE, N° 1, agreed to. 
, Cause, N° 2 (The disposal of seizures provided 
or). 

Amendments made. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, } 8s 
Yeas, \The Earl of Mulgrave : , 
Tellers for the f Mr. Napier, } 4s 
Noes, Mr. Hassard : . 


CiavusE, N°3 (Penalties and proceeds of sales 
of seizures to whom to be paid). 

An Amendment made. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause, 
as amended, stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, } 80 
Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave : | ree 
| "Tellers for the Mr. Whiteside, - 

Noes, (Colonel Taylor : } . 


Crausge, N° 4 (Lord Lieutenant may appoint 
officers for the prevention of illicit distillation). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words, “ and provided also, that 
“ nothing in this Act shall interfere with the distri- 
“ bution of the existing Constabulary Force in re- 
“ ference to their present duties in the respective 
counties.” 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Maguire, 1 a7 

Yeas, \UMr. Patrick O’ Brien: : ome 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 1’ ee 

Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave: Jf ~" 
Proposed words added. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 








Vou. 112, 


ZZ2 And 





Supply. 


Expedition 
to Persia. 


War in China. 


General Board 
of Health. 


Ecclesiastical 
Commission. 


Charity 
Commission. 


Statute Law 
Commission. 


Civil Service 
Commission. 


Temporary 
Commissions. 


Patent Law 
Amendment 
Act. 


Board of 
Fisheries 
( Scotland.) 


Pimlico Im- 
provements 
Bill. 


New Zealand 
Government 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Public Offices 
Extension Bill. 


346 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 25° die Julii, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr, Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : | 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.400,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards the Reimbursement to the 
East India Company of a moiety of the Extraordi- 
nary Expenses of the Expedition to Persia. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £.590,693, be’ 
granted to Her Majesty, for the adjustment of the 
Account with the East India Company, for the Ex- 
penditure in connexion with the late War in China. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 7,125, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
defray the Expense of the General Board of Health, | 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

4, That aSum, not exceeding £.2,548, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
defray a portion of the Expenses of the Ecclesias- 
tical Commissioners for England, to the 31st day | 
of March 1858. 

5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 11,080, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum re- 
quired to defray the Charge for the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Charity Commission for England 
and Wales, to the 31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,911, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the, Charge for the | 
Salaries and Expenses of the Statute Law Commis- 
sion, to the 31st day of March 1858. | 

7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 4,924, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to | 
defray the Charge for the Salaries and Expenses | 
of the Civil Service Commissioners, to the 31st day | 
of March 1858. 

8. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 3,524, be granted | 
to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
defray the Charge for the Salaries and Expenses of | 
sundry temporary Commissions, to the 31st day of | 
March 1858. 

9. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 20,988, be | 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum re- 
quired to defray the Fees, Salaries, Expenses and 
Compensations, payable under the Provisions of the 
Patent Law Amendment Act, to the 31st day of | 
March 1858. 

10. That a Sum, not exceeding £.8,843, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum re- 
quired to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the 
Board of Fisheries in Scotland, to the 31st day of | 
March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


| 





The Order of the day being read, for the third | 
reading of the Pimlico Improvements Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time | 
upon Friday next. | 

The Order of the day being read, for the second | 
reading of the New Zealand Government Act | 
Amendment Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read 


upon Monday next. 


a second time | 


| 

The Order of the day being read, for the third | 
reading of the Public Offices Extension Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time | 
upon Friday next, 


Q4°— 95° Sulit. 


was, according tu Order, read the third time. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


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 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- Ecclesiastical 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill ; Commission, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Canada and New Brunswick Boundaries Bill Canada and 
New Bruns. 
wick Bound. 
aries Bill, 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Oxford Uni- 
take into consideration the Oxford University Bill, versity Bill. 
as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


/upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Insurance 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; ee 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ~'* 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Mutual Com. 
mittee on the Mutual Companies Bill ; panies Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Commuittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Boundaries of 


. : H ay ; Burghs Exten- 
reading of the Boundaries of Burghs Extension son (Seotand) 
lil. 


(Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Justices and 
mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) Police Force 
Bill; (Dublin) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The County Court Judges (Falconer and Yates’s County Court 
Salaries) Bill was, according to Order, read a second Judges (Fal- 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole $2" 


Yates’s Sala- 
House, for Monday next. ries) Bill 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Waste 


ine’ ‘ 5 y » Lands (N 
= of the Sale of Waste Lands (New Zealand) Zealand) Bi 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a-second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Valuation of 


| reading of the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act Lands (Scot 


Amendment Bill ; y oe A al 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time Bill. 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Representa- 
mittee on the Representative Peers (Zreland) Bill ; (ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, 'Vhat this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the secund Saleof Obscene 
reading of the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Preven- — Ke. 
. : revention 
tion Bill; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 5th day of August next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
+ Amendment Bill: Estates Act 
Act Amendment Bill; Amendment 

Ordered, Bil. 








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21 VicrorixZ. 24° —95°—97” Juli. 347 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | Ages of Twelve and Thirteen have attended School 











upon Tuesday next. during their Employment as Half-timers, namely, 
Sale of Corn, The Order of the day being read, for the second eT — 
&amp;e. Bill. reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;c. Bill ; ee St _ 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time] | on ti veare - eel ele 
upon Monday next. 1 year and ae than 2 years - - - « 
2 years and Jess than 3 years - - - ° 
Oaths Validity The Order of the day being read, for the second : ” : eS Se 
Act Amend-  yeading of the Oaths Validity Act Amendment Bill ; . . : 
ment Bill Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 








Also an Average of the whole Period of such At- 


rT ‘ 
upon Wednesday next. | tendance :—Of the Number of Factory Children 


gua The Order ofthe day sng rnd forthe Com-| ey he, Ag of Tht tnd Nine who har 
Session (Scot 't of Session (Scotland) Bill ; ‘ se s ing 
land) Ba, mittee on the Court of Session ( ) Half-timers :—Of the Total Number of Children 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. who have been passed as Half-timers by the Factory 


| Surgeons during the year ending the 31st day of 
| October 1857:— And, of the Total Number of 
Children who have in like manner been passed as 
| Full-timers during the same Period. 

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. 


Police (Scot- ‘The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
land) Bill. = Committee, upon Monday next, on the Police (Scot- 
land) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday | 

next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the | 


said Committee. | 


probates and. The Order for the House to resolve itself intoa Mr. Butt presented a Bill to enable Baronies and Railways | 
Letters of Ad- Committee, upon Thursday next, on the Probates other Districts in Jreland to give Guarantees for the “reland) Bi 
mite and Letters of Administration (Ireland) Bill, was Construction of Railways passing through such _ Bill 158. 


(Ireland) Bill. vend. and diccharsed | Districts: And the same was read the first time ; 
7 © &gt; . 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday nest, | egg be ager ems time upon Wed- 
at ‘'welve of the clock, resolve itself into the said | "@s4@y the 5th day of August next; and to be 


Committee. | printed. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 
Cambridge Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken till a quarter of an hour before Two of the 
—- before the Select Committee on the Cambridge clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
: Borough Election Petition, be laid before this House. Monday next. 





= ame and Ordered, That there be a before this wpe , ssenartaneee &lt;= &lt;= 
_— Returns of the Value of the Articles imported into = oo 
Goel Gentes.) Canada from the United States, in each of the years Lune, 27° die Julii ; 
1853 and 1854, alterwards declared free by the Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 
Reciprocity Treaty (so far as the same can be given), 
and the Quantities and Values of the same Articles, PRAYERS, 
in each of the years 1855 and 1856 :—And, of the N R. Bonham- Carter reported from the Select Public 
Value of the Articles exported from Canada to the Committee on Public Petitions; That they Sc 
United States, declared free by the Reciprocity | had examined the Petitions presented upon the 23d seventh Re- 
Treaty, in each of the years 1853, 1854, 1855 and and 24th days of this instant July ; and had directed port-) 
1856. _him to make a Report thereof to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
Royal Society. Resolved, That an humble Address be ae ce and be printed. 
or Majes 8 ] gracious se 
i aes diode, dat ton te a Laagee The House proceeded to take into consideration Midland Great 


. : A d . - 28. Western Rail- 
House, a Copy of the Letter from the President of the Amendments made by the Lords to the Midland way of Ireland 
the Roval Society to Viscount Palmerston, ‘with 





jreat Western Railway of JLreland (Streamstown (streamstown 

Resolutions of the Council of the Royal Society and Clara Junction) Bill; and the same were twice = Clara Bill 

enclosed. read, and agreed to. unction) Bill. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are nee — cg Sten them, pa “" House hath 

of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. | 43ree to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


' ships. 
poral sg bong —— -raypete ee | The Eastern Bengal Railway Company Bill was Eastern Ben- 
(Sak eng «— &amp; SOF Senjeety, Was She was De Genmonny pemeee | read a cenend time ; and committed. gal Railway 


Lancaster.) 0 give directions, that there be laid hefore this 
House, Returns of the Number of Factory Children 


Company Bill. 
The Scinde Railway Company Bill was read a Scinde Rail- 


in the Counties of York and Lancaster, between the —. . way Company 
Ages of Eight and Thirteen, attending Schools under | second time ; and committed. Bill. 
Inspection, giving a separate Return foreach County. | Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to | read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this Houseasare! 4 Public Petition was also presented, and read ; Vide Voices, 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. and referred to a Select Committee. and Twenty- 


eighth Report. 


, ss , 
poy, hog Resolved, That an humble Address be presented} A Petition of John Magee, stating that he was Drogheda 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased unable to discharge his duty as conducting agent at Election. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this | the late Election for the Borough of Drogheda for 
House, Returns of the Number of Factory Children | Francis Brodigan, Esquire, one of the Candidates, 
in the County of York attending School on the 31st in consequence of certain violence and threats de- 
day of October 1857, between the Ages of Eight | tailed in his Petition ; that threats and intimidation 
and Nine, Nine and Ten, Ten and Eleven, Eleven have been used by several members of the Com- 
and Twelve, and ‘Twelve and Thirteen:—Of the! mittee of James M‘Cann, Esquire, the Sitting Mem- 
Period for which Factory Children between the ber, to terrify the Petitioner from attending before 

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348 


the Select Committee on the Drogheda Election 
Petitions as a Witness; and praying the House to 
adopt measures for restraining persons from offering 
further violence or threats to the Petitioner, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Royal Assent. A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- 
man Usher of the Black Rod : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring Her Royal Assent to the 
several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, 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- 

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 Acts therein mentioned; and that the 
Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the Royal 
Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to amend the Act of the sixth and seventh 
ears of King William the Fourth, chapter One 
nundred and sixteen, for consolidating and amending 

the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public 
Money by Grand Juries in Zreland: 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Act 
(1836) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


| ae gr An Act to discontinue the taking of Toll on the 
lition (Ireland) Turnpike-roads now existing in Jreland, and to pro- 
Bill. vide for the Maintenance of such Roads as Public 


Roads, and for the Discharge of the Debts due 
thereon, and for other purposes relating thereto : 

An Act to amend the Act of the eleventh and 
twelfth years of Her Majesty, chapter Seventy-two, 
so far as relates to the Distribution of the Consta- 
bulary Force in Ireland : 

An Act for making a Railway from the Deeside 
Railway at Banchory, to Charleston of Aboyne : 


Constabulary 
Force (Ire- 
Jand) Bill. 


Deeside 
Extension 
Railway Bill. 


Banff, Macduff An Act to incorporate a Company for extending 
and Turrift the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway 


Extension pe &gt; ; 
Railway Bill, from Turriff to Banff and Macduff : 
Stockton 
New Gas and 
Stockton Gas 
Consumers’ 
Companics 
Biil. 


An Act to unite and amalgamate “The Stockton 
New Gas Company ” and “ ‘The Stockton Gas Con- 
sumers Company (Limited) ;’ and to authorize the 
United Company to raise additional Capital ; and 
to sell their Undertaking to the Mayor, Aldermen 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton, and for 
other purposes : 

Banff, Portsoy An Act for making a Railway from the Grange 
Railway Bil Station to the Great North of Scotland Railway to 

pare * the Harbour of Banff, witha Branch to the Harbour 
of Portsoy: 


Burslem An Act for incorporating the Burslem and Tun- 
a stall Gas-Light Company, and extending their 


Powers, and for authorizing additional Works, and 
the raising of further Monies, and for other purposes : 

An Act for making Ra'lways between the City of 
Bristol and the South Wales Railway, in the County 
of Monmouth, with a Steam Ferry across the River 
Severn in connexion therewith, for the purpose of 
improving the Railway Communication between 


Bristol, South 
Wales and 
Southampton 
Union Rail- 
way Bill. 


South Wales and Bristol, Southampton and the | 


South Western Districts of England: 


Neweastle- An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Vew- 
under- Lyme 3 

and Leek o_2 a : 
Roads Bill. | mecke other Provisions in lieu thereof : 
Langport, 
Somerton and 
Castle Cary 
Reads Bill. 


An Act to repeal an Act passed in the fifth year 


intituled, “An Act for more effectually repairing 
and improving certain Roads leading to, through, 
and from the Towns of Langport, Somerton and 
Castle Cary, in the County of Somerset, and for 
making and improving other Roads in the said 
County,” and granting more effectual Powers in 





27° Jultz. 


castle-under-Lyme and Leek Turnpike-roads, and to | 


of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, | 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


lieu thereof, and for making and improving New 
| Lines of Road : 

An Act for authorizing the Lowestoft Water, Gas Lowestoft 
and Market Company to make additional Water- ee 
works, and raise additional Capital, and to Lease Bi, 
their Undertaking, and for other purposes : 

| An Act for granting additional Powers to “The sateen 
| Australian Agricultural Company : Company Bik 

An Act for enabling the Penarth Harbour, Dock Ely Tidal 

and Railway Company (heretofore called “The £ly Harbour and 
| an y pany - Railway Bill, 
Tidal Harbour and Railway Company’”’) to construct 

| Railways to, and a Dock and other Works on or 
adjoining the South West Bank of the River Ely, 

and for other purposes : 
| An Act for better supplying with Water the In- Margate 

| habitants of the Parishes of Saint John the Baptist Water Bill 
| (including Margate), and Saint Peter the Apostle 

| (including Broadstairs), in the County of Kent: 

An Act to amend and enlarge the Provisions of Tyne Improve. 
the Acts relating to the River Tyne, and to enable ™&amp;* Bill. 
the Zyne Improvement Commissioners to construct 
Docks at Coble Dean, and certain Works for the 
Improvement of such River, and for other purposes : 

An Act for making a Railway from the ood Wimbledon 
and South Western Railway at Wimbledon to and Dorking 
Epsom, and for other purposes : Railway Bill. 

An Act for lighting with Gas the Borough of Shrewsbury 
Shrewsbury, and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the as Bill. 

County of Salop : 

An Act for making a Railway from Lewes to Uck- Lewes and 


- ons ° Uckfield 
field, all in the County of Sussex ; Railway Bill, 


An Act to authorize the Newry, Warrenpoint and Newry, War- 
Rostrevor Railway Company, to extend their Rail- renpoint and 
way at Newry and at Warrenpoint, and to enter into Railway Bit 
Arrangements with the Mewry and Enniskillen 
Railway Company : 

An Aet to dissolve the Mallow and Fermoy Rail- Mallow and 
way Company, and to transfer all the Powers of that Fermoy and 
Company, for making and maintaining the Mallow arena 

ee . &amp; and Western 
and Fermoy Railway, to the Great Southern and Railways Bill. 
Western Railway Company : 

An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Bury, Bury Gas 
and other Townships and Places in the Parish of Bill. 
Bury, in the County of Lancaster : 

An Act to extend the Time for the Completion of Cannock Mi- 
the Cannock Mineral Railway : (No 1) Bil 

An Act to repeal the Acts relating to the Selby Selby and Mar- 
and Market Weighton Turnpike-road, in the East ket Weighton 
Riding of the County of York, and to make other ®o#4 Bill 
| Provisions in lieu thereof : 

An Act for authorizing the West Somerset Mineral West Somerset 
Railway Company to make the Minehead Exten- ny 
sion, and ‘the Cleve Branch, and for other purposes: “”” 

An Act to incorporate the Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford- 


"ho ‘ : upon-Avon 
Gas Company : Gas Bill. 


| An Act for regulating the Payment of Dividends London Gas- 
on certain Classes of Preference Shares in the Lon- Lee contd) 
don Gas-Light Company : a" 
| An Act for the Improvement of the Town of A/il- Milford Im- 
ford, and the Neighbourhood thereof, for establish- provemem’ 
‘ing Gasworks, Waterworks, and a Cemetery there, 
‘and for other purposes : 
| An Act for more effectually making, repairing 
and maintaining the Highways, Roads and Bridges 
within the County of Orkney, and for other pur- 
OSES : 

An Act to amend “ The Fast Kent Railway (Ex- Rest Kent 
| tension to Dover) Act, 1855 :” jaxtenen to 
Dover) Bill. 
An Act to®tnable the Midland Great Western Midland ca 
| Railway of Zreland Company to make an Extension Great Wester 
Line of Railway to S/igo, with Branches therefrom, 





Orkney 
Roads Bill. 


Railway of 
Ireland (Sligo 


and for other purposes : Extension) 
| Bill. 
An Act to enable the Monkland Railways Com- Monkland 


|pany to make and maintain certain Railways in Railways Bill 


the 











’ Bill, 


rove: 


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21 Vicrori2. 


the Counties of Lanark and Linlithgow, and for 
other purposes : 

An Act to empower the Briton Ferry Floating 
Dock Company to raise Money, and for other pur- 
poses connected with their Undertaking : 

An Act for granting further Powers to “ The 
City and Suburban Gas Company of Glasgow :” 


Briton Ferry 
Docks Bill. 


Glasgow City 
and Suburban 
Gas Bill. 





Scottish An Act to enable the Scottish Central Railway | 
Central Rail- Company to make and maintain certain Extensions | 
way Bill. of their Deany Branch : 
Stamford and | An Act tv empower the Stamford and Essendine | 
Essendine = Railway Company to raise Money, and for other | 
Railway Bill. purposes connected therewith : | 
: Act for authorizing the Victoria (London) | 
Dock Company to make a New Cut eastward of | 
their Dock, and to raise additional Capital, and for 
other purposes : 
Great An Act for making Railways from Athlone to 
Northern Roscommon and Castlereagh, to be called “ The! 
aen Great Northern and Western of Ireland Railway,” | 
Railway Bill. and for other purposes : 
Great South: | An Act to enable the Great Southern and Wes-| 
ern and West- tern Railway Company to make a Railway from 


ern Extension 7yJ/amore to Athlone, and for other purposes : 
Railway Bill. 


Leslie Rail- 


Victoria 
(London) 
Docks Bill. 








An Act for making a Railway from the Edin-| 


way Bill. burgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, at Markinch | 
Station, to the Town of Leslie, with Branches to | 
Auchmuty Mills, Leven Bank Mill, and Prinlaws | 
Lower Mills, and for other purposes : 

Keith ont . An Act for making a Railway from Keith to 

Dufftown Ranl- ° 

way (No. 2) Dufftown : 

Bill. 

Dexthorpe An Act to repeal so much of the Act relating to 


Turnpike 


Trust Bill. the Road from Bawtry Bridge, in the County of 


Nottingham, to Hainton, in the County of Lincoln, 
and other Roads, as relates to the Second District of 
Roads therein-mentioned, and to make other Pro- 
visions in lieu thereof : 

London (City) An Act to allow a Drawback on the Duties pay- 


o- Duties able on Coals, Culm, Coke and Cinders : 


European and An Act for incorporating the European and In- 
Indian na dian Junction Telegraph Company, and for other 
tion Telegraph urposes connected therewith : 


Company Bill. 

West of Fife An Act to enable the West of Fife Mineral Rail- 
Mineral Rail- way Company to construct a Branch Railway to 
“yo Roscobie, and for certain other purposes : 

An Act to continue or renew the Powers conferred 
on the Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of 
Glasgow to take Lands and execute Works for the 
Improvement of the Navigation, and for other pur- 
poses : 

Pulteney Town An Act to enable the British Fisheries Society to 

Harbour Bill. enlarge, improve and maintain Pulteney Harbour, in 
the County of Caithness, and for other purposes : 

ElieHarbour An Act for improving and maintaining the Har- 

Bill. bour of Elie, in the County of Fife : 

Newquay Pier An Act for confirming the Title to Lands acquired 

= — for the purposes of the Newquay Railway, part of 

BL «SC The Zreffry Estates,” in the County of Cornwall, 
and for regulating the Railway, and for other pur- 
poses : 

Reading Rail. An Act to empower the Staines, Wokingham and 

Baily “sy Woking Railway Company to make a Railway to 

ye“ connect the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Rail- 

way with the Great Western Railway, and for other 
purposes : 

Slaney River An Act to repeal “The River Slaney Improve- 

yuprovement ment Act,.1852,” ‘and to make better Provision for 

, the Execution of the Objects of that Act, and for 

other purposes connected with the River Sianey: 
ply An Act to empower. the Stockport, Disley and 
Whaley Bri 7 Whaley Bridge Railway Company to extend their 
Railway Bil, Railway to Buxton, and for other purposes con- 
nected with their Undertaking : 


Clyde Navi- 
gation Bill. 


Stockport, 


Worksop and An Act for the Worksop and Attercliffe Turnpike 
ey Road, in the County of Nottingham, and the West 


Riding of the County of York: 
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349 


An Act for the Abandonment uf the Westminster Westminster 
Terminus Railway Extension (Clapham to Norwood), Terminus Rail 
and for other purposes : ee 

Saeed 
Abandon- 
ment) Da 

An Act for making a Bridge across the River Backwater 
Backwater, near Weymouth, and a Turnpike Road, — and 
and other Works in connexion therewith, in the none Sa. 
County of Dorset, and for other purposes : 

An Act to extend the Time for making the Cork Cork and 
and Youghal Railway, and to vary the Borrowing Rat = Rail- 
Powers of the Company : diana 

An Act to incorporate and regulate the Aélantic Atlantic 
Telegraph Company, and to enable the Company to fea 
establish and work Telegraphs between Great Bri- a 
tain, Ireland and Newfoundland, and for other pur- 
poses : 

An Act for making a Railway from the Torquay Dartmouth 
Branch of the South Devon Railway to cr near to ae ena 
Dartmouth, to be called “ The Dartmouth and Tor- “""“*Y ™ 
bay Railway,” and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundalk and 
Railway Company to make certain Deviations and faear tae 
Alterations in their Line and Works, and for other “” "*” 
purposes connected with their Undertaking : 

An Act to authorize the East Somerset Railway fast Somerset 
Company to extend their Railway from Shepton Railway Bill. 
Mallett to Wells: 


An Act for making a Railway from the Zlanid- Newtown and 


| loes and Newtown Railway, in the Parish of Zlan- Machynileth 


dinam, in the County of Montgomery, to the Town ®*way Bill. 


of Machynlleth, in the same County : 

An Act for repairing the Roads trom Prestwich to Prestwich, 
Bury and Radcliffe, in the County Palatine of Lan- — = —_ 
caster, and for making and maintaining as Turnpike, Bi) "°"“* 
certain other Roads in connexion therewith, all in 
the same County, and for other purposes : 

An Act for authorizing the Conversion of Parts of Shropshire 
the Shropshire Canal to purposes of a Railway, and a 
the making and maintaining of a Railway accord- Canal, Lenden 
ingly, and for authorizing Arrangements between and North 
the London and North Western Railway Company PY&lt;stern _ 
and other Companies, and for other purposes : pty tan 
Canal Com- 
panies Bill. 


An Act to amend and explain J’leming’s Estate Fleming's 
Act, 1852: Estate Bill. 

An Act for authorizing the Dean and Chapter of Hereford 
Hereford to raise Money for the Repair of the Ca- meee 
thedral Church of Hereford : Bill. 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Alexander Campbell’s 
Campbell with Maria his now Wife, and to enable Divorce Bill. 
him to marry again, and for other purposes: , 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Edward Ley, Ley’s Divorce 
Oil Cooper, with Rosanna Sarah Ley his now Wite, Bill. 
and to enable him to marry again, and for other 
purposes therein mentioned : 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of LJenry Smith, smith’s 
Esquire, with Julia his now Wife, and to enable Divorce Bill 
him to marry again, and for other purpeses therein 
mentioned. 


The Comptroller of the Household reported to stave Trade 
the House; That their Address of the 14th day of (Africa.) 
this instant July, relative to Slave Trade (Africa), 
had been presented to Her Majesty, and that Her 
Majesty had been pleased to receive the same very 
graciously, and to give the following Answer : 

Ihave received your dutiful Address, praying that 
I will employ all the means in My power, in order 
to put down the African Slave Trade, and to obtain 
the execution of the ‘I'reaties made for that purpose 
with other Powers. ; 

You may rely on My earnest endeavours to give 
full effect to your wishes on this important subject. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Pertementh 
this day received a Letter from Mr. James Coppock, enmeen 
as Agent for Thomas Iiilis Owen, informing him 

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350 
that itis not the Petitioner's intention to proceed with 
his Petition complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Portsmouth :—And the 
said Letter was read, as followeth: 
40, Parliament-street, 
Sir, 27 July 1857. 

As Agent for Thomas Ellis Owen, in the matter 
of his Petition against the Return for the Borough 
of Portsmouth, reported June the 1st, I beg to 
inform you that it is not intended to proceed with 
the said Petition. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
James Coppock. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, 

The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and dis- 
charged. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Grand Juries 


(Metropolitan mittee on the Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police Dis- 
trict) Bill. trict) Bill. 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
Lunacy — Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Commission 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Letter from the President of the 
Board of Supervision to the Secretary of State, and 
of a Statement transmitted therewith from the Board, 
relative to the Report of the Scotch Lunacy Com- 
missioners. 

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. 


‘Scotland. ) 


Message from 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
the Lords. 


sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 


Dexthorpe The Lords have agreed to the Dexthorpe Turn- 


Turnpike ee ee : . ‘ 
Trust Bill. pike Trust Bill, without any Amendment : 

London (City) The Lords have agreed to the London (City) Coal 
—_ Duties Duties Bill, without any Amendment : 


European and 
Indian Junc- 
tion Telegraph 
Company Bill. 
West of Fife 
Mineral! Rail- 
way Bill. 
Clyde Navi- 
gation Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the European and Indian 
Junction Telegraph Company Bill, without any 
Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the West of Fife Mi- 
neral Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Clyde Navigation 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Pulteney Town Har- 
bour Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Elie Harbour Bill, 
without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Newquay Pier and 
Harbour and Railway Bill, without any Amend- 
ment : 


Pulteney Town 
Harbour Bill. 


Elie Harbour 
Bill. 


Newquay Pier 
and Harbour 
and Railway 
Bill. 


Reading Rail- 
ways Junction 
Railway Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Reading Railways 
Junction Railway Bill, without any Amendment: 


Slaney River The Lords have agreed to the Slaney River Im- 
Improvement provement Bill, without any Amendment : 

Bill. " 

Stockport, 
Disley and 
Whaley Bridge 
Railway Bill. 


Worksop and 


The Lords have agreed to the Stockport, Disley 
and Whaley Bridge Railway Bill, without any 
Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Worksop and Atter- 


Attercliffe a, . : : 
Road Bill. cliffe Road Bill, without any Amendment: 
Westminster. The Lords have agreed to the Westminster Ter- 


Terminus Rail- 
way Extension 
(Clapham to 
Norwood 
Abandonment) 
Bill. 


minus Railway Extension (Clapham to Norwood 
Abandonment) Bill, without any Amendment : 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Lords have agreed to the Fife and Kinross Fife and Kin. 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the ps? Railway 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : “ 

The Lords have agreed to the Kinross-shire Rail- Kinross-shire 
way Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords ®ailway Bil. 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Burial of the Dead Burial of the 
within the City and Liberties of Zondon Bill, with Pad within 


. : the Ci 
an Amendment; to which the Lords desire the con- Liberte on 
currence of this House : London Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Otley and Skipton Otley ana 
Road Bill, with an Amendment ; to which the Lords Skipton Road 
desire the concurrence of this House : -_ 

The Lords have agreed to the Haslingden and Haslingden 
Todmorden Roads Bill, with an Amendment ; to _ Todmor- 
— the Lords desire the concurrence of this oo 

ouse: 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Duke of 
to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Francis Bridgewater's 
Duke of Bridgewater to complete the Purchase of —a 
the Runcorn and Weston Canal, and to enable such 
Trustees more effectually to administer the Trusts of 
the Will of the said Duke; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House. 





| The Duke of Bridgewater's Estate Bill was read Duke of 

| the first time. Bridgewater's 
| Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Ex- ©*tate Bill 

| aminers of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That Mr. Alcock have leave of absence Leave of 
for the remainder of the Session, on urgent business, Absence. 


| Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- National — 
'mand,—Copy of Report of the National Gallery Site S#llery Site. 
Commission, together with the Minutes of Evidence, 
Appendix and Index. 
“ — That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


Sir Benjamin Hall presented,— Return to an 
Order, dated the 6th hot this instant July, for a (New Fi 
Return relative to the Clock Tower (New Houses of of Parliament.) 
Parliament). 

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


Mr. Osborne presented,—Return to an Order, Vessels (Suez 
dated the 17th day of this instant July, for a Return and Mel- 
relative to Vessels (Suez and Melbourne). bousme.) 

. a That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was Cambridge 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House, — Borough 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select “ection 
Committee on the Cambridge Borough Election 
Petition. 

The following Papers were also laid upon the Statute Law 
Table by the Clerk of the House,— Return to an Commission. 
Order, dated the 7th day of this instant July, fora 
Return relative to the Statute Law Commission. 

Return to an Order, dated the 16th day of this Slave Vessels, 
— July, for Returns relative to Slave Vessels, &amp;¢- 

. 

Return to an Order, dated the 23d day of this East India, 
instant July, for a Return relative to East India (Area, Popu- 
(Area, Population, &amp;¢.) mendes 

The followmg Paper, pursuant to the directions Lunatic Asy- 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the lms (Ireland.) 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Copy of 'l'rea- 
sury Minute, dated 17th July 1857, granting a 
Special Superannuation Allowance to Dr. Francis 
— late Inspector of Lunatic Asylums in Jre- 
and, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Break waters, Breakwaters, 
&amp;e., which was presented upon the 24th day of this = 
instant July, be printed. No. 203. 





Mr. 





Kin. 
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shire 
Bill, 
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— Orders of the 
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21 Vicrori¢. 


Mr. Osborne presented,— Return to an Order, 
dated the 12th day of June last, fora Return relative 
to the Coast Guard. 

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


Ordered, That the Orders of the day be now read; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Orders be postponed till 
after the Notice of Motion relative to Ludia. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Copies 
of any Minute or Despatch addressed to the Go- 
vernor General of Jndia, by His Excellency the Com- 
mander in Chief, the late Major General the Honour- 
able George Anson, dated on or about March 1656, 
relative to the State of the Bengal Army :—And, of 
a Report on the Organization of the Bengal Army, 
drawn up by the late Lieutenant General Sir Charles 
Napier, and transmitted to His Grace the Duke of 
Wellington, k. G. ; 

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 Her Ma- 
“jesty, to assure Her Majesty, that this House 
“ will cordially support Her Majesty in any efforts 
“that may be necessary for the suppression of dis- 
“‘ turbances in Zndia, and in any measures that may 
“be required for the permanent establishment of 
“tranquillity and contentment in that important 
“portion of Her Majesty’s Dominions,” 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, 28° die Jultt, 1857: 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Mr. arom } -" 

Yeas, Mr. Hadfield: ’ 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 203 

Noes, {the Earl of Mulgrave : } . 

So it passed in the Negative. 

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 “an 
‘‘ humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, 
“to assure Her Majesty, that this House will cor- 
“ dially support Her Majesty in any efforts that may 
“be necessary for the suppression of disturbances 
“in India, and in any measures that may be re- 
“ quired for the permanent establishment of tran- 
“ quillity and contentment in that important por- 
“ tion of Her Majesty’s Dominions,” be added in- 
stead thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That an humble 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, to assure Her 
Majesty, that this House will cordially support Her 
Majesty in any efforts that may be necessary for the 
suppression of disturbances in Jndia, and in any 
measures that may be required for the permanent 
establishment of tranquillity and contentment in that 
important portion of Her Majesty’s Dominions. 
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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill ; 


Q7°— 28° Sulit. 


351 


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


The Order of the day being read, for the second New Zealand 
reading of the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill; Loan Guaran- 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon oe 
Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- tlicit Distilla- 
mittee on the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill ; tion (Ireland) 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve ®! 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Copyright 
reading of the Copyright Acts Consolidation Bill; Acts Consoli- 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. astarninaats 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resvlved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee . 


The Municipal Corporations Bill was, according Municipal 

to Order, read the third time. Corporations 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. = 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Assessments 
mittee on the Assessments (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday _ 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Conveyance 
reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways ° Mails by 
Bill ; Railways Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Revising 
mittee on the Revising Fiestas (Dublin) Bill; Barristers 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, (P%&gt;!) Bill 
at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- East Quay 
mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) Bill; Wall Tax 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday (7%) Bill 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Constables 
reading of the Constables (Detached parts of (Detached 
Counties) Bill; nt aa 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ; 
upon Thursday next. 


The Lunatics (Scotland) Bill was, according to Lunatics 
Order, read the third time. (Scotland) 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Clerks of 
mittee on the Clerks of Petty Sessions (Zreland) Petty Sessions 
Bill : (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


The New Zealand Government Act Amendment New Zealand 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; poy tance 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, “®t Amene 

. ment Bill. 
for Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 





Vou. 112. 


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Insurance 
Companics 
Bill. 


Bill 159. 


Mutual Com- 
panies Bill. 


Boundaries 

of Burghs 
Extension 
(Scotland) Bill. 


County Court 
Judges ( Fal- 
coner and 
Yates’s Sala- 
ries) Bill. 


Valuation of 
Lands (Scot- 
land) Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Oxford Uni- 
versity Bill. 


Representa- 
tive Peers 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Election 
Petitions Bill. 


Wills, &amp;c. of 
British Sub- 
jects Abroad 
Bill. 


352 


The House, accerding to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Mutual Companies Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Boundaries of Burghs Extension 
(Scotland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the County Court Judges (Fulconer and 
Yates’s Salaries) Bill; 

Resolved, Vhat this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act 
Amendment Bill: 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Court of Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Criavuses, N° 1 to N° 6, with Amendments to two 
of them, agreed to. 

Four Clauses added. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Oxford University Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendment, do 

ass, 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaiut them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with an Amendment ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 


Lordships. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Representative Peers (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 Com- 
mittee on the Election Petitions Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Cha'r ; 

A Mvtion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion and Original Question were severally, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
a on the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects Abroad 
ill; 


97°—28° Juliz. 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


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


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sales of Waste 
reading of the Sales of Waste Lands (New Zealand) Lands (New 
Bill ; Zealand) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Corn, 
reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;c. Bill; &amp;c. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Joint Stock 
Lords to the Joint Steck Companies Bill be taken Companies 
; : : Bill. 
into consideration upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Bombay 
Returns of the Date of the Commission issued (Titles of Land 
by the Government of Bombay for inquiring into seams 
the Titles and resuming Lands held in Inam, or 
Rent-free, in hereditary occupation by Native Land- 
owners :—Of the Despatch or Consultation in Coun- 
cil on which such Commission was founded :—Of 
the Number of Estates and Value of the Resump- 
tions obtained by Government under such Commis- 





sion:—And, of Proceedings in the three first and 
three last Trials (Accounts of which have been 
‘received in this Country), where Lands have been 
resumed yielding a Rental respectively of £.100 a 
year. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, australian 
Returns of the Dates of Arrival and Departure of Mail Service. 
the Steamers employed by the Peninsular and Ori- 
ental Company while performing the Australian 
Mail Service, showing how often and to what 
extent the Vessels failed to forward the Mails in 
regular Course :—And, of the Dates of Arrival and 
Departure of the several Steamers of the Peninsular 
and Oriental Company employed by them in the 
Mail Service for the last Two years, showing the 
Rates of Speed of each Voyage. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum of the Select Chelsea New 
Committee on the Chelsea New Bridge Bill. Bridge Bill 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Indian Army. 
Extracts of such Parts of a Report addressed by Sir 
Charles Napier, on the 27th day of November 1849, 
to the Governor General of Jndia, as relate to the 
State and Discipline of the Indian Army. 





The Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill was read Crowded 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second Dwellings 


time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. —_— 


Bill 160. 


The Town Byelaws Revision Bill was read the Town Byclaws 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time Revision Bill 
upon Thursday next; and to be printed. Bill 161. 


The Deer, Game and Rabbits Bill was read the Decr, Game 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time *d Kabbits 
. Bill. 
upon Thursday next; and to be printed. Bill 162 


And then the House, having continued to sit 


till Two of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 28° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- 
bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and 


determine the matter of the Petition complaining of 
an 


Dover 
Election. 











Aste 


ill, 


n, Drogheda 
Election. 


Dover 
Election. 


21 Vicroriz. 


an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Dover, to which they had annexed the Petition re- 
ferred to them by the House relating thereto :— 
Honourable Hugh Annesley, Samuel Christy, Es- 

uire, Honourable Arthur F. Kinnaird, Henry 
} ve Langton, Esquire (Bristol) ; Chairman, John 
Abel Smith, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petitions complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Drogheda, to which they had annexed the Petitions 
referred to them by the House relating thereto :— 
Lord Robert Pelham-Clinton, Sir Minto Farquhar, 
Baronet, Dudley Coutts Murjoribanks, Esquire, 
James Rust, Esquire ; Chairman, Thomas Sotheron- 
Estcourt, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 
this day received a Letter from Mr. James Currie, 
as Agent for Frederick Hammond and William 
Clayton, informing him that it is not their intention 
to proceed with their Petition complaining of an 


_undue Election and Return for the Borough of 


Blyth and 
Tyne Rail- 
way Bill. 


Metropolitan 

New Streets 

and Improve- 
ments Bill. 


Stratford- 
upon-Avon 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
Corporation 
Bill, 





Dover :—And the said Letter was read, as fol- 
loweth : 
Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
Sir, 28 July 1857. 

As Agent for Frederick Hammond and William 
Clayton, in the matter of their Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Dover, I hereby beg to inform you that it 
is not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
James Currie. 
To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Blyth 
and Tyne Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Metro- 
politan New Streets and Improvements Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Sérat- 
ford-upon-Avon Railway Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Rill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
yy to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Manchester Corporation Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

VoL. 112. 





98° Julit. $53 


Lords ; and’ acquaint them, that th House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by teir Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 178 and 204 be Scinde Rail- 
suspended in the case of the Scinde Railway Com- Way Company 
pany Bill; and that the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed, on one clear day’s Notice being given 
in the Private Bill Office. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
eighth Report. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- General Board 
mittee on the General Board of Health Bill; of Health Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
— 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 mouths, re- 
“solve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
pused to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, Y os 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: f ® 

Tellers for thef Mr. Knight, 1 
Noes, Mr. Ayrton: J 73. 


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.) 


Crausg, N° 1 (On the appointment of a Com- 
mittee of Council for Health, the General Board of 
Health to cease). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause stand part of the Bill; 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
the Chairman do now leave the Chair put, and 
agreed to. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Burial Acts 
consideration the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, as Amendment 
amended in the Committee ; _ 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
upon Friday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Summary 
mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices Proceedings 


of the Peace Bill ; aan non 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday Bill. 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 


said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Beverley 
this day received a Letter from Messrs. Macdougall Election. 
and Newall, as Agents for Thomas Southwick and 
John Ramshaw, informing him that it is not their 
intention to proceed with their Petition complainin 
of an undue Election and Return for the Saonk 
of Beverley :—And the said Letter was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

44, Parliament-street, 
Sir, July 28th, 1857. 

As Agents for Thomas Southwick and John Ram- 
shaw, in the matter of their Petition delivered in on 
the 21st day of May last, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Beverley, 





3A2 we 








Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Bleaching 
and Dycing 
Works (Se- 
cond Report.) 


Flogging 
( Navy.) 


Flogging 
(Army.) 


Conveyance 
of Mails by 
Railways Bill. 


Koyal Society. 


Tunacy 
Commnission 
(Seutland. ) 


Clock ‘Tewer 
(New Houses 
of Parliament.) 


354 


we hereby beg to inform you that it is not intended | 
to proceed with the said Petition. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Macdougall and Newall. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


The Order for referring the said Petition to the 
General Committee of Elections, was read, and 
discharged. 


The Earl of Afarch, from the Se'ect Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Petition complaining of an undue Election and Re- 
turn for the Borough of Great Yarmouth, informed 


98° Jultz. 





the House, That Charles Woolfen had this day been 
guilty of prevarication and other misbehaviour in| 
giving his evidence before the Committee ; and that | 
he had, by direction of the Committee, by W arrant | 
under his hand, committed the said Charles Wvolfen 
to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House, to await the pleasure of this House. 

Ordered, That Charles Woolfen he for his said 
offence committed to Her Majesty’s Gaol of New- 
gate till this House make further Order in his case : 
Aud that Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrants ac- 
cordingly. 


Lord John Manners repoited from the Select 
Committee on Bleaching and Dyeing Works; That 
they had agreed to a Report, which they had directed 
him to make to the House; together with further 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

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


No. 211. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Persons flogged in the 
Navy in the years 1855 and 1856, distinguishing 
each year; specifying the Name of the Ship, the 
Offence, the Sentence, and Number of Lashes in- 
flicted on each Person {in continuation of Parlia- 
meutary Paper, No. 48, of Session 1857). 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there belaid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Persons flogged in the 
Army of Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1856 ; 
specifying the Offence, the Regiments, the Place of 
Station, the Time, the Sentence, and the Number of 
Lashes inflicted on each Persvun (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 294, of Session 1854). 

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 Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Conveyance of Mails by Railways 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, Yhat the Bill be withdrawn. 


Mr. Massey presented,— Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 24th day of this instant 
July, for a Return relative to the Royal Society. 

Return to au Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
27th day of this instant July, for a Return relative ' 
to the Lunacy Commission (Scotland). | 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the | 
Table; and that the last be printed, 











No, 212. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Clock | 
Tower (New Uouses of Parliament), which was pre- | 
sented upon the 27th day of this instant July, be | 


No 223. : 
printed. | 


' Long Leases (Scotland) Bill, with Amendments; to 


| 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Statute Statute Law 
Law Commission, which was presented upon the Commission. 
27th day of this instant July, be printed. No. 214. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India rye India 
(Area, Population, &amp;c.), which was presented upon “Te © opu- 
i &gt; lation, &amp;c.) 
the 27th day of this instant July, be printed. No. 215, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Coast Coast Guard, 
Guard, which was presented upon the 27th day of No. 216, 
this instant July, be printed. 


Resolved, That, in the opinion of this House, a Military 
higher standard of professional instruction, and more Instruction. 
complete provision for it than hitherto deemed re- 
quisite, ought to be established for the Commis- 
sioned Ranks of the Army, but especially for tae 
Staff; that this will he best promoted by recourse 
to competitive examination of Officers desiring to 
qualify themselves for the Staff, and by assured en- 
couragements for proficiency and general fitness for 
advanceuient. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords have agreed to the Inclosure Acts Inclosure Acts 
Amendment Bill, with an Amendment; to which the Saeeees 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : a 


The Lords have agreed to the Regi-tration of Registration 
of Long Leases 


: , ~ (Scotland) Bill, 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this ° en 


House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan Rail- Metropolitan 
way (No. 2) Bill, with an Amendment; to which 3%, 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : aie 

The Lords have agreed to the Watchet Harbour Watchet 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire #4tbour Bill. 
the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the South Staffordshire South Staf- 
Water Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords fr4shire 
desire the concurrence of this House: a 

The Lords have agreed to the Sa/ford Borough Salford 
(No. 1) Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords Borough | 
desire the concurrence of this House. aaa aes 


A Motion was made, an the Question being pro- Galway Town 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Writ. 
Clerk of the Crown in [re/and, to make out a new 
Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Town and County of the 
Town of Galway, in the room of Anthony O’ Fla- 
herty, Esquire. whose Election has been determined 
to be void; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

Question, by leaving out from the word “ ‘lhat” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, 
“ praying that She will be graciously pleased to give 
“ directions, that an inquiry be made into the exist- 
“ ence of cor:upt practices during the last as well as 
“ former Elections for the Town and Couniy of the 
“ Town of Galway,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words “ an 
“humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, 
** praying that She will be graciously pleased to give 
“ directions, that an inquiry be made into the exist- 
“ ence of corrupt practices during the last as well as 
“ former Elections for the Town and County of the 
“ Town of Galway,” 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 Galway Town 
to Her Majesty, praying that She will be graciously Fete 
pleased to give directions, that an inquiry be made 
into ihe existence of corrupt practices during the last 
as well es former Elections for the Town and County 
of the Town of Galway. 

Ordered, 










. «Ty 


Mayo Writ. 


Cambridge 
Borough 
Election. 


No. 217 


Adjournment. 


Drogheda 
Election, 





21 Vicroria. 


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 being pro- 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to 
the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make outa 
new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire 
to serve in this present Parliament for the County of 
Mayo, in the room of George Henry Moore, Esquire, 
whose Election has been determined to be void ; 


28°—29” Juli. 





355 
relative to the Drogheda Election, be taken into 


consideration upon Thursday next :—-And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Valuation 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to of Lands and 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, (Seotion.) 
Returns of Number of Cases of Appeal decided by ‘ 
Commissioners of Supply in each County in Scot- 
land, under the Act 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 91, entitled, 

“ An Act for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the/| in Scotland,” in the years 1855, 1856 and 1857 :— 


Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words, | 


“Mr. Attorney General for Jreland be directed to | 
“‘ prosecute the Reverend Peter Conway and the | 


“ Reverend Luke Iyan,” 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 Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 29° die Juliit, 1857: 


} 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 





The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Yous,{ ian Monee’ 1 99. 
Tellers for the Noes,{ Mr —— ja 53. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ Mr. Attorney General for Zreland be directed to 
“ prosecute the Reverend Peter Conway and the 
e Sovenend Luke Ryan” be added instead thereof: 
—!t was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being pro- 

osed ; ’ 

And a Motion being made, and tie Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for thef Mr. Brady, 1 16 
Yeas, UMr. Maguire: | aie 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 1 49 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: rr 


So it passed in the Negative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General for Ireland 
be directed to prosecute the Reverend Peter Conway 
aud the Reverend Luke Ryan. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the issue of a Writ for the electing of a Knight 
of the Shire for the County of Mayo be suspended 
during the present Session ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Yeestat —- om 
r . " ~~ Mr. Brady, . 
Tellers for the Noe $1 Mr. Maguire : f 21. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Ordered, ‘That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Cambridge Bo- 
rough Election Petition, which were presented upon 
the 27th day of this instant July, be printed. 


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. 


A Moiion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, ‘That the Petition of John Magee, which was 
presented upon the 27th day of this instant July, | 

VoL, 112, 


| ILtesolved, That this House will, upon ‘Thursday 


Of the Number of Days on which such Commis- 
sioners in each County sat on such Appeals :—And, 
of the Number and Names of Places in each County 
at which such Courts were held, and specifying any 
Cases in which a Change was made in any year, 
either increasing or diminishing the Number of such 
Places. 

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. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Joint Stock 
Lords to the Joint Stock Companies Bill be printed. — 
lil. 


Bill 163. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Bait Shell 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Fishings(Firth 
to give directions, that there be laid before this % “'¥4) 
House, a Copy of a Lease recently granted by the 
Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Re- 
venues, to Peter Dey, Fishmonger in Glasgow, of cer- 
tain Bait Shell Fishings below High-water mark on 
the Shores and Sand-banks of the Firth of Clyde. 

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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- Metropolitan 
mittee on the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill ; Police Sta- 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, *"% &amp;c. Bill 
at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Justices and 
mittee on the Justices and Police Force (Dublin) Police Force 
Bill; (Dublin) Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
: Estates Act 
Act Amendment Bill ; J een teen 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this Bill. 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ecclesiastical 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill; Commission, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve “* ~™ 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Miicit Distilla- 


mittee on the Illicit Distillation (Jreland) Biil ; po (Ireland ) 


next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself (‘erks of 





into a Committee on the Clerks of Petty Sessions Petty Sessions 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, —_ 
| Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy Bill 164. 
| reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. ; 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed toa Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Court of Ses- 
take into consideration the Court of Session (Scot- Bill (Scotland) 
land) Bill, as amended in the Committee. . 

3A3d 





Ordered, 





356 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


Election The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Petitions Bil. mittee on the Election Petitions Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


itself into the said Committee. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee on the Wills, &amp;e. of British Subjects 
Abroad Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill; and amended the Title, as followeth : 

A Biil to amend the Law relating to the Wills, 
and to the granting of Administration of the Per- 
sonal Estate, of British Subjects resident or domi- 
ciled elsewhere than in the United Kingdom. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next; and be printed. 


Wills, &amp;c. of 
British Sub- 
jects Abroad 
Bill. 

Bill 165. 


Sale of Corn, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
&amp;c, Bill. 


reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;c. Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time | 


upon Thursday next. 


Registration Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 

(Scotland) Bill Lords to the Registration of Long Leases (Scotland) 
’ Bill, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next. 


Public Health 
Act (1848) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the 
Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
Three of the clock on Wednesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 





Mercurii, 29° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


\N R. Walpole reported from the General Com- 

mittee of Elections, the names of the Mem- 
bers of the Select Committee appointed to try and 
determine the matter of the Petition complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Cashel, to which they had annexed the Petition re- 
ferred to them by the House relating thereto :—Sir 
Joseph Paxton, Francis Pigott, Esquire, George 
W. Repton, Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel Smyth 
(York); Chairman, Sir Edward North Buzton, 
Baronet. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Cashel 
Election. 


Beverley 
Election. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter-| 
mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Beverley, to which they had annexed the Petition 
referred to them by the House relating thereto, and 
the List of Voters delivered in to the Committee on 
behalf of the Petitioner:—TZhomas William Evans, 
Esquire (Derby S.), J. Hodgetts Foley, Esquire, 
Lieutenant Colonel Brownlow Knox (Marlow), 
Stearne Ball Miller, Esquire ; Chairman, John Abel 
Smith, Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Repoit do lie upon the Table. 


Sligo Borough 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- 
Election. 


mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 
mine the matter of the Petitions complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the Borough of 
Sligo, to which they had annexed the Petitions re- 


28°—29° Juliz. 


: ee read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of | 2 P 


A, 1857. Sess. IT. 


ferred to them by the House relating thereto, and 
the List of Voters delivered in to the Committee on 
behalf of the Petitioner :—John Whitehall Dod, Es- 
quire, Karl Jermyn, John Martin, Esquire (Tewkhes- 
| bury), John Benjamin Smith, Esquire (Stockport) ; 
Chairman, Sir John Yarde Buller, Baronet. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Walpole reported from the General Com- Dublin City 

mittee of Elections, the names of the Members of Election. 
the Select Committee appointed to try and deter- 

|mine the matter of the Petition complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the City of Dub/in, 

to which they had annexed the Petition referred to 

them by the House relating thereto :—Acton Smee 

| Ayrton, Esquire, The Honourable Ralph Heneage 
Dutton, The Earl of Gifford, The Honourable Fran- 

‘cis Scott; Chairman, Thomas Emerson Headlam, 

_ Esquire. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


| Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Duchy Duchy of 
of Lancaster (Bertolacci’s Petition) have Power to Lancaster | 
| report their Observations, together with the Minutes aa 
of the Evidence taken before them. No 218 
Mr. Estcourt reported from the said Committee ; ian 
That they had considered the matters to them 
referred, and had agreed to a Report, which they 
had directed him to make to the House, together 
— the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 





The Names of the five Members appointed to try Drogheda 
/and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- Election. 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Droyheda, were called over; and being 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the 


_ | Committee. 


Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


| 
| 
| 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Islington 
Parish Acts 
Amendmen* 


| the Amendment made by the Lords to the /slington 
| Bill. 


| Parish Acts Amendment Bill; and the same was 

| twice read, and agreed to. 

| Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 178 and 204 be Eastern Ben- 
suspended in the case of the Eastern Bengal Rail- gal Railway, 
way Company Bill; and that the Committee have pial 
leave to sit and proceed on one clear day’s Notice 
being given in the Private Bill Office. 





Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
eighth Report. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Re‘turn to an Order, Dublin Police 
dated the 21st day of this instant July, for a Return Fund. 
relative to the Dublin Police Fund. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- Friendly 
tions ofan Act of Parliament, —Report and Abstracts, a J.) 
by the Registrar of Friendly Societies in Scotlund. * ; 

Ordered, That the said Seeen do lie upon the 
' Table. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) 
Abatement Bill. 


(In the Comunitiee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Cravuses, N° land N° 2, amended, and agreed to. 
Crausg, N° 3, disagreed to. 


Smoke Nui- 
sance (Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 


Bill 167. 





CLavsEs, 











21 Vicroriz. 


Cuausss, N° 4and N° 5, amended, and agreed to. 

Crausz, N° 6, disagreed to. 

Cravuses, N° 7 to N° 13, with Amendments to 
two of them, agreed to. 

Cuavses, N° 14 and N° 15, disagreed to. 

Crauses, N° 16 and N° 17, agreed to. 

Crausss, N° 18 and N° 19, disagreed to. 

Cuavuse, N° 20 (Interpretation of terms). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, |. 1: After tie 
word “thereof” to insert the words “ provided the 


“same comprehend a population of not less than 
“ Five thousand.” 


Amendment proposed to the said proposed | 


Amendment, to leave out the words “ Five thousand,” 
in order to insert the words “ Two thousand.” 

Question, That the words “ Five thousand ” stand 
part of the said proposed Amendment --—put, and 
negatived. 

Question, That the words “ provided the same 
“comprehend a population of not less than Two 
‘€ thousand” be there inserted -—put, and agreed to. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Clause (Nothing inthis Act contained shall apply 
to the furnaces used by brewers for wort-coppers so 
long as such brewers employ a properly qualified 
fireman to attend te such furnaces ; and in the event 
of difference as to the qualification of the fireman 
in any brewery, the burden of proof that the fireman 
is propeily qualified shall be on the brewer)—— 
brought up, and read 1°. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second time 
——-put, and negatived. 

Another Clause (Steam-boats shall be excepted 
from the operation of this Act, except when plying 
within the limits of harbours constituted by Parlia- 
mentary ‘Trusts)——brought up, and read 1°. 

Question, That the Clause be read a second time 
—— put, and negatived. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Wednesday 
the 12th day of August next; and be printed. 


Superannua- 
tion Act 
Amendment 
Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 23d day of this instant July, was proposed 
to be made to the Question, ‘That the Superannua- 
tion Act Amendment Bili be now read a second 
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 three months ;” 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Taplin :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the f Lord Naas, 

Yeas, Mr. Hankey : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, laa 
Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: J ‘ 

So it was resolved in the Aftirmative. 

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. 


yin. 


Oaths Validity 
Act Amend. ~ 
ment Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Oaths Validity Act Amendment 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 

Vou. 112, 


29° Juliz. 








357 


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

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, Vhat this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
+R; Estates Act 
Act Amendmeni Bill ; Amendment 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ecclesiastical 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill ; Commission, 

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


The Court of Session (Scotland) Bill was, ac- Court of Ses- 
cording to Order, read the third time. en 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. P 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Election _ 
into a Committee on the Election Petitions Bill, Petitions Bill. 
(In the Cummittee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Cuavuse, N° 1, agreed to. 


And it being a quarter before Six of the clock, 
the Chairman left the Chair. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. George 
Alexander Hamilton 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, ‘Vhat this House wil!, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill General Board 
to continue the General Board of Health: And that + iceman 
Mr. Cowper and Sir George Grey do prepare, and . 
bring it in. 


Lord Robert Grosvenor, from the Select Com- Gloucester 
mittee appointed to try and determine the matter City Election. 
of the Petition of Thomas Eycott and James Haines, 
and of the Petition of William Morgan Meyler and 
Powell Chandler, complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the City of Gloucester, informed the 
House, That the Committee had determined, 

That William Philip Price, Esquire, is duly elected 
a Citizen to serve in this present Parliament for the 
City of Gloucester. 

That Sir Robert Walter Carden is duly elected a 
Citizen to serve in this present Parliament for the 
City of Gloucester. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. __ 

Lord Rebert Grosvenor, from the said Select 
Committee, further informed the Heuse, That the 
Committee had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

1. That it was proved to the Committee that 
Thomas Milis had been unduly influenced by Charles 
Frederick Cooksey, by an offer of £.5, to vote for 
William Philip Price, Esquire. 

2. That tiiere was no evidence to show that the 
said act of undue influence was committed with the 
knowledge and consent of the said William Philip 
Price. 

3. That the evidence in en of the Petition 
against the said Election and Return of Sir Robert 
Walter Carden was of the most unsatisfactory 
nature, 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

3Aa4 The 












































































































































































































































































































































Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Minutes 
ordered. 


Indian Army. 





General Board 
of Health 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Bill 166, 


Cashel 
Election. 





358 


etition of Electors, complaining of au undue 


Election and Return for the Borough of Great 


Yarmouth, informed the House, That the Committee 
had determined, 


That William Torrens M‘Cullagh and Edward 


William Watkin, Esquires, are not duly elected 
Burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Great Yarmouth. 

That the last Election for the said Borough is a 
void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entercd in the Journals of this House. 

The Earl of March, from the said Select Com- 
mittee, further informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That the said William Torrens M‘Cullagh and 
Edward William Wathin, Esquires, were by their 
Agents guilty of bribery at the last Election for the 
said Borough of Great Yarmouth. 

That it was proved to the Committee that George 
Woods was bribed with £.6, and James Benstead 
with £.3, by John C. Royall; Charles Reeve with 
£.5, by William Robert Last; William Benjamin 
Layton, by the offer of £.10 made to him by James 
Denny Chapman; and George Watson and James 
Richard Emms, by promises of money made to them 
by William Spilling. 

That it was not proved to the Committee that the 
aforesaid acts of bribery were committed with the 
knowledge and consent of the said William Torrens 
M'‘Cullagh and Edward William Watkin. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 27th day of this instant July, for a Return re- 
lative to the Indian Army. 


Mr. Cowper presented a Bill to continue the 
General Board of Health: 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 adjourned till To-morrow. 





= 








Jovis, 30° die Juli; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


R. Speaker acquainted the House, That he 

had this day received a Letter from Messrs. 
Holmes, Anton and Turnbull, as Agents for James 
Lyster O’ Beirne and John Joseph Scully, informing 
him that it is not their intention to proceed with 
their Petition complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Cashel:—And the said 
Letter was read, as followcth : 

18, Fludyer-street, Westminster, 
Sir, 28th July 1857. 

As Agents for James Lyster O’ Beirne and John 
Joseph Scully, Esquires, in the matter of the Petition 
delivered in on the 20th day of May last, complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Cashel, we hereby beg to inform you that it is 
not intended to proceed with the said Petition. 


We have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your very obedient servants, 
Holmes, Anton &amp; Turnbull. 


To the Right honourable the Speaker 
of the House of Commons. 


Ordered, That no further Proceedings be taken 
upon the said Petition, 


29°—30° Julie. 


The Earl of March, from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Beverley, were called over; and being 
come to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 
| Ordered, That the Petition and List relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
‘row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petitions complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the Bo- 
rough of Sligo, were called over; and being come 
'to the Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the Petitions and List relative to 
the said Election be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


The Names of the five Members appointed to try 
and determine the matter of the Petition complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the City of 
Dudlin, were called over ; and being come to the 
Table, they were sworn by the Clerk. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee do meet To-mor- 
row, in one of the Committee-rooms of the House, 
at Eleven of the clock. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Indian 
Army, which was presented upon the 29th day of 
this instant July, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Police (Scotland) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 24 (Penalty on publicans harbouring 
Constables during the hours of duty). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 10, 1. 5: After the 
word “place” to insert the words “to the neglect 
“ of his duty.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again. 

Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


Cuiausz, N° 25 (Chief Constable to make 
quarterly Reports). 
Amendments made. 
Another Amendment 
After the word “ Justices 
“ Magistrates of Burghs.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted —— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


Cravses, N° 26 to N° 35, with Amendments to 
four of them, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 36 (On Certificate of Secretary of 
State, that an efficient Police has been established 
in any county or burgh, a sum to be paid by the 
Treasury). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 25, 1. 12: 
After the word “year” to insert the words “and 


proposed, in p. 10, 1. 26: 
to insert the words “ and 








| 





“ the police stations, charge rooms, cells, lock-ups, 
“ and 






Beverley 
Election. 


Sligo Boroug), 
Election. 


Dublin Citv 
Election. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Twenty- 
ninth Report. 


Indian Army. 
No. 219. 


Police (Scot- 
land) Bill. 
Bill 168. 

















ty- 


ri. 


91 Vicrorim. 


“and other premises occupied for the use of such 
«* Police Force are proper and sufficient). 

Question, That those words be there inserted —— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 37 (Burghs to be liable under 
1 Geo. 1, ¢c. 5, for damages by riots within 
burghs). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 25, 1. 40: After the 
words “in a burgh” to insert the words “ not form- 
“ing part of such county for the purposes of this 


“ Act, nor consolidated therewith under the same.” | 


Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted, 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause 
stand part of the Bill——-put, and negatived. 


Cuavuses, N° 38 and N° 39, agreed to. 


CuacseE, N° 40, amended, and agreed to. 
Clause (This Act shall not extend to the counties 
of Orkney and Shetland) —— brought up, and read 1°. 
Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 
Clause (Horses, &amp;c. in the service of the Police 
exempted from toll)——brought up, and read 1°. 
Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time : 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for they Mr. Hayter, 71 58 
Yeas, {The Earl of Mulgrave: J ~~ 
1 
J 








Tellers for thes Mr. Andrew Steuart, o 
Noes, Mr. Machie: . 
Clause agreed to, and added. 

Two Clauses added. 

Clause (Police assessment to be levied for the pur- 
poses of this Act)——brought up, and read 1°, 2°. 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 11, 1. 17: 
To leave out from the word “ following ” to “ Pro- 
“ vided,” in 1. 20, in order to insert the words “ shall 
“be levied in equal portions on the proprietor and 
* tenant of all such lands and heritages.” 

Question put, That the words “ may be levied 
“ either ” stand part of the Clause; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, L gw 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : _— 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Stirling, \ re 
Noes, (Mr. Andrew Steuart : | ia 

Clause, as amended, agreed to; and added. 

‘Twelve Clauses added. 

Clause (Books of Accounts and Minutes of Pro- 
ceedings to be kept by Commissioners of Supply) 
brought up, and read 1°, 2° 

Amendment proposed, in p. 15, 1. 36: To leave 
out from the word “pounds” to the end of the 
Clause. 

Question, That the words “ and in case any per- 
“son” stand part of the Clause put, and agreed 
to 











Clause agreed to, and added. 

Ten other Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Burghs may agree to consolidate 
their Police with County Police)——brought up, and 
read 1°, 2°. , 

Amendment proposed, in p. 23, 1. 26: To leave 
out from the words “and no such notice” inclusive, 
to the end of the Clause. 

Question, That the words “and no such notice” 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to, and added. 

Another Clause added. 

Another Clause (Her Majesty in Council, on re- 
presentation from burghs, may arrange terms of 
consolidation with counties)——brought up, and 
read 1°, 2°, 

Ameudment proposed, in p. 24, 1.17: To leave 
out from the word “ Act” to the end of the Clause, 
in order to insert the words “ but it shall not be 

Vo. 112. 








30° Juli. 359 


|“ lawful for either party to alter or to put an end to 
“such consolidation in the manner hereinbefore 
|“ provided, till after the expiry of two years from 
|‘ the date of such consolidation.” 

Question put, That the words “ and it shall be 
“ Jawful” stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 1 29 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : —— 





Tellers for the {Sir John Ogilvy, } 12 
Noes (Mr. Bazter : . 
? 

Clause agreed to, and added. 
‘Three other Clauses added. 
Clause (It shall be lawful for the magistrates and 
town council of any city or burgh having an esta- 
blishment of Police under any Local Act or Acts of 
Parliament, with the consent of any district or dis- 
tricts adjoining such city or burgh, to be obtained 
and declared in manner herein prescribed, to conjoin 
such district or districts with such city or burgh for 
the purposes of Police, and to the effect after men- 
tioned: Provided that a meetin of the inhabitant 
householders of such district shall be called by the 
sheriff of the county in which such city or burgh, or 
the principal part of such city or burgh, is situated, 
on a requisition made to him by not less thau seven 
of such householders, being payers of rates and 
taxes in such district, by advertisement signed by 
such sheriff, published in at least three newspapers 
usually circulated in such city or burgh and district, 
and stating the purpose of such meeting; and that 
at such meeting, of which such sheriff shall be chair- 
man, the majority of such householders shall decide 
for so conjoming such district with such city or 
burgh, and that such decision and the extent of such 
district or districts shall be declared by such sheriff 
in reference toa plan thereof which shall be sub- 
scribed by him ; and thereupon the whole powers, 
provisions, authorities, privileges, rights and juris- 
dictions relating to the Police of such city or burgh, 
with all the rates, duties and assessments leviable 
and applicable for Police purposes under such Act 
or Acts, and all matters relative thereto contained 
in such Act or Acts shall, for such Police purposes, 
extend and be applicable to the district or districts 
so joined to such city or burgh as validly and 
effectually as to such city or burgh)—— brought up, 
and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 

Another Clause added. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three 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 this 
day. 


House ; That their Address of the 27th day of this 
instant July, relative to India, had been presented 
3B to 














New Zealand 
Loan Guaran- 
ee Bill. 


The Comptroller of the Household reported to the India. 












Assessments 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


East Quay 
Wail Tax 
(Dublin) Bill. 


New Zealand 
Government 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Sales of Waste 
Lands (New 
Zealand) Bill. 


Illicit Distilla- 
tion (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Bank Acts. 
No. 220. 


Freight Money 
(Greenwich 
Hospital ) 


No. 221. 


Chelsea New 
Bridge Bill. 
(Report of 
Bill.) 


(Special Re- 
port.) 


360 


to Her Majesty; and that Her Majesty had been 
pleased to receive the same very graciously, and to 
give the following Answer : 

I thank you for your loyal and dutiful Address, 
and for the assurance of your cordial support in any 
measures which I may consider necessary for the 
suppression of disturbances in Jndia, and for the 
permanent establishment of tranquillity and content- 
ment in that important portion of My Dominions. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Assessments (Scot/and) 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- 

mittee on the East Quay Wall Tax (Dublin) 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 on the New Zealand Government Act Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, at ‘l'welve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Sales of Waste Lands (New Zealand) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Illicit Distillation (Jreland) Bill; 

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


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Bank 
Acts have Power to report their Observations there- 
upon to the House, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them. 

The Chancellor of the Exchequer reported from 
the said Committee ; That they had examined the 
matters to them referred, and had agreed to report 
the same to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them ; and the Minutes 
of the Evidence of the previous Session referred to 
them, with an Appendix. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Freight 
Money (Greenwich Hospital), which was presented 
upon the 23d day of this instant July, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Chel- 
sea New Bridge Bill have leave to make a Special 
Report. 

Sir Benjamin Hall reported from the said Com- 
mittee ; That they had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, but the same had 
not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Sir Benjamin Hall further reported from the said 
Committee ; That the object of the Bill is to abolish 
a yj ortion of the Tol!s proposed to be taken under 
the Act 9 &amp; 10 Vie. c. 39. 

The Committee is of opinion that Parliament 
granted the Funds for erecting the Bridge under 
the impression conveyed in the 5th Report of the 
Metropolitan Commissioners, that the sum _ so 
granted would be repaid by the Tolls to be levied 
upon the Bridge. 

If the Tolls were partially abolished, as proposed 
by the Bill, there is no doubt the property in the 
neighbourhood would be increased in value ; but the 
evidence adduced before this Committee does not 
clearly show that the value of the property belonging 
to the Government would be so much increased as 


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A. 1857. Sess. IL. 


to cover the loss which might arise from the aboli- 
tion of the Tolls. 

But the Committee is of opinion, that it is not 
desirable for the Government to continue in posses- 
sion of such a property as a Toll-paying Bridge, and 
they recommend that a Bill be introduced for the 
purpose of enabling the Government to dispose of 
the Bridge, on such terms as the Lords Commis- 
sioners of Her Maje-ty’s Treasury may determine, 
having due regard to the increased value of the Go- 
vernment property, if the Bridge should be made 
wholly or partially toll-free. 

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


Sir John Ramsden 
Command,—Copy of 
Military Education. 


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


poe, by Her Majesty’s Military 
irst Report of the Council of Education. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, East India 
Copies of a Despatch from the Governor General of (Oude.) 
India in Council, dated the 4th day of September 
1854, together with its Enclosures ; and of the Reply 
from the Court of Directors of the East India Com- 
pany, relating to Oude. 


Resolved, That upon Tuesday next, and on every Public 
succeeding Tuesday during the present Session, Go- Busiuess. 
vernment Orders of the day shall have precedence 
of Notices of Motions. 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid Great 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- — 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- “°° 
mittee on the Great Yarmouth Election Petition. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Divorce and 
reading of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Biil ; a 

And a Motion being made, and tle Question ' 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 31° die Julit, 1857: 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the (Sir William Heathcote, 

Yeas, Mr. Lygon: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
word “ now” stand part of the Question ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was 
proposed, 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 the 
word ‘‘ now ” stand part of the Geanion :—~And a 
Debate arising thereupon ; aes. 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


25. 


ps 


hiss. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 





their Clerks, as followeth ; 
The 








North Level 
Drainage Bill 


Lowestoft and 
Burgh Saint 
Peter Ferry 


21 Vicroriz. 


The Lords have agreed to the North Level Drain- 
age Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Lowestoft and 
Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and Roads Bill, without 


and Roads Bill. any Amendment: 


Coniston 
Railway Bill. 
Portland 
Harbour Bill. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill, 


Great Yar- 
mouth Water 
Bill. 


Prisoners 
Removal Bill. 


Baroness 
Windsor’s 
Estate Bill. 


Giustiniani’s 
Naturalization 
Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Commission, 


&amp;e, Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
Ministration 
Bil, 


Constables 
(Detached 
parts of Coun- 
ties) Bill. 





The Lords have agreed to the Coniston Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment: 

The Lords have agreed to the Portland Harbour 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Chatham Lands, 
&amp;ec. Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Hamilton and 
Strathaven Railway Bill, with Amendments; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Great Yarmouth 
Water Bill, with an Amendment; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for further facilitating the Removal of Prisoners; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for authorizing the raising of Money on the Security 
of Estates in the County of Glamorgan, settled by 
the Will of the Right honourable Other Archer, late 
Earl of Plymouth, deceased, and the Application of 
the Money for the Improvement of parts of the Es- 
tates, in order to render them available as Building 
Lands; and for confirming an Agreement with the 
Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway Company, 
heretofore called the Ely Tidal Harbour and Rail- 
way Company, and for other purposes ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

‘The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for naturalizing Maria Cecilia Agatha Anna Josepha 
Laurentia Donata Melchiora Balthassara Gaspara 
Princess Giustiniani, Widow of Charles Marquess 
Bandini, in the Roman States, and Sigunenl Ni- 
cholas Venantius Gaietano Francis Marquess Ban- 
dini, the only Son and Heir Apparent of the said 
Princess Giustiniant Marchioness Dowager Ban- 
dini, by the said Charles Marquess Bandini, Her late 
Husband ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
sion, &amp;e. Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Crauses, N°7 to N° 22, with an Amendment to 
one of them, agreed to. 

Cuiavuseg, N° 23 (Rules to be observed in valuation 
as to rate of interest, &amp;c.) 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, |. 18: To leave 
out the words “ or houses.” 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again——put, and agreed to. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
gress in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit —_ 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Twelve of the clock, again resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administration 
Bill ; 

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


The Constables (Detached parts of Counties) Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
this day. 

Vou. 112, 


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361 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Insurance 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; Companies 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday - 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scotland) Boundaries 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time; —_— 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, (Scotland) Bill. 


for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself County Court 
into a Committee on the County Court Judges — — 
(Falconer and Yates’s Salaries) Bill. cin’ 


; Yates’s Sala- 
(In the Committee.) — 
Preamble postponed. 
Cuiause, N° 1 (Salaries of JT. Falconer and 
J. Saint John Yates, Esquires.) 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause stand part of the Bill. 
Whereupon Motion made, and Question proposed, 
That the Chairman do now leave the Chair :—Mo- 
tion, by leave, withdrawn. 
Original Question put, and agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, 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 
this day. 


The Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act Amend- Valuation of 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read the third —_— (Scot- 


. and) Act 
time. ; Amendment 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Joint Stock 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords — 
to the Joint Stock Companies Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 

into consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Representa- 
mittee on the Representative Peers (Zreland) Bill; tive Peers 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resulve “¢!@"4) Be. 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Crowded 
reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; ——ao 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this ““""°" 

day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Town Byelaws 
reading of the Town Byelaws Revision Bill ; Revision Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Adulteration 
reading of the Adulteration of Food or Drink Bill; . reag te 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. er 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Deer, Game 
reading of the Deer, Game and Rabbits Bill ; = Rabbits 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ” 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for —— into Wills, &amp;c. of 
consideration the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects ao 
Abroad Bill, as amended in the Committee ; t. 
Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 


upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sule of Corn, 
reading of the Sale of Corn, &amp;c. Bill; &amp;c. Bill. 
_ Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 





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362 


Registration The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
of Long Leases into consideration the Amendments made by the 
(Scotland) Bill. 7 ords to the Registration of Long Leases (Scotland) 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this.House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 

ships. 


General Board The General Board .of Health Continuance Bill 
bears was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
* committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
this day, at Twelve of the clock. 
Superannua- § The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
yesh , mittee on the Superannuation Act Amendment Bill; 
Bill, ™ And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn :—It 
passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being again proposed, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair:—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 Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the {Sir John Trelawny, 1 18 
Yeas, (Mr. Ayrton: | ew 
Tellers for thef Lord Naas, "7 
Noes, (Mr. Seymour FitzGerald: } . 
So it passed in the Negative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 


Tellers for the Yeas, 


+ 20 
\ 55. 


Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Mr. Nicoll, 
Mr. Ayrton: } os. 
. Lord Naas, 

Tellers for the Noes,) Gojonel Taylor : } 49. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Craust, N° 1 (27th section of 4 &amp; 5 Will. 4, 
c. 24, repealed). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 1, 1. 17: At the end 
of the Clause to add the words “and that the sala- 
“ries of the civil servants shall be revised, having 
“due regard to the amount of deductions hereby 
“ repealed). 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
Clause, to add the words: “ Provided that if any 
** individual shall be proved to have lost any advan- 
“ tages which he would have received, he shall be 
“ entitled to compensation.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added. 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask 
leave to sit again; 

‘The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Yeas,/ Sir John Trelawny, 

UMr. Dilheyn: 

Tellers for the Noes, \Oalocl itp hie s 

Question again proposed, That those words be 
there added. 

Whereupon Motion made, aad Question pro- 
posed, That. the Chairman do now leave the Chair : 
— Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn, 


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A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Preamble agreed to. 
Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, 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 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
Act Amendment Bill ; y omen toed 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Bill. 


this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Election 
mittee on the Election Petitions Bill; Petitions Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming New Zealand 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which Loan Guaran. 
was, this day, proposed to be made to the Question, *@ 

That the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill be now 
read a second time; 

Ordered, 'That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Offences 
Offences against the Person Bill, was read, and dis- #g@inst the’ 
; Person Bill. 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Malicious 
Malicious Injuries to Property Bill, was read, and Injuries to, 
discharged. pany oe. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Forgery Bill. 
—- Bill, was read, and discharged. 
rdered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Coinage __ 
Coinage Offences Bill, was read, and discharged. Offences Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Accessories 
Accessories and Abettors Bill, was read, and dis- a Abettors 
charged. ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order for reading 
Larceny, &amp;c. Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


g a second time, this day, the seneety, Ke. 


The Order for reading a second time, this day, the Libel Bill. 
Libel Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


Ordered, That Mr. Walpole, the Chancellor of Printing. 
the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir Francis 
Baring and Mr. Henley be added to the Select 
Committee on Printing. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Maldon 
before the Select Committee on the Maldon Election Election. 
Petitions be laid before this House. 


The Order made upon the 28th day of this instant Galway Town 
July, for presenting to Her Majesty an humble Ad- Election. 
dress, praying that She would be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that an inquiry be made into the 

existence 








Galway Town 
Electicn. 
ed 
l. 
l~ 
. 
Prisoners 


Yemoval Bill 
Bill 169. 


Giustiniani’s 
Naturalization 
Dill, 


Taroness 


Windsor’s 
Estate Bill. 


Dulwich 
College Bill, 


Bill 170. 


No. 229, 





Q1 Vicroriz. 


existence of corrupt practices during the last as | 
well as former Elections for the Town and County | 
of the Town of Galway, was read, and discharged. | 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, 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 humbly to repre- 
sent to Your Majesty, that a Select Committee of 
the House of Commons, appointed to try a Petition 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for | 
the County cf the Town of Galway, have reported 
to the House, that corrupt practices have extensively 
prevailed at the last Election, and at previous Elec- 
tions, for the said County of the Town of Galway. 

We therefore humbly pray Your Majesty, that 
Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to cause 
inquiry to be made, pursuant to the provisions of 
the Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth year 
of the reign of Your Majesty, intituled, “ An Act to 
provide for more effectual Inquiry into the existence 
of Corrupt Practices at Elections for Members to 
serve in Parliament,” by the appointment of John 
Thomas Ball, a.c., John Leahy, and Piers Francis 
White, Esquires, as Commissioners, for the purpose 
of making inquiry into the existence of such corrupt 
practices. 

Resolved, That the said Address be communicated 
to the Lords, at a Conference, and their concurrence 
desired thereto. 

Ordered, That a Conference be desired with the 
Lords upon the subject-matter of an Address to be 
presented to Her Majesty, under the provisions of 
the Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth of Her present 
Majesty, chapter fifty-seven: And that the Clerk do 
go to the Lords, and desire the said Conference. 


The Prisoners Removal Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next; and to be printed. 


Giustiniani’'s Naturalization Bill was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Baroness Windsor’s Estate Bill was read the first 
time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after Three of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Veneris, 31° die Julii ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


CORP ERED, That the Select Committee on 

the Dulwich College Bill have Power to re- 
port the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Mr. Baines reported from the said Committee; 
That. they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto, and had directed him to report the 
Bill to the House, together with the Minutes of 
Evidence. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Thursday next, at 
Twelve of the clock. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be printed. 
VoL. 112, 


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363 
The House proceeded to take into consideration Burial of the 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Burial of Aap 
the Dead within the City and Liberties of Zondon ie hg 
Bill; and the same was twice read, and agreed to. London Bill, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
en to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Haslingden 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Haslingden *"4 Todmor- 
and Todmorden Roads Bill; and the same was twice a 
read, and, with Amendments thereto, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships, 

with Amendments ; to which this een doth desire 

the concurrence of their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Kinross-shire 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Kin- ®ailway Bul. 
ross-shire Railway Bill; and the same were twice 

read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Metropolitan 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Metro- Railway 
politan Railway (No. 2) Bill; and the same was a 
twice read; and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Hcuse proceeded to take into consideration South Staf- 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the South (rishive. 
Staffordshire Water Bill; and the same were twice —— 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Cleik do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Tuble. seamed 
Several Public Petitions were also presentcd, and yide Votes, 


read; and referred to a Select Committee. and Twenty- 
ninth Report. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates and 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of l«tters of Ad- 
Administration (Zreland) Bill; and, after some time (ireland) Bill 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and jj) 171, 
Mr. FitzRoy reported, ‘That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-com:mitted to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


Mr. Chichester Vortescue presented,— Return to Vancouver's 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 25th day of Island. 
June last, fora Return relative to Vancouver’s Is- 
land. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Bank of 
25th day of June last, for a Return relative to the Australasia. 
Bank of Australasia. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Sugar, &amp;e. 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 2ist day of this instant July, for a Return re- 
lative to Sugar, &amp;c. 
The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was also Maldon 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the Hous 
3B3 


e,— lection. 


Minutes No. 226, 




















Military 
Education. 


No. 223. 


Revising 
Barristers 


(Dublin) Bill 


General Boara 
of Health 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Summary 
Proceedings 
betore Justices 
of tne Peace 
Bill. 


31° Juliz. 


Minutes of the Evidence takea betore the Select 
Committee on the Maldon Election Petitions. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Military 
Education, which was presented upon the 30th day 
of this instant July, be printed. . 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) 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 te add the words 
“this House will, upon this day month, 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 Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for thej Mr. Napier, 

Noes, (Colonel Tuylor : 

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.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Crausg, N° 1 (Lord Lieutenant may appoint two 
Barristers under Civil Bills Act). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 3,1. 3: To leave out 
the words “ instead of one ” in order to insert the 
words ‘ in addition to the.” 

Question put, That the words “ instead of one ” 
stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 1 88 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: = J ~~ 

Tellers for thes Mr. Napier, 

Noes, (Mr. Butt: 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again. 

And it being ten minutes before Four of the clock, 
the Chairman left the Chair. 


1 63. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. £itz- 
Roy 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 House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the General Board of Health 
Continuance Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
TitzRoy reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Biil, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, as 
amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 
of the Peace Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 





, this House upon Monday next, with the last Re- 





A.1857. Sess. I. 


next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Metropolitan 
mittee on the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. a 
Bill; lons, &amp;c. Bill, 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ecclesiastical 
mittee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill; en, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday ~ 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sir John Yarde Buller, from the Select Com- Sligo Borough 
mittee appointed to try and determine the matter of Election. 
the Petitions complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Sligo, informed the 
House, That the Committee had determined, 

That John Patrick Somers, Esquire, is not duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment for the Borough of Sligo. 

That the Right honourable John Arthur Wynne 
is duly elected, and ought to have been returned a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough of Sligo. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Sir John Yarde Buller, from the said Select 
Committee, further informed the House, That they 
had altered the poll taken at the last Election for 
the Borough of Sligo, by striking off the names of 
William Dudgeon and Martin Feenarty from the 
votes given for John Patrick Somers, Esquire, ana 
by adding them to the votes given for the Right 
honourable John Arthur Wynne; and had further 
altered the poll, by striking off the name of Edward 
George Eliott from the votes given for the said John 
Patrick Somers, it having been proved that he did 
not vote at all at the said Election ; and had further 
altered the poll, by adding to the votes given for the 
said Right honourable John Arthur Wynne, the 
names of James Henry Ferguson’and Francis Yarde 
Gilbert, whose votes had been improperly refused 
at the said Election. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend Clerk of the 
Crown to 


turn for the Borough of Sligo, and amend the same, amend Retera. 


by rasing out the name of John Patrick Somers, Es- 
uire, ‘and inserting the name of the Right honour- 
able John Arthur Wynne, instead thereof. 
Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Minutes 
before the Committee be laid before this House. —*Fdered. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had oe. 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 27th, conth Ree. 
28th and 29th days of this instant Tap, and had port.) 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from Duke of 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Bridgewater's 
That in the case of the Duke of Bridgewater's Es- Pst Bill 
tate Bill, no Standing Orders are applicable. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Lord Stanley, from the Select Committee ap- Ipswich 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Election. 
Petitions of Henry John Selwin, Henry Orford, 
William Mumford, and Henry Gallant Bristo, and 
William Bransby Faiers and William Green, com- 
ee of an undue Election and Return for the 

orough of Ipswich, informed the House, That the 
Committee had determined, 


That 













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ta- 

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ion, 

ough 
Wuntingdon 
County 
Nieetion, 

n. 
Clerk of the 
Crown to 
amend Return, 


21 Vicroriz. 


That Hugh Edward Adair, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Ipswich. 

That John Chevallier Cobbold, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Ipswich. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Lord Stanley, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions : 

That it was proved to the Committee that Samuel 
Barber was bribed with the sum of two pounds by 
James Fyson Bedford and John Smith. 

That William Bowman was bribed with the sum 
of two pounds ten shillings by John Feek. 

That Henry King was also bribed by the same 
John Feek, but the amount given in this case was 
not proved. 

That Stephen Kerridge Cook and Edward Green 
were bribed by William Cook; the amount given 
in this case was not proved; but that it was not 
proved that such bribery was committed with the 
- to ae and consent of Hugh Edward Adair, 

squire. 

That Robert Chillman was bribed by Frederick 
Pearce with the sum of five shillings. 

That Edgar Boaree was bribed by George Fre- 
derick Butcher and Henry Guiver with the sum of 
five pounds. 

That John Wells was bribed by Arthur 'Thomas 
Cobbold by an agreement releasing him from the 
payment of rent; but that it was not proved that 
such bribery was committed with the knowledge 
and consent of John Chevallier Cobbold, Esquire. 

That it appears by the Evidence taken tielbes this 
Committee, that the payments made to voters on ac- 
count of travelling expenses have been systematically 
in excess of the actual disbursements of such voters, 
although it was not conclusively proved before the 
Committee that such payments were made with a 
corrupt intention. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Cobbett, from the Select Committee ap- 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- 
titions of Edward Fellowes, of Charles Lewin, and 
of John Moyer Heathcote, severally complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the County of 
Huntingdon, informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had determined, 

That John Moyer Heathcote, Esquire, is not duly 
elected a Knight of the Shire to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament for the County of Huntingdon, 

That Edward Fellowes, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Knight of the Shire to serve in this present Parlia- 
ment for the County of Huntingdon. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Cobbett, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee had 
altered the poll taken at such Election, by striking 
off the names of William Tingey and James Sams, 
as not having had a right to vote at such Election ; 
and by striking off the name of Reuben Dent, 
No. 131 on the Register, such voter having also 
voted at the same Election in respect of the quali- 
fication, No. 475 on the Register; and by striking 
off the name of Robert Wormsley trom poll-book 
No. 4, such voter having voted twice at the same 
Election in respect of the same qualification; and 
by adding thereto the name of John Swann, 
No. 2311 on the Register, as having had a right to 
vote at such Election. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend 
this House upon Monday next, with the last Re- 
turn for the County of Huntingdon, and amend the 
same by rasing out the name of John Moyer Heath- 
cote, Esquire. 

Vou. 112, 


31° Sulit. 





Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay 
Hudson’s Bay Company have Power to report their Company. 
Observations to the House, together with the Mi- No. 224, 
nutes of the Evidence taken'before them. 

Mr. Labouchere reported from the said Com- 
mittee; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and had agreed to a Report, which 
they had directed him to make to the House, 

— with the Minutes of Evidence taken before 
them. 

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


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s Cotton 
Command, —Papers relating to the Cultivation’ of (A*i¢4-) 
Cotton in Africa. 

. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
‘able. 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Railway 
mand,—A Return of the Number and Nature of the Accidents. 
Accidents and the Injuries to Life and Limb which 
have occurred on all the Railways open for Traffic in 
England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, respec- 
tively, from the 1st January to the 30th June 1857. 

. — That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- Major General 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 23d day of June Beatson. 
last, for a Return relative to Major General Beat- 
son. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Benjamin Hall presented, pursuant to the Metropolitan 
directions of an Act of Parliament,— Copy of Re- won of 
port of the Metropolitan Board of Works. _ 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Hampton 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased — 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “““ Ganaime, 
House, a Return of the Number of Visitors admitted 
to see the Apartments and Pictures at Hampton 
Court, and the Gardens at Kew, during the year 
1856; distinguishing the Number in each Month, 
and the Number on the several Sundays (in continua- 
tion of Parliamentary Paper, No. 401, of Session 
1856). 

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. 


Ordered, That Mr. Gregson have leave of absence Leave of 
for a fortnight, on account of a domestic affliction, Absence. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Light Gold 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Coin. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
Iiouse, a Return of Light Gold Coin withdrawn 
year by year from circulation, from May 1842 to 
December 1856; together with the Value of the 
same at £.3. 17 s. 10} d. per Ounce. 
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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Royal Mint 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased —- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this “T*"° ~e 
House, a Return of the Amount of Gold coined at 
the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint in 1855 and 
1856. 

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. 

3B4 Ordered, 





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Assessment 
of Sugar. 


Metropolitan 
Board of 
Works. 


Metropolitan 
Drainage. 


Mctropolitan 
Improvements. 


Siam. 


Adjournment. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill, 


366 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Officers in the Customs, 
or other Government Services, who are specially 
employed in attending ‘to the Assessment of Sugar, 
and of the Total Amount paid to them annually. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns showing the Balance of Monies paid over 
by the late Commission of Sewers to the Metro- 
politan Board of Works :—Showing, in separate 


Columns, the Sums assessed upon, and received | 


from, the several Parishes within the Districts of the 
Metropolitan Board of Works since the formation of 
that Board in the year 1855, specifying the Amount 


of each such Rate in the Pound :—And, showing | dine Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 


the Sums expended in each of the said Parishes 
during the same Period, under distinct beads of 
Expenditure; and particularly specifying, under 
the head of Drainage, the Length, Size and Cost 
thereof in each Parish. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of a Letter, dated the 31st day of December 
1856, addressed by the First Commissioner of Her 
Majesty’s Works, &amp;c. to Captain Douglas Galton, 
rn. E., James Simpson, Esquire, c. £., and Thomas 
E. Blachwell, Esquire, c. £., directing them to con- 
sider the Plans for the Main Drainage of the Me- 
tropolis, as submitted to the First Commissioner by 
the Metropolitan Board of Works :—And, of the 
Report, dated the 31st day of July 1857, presented 
to the First Commissioner, in accordance with the 
directions contained in that Letter. 

Sir Benjamin Hall accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of Letter from the First Commissioner of Her 
Majesty’s Works, &amp;c. to the Treasury, dated the 
28th day of July, containing Copy of Correspondence 
referred to in that Letter (in continuation of Puarlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 130, of Session 1857). 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty’s Command,—Copy of Order of Her 
Majesty in Council for the Government of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Subjects, being within the Dominions of the 
Kings of Siam. 

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. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 30th day of this instant July, was proposed 
to be made to the Question, “ That the Divorce and 
Matrimonial Causes Bill be now read a second 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 three months ;” 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
word “now” 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 Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 1° die Augusti, 1857: 


And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the {The Hayter, 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: 

Tellers for the (Sir William Heathcote, 
Noes, UMr. Lygon : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmatiye. 


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31° Julit.—1° August. 


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reading of the Public Offices Extension Bill ; 





A.1857, Sess. II. 


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 Tuesday next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Loris, 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Militia Ballots Sus- Militia Bats 
pens-on Bill, without any Amendment : Par eneien 


The Lords have oy to the Public Health Act Public Healt, 
t 


. 3 ’ ° Act (Alder. 
(Aldershott) Bill, without any Amendment: shott) = 


The Lords have agreed to the Bourn and £:sen- Bourn aad 
Essendine 
Railway Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Oldham, Ashton- Oldham, 
under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railways eetten-unie. 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire aide Bailes 
tie concurrence of this House: Junction ~ 
Railways Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the London and South London and 
Western Railway Acts Amendment Bill, with a Western 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- *!W#y Acts 


; Amendment 
currence of this House: Bill. 


The Lords agree to a Conference with this House Galway Town 
upon the subject-matter of an Address to be pre- Election, 
sented to Her Majesty, under the provisions of the 
Act of the 15th &amp; 16th of Her present Majesty, 

c. 57 (as desired by this House), and appoint the 
same to be held on Monday next, at a quarter before 
Five o'clock, in the Painted Chamber. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Probates and 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- L&lt;tters of Ad- 
tion Bill; —— 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Micit Distilla- 
into a Committee on the Illicit Distillation (Zreland) tion (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 


The County Court Judges (Falconer and Yates’s County Court 
Salaries) Bill was, according to Order, read the Judges (Fal- 
third time. = 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ries) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Pimlico Im- 
reading of the Pimlico Improvements Bill ; "cane, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Public Offices 
Extension Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Clerks of Petty 


mittee on the Clerks of Petty Sessions (Zreland) Scesione (Ire 
Bill; 


Jand) 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 Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





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Qt Vicroriz. 
Assessments 


: The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the Assessments (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Constables The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
ane into a Committee on the Constables (Detached 
ties) Bill. parts of Counties) Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Fitz Roy 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 upon 
Monday next. 
Boundaries The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the Boundaries of Burghs Extension 


(Scotland) Bill. (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Joint Stock The House, according to Order, proceeded to 

——— take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Joint Stock Companies Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and, with Amendments 
to several of them, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships, 
with Amendments ; te which this House doth desire 
the concurrence of their Lordships. 

Representa- The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

pee 9 mittee on the Representative Peers (Jreland) Bill; 

rn dame Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Crowded The Order of the day being read, for the second 

—-. reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 

Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Leases and The Order of the day being read, for the second 

| analy ora reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates 


Amendment Act Amendment Bill; 
Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Election The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Petitions Bill. mittee on the Election Petitions Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, at Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 

Falkirx Writ. © 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 Commissioner to serve in this 


oo Parliament for the Falkirk District of 


urghs, in the room of James Merry, Esquire, 
whose Election has been determined to be void. 


Indian Terri- 


Ordered, That the Appendix to the Report of the 


tories (1853.) Select Committee on Indian Territories, in Session | 


No. 225. 1853, page 429, be re-printed. 


esiel-grounds Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Se cueb to amend “The Burial-grounds (Scotland) Act, 
Amendment, 1855:” And that Mr. William Ewart and Mr. 


Kinnaird do prepare, and bring it in. 


Committers Ordered, That the Select Committee on Com- 
"PP'Y: — mittees of Supply do consist of sixteen Members. 
Ordered, That Mr. /Vilson be added to the Com- 
mittee. 
Dunbar Har- A Motion being made, That this House will, upon 
r Loan, = 


Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee to 

consider of authorizing an advance out of the Con- 

solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 

Britain and Ireland, for the repairs and improve- 
Vou. 112. 


31° Jultz.—1°— 38° August. 


367 
ments of the Harbour of Dunbar, on the security of 
the Rates and Tolls of the Harbour; 

Viscuunt Palmerston, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand, 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, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Netley 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Hospital. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Reports from Dr. Mapleton and 
Captain Zaffan on the 12th day of March 1855, as 
to the Site between Fort Monckton and Harbour on 
the Gosport side of Portsmouth Harbour :—Of Re- 
ports from Sir Frederick Smith and Dr. Mapleton 
as to Porchester Castle:—Of Report from Dr. 
Andrew Smith on the Site of Netley, May 1856 :— 
And, of Reports from Dr. Mapleton and Captain 
Ross, R. £., on Herstmonceaux and Appuldevrant. 

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. William Ewart presented a Bill to amend Burial-grounds 
“ The Burial-grounds (Scotland) Act, 1855” And prepa anet 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be — i 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be pin) 379, 


printed. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Divorce ana 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of Matrimonial 
authorizing the collection by means of Stamps of rstampe] 
the Fees to be paid upon proceedings before the 
Court of Marriage and Divorce, to be established by 
any Act of the present Session relating to Divorce 


and Matrimonial Causes in England. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Insurance 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of — 
imposing Stamp Duties on the Memorandum of Duties] 
Association, and the Articles of Association, to be 
executed by any Proprietary or Mutual Insurance 
Company, in pursuance of the provisions of any Act 
of the present Session for the Incorporation and 
Regulation of Insurance Companies. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 








Lune, 3° die August ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
QRDERED, That the Select Committee on Beverley 





the Beverley Election Petition have leave to sit Election. 
| this day till Five of the clock, during the sitting of 
the House. 


| The Clerk of the Crown, attending according to Sligo Borough 
‘Order, amended the Returns for the Borough of #24 Hunting- 
r 5 don County 


| Sligo, and the County of Huntingdon. Elections. 


_ Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,--Report from Baroness 
‘one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, Windsor’s 
| That in the case of the Baroness Windsor’s Estate a 
| Bill, no Standing Orders are applicable. 

| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select | Ser 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had ex- ¢rywenty- 

‘ ene ny 
amined the Petitions presented upon the 30th and ninth Report.) 
31st days of July last; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

3c Ordered, 





Fife and Kin- 
ross Railway 
Bill. 


Great Yar- 
mouth Water 
Bill. 


Haniilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill. 


Otley and 
Skipton Road 
Bill. 


Salford 
Borough 
(No. 1) Bill. 


Baring’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirtieth 
Report. 


Episcopal 
Patronage. 


Lunatic Asy- 
tums (Ireland.) 


368 3° Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table;|18 &amp; 19 Vic. c. 109, to ascertain the Equitable 
and be printed. Amount to be repaid by the Counties in Zre/and 
transferred to other Lunatic Asylum Districts ; 

The House proceeded to take into consideration | accompanied by a Tabular Statement of the Sums 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Fife} ordered to be paid to each County by any other 
and Kinross Railway Bill; and the same were twice | County under the Orders of the Lord Lieutenant, 
read, and agreed to. the Number of Instalments, and the Amount of each 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | Instalment; and of the Sum ordered to be paid by 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath | each County in Jreland for District Lunatic Asylums, 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- | the Number of Instalments, and the Amount of each 
ships. Instalment. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration} Qydered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Great | Return of all Expenses incurred by the Government (Education 
Tater Bill - ww ice read &gt; ne . ° . . Department. ) 
Yarmouth Water Bill; and the same was twice read, | of India in the Education Department, for the years 
and agreed to. , 1854, 1855 and 1856, showing the Number of In- 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | stitutions ; distinguishing the English from the Ver- 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath | nacular; the Expense; Number of Teachers ; the 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- | Number of Pupils; and the Number and Value of 
ships. Scholarships :—And, similar Return of all Grants 
; 7 ; in aid to Private Institutions ; distinguishing those 
The House proceeded to take into consideration | which have been established by Natives or Euro- 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Hamilton peans, and those which are under the superintend- 
and Strathaven Railway Bill; and the same were | ence of different Religious Bodies and Missionary 
twice read, and agreed to. . | Societies. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


: The time being come for the Conference with the 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- ~ na _pancage aaa as ga 


‘Bree | Lords upon the subject-matter of an Address to be Elections. 
onips. presented to Her Majesty, under the provisions of 
the Act of the 15th &amp; 16th of Her present Majesty, 
©. 673 
Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendiient made by the Lords to the Otley 


and Skiplon Road Bill; and the same was twice | jonace the Conference :—And a Pemasieien won 
read, and, with an Amendment thereto, agreed to. " x of Mr Soom Lord Reaien Chiles 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the ill to the Weson Patten Mr George Clive. Sir pn Yarde 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath Buller, Mr Fitz Roy Mr Dodson Mr, Estcourt 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships, | 4. Cyaaeford. Mr Thorn whe auth tim ake ten. - 
with an Amendment; to which this House doth Then the ed of “a? sen: a eaiied 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships, | over, and they went to the Tielemans renfiindl es 
, ’ , returned ; 

The House proceeded to take into consideration} Mr, Massey reported, That the Managers had 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Saif ord been at the Conference, which was managed on the 
Borough (No. 1) Bill; and the same were twice part of the Lords by the Lord President of the 
= with an Amendment to one of them, | Council, and that they had delivered to their Lord- 
agrece we. ; ships the Address agreed upon by this House, to 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | which they desired the concurrence of their Lord- 


Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath ships ; and that they had left the said Address with 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships, | their Lordships. ~ 


with an Amendment; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 





The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid stigo Borough 
T _—_Mi- Election. 
Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi Me 4 
da *y epee nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- No. 227. 
o request that their Lordships will be pleased to}. . ad re 
mittee on the Sligo Borough Election Petitions. 


communicate to this House, a Copy of the Minutes . . ar 
of the Evidence taken before their Lordships in the = That the said Minutes of Evidence be 


case of Baring’s Divorce Bill: And that the Clerk 
do carry the said Message. 

Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Imports and 
Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; | the 24th day of July last, for a Return relative to poe a 
and ordered to lie upon the ‘lable. Imports and Exports (Canada and United States). (vaited States.) 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


| Table. 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased | The Order for the House to resolve itself into a geclesiastical 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ; Committee, To-morrow, on the Ecclesiastical Com- Commission, 
House, Copies of the Report of the Lay Sub-Com- | mission, &amp;c. Bill, was read, and discharged. &amp;e. Bil. 
mittee on Episcopal Patronage, presented to the; Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the 12th day of} next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
May .849 :—And, of the Report of the Committee | 


aa + em Patronage, presented tothe Ecclesias-| viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Ma- Army 
i Ss ‘ ay 5 ; ; : . ’ le 
See enn pene see _jesty’s Command,—Supplementary Army Estimate, (Embodied 
Ordered, ‘Vhat the said Address be presented 1857-58 : Embodied Militia ? Militia.) 
to Hor Majenty, by such Members of this House | Ordered That the said Estimate be referred to No. 228 
, . 


~— me : Pos ' , . 
—— Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy | the Committee of Supply; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House,a} Ordered, That the Return relative to Vancouver's Vancouver's 
Copy of the Report of the Commissioners appointed | Island, which was presented upon the 31st day of Island. 


by the Lord Lieutenant of Zreland, under the Act} July last, be printed, No. 229. 
Ordered, 











Bank of 
Australasia. 


No. 230. 


Sugar, &amp;e. 
No. 231. 





21 VicrorizZ. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Bank of 
Australasia, which was presented upon the 31st day 
of July last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Sugar, &amp;c., 
which was presented upon the 31st day of July last, 
be printed. 


Major General Ordered, That the Return relative to Major 


Beatson. 
No. 232. 


Metropolitan 
Drainage. 
No. 233. 


Metropolitan 
Board of 
Works. 


No. 234, 


Orders of the 
Day. 


Oaths taken 
by Members. 


Beverley 
Election. 


Minutes 
ordered. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Bill Chamber 


(Scotland) Bill, 


Commons 
inclosure Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 
Jontinuance 
Bill, t 





General Beatson, which was presented upon the 
31st day of July last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Metropolitan 
Drainage, which was presented upon the 31st day 
of July last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Metropo- 
litan Board of Works, which was presented upon 
the 31st day of July last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Orders of the day be now 
read; and the same being read; 

Ordered, That the said Orders be postponed till 
after the Notice of Motion relative to Oaths taken 
by Members. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to consider whether the Act 5 &amp; 6 Will. 4, c. 62, is 
applicable to Oaths appointed by Law to be taken 
by Members of this House at the Table, previously 
to their taking their Seats, and in what manner the 
said Act can be so applied, and to report their Ob- 
servations thereupon to the House. 

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of 
Twenty-five Members nominated by this House, 
and all Gentlemen of the Long Robe, Members of 
this House. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That Viscount Palmerston be one of the 
Members of the said Committee :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 
morrow. 


Mr. John Abel Smith, from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the matter of the 
Petition of William Wells, complaining of an undue 
Election and Return for the Borough of Beverley, 
informed the House, That the Committee had de- 
termined, 

That Edward Auchmuty Glover, Esquire, is not 
duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Par- 
liament for the Borough of Beverley. 

That the last Election for the said Borough, so 
far as regards the return of Edward Auchmuty Glo- 
ver, Esquire, is a void Election. 

And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. John Abel Smith, from the said Select Com- 
mittee, further informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had agreed to the following Resolution : 

That the said Edward Auchmuty Glover, Esquire, 
made and signed Declarations in the form prescribed 
by 1 &amp; 2 Vie. c. 48, ss. 3 &amp; 6, and that it is the 
unanimous opinion of the Committee that the Evi- 
dence taken before them should be laid before the 
Attorney General, with a view to further Proceed- 
inys being taken with reference to such Declarations. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table, 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill Chamber 
(Scotland) Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Commons Inclosure 
Bill, without any Amendment: 

The Lords have agreed to the Turnpike Acts Con- 
inuance Bill, without any Amendment : 
Vou. 112, 


3° A ugusti. 








369 


The Lords have agreed to the Newport, Aberga- Newport, 


Abergavenny 
and Hereford 
Railway Bill. 


venny and Hereford Raiiway Bill, without any 
Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Portadown and Portadownand 


: ill i : Dungannon 
Dungannon Railway Bill, without any Amendment Railway Bill 


The Lords have agreed to the Salisbury und Salisbury 

%2 Railw j i : and Yeovil 
Yeovil Railway Bill, without any Amendment: Railwsy, Bill 
The Lords have agreed to the Whitehaven and Whitehaven 


Furness Junction Railway Bill, without any Amend- 404 Furness 
enents Junction 


Railway Bill 

The Lords have agreed to the Bankruptcy and Bankruptcy 
Real Securities (Scotland) Bill, with an Amendment ; Pacha ol 
. which the Lords desire the concurrence of this (scotland) Bill. 

Touse : 

The Lords have agreed to the Public Works (Jre- Public Works 
land) Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords “!¢lan4) Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Dorset Central Dorset Central 
Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the ®ilway Bill 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the Rhymney Railway Rhymney 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire ®#!way Bill. 
the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords communicate Minutes of Evidence Baring’s _ 
taken upon the second reading of Baring’s Divorce Divorce Bill. 
Bill (as desired by this House), with a request that 
the same may be returned. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence be 
referred to the Select Committee on Divorce Bills. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of ———— of 
ree - i inistra- 
Administration Bill. 


tion Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Clause (Compensation to Registrars, &amp;c. of exist- 
ing Courts), brought up, and read, 1°, 2°. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 29,1. 1: After the word 
“‘ emoluments ”’ to insert the words “ or business.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ or business” 
be there inserted. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 29, 1. 1: To 
leave out from the word “ Act” to the word “ to,” 
Question proposed, That the words “ and who are 
“not transferred” stand part of the Clause: — 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 29, 1.11: 
“and” in|. 18. 

Question put, That the words “ Provided that 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the! Mr. Hayter, 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hadfield, 1 91 

Noes, { Mr. Roebuck : &lt; hess 
Clause, to add the words, “ but that in computing 
*‘ any allowance, due consideration shall be paid to 

Question, That those words be there added —— 
put, and negatived. 
amended, be added to the Bill——put, and agreed 
to. 

Another Clause (Whereas the fees and emolu- 
ments of the persons now practising as Proctors in 
damaged by the abolition of the exclusive rights and 
privileges which they have hitherto enjoyed as Proc- 
missiouers of Her Majesty’s Treasury, by examina- 
tion on oath or otherwise, which oath they are hereby 


in |, 2. 
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
To leave out from the word “awarded” to the word 
“ where persons” stand part of the Clause ; 
Yeas, |The Earl of Mulgrave: ras. 
Another Amendment proposed, at the end of the 
“ any office or situation retained by the party.” 
Motion made, and Question, That the Clause, as 
Nine other Clauses added. 
the Courts to be abolished by this Act, may be 
tors in such Courts; Be it enacted, That the Com- 
3c 2 authorized 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


370 53°—4° Augusti. 


authorized to administer, may inquire into, and may,| And the House having continued to sit till after 
by the production of such evidence as they shall | Twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 
think fit to require, ascertain and *bsolutely deter- | Martis, 4° die Augusti, 1857: 


mine the net annual amount of the profits arising | ' 
from the transaction of proctorial business by such| _ Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 


Proctors, on an average of five years immediately Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 


preceding the commencement of this Act, or of suc 


eac 


— of five years as shall have elapsed since | 


the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


! 


and every such Proctor was admitted to prac-| mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 


tise in such Courts, and shall award to each and Twelve of the clock. 
every such Proctor a sum of money or annual | 


payment during the term of his. natural life, of 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Police (Scot. 


such amount as shall be equal in value to one- consideration the Police (Scotland) Bill, as amended !#®4) Bill. 
half of the net profits derived by such Proctor in | in the Committee ; 


respect of such proctorial business, upon the said 


|  Ordered,'That the Bill be taken into consideration 


average of five years immediately preceding the upon Thursday next. 
commencement of this Act, or of such proportion of ; 


the said five years as shall have elapsed since the 
admission of each and every such Proctor to practise 
in such Courts)——brought up, and read 1°. 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause be read a second time. 
Motion and Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 
Another Clause added. 


Another Clause (Every person who at the time 
of the passing of this Act and of its coming into 
operation, shall have been for Seven years consecu- 
tively chief or managing clerk to a Proctor and 
Notary in the Courts in Doctors’ Commons, or in 
succession to several Proctors and Notaries in the 
Courts in Doctors’ Commons, upon production of 
evidence of that fact satisfactory to the Judge of Her 
Majesty’s Court of Probate for the time being, may 
at any time within one year after the passing of this 
Act, be admitted as a Proctor and Notary of the said 
Court of Probate, upon his paying to the Commis- 
sioners of Inland Revenue the amount of stam 
duties legally payable upon articles of clerkship to 
and admission as Proctors and Notaries; and the 
Judge of the said Court is hereby required to direct 
in euch case a form of admission shall be issued, 
upon which the Commissioners of Inland Revenue 
are hereby required to impress the said stamp duties ; 
and the chief or managing clerks so admitted as 
Proctors for the time being of the Court of Probate, 
shall have the same rights, and be subject to the said 
obligations and Jiabilities in respect of the trans- 
action of the common form business as the Proctors 
of the Prerogative Court now have and are subject 
to in respect of the transaction of the common form 
business of the last-mentioned Court)——brought 
up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time put, and negatived. 

Three other Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Every person who at the time of 
the commencement of this Act shall be actually 
under artic'es to a person practising ina Court now 
exercising jurisdiction in matters and causes testa- 
mentary, and entitled to take an articled clerk, shall 
be entitled to claim from the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury, by way of compensation, all the 
fees, charges and expenses whatsoever originally 
paid by him or on his behalf at the time of the 
commencement of his articles, together with the 
stamp duty thereon, and shall be entitled at any time 
within one year after h's having completed his full 
term of service as such articled clerk to be admitted 
a Proctor of the new Court of Probate) brought 
up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Malins, 

Yeas, UMr. Schneider : 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave : Pe 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








I 
fs 
~ 








_ The General Board of Health Continuance Bill General Board 
| was, according to Order, read the third time. —— 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill — 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


| Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


| 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Constables 
reading of the Constables (Detached parts of Coun- oe « ll 
ties) Bill; ties) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking Micit Distilla. 
into consideration the Illicit Distillation (Zreland) se Com 
| Bill, as amended in the Committee:—The Bill was 
| re-committed to a Committee of the whole House: 
|—The House immediately resolved itself into the 
_Committee; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
| the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Twelve of the clock. 








The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Insurance 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; eae 

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


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment. 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Clerks of | 
mittee on the Clerks of Petty Sessions (Zreland) Fetty Sessions 
Bill . (Ireland) Bill. 

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


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

Resolved, Vhat this House will, upon Wednes- 
day 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 Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Boundaries 
mittee on the Boundaries of Burghs Extension — 
(Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chatr ; 

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, re- 

“solve itself into the said Committee,” instead 





thereof. 
And 





ste 





91 VictorizZ. 


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. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Dunbar Har- 


- The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
bour Loan. 


into a Committee on the Dunbar Harbour Loan. 
(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Treasury be authorized to direct Advances to 
be made, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the 
Public Works Loan Commissioners, to an amount 
not exceeding £. 20,000, to be by them applied, by 
way of Loan, for the purpose of repairing and im- 
proving the Vittoria Harbour of Dunbar ; the same 
to be secured on the rates, duties and teinds of the 
said Harbour. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes 
{Stamps. ] 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes [Stamps]. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Fees payable upon proceed- 
ings before the Court of Marriage and Divorce, to 
be established by any Act of the present Session re- 
lating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, sha!l be 
collected by means of Stamps. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resvlution. 

Ordered, hat the Report be received this day, at 
Twelve of the clock. 





Tnsurance The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
— into a Committce on Insurance Companies [Stamp 
Duties. ] Duties}. 

(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, ‘That the Memorandum of Association, 
and the Articles of Association, to be executed by 
any Proprietary or Mutual Insurance Company, 
under the Provisions of any Act of the present Ses- 
sion for the Incorporation and Regulation of Insu- 
rance Companies, shall respectively bear the same 
Stamps as if they were Deeds. 

Resolution to be reported. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to a 
Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, at 
Twelve of the clock. 

athe Validity The Order of the day being read, for the second 
ment Bi’ reading of the Oaths Validity Act Amendment 
"Bill; ~ 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 

Town Byelaws The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Revision Bill. 


reading of the Town Byelaws Revision Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon ‘I hursday next. 
Von. 112. 


3°—4° August. 





371 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Prisoners’ 


reading of the Prisoners’ Removal Bill ; Removal Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Representa- 
mittee on the Representative Peers (Ireland) Bill; tive Peers 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve #4) Bill 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Superannu- 


reading of the Superannuation Act Amendment 4tion Act 
Bill; — 
1 ° 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned :—It 
passed in the Negative. 

Then the Main Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the Lord Naas, Lon 
Yeas, \Mr. Hankey: — 
Tellers for the; Sir John Trelawny, 23 


Noes, \|Mr. Ayrton: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative:—The Bill 
was accordingly read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales yas 
Act Amendment Bill ; pee ae 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this Bill. 


day. 


The Burial-grounds ( Scotland) Act (1855) Amend- Burial-grounds 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read a second yg 
time; and committed to a Committee of the whole Fear a I 
House. Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will immediately re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
afier some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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 
this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Great Yar- 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to mouth Writ. 
the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for 
the electing of two Burgesses to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Great Yarmouth, in 
the room of William Torrens M‘Cullagh, Esquire, 
and Edward William Watkin, Esquire, whose Elec- 
tions have been determined to be void ; 

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 issue of the new Writ for the Borough of 
** Great Yarmouth be suspended until after the Mi- 
“ nutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be 
“ printed,” 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 Llouse, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of two Burgesses to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of Great Yar- 
mouth, in the room of William Torrens M‘Cullagh, 
Esquire, and Edward William Watkin, Esquire, 
whose Elections have been de‘ermined to be void. 

3c3 Resolved, 





$72 

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 Return of all Appointments, by Adjourn- 
ments or otherwise, made by the ‘Taxing Masters of 
the Court of Chancery, between the 1st day of June 
1857 and the Ist day of July 1857; with Dates 
when the Appointment was applied for and obtained, 
or the Adjournment made, and the Days for which 
they were given, and when disposed of :—And, like 
Return of Appointments made by the Chief Clerks 
of the Master of the Rolls and each of the Vice- 
Chancellors, for Proceedings before them or their 
Junior Clerks, between the 1st day of June 1857 
and the ist day of July 1857; with Dates when ap- 
plied for and obtained, the Days for which they 
were given, and when disposed of, and the Nature of 
the Business, distinguishing the Business done by 
the Junior Clerk from that done by the Chief Clerk. 

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. 


Great 

Yarmouth 

Election. 
No. 235. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Great Yarmouth 
Election Petition, which were presented upon the 
30th day of July last, be printed. 


A Petition of Charles Woolfen, a prisoner in Her 
Majesty’s Gaol of Newgate, expressing rezret that 
he did not answer the questions submitted to him 
before the Great Yarmouth Election Committee, 
throwing himself upon the clemency of the House, 
and praying the House to take his case into merciful 
consideration, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Wednesday next; and be printed 


Great 
Yarmouth 
Election. 


Colonial Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to 


Governors, &amp;c. an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 18th day of 


May last, for a Return relvtive tov Colonial Gover- 
nors, &amp;e. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
9th day of June last, fora Return relative to the 
Emigration Commission, 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
16th day of July last, for a Return relative to the 
Austrahan Colonies. 7 


Ordered, ‘That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


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 halt an hour after Two of the clock on Tues- 
day morning :—The House was adjourned by Mr. 
Speaker, without a Question first put, till this day. 


Emigration 
Commission. 


Australian 
Colonies. 








Martis, 4° die Augusti; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
RDERED, That Mr. Speaker do issue his 
Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make 


Beverley 
Writ. 


out a new Writ for the electing of a Burgess to | 


serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of 
Beverley, in the room of Kdward Auchmuty Glove’, 
Esquire, whose Election has been determined to be 
void. 


London and 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
South Western 


ee date the Amendments made by the Lords to the London 
Amendment ®0d South Western Railway Ac's Amendment Bill ; 
Bill. and the same were twice rev, ind agreed ‘to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


3°—4° Augusti. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That Giustiniani’s Naturalization Bill Giustiniany, 
Naturalization 


be read a second time To-morrow. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions, 

A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; yige Votes 
and referred to a Select Committee. and Thirtieth 

Report. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into Probates and 
consideration the Probates and Letters of Adminis- Letters of Ad- 
tration Bill, as amended in the Committee:—The Bill Ry" 
was re-committed to a Committee of the whole pin y75 
House :—The House immediately resolved itself into . 
the Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Colonel Wil- 
son Patten reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Thursday 
next ; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Burial Acts 
into consideration the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, Amendment 
as amended in the Committee. _. 

A Clause (Ordinary of diocese may consecrate 
whole or part of land belonging to any parish for 
the burial of poor persons), was twice read; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Vestry of parish in which burial- 
ground is closed, may purchase such burial-ground 
if not belonging to such parish), was twice read ; 
and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 
and Burial Acts incorporated in this Act), was twice 
, read ; and made part of the Bill. 
| Another Clause (No wall or fence “A poe between 
|the consecrated and unconsecrated portions of 
| burial-ground— Boundary marks to be provided), 
was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Appeal), was twice read; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (52 Geo. 3, c. 146, s. 4.—Recited 
Enactment not to apply to burials in grounds pro- 
vided under the Burial Acts), was twice read ; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Construction of certain expres- 
sions used in the seventeenth and eighteenth Vic- 
ioria, chapter eighty-seven), was twice read; and 
made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (That the power given to one of Her Majesty’s 
Principal Secretaries of State by the seventh section 
of the sixteenth and seventeenth Victoria, chapter 
one hundred and thirty-four, to make regulations for 
burial-grounds to be provided under that Act, and 
not being in the metropolis, be hereby repealed) :— 
And the said Clause was brought up, and read the 
first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the said Clause be now read a second time :— 
It passed in the Negative. 
| Auother Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (That it shall be lawful for every Burial Board 
| to make such bye-laws or regulations as may seem 
|} proper for the protection of public health or the 
, maintenance of public decency, or for the manage- 
ment of interments in respect of the burial-ground 
or place for the reception of bodies previous to in- 
| terment, which shall be under its control ; and every 
a vivlating or wilfully neglecting any of such 

ye-laws or regulations, shall, on summary convic- 
tion thereof before Two Justices, forfeit and pay such 
sum, not exceeding Two pounds, for each offence as 
| such Justices shall order ; but no bye-law or regula- 
tion made by any Burial Board under the authority 
| of this Act, except such as relate solely to the Burial 
| Board or their officers or servants, shall come into 
operation until the same be confirmed in the mode 
provided by the Act of the fifth and sixth William 
the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, section wee 

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21 Vicrorti2. 


And the said Clause was brought up, and read the 
first time. 

A Motion was 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 (Not exceeding Four bodies may be buried in 
any grave, but no interment shall be made in any 
grave (except vaults) in which there will not be a 
depth of earth after such interment of at least Four 
feet from the surface of the ground to the top of the 
uppermost coffin, and a layer of earth of at least 
Twelve inches in thickness shall be left between every 
coffin and the one above it: Provided also, That no 
second interment in any such grave shall take place 
at a period later than Daunty-tom hours after the 
first interment) :—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and read the first time. 

A Motion was 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 (No unwalled grave shall be re-opened within 
Twenty years after the burial of a person above 
Twelve years of age, or within Twelve years after the 
burial of a child under Twelve years of age, unless 
to bury another member of the same family) :—And 
the said Clause was brought up, and read the first 
time. 








A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 


That the said Clause be now read a second time :— | 


It passed in the Negative. 

‘Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by leaving out Clause Nine. 

And the Question being put, That Clause Nine 
stand part of the Bill :—It was resolved in the Af- 
firmative. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Summary The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
ag A mittees on the Summary Proceedings before Justices 


of the Peace Of the Peace Bill, and the M etropolitan Police Sta- 


Rill, and tions, &amp;c. Bill; 
Metropolitan Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 


Police Sta- ‘ 
tions, &amp;c, Bill, Same Committee. 


Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 


(In Committee on the Summary Proceedings 
before Justices of the Peace Bill.) 


CriausE, N° 1 (Amendment again proposed, in 
p. 1, 1.17: To leave out the words “ at Westmin- 
“ ster.” 

Question, That the words “ at Westminster” 
stand part of the Clause——put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 2 to N° 13, with Amendments to 
seven of them, agreed to. 


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373 


Colonel Wilson Patten also reported, That the Metropolitan 
Committee had gone through the Metropolitan Police Sta-_ 
Police Stations, &amp;e. Bill. en 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Insurance 
mittee on Insurance Companies [Stamp Duties], a Companies 
Resolution ; which was read, as followeth : Satie 

That the Memorandum of Association, and the 
Articles of Association, to be executed by any Pro- 
prietary or Mutual Insurance Company under the 
provisions of any Act of the present Session for the 
Incorporation and Regulation of Insurance Com- 
panics, shall respectively bear the same Stamps as 
if they were Deeds. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


fhe House, according to Order, resolved itself Boundaries 
into a Committee on the Boundaries of Burghs Ex- of Burghs 

, . 4 Extension 
tension (Scotland) Bill; and, alter some time spent (scotland)Bill. 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Colonel 
Wilson Patten reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 


mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Colonel Wi/son Patten reported from the Com- Dunbar Har- 
mittee on the Dunbar Harbour Loan, a Resolution ; »4T Loan. 
which was read, as followeth : 

That the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Trea- 
sury be authorized to direct Advances to be made, 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Public 
Works Loan Commissioners, to an amount not ex- 
ceeding £.20,000, to be by them applied, by way 
of Loan, for the purpose of repairing and improving 
the Victoria Harbour of Dunbar, the same to be 
secured on the rates, duties and teinds of the said 
Harbour. 

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. Fitz Roy, Mr. Wilson and 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Colonel Wilson Patten reported from the Com- Divorce and 
mittee on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes [Stamps], Matrimonial 
a Resolution; which was read, as followeth: Teme 

That the fees payable upon proceedings before 
the Court of Marriage and Divorce, to be established 


| by any Act of the present Session relating to Divorce 


and Matrimonial Causes, shall be collected by means 
of Stamps. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take flicit Distilla- 
into consideration the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) tion (Ireland) 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 





Two Clauses added. 

Schedule added. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Title amended. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Summary 
proceedings 
ore Justices 7 ° . 
~ the Peace gone through the Summary Proceedings before 
ill, " 


ustices of the Peace Bill; and had amended the 
Title, as followeth : 

A Bill to improve the Administration of the Law 
so far as respects Summary Proceedings before Jus- 
tices of the ame, 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow ; and 
be printed. 

Von, 112, 


Bill 174, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Colonel | 
Wilson Patten reported, That the Committee had | 





morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Wills, &amp;c. of 


| into consideration the Wills, &amp;c. of British Subjects British Sub- 


jects Abroad 


| Abroad Bill, as amended in the Committee. Bill. 


| Ordered, that the Bill be read the third time 
upon Thursday next. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Election _ 
into a Committee on the Election Petitions Bill, Petitions Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Crauses, N° 2 to N° 5, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Colonel 
Wilson Patten reported, That the Committee had 
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Burial-grounds 


(Scotland) Ac 


(1855) Amend- 


ment Bill. 


Dunbar Her, , Mr- Wilson presented a Bill to authorize the 
‘on —n Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund to 
i 


Beverley 
Election. 


Shoreham 
Harbour. 


Army Prize 
Moncy. 


Imports 
and Exports 
(Canada and 


United States.) sented upon the 3d day of this instant August, be 


No. 236. printed. 
een &amp;e, Ordered, That the Return relative to Colonial Go- 


No. 237. 


Emigration 
Commission. 


No, 238. 
Australian 


Colonies. 
No. 239. 


River Thames. 


Freight of 
Specie. 


Copyright 
(Colonies. ) 


374 


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 Burial-grounds ( Scotland) Act (1855) Amend- 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk dé carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


t 


the Magistrates and Town Council of Dunbar, for 


the purpose of improving the Victoria Harbour of 


Dunbar: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time this day ; and 
to be printed, 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
mittee on the Beverley Election Petition. 


The following Paper, pursuant to the directions of 


an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the Tuble 
by the Clerk of the House,—The Renet of the 
Commissioners acting under and by virtue of an Act 
of Parliament passed in the 56th year of the reign 
of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, 
“ An Act for the more effectual Security and Improve- 
ment of the Harbour of New Shoreham, in the 
County of Sussex.” 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament,—The Account of Unclaimed 
Army Prize Money, from 18th January 1809 to 
3ist December 1856. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Imports and 
Exports (Canada and United States), which was pre- 


vernors, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 3d day 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Emigra- 
tion Commission, which was presented upon the 3d 
day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Austra- 
lian Colonies, which was presented upon the 3d day 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid hefore this House, 
Copies of Correspondence between the First Com- 
missioner of Works and Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, 
and the Commissioners of Sewers and the Board of 
Works, on the State of the River Thames, and the 
Pollution of the Atmosphere on the Banks of the 
Thames and the Houses of Parliament. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return in detail, of the manner in which the se- 
veral Sums were expended, under the Vote of last 
Session in Civil Service Estimate for £. 12,634, to 
defray the Charge for Freight of Specie to the 
various Commissariat Stations Abroad, for which 
Service the Sum of £.10,000 is proposed for the 
‘year 1857-58. 


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 Return of all the Colonies and British 
Possessions in favour of which Orders in Council 
have been issued, under the Act 10 &amp; 11 Vice. ec. 95, 
suspending the Prohibition of Importation of Re- 
prints of British Copyright Works, with the Date 
of each Order in Council :—And, Return showing 


4° Augusti. 





A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


| the Nature and Terms of the due Provision made 
| by each Colony or British Possession, for securing 
or protecting the Rights of British Authors in 
such Colony or British Possession, in the event 
of an Order in Council being issued under the Act 
10 &amp; 11 Vie. c. 95, to suspend the Prohibition of 
| Importation of Reprints of British Copyright Works, 
with the Date of the Act or Ordinance by which 
the Provision is made. 

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 Order of the day being read, for resumin 
the adjourned Debate on the Question propose 
upon the 8d day of this instant — That Vis- 
count Palmerston be one of the Members of the 
Select Committee on Oaths taken by Members ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 

Then Sir George Grey, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Wal- 
pole, Sir John Pakington, Lord John Russell, Sir 
James Graham, Mr. Giladstone, Mr. Attorney Ge- 
neral and Mr. Solicitor General, were nominated 
other Members of the said Committee. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That Sir Lrederic Thesiger be one other Member 
of the said Committee :—It passed in the Negative. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That Sir Fitz Roy Kelly be one other Mem- 
ber of the said Committee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the name of “Sir Fitz- 
“ Roy Kelly,” and inserting the name of “ Mr, Rolt,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the name of 
Sir FitzRoy Kelly stand part of the Question :—It 
passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the name of 
Mr. Rolt be inserted instead thereof:—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That Mr. Rolt be one other Member of 
the said Committee. 

Then Lord Stanley, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Henley, 
Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Malins, Mr. Headlam, Mr. At- 
torney General for Jreland, the Lord Advocate, 
Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Napier, Lord Robert Grosvenor, 
Mr. Whiteside, and Mr. Cobbett were nominated 
other Members of the said Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That Three be the Quorum of the said Com- 
mittee:—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That Five be the Quorum of the said Com- 
mittee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ Five,” and in- 
serting the word “ Nine” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ Five” stand part of the Question:—It passed in 
the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“Nine” be inserted instead thereof:—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Then the Main Question, so amended, being 
put; 

Ordered, That Nine be the Quorum of the said 
Committee. 


1 


their Clerks, as followeth : 
The Lords have agreed to the Victoria Gas Bill, ¢ 
without any Amendment : 








The 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Mess 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the L 





5 Oaths taken 


+y Members, 


age from 
ords. 


ictoria 
as Bill. 








ken 
bers. 


21 Vicrorizx. 


The Lords have agreed to the Boundaries of Land 
(Ireland) Bill, with an Amendment; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

The Lords have agreed.to the Swansea Harbour 
Trust and Swansea Dock Company Bull, with an 
Amendment; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
pany Bill. — rence of this House : 

NorthWestern The Lords have agreed to the North Western 
Railway Bill. Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the West London and 
Crystal Palace Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to 
on which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 

House : 


Boundaries 
of Land 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Swansea Har- 
pour Trust 
and Swansea 
Dock Com- 


West London 


Caledonian The Lords have agreed to the Caledonian Rail- 
ray A way (Lines to Grantou) Bill, with Amendments ; to 


Granton) Bil. Which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
Louse : 

slid-Sussex The Lords have agreed to the Mid-Sussex Rail- 

Railway Bill. way Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: 

Metropolitan Tlie Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan 

Cattle Market Cattle Market Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 


South Eastern The Lords have agreed to the South Eastern 

Railway p Railway (Greenwich Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) 

, omega Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire 

Besthed, &amp;c.) the concurrence of this House: 

Lid. 

Carew’s The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 

Estate Bill. for carrying into effect an Agreement for a Compro- 
mise of the Suit of “ Carew v. Waugh,” now pend- 
ing in the High Court of Chancery, and for vesting 
the Estates to which the Suit relates in Trustees, 
upon ‘Trust, for Sale, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: 

GalwayTown The Lords request that this House will be pleased 

Election. to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the 
Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
mittee appointed by this House, in the present Ses- 
sion of Parliament, to try and determine the matter 
of the Petition complaining of an undue Election 
and Return for the ‘Town and County of the Town 
of Galway, together with the Proceedings of the 
said Committee: _ 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said Paper 
be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver the 
same. 

Divorce and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mee mittee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 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 
“ this House will, upon this day three months, re- 
“solve 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 :—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.) 

Preamble postponed. 

Cxauses, N° 1 and N° 2, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 3 (The Court may enforce prior De- 
crees or Orders). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 9: To leave out 
the words “ Marnage and Divorce,” in order to 
insert the words “ Suits Matrimonial.” 

Question, That the words ‘‘ Marriage and Di- 
“vorce” stand part of the Clause put, and 
agreed to. 

Vou, 112. 








4°. —5° August. 





375. 


Clause agreed to. 

Crausss, N° 4 and N° 5, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 6, amended, and agreed to. 

Crauss, N° 7, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 8 (Judges of the Court). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause stand part of the Bill. 

Whereupon Motion 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 Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 5° die Augusti, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Colonel 
Wilson Patten 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. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Insurance 
a Committee on the Insurance Companies Bill; and, Companies 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed “~~. 
the Chair; and Colonel Wilson Patten reported, Bill 176. 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Clerks of © 
_ on the Clerks of Petty Sessions (Ireland) (ireland) Bill 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Representa- 

into a Committee on the Representative Peers (Zre- pe wd) Bill 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ‘ 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Colonel 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 this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Leases and 
reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Sales of Settled 
= . ates Act 
Act Amendment Bill ; Amendanent 
And a Motion being made, and the Question Bill. 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :— And a Debate arising thereupon; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Deer, Game 
reading of the Deer, Game and Rabbits Bill ; and Rabbits 
Ordcred, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Offences 
readiig of the Offences against the Person Bill; ee 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Malicious 
reading of the Malicious Injuries to Property Bill; rea 2 
. cal , - roperty Bill. 
Ordered, ‘That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday nest. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Forgery Bill. 
reading of the Forgery Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Coinage _ 
reading of the Coinage Offences Bull ; Offences Dilk 
Ordered, That the Bill. be read a second time 
upon FriJay next. 
3D The 

















Accessories 
and Abettors 
Bill. 


Larceny, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Libel Bill. 


Dunbar Har- 
bour Loan Bill. 


East India 
Company. 


Bath Election. 
No. 240. 


Chatham 
Lands, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Inclosure Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Portland 
Harbeur Bill. 


Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bankruptcy 
and Real 
Securities 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Gold Coast. 


Rating of 
ives. 


No. 241 . 


4°—5° Augusti. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Accessories and Abettors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Larceny, &amp;c. Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Libel Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Amount now to the Credit of 
“ The Security Fund of the East India Company,” 
established under the Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, c. 85, 
(1833); setting forth the Date of the Payment of 
the Sum of £. 2,000,000 therein directed to be paid 





by the said Last India Company, and of the In- 
vestments made out of the sawe in Government | 
Stock, and also of all Investments made out of! 
Dividends or Interest arising therefrom; and of! 
the Gross Amount of Stock or Money forming at | 
the present time a Security Fund for securing to 
the said Company the Redemption of their Dividend 
according to the Provisions of the said Act. 


' 
} 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Bath Election 
22d day of | 


Petition, which were presented upon the 
July last, be printed. 


| 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the | 


{ 


Lords to the Chatham Lands, &amp;c. Bill be taken into | 
consideration upon ‘Thursday next. 

Ordered, That the Amendment made by the | 
Lords to the Inclosure Acts Amendment Bill be | 


taken into consideration upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Portland Harbour Bill be taken into 
consideration upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lerds to the Public Works (Jre/and) Bill be taken 
into consideration upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the 
Lords to the Bankruptcy and Real Securities (Scot- 
land) Bill be taken into consideration upon Thurs- 
day next. 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 21st day of 
July last, fora Return relative to the Gold Coast. 

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


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after One of the clock on Wed- 
nesday morning, adjourned till this day. 











Mercurii, 5° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 18 57. 


PRAYERS. 
QRDERED, That the Select Committee on 
Rating of Mines have Power to report their 
Observations thereupon to the House, together with 





the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Mr. Kendal! reported from the said Coinmittee ; 
That they had considered the matters to them re- 
ferred, and 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 House proceeded to take into consideration Oldham, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Oldham, Ashton-under. 
Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction @iige Buia 
Railways Bill: And the same were twice read, and Junction ° 
agreed to. Railways Bill, 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Duke of Bridgewater’s Estate Bill was read Duke of 


, Bridgewater's 
a second time ; and committed. Estate Bill, 


Giustiniani’s Naturalization Bill was, according Giustiniani’s 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed. creas 


Carew’s Estate Bill was read the first time. Carew’s 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- Pst#te Bil. 


‘miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
A Public Petition was also presented, and read ; yiae Votes, 


and referred to a Select Committee. and Thirtieth 
Report. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Game Laws. 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

ouse, Returns of the Number of Persons confined 
in each Gaol in. England and Wales for Offences 
against the Game Laws, during the year ending the 
31st day of December 1856, stating the Period for 
which each Prisoner was ordered to be confined, 
the Nature of the Offence committed, and by what 
Tribunal sentenced :—And, of the Number of Per- 
sons who completed the Term of their Imprisonment 
during the year ending the 31st day of December 
1856, for any Offence against the Game Laws; the 
Term for which they were so imprisoned; and the 
Total Cost incurred for the Maintenance in Gaol of 
such Persons. 

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 Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Prevention Bill Sint ene 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and —- 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for pin. 


To-morrow. 


Railways 


The Order of the day being read, for the second (irelan) Bil 


reading of the Railways (/reland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


resolved itself Ecclesiastical 
Commission, 


&amp;e. Bill. 
Bili 177. 


The House, according to Order, 
into a Committee on the Ecclesiastical Commission, 
&amp;e. Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cravuse, N° 23, Amendment again proposed, in 


==} p. 8,1. 18: To leave out the words “ or houses.” 


Question, That the words “ or houses” stand part 
of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 

Four Clauses added. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Mr. Speaker: resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 


Bill. 
— Ordered, 








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21 Vicroriz. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Friday 
- next; and be printed. 


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 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 


Orders of the “ the Order of the day for the Committee of Supply, | 


Day. “and the seven succeeding Orders, be postponed 
“until after the Order of the day for the third 
“reading of the Election Petitions Bill,” 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. 
Resolved, That this House will, after the other 
Orders of the day, resolve itself into the said Com- 


mittee. ' 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Great The House, i Order, proceeded to take 
— into consideration the Petition of Charles Woolfen, 
a prisoner in Her Majesty’s Gaol of Newgate, which 
was presented upon the 3d day of this instant 
August, expressing regret that he did not answer 
the Questions submitted to him before the Great 
Yarmouth Election Committee: And the same was 
again read. 
Ordered, That Charles Woolfen, having in his 
Petition to this House expressed his contrition for 
his offence, be discharged out of the custody of the 
Keeper of Her Majesty’s Gaol of Newgate: And 
that Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrants accordingly. 
Burial Acts The Burial Acts Amendment Bill was, according 
— to Order, read the third time; and a verbal Amend- 
ment was made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Summary The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
ae into consideration the Summary Proceedings before 


of the Peace Justices of the Peace Bill, as amended in the Com- 
Bill mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Metropolitan The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 


ne a into consideration the Metropolitan Police Stations, 
= on Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow, at ‘Twelve of the clock. 
Boundaries The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
—— into consideration the Boundaries of Burghs Ex- 


(Scotland) pil. tension (Scotland) Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


Illicit Distillae The Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill was, ac- 
Bu ueland) cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Election The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Petitions Bill. reading of the Election Petitions Bill ; 
And a Motion Leing made, and the Question 
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377 


being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

An Amerdment*was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Questiun, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “now” 


stand part of the Question :—It passed in the Ne- 


ative. 
‘ And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day three months” he 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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- Insurance 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; Companies 
Resolved, That this House will, after the other ®“ 
Orders of the day, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Representa- 
reading of the Representative Peers (Ireland) Bill; tive Peers 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- Ging = 
morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Leases and 
the adjourned Debate on the Question proposed upon Sales of Settled 
the 4th day of this instant August, That the Leases je See 
and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amendment Bill pin. 
be now read a second time ; 

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 the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding 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 Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Whiteside, 1 

Yeas, Mr. Malins : J we 

Tellers for the Lord Robert Grosvenor, \ ,., 

Noes, USir Edward Buxton: [&gt; 

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 To-morrow. 


The Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill was, according Dunbar Har 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a bour Loan Bill, 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


The House, according to Ordez, resolved itself into supply. 
the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. £.2,000, on account of the Annuity to the 
Board of Manufactures in Scotland, in discharge of 
Equivalents under the Treaty of Union. 

2. £.5,000, on account of the Commissioners of 
Highland Roads and Bridges. 

3. £. 10,000, for Bounties on Slaves, and Tonnage 
Bounties on Slave Vessels captured. 

4. £.1,300, for the Commission appointed to su- 
perintend the Publication of the Ancient Laws and 
Institutes of reland, and for the Publication of the 
Volumes of Laws and Institutes. 

7 £.9,000, for Pay of Process Servers in Jre- 
and, 

6. £. 65,800, for Pensions to. Masters and Sea- 
men of the Merchant Service, and to their Widows 
and Children, under the Merchant Seamen’s Fund 
Act, and for Compensation to the late Officers of the 
Trustees of the Merchant Seamen’s Fund. 

3D2 7. £.1,593, 











Insurance 
Companies 
Bill 


378 


7. £.1,593, to complete the Sam for Salaries and 
Expenses of Office for the Registration of Joint 
Stock Companies. 

8. £.1,783, for Salaries and Expenses in the Re- 
gistration of Designs Office. : 

9. £.40,000, for Payments on account of the dif. 
ference of (ues payable by British or Foreign 
Vessels under Treaties of Reciprocity. 

10. £.4,500, for Salaries of oe of Corn 
Returns, and Expenses defrayed by Counties for Corn 
Returns. 

11. £.20,000, for Charges on account of Distressed 
British Seamen Abroad. 

12. £.3,600, for Expenses corinected with Qua- 
rantine Arrangements. 

13. £.11,850, to complete the Sum for Remu- 
neration to Revising Barristers in England and 
Wales. 

14. £. 2,892, to complete the Sum for the Con- 
stabulary Police at the Military Camp of Aldershutt. 

15. £.2,000, to complete the Sum required for In- 
spection of Burial-grounds in England and Wales. 

16. £.6,679, for Ordinary Maintenance and Re- 
pairs to British Embassy Houses, &amp;c. Abroad. 

17. £.1,053, for Salaries of certain Professors in 
the University of Cambridge. 

18, £.13,730, to complete the Sum for Salaries 
and Expenses of the Incumbered Estates Commis- 
sion, Zreland. 

19. £. 37,060, for erecting and maintaining certain 
Lighthonses Abroad. 

20. £.5,000, for the Cost of an Expedition, for 
the purpose of exploring the Region of British North 
America, which lies along the parallels of 49° and 
53° North Latitude, and from 100° to 115° West 
Longitude. 

21. £.19,325, for the Cost of the Expedition to 
the Niger, and other Rivers of Africa, under the 
Charge of Dr. Baikie. 

22. £.1,000, for Half Salary payable to the Of- 
ficers lately employed in the Settlement of the Orange 
River Territory (Cape of Good Hope). 

23. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £. 40,000, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray, in the year ending the 31st day of March 
1858, the Cost of executing Public Works, main- 
iaining Educational and Benevolent Institutions, and 
promoting Civilization among the Native Tribes in 
South Africa ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hayter, lis 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: J 

Tellers for the {Sir John Trelawny, P 

Noes, UMr. Nicoll: , 

24. £.5,580, for Removal to Norfolk Island of the 
Descendants of the Mutineers of the “ Bounty,” 
heretofore resident at Pitcairn Island. 

25. £.7,550, for collecting Agricultural Statistics 
in Ireland and Scotland. 

* 26. £.6,000, to complete the Charge for Freight 
of Specie conveyed to the various Commissariat 
Stations Abroad, including Expense of Shipment. 


5. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Wr, Fitz Roy 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 ito the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


5°—6° Augusti. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That Lord John Manners be added to Oaths taken 
the Select Committee on Oaths taken by Members. by Members, 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Chelsea New 
before the Select Committee on the Chelsea New Bridge Bill. 
Bridge Bill be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Birmingham 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ Writ. 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Birmingham, in the 
room of George Frederick Muntz, Esquire, deceased. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Beverley 
before the Select Committee on the Beverley Elec- Election. 
tion Petition, which were presented upon the 4th No. 243. 
day of this instant August, be printed. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Scinde Rail- 
Scinde Railway Company Bill; That in pursuance way Company 
of a Resolution of the House of the 21st day of ” 
July last, the Committee have inquired into whether 
the guarantee of the Kast India Company for the 
Capital required by the Jndus Steam Flotilla has been 
agreed to be given, and evidence was adduced to 
their satisfaction that it was the intention of the 
Eust India Company to give such guarantee; that 
the Committee also, with regard to another Resolu- 
tion of the Hcuse, requiring that proof should be 
given of the concurrence of the Board of Control to 
the Bill, have inquired into the fact, and the same 
had been proved to their satisfaction ; that they had 
examined the allegations contained in the Preamble 
of the Bill, and amended the same, by stating that 
the Company were in negotiation with the East 
India Company ‘for raising capital, and making otier 
arrangements in order to make the same an accurate 
statement of the present position of the Company; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the Eastern Ben- 
Eastern Bengal Railway Company Bill; That, pur- gal on, 
suant to the Resolution of the House of the 21st ~”?“” 
day of July last, it had been proved to the satisfac- 
tion of the Committee, that the East India Company 
had guaranteed interest at the rate of Five pounds 
per centum per annum upon the capital to be raised 
by the Promoters of the Bill in the first instance, 
and that the Bill had been recommended by the 
Board of Control; that they had examined the 
allegations contained in the Preamble of the Bill, 
and amended the same, to make it consistent with 
the facts of the case; and found the same, as 
amended, to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto, 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Army Prize Army Prize 
Money, which was presented upon the 4th day of Money. 
this instant August, be printed. No, 244. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Gold Gold Coast. 
Coast, which was presented upon the 4th day of No. 245. 
this instant August, be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 6° die Augusti ; 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
r &amp; E House proceeded to take into consideration Dorset Central 
the Amendments made by the Loris to the Railway Bill 
Dorset Central Railway Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, 














91 VicTori2. 


Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Rhymney 
Railway Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Rhymney 
aeiwey Bill. 


Watchet 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
flarbour Bill. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Watchet 
Harbour Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That the Eastern Bengal Railway Com- 
_ pany Bill, as amended in the Committee, be now 

taken into consideration, amended Prints of the Bill 
having been deposited with the Doorkeepers yester- 
day :—The House accordingly proceeded to take 
the Bill into corsideration. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, ‘Vhat the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Scinde Rail- Ordered, That the Scinde Railway Company Bill, 
Bi Company a5 amended in the Committee, be now taken into 
consideration, amended Prints of the Bill having 
been deposited with the Doorkeepers yesterday :— 
The House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill 
into consideration. 
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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Eastern Ben- 
gil Railway — 
company Bili 


— a Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
men®: and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Thirtieth 

Report. 


Mr. Richard The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
Hall. by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 9th day of July last, for a Return relative 
to Mr. Richard Hall. 

Return to an Order, dated the 23d day of July 
last, for a Return relative to British Spirits. 

The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was also 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Chelsea New Bridge Bill. 


British Spirits. 


Chelsea New 
Bridge Bill. 


New Zealand 
Loan Guaran- 
tee Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which, 
upon the 30th day of July last, was proposed to he 
made to the Question, “ That the New Zealand Loan 
Guarantee Bill be now read a second 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 three months ;” 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
word “now” stand part of the Question :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, i 78 
Yeas, \The Earl of Mulgrave: J ° 
Tellers for the (Sir John Trelawny, i 3 
Noes, Mr. Charles Gi/pin: Y Mees 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
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6° Augusti. 














379 


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 this day. 


The Sales of Waste Lands (New Zealand) Bill Sales of Waste 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and reel A 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for = 
this day. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- New Zealand 
mittees on the New Zealand Government Act ———_ 
Amendment Bill, and the Insurance Companies Bill ; ment Bitl, and 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the Insurance 
same Committee. Companies 


P - ‘ B 
Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. — 


(In Committee on the Insurance Companies Bill.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Crausss, N° i to N° 4, agreed to. 

Cravse, N° 5 (Compulsory registration of certain 
Insurance Companies). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 24: After the 
word “Companies” to leave out the word “ and,” 
in order to insert the word “ or.” 

Question, That the word “and” stand part of 
the Clause put, and agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. 

Crause, N° 6 (Penalty on Company not re- 
gistering). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 29: To leave 
out from the word “Company” to the word 
“ makes” in I. 31. 

Question, That the words “ completely registered 
“ under the said Act” stand part of the Clauase—— 
put, and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Clause stand part of the Bill. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- New Zealand 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone throuzh Government 
the New Zealand Government Act Amendment Bill. trent Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That thes#Committee Insurance 
had made Progress in the Insurance Companies Companies 
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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- Dulwich 
mittee on the Dulwich College Bill ; College Bill. 
Resolved, ‘That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Crowded - 
reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; Dwellings Pre- 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time mene 

To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Summary 
Peace Bill was, according to Order, read the third Proceedings 


‘ieee before Justices 
. : of the Peace 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the &gt; 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Metropolitan 
reading of the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill; Seep ag 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time iia 
this day. 


The Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scotland) Boundaries of 


Bill was, according to Order, read the third time, Burghs Ex- 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. land) Bi Seot- 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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380 


The Representative Peers (Ireland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time; and verbal 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


Representa- 
tive Peers 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Dunbar Har- 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
bour Loan Bill. He 


mittee on the Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Baring’s Sir John Yarde Buller reported Baring’s Divorce 
Divorce Bill. Bill, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 
Probates and The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
a tone aa Committee To-morrow, at Twelve of the clock, on 
(ireland) Bill. the Probates and Letters of Administration (Ireland) | 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


6°—7° August. 





Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords | 
to the Boundaries of Land (/reland) Bill be taken | 
into consideration To-morrow. | 


Boundaries 
of Land 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken | 
before the Select Committee on the Bury Saint | 
Edmund's Election Petition be laid before this | 
House. 


Bury Saint 
Edmund's 
Election. 


| 

Ordered, That the Select Committee on West- 
minster Bridge have Power to report their Observa- 
tions thereupon to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Sir Benjamin Hail reported from the said Com- 
mittee; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and 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. 


Westminster 
Bridge. 


No. 246. 


Mining 
Districts. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- | 
mand,—Copy of Report of the Commissioner ap- 
pointed under the Provisions of the Act 5 &amp; 6 Vie. 
c. 99, to inquire into the operation of that Act, and | 
into the state of the Population in the Mining | 
Districts, 1857. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Paper do lie upon the | 
Table. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions | 
of an Act of Parliament,—The Report of the Com- | 
missioners of Patents for Inventions, 1856. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the | 
Table. | 


Patents for 
Inventions. 


Mr. Oshorne presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 24th day of July last, for a Return relative 
to Grant's Apparatus for Ships and Vessels. 

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


‘The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
inte a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Grant’s 
Apparatus 
for Ships and 


Vessels. | 


Divorce and 
Matrimenial 
Causes Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Criause, N° 8. Question put, That the Clause 
stand part of the Bill ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, LThe Earl of Mulgrave : 
Tellers for the f Mr. Henley, 
Noes, \Mr. Butt: 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Crausz, N°9 (Authority of the Judge Ordinary). 

Amendments made. 

Question put, That the Clause, as amended, stand 
part of the Bill ; 

The Comniittee divided. 

Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the} Lord John Manners, 

Noes, \Mr. Whitmore: fy 

Cuiauszs, N° 10 to N° 14, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Crauss, N° 15 (Practitioners). 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again :—Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


139. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
Twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 7° die Augusti, 1857 : 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Probates and 
consideration the Probates and Letters of Adminis- Letters of Ad- 
tration Bill, as amended in the Committee ; ccs 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Police (Scot- 
consideration the Police (Scotland) Bill, as amended #"4) Bill. 
in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day, at ‘'welve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Constables 
reading of the Constables (Detached parts of (Detached 
Counties) Bill; ties) Bill - 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second ‘Town Byelaws 
reading of the Town Byelaws Revision Bill ; Revision Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. . 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Prisoners’ 
reading of the Prisoners’ Removal Bill ; Removal Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


The Wills, Xc. of British Subjects Abroad Bill Wills, &amp;c of 
was, according to Order, read the third time. ae 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. + in 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


_ Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Supply. 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted Board of 
to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March ee 
2858, the Charge on account of the Annuity to the ‘ : 
Board of Manufactures in Scotland, in discharge of 
Equivalents under the Treaty of Union. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £5,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, on account of the Commissioners 
of Highland Roads and Bridges, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.10,000, be Bounties on 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Bounties on Slves, &amp; 
Siaves and the Tonnage Bounties on Slave Vessels 
captured, to the 31st day of March 1858. 


Highland 
Roads and 
Bridges. 


4. That 








21 Vicrortx. 


ancient Laws 4, That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,300, be granted 

-and Institutes to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Com- 

of Ireland. mission appointed to superintend the Publication of 
the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Zreland, and for 
the Publication of the Volumes of Laws and Insti- 
tutes, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Process 5. ‘That a Sum, not exceeding £. 9,000, be granted 
he to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Pay 
Jand. By 


of the Process Servers in Jreland, to the 31st day 
of March 1858. 


Pensions to 6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 65,800, be 


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381 


of British North America, which lies along the 
Parallels of 49° and 53° North Latitude, and from 
100” to 115° West Longitude. 

21. That a Sum, not exceeding £.19,325, be Expedition to 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year the Niger, &amp;. 
ending the 31st day of March 1858, the Cost of the 
Expedition to the Niger and other Rivers of Africa 
under the Charge of Dr. Baikie. 

22. Thata Sum, notexceeding £.1,000, be granted Orange River 
to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year ending the Teitory. 
31st day of March 1858, the Charge for Half Sa- 
lary payable to the Officers lately employed in the 
Settlement of the Orange River Tervitory (Cape of 


23. That a Sum, not exceediig £. 40,000, be Native Tribes 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year (South 
ending the 31st day of March 1858, the Cost — 
executing Public Works, maintaining Educational 
and Benevolent Institutions, and promoting Civili- 
zation among the Native Tribes in South Africa. 


24. ThataSum, notexceeding £.5,580, be granted Removal of the 
descendants 
of the Muti- 
neers of the 





| 31st day of March 1858, the Cost attending the 


25. That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,550, begranted Agricultural 
Statistics. 

y of March 1858, the Cost of collect- 

ing Agricultural Statistics in Zreland and Scotland. 

26. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,000, be granted Freight of 
'to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to Specie. 
defray, in the year ending the 31st day of March 
1858, the Charge for Freight of Specie conveyed to 
the various Commissariat Stations Abroad, including 


The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Chatham 
take into consideration the Amendments made by —— Ke. 
the Lords to the Chatham Lands, &amp;c., Bill; and the” 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Inclosure Acts 


Masters — ranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for 
pen ai ™ Taesievs to Masters and Seamen of the Merchant 
gavice,&amp;c. Service, and to their Widows and Children, under} Good Hope). 
the Merchant Seamen’s Fund Act, and for Com- 
ensation to the late Officers of the Trustees of the 
Seathant Seamen’s Fund, to the 31st day of March 
1858. 
Registration 7. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 1,593, be granted 
of Joint Stock t&gt; Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
_— defray the Salaries and Expenses of the Office for 
the Registration of Joint Stock Companies, to the | to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year ending the 
3lst day of March 1858. 1 
Kegistration 8. That a Sum, not exceeding £.1,783, be granted | Removal to Norfolk Island of the Descendants « Bounty.” 
— to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Salaries | of the Mutineers of the “‘ Bounty,” heretofore resi- 
; and Expenses in the Registration of Designs Office, | dent at Pitcairn Island. 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 
Treaties of 9. That a Sum, not exceeding £.40,000, be| to Her Majesty, for defraying, in the year ending 
Reciprocity. granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for| the 31st da 
‘ ayments on account of the difference of Dues | 
payable by British or Foreign Vessels under Treaties | 
of Reciprocity, to the 31st day of March 1858. 
Corn Returns. 10. ThataSum, not exceeding £.4,500, be granted | 
to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries of Inspectors of 
Corn Returns, and the Expenses defrayed by Coun- 
ties for Corn Returns, to the 31st day of March 1858. | Expense of Shipment. 
Distressed 11. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 20,000, be 
on granted to Her Majesty, to detray, in the year! were agreed to. 
~~. ending the 31st day of March 1858, the Charges on 
account of Distressed British Seamen Abroad. 
Quarantine 12. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.3,600, be granted 
— to Her Majesty, to defray Expenses connected with 
apa Arrangements, to the 31st day of March | .ame were twice read, and agreed to. 
58. 
Revising 13. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 11,850, be 
Barristers.  cranted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum re- 
quired to defray the Charge for the Remuneration ships. 
to Revising Barristers in England and Wales, tothe 
; 31st day of March 1858. 
Constabulary 14. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.2,892, be granted 
once 


to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to 
defray the Charge for the Constabulary Police at 
the Military Camp of A/dershott, to the 31st day of 
March 1858. 


(Aldershott. ) 


take into consideration the Amendment made by the Amendment 
Lords to the Inclosure Acts Amendment Bill; and 
the same was twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Portland _ 
take into consideration the Amendments made by Hrbour Bill. 
the Lords to the Portland Harbour Bill; and the 








Inspection of = 15. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted 
_— to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum required to de- 
grounds. . A ? . Apes . , 
fray the Expenses of the Inspection of Burial-grounds 
in Englandand Wales to the 31st day of March 1858. 
British Em- 16. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 6,679, be granted 
joy Crag to Her Majesty, for Ordinary Maintenance and Re- 
pairs to British Embassy Houses, &amp;c. Abroad, to 
the 31st day of March 1858. 
Professors 17. That aSum, not exceeding £.1,053, be granted | 
(University of to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge for the Sala- 
Cambridge.) ‘ , : , . 
ries of certain Professors in the University of Cam- 
bridge, to the 31st day of March 1858. 
Incumbered 18. That a Sum, not exceeding £.13,730, be 
oe Her Maj lete the S 
Commission $tanted to Her Majesty, to complete the Sum re- 
(Ireland.) quired to defray the Charge for the Salaries and 
Lxpenses of the Incumbered Estates Commission 
; (/reland), to the 31st day of March 1858. 
Lighthouses, 
Abroad. 


granted to Her Majesty, to defray, in the vear 
ending the 31st day of March 1858, the Expense 
of erecting and maintaining certain Lighthouses 
Abroad. 

20. That a Sum, not exceeding £.5,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying, in the year 
ending the 31st day of March 1858, the Cost of an 
Expedition, for the purpose of exploring the Region 

VoL. 112. 


Expedition to 
British North 
America, 





same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, ‘That the Clerk 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, according to Order, proceeded to Public Works 
take into consideration the Amendments made by (Ireland) Bill. 
the Lords to the Public Works (Jreland) Bill; and 
the same wefé twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


19. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 37,060, be! Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Bankruptcy 
take into consideration the Amendment made by sad Real 
the Lords to the Bankruptey and Real Securities (scctiand) Bill. 
(Scotiand) Bill; and the same was twice read, and 


agreed to. 


3D4 


Ordered, 











382 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Sale of Obscene Books, 
&amp;c. Prevention Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, Theat the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


Sale of Obscene 
Books, &amp;c. 
Prevention 
Bill. 


Bill 178. 


Leases and 
Sales of Settled 
Estates Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates 
Act Amendment Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
a 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, re- 
“solve 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 :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 

he Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cravse, N° 1 (Sections 20 and 21 of recited Act 
repealed). 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do now leave the Chuir ; 

The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the Yeas, Mir an, 


Tellers for the N oes, Mr. Whiteside, 


45. 
Mr. Whitmore : . 


\ 
J 
1s 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 
Adjournment. 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, withdrawn. 


New Zealand The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
— into a Committee on the New Zealand Loan Gua- 
; rantee Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 


Cravusz, N° 1 (Sums borrowed under recited Act, 
not exceeding Five hundred thousand pounds, and 
Interest, guaranteed). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2, 1. 42: To leave 
out the words “ Five hundred thousand,” in order 
to insert the words “Three hundred and twenty 
“* thousand,” instead thereof. 

Question, That the words “ Five hundred thou- 
*“ sand ” stand part of the Clause put, and agreed 
to. 

Clause agreed to. 

Cravsss, N* 2 to N° 5, with an Amendment to 
one of them, agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at Twelve 
of the clock. 


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A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sates of Waste- 
into a Committee on the Sales of Waste Lands — —_ 
(New Zealand) Bill; and, after some time spent — 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 

FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, 2s amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at Twelve 
of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to New Zealand 
take into consideration the New Zealand Go- py ot 
vernment Act Amendment Bill, as amended in the aana Bill : 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Insurance 
mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; Companies 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Dulwich — 
into a Committee on the Dulwich College Bill. College Bill 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 


Ciause, N° 1 (Scheme confirmed). 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again—— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 

Schedule amended, and agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at ‘I'welve 
of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Metropolitan 
reading of the Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Police Stu. 
Bill; pee 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn :—And the 
said Motion and Original Question were severally, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Dunbar Har- 
mittee on the Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill ; a Loan 
And a Motion being made, and the Question” 
0 proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
hair ; 
A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Augustus Smith, 
Yeas, (Mr. Coz: 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hayter, 
Noes, LThe Earl of Mu/grave : 
So it passed in the Negative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 
Cuiauses, N° 1 to N° 7, with an Amendment to 
one of them, agreed to. 


} None. 


} 60. 


Clause 








ll. 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Caledonian 
and Crinan 
Canals Bill. 


Land and As- 


21 VicToriz. 


Clause (The said Public Works Loan Commis- 
sioners shall first duly ascertain, according to their 
usual course of procedure, that the said security is 
fully sufficient to insure the payment of the annual 
interest due thereon, and the repayment of the loan 
itself)——brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Biil. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day, at 
Twelve of the clock. 





Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- | 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of | 
their Clerks, as followeth : 


The Lords have agreed to the Caledonian and | 
Crinan Canals Bill, without any Amendment : | 


The Lords have agreed to the Land and Assessed | 


sessed Taxes, Taxes, Kc. (Scot/and) Acts Amendment Bill, with- | 


&amp;c. (Scotland) 


Acts Amecnd- 
ment Bill. 


Christ Church wae 
(West Hartle- (West Hartlepool) Bill, without any Amendment: | 


pool) Bill. 
Salford Bo- 
rough (No. 1) 
Bill. 


Otley and 
Skipton Road 
Bill. 


Glebe Lands 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Banking Bill. 


Crown, &amp;c. 
Suits (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


British and 
Trish Grand 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


New Bruns- 
wick and 
Canada Rail- 


way and Land Amendments; to which the Lurds desire the con- 
Company Bill. 


Sittingbourne 


and Sheerness; 


Railway Bill. 
Tweed 


Fisheries Bill. 


Herne Bay and 


Faversham 
Railway Bill. 


Finsbury Park 


(No 2) Bill. 


Thames Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Norfolk 
Estuary Acts 
Amendment 
Bill 


Indian Army. 
No. 247. 


out any Amendment: 
( 

The Lords have agreed to the Christ Church | 
| 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made | 
by this House to the Amendments made by their | 
Lordships to the Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, | 
without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made 
by this House to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships to the Otley and Skipton Road Billi, 
without any Amendment: | 

The Lords have agreed to the Glebe Lands (J?re- | 
land) Bill, with an Amendment; to which the Lords | 
desire the concurrence of this House : | 

The Lords have agreed to the Banking Bill, with | 
Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- | 
currence of this House: | 

The Lords have agreed to the Crown, &amp;c. Suits | 
(Scotland) Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have agreed to the British and Irish | 
Grand Junction Railway Bill, with Amendments ; | 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this | 
House: | 

The Lords have agreed to the New Brunswick | 
and Canada Railway and Land Company Bill, with | 





currence of this House: 


The Lords have agreed to the Sitéingbourne .and | 
Sheerness Railway Bill, with Amendments ; to which | 
the Lords desire the concurreuce of this House: | 

The Lords have agreed to the Tweed Fisheries | 


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383 


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


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 Three of the clock on Friday morning :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till this day: 








Veneris, 7° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


M R. Estcourt, from the Select Committee ap- Drogheda 
pointed to try and determine the matter of Election. 


the Petition of Henry Bagnall and others, com- 
— of an undue Election and Return for the 

orough and County of the Town of Drogheda, 
informed the House, That the Committee had de- 
termined, 

That James M‘Cann, Esquire, is duly elected a 
Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the 
Borough and County of the Town of Drogheda. 

And the said Determination was ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Estcourt, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 
had agreed to the following Resolutions: 

That the Evidence adduced before the Committee 


shows that on the day of nomination and the pre- 


ceding day riotous and tumultuous proceedings took 
place in the Court-house and Streets of Drogheda. 
That it does not appear to this Committee that 
proper precautions were taken by the authorities to 
ensure good order in the Court-house at the nomi- 
nation. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Caledonian 
the Lords to the Cale- Railway (Lines 


the Amendments made by 
donian Railway (Lines to Granton) Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Metropolitan 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Metro- Cattle Market 


politan Cattle Market Bill; and the same were twice 
read, and, with an Amendment to one of them, 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships, 
with an Amendment; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire! The House proceeded to take into consideration Mid-Sussex 
the concurrence of this House: ‘the Amendments made by the Lords to the Mid- Railway Bil. 
The Lords have agreed to the Herne Bay and | Sussex Railway Bil; and the same were twice read, 
Faversham Railway Bill, with Amendments; to , and agreed to. 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this, Ordered, 'Tnat the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
House: Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
The Lords have agreed to the Finsbury Park | agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 
(No. 2) Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: | The House proceeded to take into consideration North Western 
The Lords have agreed to the Thames Conser- the Amendments made by the Lords to the North Railway Bill. 
vancy Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords , Western Railway Bill; and the same were twice 
desire the concurrence of this House: read, and agreed to. 
The Lords have agreed to the Norfolk Estuary | Ordercd, That the Clerk do carry the Dill to the 
Acts Amendment Bill, with Amendments ; to which Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House. agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 
j 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s| Ordered, That the Amendments made by the South Eastern 


Command,—Extract from a Letter from General Lords to the South Eastern Railway (Greenwich pce 
Sir C. J. Napier to the Duke of Wellington, dated | Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill be taken into con- Junction to 
Simla, June 15, 1850, relative to the Jndian Army. | sideration upon Monday next. 


Vou. 112. BSE 


Dartford, &amp;c.) 
The Bil 


384 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Swansea 
Harbour Trust and Swansea Dock Company Bill; 
and the same was twice read, and agreed to. | 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


Swansea Har- 
bour Trust 
and Swansea 
Dock Com- 
pany Bill. 


West London 
and Crystal 
Palace Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the West 
London and Crystal Palace Railway Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


New Zealand The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
a take into consideration the New Zealand Loan 
Guarantee Bill, as amended in the Committee. 
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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sales of Waste 
Lands (New 
Zealand) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Sales of Waste Lands 
(New Zealand) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


New Zealand 
Company’s 
Claims Bill. 


New Zealand 
Government 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the New Zealand Government Act Amend- 
ment Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House :—The House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Bouverie reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be now taken into ceonsideration: — The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill into 
consideration. 

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 the Clerk do carry the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 


tions, &amp;c. Bill. according to Order, read the third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the | 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Dulwich The House, according to Order, proceeded to 


College Bill. take into consideration the Dulwich College Bill, 5th and 6th days of this instant August, and had 


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The House, according to Order, proceeded to Dunbar Har- 
take into consideration the Dunbar Harbour Loan bour Loan Bill. 
Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day, at Six of the clock. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords Glebe Lands 
to the Glebe Lands (Ireland) Bill be taken into (ieland) Bill 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Banking Bill. 
Lords to the Banking Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Crown, &amp;c. 
Lords to the Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill be — (Scot- 
, : ; and) Bill. 
taken into consideration upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Mr. Richard Mr. Richard 
Hall, which was presented upon the 6th day of this Hall. 
instant August, be printed. No. 248, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to British British Spirits, 
Spirits, which was presented upon the 6th day of No. 249. 
this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Chelsea New 
before the Select Committee on the Chelsea New Bridge Bill. 
Bridge Bill, which were presented upon the 6th day No, 250. 
of this instant August, be printed. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by Metropolitan 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated Improvements. 
the 31st day of July last, fora Return relative to No. 251. 
Metropolitan Improvements. 

The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was also Bury Saint 
laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,— — 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select No, 249 
Committee on the Bury Saint Edmund's Election ~“ “*~* 
Petition. 

Ordered, That the said Papers be printed. 


A Petition of John Joseph Scully, of Abbey View, Cashel 
Cashel, in the County of Tipperary, Esquire, stating Election. 
that he is one of the Petitioners who presented a 
Petition against the Return for the Borough of 
Cashel; complaining that such Petition was with- 
drawn without his consent or authority, and without 
any communication having been made to him on 
the subject, and praying for inquiry, wis presented, 
and read. 

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


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Hop Hop Duties. 
Duties have Power to report the Minutes of the No. 252. 
Evidence taken before them to the House. 

Mr. Dodson repoited from the said Committee ; 
hat they had directed him to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them; with an Ap- 


The Metropolitan Police Stations, &amp;c. Bill was, | pendix. 


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


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions 


. cs irtieth 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 3d, 4th, oport ) 


as amended in the Committee ; and an Amendment | directed him to make a Report thereof to the House. 


was made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time ‘and be printed. 


upor Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


Crowded 
Dwellings Pre- 
vention Bill. 


Police (Scot- 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
land) Bill. 


consideration the Police (Scotland) Bill, as amended 
in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into consideration 
this day. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Flection 
Alphabetical List of all Election Petitions presented Petitions. 
during the Sessions 1855, 1856 and 1857; showing 
the Names of the Places, Names of Members peti- 
tioned against, the Dates of Presentation, and Pe- 
titions to defend Returns ; and in what manner any 
of such Petitions may have been disposed of, whe- 
ther by the Sureties to the Recognizances being re- 
ported as objectionable, or by being withdrawn ; 
with the Dates of the Reports and such with- 
drawals, or otherwise, together with the Names ~ 

the 








Dublin City 
Election. 


Minutes 
ordered. 


Contracts 
(Public 


Departments.) 


Kensington 
Gore Estate. 


Fast India 
(Public 
Works.) 





91 Vicroria. 


the Agents :—Returns of all Reports, Special Re- 
rts, and Determinations or Resolutions, of any 
lection Committees reported to this House :—Of 
the Names of ail Members who have been unseated, 
and for what causes they have been so unseated :—Of 
the Names of all Places the Writs for which have 
been suspended, and to what Dates they have been 
so suspended, or further suspended, or, after sus- 
pension, have been granted afterwards:—Of the 
Total Number of Select Committees which have 
sat on Election Petitions ; the Names of the Chair- 
man and Members serving on each Election Com- 
mittee, and the Number of Days on which each 
Election Committee sat; the Names of the Mem- 
bers of the General Committee of Elections ; and 
the Names of the Members selected as the Chair- 
men’s Panel :—Of the Total Number of Select Com- 
mittees which have sat on Election Petitions :—Of 
the Total Number of Election Petitions presented : 
—And, of the Total Number of Election Petitions 
which have been withdrawn (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 460, of Session 1854). 


Mr. Headlam, from the Select Committee ap- 
pointed to try and determine the matter of the Pe- 
tition of Robert Hobart and Daniel Lyons, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
City of Dublin, informed the House, That the Com- 
mittee had determined, 

That Edward Grogan, Esquire, is duly elected a 
citizen to serve in this present Parliament for the 
City of Dublin. 

That John Vance, Esquire, is duly elected a citi- 
zen to serve in this present Parliament for the City 
of Dublin. 

And the said Deierminations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 

Mr. Headlam, from the said Select Committee, 
further informed the House, That the Committee 


7° Augusti. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Schools 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Scotland. ) 


385 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns for the years 1854, 1855 and 1856, 
respectively, of the Names of the Parishes in each 
County in Scotland, within whose bounds any 
School is situated, in respect of which any Money 
has been paid under the authority of the Committee 
of Council of Education, stating the Number of 
such Schools in each Parish, and the aggregate 
Amount paid in respect of such Schools in each 
Parish :—And, of the Names of the Places in each 
Parish in which such Schools are situated, and the 
religious body with which each School is connected ; 
distinguishing the Parochial Schools from other 
Schools connected with the Established Church, and 
specifying the Amount paid to each School in each 
ear. 

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. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Revising 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Barristers. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names of Barristers ap- 
pointed to revise the Lists of Electors in England 
and Wales in 1854, 1855, and 1856; the Names of 
the Places or Districts to which the Revising Barris- 
ters were respectively appointed ; and the Number 
of Days they sat in Court in each Place or District. 

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 








had agreed to the following Resolutions : | 

That a certain portion of the Freemen voted at the | 
last Election, under the expectation that they would | 
be paid for their votes, but it does not appear that | 
any distinct promise to that effect was made. 

That, after the Election, hopes were held out to 
certain of the Freemen that they would be paid 
after the period for presenting Petitions to this 
House had expired, but it does not appear that this 
was done in a precise or definite manner, nor was 
it done with the cognizance of the Sitting Members, 
nor by any duly authorized Agent on their behalf. 

That a Sum of £.16. 16s. was applied by the 
Treasurer of the Freeman’s Protestant Fellowship 
Society in treating and in direct payment to voters, 
and that he applied to the Agent of the Sitting 
Members to reimburse the Funds of the Society for 
this payment ; that this transaction, however, was 
without the knowledge or authority of the Sitting 
Members, and when the application for te repay- 
ment was made to their Agent, it was declined. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Contracts 
(Public Departments) have leave to sit To-morrow, 
notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all Sums expended in the purchase of the 
Estate at Kensington Gore, in laying out and drain- 
ing and forming the Roads on the same, and all 
other objects connected therewith, and of all Sums 
expended in building the Museum, in removing the 
Collections and arranging them therein ; distinguish- 
ing the several Votes of the House under which such 
Expenditure has been incurred. 


Ordered, Thiat there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Budgets of Public Works in India, 
for the years 1853-4, 1854-5, 1855-6, and 1856-7. 
Vou. 112. 





Council. 


The Dunbar Harbour Loan Bill was, according Dunbar Har- 
bour Loan Bill. 


to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Divorce and 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Matrimonial 


Causes Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Ciavse, N° 16, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 17 (Protection of wife’s earnings 
when deserted by her husband). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 4, 1. 26: To leave 
out from the word “is” to the word “ maintaining,” 
in |. 28. 

Question proposed, That the words “ deserted by 
“ her husband ” stand part of the Clause :—Amend- 
ment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed in the same line : 
After the word “ husband” to insert the words “ or 
“ has been cruelly treated by the same.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted —~— 
put, and negatived. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause 
stand part of the Bill——put, and negatived. 

Crausz, N° 18, disagreed to. 

Ciause, N° 19 (Judicial separation by reason of 
desertion of the husband or wife). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 5, 1. 22: After the 
word “ Court” to insert the words “ or the County 
“ Court of the district in which he or she resides.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted—— 
put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed in the same line : 
After the word “ Court” to insert the words “ or to 
“ any Court hereinafter authorized by this Act.” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 





3 E 2 The 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Representa- 
tive Peers 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Oxford Uni- 
versity Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Cattle Market 
Bill. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


Land Tax 
Commission- 
ers’ Names 
Bill. 


Newry and 
Enniskillen 
Railway Bill. 


Great North- 
ern Railway 


(Capital) Bill, 


386 7°—8° Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


The Committee divided. The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Parochial 
Tellers for the f Lord John Manners, 1 concerning the Parochial Schoolmasters in Scotland ; Schoolmasters 
Yeas, Mr. Butt : sj %- |to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this (Scotland) Bill, 
Tellers for the) Mr. Hayter, &gt; 87. | House. 
Noes, (The Earl of Mulgrave: Jf °" 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. | The Order of the day being read, for taking into Probates and 
Cuavse, N° 20, agree to. consideration the Probates and Letters of Adminis- pa sae 
tration Bill, as amended in the Committee ; — 
| Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Criause, N° 21 (Court may direct payment of 
alimony to wife or trustee). 
Amendment proposed, in p. 6, 1. 1: To leave out | 


from the word “ which” to the word “direct,” in|  ,. : 
‘ “ The House, according to Order, proceeded to Ecclesiastical 


1. 2, in order to insert the words “the Court shall|, , °° } . “tee Nag me ow 
“have decreed a judicial separation, it shall also | = “egg —— &gt; ae ag, me gp —=_- 
‘“‘ make a decree or order for alimony ; and it shall | °°"? “* ’ &gt; an 


« also.” -an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Question proposed, That the words “ the said Pans ye in a — made to 
“ Court shall make any decree ’’ stand part of the yee i Genie “ee aragmeneg te oo Twent 7 
Clause :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. S put, y 


Doeente ade. four stand part of the Bill ; 


om _ The House divided. 
Clause, as amended, agreed to. The Yeas to the Right ; 


Cuavses, N° 22 and N° 23, agreed to. | The Noes to the Left. 


CravseE, N° 24, disagreed to. | Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 

Cuavuse, N° 25 (On adultery of wife or incest of ; Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave : 8. 
husband, Petition for dissolution of marriage may be _ Tellers for the { Lord John Manners, 419 
presented). Noes, Mr. Lygon: ' 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman’ So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again—— © Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
put, and negatived. | upon Monday next. 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7,1. 7: To leave out 
the word “ incestuous.” | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Revising 

Question put, That the word “incestuous” stand mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill; Barristers 
part of the Clause ; Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ‘PU»lia) Bill. 

The Committee divided. next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, ove 

Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: = !°""* | The Order of the day being read, for the third Pimlico Im- 

Tellers for the f Mr. Drummond, 65. | reading of the Pimlico Improvements Bill ; prcvements 

Noes, \Sir William Heathcote : ** | Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time ® 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. upon Monday next. 


| 





And the House having continued to sit till after | The Order of the day being read, for the third Public Offices 
Twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; reading of the Public Offices Extension Bill ; Sutension SUS. 
Ordered, That the Bill he read the third time 


Sabbati, 8° die Augusti, 1857: upon Monday next. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr, Bouverie 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress The Order of the day being read, for the second Deer, Game 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That reading of the Deer, Game and Rabbits Bill; and Rabbits 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday upon this day three months. 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the second Offences 
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- | reading of the Offences against the Person Bill; —gainst the 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of | Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time '¢* Bill 
their Clerks, as followeth : upon this day three months. 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Representative Peers (reland) The Order of the day being read, for the second Malicious 
Bill, without any Amendment : reading of the Malicious Injuries to Property Bill; Injuries 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time Property Bill. 
by this House to the Oxford University Bill, with- upon this day three months. 
out any Amendment: 
The Lords agree to the Amendment made by the | ‘The Order of the day being read, for the second Forgery Bill. 
Commons to the Amendments made by ‘the Lords reading of the Forgery in: 2 
° - . . ~ , = , 
r. the or Cattle Market Bill, without any Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
mendment : Sg ngewe 
The Lords have agreed to the Reformatory Schools agen en cap aee-aaeeiee. 
Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords desire | The Order of the day being read, for the second Coinage 
the concurrence of this House : _ ‘reading of the Coinage Offences Bill ; Offences Bill. 
The lords have agreed to the Industrial Schools Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desiie upon this day three months. 


the voncurrence of this House : 
The Lords have agreed to the Land Tax Commis- : itil 
sioners’ Names Bill. with Amendments; to which | T he Order of the day being read, for the second Accessories 
/ . reading of the Accessories and Abettors Bill ; and Abcttors 


the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : | Queved. That the BM be cond 0 coccad Gee 
| 9 H ) 


The Lords have agreed to the Newry and Ennis- | upon this day three months. 
hillen Railway Bill, with Amendments; to which | 
the Lords desire the concurrcnce of this House : The Order of the day being read, for the second Larceny, Xe. 
The Lords do not msist on their Amendment | reading of the Larceny, &amp;c. Bill; Bill. 
made to the Great Northern Railway (Capital) Bill,| Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
to whic!: the Commons disagree : upon this day three months. 
The 








21 Vicrori2. 


Libel Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Libel Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 
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 i 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Amendment made by the 
Lords to the Boundaries of Land (Jreland) Bill; 
and the same was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Boundaries 
of Land 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Town Byclaws The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Revision Bill. reading of the Town Byelaws Revision Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Insurance The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the Insurance Companies Bill ; 
, Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 
Crowded The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Dwellings Pre- reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 


wae Oe Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Tuesday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


Police (Scot. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
land) Bill. 


into consideration the Police (Scotlund) Bill, as 
amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (In Royal Burghs, &amp;c. containing more 
than 2,000 Inhabitants, Chief Magistrate to be an 
ex officio Member of the Police Committee), was 
twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Act not to diminish Powers of 
Magistrates of Royal and other Burghs which may 
form part of any district under this Act), was twice 
read; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Any Burgh maintaining efficient 
Police out of common good of the Burgh to be 
dealt with as if it maintained separate Police under 
Police Act), was twice read ; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Another Clause (Act not to extend to Orkney or 
Shetland, unless Her Majesty in Council shall di- 
rect), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

Another Clause (Act not to affect Railway, &amp;c. 
Police), was twice read; and made part of the 
Bill. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill in Clause 12, |. 14, by leaving out the words 
“ or suspected.” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ or suspected ” stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Kight ; 

The Noes to the Lett. 


Tellers for the{'The Earl of Mulgrave, 1 $1 
Yeas, \Mr. Grey: — 
Tellers for the { Mr. Caird, 1 - 
Nees, UMr. Cox: _ 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 

Vou. 112. 





7°—8'— 


10° Augusti. 387 


Resolved, That this House will immediately re- Joint Stock 
solve itself into a Committee to consider the Joint yo 
Stock Companies Act (1856) :—The House accord- on 
ingly resolved itself into the Committee, 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Chairman be directed to move 
the House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856). 


Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and the Earl of 
Mulgrave reported, That the Committee had come 
to a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

The Earl of Mulgrave accordingly reported a Re- 
solution ; which was read, as followeth : 

That the Chairman be directed to move the 
House, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) :-— 
And he moved the House accordingly. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that the Earl of Mulgrave, Mr. Wilson, the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Lowe do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Judgments. 
for amending the Law with respect to Judgments : 
And that Mr. Seymour Fi'zGerald, Mr. Hardy and 
Mr. Vance do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to amend the Joint Joint Stock 
Stock Companies Act (1856): And the same was join 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second mh oe 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. Bill. 

Bill 179. 


Mr. Seymour FitzGerald presented a Bill for Judgments 
amending the Law with respect to Judgments: And Bill. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be Bill 180. 
read a second time upon Thursday next; and to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made bv the Reformatory 
Lords to the Reformatory Schools Bill be taken Schools Bill. 
into consideration upon Monday next; and be Bill 181. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Industrial 
Lords to the Industrial Schools Bill be taken into S¢?¢ols Bill. 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Ordered, Tinat the Amendments made by the Land Tax 
Lords to the Land ‘Tax Commissioners’ Names Bill po anc 
be tuken into consideration upon Monday next. Bill. 

The Parochial Schcolmasters (Scotiand) Bill was Parochial 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second Schoolmasters 


Scotland) Bill. 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. ae 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till Two of the clock on Saturday morning, 
adjourned till Monday next. 





Lune, 10° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


M R. Speaker laid upon the Table,— Report Carew's_ 
from one of the Examiners of Petitions for !state Bill. 
Private Bills; That in the case of Carew’s Estate 
Bill, no Standing Orders are applicable. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration British and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the British trish Grand 
and Jrish Grand Junction Railway Bill; and the 27"), 
same were twice read, and, with Amendments to ‘ 
several of them, agreed to. 





3E3 Ordered, 


Finsbury Park 
(No. 2) Bill, 


New Bruns- 
wick and 
Canada Rail- 
way and Land 
Company Bill. 


Norfolk 
Estuary Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Royal Assent. 


Militia Ballots 
Suspension 


Bill. 


Public Health 
Act (Alder- 
shott) Bill. 


Registration 
of Long Leases 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Burial of the 
Dead within 
the City and 
Liberties of 

Loneéon Bill. 


Bill Chamber 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


Commons’ 
Iuclosure Bill. 


Turn ike Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Caledonian 
and Crinan 
Canals Bill. 


Land and As- 
sessed Taxes, 

&amp;c. (Scotland ) 
Acts Amend- 

ment Bill, 


388 


Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships, with Amendwents; to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Finsbury 
Park (No. 2) Bill; and the same were twice read, 
and, with Amendments to several of them, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 this House doth 
desire the coucurrence of their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the New 
Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company 
Bill; and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 Worfolk 
Estuary Acts Amendment Bill. 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
several were agreed to :—— 


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- 

man Usher of the Black Kod: 
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, 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 Acts therein mentioned ; «nd 
that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow: 

An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the 
Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom : 


An Act to apply the Public Health Act, 184s, 
to the Parish of Aldershott, and to constitute a Local 
Board of Health therein : 

An Act to provide for the Registration of Long 
Leases in Scotland, and Assignations thereof: 


An Act to amend an “Act passed in the fifteeath 
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Mu- 


jesty Queen Victoria, intituled, “ An Act to amend 


the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in the 
Metropolis,” so far as relates to the City of London, 
aud the Liberties thereof: 

An Act to regulate Procedure in the Bill Chamber 
in Scotland: 


An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain 
Lands, in pursuance of a Special Report of the In- 
c,osure Commissioners for England and Wales : 

An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in 
Great Britain: 


An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Cale- 
donian and Crinan Canals, and to make further 
Provision for the Accommodation of the Traffic 
thereon : 

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Pay- 
ment of the Land and Assessed Taxes and Property 
and Income Tax in Scotland: 


10° Augustt. 





A. 1857. Sess. IL. 


An Act to render valid certain Marriages in Christ Christ Church 
Church, West Hartlepool, in the Parish of Stranton, (West Hartle. 
in the County of Durham: pool) Bis. 

An Act to regulate certain Proceedings in relation Representa. 
to the Election of Representative Peers for Ireland: tive Peers 

(Ireland) Bill, 

An Act to continue the Powers of the Com- Oxford uni- 
missioners under an Act of the seventeenth and V"sity Bill. 
eighteenth years of Her Majesty, concerning the Uni- 
versity of Oxford and the College of Saint Mary, 
Winchester, and further to amend the said Act: 

An Act for enabling the Commissioners of the Chatham 
Admiralty to purchase certain Lands in the Parish —, &amp;e. 
of Chatham, in the County of Kent, and to stop up, 
divert or alter certain Ways in the said Parish, and 
for other purposes relating thereto : 

Au Act to amend and explain the Inclosure Inclosure Acts 
Acts : fomenenent 


An Act for the better Supply of Water for the Portland 
use of Vessels resorting to the Ilarbour of Refuge Harbour Bill. 
at Portland, and for enabling the Commissioners of 
the Admiralty to supply such Water ; for vesting in 
the said Commissioners certain Lands belonging to 
Her Majesty; and for other purposes relating 
thereto: 

An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Public public Works 
Works in Jreland to sell Mill Sites and Water (Ireland) Bill. 
Power, notwithstanding Final Award, in any Drain- 
age or Navigation District : 

An Act to remove Doubts as to the Law of Bank- Bankruptcy 
ruptey and Real Securities in Scotland : and Real 

Securities 
(Scotland) Bill, 

An Act to explain an Act for the Settlement of Canada and 

the Boundaries between the Provinces of Canada New Bruns- 


. ick B . 
and New Brunswick : pn — 


An Act for improving the North Level Drainage, North Level 
and fur other purposes relating to the Level : Drainage Bill. . 


An Act for making a Railway from Brouyhton to Coniston 
Coniston, in the County Palatine of Lancasier, and B4lway Bill 
for other purposes : 

An Act for establishing and maintaining a Ferry Lowestoft and 
and Floating Bridge across the River Waveney, near Burgh Saint 
Burgh Saint Peter Staithe, in the Parishes of piney hewn 
Oulton, in the County of Suffolk, and Burgh Saint 
Peter, in the County of Norfolk, with proper Works 
and Approach Roads thereto : 


An Act to enable the Midland Great Western Midland Great 
Railway of Jreland Company to make a Railway Western Rail- 
from Streamstown to Clara, and { her pur “, way of Ireland 

“ , and lor other purposes: (Streamstown 
and Clara 
Junction) Bill. 


An Act to amend and enlarge some of the Pro- Blyth and 
visions of “The Blyth and T'yne Railway Consoli- Tyne Railway 
dation and Extensions Act, 1854”; to authorize the ~"" 
Relinquishment of a Branch Railway authorized by 
that Act, and the Construction of other Railways and 
Works in connexion with the B/yth and Tyne 
Railway : 

An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Metropolitan 
Works to open certain New Streets in the City and New Streets 
Liberties of Westminster, and in the Borough A jens tie 
Southwark: 

An Act for the making and maintaining of the Stratford- 
Stratford-upon-Avon Railway, and for other pur- Weeeay Bil 
poses : 

An Act to make better Provision for the Burial Manchester 
of the Dead in the City of Manchester, and for Corporation 
enabling the Corporation to purchase certain Lands 
and effect certain Improvements in that City : 

An Act to amend two several Acts passed re- Islington 
pectively in the fifth year of the reign of his late yee 
Majesty King George the Fourth, and the second piu, 
year of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, 
intituled respectively, “‘ An Act to repeal the several 
Acts for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of 
the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County 
of Middlesex ; for lighting and watching and pre- 

venting 








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Tourn and 
Essendine 
Railway Bill. 


Newport, 

Abergavenny 
and Hereford 
Railway Bill. 


Portadown and 
Dungannon 
Railwey Bill. 


Salisbury 
and Yeovil 
Railway Bill. 


Whitehaven 
and Furness 
Junction Rail- 
way Bill. 


Kinross-shire 
Railway Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Railway 

(No. 2) Bill. 
South Staf- 


fordshire 
Water Bill. 


Victoria Gas 
Bill. 


Fife and Kin- 


toss Railway Company to divert part of their Main Line and | 


ill. 


Great Yar- 
mouth Water 
Bill. 


Hamilton and 
Strathaven 
Railway Bill. 


Tondon and 


21 Vicrorim. 


venting Nuisances and Annoyances therein; for 
amending the Road from Highgate, through Maiden- | 
lane, and several other Roads in the said Parish; | 
and for providing a Chapel of Ease and an ad- 
ditional Burial-ground for the same, and to make | 
more effectual Provisions in lieu thereof ;” and “ An | 
Act to equalize the Ecclesiastical Burthens of the | 
Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County of | 
Middlesex ; for partially altering the Application of | 
the Rents and Profits of the Stonefields Estate, | 
within the said Parish ; for letting the Pews in the | 
Paiish Church of Saint Mary, Islington, and the 


Chapel of Ease thereto, and for other purposes con- , 


nected therewith ;” and to make other and more 
effectual Provisions in lieu thereof: 

An Act for making a Railway from the Essendine 
Station of the Great Northern Railway to Bourn, in 
the County of Lincoln, and for other purposes: 

An Act to enable the Newport, Abergavenny and 
Hereford Railway Company to extend their Rail- 
way into the Aberdare and Bargoed Valleys in 
Glamerganshire, and for other purposes connected 
with the Cempany : 

An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of the 
Acts relating to the Portadown and Dungannon 
Railway Company, and to enable that Company to 
extend their Railway to the Town of Omagh, in the 
County of Tyrone, and to enter into certain Ar- 


rangements with the Udster and other Railway Com- | 


panies with respect to the working and leasing of 
the Railway, and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail- 
way Company to make Deviations from the Line of 
their Railway, and for other purposes connected with 
their Undertaking : 

An Act to enable the Whitehaven and Furness 


Junction Railway Company to raise additional Ca- | 


pital, and for other purposes : 


An Act for making a Railway from the Dunferm- 
line Branch of the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee 
Railway to Kinross, with a Branch to Kingseat, and 
for other purposes : 

An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of 
certain Lands required for the Metropolitan Rail- 
way, and for other purposes : 


An Act to enable the South Staffordshire Water- | 


works Company to alter and extend their Works, 
and obtain an additional Supply of Water, and for 
other purposes : 

An Act for incorporating the Victoria Gas Com- 
pany, and for authorizing them to acquire and en- 
large the North Woolwich Gas Works, and to sup- 
ply Gas, and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the Fife and Kinross Railway 


to make an Extension from Milnathort to Kin- 
TOSS: 

An Act to enable the Great Yarmouth Water- 
works Company to raise a further Sum of Money : 


An Act for making a Railway from near Hamil- 
ton to near Strathaven, in the County of Lanark, to 
be called ‘‘ The Hamilton and Strathaven Railway,” 
and for other purposes : 

An Act for authorizing the London and South 


South Western Western Railway Company and others to make 


Railway Acts 
Amendment 
Bill 


Otley and 


Skipton Road and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to|tingbourne and Sheerness Railway Bill; and the 


“lll, 


Salford Bo- 
rough (No, 1 
Bill, ¢ ) 


Deviations from their authorized Lines of Railway 
and other Works; and for authorizing divers other 
Matters affecting that Company and other Com- 
panies and Undertakings, and for other purposes: 


An Act for continuing the Term and amending 


the Orley and Skipton ‘Turnpike Road, and to create 
a further Term therem, and for other purposes : 

An Act to give further Powers to the Mayor, 
Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Sal- 
ford, with respect to Burial purposes, and to autho- 
rize Arrangements with respect to Lands in and near 
Marlborough-square, in Salford: 

VoL, 112. 


10° dAugusti. 


389 


An Act for the Construction of Railways to sup- Oldham, 
ply direct Communication between Oldham, Ashton- ——_ 
under-Lyne and Guide Bridge, and for the Accom- Guide Bridge 


modation of the Neighbourhocd : Junction 
Railways Bill. 


An Act for authorizing an Extension of the Dor- Dorset Central 
set Central Railway, for regulating the Capital of the ®ailway Bill. 
Dorset Central Railway Company, and for other 
purposes : 

An Act for consolidating the Acts relating to the Rhymney | 
Rhymney Railway Company, and for authorizing 8! wey Bill. 
the Company to make and maintain a Branch Rail- 

/way; and for regulating the Capital of the Com- 
pany, and for other purposes : 

An Act for the Maintenance, Regulation and Im- Watchet 
|provement of Watchet Harbour, in the County of seca 
, Somerset, and for other purposes : 

An Act to make Provision with respect to Ca- Great North- 

pital fraudulently created in the Great Northern and (Capital) Bul 
| East Lincolushire Railway Companies : 

An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Com- Caledonian 
} . Railway 


| ~ &gt; ys. . re . ow b 
| pany to construct Branch Railways from their Line vey) 


| near Edinburgh to Granton, and for other pur- Granton) Bill. 
|} poses: 

| An Act for making a Railway from the Zondon, Mid-Sussex 
| Brighton and South Coast Railway at Horsham, Railway Bill 
\through Billingshurst, to Pulborough, with a Branch 

from Pulborough to Coultershaw Mill, in the Parish 

of Petworth, all in the County of Sussex : 

An Act authorizing the North Western Railway North Western 
| Company to divert a Portion of their Railway, and B#lway Bill. 
| to sell or grant a Lease of their Undertaking to the 
| Midland and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Com- 
| panies : 

An Act for the Transfer of the Docks of the Swansea Har- 
| Swansea Dock Company to the Swansea Harbour et 
| Trustees, and for authorizing those Trustees to make pock Com- 
| further Works and raise further Monies, and for pany Bill. 
| other purposes : 
| An Act for authorizing Traffic Arrangements West London 
| between the West End of Zondon and Crystal Pa- es Crystal 

P ~ alace Rail- 
lace, and the London, Brighton and South Coast, way Bil, 
| the South Eastern, and London and South Western 
| Railway Compinies, for Sale of the West London 
and Crystal Palace Railway, for extending the Time 
for completing Railways, and for other purposes : 

An Act to amend an Act of the twenty-first year Metropolitan 
of the reign of King George the Third, “ to prevent Cattle Market 
the Mischiefs that arise from driving Cattle within 
the Cities of London and Westminster, and Liber- 
ties thereof, and Bills of Mortality,” and also to 


amend “ The Metropolitan Market Act, 1851.” 





Then the House proceeded to take into further Norfolk 
Estuary Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Norfolk Estuary Acts Amendment Bill. 
| And the other Amendments (it appearing that 
'the Amendments in p. 34, lines 29 and 32, were 
|in furtherance of the intention of this House ; that 
| the Amendment in p. 35, line 34, was to supply words 
inadvertently omitted in this House; and that the 
Amendment in p. 70, line 27, was to render the Clause 
consistent with a previous one), were agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
avreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration Sittingbourne 
‘the Amendments made by the Lords to the Sit- = Sheerness, 
ailway Bill. 
/same were twice read, and, with Amendments to 
several of them, agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk 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 this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 
3E4 The 








390 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Zhames 
Conservancy Bill; and the same weve twice read, 
and agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Thames Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Tweed Fisheries Bill be taken into 
consideration To-morrow. 


Tweed 
Fisheries Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
, into consideration the Amendments made by the 
——- Lords to the South Eastern Railway (Greenwich 
Dartford, kc.) Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill; and the same were 
ill. twice read, and, with Amendments to several of 
them, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


South Eastern 
Railway 


Baring’s 


Bavring’s Divorce Bill was read the third time. 
Divorce Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. _ 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Lords in the case of the said Bill be re- 
turned to their Lordships; And that the Clerk do 
deliver the same. 


The Baroness Windsor’s Estate Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed. 


Baroness 
Windsor’s 
Estate Bill. 
Duke of Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Coramittee on 
Bridgewater's the Duke of Bridgewater's Estate Bill; ‘That they 
Estate Bill had examined the allegations contained in the Pre- 
amble of the Bill, and verbally amended the same ; 
and found the same, as amended, to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Giustiniani's _ Mr. Fitz Roy reported Giustiniani’s Naturalization 
— Bill, without Amendment. 
” Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported Shepherd’s Disabilities Re- 
moval Bill, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Shepherd's 
Disabilities 
Removal Bill. 


Oaths taken Lord John Russell reported from the Select Com- 
by Members. mittee on Oaths taken by Members; That they had 
No. 253. considered the matters referred to them, and had 
agreed to a Report, which they had directed him to 
make to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Oaths Validity 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 

reading of the Oaths Validity Act Amendment Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, '\ hat the Bill be withdrawn. 


Public 


Hi Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
Petitions. 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Thirty- 

first Report. 

Commissioners Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
of Supply, &amp;c. to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
(Scotland) to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Commissioners 
of Supply in each County in Scotland, in the years 
1851 and 1857 respectively ; distinguishing the na- 
ture of their Qualifications as such, whether as Pro- 
prietors or their eldest Sons, or otherwise qualified ; 


10° Augusti. 


A.1857. Sess. II. 


and of the Number of Heritors of £.100 Scots 
valued Rent in each Parish of each County, in each 
of those years. 

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 following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid Dublin City 


/upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- Election. 


uutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
mittee on the Dublin City Election Petition. 

The following Papers were also laid upon the kiver Thames. 
Table by the Clerk cf the House,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 4th day of this instant August, for 
a Return relative to the River Thames. 

Return to an Order, dated the 4th day of this East India 
instant August, for a Return relative to the East Company. 
India Company. 


Mr. Lowe presented, pursuant to the directions of Seamen's 
an Act of Parliament,—An Account of all Deposits Savings Bank, 
received and repaid by the Board of Trade under 
the authority of the Seamen’s Savings Bank Act, 
1856, between the 1st October to the 20th November 
1856, and of the Interest thereon, together with a 
Copy of all Regulations made by that Board under 
the authority of that Act. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John Ramsden pvesented,—Return to an Ad- Ordnance 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of July Survey. 
last, for a Return relative to the Ordnance Survey. 





Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
| Table. 
| 
| Ordered, That the Return relative to Gravt’s Grant's 
| Apparatus for Ships and Vessels, which was _pre- ee 
sented upon the 6th day of this instant August, be Vesela 7” 
printed. No. 254. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
a proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
air ; 
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 Her Majesty, New Puliic 
“ praying Her Majesty to appoint a Royal Com- Offices. 
“mission to consider the Site and Plans of the 
“ proposed New Public Offices, and particularly the 
“ Foreign and War Offices, and to report on the 
‘* same,”’ 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 Right; 
The Noes to the Left. 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, (The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for thes Mr. Hope, 
Noes, (Mr. Pinney : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


138. 


1 
J 
1 
J 


(tn the Committee.) 


1. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted to Her Majesty, 
towards the formation, in the year ending the 31st 
day of March 1858, of the Gallery of Portraits of 
the most Eminent Persons in British History ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, LThe Earl of Mulgrave : 

Tellers for the { Mr. Coningham, 

Noes, (Mr. Spooner : 


+ 
\ 31. 
2. £.2,000, 

























nes, 


ink, 


and 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Canada and 
New Bruns- 
wick Boun- 
daries Bill. 


Mavor’s Court 
of the City of 
London Bill, 


Keays’ 
Divorce Bill. 


Lord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill. 





21 Vicroria. 


2. £.2,000, for Inquiry into the Ravages of the 
Cholera in the West Indies. 

3. £.500, for Works at Spurn Point, River Hum- 
ber. 

4. Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exeeeding £. 10,000, be granted to Her Majesty, 
as a Contribution, in the year ending the 3!st day 
of March 1858, on the part of the Crown, towards 
the Fund of the Zondon Diocesan Church Building 
Society, for building additional Churches and Par- 
sonage Houses; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, } 97 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: . 

Tellers for the f Mr. William Williams: | 

Noes, Mr. Charles Gilpin: 

5. £.10,300, for improving the Fortifications at 
Corfu. 

6. £. 2,000, towards the completion of the Testi- 
monial to the Duke of Wellington in the Phenix 
Park, Dublin. 

Motion made, and Question put, That a Sum, 
not exceeding £. 10,500, be granted to Her Majesty, 
for the Purchase, in the year ending the 31st day 
of March 1858, of a Chapel in the Rue d’ Aquesseau, 
at Paris, for the use of the British Residents and 
Visitors in that City ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Hayter, 1 a7 

Yeas, LThe Earl of Mulgrave: J" 

Tellers for thef Mr. Wise, 135 

Noes, \Lord Harry Vane: | ata 

7. £.1,500, for adjusting and defining the Boun- 
daries of Counties, Baronies and Parishes in Jreland. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
Sum, not exceeding £.10,000, be granted to Her 
Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of the Erec- 
tion of the Industrial Museum at Edinburgh, in the 
year ending the 31st day of March 1858 :—Motion, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

8. £.8,970, to complete the Expense of Wire 
Doors, Ends, and Divisions to the Presses, for the 
better Security of the Records and Documents in 
the General Repository for Public Records. 

9. £. 24,000, for the Suspension Bridge over the 
Thames at Chelsea. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


f 56. 


— 





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


Martis, 11° die Augusti, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also acquainted the House, 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. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Canada and New 
Brunswick Boundaries Bill, without any Amend- 
ment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Mayor's Court of 
the City of London Bill, with Amendments; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to dissolve the Marriage of Robert Keays, Esquire, 
with Maria Eliza his now Wife, and to enable him 
to marry again, and for other purposes; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act for authorizing the Sale to the Dorset Central 
Railway Company, in consideration partly ofa yearly 
Vou. 112. 





10°—11° August. 391 


Rent-charge, and partly of a gross Sum, of part of 
the settled Estates in the County of Dorset, of which 
the Righthonourable George Pitt Rivers Lord Rivers 
is now Tenant for Life in possession, and for other 
purposes ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: 

The Lords request, that this House will be pleased Bank Acts. 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the 
Report from the Select Committee appointed by this 
House to inquire into the operation of the Bank Act 
of 1844 (7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32), and of the Bank Acts 
for Ireland and Scotland of 1845 (8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 37 
and 38), together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before the said Committee, &amp;c. : 


The Lords request, that this House will be pleased fudson’s Bay 


to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the Company. 
Report from the Select Committee appointed by 

this House to consider the state of those British 
Possessions in North America which are under the 
Administration of the Hudson’s Bay Company, or 

over which they possess a license to trade ; together 

with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the said 
Committee, &amp;c. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Ecclesiastical 
reading of the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill ; Commission, 


, gs . 2 &amp;e. Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question nies 


being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,’ and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “now” 
stand part of the Question :—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—Thie Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and cesire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Dutwich _ 
reading of the Dulwich College Bill ; College Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being propused, That the Bill be now read the third 
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 “ said Order be discharged,” 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 tr r. Hayter, } 63 
Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Knight, 
Noes, \UMr. Lygon: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
And the Question being again proposed, That the 
Bill be pow read the third time:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 
Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 
ut, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the Right ; 
The Noes to the Lett. 


1 36, 


Tellers for the; Mr. Coz, } o1 
Yeas, (Mr. Knight: ey 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, | 87 


Noes, |The Earl of Mulyrave: J 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again prvposed, That the 
Bill be now read the third time; 

‘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. 

3F Ordered, 


. 
EE 











Glebe Lands 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Banking Bill. 


Adjournment. 


Crown, &amp;c. 
Suits (Scot. 
land) Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Pimlico Im- 
eeaete 
ill. 


Public Offices 
Extension Bill. 


Ways and 
Means, 


Police (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 
Bill. 





392 10°—11° 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:— The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Cierk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Glebe Lands (Jreland) Bill; and 
the same was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Banking Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn :—It passed in the 
Negative. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made b 
the Lords to the Crown, &amp;c. Suits (Scotland) Bill ; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
tion (Ireland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 


Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Pimlico Improvements 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 Public Offices Extension 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 Ways and Means ; 

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


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Police (Sco/land) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) Amend- 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read a second 
time ; and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


| The Order of the day being read, for taking into Reformatory 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords Schools Bill, 
to the Reformatory Schools Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


into Industrial 
ords Schools Bill. 


Bill 183. 


The Order of the day being read, for takin 
consideration the Amendments made by the L 
to the Industrial Schools Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day ; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to pana Tax 
take into consideration the Amendments made by Commission 
nl Lords to the Land Tax Commissioners’ Names om Names 

ill. ; 

The said Amendments being read a second time 
(and it appearing that the Amendments, in p. 35 
1, 35, were for the purpose solely of correcting a 
clerical error), were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second parochial 
reading of the Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) Schoolmasters 
Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself intu a pivorce ana 
Committee, this day, on the Divorce and Matrimo- Matrimonial 
nial Causes Bill, was read, and discharged. Canses Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, at ‘I'welve of the clock, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Drogheda 
hefore the Select Committee on the Droyheda Elec- Election. 
tion Petitions be laid before this House. 


Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill was read the first time. Lord Rivers* 
Ordered, That the Bill be referred to the Exa- ©state Bill. 
miners of Petitions for Private Bills. 
Ordered, That the Examiner have leave to sit, 
and proceed forthwith. 


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








Martis, 11° die August ; 


Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
TLE House, according to Order, proceeded to Tweed 
take into consideration the Amendments made Fisheries Bill. 
by the Lords to the Tweed Fisheries Bill. 
The said Amendments, being read a second time 
(and it appearing that the Amendment in p. 27, 
clause 78, was to express in another form the inten- 
tion of this House), were agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Carew’s Estate Bill was read a second time; and Carew's - 
committed, Estate Bill. 


and Keays’ 


Keays’ Divorce Bill was read the first time ; 
Divorce Bill. 


ordered to be read a second time. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
request that their Lordships will be pleased to com- 
municate to this House, a Copy of the |epositions 
taken in India, and of the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before their Lordships, in the case of the 
said Bill: And that the Clerk do carry the said 


Message. 





Several 











Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
first Report. 


Drogheda 
Election. 
No. 255. 


Orders of 
Knighthood. 


Paupers. 
No. 256. 


River Thames, 
No. 257. 


East India 
Company. 
No. 258. 


Seamen’s 
Savings Bank. 


No. 259. 


Ordnance 
Survey. 


No. 179-11. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
Bill. 


21 Vicroriaz. 


Several Public Petitions were presei.ted, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Com- 
mittee on the Drogheda Election Petitions. 

The following Paper was also laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—-Return to an Order, 
dated the 10th day of July last, fora Return relative 
to Orders of Knighthood. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence re- 
lative to the Drogheda Election be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Paupers, 
which was presented upon the 20th day of July last, 
be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the River 
Thames, which was presented upon the 10th day of 
this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the East 
India Company, which was presented upon the 10th 
day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Sea- 
men’s Savings Bank, which was presented upon the 
10th day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ordnance 
Survey, which was presented upon the 10th day of 
this instant August, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Probates and Letters of 
Administration Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill (The 
acting Judge and Registrar of every Ecclesiastical, 
Royal Peculiar, Peculiar, Manorial or other Court, 
and other person now having jurisdiction to grant 


11° Augusti. 





Probate or Administration, and every person having 
the custody of the documents and papers of or, 
belonging to such Court or person, except the Re- | 
gistrars of the Courts mentioned in Schedule (A.) to | 
this Act annexed, shall, upon receiving a requisition 
to that parpose under the seal of the Court of Pro- | 
bate from a Registrar, and at the time and in the 

manner mentioned in such requisition, transmit to | 
the District Court of Probate in which such Eccle- 
siastical, Royal Peculiar, Peculiar, Manorial or other 
Court is locally situate, all records, wills, grants, 
probates, letters of administration, administration 
bonds, notes of administration, court books, calen- 
dars, deeds, processes, acts, proceedings, writs, do- 
cuinents, and every other instrument relating exclu- 
sively or principally to matters or causes testament- 
ary, to be deposited and arranged in such District 
Registry so as to be easy of reference):—And the 
said Clause was broug!it up, and read the first time. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time :—And the said Motion and Clause were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill (Whereas the fees or emoluments of the four 
persons admitted and now p:actising as Advocates 
in the Courts of the Province of York and Diocese 
of Ripon, in matters and causes testamentary, will 
be abolished by the extinction of those Courts, and 
of the exclusive rights and privileges which such 
Advocates have hitherto enjoyed: Be it enacted, 
That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 
by examination on oath or otherwise, which oath 
they are hereby authorized to administer, may in- 
quire into, and may, by the production of such 
evidence as they shall think fit to require, ascertain 
and absolutely determine the net annual amount of 
the profits arising from the transaction of business 
by such Advocates in matters and causes testament- 
ary, on an average of five years immediately pre- 
Von. 112. 





393 


ceding the commencement of this Act, or of such 
portion of five years as shall have elapsed since each 
and every such Advocate was admitted to practise 
in such Courts, and shall award to each and every 
such Advocate a sum of money or annual payment, 
during the term of his natural life, of such amount 
as shall be equal in value to one-half of the net 
profits derived by such Advocate in respect of 
matters and causes testamentary upon the said 
average of five years immediately preceding the 
commencement of this Act, or of such proportion of 
the said five years as shall have elapsed since the 
admission of each and every such Advocate to 
practise in the said Courts: Provided always, That 
if any of the said Advocates be appointed a Regis- 
trar in one of the District Courts established under 
this Act, he shall relinquish all claim to compensa- 
tion in respect of the abolition of the said fees or 
emoluments) :—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. 


Then a Clause (Persons to whom compensation 
granted to be liable to fill other offices under the 
Crown), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in Clause 17, by inserting after the word 
“ Act” the words “or where there is now no such 
“ Court, then the Registrar or Deputy Registrar (as 
“the case may be) now executing in person the 
“ duties of Registrar of any such Court at any other 
“ place within the same diocese, if he shall be 
“ willing to accept the office, and.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by adding, at the end of Clause 49, 
the words “ wherever an affidavit is required by 
“this Act, a statutory declaration or solemn affir- 
“ mation may be received in lieu thereof, where by 
“Jaw the same is now receivable.” 

And the Question beirg proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by adding, at the end of Clause 56, 
the words “and each Judge of County Courts 
“‘having jurisdiction under this Act, whose salary 
“¢ shall be less than Fifteen hundred pounds a &gt; ae 
shall be paid out of the Testamentary Fee Fund, 
in lieu of any fees for the business done by him 
under this Act, so much money annually as, to- 
gether with his salary as a County Court Judge, 
“ shall amount to Fifteen hundred pounds.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 99, p. 30, 1. 14, by leaving out 
the words “ or of any County Court.” 


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

The House was moved, That the Resolution 
which, upon the 3d day of July last, was reported 
from the Committee on Probates and Letters of 
Administration [Stamps], and which Resolution 
was then agreed to by the House, might be read ; 
and the same was read,-as followeth : 

“ That the Fees payable to the officers of the 
said Court of Probate, or of any County Court, in 
respect of business under the said Act, shall be 
collected by means of Stamps.” 

Whereupon such Amendment was not put from 
the Chair, as involving a direct charge upon the 
Public Revenue. 


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Crowded 
Dwellings Pre- 
vention Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 
Bil. 


Lord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill 


Hudson's Bay 
Company. 


No, 260, 


394 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by leaving out Clause 99. 

And the Question being put, That Clause 99 
stand part of the Bill:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 108, 1. 37, by inserting after 
the word “ Registrars” the words “ or Proctors, 
“or continuously employed partly in the offices 
“of Registrars and partly in the offices of Proc- 
* tors.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 110, 1. 30, by inserting after 
the word “ testamentary ” the words “ and also in 
“ the Court of Admiralty.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Then other Amendments were proposed to be 
made to the Bill:—And were severally, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Schedule of the Bill, by inserting before the words 
“ The West Riding of the County of York,” in the 
first column, the words ‘* Wapentakes of Ewecross, 
“ Staincliffe, Claro (including the liberty of Ripon), 
“ Shyrack, Barkston, Ash, aud the Borough of 
“ Leeds, allin the West Riding of the County of 
“ York —— Leeds.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be-there inserted:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention 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 Probates and Letters of Administra- 
tion (Jreland) Bill; 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Revising Barristers (Dub- 
lin) Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Cravuses, N° 1 to N° 6, with Amendments to 
two of them, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 7, disagreed to. 


Preamble amended, and agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, te be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) 
Amendment Biil ; 

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


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—Report from 
one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills ; 
That in the case of Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill, no 
Standing Orders are applicable. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a sccond time. 


Ordered, That the Report which, upon the 9th 
day of March, in the last Session of Parliament, was 


11° Augusti. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


made from the Select Committee on the Hudson’s 
Bay Company, be printed. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names, arranged in Alpha- 
betical Order and in Classes, of all Persons now 
acting, or in Receipt of Pensions or Retired Allow- 
ances in cousideration of having acted, at any Foreign 
Court or Seat of Government, as Ambassador, 
Envoy, Minister, Chargé d’Affaires, Secretary of 
Embassy, Secretary of Legation or Paid Attaché; 
stating the Appointments held by each Person in 
succession from first entering the Diplomatic Ser- 
vice ; the Date of each Appointment ; the Amount 
of Annual Salary and Allowances assigned to each 
Post; the Date of Termination of Service at each 
Post; and the Net Annual Amount of Pension. 

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. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all Consuls General, Consuls, 
and Salaried Vice-Consuls, with the Amount of their 
Salaries ; of the Fees received by them in the years 
1853, 1854, 1855 and 1856, respectively, and of any 
other Salary, Emclument or Allowances ; specifying 
whether the Consulate is a trading Consulate or not, 
and the Country of which each actual Consul is a 
Native. 

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. ; 


Accounts of all the British Spirits in Duty-free 
Warehouses in the United Kingdom, on the 1st day 
of January 1857, in each Collection :—Of all British 
Spirits put in Duty-free Warehouses, from the 1st 
day of January 1857 to the 30th day of June 1857: 
—Of all British Spirits Duty paid or removed in 
Bond, from the 1st day of January 1857 to the 30th 
day of June 1857 :—Of all British Spirits remaining 
in Duty-free Warehouses on the 30th day of June 
1857 :—Similar Accounts for Scot/and in each Col- 
lection :—And, similar Accounts fot England in 
each Collection : 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Diplomatic 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Service. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Consuls. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, spirits. 

















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IRELAND. 


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Ordered, 


Dead Letter 
Office. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


County Court 
Judges (Fal- 
coner and 
Yates’s Sala- 
ries) Bill. 


Superannu- 
ation Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 
Fraudulent 


Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Trustees 
Relief Bill, 


Charitable 
Trusts Acts 
Centinuance 
Bill. 


Rating of 
Mines. 


Valuation 
(Lreland. ) 


Committees 
of Supply. 


No, 261. 


21 Vicrorti2. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Letters sent to the 
Dead Letter Office during the year 1856, siating 
how many of them have been returned to the Wni- 
ters, and how the remainder have been disposed of ; 
stating alzo, how many of these Letters contained 
Money, Cheques, Orders, or other Securities for 
Money, Jewellery, orother valuable Property; and the 
Aggregate Nominal Value of the Money, Cheques, 
Orders, or other Securities for Money; and what 
proportion of the said Letters, and of the Money, 
Securities, &amp;c. therein contained, has been returned 
to the authors of the said Letters, and how the 
remainder have been disposed of. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the County Court 
Judges (Falconer and Yates’s Salaries) Bill, without 
any Amendment : 


The Lords have agreed to the Superannuation 
Act Amendment Bill, without any Amendment: 


The Lords have agreed to the Fraudulent Trus- 
tees, &amp;c. Bill, with Amendments; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for the better Protection of Trustees, Executors, and 
Administrators acting bond fide in the discharge of 
their Office ; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An 
Act further to continue, for a limited time, the Ex- 
emption of certain Charities from the Operation of 
the Charitable Trusts Acts; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House : 

The Lords request, that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the 
Report from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House to inquire into the Law and Practice with 
respect to the Rating of Royalties of Mines ; to- 
gether with the Minutes of Evidence taken before 
the said Committee, &amp;e. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Petitions presented to this 
House from the Grand Juries of the several Coun- 
ties, Counties of Cities and Towns, in Jre/and, in 
the years 1856 and 1857 respectively, praying relief 
from the Expenses attendant upon the Annual Re- 
vision of the Valuation, with the Names of the 
Counties, Cities and Towns which have sent for- 
ward such Petitions. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Com- 
mittees of Supply have Power to report their Opinion 
thereupon to the House. 

Lord John Russell reported from the said Com- 
mittee ; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and had come to several Resolu- 
tions, which they had directed him to report to the 
House :—And the Resolutions of the Committee 
were read, as follow: 

1. That in a Committee of Supply, the present 
mode of putting the Question on an Amendment for 
a reduction of a Vote be altered. 

2. That in a Committee of Supply, a Member be 
at liberty to take the opinion of the Committee on 
any item contained in the Vote. 

3. That when an Amendment is proposed to leave 
out or to reduce a particular item of a Vote, the 
Question shall be put from the Chair, whether the 
proposed reduction (specifying the item) be agreed 
to. 

4. That when several Amendments to different 
items are proposed, they shall be taken in the order 
in which they appear in the printed Estimates. 

Von. 112. 





11° Augusti. 





395 


5. That when a Motion shall have been made, 
and Question put, for the reduction of any item, no 
Question for the reduction of any preceding item 
shall be put. 

6. ‘That when any reduction or reductions shall 
have been agreed to, the Vote so reduced shall be 
put from the Chair. 

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


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Public Parks. 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return, showing the Amount of Public 
Money expended in the Purchase and Formation of 
Public Parks, Public Walks, and Recreation Grounds 
in large Towns and Populous Places in Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland, since the year 1840, specifying 
the Sums granted by Government for such purpose 
at each Town or Place, and the Fund from whence 
such Grant was made. 

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. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Harbours Harbours of 
of Refuge have Power to report the Minutes of the Refuge. 


Evidence taken before them to the House. 

Mr. Wilson reported from the said Committee ; 
That they had considered the matters to them re- 
ferred, and directed him to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them to the House. 

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


No. 262. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Customs 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to Her Tarif. 


Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions, that there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all Alterations made in the Customs 
Tariffs of Foreign States, and of their Dependencies, 
as well as of the British Possessions, information of 
which has been received since the last Return; 
giving the Foreign Weights, Measures, and Monies, 
as well as the English Equivalents, appended to the 
description of each Article, the Duty upon which 
has been altered; and, under the heading of each 
State, Dependency, or Possessions, the Scale ac- 
cording to which the Reduction into such English 
Equivalents is made; giving, further, the Dates at 
which each Alteration has been made, the Date of 
its taking effect, and a reference to the Document 
or Publication in which the Official Notice of such 
Alteration first appeared ; stating also, whether or 
where, in each State, Dependency or Possession, any 
fixed Scale for the valuation of Articles subject to 
ad valorem Duties is used, and the general effect of 
such use upon the Rate of such Duties (in conti- 
nuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 120, of Session 
1857) :—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Foreign Codea, 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ** 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Communication as to twelve Fo- 
reign Codes, &amp;e., by John Fraser Macqueen, Es- 
uire. 

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 Supply. 


into the Committee of Supply. 
(In the Committee.) 


1. £.27,810, for the Pimlico Improvements. 
2. £.20,000, for a Site for the propesed New 
Pubtic Offices, 
3F3 ; 3. £.7,500, 











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396 11°—12° Augustz. 


8. £.7,500, towards the Erection of a New 
Building, to contain additional accommodation for 


A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) Bill was, Parochial 


according to Order, read a second time; and com- (Scotlandy ant 


Ways and 
Means. 


Supply. 


Gallery of 
Portraits. 


Cholera 
(West Indies.) 


Works at 
Spurn Point. 


London Dio- 
cesan Church 
Building 
Socicty. 


Fortifications 
at Corfu. 


Wellington 
Testimonial 
(Pheonix Park, 
Dublin. ) 


Boundaries 
of Counties, 
&amp;c. (Ireland. ) 


Repository 
for Public 
Records. 


Chelsca 
Bridge. 


Public Offices in connexion with Her Majesty’s 
General Register House, Edinburgh. 

4. £.200,000, for the Embodied Militia. 

5. £.450,000, for the Disembodied Militia. 

6. £.32,000, for the Survey of Scotland. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





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


Mercurii, 12° die Augusti, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Litz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. FitzRoy also acquainted the House, 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 Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

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


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions; which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards the formation, in the year 
ending the 31st day of March 1858, of the Gallery 
of Portraits of the most eminent persons in British 
History. 

2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year ending the 
31st day of March 1858, the Expenses connected 
with the Inquiry into the Ravages of the Cholera in 
the West Indies. 

3. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 500, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Cost of certain 
Works at Spurn Point, River Humber, to the 31st 
day of March 1858. 

4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.10,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, as a Contribution, in the year ending 
the 31st day of March 1858, on the part of the 
Crown, towards the Fund of the Zondon Diocesan 
Church Building Society, for building additional 
Churches and Parsonage Houses. 

5. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.10,300, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to enable the Lord High Commis- 
sioner of the Zonian Islands to carry out a Plan for 
improving the Fortifications at Corfu, in the year 
ending the 31st day of March 1858. 

6. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 2,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards the Completion of the 
Testimonial to the Duke of Wellington, in the Phenix 


Park, Dublin, in the year ending the 31st day of 


March 1858. 

7. Thata Sum, not exceeding £. 1,500, begranted 
to Her Majesty, for the- Expense of adjusting and 
defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, and 
Parishes in Zre/and, in the year ending the 31st day 
of March 1858. . 

8. Thata Sum, not exceeding £.8,970, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to complete, in the year ending the 
3ist day of March 1858, the Expense of providing 
and fixing Wire Doors, Ends, and Divisions to the 
Presses, for the better security of the Records and 
Documents in the General Repository for Public 
Records. 

9. Thata Sum, notexceeding £. 24,000, be granted 
to Her Majesty, for the Completion of the Suspen- 
sion Bridge over the Thames, at Chelsea, in the year 
ending the 31st day of March 1858. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to, 





mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Pimlico |mprovements Bill ; 


Pimlico Im. 
provements 


And a Motion being made, and the Question ® 


being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

Sir Benjamin Hall, 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 con- 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shall 
think fit. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question :—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 the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Police (Scot/and) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“ this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—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, with the Amendments, do 

ass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Reformatory Schools Bill. 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
several were agreed to; several were amended, and 
agreed to; and several were disagreed to, 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagree- 
ing to the Amendments to which this House hath 
disagreed :—And a Conmittee was appointed of 
Sir George Grey, Mr. FitzRoy, Viscount Castle- 
rosse, Mr. Henley, Mr. Massey, Sir William Heath- 
cole and Mr. Spooner :—And they are to withdraw 
immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The House, according to Order, preceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Industrial Schools Bill; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate on the Amendment which was 
this day proposed to be made to the Probates and 
Letters of Administration Bill, and which Amend- 

ment 


Police (Seot- 
land) Bill. 


Reformatory 
Schools Bill. 


Industrial 


Schools Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 


ministration 








21 Vicrorti2z. 


ment was to insert in the Schedule, before the words 
“The West Riding of the County of York,” in the 
mf first column, the words “ Wanentakes of Lwecross, 
“ Staincliffe, Claro (including the Liberty of Ripon), 
“ Skyrack, Barkston, Ash, and the Borough of 
“ Leeds, all in the West Riding of the County of 
ts “ York Leeds ;” 

And the Question being again proposed, That | 
those words be there inserted :—The House resumed | 
the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—It passed in the 
Negative. | 
Another Amendment was proposed to be made to | 
the Schedule of the Bill, by leaving out the word | 
“ York,” in the second column, and inserting the | 
word “ Hu//’’ instead thereof. | 

And the Question being put, That the word | 

“ York ” stand part of the Schedule :—It was resolved | 


in the Affirmative. 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made to | 
the Schedule of the Bill, by inserting in the first | 
column of the Schedule, alter the words “ County of 
“ Norfolk,” the words “ North and South Divisions | 
“ of the County of Essex.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Leit. 

ate Tellers for the f Mr. Beresford, L 9 
Yeas, UMr. DuCane: + Vilas 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, LThe Earl of Mulgrave : } 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Schedule of the Bill, by leaving out the word 
“ Brecknock.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ Brecknock”’ stand part of the Schedule :—It was 
resolved in the Affirmative, 

Then other Amendments were made to the Sche- 
dule of the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 











55. 


“Crowded The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Dwellings Pre- reading of the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 
vention Bill. And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ now,” and, at 
ry the end of the Question, adding the words “ upon 
“‘ this day three 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 to a Committee of the whole 
House, for this day. 


~ Stock The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Act (1856) mittee on the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) 


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


l. Reformatory 


Schools Bal Sir George Grey reported from the Committee ap- 


pointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the 
Lords for disagreeing to certain Amendments made 
by their Lordships to the Reformatory Schools Bill ; 
That they had drawn up Reasons accordingly, which 
they had directed him to report to the House ; and 
the same were read, as follow : 

The Commons disagree to the Amendment in 


- p- 3, 1. 22, for the following Reason: 
“ Because it ought not to be made impera- 
tive on the Justices or Magistrate to issue a 
Von, 112. 





11°—12° Auguste. 397 


Summons in all cases, calling on the Parent or 
Step-parent to appear before them, as in some 
cases no such Parent or Step-parent may be 
known to exist.” 
The Commons disagree to the Amendment in 
p- 3, 1. 37, 

“ For the same Reason, as above mentioned, 
and also because the substitution of the word 
‘shall’ for ‘may’ in this line would render it 
imperative on the Justices or Magistrate not 
only to summon the Parent or Step-parent, but 
also to make an order upon him or her for the 
payment of money, which order ought only to 
be made after inquiry into the ability of such 
Parent or Step-parent to contribute to the 
offender’s support and maintenance.” 

The said Reasons, being read asecond time, were 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
communicate the said Reasons (with the Bill and 
Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry the same. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Fraudulent 
Lords to the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill be taken Trustees, &amp;c. 


into consideration upon Thursday next; and be pl 
printed. Bill 184. 


The Charitable Trusts Act Continuance Bill was Charitable 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second Trusts Act 
‘ ‘ _ Continuance 
time upon Thursday next; and to be printed. Bill. 


Bill 185. 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve Customs Acts. 
itself into a Committee on the Customs Acts. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Hainault 
an Extract from the Report of the Commissioners Forest. 
of Woods for the year ending the 31st day of March 
1857, containing a Statement of the Proceedings 
adopted by the Commissioners of Woods, &amp;c. for 
bringing the Crown’s Hainault Allotment into a 
state for Cultivation, includig the under-mentioned 
Accounts :— 

A Debtor and Creditor Account of the Forest of 
Hainault, during each of the last Five years 
previous to the date of the Act under which 
it was disafforested : 

A Debtor and Creditor Account of the Allot- 
ment awarded to the Crown under the Act, for 
each year since the date of the Award to the 
31st day of March last: 

A Debtor and Creditor Account of the Com- 
moners’ Allotment from the date of the Act 
to the latest period, so far as it produced In- 
come or caused Expenditure to the Crown: 

(Each Account to be made out in sufficient Detail 
to make clear the specific Sources of Revenue to, and 
the specific purposes of Expenditure by, the Crown 
since the date of the Act):— 

And, Statement cf the present Occupation and 
Extent of the Crown Allotment; together with a 
Statement and Account of the present and prospec- 
tive Rental derivable from the same. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quaiter of an hour before Three of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Mercurii, 12° die Augusti ; 


Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


ILE House proceeded to take into considera- Herne Bay and 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to ena 
the Herne Bay and Faversham Railway Bill; and 
the same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, ‘That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this Ilouse hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 





3Pr4 Ordered, 


: 
: 


Giustiniani’s 
Naturalization 
Bill. 


Lord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill. 


Keays’ 
Divorce Bill. 


Public 
Petitions 
(Thirty- first 
Report.) 


Public 
Petitions. 


398 


Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of Giustiniani’s Naturalization Bill; and 
that the Bill be read the third time forthwith :—The 
Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 203 be suspended 
in the case of Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill; and tiat 
the Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 171 and 201 be 
suspended in the case of Keays’ Divorce Bill; and 
that the Bill be read a second time forthwith :—The 
Bill was accordingly read a second time ; and com- 
mitted. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they do hear Counsel and examine 
Witnesses 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 Coun- 
sel or produce Witnesses. 


Mr. Bonham-Carter reported from the Select 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had ex- 
amined the Petitions presented upon the 7th, 10th, 
and 11th days of this instant August ; and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

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


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


12° August. 


A. 1857. Sess. LI. 


the Names of the Selected Members who served on 
each Committee; the first and also the last day of 
the Sitting of each Committee ; the Number of 
Days on which each Committee sat; the Number 
of Days on which each Selected Member has served ; 
the Bills the Preambles of which were reported to 
have been proved ; the Bills the Preambles of which 
were reported to have been not proved; the Bills re- 
ferred back to the Committee of Selection, or to the 
General Committee on Railway aud Canal Bills, as 
having become Unopposed; and the Bills with- 
drawn, or not proceeded with by the Parties :—And, 
of all Private Bills which, in the present and past Ses- 
sions of 1857, have been referred by the Committee 
of Selection, or by the General Committee on Railway 
and Canal Bills, to the Chairman of the Committee 
of Ways and Means; together with the Names of the 
Members who served on each Committee; the 
Number of Days on which each Committee sat; and 
the Number of Days on which each Member at- 
tended (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 453, of Session 1856). 


Resolved, That an humble Addre:s be presented British: 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Guiana. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of Correspondence with 
the Governor of British Guiana with reference to 
the Ordinance passed by the Legislature of that 
Colony imposing a Registration Tax. 

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. 


Vide Thirty- 


Mr. Chichester Fortescue presented,—Return to an Royal Min: 
second Report. 


Address to Her Majesty, dated the 31st day of July (Sydney 
last, for a Return relative to the Royal Mint (Sydney Breech» 
Branch). 

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





Divisions of 


"tag ay Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


a Return of the Number of Divisions of the House 
in the present and past Sessions of 1857; stating 
the Subject of the Division, and the Number of 
Members in the Majority and Minority, Tellers in- 
cluded ; also, the Aggregate Number in the House 
on each Division ; distinguishing the Divisions on 
Public Business from Private, and also the Number 
of Divisions before and after Midnight (in continua- 
tion Parliamentary Paper, No. 449, of Session 
1856). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Select Committees ap- 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Omnibuss 
Return, in detail, of the Revenues derived from al] and Cabs | 
Taxes and Duties upon Omnibuses and Cabs re- (etopelis.) 
spectively, within the Area of the Metropolis, for the 
several years 1854, 1855 and 1856. 


The House, according to Oider, proceeded to take gmoke Nui- 
into consideration the Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) sance (Scot- 
Abatement Bill, as amended in the Committee. land) Abate - 


Sclect 
Comnittees. : 
ment Bill. 


Private Bills, 


— in the Sessions of 1857; the Subjects of 
nquiry; the Names of the Members appointed to 
serve on each Committee, and of the Chairman of 
each; the Number of Days on which each Com- 
mittee met, and the Number of Days on which each 
Member attended such Committee; the Total Ex- 
pense of the Attendance of Witnesses, and the Name 
of the Member who moved for each such Com- 
mittee; also, the Total Number of Members who 
served on Select Committees, and the Number of 
Members who served on no Select Committee at all 
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 450, 
of Session 1856). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Number of Private Bills introduced 
and brought from the House of Lords, and of Acts 
passed in the present and past Sessions of 1857, 
classed according to the following Subjects :—Rail- 
ways; Roads and Bridges; Waterworks; Ports; 
Piers ; Harbours and Docks; Canals and Naviga- 
tions; Churches, Chapels and Burying-grounds ; 
Paving, Lighting, and Improving; Gaols and other 
County Buildings ; Inclosures ; Small Debts Courts; 
and all other Bills and Acts:—Of all the Private 
Bills which, in the present and past Sessions of 
1857, have been treated as Opposed Bills; specify- 
ing those which have been classified in Groups by 
the Committee of Selection, or by the Geweral Com- 
mittee on Railway and Canal Bills; together with 





And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the further consideration of the Bill, 
as amended in the Committee, be adjourned till this 
day three months :—It paszed in the Negative. 

Then the House proceeded to take the Bill, as 
amended, into further consideration. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Party dissatisfied with any Decree may appeal) :— 
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. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in p. 1, 1.18, by leaving out the words “a 
“ quarter of a mile,” and inserting the words “two 
“ hundred yards,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words “ @ 
“ quarter of a mile” stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the Yeas Me a 
_ &gt; J Mr. Buchanan, 

Tellers for the Noes,\ yy. Ridley: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by leaving out Clause Posie. ai 

n 











Q1 Vicroriz. 


And the Question being put, That Clause Twelve 
stand part of the Bill ; 
The House divided. 


The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. ; 

Tellers for the Yeas, = — omy } 32. 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Buchanan, Von, 


LViscount Duncan: J 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

To-morrow. 


Railways The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Railways (Ireland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day fortnight. 








SaleofObscene The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Books, &amp;c- into a Committee on the Sale of Obscene Books, 
— &amp;c. Prevention Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 
Preamble postponed. 
Cravuse, N° 1, amended, and agreed to. 
Cravses, N° 2 and N° 3, agreed to. 
Clause (Act not to apply to Scot/and)—— brought 
up, and read 1°, 
Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time——put, and negatived. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 
Probatesand The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


— Ege mittee on the Probates and Letters of Administra- 
1 . . 
‘ tion (Ireland) Bill; 
Ireland) Bill. ws P 
a Resolved, That this House will, after the other 


Orders of the day, resolve itself into the said Com- 


mittee. 

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

rer consideration the Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill, 

(Dublin) Bill. 3; amended in the Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion after the other Orders of the day. 

Supply. Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of 
Supply, several Resolutions ; which were read, as 
follow : 

Pimlico Im- 1. That a Sum, not exceeding £.27,810, be granted 

provements. to Her Majesty, for tle Completion of the Pimlico 


Improvements, in the year ending the 31st day of 
March 1858. 
Site for New 2. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 80,000, be granted 
Public Offices. to Her Majesty, towards the purchase of a Bite for 
the proposed New Public Offices, in the year ending 
the 31st day of March 1858. 
3. That a Sum, not exceeding £.7,500, be granted 
to Her Majesty, towards the Erection, in the year 


General Re- 
gister House, 


ae ending the 31st day of March 1858, of a New 
Building, to contain additional accommodation for 
Public Offices in connexion with Her Majesty’s 
General Register House, Edinburgh. 

Embodied 4. That a Sum, not exceeding £.200,000, be 


Militia, —_ to Her Majesty, to defray Charges for the 
mbodied Militia, which will come in course of 
payment in the year ending the 31st day of March 

1858. 


Disembodied 5. That a Sum, not exceeding £. 450,000, be 

Militia, granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the 
Disembodied Militia of Great Britain and Ireland, 
to the 31st day of March 1858. 

sarrey of 6. That a Sum, not exceeding £.32,000, be granted 


to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Survey 


12° Augusti. 


399 


of Scotland, which will come in course of payment 
in the year ending the 31st day of March 1858. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Militia Pay. 
to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing and Con- 
tingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied 
Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant 
Allowances in certain cases to Subaltern Officers, 
Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, 
Assistant Surgeons and Surgeons Mates of the 
Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the 
Non-commissioned Officers: And that Mr. Fitz- 
Roy, Sir John Ramsden and the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


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

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the General Board of General Board 


Health Continuance Bill, without any Amendment : &amp;f Health 
Continuance 


Bill 
The Lords have agreed to the Attornies and Attornies 
Solicitors (Colonial Courts) Bill, without any 4nd Solicitors 


Amendment : ete) Bill 


The Lords have agreed to the Illicit Distillation Mlicit Distilla- 
(Ireland) Bill, without any Amendment : tion (Ireland) 


Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the Loan Societies Bill, Loan Societies 
without any Amendment: Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Burial-grounds Burial-grounds 
(Scotland) Act (1855) Amendinent Bill, without any (Scotland) Act 


1855) Amend- 
Amendment : &lt;a anh 


The Lords have agreed to the Summary Pro- summary 
ceedings before Justices of the Peace Bill, without Proceedings 
before Justices 
any Amendment: of Gee Benes 
Bill. 
The Lords have agreed to the West Somerset west Somerset 
Railway Bill, without any Amendment: Railway Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made waslingden 
by this House to the Amendment made by their and Todmor- 
Lordships to the Haslingden and Todmorden Roads %° Roads Bill 
Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made British and 
by this House to the Amendments made by their Irish Grand 
Lordships to the British and Irish Grand Junction ee a 

, ; : ay Bill. 
Railway Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Finsbury Park 
by this House to the Amendments made by their (N® 2) Bill. 
Lordships to the Finsbury Park (No, 2) Bill, with- 
out any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Sittingbourne 
by this House to the Amendments made by their eles 
Lordships to the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail- “* er 
way Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Court of Session Court of _ 
(Scotland) Bill, with an Amendment; to which the —_ 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House : site 

The Lords have agreed to the Lancaster and Lancaster 
Carlisle and Ingleton Railway Bill, with Amend- 4 Carlisle 

: : and Ingleton 
ments; to which the Lords desire the concurrence Raiway Bill. 
of this House : 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Militia Bill. 
to authorize the embodying of the Militia; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Jurisdiction 
to confirm an Order in Council concerning the im Siam Bill. 
exercise of Jurisdiction in matters arising within the 
Kingdom of Siam; to which the Lords desire the 





VoL. 112. 











concurrence of this House. 
3G The 


Ways and 
Means. 


Customs and 
Excise Duties. 


Consolidated 
Fund. 


Surplus of 
Ways and 
Means. 


400 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That, towards raising the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties of 
Customs now chargeable on the following articles 
imported into Great Britain and Ireland, and in 
lieu of the Duties of Excise now chargeable on Sugar 
made in the United Kingdom, the following Duties 
shall be charged until the 31st day of March 1860 
inclusive (that is to say) : 


—_ viz. i— £. &amp; d. 
Jandy, brown or white refined Sugar, or 
Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
quality thereto - - - the cwt. 
White clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by 
any process equal in quality to white 
clayed, not being refined, or equal in 
quality torefined - «= - the cwt. 
Yellow Muscovado and brown clayed Sugar, 
or Sugar rendered by any process — in 
quality to yellow Muscovado or brown 
clayed, and not equal to white clayed, 
the ewt. 
Brown Muscovado, or any other Sugar, not 
being equal in quality to yellow Musco- 
rado or brown clayed Sugar -_ the cwt. 
Molasses - - ~ - - the cwt. 
| 
{ 
| 


18 4 


Cherries, dried 
Comfits, dry - 
Confectionery - 
Ginger, preserved 
Marmalade - = = - 
Plums, preserved in Sugar - = - 
Succades, including all Fruits and | 
Vegetables preserved in Sugar, | 
not otherwise enumerated - -! 
Tea - - - - - - 


the Ib. 


the Ib. 1 5 





2. Resolved, That the following drawbacks shall 
be allowed on the exportation to Foreign Parts, or on 
removal to the Isle of Man, for consumption there, 
of the several descriptions of refined Sugar herein- 
after inentioned, until the 3ist day of March 1860 
inclusive (that is to say) : 


Upon refined Sugar in loaf, complete or whole, | £. « d. 
or lumps duly refined, having been perfectly 
clarified and thorouglily dried in the stove, 
and being of an uniform whiteness through- 
out, or Sugar Candy, or Sugar refined by 
the centrifugal machine, or by any other 

rocess, and not in any way inferior to the 
Export Standard, No. 3, approved of by the 
Lords of the Treasury - for every cwt. 

Upon such refined Sugar already described, if 
pounded, crushed or broken in a warehouse 
approved by the Commissioners of Customs, 
such Sugar having been there first inspected 
by the officers of Customs in lumps or loaves, 
as if for immediate shipment, and then 
packed for exportation in the presence of 
such officers, and at the expense of the 
exporters - - - for every ewt. 

Upon refined Sugar, unstoved, pounded, 
crushed or broken, and not in any way 
inferior to the export standard sample, No. 1, 
approved by the Lords of the Treasury, 
and which shall not contain more than five 
per centum moisture over and above what 
the same would contain if thoroughly dried 
in the stove - - - for every cwt. 

Jpon bastard or refined Sugar, unstoved, 
broken in pieces, or being ground, powdered, 
or crushed, not in any way inferior to the 
export standard sample, No. 2, approved by 
the Lords of the Treasury - for every ewt. 

Upon bastard or refined Sugar, being inferior 
in quality to the said export standard sam- 
ple, No. 2 - - - for every cwt. 8 





3. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
ply granted to Her Majesty, the Sum of £.16,277,482. 
15s. 9d. be granted out of the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, 

4. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
ply granted to Her Majesty, there be issued and 
applied to the service of the year 1857, the Sum of 
£.606,234. 48. 3d., being the Surplus of Ways and 
Means granted for the servic2 of preceding years. 


12° Augusti. 





A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 

Mr. FitzRoy 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. 


The Probates and Letters of Administration Bill Probates and 
was, according to Order, read the third time. — of Ad- 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, Bill. — 

do pass. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crowded 
mittee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill; a 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Joint Stock 
into a Committee on the Joint Stock Companies Slane 
Act (1856) Amendment Bill; and, after some time pote me 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Bill. 

Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Customs Acts. 
into a Committee on the Customs Acts. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That in lieu of the Duties of Customs Customs 
now chargeable on Rice imported into Great Bri- Duties. 
tain and Ireland, the following Duties shall be 


charged (that is to say): - 
&amp;. d. 


43 
9 


£. 


Rice and Rice dust for feeding cattle, the cwt. 
—— Rough, and inthe husk - _ the quarter 
Meal, not otherwise enumerated or described, 
the cwt. 4} 
2. Resolved, That in lieu of the Duties of Customs 
now chargeable on the undermentioned articles 
imported into Great Britain and Ireland, the fol- 
lowing Duties shall be charged (that is to say): 


£. &amp;. 


d, 
6 
-} 


Hats of felt - - - - - each 
Lucifers, vesta, of wax the 1,000 matches 
Plums, commonly called French Plums and | 
Prunelloes - - - - the ewt, | 
—— dried or preserved (except in Sugar), not | 
otherwise described - - - the ewt. | 


_ 
—_ 4 — 


~~ 2 

3. Resolved, That in lieu of the Duties of Customs 
now chargeable on Ships, with their tackle, apparel 
and furniture (except sails), broken up or to be 
broken up, the following Duties shall be charged 


(that is to say): 
£. 8. d. 
Foreign built Ships, with their tackle, appa- 
rel and furniture, broken up, or sold to be 
broken up, or abandoned by the owners, or 
sold as wreck, whether afterwards recovered 


or repaired or not - for every £. 100 value 
4. Resolved, That the Duties of Customs now 
chargeable on the undermentioned article imported 
into Great Britain and Ireland, shall cease and 
determine (that is to say): 
Oxymuriate of Tin. 
Resolutions to be reported. 


5 











21 Vicrortiz. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had come to se- 
veral Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow, 
at Twelve of the clock. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of 
Administration (Ireland) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bill 186, 


d- 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Revising Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


Revising 
Barristers 
(Dublin) Bill. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- 
mand,—Copy of Report from the Common Law 
(Judicial Business) Commissioners, together with 
the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Further Return to 
an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 6th day of 
March, in the last Session of Parliament, for Re- 
turns of the Names (alphabetically arranged) of all 
Places in which, according to a Return (No. 221) 
made in the last Session of Parliament, Free Public 
Libraries had then been agreed upon or established ; 
with a Return showing how far the Institution of 
Free Public Libraries has since been agreed to or 
dissented from in the following Places: Aberdeen, 
Dundalk, Haslingden (Lancashire), Kingston-upon- 
Hull, Leamington, Lichfield, Limerick, Marylebone, 
Paddington, Westminster:—And, from Bristol, 
Greenock, Norwich, Preston and Southampton, and 
the City of London; showing, 1. Whether the Cor- 
porations of those Places hold in trust any Collec- 
tion of Books bequeathed for public use; with the 
Date, Terms of Bequest, and Name of the Testator ; 
2. Whether any Funds for the Maintenance of such 
Collections are held by the Corporations aforesaid, 
and to what Amount; 3. What is the present Ex- 
tent of each of such Collections, where they are 
preserved, and under what Custody, and what are 
the Terms of Public Access thereto; 4. Whether 
any Steps have been taken, or are in contemplation, 
under the Public Libraries Act of 1850 or of 1855, 
for the future Maintenance of such Collections, or 
of any of them, by Rate, or for the Amalgamation 
of any such Collection with other Collections 
formed under either of the Acts aforesaid. 

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


Common Law 
(Judicial 
Business. ) 


Public 
Libraries. 


Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of May 
last, for a Return relative to Army Huts. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
10th day of July last, for a Return relative to the 
Ordnance Survey (/ireland). 

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


Army Huts. 


Ordnance 
Survey 
(Ireland. ) 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
that part of the Message fromi the Lords of the 10th 
day of this instant August, wherein their Lordships 
request that this House will communicate to their 
Lordships, a Copy of the Report from the Select 
Committee appointed by this House to inquire into 
the operation of the Bank Act of 1844 (7 &amp; 8 Vic. 
c. 32), and of the Bank Acts for Zreland and Scot- 
land of 1845 (8 &amp; » Vic. c. 37 &amp; 38), together with 
the Minutes of Evidence taken before the said Com- 
mittee, &amp;c. 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said Report 


Bank Acts. 


12°—13° August. 





40 | 


be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships : And that the Clerk do deliver the same. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Hudson’s Bay 
that part of the Message from the Lords of the 10th Company. 
day of this instant August, wherein their Lordships 
request that this House will communicate to their 
Lordships, a Copy of the Report from the Select 
Committee appointed by this House to consider the 
state of those British Possessions in orth America 
which are under the Administration of the Hudson’s 
Bay Company, or over which they possess a license 
to trade; together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before the said Committee, &amp;c. 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said Report 
be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver the same. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Rating of 
that part of the Message from the Lords of the 11th Mines 
day of this instant August, wherein their Lordships 
request that this House will communicate to their 
Lordships, a Copy of the Report from the Select 
Committee appointed by this House to inquire into 
the Law and Practice with respect to the Rating of 
Royalties of Mines ; together with the Minutes of 
Evidence taken before the said Committee, &amp;c. 

Ordered, That a Printed Copy of the said Report 
be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships: And that the Clerk do deliver the same. 


The Trustees Relief Bill was read the first time ; Trustees 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday Relief Bill. 
next ; and to be printed. Bill 188. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Charitable 
to request that their Lavishipe will be pleased to Leahey ton 
communicate to this House, a Copy of the Report jjc charities 
from the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- Bill. 
ships on the Charitable Uses Bill, and the Roman 
Catholic Charities Bill; together with the Pro- 
ceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of the 
Evidence: And that the Clerk do carry the said 


Message. 


Sir John Ramsden presented a Bill to defray the Militia Pay 
Charge of the Pay, Clothing and Contingent and Bill. 
other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great 
Britain and freland; to grant Allowances in certain 
cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, 
Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons and 
Surgeons’ Mates of the Militia; and to authorize 
the employment of the Non-commissioned Officers : 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Court of 
to the Court of Chancery, &amp;c. (Jreland), which was Chancery, &amp;e. 


presented upon the 14th day of July last, be printed. ge 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Jovis, 13° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
HEP HERD’ S Disabilities Removal Bill was Shepherd’s 
read the third time. Disabilities 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. SS Se 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Lord Rivers’ 


Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill was, according to Order, 
Estate Bill. 


read a second time ; and committed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 





Vide ‘Thirty- 











Vou, 112. 








3qa2 The second Report. 





402 


Valuation 
‘(lreland.) 


friendly 
“Societies. 


Vestry Clerks 
(Metropolitan 
Parishes ) 


Assistant 
Commission- 
-ers, &amp;c. 


Bait Shell Fish- 


ings (Firth of 
Clyde.) 


Light Gold 
Coin. 


Foreign 
Codes, &amp;c. 


County 
“Treasurers 
-(Ireland.) 


No. 265. 
Royal Mint 
(Sydney 
Branch.) 

No. 266. 


Army Huts. 
No. 267. 


Ordnance 
Survey 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 268. 
Divorce and 


Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


The following Paper was laid upon the Table by 
the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, dated 
the 11th day of this instant August, for a Return 
relative to Valuation (Zreland). 

The following Paper, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament, was also laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,— Report of the 
Registrar of Friendly Societies. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 
Her Majesty, dated the 14th day of May last, for a 
Return relative to Vestry Clerks (Metropolitan Pa- 
rishes). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
25th day of June last, for a Return relative to As- | 
sistant Commissioners, &amp;c. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
28th day of July last, for a Return relative to Bait 
Shell Fishings (Firth of Clyde). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the | 
31st day of July last, for a Return relative to Light | 
Gold Coin. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
11th day of this instant August, for a Return rela- 
tive to Foreign Codes, &amp;c. 

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


Ordered, That the Account relative to County | 
Treasurers (Zreland), which was presented upon the 
19th day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Royal 
Mint (Sydney Branch), which was presented upon 
the 12th day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army Huts, 
which was presented upon the 12th day of this in- 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ord- 
nance Survey (Jreland), which was presented upon 
the 12th day of this instant August, be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 25. Another Amendment proposed, 
in p. 7,1. 7: After the word “adultery” to insert 
the words “ or of adultery committed in the conju- 
“« wal residence.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted. 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment: To leave out the words “in the conjugal 
“‘ residence,” in order to add the words “by the 
“ husband with a mistress kept by him in the same 
* house with his wife.” 

Amendment to proposed Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Original Question put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line : 
To leave out the words “ or of bigamy.” 

Question proposed, That the words “or of bi- 
“ vamy” stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line: 
After the word “ bigamy ”’ to insert the words “ and 
“ acultery with the same person.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 
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, at Six 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 


13° August. 











A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee of Ways and 
Ways and Means, several Resolutions ; which were ™®*"* 
read, as follow : 

1. That, towards raising the Supply granted to Customs ana 
Her Majesty, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now Excise Duties, 
chargeable on the foliowing articles imported into 
Great Britain and Ireland, and in lieu of the Duties 
of Excise now chargeable on Sugar made in the 
United Kingdom, the following Duties shall be 
charged until the 31st day of March 1860 inclusive 
(that is to say): 

Sugar, viz. : £8 d. 

andy, brown or white refined Sugar, or 

Sugar rendered by any process equal in 

uality thereto the ewt. 
White clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by 

any process cqual in quality to white 
clayed, not being refined, or equal in 
amy bss refined - the cwt. 
Yellow Muscovado and brown clayed Sugar, 
or Sugar rendered by any process equal in 
— to yellow Muscovady or brown 
clayed, and not equal to white clayed 
the cwt. 
Brown Muscovado, or any other Sugar, not 
being equal in quality to yellow Musco- 
vado or brown clayed Sugar - the cwt. 
Molasses the ewt. 
Cherries, dried 
Comfits, dry 
Confectionery 
Ginger, preserved 
Marmalade 
Plums preserved in Sugar 
Succades, including all Fruits and 

Vegetables preserved in Sugar, 
7 not otherwise enumerated - 

ea 


2. That the following drawbacks shall be allowed 
on the exportation to Foreign Parts, or on removal 
te the Isle of Man, for consumption there, of the 
several descriptions of refined Sugar hereinafter 
mentioned, until the 31st day of March 1860 inclu- 
sive (that is to say) : 


18 4 





- -~s 
= 


the lb, 





-/ 





the lb. 1 &amp; 


Upon refined Sugar in loaf, complete or whole, | £. s. d. 
or omy duly refined, having been perfectly 
clarified and thoroughly dried in the stove, 
and being of an uniform whiteness through- 
out, or Sugar Candy, or Sugar refined by 
the centrifugal machine, or by any other 
rocess, and not in any way inferior to the 
xport Standard, No. 3, approved of by the 
Lords of the Treasury - _ for every ewt. 
Upon such refined Sugar already described, if 
pounded, crushed or broken in a warchouse 
approved by the Commissioners of Customs, 
such Sugar having been there first inspected 
by the officers of Customs in lumps or 
loaves, as if for immediate shipment, and 
then packed for exportation in the presence 
of such officers, and at the expense of the 
exporters - - for every ewt. 
Upon refined Sugar, unstoved, pounded, 
crushed or broken, and not in any way infe- 
rior to the ~— Standard Sample, No. 1, 
approved by the Lords of the Treasury, and 
which shall not contain more than five per 
centum moisture over and above what the 
same would contain if thoroughly dried in 
the stove - - for every ewt. 
Upon bastard or refined Sugar, unstoved 
broken in pieces or being ground, powdered 
or crushed, not in any way inferior to the 
Export Standard Sample, No. 2, approved 
by the Lords of the Treasury, for every ewt. 
Upon bastard or refined Sugar, being inferior | 
in quality to the said Export Standard | 
Sample, No. 2. - - for every ewt. | 


s. 


15 





~12 8 


3. That, towards making good the Supply granted Consolidated 
to Her Majesty, the Sum of £.16,277,482. 15s. 9d, Fuad. 
be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Jreland. 

4. That, towards making good the Supply granted Surplus of 
to Her Majesty, there be issued and applied to the Ways and 
service of the year 1857, the Sum of £. 606.234. Means. 
4s. 3d., being the Surplus of Ways and Means 
granted for the service of preceding years. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, 








Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation. ) 


Joint Stock 


Companies Act 
(1856) Amend- 


ment Bill. 


Customs Acts. 


Customs 
Duties. 


Contracts 
(Public De- 
partments. ) 


No. 269, 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 





21 Vicrori-. 


Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the first 
and second of the said Resolutions: And that Mr. 
FitzRoy, Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund, and 
the Surplus of Ways and Means, to the service of 
the year 1857, and to appropriate the Supplies 
granted in this Session of Parliament: And that 
Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Joint Stock Companies Act 
(1856) Amendment Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. ; 


Mr. Fitz Roy reported from the Committee on the 
Customs Acts, several Resolutions; which were 
read, as follow: 

1. That, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now 
chargeable on Rice imported into Great Britain and 





Ireland, the following Duties shall be charged 
(that is to say): 
| £8. d. 
Rice and Rice Dust for feeding Cattle, the ewt.| - -— 4} 
Rough, and in the husk -- the quarter| - - 9 
Meal, not otherwise enumerated or described, 
theewt.| - — 44 


2. That, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now 
chargeable on the under-mentioned articles imported 
into Great Britain and Ireland, the following Duties 
shall be charged (that is to say): 

8. 
Hats of felt - - each = 
Lucifers, vesta, of wax - the 1,000 matches 

Plums, commonly called French Plums and 

Prunelloes - the ewt. 
—— dried or preserved (except in Sugar), not 

otherwise described - the ewt. 


rik 


-4 





7 
- = 7 


8. That, in lieu of the Duties of Customs now 
chargeable on Ships, with their tackle, apparel and 
furniture (except sails), broken up or to be broken 
up, the following Duties sha!1 be charged (that is to 
say): 


Foreign built Ships, with their tackle, appa- | £. 8. d. 
rel and furniture, broken up, or sold to be 
broken up, or abandoned by the owners, or 
sold as wreck, whether afterwards recovered 
or repaired or not - forevery £.100 value! 5 - - 


4. That the Duties of Customs now chargeable 
on the under-mentioned article imported into Great 
Britain and Ireland, shall cease and determine (that 
is to say): 

Oxymuriate of Tin. 


The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to 


Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said | 


13° August. 


403 


The Militia Bill was read the first time ; and or- Militia Bill. 
dered to be read a second time To-morrow ; and to No, 191. 
be printed. 


_ The Jurisdiction in Siam Bill was read the first Jurisdiction in 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time To- Siam Bill. 
morrow ; and to be printed. Bill 190. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords communicate a Copy of Proceedings Keays’ 
belore the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judica- Divorce Bill. 
ture, and Minutes of Evidence taken on the second 
reading of Keays’ Divorce Bill, as desired by this 
House: 

The Lords communicate a Copy of Report from Charitable 
the Select Committee of the House of Lords oa the Uses Bill, and 
Charitable Uses Bill, and the Roman Catholic - a 
Charities Bill, together with the Proceedings of the Bill. 
Committee, and Minutes of Evidence, as desired by 
this House. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Keays’ Di- Keays’ 
vorce Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Divorce Bill. 
Divorce Bills. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Australian 
Returns of the Names, Tonnage and Horse-power Vostal Com- 
of all Vessels surveyed by the Admiralty, the Pro- ™¢™c*40"- 
perty of the European and Columbian Steam Com- 
pany, and to be employed between Suez and Mel- 

ourne, under the Provisions of a Contract entered 
into by virtue of a tender signed on behalf of the 
said Company, the 11th day of June 1856, by John 
Orr Ewing, Chairman, with the Surveyor’s Report 
thereon :—And, of the Names, Tonnage and Horse- 
power of all Vessels chartered or hired by said Com- 
pany (with the Names of Owners), to convey the 
Mails and Passengers between Alexandria and 
Southampton, or Suez and Melbourne. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, punaties. 
Returns of the Date and Number of Days on which 
the Board of Visi‘ors of Lunatics assembled, be- 
tween the 1st day of January 1856 and the Ist day of 








January 1857, and the Names of Visitors of Lunatics 


| present at the Board on each day of Meeting :—Of 


the Number of Lunatics found so by Inquisition, 
land living on the 1st day of January 1856 :—Simi- 
lar Return on the 1st day of January 1857 :—Re- 
turns of the Number of Lunatics actually visited by 
the Medical Visitors, between the Ist day of Ja- 
nuary 1856 and the Ist day of January 1857 :— 
And, of the Number of Inquisitions Which have been 
superseded in the respective years 1854, 1855 and 
1856. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Dubois against 
Copies of the Rules and Orders made in the Court Wyse 
of Exchequer in [reland in Michaelmas Term 1855, 





Resolutions : And that Mr. FitzRoy, Mr. Wilson and | in the cause of Dubois against Wyse, one of the Di- 


the Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and | 


bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Contracts 
(Public Departments) have Power to report their 


Observations to the House, together with the Mi- 


nutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


Colonel Boldero reported from the said Com- | 


mittee; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and 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. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill be taken 
into consideration To-morrow. 

Vou. 112. 





visional Magistrates of the Dublin Metropolitan 
Police :—And, of an Order made on the 20th day 
of July 1855, by the Lord Chief Baron of the said 
| Court, in Chambers, discharging the Defendant from 
_the custody of the Sheriff of the County of Dublin. 


The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill Customs and 
for granting certain Duties of Customs and Excise : =xcise Bill. 
And the same was read the first time ; aud ordered Bill 189. 
to be read a second time To-morrow; and to be 
printed, 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill to apply a Sum out Consolidated 
of the Consolidated Fund, and the Surplus of Ways priationy Bill, 
and Means, to the Service of the year One thousand 7 ; 
eight hundred and fifty-seven, and to appropriate 
the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament : 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time To-morrow. 
3G3 





Mr. 


Customs Bill. 
Bill 192. 


Adjournment. 


Hainault 
Forest. 


No. 264. 


Army Com- 
Missions. 


Tariffs. 


Statistical 
Tables. 


Statistics. 


Trade and 
Navigation. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


404 15°—14° 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill for the Alteration and 
Amendment of the Laws and Duties of Customs: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time To-morrow; and to be 
printed. 


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. 


Mr. Wilson presented,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 11th day of this instant August, for a Re- 
turn relative to Hainault Forest. 

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


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Report of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the system of Purchase and 
Sale of Commissions in the Army; with Evidence 
and Appendix. 

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


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
—A Return of the Rates of Duty upon the prin- 
cipal Articles (so far as the same can be given), 
levied in each of the years 1856 and 1857, by the 
Tariffs of Foreign Countries, in which changes were 
made during that period, and showing the per-cent- 
age Increase or Decrease. 

Statistical Tables relating to Foreign Countries : 
—Part V. 

Statistical Tables relating to the Colonial and other 
Possessions of the United Kingdom :—Part II. 

Miscellaneous Statistics relating to the United 
Kingdom, for each of the last Three years. 

Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation 
of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and 
British Possessions, in the year 1856. 

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


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cuause 25. Amendment again proposed, in p. 7, 
1.7: After the word “ bigamy” to insert the words 
“ and adultery with the same person :’”’—Amendment, 
by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed: After the last 
Amendment, to insert the words “ such bigamy, 
“ rape or other offence as aforesaid being proved by 
“ conviction.” 

Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Wigram, Lie 

Yeas, Mr. Gladstone : p&gt; 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, . 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: hho: ; 

Another Amendment proposed: After the last 
Amendment, to insert the words “ or of murder or 
‘“‘ manslaughter with adultery, where a sentence ex- 
“ tending during the lifetime of the party convicted 
** has been pronounced by the Court.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
——put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line : 

To leave out from the words “ or of” to the word 


Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Another Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1.10: To 
leave out the word ‘ desertion.” 

Question proposed, That the word “ desertion ” 
stand part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line: 
To leave out the words “ for two years or up- 
“ wards.” 

Question, That the words “ for two years or up- 
“ wards” stand part of the Clause——put, and 
agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line: 
After the word “ upwards” to insert the words “ or 
“ of adultery coupled with aggravated ill-treatment 
“ of such a nature as ought, in the opinion of the 
“ Court, to entitle her to such divorce.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted. 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment: To leave out from the word “ adultery” to the 
end of the proposed Amendmeut, in order to add 
the words “attended with aggravated circum- 
“ stances.” 

Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
be left out stand part of the proposed Amendment. 

Amendment to the proposed Amendinent, by leave, 
withdrawn. 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Butt, a 

Yeas, \Mr. Lygon : f 

Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, \The Earl of Mulgrave : J 


One of the Tellers reported, That an honourable 
Member, Mr. William Henry Denison, who had 
been in the House when the Question was put, had 
not voted; whereupon the Chairman directed Mr. 
Denison to come to the Table, and asked him whe- 
ther he had heard the Question put, and being 
answered in the Negative, the Chairman again 
stated the Question, and Mr. Denison declared him- 
self with the Yeas. 

Whereupon the Tellers reported the numbers ; 
Yeas 44, Noes 137. 


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, 14° die Augusti, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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, at Twelve 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
niiltee, 


The Judgments Bill was, according to Order, Judgments 


read a secoud time ; and committed to a Committee Bill. 
of the whole House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Parochial 
Schoolmasters 
(Scotland) Bill. 


mittez: on the Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) 
Bill; 

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


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Parochial 
Schoolmasters 


concerning the Parochial Schoolmasters in Scotland; 
And that the Lord Advocate, Mr. Wilson and Sir { 
George Grey do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Fraudulent 


“ desertion,” in l. 10, in order to insert the words 


into consideration the Amendments made by the Trustees, &amp;c. 
“ cruelty or of.” 


Lords to the Fraudulent Trustees, &amp;c. Bill; and the Bi! 


Question, That the words “ adultery coupled 
“ with such cruelty” stand part of the Clause 
put, and agreed to. 





same were twice read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed 





Charitable 
Trusts Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


smoke Nui- 

sance {Scot- 
land) Abate- 
ment Bi 


Crowded 
Dwellings 
'revention 
Bill. 


Bill 187. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 


ministration 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Revising 
Jurristers 


(Dublin) Bill. 


Militia Pay 
Gill. 


Mutiny (East 


india.) 


County and 


District Sur- 


veyors, &amp;¢c, 
(Ireland. ) 


No, 270. 


Mutiny (East 


India) Bill. 


21 VicrorizZ. 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for this 


day. 


The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abatement Bill 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 


Lordships. 


The Honse, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Crowded Dwellings Pre- 
vention Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House, for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of 
Administration (Zreland) Bill; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. [itz Roy 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 Revising Barristers (Dublin) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Militia Pay Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House for this day, at Twelve of the 
clock. 


Ordered, That leave: be given to bring in a Bill 
for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers an«| 
Soldiers imthe Service of the Last India Company, 
and for regulating in such Service the Payment of 
Regimental Debts, and the Distributionof the Effects 
of Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service: And 
that Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Seymour and Mr. Wigram 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on County 
and District Surveyors, &amp;c. (Ireland), have Power 
to report their Observations thereupon to the House, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Mr. Hamilton reported from the said Committee ; 
That they had considered the matters to them re- 
ferred, and liad agreed to a Report, which they had 
directed him to make 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. Vernon Smith presented a Bill for punishing 
Mutiny a:.d Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in 
the Service of the East India Company, and for 
regulating in such Service the Payment of Regi- 
mental Debts, and the Distribution of the Effects of 
Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service: And the 
same was read‘ the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


13°—14° Augusti. 405 


Mr. Wilson presented a Bill concerning the Paro- Parochial 
chial Schoolmasters in Scotland: And the same —— 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a (No 2) Bill, 


sccond time this day; and to be printed. Bill 194. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before ‘Two of the 
clock on Friday morning, adjourned till this 
day. 








Veneris, 14° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


i H E House proceeded to take into consideration yfayor’s Court 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the of the City of 
Mayor’s Court of the City of London Bill; and the London Bill 

same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed tu the Amendments made by their Lord- 

ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Newry and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Newry Enniskillen 
and Enniskillen Railway Bill; and the same were “way Bill. 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed tu the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That Standing Orders 178 and 202 be Keays’ 
suspended in the case of Keays’ Divorce Bill; and Divorce Bill. 
that the Select Committee on Divorce Bills have 
leave to sit and proceed with the Bill upon Monday 
next. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read; Public 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
second Report. 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself Divorce ana 
into a Committee on the Divorce und Matrimonial Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. a 
(In the Committee.) 


Crause, N° 25. Another Amendment proposed, 
in p. 7, |. 10: After the word “ wpwards”’ to insert 
the words “or of adultery preceded or followed by 
“ the commission of a crime for which the husband 
“is sentenced to penal servitude.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed, in the same line : 
After the word ‘‘ upwards” to insert the words “or 
“of adultery committed after she has obtained a 
“ decree for restitution of conjugal rights.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 26 (Adulterer to be a co-respondent ; 
cause may be tried by a jury). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7,1. 18: To leave out 
the words “ presented by a husband,” in order to 
insert the words “ for the dissolution of a marriage, 
“ or any petition for a decree of judicial separation 
“ on the ground of adultery being presented.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ presented 
‘ by a husband ” stand part of the Clause. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
eress in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House wiil, this day, at 
Six of the clock, again resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 





Vou. 112. 





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Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Mutiny (East 
India) Bill. 


Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Lunatic Asy- 


lums(Ireland-) dated the 3d day of this mstant August, for a Re- 


Army. 


Ordnance. 


Excise 
Department. 


Registrar 
of Deeds 
(Ireland. ) 


Orders of 
Knighthood. 


No. 271. 


Light Gold 
Coin. 
No. 272. 


Friendly 
Societies. 


No. 273. 


Revising 
Barristers. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests. 


14°— 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


406 


mittee on the Militia Pay Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, after the other 
Order of the day, at Twelve of the clock, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Mutiny (East India) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Militia Pay Bill; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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 
this day. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Order, 


turn relative to Lunatic Asylums (Ireland). 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The following Papers, pursuant to the directions 
of several Acts of Parliament, were laid upon the 
Table by the Clerk of the House,—Account of Re- 
ceipt and Expenditure for Army, including Com- 
missariat and Militia Services, in the year ended 
31st March 1856. 

Account of Receipt and Expenditure for Ord- 
nance Services, in the year ended 31st March 1856. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 6th August 
1857, granting a Compassionate Allowance to Mr. 
Newberry, late a Permit Writer in the Excise De- 
partment. - 

Copy of Treasury Minutes, dated 8th June and 
12th August 1857, revising the Office of the Regis- 
trar of Deeds in Lreland. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Orders of 
Knighthood, which was presented upon the 11th 
day of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Light Gold 
Coin, which was presented upon the 13th day of 
this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Friendly 
Societies, which was presented upon the 13th day 
of this instant August, be printed. 


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 Return showing the Number of Objections 
raised and determined in each Court of Revising 
Barristers in England and Wales in 1854, 1855 and 
1856. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this ome as are 
of Her Majesty's Most honourable Privy Council. 


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 Return from the Clerk of the Peace of 
each County in England and Wales of any Resolu- 
tions, Reports, Instructions, Orders or Correspon- 
dence adopted or issued by the Court of Quarter 
Sessions relative to the folding of Inquests by 
Coroners, since the passing of the Act 4 &amp; 5 Will. 
4, c. 76:—Copies of any Orders or Instructions 
relating to Inquests issued to the Constabulary in 
each County of England and Wales, either by the 
Court of Quarter Sessions, or by the Chief Con- 
stable of each such County or part of such County : 
—Return of the Dates of the aatienenes (if any) 
by the Court of Quarter Sessions of each such 
County of any Fees claimed by the Coroner for the 
holding of Inquests, and the Number of such Claims 


15° Auguste. 








A. 1857. Sess. II. 


_ disallowed :—Copy of any Correspondence between 
| (or by order of) the Magistrates of any such County, 
and the Coroner for the County, or part of the 
County, with respect to any such disallowance of 
Fees :—And, like Return from the Cities and Bo- 
roughs of England and Wales. 

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. 


to give directions, tat there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of any Despatches which 
have recently been received from the Governors of 
the Australian Colonies, complaining of the man- 
ner in which the Postal Service has been performed. 
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. 


osed, That this House will, at the rising of the 
ouse this day, adjourn till Monday next :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


Causes Bill, 
(In the Committee.) 

Cuiause, N° 26. Question again proposed, That 
the words “ presented by a naan ” stand part of 
the Clause :—-Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crausg, N° 27 (Court to be satisfied of absence 
of collusion). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 7, 1. 25: To leave out 
the words “ duty of the Court to satisfy itself.” 

Question, That the words “duty of the Court” 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 7, |. 28: 
After the word “ adultery ” to insert the words “ or 
“has by his or her misconduct or wilful neglect 
“ conduced to the saine.” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided. 





Tellers for thef Mr. Bovill, i 
Yeas, Mr. Whitmore ; } oe 
Tellers for the; Mr. Hayter, 93 
Noes, {The Earl of Mulgrave: } . 


Another Amendment proposed, in the same line: 
After the word “adultery” to insert the words 
“and whether there has been any collusion directly 
“ or indirectly between the parties or any of them, 
“and whether the husband and wife were living 
“ separate and apart by consent before the adultery 
“ was committed.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted —— 
put, and negatived. 
Clause 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 Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 15° die Augusti, 1857: 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
ress 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, at Twelve of the clock, again resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


their Clerks, as followeth : ee 
The Lords have agreed to the Municipal Corpo- 
rations Bill, without any Amendment: 








The Bill 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Australian 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Postal Service, 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Adjournment, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Divorce and 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Matrimonial 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 


Municipal 
Corporations 








Taff Vale 
Railway Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Act (1856) 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund (A ppro- 
priation) Bill, 


Militia Bill. 


Court of 
Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Customs and 
Excise Bill, 


Customs Bill. 


Jurisdiction 
in Siam Bill.’ 


Supply. 


Ways and 
Means, 


Trustees 
Relief Bill. 


Charitable 
Trusts Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 





21 VicrorizZ. 14? nn. HP 


The Lords have agreed to the Taff Vale Railway 
Bill, without any Amendment. 


The Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) Amend- 
ment Bill was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





The Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill was, | 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- | 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for this | 
day. 
} 

The Militia Bill was, according to Order, read a | 
second time ; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for this day. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
and the same was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The Customs and Excisé Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Customs Bill was, according to Order, read 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for this day. 


The Jurisdiction in Siam Bill was, according 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 the Com- 
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 Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Trustees Relief Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Charitable Trusts Acts 
Continuance Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Preamble postponed. 

Cuavuse, N° 1 (Exemption continued until 1st 
September 1858). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 2,1. 1: To leave out 
the word “ September” in order to insert the word 
“ June.” 

Question, That the word “September” stand 
part of the Clause——put, and agreed to, 

Clause agreed to. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy 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 this 
day. 

Von. 112, 


August. 407 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Probates and 
into a Committee on the Probates and Letters of — - Ad- 
Administration (Jreland) Bill; and, after some time (Ireland) Pill 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration this day. 


The Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) (No. 2) Parochial 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; Schoolmasters 
7 p (Scotland) 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House. (No, 2) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will immediately re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy 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 this 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Saleof Obscene 
mittee on the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Preven- Books, &amp;c. 
‘ . Prevention 
tion Bill; Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion and Original Question were seve- 
rally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

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- Judgments 

mittee on the Judgments Bill ; Bill. 
Resolved, ‘Vhat this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crowded 
mittee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; pn 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve : 

itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according 
into a Committee on the Mutiny (East India) Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
mient. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


The Militia Pay 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


to Order, resolved itself Mutiny (East 
India) B 


Bill was, according to Order, Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Customs 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Tariffs. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all alterations made in the Cus- 
toms Tariffs of Foreign States, and of their Depen- 
dencies, as well as of the British Possessions, infor- 
mation of which has been received since the last Re- 
turn; giving the Foreign Weights, Measures and 
Monies, as well as the English Equivalents, ap- 
pended to the Description of each Article, the Duty 
upon which has been altered ; and, under the head- 
ing of each State, Dependency or Possessions, the 
Scale according to which the Reduction into such 
English Equivalents is made; giving, further, the 
Dates at which each alteration has been made, the 
Date of its taking effect, and a Reference to the 
Document or Publication in which the official No- 





3H tice 


Beverley 
Election. 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Thirty- 
second Report. 


Charitable 
Trusts Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Mutiny (East 
India) Bill. 


Parochial 
Schoolmasters 
(Scotland) 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Militia Bill, 
Consolidated 
Fund ( Appro- 
priation) Bill, 
Customs and 
Excise Bill, 
Customs Bill, 
and Jurisdic- 
tion in Siam 


Bill. 


Militia Bill. 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill. 


Customs and 
Excise Bill. 


Customs Bill. 
Bill 193. 


408 14°—15° 


tice of such alteration first appeared ; stating also, 
whether or where, in each State, Dependency or 
Possession, any fixed Scale for the Valuation of 
Articles subject to ad valorem Duties is used, and 
the general effect of such use upon the Rate of such 
Duties (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 120, of Session 1857). 

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, having continued to sit | 
till Two of the clock on Saturday morning, | 
adjourned till this day. 





SE as 


Sabbati, 15° die August ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
A PETITION of Edward Auchmuty Glover, 
Esquire, late Member for Beverley, was of- 
fered to be presented; but as the said Petition 
prayed for the revisal of the determination of an 
Election Committee, the same was not received. 


A Public Petition was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The Mutiny (East India) Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) (No. 2) 
Bill was, accordiug to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Orders of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittees on the Militia Bill, the Consolidated Fund 
(Appropriation) Bill, the Customs and Excise Bill, 
the Customs Bill, and the Jurisdiction in Siam 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Bills be committed to the 
same Committee. 








Then the House resolved itself into the Committee; | 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re-| 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy reported, That | 
the Committee had gone through the Militia Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Consolidated Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Customs and Excise Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next, at ‘Twelve of the clock. 

Mr. Fitz Roy also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Customs Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 





A. 1857. Sess. IL. 


mittee be taken into consideration upon Monday 
next, at Twelve of the clock; and be printed. 

Mr. FitzRoy also reported, That the Committee Jurisdiction 
had gone through the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill, and in Siam Bill, 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


A ugusti : 


_ The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Probates and 

into consideration the Probates and Letters of Ad- Letters of Ad. 

re (Ireland) Bill, as amended in the Com- (ireland) Bil 
Ordered, That the Bi!] be read the third time upon 

Monday next, at Twelve of the clock. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crowded 
mittee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; Dwellings Pre. 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Bill. 
posed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair: 
—And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 

withdrawn. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Returns relative Public 
to Public Libraries, which were presented upon the Libraries. 
12th day of May last, and the 12th day of this in- No. 274, 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army, Army. 
which was presented upon the 14th day of this in- No, 275. 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Ord- Ordnance. 
nance, which was presented upon the 1dth day of No. 276. 
this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Lunatic Lunatic Asy- 
Asylums (Ireland), which was presented upon the lums (Ireland.) 
14th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 277. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Chari- Charitable 
table Uses Bill, and the Roman Catholic Charities Uses Bill, and 
Bill, which was communicated from the Lords upon ne — 
the 13th day of this instant August, be printed. Bill. 

No. 278, 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the New Zealand Loan New Zealand 


ars ; : ° Loan Guaran- 
Guarantee Bill, without any Amendment : tee Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Mew Zealand New Zealand 


Company’s Claims. Bill, without any Amendment: pwr Af 


The Lords have agreed to the Mew Zealand New Zealand 


Government Act Amendment Bill, without any yey eee n 


de 
Amendment : a Bill. 


Wycombe 


The Lords have agreed to the Wycombe Railway Relway Bill 


Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made South Eastern 
by this House to the Amendments made by their jin ich 
Lordships to the South Eastern Railway (Greenwich Junction to 
Junction to Dartford, &amp;c.) Bill, without any Amend- Dartford, &amp;.) 
ment: Bill. 

The Lords have agreed to the Bankruptcy and a oy 
Insolvency (reland) Bill, with Amendments ; to ({rejand) Bill. 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House. 


Bankruptcy 
and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) 
Bill be taken into consideration upon Monday next. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 







































































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ORIZ. 1 7? August. 
409 


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LT . 
Ps une, 17° die Augusti ; 
:no 21° Victori : th , : 
— Ti YERS. rie Regine, 1857. a left the Chair 
and Carlisle [E Hous r. Speak . 
= Ingleton tion the SS — Roy reported, T — the Chair; and 
, way Bill, jo Soman Gall _— made by the — arg “ the Bill: eee ste +n hod ens ie. 
i. and the prety sle and Ingleton R + s to| Dat the Committ ap ieones denteienen, 
were twice r ailway Bill ; Resolved. ee may have | ed to move 
Ordered, Th ice read, and ill ;| ,. Aesolved, That thi eave to sit again. 
u. Lord , That the Cl , and agreed to. Six of is House wi “ty. sama 
s; . erk d the cl , e will 
agreed = —— them, = Bill to the Committee ock, again resolve itself = day, at 
Duke of e Amendments made b - House hath o the said 
Bridger th The House proceed y tele Lovdahige. The Consolid 
Estate Bill. e Duk p ed to take i a : idated F 
in th e of Bridgewater’ e into consid - ecording to Ord und (Appropriati 
res yn a a we Etats: See, as wre Resolved That ti ne the —— Bill was, Consolid 
, rdered, ' . e O : he Bil : ated 
. ed, That the Bill be read the thi mi ered, That the yee ga peintiony ay 
ersey Con- Ord e third time and desire thei O carry the Bi on) Bill. 
vervancy and ered, That a Commit ° eir concurrence. ill to the 
Docks Bill. — Journals of the ca be | aa to in- | 7 en Probates and Letters of 
o any Proceedi se of Lords wi ~ | land) Bill EtLeTs O Administrati 
thereof t and Deeks Bat upon the aoag, tien time. was, according to Order ee (Ire-~ Probates and 
pointed to the House :— —— to make a Re oc Resolved, Th , read the third Letters of Ad- 
Ro &lt; Sir James Grah a Committee wa port| Ordered, T at the Bill do pas salteies 
Y, r. Joseph FE: am, Mr. Zow Ss ap- Lo: ? hat the Cl pass. (Ireland) Bi / 
Hi eph Ewa e, Mr. Fi rds, and ; erk d ) Bill. 
eathcote, Sir rt, Mr. Henle » Mr. Latz~ , and desire their o carry the Bi 
—And the Juke Verde Baller ond Sir William| T concurrence. ll tu the ) 
ered, That Three be the — = read the Ss Bill was, accordi / 
Municipal M uorum. esolved, 'T anes ing to Jurisdicti ) 
— of r. Massey presented : Ordered, hat the Bill do pass in Siam Bill. 
=— and several Acts of Parli ’ pursuant to the di . L ? That the Clerk . 
Vales.) counts of Borough saleauh,—-lannn-af te: ee ords; and acquaint ~ do carry the Bill to th 
year from 1st Ger “ in England and W 1 the Ac- agreed to the same wi — that this Hou o the 
Ord t September 1855 ales, for on , without Am se hath 
dered, That the sai &gt; to 31st Aug — * endment ) 
, Table. at the said Return do he a — tak he House, according t oO ; i 
Divorce pon the e into consid . o Order - # 
ro Matrimonial . The House, accordi as amended i on the Customs B= “area to Customs and 
d.) Causes Bill, — a Casesiiins oe ie to Order, resolved i Ordered, That tt oe xcise Bill, Excise Bill. . 
auses Bill. he Divorce and i To-morrow, at Twelve fin read the third ti 
I . e clock. Ime | 
a une . prmcainame per othe Order of the day bei | 
0- mendment. smissa of Petiti nsideration t 1 ay being read : 
| out the words oe some in p. 7, L — Committec ; he Customs Bill, as = — into Customs Bill 
sert the words “ fa leged adultery,” in pi Pn leave Ordered, That the Bi nded in the 
“ Question Mocs g er to in- | on this day. e Bill be taken into consid 
m adultery,” stand part a the words “ all M aaaeel 
Am ealomaine — withdrawn. aay verona ed Keays’ Divorce Bill, with 
d ause, as a : rdered, Th : ? - Keays’ 
n- Ciavse, neee ae agreed to. » That the Bill be read the third ti Divorce Bill. 
i Amendment pro ae matrri Cc Mr. Henry Herbert ime. 
wa the words ** — p. 7, 1. 38: Te le ee oe of | resented, by Her Maj 
— on” ommitted adultery pa a tk Ireland Pore om of the Co coher set mate 
uesti e ; i ? 6, to bi ners (Ireland. 
) FF oa Yon tig Seng i ali ois Exclleney the 
; art as commi ; . ) 
The Commits ivided, Clause ; aan — That the said Paper d ” 
Ss To ' ° er ' 
ag ~ M‘ Mahon, , P 0 lie upon the 
oes, The er, e Clerk of ere laid 
Oitier Imei Oe Earl of Mulgrave: } 78 dated the —— Hlouse—Retorn to = Table Revenue 
) — yi — ; ” = ovemue (Ireland) uly last, for a Sites re — (Ireland. ) f 
: ter the word “ nent proposed, i eturn to an Or ‘ oe 
° liberty to enn be” to insert on + 8, 1 a2] ast for 8 Rates der, dated the 24th da 
cy tioner is f nee such Decre words “ at | Expenditure relative to Publi v of July Public 
a shown to I e where th . be lic Inco ic Income 
L has not been ententl committed adulte — onion aitu — 
F See put, That _ shall it be.” ry which| A Message was deli iture. 
The am nose words be tliere in man —s of the Fag 9 by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- BR 
m oo “i $ ‘O- 
y Tallere for the; Mr. Wa a hs gt saneaminsed 
1. r. Wal Lords, authorized . 
Tellers fer th ow Ton Russell : } 4 penn for pera Wer Ro Her Majesty’s 
N ef Mr. Hayter ‘ : 1. | thei Ace agreed upon b r Royal Assent t 
oes, The E ? ‘ immediate at y both H “ 
Other Amendm e Earl of Mulgrave ‘ } 80 in the Hou attendance of this H ouses, desire 
Motion ents made. : : | read se of Peers. t onourable Hou 
made a d - . » tO hear th se i 
as amended, pond . Question put, That the Cl Accordingly M e Commission it 
The Committe —— ue Clause, | up to the naly Mr. Speaker, with the Hou | 
ellers fo , 7 r. S eers :—A : se, went 
ta nS mg desire a. reported, nang ty returned ; 
Tellers for th e Earl of Mulgrave : aa, | Majesty’s C ords, authorized louse, at the 
Noes “(Me Momsell, ‘ase + eens ti leetey ancl had coon virtue of Her 
Vou. 112, r. De Verei j 21 _ read, stiles duane und tee te of 
ss , declarin ee reat Seal 
ent to the several pe. es the R oval 
3H2 mentioned ; and 
that. 











410 


that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow : 
County Court An Act to supply an Omission in a Schedule to 
Judges (Fal- the Act to amend the Acts relating to County 
coner and ‘4 J 
Yates's Sala- Courts: 
ries) Bill. 


Superannua- 
tion Act 
Amendment 


An Act to repeal the Twenty-seventh Section of the 
Superannuation Act, 1834 : 


Boundaries An Act to make further Provision for defining 
of Land 
(reland) Bil + Treland for public purposes : 
General Board An Act to continue the 
-of Health Con- F{ea|th : 

‘tinuance Bill. 


General Board of 


An Act to regulate the Admission of Attornies 
and Solicitors of Colonial Courts in Her Majesty’s 
Superior Courts of Law and Equity in England, in 
certain cases: 


Illicit Distilla- An Act to continue and amend an Act of the 
tion (Ireland) seventeenth and eighteenth years of Her Majesty’s 
Bill. . =e . . 
reign, chapter Eighty-nine, and also the Laws for 
the Suppression and Prevention of Illicit Distillation 
in Ireland; and to constitute the Constabulary 
Force Officers of Customs for certain purposes : 

An Act to revive and continue an Act to amend 
the Laws relating to Loan Societies : 

An Act to amend the Burial-grounds (Scotland) 
Act, 1855: 


Attornies 
and Solicitors 
(Colonial 
Courts) Bill. 


Loan Societies 
Bill. 


Burial-grounds 
(Scotland) Act 
(1855) Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Summary 
Proceedings 
before Justices 
of the Peace 
Bill. 

Glebe Lands An Act to enable Ecclesiastical Persons in IJre- 
(Ireland) Bill. Jgnd to grant Building Leases of Glebe Lands in 
certain cases : 

An Act to amend the Law relating to Banking 
Companies : 

An Act to regulate the Institution of Suits at the 
Instance of the Crown and the Public Departments 
in the Courts of Scotland : 

An Act to appoint additional Commissioners for 
executing the Acts for granting a Land Tax and 
other Rates and Taxes: 


An Actto improve the Administration of the Law 
so far as respects summary Proceedings before 
Justices of the Peace: 


Banking Bill. 


Crown, &amp;c. 
Suits (Scot- 
land) Bill. 
Land Tax 
Commission- 


ers’ Names 
Bill. 


An Act to make better Provision for the Care 
and Education of vagrant, destitute and disorderly 
Children, and for the Extension of Industrial 
Schools : 

An Act to amend the Acts concerning Municipal 
Corporations in England : 


Industrial 
Schools Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 

An Act to make better Provision for the Punish- 
ment of Frauds committed by Trustees, Bankers 
and other Persons intrusted with Property : 


New Zealand An Act to guarantee a Loan for the Service of 
Loan Guaran- New Zealand: 

tee Bill. 
New Zealand 
Company’s 
Claims Bill. 


Fraudulent 
Trustees, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


An Act for discharging Claims of the New Zea- 
land Company on the Proceeds of Sales of Waste 
Lands in New Zealand : 

An Act to amend the Act for granting a Repre- 


sentative Constitution to the Colony of New Zea- 
land : 


New Zealand 
Government 
Act Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Haslingden 
and Todmor- 
den Roads Bil 


An Act for repairing the Road from Haslingden 
,, to Todmorden and several Branches therefrom, all 
in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for other 
purposes : 

An Act to authorize the Construction of a Rail- 
way from Taunton to the Harbour of Watchet, and 
for other purposes relating to the said Railway and 
Harbour : 

An Act for the Transfer of the Interests of the 
, .. Class A. Shareholders of the Saint Andrew's and 
Canada Rail- ae ’ “ rer ; &gt; 
way and Land Quebec Railroad Company to “The New Bruns- 
Company Bill, wick and Canada Railway and Land Company 
(Limited) :” : 


West Somerset 
Railway Bill. 


New Bruns- 
wick and 


17° August. 


the Boundaries of certain Denominations of Land | 


A. 1857. Sess. I. 


An Act to alter, amend and consolidate the Acts Norfolk 
relating to the Company of Proprietors of the Nor- oeeey Sate 
folk Estuary : - 


An Act to provide for the Conservation of the Thames Con- 
River Thames, and for the Regulation, Management servancy Bill, 
and Improvement thereof: 

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts for Tweed 
the more effectual Preservation and Increase of Fisheries Bill 
Salmon, and the Regulation of the Fisheries in the 
River 7'weed : 

An Act to authorize the Construction of a Rail- British ana 
way from Castle Douglas, in the Stewartry of Kirk- , a ae 
cudbright, to Portpatrick, in the County of Wigtown : Railway Bill, 

An Act to enable the Metropolitan Board of Finsbury Park 
Works to form a Park for the Northern Suburbs of (No. 2) Bill. 
| the Metropolis, to be called Finsbury Park : 

An Act to enable the Sittingbourne and Sheerness sittingbourne 
Railway Company to alter the Line and Levels of and Sheerness 
portions of their authorized Line, and abandon ##ilway Bill 
portions thereof; to construct new Branches and 
other Works ; to authorize Working Arrangements 
| with the East Kent Railway Company; to amend 
“The Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Act, 

1856,” and for other purposes : 

An Act for making a Railway from Herne Bay Herne Bay and 

to Faversham, and for other purposes connected 2 
: ailway Bill. 
therewith : 

An Act for enabling the Taff Vale Railway Com- Taff Vale 
pany to construct new Lines of Railway; to alter, Railway Bill. 
widen and improve portions of their existing Rail- 
way, and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the South Eastern Railway South Eastern 
Company to make or complete a short Line of Rail- ei ich 
way at J'unbridge, and for other purposes : 


unction to 
Dartford, &amp;e.) 
Bill. 





An Act enabling the Newry and Ennishillen Rail- Newry and 
way Company to construct their Railway as far as i 
the City of Armagh; for changing the Name of the . 
Company ; and for consolidating their Acts: 

An Act for abolishing certain Jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court 
Sheriff's Courts of the City of London, and for of the City of 
‘amending the Process, Practice and Mode of . 
| Pleading in the Mayor’s Court, and for extending 
the Jurisdiction thereof: 
| An Act to authorize the Wycombe Railway Com- wycombe 
| pany to extend their Railway to Princes Risborough, Railway Bill 
and to Thame: 

An Act to enable Robert Shepherd, Clerk, to Shepherd's 
| exercise his Office of a Priest, and to hold any eer A 
| Benefice or Preferment in the United Church of 
| England and Ireland : 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of William Baring’s 
Frederick Baring, Esquire, with Emily his now Pivorce ba. 
Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for 
other purposes : 

An Act for naturalizing Maria Cecilia Agatha Giustiniani’s 
Anna Josepha Laurentia Donata Melchiora Bal- Naturalization 
thassara Gaspara Princess Giustiniani, Widow of 
Charles Marquess Bandini in the Roman States, 
and Sigismund Nicholas Venantius Gaietano Francis 
Marquess Bandini, the only Son and Heir apparent 
of the said Princess Giustiniani Marchioness Dow- 
ager Bandini, by the said Charles Marquess Ban- 
dini, her late Husband. 





Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Highways. 
mand,—An Abstract of the General Statements of 
the Receipts and Expenditure on account of the 
Highways of the several Parishes, Townships, &amp;c. 
in England and Wales, for the year ending 25th 
March 1855, pursuant to the Act 12 &amp; 13 Vie. 
c. 35. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- Coroners. 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 29th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Coroners. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Episcopal 
3d day of this instant August, for a Return relative Patronage. 
to Episcopal Patronage. 





Return 








id 


et 


Poor Law 
(Ireland.) 


Dublin Port. 


Municipal 
Boroughs 
(Ireland.) 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill. 


Mersey Con- 
servancy and 
Docks Bill. 


Mersey Con- 
servancy 
and Docks 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 


91 VicToriz. 


Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of June 
last, for a Return relative to Poor Law (Jreland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of June 

ast, for a Return relative to Dublin Port. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Abstract of State- 
ment of Monies received and expended on account 
of certain Boroughs in Jreland. 

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


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee 
appointed to inspect the Journals of the House of 
Lords with relation to any Proceedings upon the 
Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, and to make 
Report thereof to the House; That they had in- 
spected the said Journals accordingly, and found the 
following Entry : 


“ Die Lune, 17° Augusti, 1857: 


“ Ordered, That the further consideration of 
the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill be put 
off to this day three months.” 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for leave 
to bring in the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, 
which was presented upon the 4th day of February, 
in the last Session of Parliament, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, That leave be given 
to bring ina Bill for consolidating the Docks at 
Liverpool and Birkenhead into one Estate, and for 
vesting the Control and Management of them in one 
Public Trust ; and for other purposes ; 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere, 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 leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Sir James Graham and Mr. Joseph Ewart 
do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, That the Standing Orders be suspended 
in the case of the said Bill. 

Sir James Graham accordingly presented the said 
Bill: And the same was read the first time; 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 Select Commitiee to be 
nominated by this House. 

Ordered, That the said Committee do sit and 
proceed upon Wednesday next, at Three of the 
clock. 

Ordered, That any Petitions praying to be heard 
against the said Bill be deposited in the Private 
Bill Office not later than Two of the clock on Wed- 
nesday next. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


second Report. 


East India 
(Education 
Department.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, in 
continuation of the Return ordered by the House on 
the 3d day of August 1857, similar yee to that 
ordered, for each Presidency; distinguishing the 
Cost of each College or other School for advanced 
Instruction, and the Amount received on account of 
Fees or Payments by Scholars for each such College 
or School :—And, Account of all Expenditure made 
under the Head of Education for all Officers other 
than Professors and Schoolmasters, and for all 
Establishments other than Schools or Colleges, and 
of the Number of such Officers, and the Amount of 
their respective Salaries and Allowances, where such 
Salaries, with Allowances, exceed £.30 a year. 

Vou. 112. 


17°— Augusti. 411 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Coalwhippers 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 4c 
communicate to this Honse, a Copy of the Report 
from the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- 
ships on the Coalwhippers Act: And that the Clerk 
do carry the said Message. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Sale of Poi- 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 85, &amp;c. Bill. 
communicate to this House, a Copy of the Report 
from the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- 
ships on the Sale of Poisons, &amp;c. Bill; And that 
the Clerk do carry the said Message. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Public Works. 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Ac- 
counts of the Amounts advanced by the Public 
Works Loan Commissioners, since 1852, to each 
Public Work and Public Body in Great Britain 
and Ireland; distinguishing the Nature of the 
Works, the Amount which has been repaid from 
each Public Work and Public Body, the Amount 
now due, and the Rate of Interest now payable :— 
And, of the Balance due from each Public Work 
and Public Body, where the Amount was advanced 
previous to 18538, the Nature of the Works, and the 
Amount repaid by each Public Work and Public 
Body :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Burial-grounds 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ™!tFopolis.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Metropolitan Parishes, in- 
clusive of. those in the City of London, the Burial- 
grounds of which are closed, or ordered to be closed, 
under the Act 15 &amp; 16 Vie. c. 85; and of the Me- 
tropolitan Parishes, inclusive of those in the City of 
London, which have not provided themselves with 
Parochial Cemeteries, nor appointed Burial Boards, 
with a view to such Provision (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, Nos. 288 and 481, of Session 
1854). 

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. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Courts 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased Mra. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of General Courts Martial held in 
Great Britain since the 1st day of January 1854; 
specifying the Date upon which the Court concluded 
their Sittings, and the Date upon which the Sentence 
was promulgated. 

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 Divorce and 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonia] ™ttimonial 
Causes Bill. 
Causes Bill, 
(In the Committee.) 


Cravuse, N° 30 (Alimony). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 8: To leave out 
the words “ may if it shall think fit,” in order to 
insert the word “ shall.” 

Question, That the words “ may if it shall think 
“ fit’”’ stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed 
to. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, 1. 9: Be- 
fore the word “ that” to insert the words “ or in 
“the case of a divorce obtained on the petition of 
“ the wife may absolutely order.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
inserted :—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 








3H 3 CLAUSE, 





























































412 17°—18° 


Cuause, N° 31 (Penalty and payment of costs). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 8, I. 20: To leave out 
the word “ in,” in order to insert the word “ on.” 

Question proposed, That the word “in” stand 
part of the Clause :—Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

An Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed, in p. 8, |. 23: 
After the word “order” to insert the words “ that 
“ the adulterer be punished by fine and imprison- 
“‘ ment, or by fine or imprisonment.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted —-— 
put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 32 (Custody of children). 

Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause: 
To add the words “ Provided always, that the custody 
“of the children shall be given to the parent pro- 
“‘ moting such suit or proceeding, where the Court 
“ shall be of opinion that the conduct of the parent 
“ has been free from cruelty and criminality.” 

Question, That those words be there added—-— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 


Cxiavse, N° 33 (Questions of fact may be tried 
before the Court). 

Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause : 
To add the words “ Provided always, that unless 
“‘ the Court shall otherwise order, the contested facts 
* shall be tried in the county where the adultery is 
“ alleged to have been committed.” 

Question, That those words be there added—— 
put, and negatived. 

Clause agreed to. 

Curavses, N° 34 to N° 37, agreed to. 

Cravusgs, N°38 and N° 39, amended, and agreed | 
to. 
Cravse, N° 40 (Examination of petitioner). 





Amendment proposed, in p. 10,1. 16: To leave 
out all the words alter the word “ petition ” to the | 
end of the Clause. 

Question, That the words “but no such _peti- 
“tioner” stand part of the Clause——put, and, 
agreed to. 

Clause agreed to. | 

Curausez, N° 41, agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 42 to N° 45, amended, and agreed 
to. 

Ciause, N° 46, agreed to. 

Cxiause, N° 47, amended, and agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 48, agreed to. ; | 

C.ausz, N° 49, amended, and agreed to. 

Crause, N° 50 (Power to make rules and orders 
for procedure). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 12, }. 20: After the | 
word “ expedient” to insert the words “ including | 
“any rules and regulations for enabling the said 
“ Oourt to hear any proceedings under this Act in | 
“ private.” 

Question put, That those words be there in-| 
serted ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for they Mr. Wigram, 

Yeas, \ Lord Lovaine : 

Tellers for the Mr. Hayter, 

Noes, "The Earl of Mulgrave : 

An Amendment made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Crausg, N° 51, agreed to. 

Crause, N® 52, amended, and agreed to. 

Ciavse, N°’ 53 (Liberty to parties to marry 
again). 

Amendment proposed, in p. 13, l. 15: To leave 
out the words “ respective parties thereto,” in order 
to insert the words “ party on whose petition the 
“ marriage shall have been dissolved.” 


| 


23. 


131. 





A.1857. Sess. IT. 


Question put, That the words “ respective parties 
“ thereto” stand part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for they Mr. Hayter, 
Yeas, {The Earl of Mulgrave: 
Tellers for thes Mr. Rolt, 
Noes, Mr. Estcourt : 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


August. 


hh 10. 
50. 





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


Martis, 18° die Augusti, 1857: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
ress 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, at 
Twelve of the clock, again resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Militia Bill, as amended in the 
Committee ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be taken into considera- 
tion this day, at Twelve of the clock. 


Militia Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Trustees 


mittee on the Trustees Relief Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
fortnight, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Relief Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Judgments 


into a Committee on the Judgments Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. FitzRoy reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration upon this day 
three weeks ; and be printed. 


Bill. 
Bill 196. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Bankruptcy 


take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Jre- 
land) Bill; and the same were twice read, and, with 
Amendments to several of them, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


and Insolvency 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crowded 


mittee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker co now leave the 

Nair ; 

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, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof ; 

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

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, withdrawn. 

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 ur Kinnaird, 

Yeas, Mr. Patrick O’ Brien: 

Tellers for thef Mr. Ridley, 

Noes, Mr. John Locke: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Dwellings Pre-- 
vention Bill. 








Customs Bill. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Kelp Manu- 
facture 


(Ireland. ) 


Lord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill. 


Carew’s 
Estate Bill. 


Kelp Manu- 
facture (Ire- 
land) Bill. 


Bill 195. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 


21 Vicroriz. 17°—18° 


And the Question being again proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:—And a De- 
bate arising thereupon; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be now adjourned :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair:—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


({n the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Preamble be postponed. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fiéz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had made Pro- 
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 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to, 
take into consideration the Customs Bill, as amended | 
in the Committee. 

Ordered, That the further Proceeding on the 
consideration of the said Bill be adjourned till this | 
day, at Twelve of the clock. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Petitions presented and. 
— in the five years ending 1857, with the Total | 

umber of Signatures in each year, and the Average 
Number of Public Petitions presented and printed, 
and Signatures :—Abstracts of the Sums paid for| 
Printing, Folding, &amp;c., Reports and Appendixes, | 
and Indexes to Reports and Appendixes, on Public 
Petitions in the year 1857:—And, of the Sums paid 
for Printing, Folding, &amp;c., distinguishing the Cost, 
of Paper, of the Reports and Appendixes, and In- 
dexes to Reports and Appendixes, on Public Peti-' 
tions, for Five years ending 1857, showing the Total | 
and Average Expense (in continuation of Parlia-| 
mentary Paper, No. 451, of Session 1856). | 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to prevent Frauds in the Manufacture of Kelp in! 
Treland: And that Mr. Conolly, Sir Edmund Hayes | 
and Mr. John Wynne do prepare, and bring it in. | 





Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on | 
Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill; That they had examined | 
the allegations contained in the Preamble of the 
Bill, and verbally amended the same; and found 
the same, as amended, to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Ameudments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. | 


Mr. FitzRoy reported Carew’s Estate Bill, with- 
out Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. 


Mr. Conolly presented a Bill to prevent Frauds 
in the Manufacture of Kelp in Zreland: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon this day fortnight ; and to 
be printed. 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, at 
Twelve of the clock, resolve itself into a Committee 


Causes [Stamp to consider of imposing a Stamp Duty on every 


Duties. } 





Person admitted as a Proctor in the Court of 
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes to be established 
by any Act of the present Session relating to Di- 
vorce and Matrimonial Causes, and in the Court 


August. 





VoL. 112. 


413 


of Probate; and also on every person who shall 
practise as a Solicitor or Attorney in the said 
Courts. 


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








Martis, 18 °die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoriz Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 


O RDERED, That Standing Orders 181, 182 Lord Rivers’ 


and 212, be suspended in the case of Lord Estate Bill, 


Rivers’ Estate Bill, and that the Bill be now taken 
into consideration; amended Prints having been 
deposited with the Doorkeepers this day :—The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the Bill into 
consideration. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The Select Committee on the Mersey Conservancy Mersey Con- 
vancy and 
ocks (No. 2) 
Bill. 


Mr. Joseph Ewart and Mr. Kinglake. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Public Public Mories. 


Monies have Power to report their Observations 
thereupon to the House. 

Sir Francis Baring accordingly reported from the 
said Committee; 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. 


er 


and Docks Bill was nominated of Mr. FitzRoy, * 


No. 279. 


A Petition of John Joseph Scully, of Abbey View, Cashel 
Cashel, in the County of Tipperary, Esquire, stating Election. 


that he is one of the Petitioners who presented a 
Petition against the Return for the Borough of 
Cashel; complaining that such Petition, which al- 
leged bribery, was withdrawn without his consent or 
authority, and without any communication having 
been made to him on the subject ; and further stating, 
that general and extensive bribery prevailed at the 
last Election for the said Borough; and praying for 
inquiry, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
second Report. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Divorce and 
a Committee on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Matrimonial 


[Stamp Duties]. 
(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That the same Amount of Stamp 
Duty as is now payable on the admission of a 
Proctor to any Ecclesiastical Court, shall be pay- 
able by every person to be admitted as a Proctor in 
the Court of Divoree and Matrimonial Causes, or 
in the Court of Probate, who shall not have been 
previousiy admitted as a Proctor in the other of 
such Courts, or in an Ecclesiastical or Admiralty 
Court, and have paid the Stamp Duty in respect 
thereof. 

2. Resolved, That every person who shall practise 
as a Proctor or as a Solicitor or Attorney in the said 

3H4 Court 


Causes [Stamp 
Duties. ] 















i ones ~ 





Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Customs Bill. 


Customs and 
Excise Bill. 


Quit Rents 
(Treland. ) 


East India 


(Importations.) for a Return relative to East India (Importations). 


Revenue 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 280. 


414 


Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or the 
said Court of Probate, shall obtain an annual Cer- 
tificate to authorize him so to do under the Stamp 
Duty Acts in the same manner as Proctors practi- 
sing in the Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Courts, and 
Solicitors and Attorneys practising in Her Majesty’s 
Courts at Westminster, are now required to do by 
the said Acts, or any of them. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day, at 
Six of the clock. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cuiavuse, N°53. Amendment proposed, in p. 13, 
ls. 15 and 16: To leave out the words “as if the 
“ prior marriage had been dissolved by death,” in 
order to insert the words “in the office of the Re- 
“ gistrar.” 

Question proposed, That the words “ as if the 
“‘ prior marriage ” stand part of the Clause. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Amendment proposed, at the end of the Clause, 
to add the words “ Provided always, and be it 
“enacted, That no priest or deacon shall be liable 
“ to any suit, penalty or censure for solemnizing or 
‘“* refusing to solemnize the marriage of any person 
*« who shall be divorced by virtue of this Act.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added. 

And it being ten minutes before Four of the 
clock, the Chairman left the Chair. 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
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, at Six 
of the clock, again resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee. 





The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Militia Bill, as amended in 
the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 


morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the further Proceeding on consideration of the 
Customs Bill, as amended in the Committee :—The 
House resumed the said further Proceeding. 


18° Augustz. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Public In- Public Income 
come and Expenditure, which was presented upon and Expen- 


itu) : diture 
the 17th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 281. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Episcopal Episcopal 
Patronage, which was presented upon the 17th day Patronage. 
of this instant August, be printed. No. 282, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Municipal Municipal 
Boroughs (Ireland), which was presented upon the (irelaed.) 
17th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 283, 

Mr. FitzRoy reported the Baroness Windsor’s Baroness 
Estate Bill, without Amendment. Windsor's 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time. state Bill 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, East India 
Copies of any Despatch from the Governor Generali (Liberty of 
of India, stating his Reasons for making the Act, me See.) 
No, 15, 1857, for the restriction of the Liberty of 
the Press, applicable to the European portion of the 
Population, as well as to the Native :—Of the Act, 

No. 15, 1857:—And, of any Memorial, Petition or 
Remonstrance, addressed to the Governor General 
by the European Population in consequence. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Poor Relief. 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 

to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, a Return of the several Particulars specified 

in the following Tabular Form, as respects the 

Unions, Parishes under Boards of Guardians, In- 

corporations and Parishes under Local Acts and 

Gilbert’s Act, together with Parishes under the Act 

of 43 Eliz. c. 2, in England and Wales :— 

| Union, = 

| Population of each Medical Officer’s District. 

| Statute Acres in each Medical Officer’s District. _ 

Name of each Medical Officer, whether of Workhouse or 

of District. 

| Quahtication of each Medical Officer. 




















| If Medical Officer Resident in District. 
| If Medical Officer Non-Resident in District. 





| If Medical Officer Permanently appointed. 





| It Medical Officer Annually appointed. 





| Date of present Appointment. 





“Distance of Nearest Patient, at Date of Return, from 
Medical Officer’s Residence. 





Distance of Farthest Patient, 
Medical Officer’s Residence. 


at Date of Return, from 





| In Door. 





i Out Door. | 
| In Door. 
Out Door, 


Total Number of Paupers Re- 
lieved during Half-year ended 








Total Number of Cases treated 
by Medical Officer, as shown 








by the Workhouse or District 
Medical Relief Book, during 





the Half-year ended 





Out Door. i 








A Clause (Confirmation of certain purchases of 
land in Belfast for erection of a Custom House, | 
&amp;c.), was twice read; and made part of the Bill, | 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day, at Six of the clock. 


The Customs and Excise Bill was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 13th day of May last, fora Return relative 
to Quit Rents (Jreland). 

Return to an Order, dated the 24th day of July last, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Revenue 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 17th day 
of this instant August, be printed, 


Average Duration, in Days, of Sickness in the cases com- 
prised in the preceding Column, as shown by the Work- 
house or District Medical Relief Book. The cases on 
the Permanent List not to be reekoned. 

State whether the Medicines are provided by the Medical 
Officer or by the Union. 





State the Cost of the Medicines where provided by the 
Union, 


pez 





State whether the Medical Officer is precluded from 
taking Private Practice. 

Total Amount paid to Medical Officer for the year ended 
25th March 1857, whether as Salary or as per Case 
Payments. 











Total Amount paid to Medical Officer for the year ended 
25th March 1857, as Extra Medical Fees. 





Total of the last Two Columns, 








| Total Amount of Fees received by Medical Officer for 
the year ended the 25th March 1857, for Lunacy 
Certificates. 


ps Rp ex P's" \P's - 


Total Amount of Vaccination Fees received hy Medical 
Officer during the year ended 25th March 1857. 


p's"x 














or more Unions, state the Names of such Unions. 


Ordered, 








21 VictrortiZ. 


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. 


Adjournment. 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. 


Cathedral - Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 

and Collegiate Return from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 

——— England of every Payment made to them since the 
ist day of June 1856, on account of any suspended 
Stall or Stalls in the Cathedral and Collegiate 
Churches of England and Wales (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 307, of Session 1856). 


Chapters. Ordered, That there be iaid before this House, a 
Return from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
England of the Grants or Reductions allowed by 
them since the 1st day of June 1856, to the several 
Chapters of England and Wales, to pay Substitutes 
for performing additional Duties cast upon them by 
the suspension of Canonries; with the Names of 
the Persons who, as such Substitutes, have received 
such Grants (in continuation of Parliamentary Pa- 
per, No. 312, of Session 1856). 


Colonial Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Government. + Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return showing in which of our Colonies 
the system of Local Parliamentary Government has 
been adopted ; and how far such Colonies maintain 
the Cost of their own Government without assist- 
ance from the Revenues of the Mother Country. 
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. 


Guano. 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 Correspondence with 
the Colonial Office, respecting a Grant made by the 
Crown to raise and take away Guano from the 
Islands of Jibleea, Huskie and Ghwrzoad, on the 
South Coast of Arabia (in continuation of Parlia- 





mentary Paper, No. 82, of Session 2 of 1857). 
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. 
Emigration. 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 any Despatches re- 
lative to Emigration to the Australian Shinaies (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 144, of 
Session 1 of 1857). 
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. P 


Lambeth Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
action. before the Select Committee on the Lambeth Elec- 
tion Petition be laid before this House. 


Redundant 
List (Public 
Dep 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
artments.) Returns of the Number of Persons on the Redun- 
dant List of the Public Departments at the com- 
mencement of the year 1856 :—Of the Number that 
have died or become incapable of Service during the 
year 1856:—Of the Number that have re-entered 
the Public Service during the year:—Of the Num- 
ber that have been added during the year :—And, 
of the Number that remained on the List at the 
close of the year 1856. 


18° Augusti. 415 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Army, Navy 
Detailed Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure and Ordnance. 
for Navy, for Army, including Commissariat, and 
for Ordnance Services, for the year to the 31st day 
of March 1856. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a gury ynion 
Copy of Correspondence between the Poor Law (Workhouse 
Board and the Guardians of the Bury Union, on Cemetery.) 
the subject of a Workhouse Cemetery for that 
Borough. 


The Customs Bill was, according to Order, read Customs Bill. 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. FitzRoy reported from the Committee on pivorce and 
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes [Stamp Duties], Matrimonial 
several Resolutions ; which were read, as follow : ae piemp 
1. That the same Amount of Stamp Duty as is ‘ 
now payable on the admission of a Proctor to any 
Ecclesiastical Court, shall be payable by every per- 
son to be admitted asa Proctor in the Court of 
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or in the Court 
of Probate, who shall not have been previously ad- 
mitted as a Proctor in the other of such Courts, or 
in an Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Court, and have 
paid the Stamp Duty in respect thereof. 

2. That every person who shall practise as a 
Proctor or as a Solicitor or Attorney in the said 
Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or the 
said Court of Probate, shall obtain an annual Cer- 
tificate to authorize him so to do under the Stamp 
Duty Acts in the same manner as Proctors prac- 
tising in the Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Courts, and 
Solicitors and Attorneys practising in Her Ma- 
jesty’s Courts at Wes/minster, are now required to 
do by the said Acts, or any of them. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Divorce and 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. Causes Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cravse, N° 53. Question again proposed, That 
those words be there added. 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment: To leave out all the words after the word 
“no,” in order to add the words “ clergyman in 
“ holy orders, of the United Church of England and 
“ Ireland, shall be compelled to solemnize the mar- 
“riage of any person whose former marriage may 
“ have been dissolved on the ground of his or her 
“ adultery, or shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or 
“ censure for solemnizing, or refusing to solemnize, 
“ the marriage of any such person.” 

Question put, That the words “ priest or deacon” 
stand part of the proposed Amendment ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Warburton, 

Yeas, Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen: } " 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hayter, 1 

Noes, The Earl of Mulgrave: | ies 

Question proposed, That the proposed words be 
added to the proposed Amendment. 

Amendment proposed to the proposed Amend- 
ment: To leave out the words “ whose former mar- 
“ riage may have been dissolved on the ground of 
“ his or her adultery.” 

Question, That the words “ whose former mar- 
“ riage may have been dissolved ” stand part of the 
proposed Amendment—— put, and agreed to. 

Proposed Amendment made. 

Another Amendment proposed at the end of the 
last Amendment: To add the words, “ Provided 
“also, that nothing in this Act contained shalk 
“ enable any person whose marriage shall have been 





Vou 112. 





31 “ dissolved 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Lunatics 
(Scotland) 
Bill. 


416 18°—19° August. A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


“ dissolved on the ground of his or her adultery to | The Lords have agreed to the Burial Acts Amend- Burial Acts 
“ contract marriage with any person with whom he | ment Bill, with Amendments ; to which the Lords Amendment 
“ or she shall by the sentence dissolving the mar- | desire the concurrence of this House : ae 

“riage be found and declared to have committed) The Lords have agreed to the Boundaries of Boundaries 

“ adultery.” | Burghs Extension (Scot/ard) Bill, with Amend- . ene 

Question, That those words be there added—— | ments ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence (Scotland) Bill 
put, and negatived. | of this House: 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. | The Lords have agreed to the Married Women’s Married 

Cravuse, N° 54 (No action for criminal conver-| Reversionary Interest Bill, with Amendments; to ee 
sation). ‘which the Lords desire the concurrence of this Interest Bill 

Question put, That the Clause stand part of the ; House : 

Bill ; The Lords have agreed to the* Scinde Railway Scinde Rail. 
The Coramittee divided. ‘Company Bill, with Amendments; to which the way Company 
Tellers for the{ Mr. Hayter, 78. | Lords desire the concurrence of this House : = 

Yeas, The Earl of Mulgrave: | The Lords have agreed to the Valuation of Lands Valuation of 

Tellers for the/ Mr. Butt, | 4g. | (Scot/and) Bill, with an Amendment; to which the — (Scot- 

Noes, Mr. Ayrton: J ~* | Lords desire the concurrence of this House : and) Bill. 

Crause, N° 55 (Letters patent, records, &amp;c. to; The Lords have agreed to the Eastern Bengal Eastern Ren- 
be transmitted from all Ecclesiastical Courts). ' Railway Company Bill, with an Amendment; to gal Railway 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the ‘which the Lords desire the concurrence of this C°™Psy Bill 
Clause stand part of the Bill. : House : 

Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro- | The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Joint Stock 
posed, That the Chairman do report Progress, and | by this” House to the Amendments made by their Companies 
ask leave to sit again:—Motion, by leave, with- | Lordships to the Joint Stock Companies Bill, with ™ 
drawn. Amendments; to which the Lords desire the con- 

Original Question put, and agreed to. currence of this House: 

Cravse, N° 56, amended, and agreed to. | The Lords return the Dulwich College Bill, with Dulwich 

Twelve Clauses added. ;some of the Amendments made by this House College Bill. 

Clause (From and after the passing of this Act, | agreed to, and others disagreed to, together with the 
the committing of adultery by any person with any | Reasons assigned by the Lords for disagreeing to 
married woman living under the care and protection the said Amendments : 
of her husband, such person knowing the said The Lords do not insist upon tie Amendments Reformatory 
woman to be married, shall be deemed and taken | made by their Lordships to the Reformatory Schools Schools Bill. 
to be a misdemeanor; and such person shall and | Bill, to which this House hath disagreed ; and agree 
may be proceeded against by indictment, and in no | to the Amendments made by this House to the 
other manner, in respect of the same as a misde- | Amendments made by their Lordships, without any 
meanor, and which indictment it shall not be com- | Amendment. 


tent to any person to prefer to a Grand Jury, | ' : : 
canes the hoshend of aa married woman: Pro-| The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Crowded 


vided, That whenever it shall appear to the Court 2 Committee on the Crowded Dwellings Preven- Dwellings Pree 


upon the trial of any person proceeded against in | #0? Bill. (In the Committee.) — 
respect of such misdemeanor under this Act, that | 
by reason of collusion or connivance on the part of | Preamble postponed. 
the husband of such married woman, or other cir-| CuAusz, N° 1 (Short Title of Act). 
cumstances, of which collusion, connivance, and| Amendment proposed, in p. 1, ls.11 and 12: To 
other circumstances, the Court shall be competent | leave out the words “The Crowded Dwellings Pre- 
and is required to receive evidence, no action at |“ vention Act, 1857,” in order to insert the words 
law for damages, or verdict for more than nominal |‘ The Common Lodging-houses Act Amendment 
damages, could be maintained at the suit of such | “ Act, 1857.” 
husband against the person alleged to have com-| Question proposed, That the words proposed to 
mitted adultery with the wife of such husband, such , be left out stand part of the Clause. 
person shall not be liable to be convicted or punished | Whereupon Motion made, and Question put, That 
under or by virtue of this Act: Provided also, That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to 
such offence shall be punishable, at the discretion | sit again ; 
of the Court, by fine and imprisonment, or either of | The Committee _—- ‘ 
them ; and that any such offence, if committed out) Parone for ‘ r. Ayrton, Pa 
of the United Kingdom, may be alleged, laid, , miiainess Tena, Mr. Cox: | hoe 
inquired of, and tried in the county of Middlesex) Tellers for the Noes f Mr. Cowper, a 35. 
——brought up, and read 1°. *UMr. Kinnaird: J 
Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be | Question again proposed, That the words pro- 
read a second time put, and negatived. pused to be left out stand part of the Clause. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. W hereupon Motion made, and Question, That 
etiearoaniseomamiindteins - | the Chairman do-now leave the Chair——put, and 
And the House having continued to sit till after negatived. 
Twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; | Question, That she words proposed to be left out 
Dealt sap dt : z : stand part of the Clause put, and negatived. 
ercurti, 19° die Augusti, 1857: | ‘An Amendment made. 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz-| Clause, as amended, agreed to. 
Roy veported, That the Committee had made Pro-|; To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 
gress inthe Bill; and that he was directed to move, — — 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Grey 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, again | reported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
resolve itself into the said Committee. . the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes-| Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of| next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
their Clerks, as foiloweth: 
The Lords have agreed to the Lunatics (Scotland) Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Lunatics. 
Bill, with Amendments; to which the Lords desire | Lords to the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill be taken into — 
the concurrence of this House : consideration this day. 
Ordered, 


. 




















Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 

Bill 198. 


Boundaries 

of Burghs 
Extension 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Married 
Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 


Scinde Rail- 
way Company 
Bill. 


Valuation of 
Lands (Scot 
Jand) Bill. 


Eastern Ben- 
gal Railway 
Company 
Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies 
Bill. 


Dulwich 
College Bill, 


’ Public 


Petitions 
(Thirty-se- 
cond Report.) 


Eastern Ben- 
gal Railway 
Company Bill. 


Scinde Rail- 
way Compan 
Bill. state 


Baroness 
Windsor’s 
Estate Bill. 


91 Vicroriz. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Burial Acts Amendment Bill be taken 
into consideration this day ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scot- 
land) Bill be taken into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Married Women’s Reversionary In- 
terest Bill be taken into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Scinde Railway Company Bill be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Bill be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Eastern Bengal Railway Company Bill be 
taken into consideration this day. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Amendments made by this House to 
the Amendments made by their Lordships to the 
Joint Stock Companies Bill be taken into conside- 
ration this day. 


Ordered, That the Reasons assigned by the Lords 
for disagreeing to several of the Amendments made 
by this House to the Dulwich College Bill be taken 
juto consideration this day. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of aa hour before Three of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Mercurit, 19° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Forster reported from the Select Com- 
1 mittee on Public Petitions; That they had 
examined the Petitions presented upon the 12th, 
13th, 14th, 15th, 17th and 18th days of this instant 
August; 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, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Eastern Bengal Railway Company 
Bill; and the same was twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Sceinde Railway Company Bill; 
and the same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk co carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amcndments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That Standing Order 212 be suspended 
in the case of the Baroness Windsor’s Estate Bill, 
and that the Bill be read the third time forthwith : 
—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Vou. 112. 


18°—19° August. 








417 

Ordered, That Sianding Order 212 be suspended Duke of 
in the case of the Duke of Bridgewater’s Estate et gl 
Bill, and that the Bill be read the third time forth- ~*~ 
with :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

rdered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and Public 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Petitions. 
=e 
The following Paper, pursuant to Order, was laid Lambeth 
upon the Table by the Clerk of the House,—Minutes Election. 
of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee 
on the Lambeth Election Petition. 
The following Paper was also laid upon the Table Select 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to.an Order, Committees. 
dated the 12th day of this instant August, for a Re- 
turn relative to Select Committees. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sale ofObscene 
into a Committee on the Sale of Obscene Books, Books, &amp;«- 


: ; : 
&amp;c. Prevention Bill. — 


(In the Committee.) Bill 199. 


Preamble postponed. 


Cxiause, N° 1 (Justices may authorize search of 
suspected premises). 

Amendments made. 

Another Amendment proposed, inp. 1,1.9: After 
the word “ oath ” to insert the words “ of two house- 
“holders resident within the jurisdiction of such 


-| ** justice or magistrate.” 


Question, That those words be there inserted -—— 
put, and negatived. 

Other Amendments made. 

Clause, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravsss, N° 2 and N° 3, agreed to. 

A Clause added. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Fitz Roy 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock ; and be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Divorce and 
into a Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial ™atrimonial 
Causes Bill. 

Causes Bill. Bill 
(In the Committee.) ul 197. 

Clause (Application to Judges of Assize, &amp;c.)—— 
brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time put, and negatived. 

Two Clauses added. 

Another Clause (Provided always, That when any 
minister of any church or chapel of the United 
Church of England and Ireland shall refuse to per- 
form such marriage service between any persons 
who but for such refusal would be entitled to have 
the same service performed in such church or cha- 
pel, such minister shall permit any other minister 
in Holy Orders of the said United Church, entitled 
to officiate within the diocese in which such church 
or chapel is situate, to perform such marriage ser- 
vice in such church or chapel)——brought up, and 
read 1°, 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
be read a second time-; 





312 The 


| 
| 
t 
j 
















‘Militia Bill 


Lunatics 
(Scotland) 
Bill, 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Boundaries 
-of Burghs 
Extension 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Married 
Women's 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 


Valuation of 
Lands (Scot- 
dand) Bill. 


418 


The Committee divided. 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hayter, Las 
Yeas, The Earlof Mulgrave: ff ' 

Tellers for the { Lord John Manners, } 
Noes, Sir William Heathcote: 

Clause added. 

Another Clause (On every Petition for a judicial 
separation on the ground of adultery presented by 
a wife, the Court, if it see fit, may direct that the 
person with whom the husband is alleged to have 
committed adultery shall be made a co-respondent) 

brought up, and read 1°. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Clause be 
read a second time put, and negatived. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


J 9°—20° 


33. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Fitz- 
Roy reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended in the Com- 
mittee, be taken into consideration To-morrow, at 
Twelve of the clock ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Militia Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Lunatics (Scot/and) Bill. 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
several were agreed to; one was amended, and 
agreed to; and one was disagreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for dis- 
agreeing to the Amendment to which this House 
hath disagreed :—And a Committee was appointed 
of the Lord Advocate, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. 
Solicitor General, Mr. Baines, Mr. Henley, Sir 
William Heathcote and Mr. Craufurd :—And they 
are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Burial Acts Amendment Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration upon Friday next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Boundaries of Burghs Extension 
(Scotland) Bill. 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
several were agreed to; several were amended, and 
agreed to; and one was disagreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for dis- 
agreeing to the Amendment to which this House 
hath disagreed :—And a Committee was appointed 
of the Lord Advocate, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. 
Solicitor General, Mr. Baines, Mr. Henley, Sir 
William Heathcote and Mr. Craufurd ;—And they 
are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Married Women’s Reversionary 
Interest Bill; and the same were twice read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Amendment made by 


Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


vod Lords to the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) 
ill. 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
(and it appearing that the same relates to the evi- 
dence admissible in certain cases, and does not alter 
or otherwise affect any valuation or assessment), was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Joint Stock 
take into consideration the Amendments made by ee 
the Lords to the Amendments made by this House’ * 
to the Amendments made by their Lordships to the 
Joint Stock Companies Bill; and the same were 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. . 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Dulwich 
consideration the Reasons assigned by the lek College Bill. 
for ns to several of the Amendments made 
by this House to the Dulwich College Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Reasons be taken into con- 
sideration To-morrow. 


Mr. FitzRoy repoited from the Select Com- Mersey Con- 
mittee on the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Docks Co. 2) 
(No. 2) Bill; That they had examined the allega- Bin, " 
tions 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 Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Order, Poor Law 
dated the 17th day of July last, for a Return rela- (Ireland.) 
tive to the Poor Law (Jreland). 

. — That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Coroners, Coroners. 
which was presented upon the 17th day of this in- No, 284, 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
(Importations), which was presented upon the 18th (Importations. ) 
day of this instant August, be printed. No. 285, 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 20° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


C4 REW’S Estate Bill was read the third time ; Carew's _ 

and verbal Amendments were made to the Bill. Estate Bill 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, do 

ass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 

Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 

agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 

this House doth desire the concurrence of their 

Lordships. 


Keays’ 


Keays’ Divorce Bill was read the third time. 
Divorce Bill. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 





Several 








Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
third Report. 


Rating of 
Tencments. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 





2) Vicroriz. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns from the several Parishes or Townships in 
the Counties of Lancashire, Suffolk, Hampshire and 
Gloucestershire, respectively, of the Number of Te- 
nements assessed to the Rate for the Relief of the 
Poor made next before the Rate now collecting ; 
specifying the Amount of such Rate, the Number of 
Assessments rated under £.4 Annual Value, at £. 4 
and under £.5, at £.5 and under £. 6, at £.6 and 
under £.8, at £.8 and under £.10, at £.10 and 
under £.12, at £.12 and under £.15, at £.15 and 
under £.20, at £.20 and above respectively :—Of 
the Number of Tenements assessed at each of these | 
several Values of which the Occupiers have been 
excused (so far as the same can be ascertained) :— 
And, of the Number and Amount of Compositions 
with Owners of Small Tenements. 








The House, according to Order, proceeded to take | 
into consideration the Divorce and Matrimonial | 
Causes Bill, as amended in the Committee. 

A Clause (Application for restitution of conjugal | 


20° Aucuste. 419 


And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill, by adding at the end of Clause 40, the 
words “ but nothing herein contained shall autho- 
“ rize the Court, nor shall the Court have jurisdic- 
“tion or entertain any such suit or proceeding 
“ against any person resident in Scotland or Ireland 
“‘ who had not, at the time of presenting such peti- 
“tion, a fixed residence within the jurisdiction of 
“ the Court.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by adding at the end of Clause 40, the 
words ‘‘ but, unless where specially provided, nothing 
“in this Act shall extend to Scotland or Ireland.” 

And the Question being put, That those words be 
there added :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


rights, &amp;c.), was brought up, and read a first and| The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Sale of Obscene 
second time, and amended ; and made part of the Bill. | into consideration the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Books, &amp;e. 
Another Clause (Judge of Assize, &amp;c.), was twice | Prevention Bill, as amended in the Committee. — 
read; and made part of the Bill. A Clause (That this Act shall not extend to Scot- 
Another Clause (Fees at Quarter Sessions, &amp;c.) | land), was twice read ; and made part of the Bill. 
was twice read ; and made part of the Biil. Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Then Amendments were made to the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
Another Amendment was proposed to be made to | To-morrow. 
the Bill, in Clause 19 E, 1. 29, by inserting before the 
word “any” the words “the husband or.” The Lord Advocate reported from the Committee Lunatics 
And the Question being proposed, That those | appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the (Scotland) 
words be there inserted: ——The said proposed | Lords for disagreeing to one of the Amendments 


Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 19 E, |. 29, by inserting after the 
word “if” the words “ the husband, in violation of 
“ any such order, shall possess himself of any such 
“ earnings cr property of the wife, he shall, on con- 
“ viction thereof by a Magistrate or Justices, be 
“ committed to prison for a period not exceeding 
“ two calendar months, unless he shall restore the 
“ same or pay the full value thereof to the wife, and 
“ all costs and expenses incurred by her, or if.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:— The said proposed 
Amendment was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

Then another Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 19 E, 1. 38, by inserting after the 
word “ contracts ” the words “and wrongs and in- 
“ juries.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, in Clause 25, 1. 19, by inserting after 
the word “ upwards” the words “ or of adultery 
“committed within two years after she has ob- 
“tained a decree for the restitution of conjugal 
“ rights, if coupled with such continued or renewed 
“denial of such rights as entitles her either to 
“take further proceedings in pursuance of such 
“ decree, or to maintain a fresh suit for restitution 
“ of such rights.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :— It passed in the Negative. 

Then another f tated mn was made to the Bill. 


Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill, by adding at the end of Clause 30, the 
words “and the Court may also, if it shall think 
“fit, order alimony to be paid to the wife pen- 
“* dente lite.” 

Vot, 112. 





made by their Lordships to the Lunatics (Scotland) 
Bill; That they had drawn up a Reason accord- 
ingly, which they had directed him to report to the 
House: And the same was read, as followeth : 

The Commons disagree to the Amendment in 
p. 32, 1. 16, for the following Reason: 

Because the Amendment extends the boun- 
dary within which assessments may be levied 
for the maintenance of Pauper Lunatics. 

The Commons do not deem }t necessary to offer 
any further Reason, hoping the above may be con- 
sidered sufficient. 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
communicate the said Reason (with the Bill, and 
Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry the 
same. 


The Lord Advocate reported from the Committee Boundaries 
appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the ° 


Lords for disagreeing to one of the Amendments 
made by their Lordships to the Boundaries of 
Burghs Extension (Scotland) Bill; That they had 
drawn up a Reason accordingly, which they had di- 
rected him to report to the House: And the same 
was read, as followeth : 

The Commons disagree to the Amendment in 
p. 4, 1. 25, for the fullowiug Reason: 

Because the Commons consider it is inex- 
pedient to exclude the Sheriff Substitute. 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to communicate the said Reason (with the Bill and 
Amendments): And that the Clerk do carry the 
same, 


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Trade and 
mand,—Accounts relative to Trade and Navigation Navigation. 


for the Month ended 31st July 1857, and Seven 
Months ended 31st July 1857. 
313 Ordered, 


EE LE SN NE SN ED ONE ARTA OE RE RNIN 








Revising 
Barristers. 


Assistant 
Commission- 
ers, &amp;c. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests 
(Cardiff. ) 


Dubois against 


Wyse. 


Friendly 
Societies 
(Ireland.) 


Poor Law 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 288. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


420 


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


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address 
to Her Majesty, dated the 2d day of March, in the 
last Session of Parliament, for a Return of the Re- 

orts of the Chief Justices of the Court of Common 
Pleas, pursuant to statute 6 Vie. c. 18, to the House 
of Commons; stating the point of appeal from the 
Courts of the Revising Barristers, and decision of 
the Court of Common Pleas on each such point, 
classifying the cases according to their subject- 
matter (in continuation of the Returns already 


delivered, of which the latest was by the late Chief | 


Justice Wilde (Lord Truro) on the 22d day of June 
1849.) 

Further Return to an Address to Her Majesty, 
dated the 25th day of June last, fora Return relative 
to Assistant Commissioners, &amp;c. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 
8th day of July last, for a Return relative to Coro- 
ners’ Inquests (Cardiff). 

Return to an Order, dated the 13th day of this 
instant August, for a Return relative to Dubois 
against Wyse. 

Mr. Massey also presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,-—Report of Pro- 
ceedings of Registrar of Friendly Societies in Ire- 
land, for the years 1855 and 1856. 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to Poor Law 
(Ireland), which was presented upon the 19th day 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 


20° August. 


A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Privileges, to whom the Petition of Charles Baron 
Headley, Baron Allunson and Winn, claiming a right 
to vote at the Election of Representative Peers for 
Ireland, stands referred : 

The Lords request, that this House will be 

leased to give leave to I’rederick Winn Knight, 
‘squire, a Member of this House, to attend their 
Lordships, to be sworn, in order to his being exa- 
mined as a Witness before the Committee for Pri- 
vileges, to whom the Petition of Charles Baron 
Headley, Baron Allanson and Winn, claiming a right 
to vote at the Election of Representative Peers for 
| Ireland, stands referred : 
And Mr. Henry Herbert and Mr. Knight, being 
|present in their places, declared that they were 
_ willing, with leave of the House, to go to the House 
| of Lords, as desired by their Lordships. 

Resolved, That the Right honourable Henry 
| Herbert and Frederick Winn Knight, Esquire, have 
leave to go to the House of Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships, if they think fit. - 

Ordered, ‘Tlat a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint them that this House hath given leave 
to the Right honourable Henry Herbert and Frede- 
rick Winn Knight, Esquire, to go to the House of 
Lords, as desired by their Lordships, if they think 
fit: And that the Clerk do carry the said Message. 





| the third time. :' 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 





The Militia Bill was, according to Order, read Militia Bill. 


their Clerks, as followeth: | The House, according to Order, proceeded to Dulwich 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made | take into consideration the Reasons assigned by the College Bill. 
by this House to Lord Rivers’ Estate Bill, without | Lords for disagreeing to several of the Amendments 
any Amendment : |made by this House to the Dulwich College Bill; 
The Lords return the Probates and Letters of | and the same were again read. 
Administration Bill, with some of the Amendme:ts| Jtesulved, That this House doth insist on its 
made by the Commons agreed to, some agreed to; Amendment in p. 2, |. 18: ‘To leave out the word 
with Amendments, and some disagreed to; together |“ fifteen’’ and insert the word “ sixteen,” but doth 
with the Lords’ Reasons for disagreeing to the said | propose to insert the word “nineteen” instead of 
Amendments : ‘the word “sixteen” previously inserted ; and doth 
The Lords communicate a Copy of the Report insist on its Amendments in p. 2, Is. 21 and 26; 
from the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- | and doth not insist on the other of the said Amend- 
ships to inquire into the operation of the Coalwhip- | ments to which the Lords have disagreed. 
pers Act, 14th &amp; 15th Vietoria, and into the state} Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
of the ‘Trade of Coalwhipper since the expiration up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for insisting 


Tord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 


Bill. 


Coalwhippers 
Act. 


Sale of 
Poisons, &amp;c. 
Bill. 


Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Commitice for 
Privileges. 


of said Act (as desired by this House): 

The Lords communicate a Copy of the Report 
from the Select Committee app:inted by their Lord- 
ships to consider the Sale of Poisons, &amp;e. Bill (as 
desired by this House) : 

The Lords acquaint this House, That upon the 
Report of the Amendments made by the Committee 
of the whole House to the Burial Acts Amendment 
Bill, an Amendment was made by leaving out the 
ninth Clause, but by mistake the said Clause has 
not been marked as struck out from the said Bill; 
aud do request that the Commons will give leave 
that the said Bill may be amended accordingly by 
the proper Officer of their Lordships’ House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to the proper Officer 
of the House of Lords to make the Amendment in 
the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, as desired by 
their Lordships. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth: 

The Lords request, that this House will be 
pleased to give leave to the Right honourable Henry 
Arthur Herbert, a Member of this House, to attend 
their Lordships, to be sworn, in order to his being 
examined as a Witness before the Committee for 


pou several of the said Amendments to which the 
| Lords have disagreed :—And a Committee was ap- 
pointed of Mr. Baines, Mr. Taverner Miller, Mr. 
William Williams, Mr. Cox and Sir John Ramsden: 
—And they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


mittee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
month, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, Railway 
Copy of Reperts of the Inspecting Officers of the Accidents. 


Ses 
Railway Department to the Lords of the Committee 
of Privy Council for Trade, upon certain Accidents 
which have cccurred on Ra‘lways curing the months 
of April, May, June, July and Angust 1857 :— 
(Part ITI.) 


Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, 
of the Proceedings of the Department relating to 
Railways, for the year 1856. 


veyed on all the Railways in England and Wales, 
Scotland and Ireland respectively, during the half- 
year ended 30th June 1857, distinguished in different 

Classes, 








The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Crowded 


Copy of Report to the Lords of the Committee of Railways. 


Return showing the Number of Passengers con- Railways. 








21 VicrortZ. 20°—21° 


Classes, and the Receipts from each Class of Pas- 
sengers and from Goods, &amp;c.; the Aggregate Num- 
ber of Miles travelled by each Class of Passengers ; 
the Number of Passenger Trains and of Goods 
Trains respectively ; the Number of Miles travelled 
by such Trains, and the Length of Railway open at 
the Commencement and at the Termination of the 
half-year ; compiled from Returns made in pursu- 
ance of the Provisions of the Act 3 &amp; 4 Vic. c. 97 ; 
together with a Summary comparing the Traffic with 
that in the corresponding Period in 1856. 
Railways. Mr. Lowe also presented,—Return to an Order, 
No. 292. dated the 18th day of June last, for a Return re- 
lative to Railways. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the last be printed. 


Markets and Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Fairs (Ireland.) £7 the Regulation of Markets and Fairs in Zreland : 
And that Mr. Henry Herbert and Mr. Attorney 
General for Jreland do prepare, and bring it in. 


Australian — Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Postal Service. 1 Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of any Contract entered into with 
the European and Columbian Steam Company, or 
the European and Australian Royal Mail Company, 
in pursuance of a Tender bearing date the 11th day 
of June 1856, and signed by John Orr Ewing, for 
conveying the Australian Mails from England to 
Melbourne vid Southampton, Alexandria and Suez: 
—Returns setting forth the Number of Days occu- 
pied in each Voyage Out and Home, separating the 
portions of the Route between Southampton and 
Alexandria from that between Suez and Melbourne ; 
also, a List of Penalties incurred by reason of Non- 
arrival according to Contract, and the Amount (if 
any) already levied or deducted from the Con- 
tractors’ Remuneration :—Of the Names, Tonnage 
and Horse-power of all Vessels employed by virtue 
of said Contract in the Australian Postal Service :— 
And, Copies of all Communications between the 
Treasury, the Directors of the European and Austra- 
lian Royal Mail Company, and of the Royal Mail 
Steam Packet Company, with the view of amalga- 
mating said Companies, to enable them to continue 
the Mail Service to Australia and the West Indies 
as one Company, and the Terms proposed by the 
Government or the said united Company for per- 
formance of the Postal Services now performed by 
those Companies separately. 
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. 


Dulwich — Mr. Baines reported from the Committee ap- 
College Bill. ointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the 
Sool for insisting on certain of the Amendments 
made by this House to the Dulwich College Bill, 
: to which the Lords have disagreed ; That they had 
drawn up Reasons accordingly, which they had 
directed him to report to the House :—And the 

same were read, as follow: 
The Commons insist upon their Amendments, for 

the following Reasons : 

Because the four Parishes chiefly interested 
in this Bill have expressed, by Petition and 
otherwise, the strongest wish that each of them 
may have two elective members instead of one 
in the governing body of the College, and have 
given their support to the Bill throughout, with 
that as an object of first-rate importance in 
their estimation. 

Because, according to the will of the founder, 
as shown by his Statutes, a large share in the 
management and government of the College 
was intended to be given by him to the repre- 
sentatives of the parishes under the name of 
“ Assistants,” and the Commons deem it just 

Vou, 112, 








Augustt. 421 


to give effect to that principle to the extent 
specified in their Amendments. 
The said Reasons, being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 
| Ordered, That the said Reasons be communicated 
to the Lords (with the Bill and Amendments): And 
that the Clerk do carry the same. 


the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon this day fortnight ; and to 
be printed. 


for disagreeing to several of the Amendments made 


ministration Bill be taken into consideration To- 
morrow. 


before the Select Committee on the Dublin City 
Election Petition, which were presented upon the 
10th day of this instant August, be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Veneris, 21° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


S EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all Burial grounds (distinguish- 
ing Consecrated from Unconsecrated) which still 


January 1857, within the Limits of the Burials 
within the Metropolis Act; their Extent in Area ; 
the Number of Interments which have taken place 
in each during the year 1856, specifying the Num- 
ber which have taken place ineach Month; and the 
date of closure of such as are under any Order for 
immediate or future closure (in continuation of Par- 
liamentary Paper, No. 239, of Session 1855). 
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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 


Bank of England, as published Weekly in the Ga- 
zette, according to the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 32 (in con- 
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of Ses- 
sion 1856) :—Returns of the Quarterly Averages of 
the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of 
England (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, 
No. 410, of Session 1856; from the latest Dates 

iven therein to the present time):—Of the 
Monthly Average Aggregate Amount of Promis- 
sory Notes payable to Bearer on Demand, in cir- 
culation in the United Kingdom; distinguishing 
those circulated by the Banks of England and Jre- 
land, and by Private and Joint Stock Banks in 
England, Scotland and Ireland ; together with the 
Bullion in the Bank of England (in continuation of 
Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of Session 1856, up 
to the present time):—Of the Minimum Rate of 
Interest at the Bank of England on the 1st of each 
Month in the years 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 
and first Six Months of 1857:—Of the general 
Weekly Average Prices of Wheat, Barley, Oats, 
Rye, Beans and Peas per Quarter (in continuation 
of Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of Session 1856) : 
—And, of the Quantities of Wheat and Wheat Flour, 
314+ and 





remained open for Interments on the ist day of 


Mr. Henry Herbert presented a Bill for the Re- Markets and 
gulation of Markets and Fairs in Jreland: And Fairs (Ireland) 


Bill 200. 


Ordered, That the Reasons assigned by the Lords Probates and 
Letters of 


by this House to the Probates and Letters of Ad- a 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken _ City 
ection. 


No, 293. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Vide Thirty- 
third Report. 


Rank of 


Account of the Notes, Securities, Bullion, &amp;c. of the E»glaad, &amp;c. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Burial-grounds 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased (Metropolis) 























































































Gold 
( Australia.) 


Australian 
Mail Contract. 


Poor Relief. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Carew’s 
Estate Bill. 


Duke of 
Bridgewater's 
Estate Bill. 


429 


and of all other kinds of Grain and Meal, stated in 
Quarters, imported into Great Britain during each 
Month of 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and first Six 
Months of 1857; distinguishing each kind sepa- 
rately, and whether imported from Ireland, the 
Colonies or Foreign Parts ; giving the Monthly Ave- 
rages thereof, also the Average Price and Totals for 
each year, and for the first Six Months of 1857 (in 
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of 
Session 1856). 


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 Return, as complete as can be furnished, of 
the Quantity of Gold exported from the several 
Ports in Australia during the year 1856, and speci- 
fying to what Countries such Exports have been 
made (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 
393, of Session 1856). 

Ordered, That the said Address be ecnageeny to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council. 


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 of all Correspondence between Her 
Majesty’s Government and the Peninsular and 
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, relative to the 
Australian Mail Contract previous to and connected 
with the abandonment of that Service by the said 
Company :— Of all Correspondence between the 
Government and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam 
Navigation Company relating to the performance of 
the Mail Service with China since March 1852 :— 
Of the Correspondence that took place respecting 
the performance of the Contract Mail Service by 
that Company in the years 1849 and 1850 :—Of 
all Contracts, and Prolongation of all Contracts, 
entered into by the Peninsular and Oriental Com- 
pany with Her Majesty's Government, as well as 
whether there were competing Contracts :— And, 
what Number of Fines had been incurred by the 
Peninsular and Oriental Company for Breach of 
Contract ; and also what Amount of Fines (if any 
had been incurred) have been enforced. 

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. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Total Number of Women and Chil- 
dren who were chargeable to any Poor Law Union, 


21° August. 





A. 1857. Sess. IT. 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Bankruptcy 
by this House to the Amendments made by their (ireland) Ba” 
Lordships to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ire- 

land) Bill, without any Amendment : 

The Lords have agreed to the Ecclesiastical Com- Ecclesiastical 
mission, &amp;c., Bill, with Amendments ; to which the oe 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House. ses) 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Burial Acts 
into consideration the Amendments made by the crc 
Lords to the Burial Acts Amendment Bill; and the” ” 
same were twice read, and, with Amendments to 
several of them, agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk 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 this sme doth desire 
the concurrence of their Lordships. 


The Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. Prevention Bill sale ofobscene 
was, according to Order, read the third time. Books, &amp;c. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, — 
do pass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the’ 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Probates and 
take into consideration the Reasons assigned by the Letters of Ad- 
Lords for disagreeing to several of the Amendments — 
made by this ous to the Probates and Letters of 
Administration Bill ; and the same were again read. 

Resolved, That this House doth not insist on 
their Amendments, to which the Lords have dis- 
agreed; and agree to the Amendments made by 
the Lords to the Amendments made by this House 
to the said Bill, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and acquaint them, that this House doth not 
insist on their Amendments, to which the Lords 
have disagreed ; and agree to the Amendments made 
by the Lords to the Amendments made by this 
House to the said Bill, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the geclesiastical 
Lords to the Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c. Bill be Commission, 
taken into consideration forthwith :—The House ** Bill. 
accordingly proceeded to take the said Amendments 
into consideration ; and the same were twice read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 





Incorporation or Parish not in Union in England 
or Wales, during the year ending the 31st day of 
December 1856, in consequence of the persons by 
whom they were usuaily maintained or supported 
being confined in Gaol for any Offence against the 
Gaine Laws; and the Total Cost incurred by such 
Poor Law Union, Incorporation, or Parish not in 
Union, for the Maintenance of such persons either 
in Out-door or In-door Relief. 


The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, do 

ass. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which this 
House doth desire the concurrence of their Lordships. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to Carew’s Estate Bill, without any 
Amendment: 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Duke of Bridgewater's Estate 
Bill, without any Amendment : 


Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Lambeth 
before the Select Committee on the Lambeth Election Election. 
Petition, which were presented upon the 19th day No. 287. 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Warming and 
Copy of Report to the General Board of Health by Ventilation of 
the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Dwellings. 
Warming and Ventilation of Dwellings. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court Court of Chan- 
of Chancery (Jreland), which was presented upon ©rY (Ireland. ) 
the 14th day of July last, be printed. No. 289. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Court of Chan- 
Copies of any Correspondence between the Lord °?Y (Ireland.) 
Chancellor of Jreland, the Masters of the Court, 
and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, re- 
lative to the filling up of the vacancy in the Office 
of Master occasioned by the death of Master Henn. 


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


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Cashel 
this day received a Report from the Examiner of Election. 
Recognizances, stating that a Recognizance, with an 





Affidavit 














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21 Vicrorizm. 


Affidavit thereunto annexed, has been entered into 
before him this day, in the matter of the Petition 
of John Joseph Scully, presented on the 18th in- 
stant, complaining that general and extensive bribery 
prevailed at the last Election for that Borough. 


Public The following Papers were laid upon the Table by 
Petitions. the Clerk of the yaya ores to an Order, 
dated the 17th day of this instant August, for a 
Return relative to Public Petitions. 
Assessment Return to an Order, dated the 31st day of July last, 
of Sugar. for a Return relative to the Assessment of Sugar. 
No. 290. 
Spirits. Return to an Order, dated the 11th day of this 
No. 291. instant August, for a Return relative to Spirits. 
Omnibuses Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of this 
(Metropolis.) instant August, for a Return relative to Omnibuses 
No. 301, 224 Cabs (Metropolis). 
Redundant Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this 


List (Public instant August, for a Return relative to the Redun- 
Departments.) dant List (Public Departments). 
Army, Navy _ Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this 
and Ordnance. instant August, for a Return relative to Army, Navy 
and Ordnance. 
Ordered, That the Returns relative to Assessment 
of Sugar, Spirits, and Omnibuses and Cabs (Me- 
tropolis), be printed. , 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Coal- 
whippers Act, which was communicated from the 
No. 286. Lords upon the 20th day of this instant August, be 
printed. 


Sale of Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Sale of 
— &amp;c. Poisons, &amp;c. Bill, which was communicated from 
= the Lords upon the 20th day of this instant August, 


Coalw hippers 
Act. 





No. 294. be printed. 
And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 
Lune, 24° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victoria Regine, 1857. 
PRAYERS. 

Public EVERAL Public Petitions were presented, 
sueaiione. and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vide Thirty- 
third Report. 
East India Mr. Vernon Smith sen by Her Majesty’s 
(Mutinies.) Command,—Further Papers relative to the Mu- 


tinies in the East Indies. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 


Message from 


the Lords. = sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 
Consolidated The Lords have agreed to the Consolidated Fund 


Fund (Appro- (Appropriation) Bill, without any Amendment : 


priation) Bill. 
Dunbar Har- The Lords have agreed to the Dunbar Harbour 


bour Loan Bill. 7 oan Bill, without any Amendment : 
Metropolitan © The Lords have agreed to the Metropolitan Police 


my Pag Bill, Stations, &amp;c. Bill, without any Amendment : 


-_ Pay The Lords have agreed to the Militia Pay Bill, 
without any Amendment : 

Revising The Lords have agreed to the Revising Barristers 

(Dublin) Bill (Dublin) Bill, without any Amendment : 

Mutiny (East The Lords have agreed to the Mutiny (East 

India) Bill.  Jndia) Bill, without any Amendment : 

Parochial The Lords have — to the Parochial School- 

ee masters (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill, without any Amend- 

(No.2) Bil ment: 


Customsand The Lords have agreed to the Customs and 


Excise Bill. Excise Bill, without any Amendment : 
Customs Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Customs Bill, 
without any Amendment : 
Vou. 112. 


21°—24° Augusti. 











423 


The Lords have agreed to the Pimlico Improve- Pimlico Im- 
ments Bill, without any Amendment : ee 


The Lords have agreed to the Mersey Conser- Mersey Con- 
vancy and Docks (No. 2) Bill, without any Amend- servancy and 


ment : — (No. 2) 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Police ¢Scot- 


by this House to the Police (Scotland) Bill, without land) Bill. 
4 Amendment: . 

he Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Smoke Nui- 
by this House to the Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) sance (Scot- 


Abatement Bill, without any Amendment : —— — 


The Lords have agreed to the Joint Stock Com- Joint Stock 
panies Act (1856) Amendment Bill, with Amend- Companies 


ments ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence ——. 
of this House : Bill. 


The Lords have agreed to the Probates and Probates and 
Letters of Administration (Zre/and) Bill, with an Fee dl 
Amendment; to which the Lords desire the con- tion (Ireland) 

Bill. 


currence of this House: 


The Lords do agree to the Amendments made by Boundaries 
this House to the Amendments made by the Lords of Burghs 
to the Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill. 
Bill, and do not insist on their Amendment to the 
Bill to which this House has disagreed : 

The Lords do agree to the Amendment made by Lunatics 
this House to the Amendments made by the Lords (Scotland) Bill. 
to the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill, and do not insist on 
their Amendment to the Bill to which this House 
has disagreed : 

The Lords have agreed to the Address of this Galway Town 
House to Her Majesty on the subject of the Galway Elections. 
Town Elections, communicated to their Lordships 
at a Conference on the 3d day of this instant August, 
and have filled up the blank in the said Address 
with the words “ Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and ”: 

The Lords acquaint this House, That Her Ma- 
jesty had appointed Tuesday next (To-morrow), at 
Tortiee o’clock, at Osborne, to be attended with the 
Address of both Houses of Parliament, under the 
provisions of the Act 15 &amp; 16 Vic. c. 57, with respect 
to the Town of Galway; and that the Lords had 
appointed the Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms, 
and the Captain of the Yeomen of the Queen’s 
Guard, to attend Her Majesty therewith on the 
part of their Lordships ; and do desire this House to 
appoint a proportionable number of its Members to 
go with them. 

Resolved, That Four Members of this House do 
go with the Lords mentioned in the said Message, 
to wait upon Her Majesty with the said Address. 

Ordered, That Sir George Grey, Mr. Baines, 

Viscount Castlerosse and.Lord Ernest Bruce do 
go with the Lords mentioned in the said Message. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords 
to acquaint them therewith: And that the Clerk do 
carry the said Message. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Copy of a Despatch from the Court of Directors of (Ne Seathale) 
the East India Company to the Governor General No, 995, 
of India, in Council, dated the 22d day of July 
1857, No. 97, respecting the Education of the 
Sonthals. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. , 

brdered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a fast India 
Selection of Papers showing the Measures taken (Cotton.) 
since 1847 to promote the Cultivation of Cotton in No. 296. 
India. 

Mr. Seymour accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

Dudevedl, That the said Paper do lie upon th 
Table ; and be printed. : 

3K + Ordered, 














Ports and 
Harbours 
(Ireland. ) 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland. ) 


National 
Education 
(Ireland.) 


No. 297. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(ireland ) Bill. 


Joint Stock 


Companies Act 
(1856) Amend- 


ment Bill. 


Military Sa- 
vings Banks. 


No. 298. 


424 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Commissioners appointed 
under Acts of Parliament for improving and con- 
serving Ports and Harbours in Jreland, except 
the Port of Dublin; the several Salaries annually 
_— to the Secretaries, Engineers, Harbour 

asters, and other Officers of such Commissioners 
respectively; the Name, Occupation, Trade or 
Profession of each Commissioner; the Number of 
Commissioners in each case subject to re-election 
who annually retire; the Name, Secaustion, Trade 
or Profession of each Commissioner who, by death 
or otherwise, has ceased to hold his Office within 
the last Three years; with the Names of the Candi- 
dates, their Occupation, Trade or Profession, who 
offered themselves as Candidates for such vacancies, 
although not elected. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Aldermen and Town 
Councillors (City of Dublin excepted) of each.Cor- 
— or Municipal Body in Ireland, the several 

alaries annually payable to the Mayors or other 
Civic Magistrates, Town Cleiks, Treasurers and 
other Corporate or Municipal Officers, with the 
Name, Occupation, Trade or Profession of each 
Alderman and Town Councillor; the Number of 
each who retire annually, subject to re-election ; the 
Name of each Alderman and Town Councillor who, 
by death or otherwise, has ceased, within the last 
Three years, to be a Member of each Corporate or 
Municipal Body, with their Occupation, Trade or 
Profession; the Names of the Members who im- 
mediately succeeded them; with the Names, Occu- 
pation, Trade or Profession of those persons who 
offered themselves as Candidates for the Offices of 
Aldermen or Town Councillors, although not 
elected. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of Correspondence between the Commis- 
sioners of National Education in Jreland, and the 
Reverend J. W. M‘Gawley, relative to his resigna- 
tion of the situation of Professor in the Training 
Department of the National Board. 

Mr. Henry Herbert accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

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


Ordered, That the Amendment made by the Lords 
to the Probates and Letters of Administration (Jre- 
land) Bill be taken into consideration forthwith :— 
The House accordingly proceeded to take the said 
Amendment into consideration; and the same was 
twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) 
Amendment Bill be taken into consideration forth- 
with:—The House accordingly proceeded to take 
the said Amendments into consideration; and the 
same were twice read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Sir George Grey presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Account of the Amount due by the 
Public to Depositors in Military Savings Banks on 
the 31st March 1854, and of the Receipts, Interest 
and Disbursements on the said Military Savings 
Banks during the year then next ensuing, ending on 
the 31st March 1855, together with the Number of 
Depositors therein on the said 31st March 1855; 
also, an Account of the Sums paid over or now 





24° Augusti. 











A. 1857. Sess. II. 


about to be paid over by the Secretary of State for 
War to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the 
National Debt for Investment in Bank Annuities on 
account of the Fund fur Military Savings Banks, 
and of the Dividends reported to the Secretary of 
State for War by the said Commissioners to je 
been received thereon, and invested in further aid of 
the Fund for Military Savings Banks (pursuant to 
Acts 5 &amp; 6 Vic. c. 71, and 8 &amp; 9 Vic. c. 27). 

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


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Redun- Redundant 
dant List (Public Departments), which was pre- List (Public 


sented upon the 21st day of this instant August, be a” 
printed. . 299, 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Army, Army, Navy 
Navy and Ordnance, which was presented upon 294 Ordnance, 
the 21st day of this instant August, be printed. No. 300. 


Mr. Massey presented, by Her Majesty’s Com- Marriages 
mand,—Copy of Seventh Report of the Registrar (Ireland.) 
General of Marriages in Zreland, under the Provi- 
sions of the Act 7 &amp; 8 Vic. c. 81. 

Mr. Massey also presented,—Return to an Ad- Local Boards 
dress to Her Majesty, dated the 20th day of June of Health. 
1856, for a Return from all Local Boards of Health 
acting under the Public Health Act, 1848, showing 
the following Particulars : 

The Date of the Constitution of such Local 

Boards of Health ; 

The Population of the respective Districts of 

such Local Boards of Health, according to the 

Census of 1851, so far as can be ascertained ; 

The Amount of Money, if any, borrowed or 
otherwise raised on the Security of the several 

Rates or Revenues levied or received under the 

Authority of 

The Powers transferred to such Local 
Boards ; 

The Public Health Act, 1848, with the 
consent of the General Board of Health ; 

Acts of Parliament subsequently obtained 
by such Local Boards, with Dates of such 
Acts respectively ; 

The Amounts of outlay incurred, or now esti- 

mated to be incurred, in effecting and completing 

the several purposes in respect of which any such 

Monies shall have been borrowed or otherwise 

raised ; 

The Total Assessable Value of the Property 
upon which the several Rates are levied ; 
The Amount in the Pound sterling annually 

levied in respect of such purposes in the last 

financial year of each Local Board, and the Total 

Receipts arising from all such Rates ; 

The Total Income und Expenditure of each 

Local Board for such purposes ; 

And, the Total Amount in the Pound of all 

Rates levied in the last financial year of each 

Local Board. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Parliamentary 
15th day of May last, for a Return relative to Par- Voters. 
liamentary Voters. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Electors 
15th day of May last, for a Return relative to Elec- Sw aay and 
tors (England and Wales). ae: 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Election 
25th day of May last, for a Return relative to Elec- ©xpenses. 
tion Expenses. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Election 
29th day of May last, for a Return relative to Elec- Expenses. 
tion Expenses. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Parochial 
18th day of June last, for a Return relative to Pa- Flections. 
rochial Elections. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Convicts and 
22d day of June last, for a Return relative to Con- Misdemean- 
victs and Misdemeanants, 
Return 




















21 Vicrort¢@. 


Property Tax Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 

oe Popula- ¢th day of July last, for a Return relative to Pro- 

_— perty Tax and Population, 

Franklin Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 

Expedition. 40th day of July last, for a Return relative to the 
Franklin Expedition. 

a Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 


Kew Gardens. 
‘ Hampton Court and Kew Gardens. 


Accidents on Return to an Order, dated the 11th day of June 


Reelana} ®c last, for a Return relative to Accidents on ailways, 
&amp;e. (Lreland). 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
Weightsand The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
Measures. 


by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 18th day of June last, for a Return rela- 
tive to Weights and Measures. 

Return to an Order, dated the 9th day of July 


Pensions, &amp;c. ° 


(Ireland.) last, for a Return relative to Pensions, &amp;c. (Jre- 
land). 

Bank of Return to an Order, dated the 21st day of this 

England, &amp;c. 


instant August, for a Return relative to Bank of 
England, &amp;c. 

Return to an Order, dated the 21st day of this in- 
stant August, for a Return relative to Warming and 
Ventilation of Dwellings. 


Warming and 
Ventilation of 
Dwellings. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Martis, 25° die August ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 


Message from M’ Speaker acquainted the House, That a 
the Lords. Message had been brought from the Lords, 
by one of their Clerks, as followeth : 


Militia Bill. The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Militia Bill, without any 
Amendment : 

SaleofObscene ‘The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 

— &amp;c. by this House to the Sale of Obscene Books, &amp;c. 

revention ° ° ° 

Bill. Prevention Bill, without any Amendment : 

Burial Acts The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 

Amendment 


Bill, by this House to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships to the Burial Acts Amendment Bill, 
without any Amendment : 

The Lords do not insist upon their disagreement 
to the Amendments to the Dulwich College Bill, on 
which the Commons have insisted. 


Dulwich 
College Bill. 


Public A Public Petition was presented, and read; and 

Petitions. ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vide Thirty- 

third Report. 

Amy. Sir George Grey presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Report of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the Regulations affecting 
the Sanitary Condition of the ry the Organiza- 
tion of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the 
Sick and Wounded. 

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

Order ofthe Sir John Ramsden presented,—Return to an Ad- 
_ dress to Her Majesty, dated the 16th day of July 
No. 302. last, for a Return relative to the Order of the Bath. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

Table; and be printed. 
[moe y oom Sir Charles Wood presented,—Return to an Order, 
munication, “ated the 13th day of this instant August, for a 


Return relative to Australian Postal Communi- 
cation. 

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


24°—25° August. 


3ist day of July last, for a Return relative to | 


425 


A Petition of Electors of the Borough of Beverley, Beverley 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for Election. 
the said Borough, was presented, and read (Vide 
Appendix to Votes, No. 79). 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the General Committee of Elections. 

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. 


A Message was delivered by Mr. Pulman, Yeo- Royal Assent. 

man 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, 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 Tleue, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commissicn, 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 Acts therein mentioned; and 
that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Acts, as follow : 

An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Consolidated 
Fund and the Surplus of Ways and Means to the Fund (Appro- 
Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and Pr#tion) Bill 
Fifty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted 
in this Session of Parliament : 

An Act for granting certain Duties of Customs Customs and 
and Excise : Excise Bill. 

An Act for the Alteration and Amendment of the customs Bill. 
Laws and Duties of Customs: 

An Act to regulate the Distribution of Business Court of 


in the Court of Session in Scotland: Session (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


An Act further to continue for a limited Time the charitable 
Exemption of certain Charities from the Operation Trusts Acts 
of the Charitable Trusts Acts: — 


An Act to confirm an Order in Council con- Jurisdiction 
cerning the Exercise of Jurisdiction in Matters in Siam Bill. 
arising within the Kingdom of Siam: 

An Act to promote the Establishment and Ex- Reformatory 
tension of Reformatory Schools in England : Schools Bill. 


An Act to enable Married Women to dispose of Married 
Reversionary Interests in Personal Estate : Women’s 
Reversionary 
Interest Bill. 
An Act to amend the Act seventeenth and eigh- Valuation of 
teenth of Victoria, for the Valuation of Lands in innay, (Scot- 


: Act 
Scotland : Amendment 


Bill. 

An Act to amend the Act seven and eight Vic- Joint Stock 
toria, chapter One hundred and eleven, for facili- Companies 
tating the winding-up the Affairs of Joint Stock ® 
Companies unable to meet their pecuniary En- 
gagements, and also the “ Joint Stock Companies 
Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849 :” 

An Aci to consolidate and amend the Laws re- Bankruptcy 


: j - and Insolvenc 
lating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Ireland : (ireland) me 


An Act to continue the Act concerning the Episcopal 
Management of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in see og 


states Ma- 
England : nagement Act 


Continuance Bill (changed from 
. Ecclesiastical Commission, &amp;c.) 
An Act to amend the Law relating to Probates ons IF 
Ae: — : sient il 
and Letters of Administration in England: minis sadaen 
An Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treat- Lunatics _ 
ment of Lunatics, and for the Provision, Main- (Scotland) Bill. 
tenance and Regulation of Lunatic Asylums in 
Scotland : 
An Act to 
Boundaries of 


rovide for the Extension of the Boundaries 





Vou. 112. 


. 1 
urghs in Scotland, and to remove . 


Extension 
83K2++t+ Doubts (Scotland) Bill. 









































426 


Doubts as to the Right of certain Persons holding 
Offices to be registered as Voters for municipal 
purposes : 

An Act to render more effectual the Police in 
Counties and Burglrs in Scotland : 

An Act for the Abatement of the Nuisance arising 
from the Smoke of Furnaces in Scotland: 


Police (Scot- 
land) Bill. 


Smoke Nui- 
sance (Scot. 
land) Abate- 
ment Bill. 

An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out 
of the Consolidated Fund to the Magistrates and 
Town Council of Dunbar, for the purpose of im- 
proving the Victoria Harbour of Dunbar : 

An Act for raising a Sum of Money for building 
and improving Stations of the Metropolitan Police, 
and to amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan 
Police : 

An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing 
and Contingent and other Expenses of the Disem- 
bodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to 
grant Allowances in certain cases to Subaltern 
Oflicers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, 
Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, and Surgeons Mates 
of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment 
of the Non-commissioned Officers : 

An Act to enable the Lord Lieutenant to appoint 
Revising Barristers for the Revision of Lists and 
Registry of Voters for the City of Dublin: 

An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of 
Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East 
India Company, and for regulating in such Service 
the Payment of Regimental Debts and the Distri- 
bution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying 


in the Service : 


Dunbar Har- 
bour Loan Bill. 


Metropolitan 
Police Sta- 
tions, &amp;c. Bill. 


Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Revising 
Barristers 


(Dublin) Bill. 


Mutiny (East 
India) Bill, 


Parochial An Act concerning the Parochial Schoolmasters 
Schoolmasters jn Scotlund: 
(Scotland) 


(No. 2) Bill. 


Probates and 
Letters of Ad- 
ministration 
(Ireland ) Bill. 


Joint Stock 
Companies Act 
(1856) Amend- 
ment Bill. 
Burial Acts 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Militia Bili. 


An Act to amend the Law relating to Probates 
and Letters of Administration in Jreland: 


An Act to amend “The Joint Stock Companies 
Act, 1856 :” 


An Act to amend the Burial Acts: 


An Act to authorize the embodying of the 
Militia : 

An Act for more effectually preventing the Sale 
of Obscene Books, Pictures, Prints and other 
Articles: 


Sale of Obscene 
Books, &amp;e. 
Prevention 
Bill. 


Dulwich 
College Bill. 


An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity 
Commissioners for the College of God’s Gift in 
Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, with certain 
Alterations : 


Pimlico Im- An Act to extend the Time for enabling the Com- 
era missioners of Her Majesty’s Works to complete Im- 
sli. 


provements in Pimlico and in the Neighbourhood 
of Buckingham Palace: 

An Act for making a Railway from the Zancaster 
and Carlisle Railway, in the Parish of Kendal, in 
the County of Westmoreland, to the North Western 
Railway, at or near Jngleton, in the West Riding of 
the County of York, with a Branch therefrom, and 
for other purposes : 

An Act for incorporating the Eastern Bengal 
Railway Company, and for other purposes : 


Lancaster 
and Carlisle 
and Ingleton 
Railway Bill. 


Fastern Ben- 
gal Railway 
Company Bill. 

An Act for authorizing the Scinde Railway Com- 
pany to extend their Operations, and for regulating 
the Capital of the Company, and for other purposes: 

An Act for consolidatine the Docks at Liverpool 
and Birkenhead into one Estate, and for vesting the 
Control and Management of them in one Public 
Trust, and for other purposes : 

An Act for authorizing the Sale to the Dorset 
Central Railway Company, in consideration partly 
of a yearly Rent-charge and partly of a Gross Sum, 


Seinde Rail- 
way Company 


Bill. 


Mersey Con- 
servaney and 
Docks ( No, 2) 
Bill 


Lord Rivers’ 
Estate Bill. 


of part of the Settled Estates in the County of 





25° August. 












A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Dorset, of which the Right honourable George Pitt 
Rivers, Lord Rivers, is now Tenant for Life in pos- 
session ; and for other purposes : 

An Act for authorizing the raising of Money on Baroness 
the Security of Estates in the County of Glamorgan, Windsor’s 
settled by the Will of the Right honourable Other #*t#te Bill. 
Archer, late Earl of Plymouth, deceased, and the 
Application of the Money for the Improvement of 
parts of the Estates in order to render them avail- 
able as Building Lands; and for confirming an 
Agreement with the Penarth Harbour, Dock and 
Railway Company, heretofore called the Ely Tidal 
Harbour and Railway Company, and for other 
purposes : 

An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the Duke of 
late Francis Duke of Bridgewater to complete the Bridgewater's 
Purchase of the Runcorn and Weston Canal, and to =e Bill. 
enable such Trustees more effectually to administer 
the Trusts of the Will of the said Duke: 

An Act for carrying into effect an Agreement for Carew’s 
a Compromise of the Suit of “ Carew versus Waugh,” Estate Bill. 
now pending in the High Court of Chancery, and 
for vesting the Estates to which the Suit relates in 
Trustees upon Trust for Sale, and for other purposes : 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Robert Keays, Keays’ 
Esquire, with Maria Eliza his now Wife, and to Divorce Bill. 
enable him to marry again, and for other purposes. 


Mr. Secretary Labouchere presented, by Her Ma- Cape of Gooa 


jesty’s Command,—Further Papers relative to the Hope. 


state of the Kaffir Tribes in the Cape of Good Hope 
(in continuation of Papers presented 21st March 
1857). 

Further Papers relative to the Affairs of New New Zealand. 
Zealand (in continuation of Papers presented 10th 
April 1854), 

Papers relating to an Expedition recently under- Australia 
taken for the purpose of exploring the Northern (Exploring 
Portion of Australia. Expedition.) 

Papers relating to Immigration to the West In- Immigration 


dian Colonies (West Indian 
Colonies.) 


Further Papers relative to the Discovery of Gold Gold (Aus- 
in Australia (in continuation of Papers presented tralia.) 
25th July 1856). 

Copy of further Correspondence on the subject of Australian 
Convict Discipline and Transportation (in continua- a 
tion of Papers presented 21st March 1857). : pf 
portation. ) 

Mr. Secretary Labouchere also presented,—Return Copyright 
to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the 4th day of (Colonies.) 
this instant August, for a Return relative to Copy- No. 303, 
right (Colonies). 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Australian 
14th day of this instant August, for a Return rela- Postal Service. 
tive to Australian Postal Service. No, 304, 


Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the British 
12th day of this instant August, fora Return rela- Guiana, 
tive to British Guiana. No. 305. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the Emigration. 
18th day of this instant August, fora Return rela- No. 306, 
tive to Emigration. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the @olonial 
18th day of this instant August, for a Return relative Government. 
to Colonial Government. No, 307. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the gyano, 
18th day of this instant August, fora Return relative No, 30g, 
to Guano. 

Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the gota (Aus- 
21st day of this instant August, for a Return relative tralia.) 
to Gold (Australia). No. 309. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the Papers relative to Copyright 
(Colonies), Australian Postal Service, British Gui- 
ana, Emigration, Colonial Government, Guano, and 


Gold (Australia), be printed. 


Mr. Speaker laid upon the Table,—-List of the parliamentary 





Bills, Reports, Estimates, and Accounts and Papers Papers. 
printed by Order of the House of Commons, and No. 310. 
| of 

















le 
ie 











Marlhorough 
Election. 


No. 311. 


Adjournment. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Army Chap- 


21 Vicroriz. 


of the Papers presented by Command, Session 1857, 
Sess. 2; with a General Alphabetical Index thereto : 
—17th Parliament, 1st Session, 20° &amp; 21° Victoria, 
30 April to 28 August 1857. 

Ordered, That the said Paper be printed. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Marlborough 
Election Petition, which were presented upon the 
1st day of July last, be printed. 


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. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Mes- 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords return the Divorce and Matrimonial 


.Causes Bill, with some of the Commons’ Amend- 


ments agreed to; some agreed to, with Amend- 
ments ; and one disagreed to; together with their 
Reasons for disagreeing to the said Amendment. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 


lains (Crimea.) tg Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 


Weights and 
Measures. 


No. 312, 


Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Middlesex 
Writ. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Nominal Return of the Chaplains attached 
to the Army in the Crimea, with the Dates of their 
Appointments; specifying the Number commis- 
sioned, and the Number still employed who have not 
been commissioned. 

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. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Weights and 
Measures, which was presented upon the 24th day 
of this instant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Reasons assigned by the Lords 
for disagreeing to one of the Amendments made by 
this House to the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 
Bill be taken into consideration forthwith :—The 
House accordingly proceeded to take the said Rea- 
sons into consideration ; and the same were read. 

Resolved, That this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the Amendments made by their Lordships 
to the Amendments made by this House, as far as 
the Amendment in p. 7, 1. 7, with a consequential 
Amendment in Clause E. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House doth not insist on the Amendment 
in p 7, 1. 7, to which the Lords have disagreed ; 

he House divided ; 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for thej Mr. Hayter, 

Yeas, {Tord Ernest Bruce: 

Tellers for the; Mr. Henley, 

Noes, \ Mr. Spooner : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Resolved, That this House doth agree with the 
Lords in the other Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships to the Amendments made by this House to the 
said Bill, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Clerk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made Y their Lordships 
to the Amendments made by this House to the said 
Bill, with an Amendment, to which this House doth 
desire the concurrence of their Lordships ; and doth 
not insist on the Amendment to which the Lords have 
disagreed. 


} 43. 


} 11. 


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 
Vou. 112. 





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497 


the present Parliament for the County of Middlesex, 
in the room of the Right honourable Robert Grosvenor, 
commonly called Lord Robert Grosvenor, who, since 
his Election for the said County, hath accepted the 
Office of Steward of Her Majesty’s Manor of Hemp- 
holme, in the County of York. 


Mr. Massey presented,—Return to an Address to Electors, &amp;c. 
Her Majesty, dated the 12th day of June last, for a (Metropolis.) 
Return relative to Electors, &amp;c. (Metropolis). 

Return to an Order, dated the 22d day of May Faucation 
last, for a Return relative to Education of Pauper of Pauper 
Children. “aoe 

No, 313. 

Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of June Contested 

last, for a Return relative to Contested Elections oye 


(Poor Law). Law.) 
No. 314. 


Return to an Order, dated the 26th day of June Seamen. 
last, for a Return relative to Seamen. No. 315. 
Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this Bury Union 
instant August, for a Return relative to Bury Union (Workhouse 
(Workhouse Cemetery). caongams 
No. 316. 
Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this Cathedral 
instant August, for a Return relative to Cathedral 24 Collegie‘e 
and Collegiate Churches. a 
Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this Chapters. 
instant August, for a Return relative to Chapters. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the Returns relative to Education 
of Pauper Children, Contested Elections (Poor Law), 
Seamen, and Bury Union (Workhouse Cemetery), 
be printed. 


Mr. Lowe presented,—Return to an Order, dated Railways. 
the 13th day of February, in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for Returns of the Amount of Capital and 
Loan which each Railway Company has been autho- 
rized to raise by Acts passed previous to and in 
1856, the Amount of Share Capital actually paid up 
on the 31st day of December 1856, separating the 
ordinary Share Capital which does not receive, or 
is not entitled to receive, any Preferential Dividend 
or Interest from that which bears a Preferential 
Dividend or Rate of Interest; stating the Rate 
and Amount of Dividend upon such ordinary Share 
Capital, as well as the Amount of each Class of 
such Preferential Capital, with the Rate and 
Amount of Interest or Dividend it is entitled to re- 
cieve, the Amount due on Debentures, Loan Notes, 
or any other Interest bearing Securities on the 31st 
day of December 1856, the Rates of Interest pay- 
able thereon, and the Sums to which such Rates of 
Interest are applicable ; distinguishing the several 
Sums raised by Shares or on Loan on which Divi- 
dend or Interest was not paid out of Revenue, and 
the Amount of such Dividend or Interest, the Total 
Amount the Company retained Powers at the end 
of 1856 to raise, either on existing Shares or by 
creating new Shares or by Loans; the Length of 
Line open for Traffic on the 31st day of December 
1856, distinguishing Single and Double Portions; 
the Length of Line in course of Construction at the 
end of 1856 ; the Length of Line the Company is au- 
thorized to construct but which was not commenced 
on the 31st day of December 1856, and conse- 
quently the Total Length for which the Company 
has obtained Powers:— Of the Amalgamation of 
Railway Companies which has been effected either 
by Purchase, Lease or otherwise during 1856, stating 
the Nature of such Amalgamation, and the Date on 
which it commenced, with the -Act of Parliament 
under which it was effected: — And, from each 
Railway Company, showing the Length of each Line 
or part of a Line or Branch Line, for which the 
Powers granted by Parliament for the compulsory 
Purchase of the Land required for their Construc- 
tion had been allowed to expire, previous to the 31st 
day of December 1856, without the exercise of such 
Powers; and the Capital appropriated by Parlia- 

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428 25°—28° 


ment for the Construction of such Lines or Branch 
Lines. 

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


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
the Clerk of the House,— Return to an Order, 
dated the 27th day of July last, for a Return re- 
lative to Bombay (Titles of Land Commission). 

Return to an Order, dated the 18th day of this 
instant August, for a Return relative to East India 
(Liberty of the Press). 

Return to an Order, dated the 7th day of this 
instant August, for a Return relative to Election 
Petitions. 

Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of this 
instant August, for a Return relative to Private 
Bills. 

CourtofChan- Return to an Order, dated the 21st day of this 
cery (Ireland.) instant August, for a Return relative to the Court 
of Chancery (Ireland). 


Bombay 
(Titles of Land }, 
Commission. ) 


East India 
( Liberty of 
the Press.) 


Election 
Petitions. 


Private Bills. 


Property Tax § Ordered, That the Return relative to Property 


_ Populas Tax and Population, which was — upon the 
No. 317. 24th day of this instant August, be printed. 

Hampton Ordered, That the Return relative to Hampton 

ear ae Court and Kew Gardens, which was presented upon 
No a g, the 24th day of this instant August, be printed. 

Bank of Ordered, That the Return relative to Bank of 


England, Xe. PEneland, &amp;c., which was presented upon the 24th 
No. 319. day of this instant August, be printed. 


Warmingand Ordered, That the Return relative to Warming 
oc of and Ventilation of Dwellings, which was presented 
No. 320, Pom the 24th day of this instant August, be printed. 
Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Friday next. 


Adjournment. 


And then the House accordingly adjourned till 
Friday next. 





Veneris, 28° die Augusti ; 
Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


PRAYERS. 
S IR Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Further Papers relating to the Pro- 
ceedings of Her Majesty’s Naval Forces at Canton. 
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 Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Tavistock, in the 
room of George Henry Charles Byng, Esquire, com- 
monly called the Honourable George Henry Charles 
Byng, who, since his Election for the said Borough, 
hath accepted the Office of Steward of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Meuse of Northstead, in the County of 
York, 


Canton, 


Tavistock 
Writ. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Correspondence and of the Evidence 
taken on two Inquiries relative to the Qualification of 
John Ward, Esquire, as elected Guardian of the 
Bailieborough Poor Law Union, County of Cavan. 


Bailieborough 
Union. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Number of Manor Courts in Ireland ; 
the Places over which the Jurisdiction of each 
Court extends; the greatest distance of any Place 
within such Jurisdiction from the Place where the 
Court is held ; Dates of Patents ; Extent of pe- 
cuniary Jurisdiction; how enforced; what De- 


Manor Courts 
(ireland. ) 


scription of Cases tried ; Extent of Power with re- 





Augusti. 












A. 1857. Sess. II. 


gard to Imprisonment; Number of Persons impri- 
soned under Decrees; if Prison one of peculiar 
Jurisdiction; whether Power of Distress exists ; 
how levied; Number of Courts held in each year, 
beginning from the 31st day of December 1833 ; 
Number of Courts adjourned for Non-attendance 
of Jurors or other Cause ; Number of Cases entered 
for Trial; Number of Cases tried ; Number of Ap- 
peals from Decrees, stating how many were tried, 
and how many Decrees were reversed :—Of Fees 
charged, the Sums recovered, and the Amount 
of Costs during the same Period :—And, of such 
Courts the Seneschals or Stewards of which are 
Members of any and what legal Profession, or 
Justices of the Peace (in continuation of Return in 
Appendix to Parliamentary Paper, No. 494, of Ses- 
sion 1837, p. 291). 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Belfast 
Returns from the Town Clerk of Belfast of the Municipal 
Number of Persons appearing entitled to the Muni- ranchise. 
cipal Franchise in Belfast on the 31st day of August 
in each year, from 1842 to 1857, both inclusive, 
by the Occupation of Premises of the Annual Value 
of £.10 and upwards, specifying the Numbers after- 
wards enfranchised and disfranchised, and showing, 
with regard to Persons disfranchised, the following 
Particulars, viz.:—Of the Total Number disfran- 
chised for other causes than the non-payment of 
Rates :—Of the Number disfranchised br non-pay- 
ment of Rates:—Of the Denominations of the 
different Rates, the Names of the Bodies by which 
such Rates were struck, the Amounts thereof, the 
Days when same became payable, and the Names 
of the Collectors of each Municipal Ward:—Of the 
Number of Persons disfranchised for non-payment 
of each Rate; specifying how many paid the Rate 
after disfranchisement :—Of the Gross Amount of 
each Rate remaining due on the 31st day of August 
in each year by Persons entitled to the Municipal 
Franchise :—And, of the Amount of such Rate so 
remaining due which was afterwards paid, and the 
Amount which was returned as not recoverable, b 
the Collectors of the different Rates inflicted by the 
authority of the Belfast Municipal Corporation. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Sittings of the 
Return of the Number of Days on which the House House. 
sat in the present Session, stating, for each Day, the No. 821. 
Date of the Month, and the Day of the Week, the 
Hour of Meeting, and the Hour of Adjournment ; 
and the Total Number of Hours occupied in the 
Sittings of the House, and the Average Time; and 
showing the Number of Hours on which the House 
sat each Day, and the Number of Hours after Mid- 
night; and the Number of Entries in each Day’s 
Votes and Proceedings (in continuation of Parlia- 
mentary Paper, No. 448, of Session 1856). 
Mr. Grey accordingly presented the said Return. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. ——- acquainted the House, That a Mes- Message from 
sage had been brought from the Lords, by one of the Lords. 
their Clerks, as followeth : 

The Lords agree to the consequential Amend- Divorce and 
ment made by this House to Clause E. to the Divorce Matrimonial 
and Matrimonial Causes Bill, without any Amend- ©%¢9 Bill. 
ment. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a East India 
Return of the Terms of all Tenders publicly invited (Omveyance 
by the East India Company for the Conveyance of ® wae 
Troops to India since March last, and of the Par- 
ticulars of each Tender, so as to show the compa- 
rative advantages of each, distinguishing those ac- 
cepted from those rejected ; also of all Vessels en- 
gaged by the East India Company since March 
last by private Arrangement, and of all Vessels 
offered for such Engagement to the East India Com- 


pany 

















East India 
(Singapore. ) 
No, 322. 


Trade of 
Foreign 
Countries. 


Oxford 
University. 


No. 327, 


Public 
Petitions. 
Vide Thirty- 
third Report. 
Public 
Petitions 
(Thirty-third 
Report. ) 


21 Vicrortiz. 


pany since March last, but refused, so as to show 
the comparative advantages of each Engagement 
and offer; and of the manner in which such En- 
gagements originated. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of a Despatch from the Court of Directors of 
the East India Company to the Governor-General 
of India in Council, dated the 25th day of March 
1857 (No. 2); and, of the Reply of the Governor- 
General of Jndia in Council thereto, on the sup- 
— intention of the Government of India to levy 

ues at the Port of Singapore. 

Mr. Vernon Smith accordingly presented the said 
Paper. 

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


Mr. Lowe presented, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
— Abstract of Reports on the Trade of various 
Countries and Places, for the years 1856-1857, re- 
ceived by the Board of Trade (through the Foreign 
Office) from Her Majesty’s Ministers and Consuls. 

Mr. Lowe also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Copies of Ordi- 
nances in relation to Pembroke, Winchester, New and 
Balliol Colleges, Oxford, respectively, framed under 
the 17 &amp; 18 Vic. c. 81, and 19 &amp; 20 Vie. c. 31. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


Several Public Petitions were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Gard reported from the Select Committee on 
Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Pe- 
titions presented upon the 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, 
25th and 28th days of this instant August; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

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


County Courts. Mr, Massey presented,—Return to an Address to 


No, 323, 


Her Majesty, dated the 13th day of February, in the 
last Session of Parliament, for Returns from every 
County Court throughout England and Wales, esta- 
blished under the Act 9 &amp; 10 Vic. c. 95, of the 
Total Number of Plaints entered in each Court, 
from the 1st day of January to the 30th day of 
September 1856, both days inclusive :— Of the Total 
Number of Plaints entered in each Court above £.20 
and not exceeding £. 50, from the 1st day of January 
1856 to the 30th day of September 1856, both days 
inclusive :—Of the Total Number of Plaints entered 
in each Court, from the Ist day of January 1856 
to the 30th day of September 1856, under the 17th 
section of the Act 13 &amp; 14 Vic. c. 61:—Of the 
Total Number of Causes tried by each Court, from 
the 1st day of January 1856 to the 30th day of 
September 1856, both days inclusive: — Of the 
Total Number of Causes tried by each Court, from 
the 1st day of January 1856 to the 30th day of 
September 1856, both days inclusive, above £. 20 
and not exceeding £.50:—Of the Total Number of 
Causes tried by each Court, from the 1st day of 
January 1856 to the 30th day of September 1856, 
under the 17th section of the Act 13 &amp; 14 Vice. 
c. 61:—Of the Total Number of Appeals under the 
last-mentioned Act pending on the 1st day of Janu- 
ary 1856, and the Total Number made from the 1st 
day of January 1856 to the 30th day of September 
1856, both days inclusive, from the Decisions of each 
Court, and whether such Decisions were confirmed 
or reversed, and the Number of Appeals dropped or 
remaining undecided on the 30th day of September 
1856 :—Of the Total Number of Days that each 
Court has sat, from the 1st day of January to the 
Vou. 112. 


28° Augustt. 


429 


30th day of September 1856, both days inclusive, 
and the Average Number of Hours comprised in 
each Sitting :—Of the Total Number of such Sit- 
tings held before a Deputy Judge :—Of the Total 
Amount of Monies for which the Plaints were en- 
tered in each Court during the _ last-mentioned 
period :—Of the ‘Total Amount of Monies, exclusive 
| of Costs, for which Judgment has been obtained in 
each Court during the same period, and also the 
Amount of such Costs :—Of the Total Amount of 
Monies paid into each Court during the same period, 
in satisfaction of Debts sued for, without proceeding 
| to Judgment :—Of the Gross Total Amount of Fees 
i received in each Court during such period, distin- 
| guishing the Amount of Fees for each Officer, and 
on account of the General Fund :—Of the Gross 
Total Amount of Monies received in each Court to 
| the Credit of Suitors, and the Amount paid out to 
Suitors :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried in 
, each Court during the same period with the Assis- 
‘tance of a Jury, specifying the Number of such 
Causes in which a Verdict has been given in favour 
of the Party requiring a Jury to be summoned :— 
Of the Total Number of Executions issued by the 
Clerk of each Court during the same period against 
the Goods of Defendants:—Of the Total Number 
of Judgment Summonses issued by each Court during 
the same period :—Of the Total Number of Judg- 
ment Summonses heard by each Court during the 
same period :—Of the Total Number of Warrants 
of Commitment issued by the Clerk of each Court 
during the same period, and the Number of Persons 
actually taken to Prison under such Warrants :— 
And, of the Total Amount received by the Treasurer 
of each Court, on account of the General Fund of 
such Court, from the 1st day of January 1856 to 
the 30th day of September 1856, inclusive ; and the 
Payments made thereout during such period, as 
given in the Balance Sheets rendered to the Com- 
missioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, according to 
Article 48 of the Treasurer’s Instructions ; together 
with the Sums therein stated to have been received 
of or paid to Her Majesty’s Paymaster General. 





13th day of February, in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, for Returns from every County Court through- 
out England and Wales, established under the Act 
9 &amp; 10 Vie. c. 95, of the Total Number of Plaints en- 
tered in each Court, from the 1st day of October to the 
31st day of December 1856, both days inclusive :— 
Of the Total Number of Plaints entered in each 
Court above £. 20 and not exceeding £. 50, from the 
Ist day of October 1856 to the 31st day of Decem- 
ber 1856, both days inclusive: —Ofthe Total Number 
of Plaints entered in each Cowt, during the same 
period, under the 23d Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20 
Vic. c. 108 :—Of the Total Number of Causes tried 
by each Court, during the same period, upon which 
the Hearing Fee of Two Shillings in the Pound was 
taken :—Of the Total Number of Causes in which, 
from admission or confession, the Fee of One Shil- 
ling in the Pound was taken on the Judgment, 
during the same period :—Of the Total Number of 
Causes in which Judgment by Default was entered 
up under the 28th Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. 
c. 108, during the same period :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes in which Judgment by Default was 
entered up on Plaints entered under the Summary 
Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act, 1855, during 
the same period :—Of the Total Number of Causes 
tried by each Court, during the same period, above 
£.29 and not exceeding £. 50 :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes sent for Trial in a County Court by 
the Judge of a Superior Court, under the 26th Sec- 
tion of the Act 19&amp; 20 Vic. c. 108, during thesame 
period :—Of the Total Number of Causes in which 
Defendants have objected to Trial and given Se- 
curity, under the Provisions of the 39th Section of 
the Act 19 &amp; 20 Vic. c. 108:--Of the Total Num- 
ber of Causes tried by each Court, during the same 

3K 4 period, 








Return to an Address to Her Majesty, dated the County Courts. 


No, 324. 











Slave Trade. 


Honduras. 


Navy (Volun- 
teers, &amp;c.) 
No. 325. 
Australian 
Mail Service. 
No. 326. 


East India 
(King of 
Oude. ) 


Divisions. 











28° Augusti. A. 1857. Sess. II. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Local Boards Local Boards 
of Health, which was presented upon the 24th day of Health, 
of this instant August, be printed. No. 328. 


ra , aden atti | Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Parliamentary 
oe day of October ined we i he De bo soaconge to Parliamentary Voters, which was presented upon Voters. 

er 1856, both days inclusive, from the Decisions of | 1, o4th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 329. 
each Court, and whether such Decisions were con- 


firmed or reversed, and the Number of Appeals Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Electors 


430 
Period, under the 23d Section of the Act 19 &amp; 20) 
Vic. c. 108:—O! the Total Number of Appeals to| 
the Superior Courts pending on the 1st day of Oc- | 
tober 1856, and the Total Number made from the | 


dropped or remaining undecided on the 31st day of | to Electors (England and Wales), which was pre- x ayy and 
December 1856 :—Of the Total Number of Days | sented upon the 24th day of this instant August, be yl 
. 0. . 


that each Court has sat, from the 1st day of October | priuted. 


- un 2 { 
to the 31st day of December 1856, a days i= Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Election 
clusive, and the Average Number of Hours com-' +4 Charges to Candidates at Elections, which was Expenses. 
a rye tees antigo woe Bad presented upon the 24th day of this instant August, No. 331. 
such Sittings held before a De ge :— | : 
Total Amount of Monies for which the Plaints were mogmates. 
entered in each Court during the last-mentioned! Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return of the Election 
period :—Of the Total Amount of Monies, exclusive | Total Amount of Audited Expenses of Elections, ~~ 
of Costs, for which Judgment has been obtained or | which was presented upon the 24th day of this in- No. 332. 
entered up in each Court during the same period, | stant August, be printed. 
and also the Amount of such Costs, exclusive of Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Parcchial 
Fees of Court:—Of the Total Amount of Monies |, parochial Elections, which was presented upon Elections, 
paid into each Court during the same period, in sa- | the oath day of this instant August, be printed. No. 333. 
tisfaction of Debts sued for, without proceeding to | 
Judgment :—Of the Amount of Fees received in | ; 
each Court during such period: — Of the Gross | to Convicts and 
Total Amount of Monies received in each Court to | sented upon the 24th day of this instant August, be 
the credit of Suitors, and the Amount paid out to | printed. 
Suitors, during such period :—Of the Total Number 
of Causes tried in each Court during the same fe- | 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Convicts and 


Misdemeanants, which was pre- Misdemean- 


No. 334. 


Ordered, Vhat an Abstract of the Return relative Accidents on 


: . “ ‘ pag 4 - " : hs sag Railways, &amp;c. 

riod with the assistance of a Jury, specifying the | ° — _ ae ke. a — ony (Ireland) 

Number of such Causes in which a Verdict has aaa the 24th day of this instant August, No. 335. 
| be printed. 


been given in favour of the Party requiring a Jury | 
to be summoned :—Of the Total Number of Exe-| Ordered, That the Return relative to Pensions, Pensions, &amp;c. 
cutions issued by the Clerk of each Court during | &amp;e. (Ireland), which was presented upon the 24th (Ireland.) 
the same period against the Goods of Defendants : ‘day of this instant August, be printed. No. 336. 
—Of the Total Number of Judgment Summonses | 
issued by each Court during the same period :—-Of 
the Total Number of Judgment Summonses head | 
by each Court during the same period :—Of the , 25th day of this instant August, be printed. 
Total Number of Warrants of Commitment issued | ‘ 

7 : Ordered, That the Return relative to Cathedral Cathedral 


by the Clerk of each Court during the same period : nd Collegi 
. he . t 
—And, of the Number of Persons actually taken | 2%4 Collegiate Churches, which was presented upon Churches’ 
, the 25th day of this instant August, be printed. 


to Prison under such Warrants. No. 338. 
‘ann ed, oo . Returns do lie upon the) Qpdered, That the Return relative to Chapters, Chapters. 

a P ‘ which was presented upon the 25th day of this in- No. 339. 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Electors, Electors, &amp;c. 
&amp;e. (Metropolis), which was presented upon the oa 
0. 337. 


Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Majesty’s 
Command,—Copy of Correspondence with the Bri- 
tish Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the 
Cape of Good Hope, and Loanda, and Reports from 
British Vice-Admiralty Courts, and from British 
Naval Officers, relating to the Slave Trade, from 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Railways, Railways. 
which was presented upon the 25th day of this in- No, 340. 
stant August, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Bombay 
(Titles of Land Commission), which was presented 


April 1, 1856, to March 31, 1857 :—Class A. —— f thic j ' 
Copy of Correspondence with British Ministers fo ly e 25th day of this instant August, be 
printed. 


and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign | 
Ministers in England, relating to the Slave Trade, | Ordered, That the Return relative to East India East India 
| (Liberty of the Press), which was presented upon {Liberty of the 
ess.) 


from April 1, 1857, to March 31, 1857 :—Class B. 
| the 25th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 342. 


Copy of Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and 
Navigation between Her Majesty and the Republic | 

__ Ordered, That the Return relative to Election Election 
| Petitions, which was presented upon the 25th day Petitions. 


of Honduras, with an additional Article thereunto | 
annexed. Signed at London, August 27, 1856. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the | of this instant August, be printed. No. 343. 
Table. 





Bombay 
(Titles of Land 
Commission.) 


No. 341. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court Court of Chan- 
jof Chancery (Jreland), which was presented upon a og 
dated the 16th day of June last, for a Return rela- | the 25th day of this instant August, be printed. No. 344. 


tive to Navy (Volunteers, &amp;c.) Ordered, That an Abstract of the Return relative Vestry Clerks 
Return to an Order, dated the 27th day of July | to Vestry Clerks (Metropolitan Parishes), which —— 
last, for a Return relative to Australian Mail Service. | was presented upon the 13th day of this instant No 3 45 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the | August, be printed. — 
Table ; and be printed. Ordered, That the Return relative to Public Pe- Public 
titions, which was presented upon the 21st day of Petitions. ; 
this instant August, be printed. No, 346. 


Sir Charles Wood presented,— Return to an Order, | 


The following Papers were laid upon the Table 
by the Clerk of the House,—Return to an Order, 
dated the 20th day of July lJast, for a Return rela- 
tive to East India (King of Oude). 

Return to an Order, dated the 12th day of this 
instant August, fcr a Return relative to Divisions. 


A Message was delivered by Sir Augustus Clif- Royal Assent. 
ford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commissions, 




















Divorce and 
Matrimonial 
Causes Bill. 


Lords Com- 
missioners’ 
Speech, 





21 VicTroriz. 


Commissions, for declaring Her Royal Assent to 
an Act agreed upon by both Houses, and for pro- 
roguing the present Parliament, desire the imme- 
diate attendance of this Honourable House in the 
House of Peers, to hear the Commissions read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers, where a Commission 
under the Great Seal was read, giving, declaring 
and notifying the Royal Assent to the Act therein 
mentioned ; and the Lords, thereby authorized, 
declared the Royal Assent to the said Act, as 
followeth : 

An Act to amend the Law relating to Divorce 
and Matrimonial Causes in England. 


And afterwards, a Speech of the Lords Commis- 
sioners was delivered to both Houses by the Lord 
High Chancellor, as followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded by Her Majesty to release 
you from further attendance in Parliament, and at 
the same time to express to you Her Majesty’s 
cordial acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity 
with which you have performed your important 
duties during a Session which, though shorter than 
usual, has nevertheless been unusually laborious. 

Her Majesty commands us to express to you Her 
satisfaction that the present state of Affairs in 
Europe inspires a well-grounded confidence in the 
continuance of Peace. 

The arrangements connected with. the full exe- 
cution of the Stipulations of the Treaty of Paris 
have from various causes not yet been completed, 
but Her Majesty trusts that by the earnest efforts 
of the contracting Parties to that Treaty, all that 
remains to be done with reference to its Stipulations 
“~ ere long be satisfactorily settled. 

er Majesty commands us to inform you that 
the extensive Mutinies which have broken out 
among the Native Troops of the Army of Bengal, 
followed by serious disturbances in many parts of 
that Presidency, have occasioned to Her Majesty 
extreme concern; and the barbarities which have 
been inflicted upon many of Her Majesty’s Subjects 
in India, and the sufferings which have been endured, 
have filled Her Majesty’s heart with the deepest 
rief ; while the conduct of many Civil and Military 
fficers, who have been placed in circumstances of 
much difficulty, and have been exposed to great 
danger, has excited Her Majesty’s warmest admi- 
ration. 

Her Majesty commands us to inform you that 
She will omit no measure calculated to quell these 
grave disorders ; and Her Majesty is confident that, 
with the blessing of Providence, the powerful means 
at Her disposal will enable Her to accomplish that 
end, 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


Her Majesty commands us to thank you for the 
liberal Supplies which you have voted for the service 
of the present year, and for the assurances which you 
have given Her of your readiness to afford Her 
Majesty whatever support ~ be necessary for the 
restoration of tranquillity in Jndia. 

Her Majesty has been gratified to find that you 
have been enabled to provide the amount required 
to be paid to Denmark for the Redemption of the 
Sound Dues, without on that account adding to the 
National Debt. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


Her Majesty commands us to convey to you Her 
heartfelt acknowledgments for the provision which 
ou have made for Her beloved Daughter the 
rincess Royal, on Her approaching Marriage with 
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of 
Prussia. 
Vou, 112. 


28° Augusti—6° Novembris. 


431 


Her Majesty commands us to inform you, that 
She has seen with satisfaction that, although the 
present Session has been short, you have been able 
to pass many Acts of great importance, and to which 
Her Majesty has given Her cordial Assent. 

The Acts for establishing a more efficient Juris- 
diction for the proving of Wills in England and 
Ireland correct defects which have for many years 
been complained of. 

The Act for amending the Law relating to Divorce 
and to Matrimonial Causes will remedy evils which 
have long been felt. 

The several Acts for the Punishment of Fraudu- 
lent Breaches of Trust ; 

For amending the Law relating to Secondary 
Punishments ; 

For amending the Law concerning Joint Stock 
Banks ; ; 

For consolidating and amending the Law relating 
to Bankruptcy and Insolvency in Jreland ; 

For the better Care and Treatment of Pauper 
Lunatics in Scotland ; 

For improving the Organization of the County 
Police in Scotland ; 

Together with other Acts of less importance, but 
likewise tending to the progressive improvement of 
the Law, have met with Her Majesty’s ready Assent. 

We are commanded by Her Majesty to express 
to you Her confidence that, on your return to your 
several Counties, you will employ that Influence 
which so justly belongs to you, to promote the 
welfare and happiness of Her loyal and faithful 
People ; and She prays that the blessing of Almighty 
God may attend and prosper your endeavours. 


Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament Parliament 
pro: 


was read. 
After which the Lord Chancellor said ; 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


By virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission, under 
the Great Seal, to us and ot ad Lords directed, and 
now read, we do, in Her Majesty’s Name aad in 
obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this Parlia- 
ment to Friday the 6th day of November next, to 
be then here holden; and this Parliament is ac- 
cordingly prorogued to Friday the 6th day of No- 
vember next. 











Veneris, 6° die Novembris ; 


Anno 21° Victorie Regine, 1857. 


‘&gt; ~ House being met, 
Prorogation; and Mr, 
country ; 


peaker being in the 


A Message was brought from the Lords, by Mr. 
Pulman, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod: 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, desire the immediate attendance of 
this Honourable House in the House of Peers, to 
hear the Commission read. 


Accordingly the House, with the Second Clerk 
Assistant, went up to the House of Peers; where 
the Commission was read, for the further proroguing 
of the Parliament until Thursday the 17th day of 
December next; and the Parliament was accord- 
ingly prorogued until Thursday the 17th day of 
December next. 











ursuant to the last Parliament 


By The QUEEN. 


A PROCLAMATION. 
VICTORIA R. 


wie REAS Our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the Seventeenth 
day of December next: And whereas, for divers weighty and urgent Reasons, 
it seems to Us expedient that Our said Parliament shall assemble and be holden 
sooner than the said day: We do, by und with the Advice of Our Privy Council, 
hereby proclaim and give Notice of Our Royal Intention and Pleasure that Our 
said Parliament, notwithstanding the same now stands prorogued as hereinbefore- 
mentioned to the said Seventeenth day of December next, shall assemble and be 
holden, for the despatch of divers urgent and important Affairs, on Thursday the 
Third day of December next: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the 
Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of 
the me of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attend- 
ance accordingly at Westminster, on the said Third day of December next. 


Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Sixteenth day of November, in the year 
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Fifty-seven, and in the Twenty- 
first year of Our reign. 


GOD save The QuEEN. 























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