The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-21 00:00:00

REGISTER OF VOTERS BILL.

On Use motion of Sul Forteboun, the order for the
wood reading of thin bill visa read in order to be die-
charged.
FORTIFICATION'S (PROVISION FOR EXPENSES)

Oa the motion of Earl Dc GRIT, this bill wee nod •
woad time.

--The:"ittissucco Removal Ant (1855) Amendment Bill was
read a seoood time.
The Harwich Harbour Bill and Howth Harbour Bill
passed throegh committee.
The ?abbe Works and Fisheries Acta Amendment Bill
was read a second time. _ _

TbePii;OUSll;eland) Bill wail read a third time and
The The report of ameadmesta to the Piers sod Harbours
Orders Confirmation Bill was received and agreed to.
The Alterations in Judges' Circuits Bil', the Greenwich
Bo.pitol (Provision for Widows) Bill, and the Metiopolie
Xain Drainage Extension Bill, were reeds third time and
The The report of ameedments to the Misappropriation by
Servant. -Bill was received and agreed to.
The Sayings Banks Acts Amendment 818, the Clergymen
Colonies) Ball, and the Port Erin Harbour (lee of -Mao)
with aineeimeete, were reed a third tines and
The Vaecination (Scotland) Bill, the ladle Stock ltall7riLd
the Sydney Branch /diet Bill pored through committee.
Several cootinuance bills were read a first time, and their
lordships adjourned at five =Mutes to 9 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, JULY 20.
The BETAKE% took the chair et 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Finch liatton's Estate ; lloylake Railway ; London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway (No. 1) ; and Tottenham and
Hampstead Junction Railway.
Co the motion that the London (City) Traffic Regulation'
Bill be read a third time,
Sir J. SHELLEY moved, as an amendment, that the bill
he recommitted to a committee of the whole house. The
bon. gentleman said he made this motion, not because some
good might not be done by the bill, but because it would
affect the traffic of the whole metropolis, which was a mat-
ter which ought to be considered by that house in committee.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY opposed the amendment. The
regulation of the traffic over Loadon.bridge had given the
City authorities some experience, and he believed that if
the Court of Aldermen had powers granted to them to re-
gulate tbetintle through the streets of the City of London
putridly, it would be • great benefit to all persona passing
tbroagh with vehicles.
_ _

Mr. AYBTON said the bin proposed to give the Court of
Alderms—a body of the narrowest and most exclusive dia.
meter—the power of regulation the traf6c over tho whole of
the metropolis, not t►e City of London merely. If anv power
at all were rooted, it ought to be to the C3E11171100 eouncil.
or to the Board of Works, which represented a constituency,
and would be responsible to somebody or to parliament. The
11111 would enable the Court of Aldermen to prevent omni-
buss posing from the suburbs to the Bank of England,
and he should therefore vote for the amendment.

Mr. MASSEY said that the proposal of the boo. member
for Westminster was of a very unusual character, he not
Ding stated at the proper stage the amendments he pro-
posed inserting in the bill. The power. to be given to the
Court, of Aldermen, and which were objected to by the hon.
member for the Tower Hamlets, were simply matter. of de-
tail, and therefore be thought it would be monstrous to re-
commit the bill on the grounds stated.
Mr. CRAWFORD supported the bill, and hoped that the
louse would not consent to its recommittal, as that would
be practically throwing it over for this resins.
Sir G. GREY hoped that the hon. baronet would with-
draw his amendment. He (Sir G. Grey) considered the bill
to be a meet useful bill

Mr. BLILLIE had, u chairman of the committee, un-
derstood that all opposition vu to be withdrawn.
The amendment wee negatived, and the bill was read a
third time and passed.

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY (STEAMBOATS) BELL.
Ou the order of the day for the resomptiosa of the discur
sion 00 this hill,
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Mr. MASSEY suggested that the discussion should be
postponed until to-morrow (this day).
Mr. ADAM objected to any postponement.
Mr. CRAWFORD moved that the discussion be post-
poned for two mouths.
Captain JERVIS said that, as the committee bad laid
their report on the table, and as the report fully substan-
tiated the necessity for the bill, he trusted that the present
motion would Ue oesatived..

Sir H. CAIRNS supported the motion for postponement,
oe the grounds that the opponents; of the measure had
not bees permitted in the committee to show that there
were no "meal reasons for violating the standing order of
thebouse in favour of this

Sir H. BRUCE defended the committee, and said that
the opponenn bad declined opposing the bill, except by a
opeech on the general prieciple.
Mr. M. 0113 SON said be should oot have interfered in
the &demotes bat for the report of the deportment with
which he was connected upon the general question as to
bow far railway companies should be permitted to be pro-
prietors of steamboats. The Weld of Trade, in stating the
limits within which they thought such powers should be
granted, recommended that when a railway oompany was iu
posseseio• of a line terminating at a point in an important
district. the import and export trade of which was shown
to need development, and which was not supplied by pri-
vate enterprise with the requisite steam tornalunicatim, the
compony should be permitted to become proprietors of
steamboats. This was exactly a cue in point. At present
there was not a single steamboat leaving the 'until coast
of England all the way from Loadou to Hall ; private enter-
prise had not, and was sot likely to, supply the steam
commuuication between that important coast and the oppo.
sire coast of Helloed, and when a railway company under-
took to supply the want it was said that they should not
because • steam navigation esnipany had boats running
from London to Holland. He thought the ramose given by
the committee for making this an exeeptum to the ordinary
rule were well founded, and they had precedents for grant-
ing oilch powers, in the communication between Newhaven
and Dieppe. between Dover and Conde. and Dover and
Boulogne, and between Holyhead and Kingstown. The
bill had been saoctioned by committees of both houses, and
he hoped that it would be allowed to pass.
Mr. H. G. STUNT remarked upon the difficulty of coming
to • derision upon quest.oos of this character without having
the statements of counsel and all the endues before them,
and urged the house to adopt the recommendation of the
majority of the coalmines.
Mr. CLAY was of opinion that when the improvements
of the port of Harwich were complete there would be no
want of private esterpries in the establishment of steam
eommunicatioe with Helloed. He viewed with the greatest
Worm any ammo far giving steam iremels to railway nom-

wise, the tesdeeey of whirl was to bud over to them
monopoly of the trade frem certain parts of the oast.
Sir E. COLEBROOK I', opposed the bill
The house then divided ; the embers were :
For the amendment
Against l2l-82
The bill was accordingly ordered for third reeding.
The etandiug orders were also anspeaded in the case of
the North British Railway (Steamboats) Bill, and it was
ordered for third reading.