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London, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol-
lowing- bills, viz. :—Lady Raglan and Lord Raglan's
Annuities ; Endowed Schools (Ireland) ; Gold
Weddin: Rings ; Commons Inciosare (No. 2) ; Spirits
(Ireland) Act Amendment; Friendly Societies ; Dublin
Carriage Act Amendment ; Christ Church (Tod-
morden); Marriag,esValidity; Burial-grounds (Scotland);
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes ; Waveney
Valley Railway ; Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ;
Wisbeach Port ; Bolton and Nightingale's Road ;
Royal Medical Benevolent College ; Londonderry and
Coleraine Railway ; Caveudish Bridle ; Holland Ward
Roads ; Dagenham Docks ; London Necropolis and Na-
tional Mausoleum ; Heniton_Roa.d ; E,st of F3fa Rail-
c%ay ; Gateshead and 13.exhain Roads ; Portsmouth Rail-
way ; Shrewsbury Improvement ; Great Northern Lon-
don Cemetery ; Mid Kent and North Kent Railway ;
Barrow Harbour ; Birkenhead and Liverpool Docks
(Trust Property of Birkenhead Docks Trustees) ; Eng-
land and Ireland Improved Communication ; Furness
Railway ; Liverpool Docks ; South Staffordshire Rail-
way ; Livesey's Estate ; Pcddcr's Divorce ; Cromarty
Estate; Hamond's Estate ; Livesey's (Blackburn) Estate.
The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, and tfie Earl of Harrowby.
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the Glasgow,
Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Railway was read a third
time and passed.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from
the inhabitants of Shoreditch, and of the neighbourhood
of Victoria-park, against the proposed diminution of the
area of that park.

LAW OF MORTMAIN.
In reply to Lord ST. LEONARDS,
Lord BROUGHAM said he regretted that the bill re-
lating to the Law of Mortinain had not come up at an
earlier period from the other house, so as to enable their
lordships to pass it during the present session. Under
the circumstances he would only move the second read-
ing of the bill, with a view to its being withdrawn for
the present session.

Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from the
Protestant Alliance, stating that the petitioners had
heard with alarm that her Majesty's Secretary of State
for the Home Department had given permission to cele-
brate the Romish Mass in the Government prison of
Brixton, and praying their lordships' house to take
such measures as would secure a withdrawal of the
permission, and that such departure from the principles
of the constitution might never again take place.
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Lord ST. LEONARDS called the attention to the
insecurity of our public records, and expressed a hope
that her Majesty's Government would take the neces-
sary precautions to preserve the records from fire. The
noble and learned lord also referred to the injury done
to some of the partitions in Hampton Court Palace, and
to the robbery of one of them.
The Bishop of LONDON made some similar observa-
tiom'.

Earl GRANVILLE said the Chief. Commissioner of
Public Works had issued orders for the institution of a
rigid inquiry into the circumstances alluded to by the
noble and learned lord.

Lord MONTEAGLE said he hoped that due care
of Marlborough House, in which the munificent do-
nation of pictures by a private gentleman to the nation
was deposited, would not be overlooked when precau-
tionary measures were being adopted.
Earl GRANVILLE said the whole subject was un-
der the consideration of the Government with a view
to adopting precautionary measures of the best possi-
ble description.

THE DISSENTERS.

Lord BROUGHAIsI moved the first reading of a bill,
the object of which was to relieve certain dissenting
clergymen from the Church of England from all penal-
ties to which they were at present liable, and from all
prosecution for schism, and from all other penalties,
spiritual and temporal, arising from an adherence to their
conscientious convictions. He would move the second
reading of the bill to-morrow.
After a few words from the Bishop of LONDON, the
bill was read a first time.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL.

On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, this bill
passed through committee.

PIERS AND HARBOURS (SCOTLAND) DILL.
On the motion of the Duke of ARGYLL, this bill was
read a second time.
COAL MINES INSPECTION BILL.
This bill, on the motion of Viscount CANNING, passed
through committee after a few verbal amendments.

THE WAR IN ASIA.
The Earl of AIRLIE then proceeded to ask the
noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
whether the Government had lately received any official
information respecting the progress of the war in
Asiatic Turkey; but the noble earl spoke in' so low a
tome that the observations accompanying his interroga-
tion did not reach us. It would be (the noble lord said)
very important if the noble earl at the head of the Fo-
reign Department could contradict the rumours which
pr,wailed as to the miserable condition of the Turkish
army, and he hoped that the Government would take all
the, measures in their power for the purpose of stopping
the progress of the Russians in Asia Minor.
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