The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1861.

IMPERIAL P,

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, Avousr L
ROYAL COMMISSION.

At four o'clock the Royal Commissioners (the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Newcastle, and the Duke of
Argyll), took their meats iu frost of the throne, and in com-
pliance with the summons of the Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford), the Speaker, attended
by several members of the House of Commons, having ap-
peared at the bar of the House of Lords ;
The royal assent was given to the following bills:—
Piers and Harbours ; Turnpike Trusts Arrange-
ments ; Harbours ; Passengers (Australian Colonies);
Metropolitan (Police Force Pensions); Railway Com-
panies Mortgages Transfer (Scotland) Drunken-
ness (Ireland); Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment;
(Ireland) Act Proceedings: Vaccination ; Voters (Ireland) ;
University Elections; Dublin Revising 13arriaters ; Lunatic
Asylums (Ireland) Act Continuaocej County Cass (Ireland)
Act Continuance ; Local Government Act Amendment ;
Locomotives ; Tramways (Scotland); FAst India (Civil
Service) ; immoveable Poor; Crown Suite Limitation ; East
India Council, Ice • County Surveyors, Ise. (Ireland) ; l'ub-
lic Works (Ireland) ; Advancement and Repayment of
Money' ; Attorneys sad Solicitors (Ireland) ; White Herrin,/
Fishery (Scotland); Turnpike Acts Continuance.; Ordnance
Survey Continuance ; Criminal Proceedings Oaths
Berlin(; Glasgow and Malagavie Junction Rail-
way ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway ; Devon
Valley Railway ; Lynn and Hunstanton Railway •
Cockermouthi Keswick, and Penrith Railway; Great
Western Railway ; Kirkcudbright Railway ;
arid Symington), Bigger and Broughton Railwa Companies ;
Caledonianßailway (K 'utherglen and Branches) ;
Cornwall Railway • Victoria Dock Gas ' • Birmingham lin-
, provement ; Cork 'sad Macroom Directßailway ; London
I sad North-Wortera ItailwlT (additional wen) ; Somerset
Central Railway • South Wales Mineral Railway ; Stock-
port Ilietries swiss g West 'Mann amid noun vane,
Railway Companies ; Worcester Bicenyard, and Leomin-
ster Railway ; Llanelly Railway it'd Dock • Monmouthshire
Railway sad Canal ; St. George's Harbour ; Southampton
and Batley Railway ; Stourbndge Railway ; Swamies Har-
bour Trust; , Ellesmere, and Whitchwth Rail-
way. ; Petenfield way ; Westminster Life lautrasee
Society (dissolution) ; West of Fife Mineral Railway, and
Charlestown Railway and Harbour Companies; Ramsey
Railway ; Caledonian Railway (Stooehouse Branch) ; Cale-
donian Railway (Cleland Branches) ; Forth and Clyde June-
tics Railway ; Atkinson's Trust Estate ; and Mackinnon's
Estate.

The Royal Commiesloners then retired, and at 5 o'clock
the Loma CarAncn.Lot took his meat on the woolsack.

LEICESTER-SQUARE
Lord REDESDALR celled attention to the present state
of Imicester•sgaare, and said that u great doubts existed
upon the sub,jeet of its improvethent he would ask leave to
introduce a bill for the purpcee of enabling the parties in-
terested in the square to make the necessary improvements
on the valuers' of the Great Globe.

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THE LEASES, Be., BY INCUMBENTS RESTRICTION

BILL.

.011 the motion of Lord Litlrm.row, the Common.' amend-
ments to this bill were agreed to.
THE PORTPATRICK HARBOUR (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion of the Duke of Sonia= the Commons'
amendments to thW bill were agreed to.
THE METROPOLIS GAS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
THE LACE FACTORIES BILL _

The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second reading of
this bill, and in dole; so said he was anxions to explain the
position in which the bill stood dace the amendments were
made in it by the House of Commons. The
other house had made two important alterations—
one in regard to the time to be allowed for meals, and the
other as to the age when children should be admitted into
the factories to work full time. The age originally in the
bill was 11, but the Commons hail made the age 13. The
masters thought that age would he very inconvenient and
prejudicial to the children employed in these factories, and
that they might not be employed at all. It had been since
agreed by the committees of the masters and workmen that
the age of 12 should be inserted in the bill. With respect
to the time to be allowed for meals it had been originally
proposed that the persons employed should take their meals
in batches, so that the mills should not be
entirely stoprid. This proposition had been nega-
tived in the 'ommons, and is coneequence a new claws
had been framed in order to meet the difficulty
re
and it was exported that the committee of workmecnitl
accept it. But they were indisposed to do so. The masters
might have attempted to carry the bill without the assent
of the workmen, but they were unwilling to do so, or to
drop the bill, and consequently they would agree to the
alteration made in the Commons in this respect. Alter-
ations might be required in a future session, but he thought
their lordships would feel that to pass the bill in its present
state would not prejudice future legislation. He hoped
also that the conduct of the manufacturers of Nottingham
would be borne in mind if they made an application to par-
, hament for alterations suggested by experience of the
working of the measure.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was satisfied the bill
would be of great benefit to the town of Nottingham, and
particularly to the great number of children employed in
the lace factories. The manufacturers had shown their
' anxiety to promote the welfare of their operatives by
readily furnishing every information in regard to their
works, and if, owing to the peculiarities of their trade, ally
difficulty arose in the operation of the bill, he should be
one of the first to support soy remedy that might be pro-
posed.
The bill was then read a second time.
The Gunpowder, As., Act Amendment Bill and the Epis-
copal and Capitular Estates Act Continuance Bill passed the
second reading.

APPROPRIATION OF SEATS (SUDBURY AND ST.
ALBANS) BILL.
The report of anteadmeate to this bill was received.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

The Industrial fiel;OYelSootlaadlitill, and the Industrial
Schools Ball were reed a third time and passed.
CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION BILLS.

;fir, e;SOr;;; and AbriticWil;ii,ei;;criniiiia swat..
Repeal Bill, the Larceny, /sc., Bill, the Mslicioui Injuries
to Property Bill, the Forgery Bill, the Coinage Offences
Bill, and the Offeror* Await the Person Bill amorally
passed through committee.

The following bills also paned threegb committee :
Public Works and Harbours Bill ; Lewd Clerk Register
iAbolition Bill ; Durham traivarsit Bill ; Trustee'
) Bill • Conjugal Rights ( ) Bill ; and
tan lik:ilding Act Amendment Bill.

built sada the superintendenoe of Mr. Lewoock, the Admi-
ralty wetor, who, on the 4th March but, reported to the
AdmfraMy thet the steamer Hibernia was " in every respect
Ilt to be employed for the oceveythee of the mails between
Galway sad the United Staten, is accordance with the con-
tract with the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation
Compauy."
Mr. WHITBREAD replied that it was true the vessel in
question vas being built by Mr. Lewoock, but under the
superiatimience of his superior officer.