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ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
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Thlt *ll peered through committee.
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PIIIVATS BINH N EMS.
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Colonel W. PATIEN moved that standing orders 109,
127, and 198 be repealed, end in lieu thereof :-
109. 'lt shall be competent to the committee on
say private bill to admit petitioners, being the omit-
cipel authorities of any town, or the inhabitants
of any town or district alleged to be injuriously
affected by • bill, to be heard spinet rich bill, if they
shall think fit. 127. Where the level of any road shall be
altered ia wafts any railway, the ascent of any turnpike
road, or et any road in Ireland, no defined in the Railway
Clause Ocesolidation Act, 1845, shall not be more that one
foot in 20 fest, and of any otherinablic carriage road not
more than one feet to 90 fist, • repent thereupon
from so efts: of the Board of Trade shall be laid
before tb Ise on the hill, sad unions the committee, I
ale reporta flew shall disagree with I
the mid report, giall recommend steeper scenic, with the
reasons sod fade upon which their opinion is founded; also
a good and softient fence, of four feet high at the least,
shall be made of each side of every bridge which shall be
erected. 128. No railway whereon carriages are propelled by
steam, or by eilmeepheric agency, or drawn by ropes in coo-
need= with a stationary steam engine, shall lie made across
any turnpike road or other public carriage wayon the level,
unless a report thereupon from some officer of the Board of
Trade shall be laid before the committee on the bill, and
unless the committee, after smaidering each report, if they
shall disagree with the said report, shall recommend such
level crossing, with the reasons and facts upon which their
opinion is founded; and in every clause authorising a level
crossing, the number of lines of rails authorised to
be made at such craning shall be
The gallant colonel said it was
that with regard to the conduct of public Moises the
government woad appoint a committee early next year
for the purpose of considering the 'tending orders.
Mr. HENLEY suggested that some precaution should
be taken to prevent the extensive alteration of hybrid bills
when they were before the house itself ; and when all the
protections to the public which existed in the earlier stages
of such bills had been withdrawn.

Viscount liiiiiitifOßdCiired to bear testimony to
the great merits of those hon. members who had officiated
as chairmen of the committees on private bills. The public
were informed by the ordinary channels of information of
those who took part in the public business of the house ;
soil when those gentlemen delivered their sentiments with
ability and success they earned great and deserved reputa-
tion not only with then constituents, but with the eonntry
at large. But the community generally were not aware
how much was done by those who obtained no public repu-
tation for their exertions. He believed there was no assembly
in the world that bestowed so much labour upon measures
of a useful and practical character as was done by the House
of Commons ; and the amount of labour which was bestowed
in that house upon measures of public utility under the
name of private bills, was such that few persona were
aware of. Formerly the committees on railways, muds, end
other public improvements were presided over by different
chairmen ; and the result was that decisions varied, parties
were lees in great uncertainty as to the course which any
given committee would take • and great injury and incon-
venience were frequently sustained. About two years since it
was determined that there should be a permanent panel of
chairmen ; and the result of this arrangement had beet
highly creditable, and highly advantageous to the interests
of the public. The decisions of committees IMO now
guided by uniform principles; parliamentary proceedings
had been much abridged • and unnecessary delays
had been avoided. It was iherefore only right that the
names of those hon. ratlerom whose exemplary exertions
had contributed to this improvement should be known. He
found that Mr. Adair had sat 63 days ; Mr. Ridley, 55 days;
Mr. Ingham, 45 days ; Lord March, 43 days ; Mr. &hole-
: field, 37 days ; Mr. Moery, 22 dam and Mr. Hardy, 13
days. The two last hon. ...lbers had been prevented from
continuing their services as chairmen. The hon. gentlemen
whose names be Ind read were not called to the arduous
duties which they hod fulfilled except by their voluntary
devotion to the public service, and it was, therefore, only
right that the house, and through it the country, should be
made acquainted with the extent of their labours.
The motion was agreed to.
MORTALITY IN THE ARMY.
Mr. FREELAND asked the Secretary of State for War
whether the death-rates in the different regiments of the
army, and the cause of death, could not in future be given
in the Registrar-General's quarterly report'.
' Mr. HERBERT said the information the hon. member
sought would be printed in au annual report which he in-
tended very soon to lay upon the table of the house. He
(the right hon. geutleman) attached great value to the pub-
lication of these returns, because he thought it would tend
to keep everybody to their dut7 and when the report was
ready, it would be open to the Registrar-General to incorpo-
rate it with his own. (Hear.)
THE NEW FOREIGN-OFFICE.

Mr. C. BENTINCH /eked the First Commissioner of
Works whether there was any objection to exhibit photo-
graphs of the Ca. Vendramin-Calergi, the Scuola S. Marco,
and the Church of S. Zaccaria, at Venice. in order to show
good examples of the style of architecture which Mr. Scott
now proposes to adopt for the new Foreign-office.
Mr. COWPER believed that the photographs for which
the hon. gentleman wished would be instructive ; and also
that the sketch at present in the committee-room gave a
very imperfect idea of the budding which Mr. Scott would
erect. If, however, he were to accede to the proposal and
exhibit photographs of the three churches referred to, he
could hardly stop there ; and before the house Sot a very
good notion of what was intended the committee-room
would be converted into an architectural exhibition. He
believed that the house would do better to attach weight to
the judgment of the eminent architects who had acted as
referees, Mr. Cockerel], Mr. Fergusson, and Mr. Burn ; and
who had expressed an opinion that the sketch now in the
committee-room was worthy of approval for the purposes
of a Foreign-office. (Cheers.)
MELAZZO.

Sir G. BOWYER mird the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether government had received any
information that the inhabitants of Blelarso resisted the
attack of the revolutionary troops, and that Garibaldi,
having taken possession, punished with death thirty-nine
of the inhabitants for having fought against him, and in
defence of the rights of their sovereign.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had received no official in-
formation on the subject.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Viscount PALMERSTON moved that the standing
order of the girth day of Juue 1852, relative to orders
of the day, be read and reeled; and in lieu thereof
that, unless the home shall otherwise direct, all
' orders of the day set down in the order book for Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Thursdays, shall be disposed of before the
house will proceed upon any motions of which notices shall
have been given. That the said resolution be a standing
order of this house. The noble viscount explained that the
object of tbi. motion was to render permanent the substitu-
tion of Thursday for Friday OA an order day. At
the same time he must say that the practice
of introducing every conceivable subject upon the motion
for the adjournment was not strictly in accordance with
the spirit of the forms of the house. (Hear, hear.) That
was, however, a matter which must be left to the discretion
o: each member, though he believed there was a general
opinion that the practice had this session been carried to a
length that went somewhat beyond the due exercise of that
liberty which he should be the last person in the world to
wish to take away. (Cheers.) As he had mentioned the
services of the chairmen of committees, he thought they
ought also to recognise the valuable servides of his hon. and
gallant friend the chairman of the Committee on Standing
Orders (Colonel W. Patten), and the hon. gentleman the
member for Walsall (Mr. Forster), who had undertaken a
great deal of labour with great advantage to the public.
Mr. S. FATCOURT thought the substitution of Thursday
as an order day had answered exceedingly well • and the
house was greatly indebted to the hon. member for St.
Ives (Mr. Paull) who bad suggested the change. (Hear.)
Mr. W. WILLIAMS said he presumed the noble lord
intended to take Thursdays for the use of the government,
but be believed no resolution to that effect had been passed.
Mr. tIALIBURTON said that in the enumeration of
those bon. members who had conferred valuable services on
the country during tho session he thought there should be
included "the silent members"---(much laughter)—whose
patient endurance had been beyond all praise.
The motion was then agreed to.
FORTIFICATIONS AND WORKS.
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The house then went into committee, and the chairman
having read the resolution, which was to the effect that a
sum not exceeding 2,000,00 W. sterling be charged upon the
consolidated fund for the fortifications of the country, to be
reined by means of terminable annuities not exceeding thirty
years in length,
Mr. LINDSAY moved, by way of amendment to the
resolution, that, as the main defence of Great Britain
against aggression depended on an efficient navy,
it was not expedient to enter into a laTrbeee
expenditure ea permanent land fortificatioes.
hon. member warned the house of the very large expendi-
ture—much larger than had been suggested by the govern-
ment—in which the proposed works would involve the
country, and ridiculed the action of an invasion ham