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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF ,L0RD,94.--TttuRsDAY

Lord Chelmsford drew attuation to the arrears, and pres-
sure of business, in the Divorce Court, and entered with
some detail, into the subject; as at present constituted, the
court, suffered indignity, and it •would have been far better
if an independent court had been established, with a staff
of Judges.

Lord Cranworth, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Wicklow,
and the Lord Chancellor, made some observations upon the
same subject, the latter observing that the present court
was only,an experiment, and'ihat a bill for its improvement

had been prepared.
The Marquis of Londonderry inquired whether it was the
intention of Government, to embody additional Irish Militia
Regiments. It would seem that Volunteer Rifle Corps, in
that country, had not met with, their sanction, which
rendered it all the more necessary, to establish a sufficient
Militia force, that the defences of Ireland might be put
upon an equal fooling with those of England.
After some remarks from the Marquis of Clanricarde, and
Lard Bandon. .

The Earl of Ripon said, that it was not at Present in
contemplation, to increase the Militia force in Ireland. ^ At
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the same time, it was not intended to disembody any of the
existing Militia Regiments. The Government did not at

present, see any reason for promoting the establishment of

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Rifle Corps in Ireland, but it was as attentively engaged in
preparing for its defence, as for any other part of the United

Kingdom

After some ffirther diseussioohe -.subject dropped, and
The house then adjourned at a quarter after 7 o'clock.

MOUSE OF COMSIONS.—TinnisDAY

Lord .A. Paget took his seat for Litchfield, Lord Fermoy
for Mvylebone, and Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald for Ennis.

Mr, Hassard asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if I

intended to act on the recommendation contained in the

report of the select committee on county rates (Ireland),
presented in July, 1858, and if ho intends to take a vote in

the estimates for that purpose.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said communications
',were now in progress between the House and the Irish
'Government, but no definite decision had been arrived at
Mr. John 'Locke asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, whether it is the intention of Her
Majesty's Government to bring in a Bill during the present
Session for the Reform of the Corporation of London, and
if so, whether such bill will bo in accordance with the
report of the Royal Commissioners.
Sir G. 'C. Lewis said, that it was his intention to intro-

duce a bill this session. Subsequently to the committee,
there had been a select committee on the subject, in
conformity with the recommendations, of which the bill

would 'be prepared.
Mr. 'Locke. King asked the Secretary 'of State for the
Home'Departmedt, whether the Statute Law Commission
is or is not in existence ; whether Mr. Bellenden Ker is
still e paid commissionar, audit' not, on what day his salary
ceased ?

Sir G. C. Lewis said, that the commission was still in
existence, but Mr. Ker was .not now a paid commissioner.
Mr. Angerstein asked the First Lord of the Trettisury
if it is his intention to i4roduce a Bill for the rating of
public establishments.
-Sir G. C.. Lewis said, that there was much difficulty in
the matter, and he was not prepared at present to introduce
a bill, but he hoped to make an amicable arrangement with
those parishes where complaints now existed as to the non-
rating of government buildings, which could be carried
into effect-by a simple vote of the Hoase,, without further
,appeal to legislature. _ _ .

Mr. Kinglake asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, whether regard 'for the public service ktnakei it
expedient to withhold the answers of Sir J. Crampton to
the despatches dated respectively the 25th and the 29th
March last, in which Lord Malmesbury directed inquiry to
be made concerning the alleged engagements between
Igussia and Yrance.

Lord J. Russell said he could only find a despatch on the
subject, which was dated the Bth of May. It contained
nothing beyond what had,already beencommunicated to the