The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

THE fl PRESS, SATURDAY rirENING. JULY 7, 1660.

Valmont PALMERSTON mid that these wan no intem
Lion to prepoes any alteration t 4 the law bearing upon
volunteers in Wand. With tepid to the question put b 7
Lord Fernoy, be could only sa that he was perfsj
aatialled aid. the resolutions which he had felt it hie duty
to submit to the hoar; sad if those resolutions were
carried. as he hoped they would be, be had no intention of
mama any other proposal. (Load cheers from the oppo
The motion foe adjournment till Monday was than
mimed to-
TAX BILLS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.

It,. H. D. !SEYMOUR resumed the adjourned debate.
He had '
rest Yard the dechoatios of the noble lord that he
was perfectly satisfied with the resolutions, and did not in-
tend to p farther. The resolutions were good in them-
selves ; bet his complaint was that they stopped far abort
of giving due effect to what ought to be that proper pur-
port. They laid down what was entirely abstract, and
metresel what could not be cootradicted, it would have
bee, much better for the dignity of the house and the con-
sistency of the noble lord if he had peoeeeded to draw the
ocusinnenoe that legitimately followed from his resoluticum
If the sole right of controlling the supply tasted in that
home, sad it was jealous of its ancient and undoubted tune-
timo—d the Home of Lords had not freqoantly used that
power-mad if ea mehis exercise of that power bad now
takes Mass them ought to have been a plainer and more
natmaivocal sleek:sties of that fact by the home. He hoped
that the edge lord would amend the third resolution
before it wee pat, or that the house would support him
(Hr. Seymour) in the amendment, of which he given
notice,—"That the rejection by the Lords of the bill for
repealing the paper duty is a violation of the constitutional
rights nf the Commons." The noble lord had declared in
Ms speech that it certainly was not consistent with the
rights and functions of that Louse that any material por-
tion of the general scheme of finance should be rejected
the other house ; and he admitted that the
is principle had done this—in other words, that
they had interfered with the undoubted sad
ancient pried l of that house. If he was in mineut is
making these iiervations why should he stop shirt? 'lrby
sot move to the country his sincerity by putting Is a de.
dainties that the Home of Lords had violated sod es-
ereselied upon the privileges of that house? He asked
the house, then, not to be content with these resolutions,
nor to consent to be drawn into what must obviously
become a precedent. He did not speak in any revolutionary
spirit, nor did be wish to see any diminution of the just
privileges of the Houle of Lords, but he wished to
see preserved intact all the just and constitutional privi-
leges of the House of Commune. The hon. and learned
member having sat down, rose again and said he should
move the amendment of which be had given notice as •
distinct resolution. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HORSHAM, after reminding the house that be had
warned them of the importance of the financial measure
which had given rise to this question, argued, in opposition
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the power of the
House of Lords to review, correct, and check the finan-
cial policy of the House of Commons, to be rarely exer-
cised and only in exceptional cases, was constitutionally
vested in that body. But in cases of conflict of privi-
lege, the decision did not belong to either house ; the
real authority rested with the nation. Preeedente
might be quoted on either side upon this question, but it
was not sulßcient to show that they were analogous. The
virtue of precedent' varied with the times ; each era had
it. own. In former days the privileges of the Commons
were employed as a barrier against the crown, which they
resisted through the medium of the Lords. Till of late
years the Lords had exercised au undue influence in the
}louse of Commons, so that there was an absence of motive
to set them in motion on money bills. But the act of 102 had
effected a great transfer of power. They had not pretended
to interfere with the exclusive right of •the House of Com- j
moos to say what that expenditure should be, or to increase
the expenditure by a single shilling, but believing that the
credit of the country could not be maintained if the paper
duty were repealed they had not thought it their duty to
share the responsibility of leaving the country in an em-
barraming position. The peers bad not pretended to make
a budget, but they had distrusted the calculations of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and had suspected the opera-
tionef his scheme until it bed been submitted to the test
of time. AU they bad done had been to take a wide, neces-
sary, and just security that under the apparent remission
of one tax the necessity should out be established of im-
posing another of • more objectionable character.
position cheers.) The Home of Commons was itself daily
gemming more power by establishing new precedents. At
the present moment all bills virtually originated in the
Commons, but it was only the natural and inevitable result
of the historic working of our system. The last act of the
Lords had not been dictated by any desire on their part to
brave and alleged the Commons, but it was simply
the intim,' working of the constitution to meet and
a definite en,e . The budget was in reality a
revolution into wWh the House of Commons bad bees
partly charmed aid yartlyceereed. hiasy of those Mamie&
ie the majority bed their atirgivi rie. bet they did sot see
their remedy. Their ally remedy was the House of Lords,
which instioctively, from the nature of the circumstances,
supplied a remedy. The act of the peers was perfectly na-
tural and constitutional, and was a happy illustration of the
practical self-working of the English constitution. (Cheers.)
It was the unconscious encroachment of the Commons that
had quickened into life the dormant power. and lateut quali-
ties of the Lords ; and this admirable and healthful vitality
of the constitution, developing spontaneously new processes
to counteract new tendencies to Mamas, was the best
guarantee for its safety and durability. (Cheers.) BM
this was not the constitution which the advocates of
" action " wished to defend ; their constitution was the
despotism of the House of Commons, the tyranny of a single
chamber, the absolute dominion of an unchained, uncon-
trolled, irresponsible democracy. (Cheers sad die
tine.) That was• constitution which a ould indeedPt°b:s
anomaly, ruinous to England, fatal to every interest from
the highest to the lowest, from the peer down to the trader
and artioiu ; for when the upper Louse of legislature lost its
indepeudence, the lower would soon cease to represent the
true interests of the country. For this reason, because he
believed that the act of 1832 gave es much power to the
Coinmous as relatively they ought to have, and
because he agreed in what the noble loaf the
prime miumer had so well said, that the dangere to
public bLerty is the future were more to be apprehended
free the encroachments of the Commons than from the
usurpateds of the Lords, he was glad to bud a majority of
the house, rider the noble lord's guidance, prepared to
justify the comes which the Lords had pursued. It was
sot a &taproom precedent if the House of Lords had
checked the House of COMOIOIII, when the House of
Compose had am consulted the interests of the na-
tion ; and he esly hoped that precedent would be
faithfully recorded and followed if any such occasion
hereafter arose. It was for such occasions that the House of
Lords existed, to be 11■011 when the Commons were wild--
Wrest cheering from the opposition benched—to palpate
an irrevocable mischief till the country had time to ante to
its auser. They were the guardians of the constitution,
sad on this oc saion they bad kept faithful watch, sad
sounded an alarm which had raised the nation and arrested
the Comma.. in their irregular course. 'Renewed chagr-
in.) Aud if that arrest had been illegal, why did not
the goveronieut and the House of Commons appeal to their
judges out of doom'; Was it because they kuew that those
judge, would aeon the judgment of the Lords, and that it
would be found that the House of Lords reu;ly represented
the nation, and the Commons represented a ministerial ma-
jority—that majority itself being of an equivocal and pre-
CATiOWI nature ; for, as thenoble lord himself had shown, it
was • vanishing quantity; the third trial would have con-
verted it into a minority, and he was not sun, that in that
division the noble lord would nut have been found in the
opposite lobby to his own Chancellor of the Exchequer.
(C6ms sod laughter.) The fact was that they
had on this occasion so materials for a contest
with the Lords. The attempt had lamentably broken down.
The law was not with them ; the precedents were not for
them ; es-institutional principle and policy were both against
them—and as for the country, if they appealed to that,
the nation would affirm what history would certainly re.
cord, that this erasion of 1960 had been doubly memorable
for the rashness, the recklessness, the ruinous disregard of
consequences that had smirked the proceedings of the Corn-
n,ons--(eheere and disapprohatiom—sad for the calmer
c..urate, the dignity, and patnotent that had shod a lustre
on the won wedom of the House of Lords. Wrest nlB.-
10,411' sod cheering.)

Mr. BR lUHT, who was much cheered on rising, mid that
he was struck with a certain inoomistency in the right i
bon. getitleimin who had just resumed Ma rat. He was
surprised that the right hon. gentleman bad not coocluded
by moving that certain worth of the Brat n.solution should
be left out, and, indeed, that the declaration which the
hour woe about unanimously to make should be reversed,
because that would have been in accordance with the speech
of the right hon. gentleman, and with. the sentiments
which many hoo. members opposite had most vociferously
cheered. *There were fifty gentlemen on the other
of the house, who were, in the early stages of the budget,
more enthusiastic saworters of it than a great many mem-
bers on that side of the house, and he (Mr. Height) did not
know what those fifty members thought of the remarks of
the right bon. gentleman upon what he called the headlong,
precipitate, and realer budget of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Now he would not attempt to follow the right
hon. gentleman, either to support or to controvert Lie
theories of the ;Amer value of the House of Lords as •
part of the constitution of this country, for that was not
the question before the house ; but be would endeavour to
state the grounds on which be (Mr. Bright) was not very
well satished with the course the hour we invited to take.
He would not attack the resolutions of the noble lord,
nor would he defend them • he was not responsible for
them. They appeared to bin; not worthy of the ocerion.
(How, bear.) Ile thought they bore marks of having been
°ripened by more than one head, sad if they exprered all
the bore had to say an this occrius, he thought posterity
would say they were the rescantions of a degenerate
House of Commas. (Boar, beer.) The Ent or wee •
very good neolatien, bed it was very old. (A laugh.)
It viar not the were fit that, and he we, glad the noble
viscount had sot thoeght it necessary to try and improve it.
The other two resolutrues were somewhat ambiguous end
feeble. They were not, either in their expreniee et what
he believed to be constitutional urge, or as examples of
&Wish composition, to he with the (heat and
oldest. Last night, after long sheets, two speeches were
ride from the other side of the house—speeches which he
herd with some surprise and soar psis. They appeared to
him marsed by peat reekliamene and past ler*. What-

ever might be the opiates of member' with regard to the
question before the boo" it was not one to be treated in
that manner. It was a serious question whether the powan
of this house had been infringed or not, and whethr
soother house should hereafter exercise powers which it had
not hitherto exercised ; and we might learn from history
that there wee no greater sign of the decadence of • people
than to find leaders of party and eminent statesmen treating
great questions as if they were not great, and solemn
realities, as if they were no realities at all. (Cheers.) He
thought he could observe in those speeches rather the
tprirjo di of men who fancied that where they had ex.
an opponent in the Prime Minister they had
got an advocate, and who were delighted that, acting
with their confederates in the other house of parliament,
they were likely to obtain a signal party advantage. But
would anybody deny that the House of Lords had violated,
he would not say the privileges of the House of Commons,
bat broken in upon an usage many centuriee old,
which the predecessors of the present House of
Commons believed to be of the utmost im-
to the powers of the House of Commons, and
=liberties which they represented? If there bad been
nothing wrong, why have a committee' The right bon.
member for Buckinghamshire now, three weeks after the
. .

1 committee had bee; appointed, Mid it would have been
better if there had not been any committee, but he did
not oppose it at the time ; and every member of the house
thought it was but reasonable when the noble lord proposed
that committee. But why should they row"
the journals and search for precedents unless some-
thing hadpned which jarred upon every man's
sense with to the right, of that house and the corn-
MOD usage the House of Lords ? And why, after that
research, should they now have these resolutions, moved
not by • young and inexperienced member, but by the
noble lord, one of the oldest members of the bowie, one of
the most eminent statesmen in the country, and the chief
minister of the crown ? Everybody must admit that the
circumstance were such as to justify this course,
end the bora. gentlemen opposite, notwithstanding their
sponedio must see that these resolutions them-
egos were a of the general opinion that the course
the Leeds takes was unusual, if not absolutely woo
ilr
The Lords, to whom the theories of Mr. foreman had
slop bean palatable, had made repeated efforts to exer-
cise the of amending money bills, which had been
defeated the Oommone The resolutions of the house in
1678 and 1 awersed the absolute control of the Commons
over all aide and 'applies granted to the crown, and
this right was remedied in subsequent years. A stream
of resolutions and dadaratione conBrmed and con-
emoted the principle existing for 500 years, and
which, he had thought, everyone admitted, the fun.
damental and unchangeable principle of the English
constitutiou, that taxation and representation were ineepa-
ble in this kingdom. Mr. Bright then proceeded at some
length to vindicate the policy of repealing the paper duty,
as • relief to ao important industry, and to other it:Aus-
tria" depoding upon an abundant and cheap supply of
paper, and charged the Home of Lords with in-
flicting most harsh and cruel treatment on persons
interested in these industries. He complained, too,
of their unfair proceeding, in refusing to allow the
paper excise to be repealed, while they retained
the additional income tax which was substituted for it. The
lords might reject money bills ; they might even amend
such bills ; they were omnipotent within their four walls ;
but if they took a course contrary to the usage of orbs,
ment, it became this house to say what mune they should
take. His opinion was that it would only be consonant
with the dignity of the House of Commons to pass ano.
they bill to repeal the paper duty, and if they gave the
lords, in return, " time for reconsideration," he believed
they would accept the bill, and thus the difficulty
would be surmounted. The policy of the repeal of
the paper duties was the recognised policy of the
house, and the admitted interest of the country. Then
why, unless it were for the sake of a party triumph, or
to attack • particular minister —(cheersj—should this ques-
tion of • sum of 700,000 f. be raised to a magnitude which
did not belong to it ; and why, if not for the sake of such
Ldparty triumph, should the measure be disgraced
tortured as it had been, through the
contrary action of the House of lards? (" Oh, oh," and
cheers.) He was told there were members of the govern-
ment who would not support
brthoeuttrovernment in such •
course. If the noble lord had t it forward on these
grounds, he doubted whether thehouse would not have
, taken precisely the course indicated by the resolutions, and
have pared the bill by a much greater majority than that
by which they had passed it before. (Cheers.) He was '
aware that there were gentlemen on that side of the house
who had offered great temptations to hon. gentlemen op-
posite to step out into opposition. An hon.
gentleman behind him had spoken of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer as a reckless and unfit
administrator of the public finances. (Opposition cheers,
and cries of " No.") 'lle hon. gentleman said he coafiDed
his observations to the question of the paper duties. He
(Mr. Bright) did not mean to go further than that in the
statement he made. But in 1853 they had the same Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. It was alleged that he committed
great errors. (Cheers and counter cheers.) Well, the right
boo. gentleman opposite, who wee Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, was not in Mho long enough to commit any great
anon. He brought in • budget, and the House of Coon.
mous rejected it ; and on the second time when he brought
in • budget, be put everything off to his successor. (Cheers
and laughter.) Anybody could curry on for a
session on that principle. But that was not the
principle of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer.
(Cheer. and counter cheers.) In 1853 the right hon. mem-
ber for the University of Oxford was Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He (Mr. Bright) would put it to both sides of
the house whether it was not the fact that the main strength
of the government of Lord Aberdeen was developed by sad
coucentrated in the action of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer upon the taxation of the country, which obtained nand-
venal praise from the country, and which gave a strength
to that mixed government which it did not otherwise pos-
sess? (Cheers.) Then they came to the present year ; and
without attempting to depreciate the character or the
abilities of the noble viscount or his colleague., he asked
whether the power which the present government Oil
possessed during this session had not been gained
mainly through the beneficent propositions of the Chan-'
oellor of the Exchequer? ("Oh! oh." laughter, and cheers.)
Some said the house was alternately charmed and coerced ;
but he thought the house was Dever lees likely than now to
submit to such influence. The house had shown a wonderful
independence—independence of its own principles, and of
everything that it had done before. Every one would agree
that when the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
wa. propounded it was received in all the great cities of in-
dustry, and among the farmers too, with all but universal
approbation. (Cheers.) He would appeal to those on the
other side who had voted in its favour if it were not so.
(Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said against the French '
treaty since it was first mooted. A government journal in
this country, whose matte might be that which Nasal said
was adopted by one of the ancients—" Omnia, pro temporis ;
'Ulla pro 'ordeal," hail said much against it. Every pa-
eibis form of falsehood had been propounded with regard to !
the treaty ; and a right hon. gentleman had not hesitated
that night to give currency to statements which were
wholly Inaccurate, and to which he (Mr. Bright), if any.
where else, would apply a stronger term. (Hear, hear.) '
He had said that the manufacturers of England were
painted somethings in the antechambers of the Emperor
of the French. That statement was wholly untrue.
No man in England was more competent to give an opinion
on the question than he was. (Hass, hear.) Nothing could
exceed the good faith and liberality with which the clues.
tics was being treated by the commissionen of the French
government. (Hear, hear.) They were as noxious as our 1
commissioners that there ahould be • great trade between
the two countries—{hear)- and wheu • government in
amity with our government was endeavouring frankly and
fairly to open the doors of the two countries to extended
trade, he was neither a statesman nor • patriot who emdea.
vowed to defame and depreciate the treaty in the eyes of
the people, and thereby, tf ble, to prevent its emcees.
(Cheers.) Some said that the budget was novel
and gigantic in its proportions. The only novelty was the
abolition of the paper duty ; the tariff was exactly the ta-
riff which hon. gentlemen had been recommending aims
they were converted. (Cheers.) After having acknow-
ledged certain great principles and witnessed their boo&
cent action through the country, was it manly, generous, or
booming in hoc. gentlemen opposite to oppose the further
extension of those principles Which the whole country ad-
mitted to be good? (Hear, bear.) They boasted of the
freedom( commerce. The commerce of this country had
double:) linos he had had a seat in that house. (Hear.) He
bad never thought such an extension prasible.
By attackingethrough thetihaneeller of the Exchequer,
principles so excellent, and which had been proved to be so
bonehead to the country, hon. gentlemen did not =ream
their reputation or influence with those whom they pro-
fessed to represent. There was not • cottage in the king-
dom where the words of the Chanoellor of the Exchequer
did not give hope, and where his measures—defeaded by an
eloquence which few could equal, end a logic which none
could contest—did not mewed comfort upon the humble
!nerd, and give consolation to thetoiling millions of this trio.
dom. (Cheers.) Having these views, and feeling them trio
his heart, he mkd hon. gentlemen to put aside this
constant contest on financial changes. He appealed to the
experience of the past and the present condition of the
country, and asked them to interpose no further obstacles
to those principles of good legislation. He grieved that the
noble viscount had sot shown more courage, and that
the house hail not manifested greater self-respect. (Hear.)
He believed that this might he regarded as the find occa-
sion for 600 years on which the Commons of England abased
themselves before the irresponsible nntl hereditary chamber.
(Hear.) He at least and those who acted with him would
be clear from any participation in this ; they would be free
from the shame which he believed posterity would attach to
the chief echo in this proceeding. (Hear.) The house would
recollect that he protested against the under of reference
because he thought it was calculated to evade rather than to
promote their investigation. But being on the committee he
eat and watched on the committee with au earnest sincerity
on the part of the House of Common.. He felt it an
honour to sit in that house up to the present time. He
hoped that hereafter the character of the house might net
be impaired by the corm about to be taken. He had es-
&avowed to show to his cnnntrymen the almost tresses
which was about to Woomniitted against them. (Her,
beer.) He bad refused to dishonour the names and the
memories of soh men as Coke and Belden, nod Weevil sad
Pro ; and Hhe was defeated in this atruggle he should
have this coaeolatioa, that he had done all he could to
Maintain the honour at the house, and not to sacrifice in
any degree the mend interests which his constituents had
garnishing to his are. (Loud abeam)

Mr. Mamma and Yr. Wilma= both moved the adjourn-
MOM of the debit* amiebi load Mee for a division.

Loyd PAuuseerox 171 the home would ease to
divides {W sight. (Hear. The question had been fully
dimmed, sod he believed house was prepared to come
too desk* wes ft. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HEM ET suggested that the first resolution might
to speed to, sad any further discussion taken on the
second sad third resolutions. (" Hear, hear," and "No,
no.")
Mr. DISRAELI said the whole of the resolutions had
been discussed together, and be thought the house had
better decide upon them as a whole.
After a few words from Mr. CONINGHAII, which were
inaudible,
Mr. MELLOR said that he should withdraw his motion
in respect of the first resolution, but he should wish to
offer a few remarks on the second. (Cries of "Oh, oh,"
and "Divide.")
The SPEAKER proceeded to read the first resolution.
Mr. WHALLEY moved the adjouranisat of the debate.
(Tremendous uproar.)
Elir C. NAPIER observed that that was the third time
the hon. member had attempted to obtain a hearing.
The SPEAKER pronounced the first resolution to have
bees agreed to, and prooseded to read the second.
Mr. MELLOR said that he believed the second reso-
!titian expressed more than its framers had intended, and
more than the precedents justified. He proposed to add
the words, "relating, among other matters, to taxation."
(Loud cries of "Move.") The hon. member moved the
insertion of the words.
Lord PALMERSTON objected to the insertion of these
words. The words of the resolution, however severely
they might be criticised, had been carefully considered, and
fully expresed the meaning they were intended to convey.
The words "bills of several deecriptions" were "efficiently
comprehensive ; the meaning being, that bills had bees re-
jected relating to taxation. He thought the words pro-
posed totally unnecessary.
Mr. BRIGHT said that se the resolution stood it would
bear the interpretation that bills like the Paper Duties Re-
peal Bill had been previously rejected. As that was nolo-
rieuely not the case, and as some degenerate committee
might fifty years hence be using this resolution as a prece-
dent, perhaps it would be better to take until Monday to
consider thin amendment. (Renewed
.upraar.)
Mr. WHALLEY again rose, and being unable to obtain •
hearth, again moved the adjournment of the debate.
The house divided. The numbers were—
For the adjournment of the debate 36
Against it
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud laughter and cheers.
The house then divided upon the amendment proposed by
Mr. Mellor.
For the amendment
Against it 369-317

The second resolution was then agreed to.
On the question that the third resolution be agreed to,
Lord FERMOY said there were two important amend-
ments, which required discussion. ("Divide,' and great
interruption.) It was clear that there ought to be a dis-
cussion, and he had no alternative but to move the ad-
journment of the debate, which he did accordingly.
Mr. BCULLY seconded the motion.

Load PALILYBESTO T rid, attar the unequivocal demon-
stration of the bud division, and 000aidenog that other
matters et great importance would have to come on next
week, he hoped and trusted boo. members would not pro-
ceed to • divisioa.

Mr. SCULLY maid his noble friend bad no alternative
but to adjourn the debate, as the house would not hear
him.
Mr. CLAY trusted the noble lord would not trouble the
house to divide. It would be very unseemly to do so, and
it would be better for the dignity of the party to which he
belonged to withdraw hi motion.
The motion for adjournment was then put and negatived
without a division.
The remolutirn was then read, and put and agreed to
without a division.

The third resolution Ins then agreed to amidst loud
cheers.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH ACT AMENDMENT

This bill was read a wood time.
_ . . LOCAL TAXATION RETURNS BILL

This biii;,7..;d:liNitii.Q:p7s;id7—
LEITH HARBOUR AND DOLMA BILL.
This bill was read a third time andAssed.
INDEMNITY BILL.
Thu bill pried committee.
MINES REGUIVIeN AND INSPECTION BILL.
The report of amendments was agreed to.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

After a short discussion, the house ;;Tinto committee.
Mr. CARDWELL then moved a resolution on which to
found a bill• for the purpose of providing funds to keep a
Royal College of Mayirooth in repair. The measure he pro.
posed war is coefonnity with the recommendation of the
committee, the majority of which were protestantih
that the repairs should be paid for out of the funds already
in the hands of the trustees for the general purposes of
the college.
Mr. NEWDEGATE defended the conduct of the House
of Commons in refusing to provide funds fur the suatenta•
tam of the edifice.

Mr. DEEDES moved that the Chairman report progress,
but the resolution was eventually speed to.
SELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY

This bill was withdrawn.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT (1855) AMEND-
MENT BILL.
_ _

The at ametiaboentsw; weed to.
BURIAL GROUNDS (IRELAND) ACT (1856) AMEND-
MENT BILL

The ligsget of 1/1/300dITIOCIB111;;WISd to.
ADMIRALTY COURT JURISDICTION (No. 2) BILL.
This bill pulsed through committee.
TRAMWAYS (IRELAND) BILL
In committee on this bill,
Sir R. GROGiLN proposed the exemption of Dublin from
its operation.
The committee divided—

Fur the motion
Against it

This result was received with loud laughter.
Sir 8 GROGAN then moved that the committee repose
program ; but this proposal was negatived without a divi-
sion, and the clauses of the hill were agreed to.
_ BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS BILL.

The report of amendments was ageeed to.
The house rose at 3 o'clock.

PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
_ sANKRUPTS.

HENRY POTTER and SAKO4 lAiints2/UNIN HIND, DRUM, Hisrvey,
builders, to surrender July 13 at 114, and August 16 at 11, at
Baainghall-street. Sole., Mews. Hoprood, King William.
;street, Strand: Of. wig., Carman, Basinghallstreet.
ELIRS COHN RCICH, ARCHER COlllllo[lol, and ISRAEL COHNRRICII,
Nassau-place, Commercial-road East. hootmakera, July 16 at
24, and August 10 at 12, at Basingbalidstreet. Sol., Sydney,
Jewry street, Aldgate . off. wag., Pennell, Guildhall-chambers.
BENJAMIN GIRDS, kleßMOlDlßßy.drect, Southwark_ , leather mer-
chant, July 16 at 14, and August 60 at 1. at Basinghallutreet.
Solo , sit- and Robinson, Parishstroet, Southwark : off. orig.,
Pennell, Guildhall.chambers.
Junto WALLn., Hitchln, Hertfeedabire, dealer in oil cake, July
16 at 1, and August 20 at 124, at Basinghall-street. Solo.,
Peek and Downing, Basinghallstreet, and Banner, 13rerpool :
off. wig., Pennell, Guildhall chambers.
811105 SANDIE, Mt. HAT/Die, City, merchant, July 17 at 2, and
August 21 at 124, at Baslnghall-street. tlot., Jones, King's
Arms-yard. Colemanstreet : of. wig., Lee, Alslemanhury,
Bum MAI? CLAYTON, Kelton, lintlandshire, stone merchant, July
19 at 14, and August 21 at 2.„ at Baalaghall.strett. SW., Wright
and Bonner, London-street, Yenchurch.street. and law, Stam-
ford, Lincolnshire off. wig., lee, Aldermassloury.
JOHN AUNTRN, Plerrepontsow, Islington, leather seller, July if
at 2, and August 21 at 24. at limanghallstreet. Sole., Maw.
Butler, Tinsley-street, Southwark . of. wig., Edwards, Basing-
hall-street.
JOHN Lotto, Birmingham, merchant, July 16 and August 8, at 11,
at Birotiugharn Court. Sob., Hodgson anal Allen, Birming-
ham. and Beale and Marigold, Birmingham : otf. totals., Kin-
near, Birmingham.
BARCHIL CHERRINOTON, HOllllllll.ll. 1.111R01114111e. drucuiat,
July 17 and August 9, at 114. at Birmingham Court held at Not-
tingham. Sol., Maples, Nottingham . oil. twig., Harris, Non-
Bentham.
LIRWIN PHILIP DUTTON. Abemvon, Glantorganahlre, wino stealer,
July 16 and August 20. at 11. at Bristol Court. Sol., Miller,
Bristol ; of. aselg., Miller, Bristl.
WILLIAM linErranstx, Manchester, merchant, July 17 and
August 3, at 12 at Manehester Court. Sols., Atkinson and
Co., Manchester" : off. wig., Eraser, Manchester.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.

July I. ZDWAID Brcxeub asuaee, l lcbmond-,Klee, Wad-
-1 ve North. builder.
11.48"ratIVILIVT PEITTIONRIS—AT POKTUGAL-lITJULET.

July 10. 0. H. Howells, Queen.strret, lidgerare.road. licensed
omnibus proprietor—H. Jones, Hoston Old.town. eating-bonne
keeper —D. A. Mead. Kent-street. Southwark, jouniei man brush
finisher—O. P. Taylor. Old Bethnal-green-road. greengrocer—
C. L. Huh. Clowch.street, !lobo, auctioneer's clerk—J. Roberts,
Oreyetreet, Poplar. manager of au engineer's business.
July it Y. W. Wyatt, Henmetirtb.street. Hotton, marble
mason—Y. T. Howe, Oreenwkb, journeyman linker.

Gloucestershire, schoolmistresses—J. W MUM and A. Adidas,
Docking, Deer, matting manufacturers—E. W. Ridley and C.
L lisenden, Waste—As Keep and W. Watkln, Stourbridce,
Worcestershire, and Swindon. Staffordshire, manufacturers of
Iron goods—A. O. Robarts, H. C. Roberts, it Ellice, T. M.
weguelin, and W. C. Curtis, Lombard-street, City, bankers, so
far as regards T. M. Weguelln-8. Plimsoll and R. klotheralll,
Hatton-garden, coal merchaate—J. T. Ballard, T. Rishardson,
and 8. Ballard, Leicester, drapers—Emma Nott and Sarah Bush,
Bristol, milliners—T. Atkins and R. B. Brawny, Manchester,
boaiers—T. Williamson and .1. Banks, St. Helena, Lancashire,
tronfonnders—T. Oldlteld and D. Sharp, Leeds. mungo grinders
—R. Gerrard and H. Gerrard, Lodes, Dometshlre, tarraers—O.
Dinka J. Stephenson, Joseph Sinks, Jai*: Rinks, and W. Blake,
Mlllwall, Poplar, telegraph ratite manufacturers-J. White, Jun.,
J. A. White, and W. D. Whit*, Bristol, potters, solar as regards
W. D. White—W. Smith, M. Smith, R. Smith, A. Smith, and C.
Smith !deceased), Heywood, Lancashire, amaeldne makers, ao far
as regards A. Smith and C. Smith—P. Howard and J. Lord, W-
eeder, heelers—Elizabeth Johnson and John Elijah Johnson.
Cambridge, booksellers— W. Millican and T. W. With.
cester, architects—R. MIBs, B. P. Mills, and W. Hogg, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, grocers, so far as regards IL Milk—C. Willa,
and H. Davis, Putney, Surrey, surgeons—E. Heaton and R. R.
Dean, Leek, Staffordshire, land agents—H. W. Richardson, R.
G. Inman, and J. Richardson, Bolton and Manchester, atter-
neys—P. Chrimes, H. Hargreave, and W. F. Brand, Manchester,
glass bottle manufacturers, so far as regards P. Chrinses—J.
Irving, R. M. Rbrworth, and H. W. Holmes, Gresham-place,
City, merchants, so far as regards J. Ining—J. Albarn and P.
Mycock, Derby, elastic web manufacturers—C. F. White. 0. F.
Young, 8. Young, and C. Magnay, Emmett-street, Poplar, shill
smiths.

SCOTCH SEQUISTRATIONS.
Joni, WILSON (deceased', Glasgow, silversmith, July 10, at the
Globe Hotel, Glasgow.
Vimmax Wilson, Stone?leld, Lanarkshire, Julyl3, at the Hamil-
ton Arms Inn, Hamilton.

lab) inttllignitt.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-JULY 6.
. _

Sittiap at NW PrTus for Loudan.—(Befere the Lard
Chief Justice sad Special Juries.)

CLARK AND ANOTHER V. smrninit AND ANOTHIR.

—.—
This was an action by the well-known firm Farebrother,
Clark, and Lye, auctioneers and valuators, to recover a
sum of 4881. from two gentlemen of the name of fimytbies,
for work and labour done by the plaintiffs in connexion
with the sale of an estate tu Herefordshire belonging to the
defendant&

Q.C., and Mr. Prentice appeared for the
plaintiffs ; Mr. Gray and Mr. J. J. Powell for the defen-
dants.

It appeared that in the course of 1854 the defendants
because anxious to pert with the estate in question, which
is known es the Lynch Court and Bear Wood estate, and
comprises about 660 acres, with a residence and farm. They
accordingly, in the first instance, attempted to find a pur-
chaser for it themselves by private sale, but the attempt
failing, they applied to the plaintiffs to know upon what
terms they would undertake the sale, In answer, Mr.
Clark stated the terms of the firm to be a commission of so
much per cent., according to the amount realised, if the
estate were sold " before, at, or within six months after
the auction ;" but if not sold, then a fee of 30 guineas, be-
sides all expense, out of pocket. To these terms the de-
fendants assented, and in November Mr. Clark went down
to Herefordshire, after having advertised the estates ex-
tensively, in order to conduct the sale. However, there
being no bidders, the estate was not put up. As it re-
mained unsold in the month of July following, that is in
1855, the plaintiffs received a visit from one a the defen-
danta, who suggested that as the sale in the country
had failed, it had better be put up in London. Thereupon
fresh advertisements were inserted, and in September,
1855, the estate was put up at Garraway's. However,
although the biddinga for lot No. I considerably exceeded
the rum for which it was eventually disposed of, the de-
(andante bought in the whole. Thus sale No. 2 likewise
proved abortive. In August, 1857, the plaintiffs again re-
ceived instructions to get off the property, and on this occa-
sion they were so far successful that they disposed of one
of the lots f0r13,800/. to • Mr. Harding; upon that amount
they claimed a commission of 1 per cent., or 2071., and
that sum, together with two fees of 30 guineas, being one
for each of the abortive sales plus the amount of their ex-
penses out of pocket made up the full claim of the plaintiffs.
In answer to the action the defendants paid 400/. into
court, and denied their further liability. The commission
on the sale of the estate was intended to cover every-
thing. From commencement to end the contract between
the parties was one and continuous, instead of there being
three contracts, as contended for on the other side.

To the defence the plaintiffs replied that the defendants
had full notice they would demand a fee of 30 guineas for
every abortive sale, provided the estate was not sold within
six months subsequently to the attempt. It was plain,
therefore, that in Mav, 1833, they were entitled to one fee;
and that in March, 11156, being six months after the sale at
Oarraway's, they were entitled to a second fee. They ad-
initted, however, that under the head of printing and
advertisements they had made a surcharge by mistake,
amounting to 231. 10s.
The jury found for the plaintiffs—damages, 45W., being
M. more than the sum paid into court.