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COAL MINES INSPECTION BILL.

The house went into committee on the above bill.
Clauses up to 17 were, after some amendments,
agreed to.

-On clause 18, which stated the act should not apply to
Ireland,
Captain SCOBELL moved that the clause be struck
out. He could not see why acts applicable to Ireland
and Scotland should not be extended to that country.
Sir G. GREY said it would be impossible to apply
this bill to Ireland without great alterations were made
in it. If it was desirable the provisions of this bill
should be extended to Ireland, it was very easy to pass
a similar bill for that country.

Captain SCOBELL saw no reason why the clauses
passed could not be altered to meet the objection he bad
raised. Instead of being one Parliament legislating for
the whole kingdom, they were a Parliament legislating
separately for England, Ireland, and Scotland. Re
should divide the house on it.

Sir G. GREY considered it would be unfair to Ire-
land to apply this act to that country without an oppor-
tunity of consulting the Irish members. Besides, there
were frequent cases and instances in which it was ne-
cessary there should be special legislation for Ireland.
Lord LOVAINE suggested the withdrawal of the
amendment.

The feeling of the house being against the amend-
ment, it was accordingly withdrawn.
Sir G. GREY brought up a new clause with refer-
ence to the making and alteration of special rules neces-
sary for the safe working of the mines.
A discussion ensued, in which Lord Lovaine, Mr.
Mowbray, Mr. Hutchings, Captain Scobell, and other
members took part, the noble lord moving an amend-
ment, on which Sir G. Grey declared his intention to
divide the committee.

The clause was ultimately agreed to, without a divi•
sion.

Mr. DILLWYN then moved to add the following
proviso to the clause :—" That prior to any application
being made to such Secretary of State for his approval
of such rules or amendments thereof, a legible copy of
the same shall be hung up or affixed on some conspicu-
ous part of the principal office or place of business at the
coal mine or colliery for at least seven clear days."
Sir G. GREY opposed it.
The committee divided—
For the proviso
Against it
Majority

. 33
. 103
▪ -70

Mr. CROOK moved the following clause:—"That one
of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, on the
report and recommendation of an inspector, may em-
power such inspector to direct one or more actions t') he
brought in the name and on behalf of any person who
shall be reported by such inspector to have received
bodily injury in or from any mine or colliery, or the
works or machinery belonging thereto, or in the name
and on behalf of the representatives of any person who
shall have been killed therein or thereby, for the re.
covery of damages for or on behalf of such persons."
Mr. G. BUTT considered this clause out of place.
To make it applicable much that was left out of the bill
ought to be inserted.
Sir G. GREY opposed the clause on the ground that
it was a difficult and dangerous thing to take cases out
of the general application of the law. The same rea-
sons for making such a provision did not apply here as
in the case of the Factory Act.
After a few remarks from Mr. INGEIAM, the commit-
tee divided.

For the clause 3
Against it
Majority -122
The house then resumed, and the bill was reported
and ordered to be printed.
The Endowed Schools (Ireland) Bill passed through
committee.
The Copyhold, &c., Commissions Continuance Bill
was read a third time and passed. _

DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL.
Mr. CIHEETHAM moved the omission of clause 3
relative to the publicity of marriages, which were con-
trary to the feelings of the great body of Dissenoteir:e
The mode of publicity required was by affixing 6
chapel doors,
ecaticoonmthmeor
common
of the same at the doors of the chapels, which that body
thought an objectionable mode.
Mr. W. COWPER could not see vrlllitweaski
could be to this mode of publicity.
practice to affix notices at church and
such as the list of voters, &c.
PublicitYfv:he bill,
Mr. CHEETHAM proposed as aessubstitntion that the
notice should be put in the registarsa office for 21 days.
inserted to meet, at
The original mode of
the time of the introduction an objection of
nott now required.
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t'crerned put in the registrar's
the Government, oGv.erGnßmEenyt, bat it
kwas
office could not be ceposoir. The great great a publicity as if
affixed at a church
and
, The question was not as
between Dissenters,Churchenhadobe but for other pur-
poses..A.s no noticeyprtheseehntons.tgoeondtlienmtahne
he proposed that the Clause agsi V.l
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bill should remain, and the question be considered at ha
stage
nsidoefraitts progress.
ioa of the
clause was postponed.
future
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Clause 8, relative to the payment of fees on marriage
by licence was Postponed
, it being the feeling of the house
that the fees fixed
by the act should not be more, but as
near as possible those paid at the Established Church.
Claim 11
: providing for the payment of a fee to the
.__

Registrar_, and ss. to the Superintendent Registrar, was
opposed by Mr. T. DIINCOMBE.
Sir G. GREY thought it objectionable that a double
fee should be paid.
Mr. CHEETHAM said he found himself in a diffi-
culty in defending the extra fee, the clause having been
forced on him by the Registrar-General.

Mr. T. DUN-COMBE—thought it best to expunge this
claws.
Mr. W. COWPER said the Government had no obt.
jection to that being done.
The clause was negatived without a division.
Clause 15, providing a place for the solemnisation of
marriage for persons who neither attended church nor
chapel, the expense to be paid out of the poor rates, was
expunged.

Two new clauses were added to the bill relative t•
the Jewish dissenters and Quakers.
The other clauses of the bill were agreed to, and th
bill ordered to be reported and printed.
The house resumed.
The Duchy of Lancaster Lands Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Continuance Bill wa
read a second time. _

Leave was given for the introduction of the following
bills. By the Attorney-General for Ireland. Bill to en-
able treasurers of counties in Ireland to receive pay-
ment of expenses, in certain cases.
Mr. Cowper—Bill to authorise the inclosure of cer-
tain lands in pursuance of a special report of the Inclo-
sure Commissioners for England and Wales.
Mr. Wilson—Bill to amend an act of the last session
of Parliament relating to the sale of spirits by unlicensed
persons and illicit distillation in Ireland.
The house adjourned at a quarter to six o'clock.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.

A special meeting of the Erglish proprietors of this
company was convened by advertisement at the London
Tavern, at noon yesterday ; Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., in
the chair.

The advertisement having been read by the Secretary
(Mr. Blackstone Baker), and the usual preliminaries
having been observed,
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been called to-
gether for a twofold purpose—firstly, of consulting the
proprietors relative to raising 1,500,0001. of additional
capital ; and secondly, of empowering the English
shareholders, who held seven-tenths of the whole
property of the undertaking, to vote by proxy
at the Canadian Board, and also, at the same time,
to afford the directors an opportunity of giving informa-
tion to the proprietors in regard to the position and
prospects of the company. Having alluded to the re-
port of a previous year with a view to show the money
which had been required to meet the expenses of th•
line, the lease of the Toronto line and the construction
of new buildings, and the manner in which that money
had been raised, the chairman went on to call the atten-
tion of the shareholders to two objects which the di-
rectors now had in contemplation namely, the
doubling of the line between Hamilton and London, and
the completion of the Sarnia branch. He then went on
to say that the sum raised by the present call would be
sufficient to meet all expenses for the present year ; but
if it should be decided upon to carry out the two objects
he bad mentioned additional money would be required.
Adverting to the traffic over the line he said that last
year's report had estimated the traffic from July last year
to July in the presentyear at 7,0001. (currency)per week.
That was the case up to the 21st January last, during
which period the traffic averaged 7,4901. per week, but
since then the traffic had increased to an average of
9,0001. per week. Whilst the ordinary traffic, as com-
pared with the last year, bad increased fully 50 per cent.
the goods traffic had increased by 150 per cent., thus
showing that the goods traffic would continue to increase
if they maintained sufficient rolling stock for its
conveyance. Some difficulty had been experienced
in this respect; but the want had been supplied and the
rolling stock was now adequate to the amount of traffic
over the line. The Chairman concluded, amidst ap-
plause, by calling upon the late vice-president of the
Canadian board (Mr. Lingston) to state to the meeting
the results of his personal inspection of the undertaking.
Mr. LINGSTON, accordingly, at some length, and with
much detail, went into a statement of the,actual working
and position of the line, which was in all respects highly
gratifying. •:,
Some discussion, originated by Mr. Brooksbank,
afterwards took place as to the propriety of the share-
holders having some control over the money confided
to the Canadian Board, and also of their being con-
sulted previous to any further call being made for the
purposes to which it was intended to be applied.
The CHAIRMAN said the proprietors might place impli-
cit confidence in the discretion and care of the Canadian
board, who were most anxious to have the co-operation
of the English proprietors in whatever they undertook ;
and also stated that the board would be willing to meet
the wishes of the proprietors in the respect pointed out.
A resolution approving of the course hitherto adopted
by the board was afterwards moved by Mr. Harris (of
Darlington), and was carried unanimously; and after a
vote of thanks to Mr. Lingston and to the chairman,
The meeting broke up, the proceedings having occu-
pied upwards of two hours.