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London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL.

Lord LYTTELTON brought op the report of the com-
mittee on this bill.

REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES (IRELAND).
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose to present • pe-
tition of which he had given notice, from a poor-law union
in Ireland relating to the repayment of advances to unions.
He was not about to discuss the general question of the re-
payment of advances, but he would shortly advert to the
position in which the subject stood. Hews one of a nume-
rous deputation of members, of bsth houses of parliament,
who waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub-
ject, and pressed on him to direct the attention of the
government to it, and urging that it should bo dealt with in
a fair, liberal, and equitable manner. A committee of their
lordship' house had sat last year on this question, and a
more fair, dispassionate, and laborious investiga,
tine was never carried on than by that committee.
What the deputation urged on the right hon. gentleman
was, that this subject should be considered on its merits,
acd entirely free from financial considerations. He under-
stood, and he had seen several other members of the depu-
tation, and their impression entirely agreed with his own,
tat the right hon. gentleman gave a pledge that it should
be so considered, and that the only question which would
weigh with the government would be, was it a sound and
wise policy to remit that portion of the advances which kad
been made for the purpose, not of carrying on works which
had been presented by the landlords, or which were in any
way for their benefit, but to meet what must be regarded
e• a national calamity, and to preserve the people from
starvation. It appeared by the answer reported to hare
been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a motion
brought furward in the House of Commons on the subject
of the consolidated annuities, that the right hon. gentle-
man denied having given any such pledge, and
that he intimated he would announce the decision of
the government, when he brought forward the budget.
It might be material, perhaps, that the right hon. gentle-
man, as the question involved the remission of a liability,
that tie right hon. gentleman should avail himself of that
opportunity of declaring the decision of the government,
but what he and the deputation were anxious for was, that
it should be decided as a question of policy, apart from
considerations of finance and revenue arrangements. It
was possible he might be wrong in his impression that the
right hon. gentleman (eau a distinct pledge to that effect,
but he had thought it right before the decision of the
government was made known, to state what his understand-
ing and that of the other members of the deputation was as
to the answer they received at their interview with the
right hon. gentleman.
The Earl of ABERDEEN, having no knowledge of the
meeting to which his noble friend referred, or to any state-
ment which might have been made by his right hon. friend
to the deputation in question, he could not say anything as
to the pledge his right hon. friend was supposed to have
given. All he could say was, that he felt perfectly satisfied,
that whatever pledge his right hon. friend gave, or what
ever statement he made, would be undoubtedly adhered to.
Lord bIONTEAOLE confirmed the impression of his
noble friend as to what took place at the deputation with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He thought that there
was an equitable claim for tho remission of so mach of these
advances as had been made, not at the instance of the land-
lords, but to preserve the lives of the starving people uf
Ireland. The question was one to be dee;ded on its own
mend, and not in reference to the ability of Ireland to pay—
and especially he deprecated its twine considered u • re-
mission of debt, in return for which new taxes were to be
impoud.
After a remark from the Marquis of Ci atca um, the
petition was ordered to lie on the table.
THE MAYNOOTH DEBATE.
The Earl of ABERDEEN announced that the terms of
the amendment with which he proposed to meet the motion
of the Earl of Winehileea on Monday neat were a.
lows : " That an humble address be presented to her Ma-
jesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciowly pleased
to issue • commission to inquire into the management
provensmeint of the College of Moynooth, and into the dis-
cipline and course of instruction established and pureued
therein, and to inquire isle° into the effects produced by the
increased grant' conferred on the said college by parliament
in the year I fici. (gear, hear.)
Their lordships then adjourned at 7 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAT, APRIL 15.
The Sra►aaa took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Blackpool and Liyten with Warbrick Improvement
Bill was read a third time.
The esmhridge University and Town Waterworks Bill
wet enn. idered and ordt red to be laid on the table.

Tropro;em t;(OwellingsOf the Work-
ing Chasms) Bill wan read a second time.
The Devon and D triet Rad wile Bill, the Newry and En-
n4k;lisn Ittilway Bill, and the Warrington and Altrineham
Junction Railway (Warrington, &c.) ,Bill were severally
nod a second time.
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
Mr. ("ART/WELL. on rising to move the resolution on
this anzlidect of which he had given notio.,sakl they had been
unanimously agreed to by the committee selected by the
house at the beginning of the session. Tho hotline would
recollect that at the beginning of the session they had to
deal with 167 railway tine. Of three bills 82' inr,lve I
r”tuhination. of ialr r. st n ith difn r. •,t e mi.mien, and in
order t'., t thee m';l2. un,leentand the run ~itn k of the
istereste at .tike he vmuld, with the permission of tho
balm, refer to one or two atheist. There was an arrange-
ment coutemilated in Enennd with the London and North
Wintelf Cway which laraircil a raised capital of about

sixty millions, en annual revenue of about four millions,
the possession of 1,2)0 mils of railway, and from the
nature of the emend the towns with which them railways
communicated, involving communication with the whole
kingdom to the north of Devonshire. In Scotland '
there was a question so to whether the two 1
, lines which connected Edinburgh and Glaeotow, in-
stead of baring separate interests, eboald hate a combino-
tit,u of interttio. In Ireland there was another question,
that the Midland and Oreat Western Hallway, already pos.
wising the Hopei Canal of Ireland, should become pur-
chasers of the Grand Canal, and thereby become poseesud
of all the water communication between Dublin and the
West of Ireland. Thau questions were so grave that the
House of Commons thought it improper that they should
be dealt with by reference to select committees on separate
bills, where the dee:dens might bo conflicting, since the
whole case of railway amalgamation could not by possibility
be 'Omitted to any ono of those committees. At that
;periodhe had not the honour of a seat in the house, but
subsequent to that time it had been his lot chiefly to conduct
the operations of the committee. They found that they
were virtually considering questions with companies which
had capitol of 250 million., with a power of raising more,
which they had cot yet exercised. They were dealing with
a revenue already amounting to five millions, and annually
increasi g. They were dealing with the freedom of the
travelling, and the convenience of the transit, of passen-
gers ha ail parts of the kingdom, of whom, by the last
return, he had seen there were &i miLions in a year.
They wars dealing with the transit of goods front
all parts of the kingdom. Above all, they were
dealing with the great question of public safety,
and with the question how the lamentable accidents
which had Immo ncd on railways could be avoided by pru-
dent legislation for the future. Whatever else might he
the otinion of the house, he was sure they would be unani-
mous in this, that when an inquiry of this magnitude had
devolved on a committer, that committee were hound to
deal with it diligently and deliberately to investigate it to
the utmost. They had had great arguments addressed to
them by clout :Ole and competent men in favour of a
greater consolii:otioa of interests and of more extensive
amilgamation, and they had had strong apprehensions and
Arguments on the dangers that might result to the commu-
nity if parliament gave the requisite power!. In dealing
with that question they were not without ea idence of what
had been attempted before. The first great name by whom
it was considered was Mr. Huskiwin, and he dealt with it
by laying down a general principle that profits should not
excecO IO per cent. That general principle failed entirely ;
it turned out in practice that railways did not pay that
per centege. At a subsequent period the duty of endea-
vouring to disentangle this skein of railway politics de-
volved on a very able man, Lori Dalhousie, who did not
lay down ony general principle, but with the greatest assi-
duity applied himself to the details of every railway in the
kingdom, but his operations did not meet with success. At
the beginning of this session the question was devolved by
the house upon the committee. The committee thought
the time had now arrived when it was absolutely necessary
that the house should decide what they would do with the
question of amalgamation. The committee had carefully
eansidered the subject and were unanimously of opinion
that they could not advise the hmse to part with any of
their powers in respect to any amalgamation of the com-
panies. There was another question. There were many
new works going forward, which were promoted by per-
sons interested in the locality, who earnestly desired those
increased advantages of railway communica ion which were
expected by the passage of bills now before the huum. The
committee had been anxious to interfere with that as little
as possible, or not to interfere with it all. There was
another class of bills with which the house had
great experience with reference to what were
called fighting lines bills, promoted by compa-
nies who hail no intention of going on with them—
bills promoted as a means of offence or of defence, or pro-
moted by some private person, some speculating lawyer or
engineer, who wanted the sanction of parliament :to his bill,
and then to put it up lay auctioa. They have thought
whether a greater security might not be obtained against
hill. of that kind. They had taken core that at least pend-
ing this inquiry no such mischief should go on, and they
recommended that the house should put a stop to these
bills by declaring that they ohould not be proceeded with
unit ss the parties consented to give bail for the construction
of the line. It appeared to the committee that the case of
Ireland differed materially from England. England was
already traversed by innumerable rail rays, while Ireland
pate-wood but few, and these fighting lines did not exist in
Ireland. Oa the contrary, the difficulty in Ireland was to
obtain capital for local lines that were really wanted. That
being so they thought they ought to exempt Ire-
land from the second resolution. The right lion. gentleman
concluded by m ming the resolutions' which areas follow:
" Th it no railway or canal bill containing any powers of
amalti :motion, purchase, lease, working arrangement, or
other combination of interest between did rent railway or
cared companies heretofore incorporated, be further pro-
ceeded with, unless the part, s interested in promoting such
bill shall elect to proceed with the same on the terms of
striking out in c, tontine, all such powers aforesaid, except
when the combination of interest is limited exclusively to
an interest in new works to be executed, or for the execu-
tion of which time is to be given, wide• powers to be con-
ferred in the present session. That it he an instruction to
the committee on every railway and canal bill, in case any
petition, duly deposited by the promoters of any bill or bills,
which, in consequenco of the foregoing resolution, shall not
have been read a second time, shall allege that such bill or
belly involve a scheme competing with a scheme referred to
such committee, it shall he competent to the committee to
admit the petitioners presenting such petition to • locus
stondi to uppose the bill so referred to them as aforesaid.
That, in the present session, it be an insrtuction to the
committee on every railway bill providing for the construc-
tion of any new railway, or for the extension of time for
the completion of any railway in Great Britain, in cue they
shall find the preamble thereof to be proved, to insert in
the bill our or other of the provisions following, that is to
say : In every railway bill promoted by an existing rail-
way company, being possessed of a railway already opened
fur public traffic, whereby the construction of any new line
of railway is authorised, or the time for completing any line
already authorised is extended, a clause providing that after
the expiration of a period to be limited by such bill, not
exceeding are years from the passing of the act, no the
ease of • new line, and three years in case of the ex-
tension of time for completing any line, the pay-
meat of any dividend on the ordinary and ungua-
waattsed capital of such company shall be suspended until
amtli line shall have been completed and opened for public
traße. In every railway bill promoted by an existing rail-
way company not being possessed of • railway already
opened for public traffic, or by persons not already incorpo-
rated, whereby the construction of any new lino of railway
is authorised, a clause to the following effect, six.: And
whereas, pursuant to the standing orders of both houses of
parliament, and to an act of the ninth year of her present
Majesty, c, 241, a sum of 1., being one-tenth part of
three-fourths of the amount of the estimate of the expense
of the railway authorised by this act, has been deposited
with the Court of Chancery in England (or Ireland, or with
the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, as the caso may be),
(or Exchequer Bills, stocks, or funds to the amount
of 1., have been deposited or transferred pursuant
to the said act, as the case may be), in respect of the appli-
cation to parliament for this apt ; be it enacted that, not-
withstanding anything contained in the said recited act, the
said sum of 1. (or the said Exchequer Bills,
or other funds, as the case may be), so deposited or trans-
ferred as aforesaid, in respect of the application for this
act, or the interest or dividends of such sum of money (Ex-
chequer Bills, rocks, or funds) shall not, except upon
the execution and deposit of such bond as here-
inafter mentioned, be paid or transferred to or on the appli-
cation of the person or persons, or the majority of the per-
sons, named in such warrant or order, or the survivors or
survivor of them, unless the said company shall, previously
to the expiration of the period limited by this act for com-
pletion of the railway hereby authorised to be made, either
open the said railway for the public conveyance of passen-
gers, or prove to the satisfaction of the lords of the com-
mittee of her Majesty's Privy Council for trade and
foreign plantations that the said company have paid up one-
half of the amount of the capital by this act authorised to
be raised by means of shares, and have expended for the
purposes of this act a sum equal in amount to such one-half
of the said capitol ; and if the said period shall expire
before the said company shall either have opened the said
railway for the public conveyance of passengers, or have
given such proof as aforesaid to the satisfaction of the
lords of the said committee the said sum of money (Exche-
quer Bills, Stocks, or Funds) deposited or transferred as
aforesaid, and the interest and dividends thereof, shall im-
mediately, from and after the expiration of the said period,
be forfeited to her Majesty, and be paid and transferred by
the t fficer or person in whose name they shall then be de-
posited or invested to the aconunt of her Majetty's Exche-
quer, and when so paid and transferred, shall be carried to
and form part of the consolidated fund of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland : provided that at any
time after the pasting of this act, if a bond in twice the
amount of the said sum of shall have been exe-
cuted by the said company, with one or more sureties (such
bond to be orepazed to the satisfaction of, and such surety
or suroies to be approved by, the solicitor to the lords
commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury), conditioned
for payment to her Majesty, her heirs or successors, of the
said sum of £ if the sold company shall not, within
the time limited for the completion of the said railway,
either open the said railway for the public conveyance of
passengers, or prove to the satisfaction of the lords of the
.aidamownittes that the said company have paid up one-
half of the amount of the said capital by this act authorised
to be raises! by means of shares, anal have expended fur the
purposes uf this act • sum moot in amount to such one-half
of the said capital ; and if such bond shall have been de-
posited with the out solicitor to the said lords commis-
oinnera, then such sum of money (Exchequer Bills, stocks,
or funds), and the interest or dividends thereof, shall be
paid or trousferrod to, or nn the application of the person or
persons, or the majority of the persons, named in such war-
rant of order as aim:said, or the survivors or survior
of diem; and the monies to be recovered upon such
bond shall he dealt with in like manner as
the said sum of money [Exchequer Bills, stocks, or funds],
and the interest or dividends thereof, would have been
dealt with under this act if such bond had not been exe-
cutest and deposited as aforesaid. In ease of any railway
bill to which neither of the foregoing provisions may be
'maid to apply, a special provision for effectually securing,
as nearly as may be, in accordance with the. macs the cora-
pletion and opening for traffic of the railway to which the
bill Malmo"
The resolu'ions were ogve.il to after a short conversation.
AIIIIERCIATE. NOT !INGO VT, AND BOSTON,
AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY (Ne. 2)
RILL.

Bie7/71r. ZULLER moved that the standing order No.
190 be tsar tided, and thlt the bi.l keno' s would time cu
Moab, aut.—digrced to.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.

ADMISAION OF JEITA To PARLIAMIENT.—B Mr. GWYN,
haul; a place not hel; Mr. J. K. KING, from the
parish of Leintwardine. in the county of Hereford; Col.
DUNCOSIIIE, from Hutton Rudley, in Yorkshire; Mr.
PACKE, from Cadeby, in the county of Leicester; Mr.
FARNHAM, from Breedon, in the county of Leicester;
Mr. EVELYN, from the clergy of the deonery'of Stoke
d'Ahetnon. Surrey, and the clergy of the deanery of West
Stoke, Surrey; Col. BLAIR, from the presbyter, of Grin-
, wick (S.Natland), signed by toe Moderator; Mr. KNIO
LEY, from Newnhom, Badly, and Preston Capes, in the
county of Northataptou ; Sir J. TROLT.OPE, from Lead-
. enham, county of Lincoln; Mr. MUNny, fr 411 Tissington
and Wigton-upon-Trent, in toe county of Darby ; Mr.
NOEL, from Ookham nod Egleton, in the county of Rut-
, load: Sir J. Y. BULLER, from Upton Woodleigh, St.
James. Exeter, Ashburton, and two other places ; Mr.
CHILD, from Ilaulev and Shelton, Staftwdshire ; Lord
HO f HAM, trout Welton-com-M, Iton, E ist Riding
of Y•ultsli ire ; Mr. TOL LE sl AC E, from Birken-
head, Sanaback, and Church Iluime ; against.—
' Sir U. GOODMAN, fro:u the mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses of the borough of Leeds. in council assembled; Mr.
COBDEN, from Durdey ; Lord D. STUART, from mem-
bers of the western synagogues of British Jews; Mr.
WHALLEY, from Brt eon ; in favour.
OPENINO OP THE CuacTAL PALACE ON SUNDATS.-13y
Mr. TOLLEMACITE, from the deaneries of M.ddiewich,
Nantwich, and Runcorn; Mr. A. I'ELLATT, from 416
inhabit:n[B of Edgware-road and its vicinity ; .elso from in-
habitants of Westminster, 216 signatures; against.
TAXT.3 ON KNowLrooe. —By Mr. BEAUMONT , from
Sir Walter 'frevelyau and others, for the repeal of.
MAYNOOTH.—By Mr. FARNHAM, from Colaville,
against.
ATrunsie.s. CERTIEIC iTE DUTY.—By Mr. POLLE-
MACRE, from I.l:rk,uiteoil and Nuntwich Mr. B. STAN-
HOPE, from Epri'rth, Lincolnshire, for repeal of.

BISTTZR UIATiON OF• Penlit: IlLusr.a (Scot-
LAND) BILL.—By Cul. Mliltl-1, from the Ilceneed victual-
lers at.d spirit m•rehants of Paisley, against.

TYNENIOUra ELECTION.

Sir B. HALL hromOt up the report of the committee in
thi. rise. It vs.!.

That Hugh Taylor, DI., is not duly sleeted a member
to Jerre in the present parliament for the borough of Tyne-
mnu•h ; and that the last election is a TOW election.'

The committee had also agreed to tho following reso-
lution : _

.... _ .
" That Hutch Taybir, Esq., was by his agents guilty of
bribery and treating at the last election.
" That it was purred that one Samuel Bell had been
bribed by a payment in the form of refreshment tickets
amounting to 91. lOs. ; and that SllOll tickets wen• issued by
the committees of the candidates on both sties—narael
lOs. Irons the committee of Mr. Taylor, an I!. from that
of Mr. Ralph Wm. Grey.
" That a system of corruption by means of refreshment
tickets called' orders' prevailed at the last election on both

" That it was not proved that the bribery and treating
were committed with the knowledge of the said Hugh
Taylor, but it appeared that the expenses of the said Hugh
Taylor amounted to 1,900 i. (Sensation.)
" That the committee have reason to think that corrupt
practices extensively prevailed at the last electi m."
Fir B. HALL subd he hau been instructed by the com-
mittee to move tsr a commission to inquire into the borough,
and ;eve notice that, in due course, he :should move the
proper resolution, with a view to the issuing of such con-
m'16;011. (Hear.)
PROSECUTION OF ELECTION AGENTS GUILTY