The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

mprrial Varliamcnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

31o:it/At. —Lord Granville, on moving the committal
of the Appropriation of Seats (Sudbury and St. Alban.'
Bill), shortly explained that the object of the Bill was
to transfer two of the forfeited seats to the West
Riding of Yorkshire, one to South Lancashire, and one
to Ilirkenhead.—Lord Stratheilen thought that SO
important a measure itheuld not be discussed at this
late period of the Session, and moved that it be referred
to a Select Committee.—Lord Denby dial not see the
necessity of referring the Bill to • Select Committee,
as it wits a very 'plain and straightforward 'immure.
He thought the Government hail done right in con-
ferring • seat on Birkenhead, and that in distributing
the other seats, they had acted as fairly as the circum-
stances allowed. He trusted hereafter that Her
Majesty's Ministers would not requite Her Majesty to
pledge herself in the Speech from the Throne to •
measure of reform unless they had full confidence that
they would he able to carry the measure they brought
forwxrd. He also wished it to be clearly understood
that neither this nor any future Government was
under ally pledges to introduce the reform question,
unless they in their discretion deternitued no to do
Loot Granville opposed the amendment, and the House
went in Committee on thcll.—Lord Stanley of
Alderley moved the aaeond reading of the Municipal
Corporations Act A mew use t Bill, and briefly e • plaint-el
it. object —Lord Wensleyiale opposed the Bill, and
moved that it be read a second time that day three
moothe.—Loril Derby stated that at • future staged
the Ball he should oppose the clause which gave
precedence Willa Mayors—On a division of the House
there were for the second reading of this Bill, 44;
against 27.—The Irremovable Peer Bill was reed a
third tilos and passed.
Tyree/AV.—Soon after the Lord Chancellor hail taken
his seat on the woolsack Earl Russell was introduced to
the House and took the oath and his seat. He was
introduced by Earl Granville and the Earl of Strafford,
attired, as he also was, in earl's robes, preceded as they
entered the /louse by Sir A. Clifford, the Geutletuan
Usher of the Black Rod ; Sir C. Young, Garter King
at Arms ; and Lord Willoughby D'Eresbe, Lord High
Chamberlain. On entering the liouse the new Peer
presented his pateut to the Lord Chancellor, who
handed it to the Clerk, by whoin it was read at the
table. The oath was then administered, and Earl
Ituasell signed the roll of Parliament. The newly-soade
earl was then taken round the House. and took his
seat for a moment on one of the front benehea on the
Oppositiost aide, being still preceded by the officials
above named, and accompanied by Earl Granville and
the Earl of Strafford. The procession again moved on
to this woolsack where the noble earl shook hands with
the Load Chancellor, and then left the House. All the
members of the Government belonging to the House of
Lords were present, and about 20 other Peers, several
of whom were seated on the Opposition side of the
House.—The Bills for the Consolidation of the
Cri DDD inal Law were read a second time, and the
Municipal Corporations Act passed through Committee,
after two ainendinents proposed by Lord Wensleydale
had been rejected on a division.
THUM/I/Al.—The Royal went was given to • large
number of Bills, and others were read a third time and
d.
FRIDAY. —The Lord Chancellor, on the third reading
of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill. said he re-
garded it, even in its altered :Altaic, as a great bebefit
to the commercial world. Although, hi compliance
with the directions ,J their Loribilitte, I. hail buried
lain Chief Judge iu Bamkruptcy, lie bail elven so in sure
hope of his speedy tesurrection.