The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

LORD RAGLAN.

The resolutions agreed to yesterday in committee of
the whole house for granting a pension of 1,0001. a-veer
to Lady Ra;la,n, and 2,000/. a-year to the present Lord
Raglan, were reported. The resolutions were adopted,
and leave was given to bring in a bill founded on them.
On the motion of Mr. CRAUFURD,

The Truck Act Amendment Bill, which stood for
second reading, was, owing to the lateness of the session,
withdrawn.

IVIORTMAIN BILL.

The house then went into committee on the above bill.
All the clauses (seven in number) having been
agreed to.
Mr. MOWBRAY moved to add a clause after clause
6, as follows :—" And whereas it has been held, on the
construction of the first recited act, that a pecuniary
bequest to or in trust for any charitable use is void under
the provisions of the said act, to the extent of the pro-
portion which the assets of the testator, consisting of
personalty savouring of realty, bear to the assets
of the testator consisting of pure personalty ;
and if the assets of the testator consist en-

tirely of personalty savouring of realty, then that
such bequest is wholly void, and by the rules of
courts of equity the assets are not marshalled in favour
of such bequest, whereby the lawful intentions of testa-
tors are often disappointed ; be it enacted, that •no pe-
cuniary bequest to or in trust for any charitable use
contained in any will or codicil made after the passing
of this act shall fail or abate by reason only that the
assets of the testator shall consist wholly or in part of
personalty savouring of realty, but every such be-
quest shall be payable as well by and out of such as-
sets as last aforesaid, as by and out of any assets con-
sisting of pure personalty, in the same manner in all
respects as a pecuniary bequest of like amount made by
the same will or codicil to a purpose not charitable
would have been payable if the same had been substi-
tuted therein for such charitable bequest, anything in
the said recited acts, and any rule or practice of equity
to the contrary notwithstanding."
Sir G. GREY said, in the absence of the Solicitor.
General, he should not at present offer any opposition to
the clause. Any objection that the Solicitor-General
might have to it could be made at a future stage of the
till.

The clause was then added to the bill.
Mr. G. BUTT then moved the addition of the follow-
ing clause to clause 6 :—" And whereas by the herein-
before recited act passed in the ninth year of the reign
of his late Majesty King George the Second, it was
also enacted, that from and after the twenty-fourth day
of June, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, no
sum or sums of money, goods, chattels, stocks
in the public funds, securities for money, or
any other personal estate whatsoever to be laid
out or disposed of in the purchase of any lands, tene•
ments, or hereditaments, should be given, appointed, or
any ways settled in trust or for the benefit of any chari-
table uses whatsoever, unless such gift, appointment, or
settlement of any such sum or sums of money or personal
estate (other than stocks in the public funds) were made in
the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are
by the now reciting act enacted and prescribedin reference
to corporeal or incorporeal hereditaments, and unless such
stocks were transferred in the manner and subject to the
conditions in the same recited Act also enacted and pre-
scribed in reference to such stocks : and whereas doubts
have been entertained as to the meaning of the last here-
inbefera recited enactment, be it enacted, that no be-
quest contained in any will heretofore 07 hereafter to
be made for any charitable uses whatsoever, which
bequest is or shall be valid in all otter respects,
shall be deemed to be null and void within the meaning
of the last hereinbefore recited enactment, unless by the
will containing such bequest it shall be imperatively re-
quired that the subject matter of such bequest shall be
laid out or disposed of in the purchase of lands, tene-
ments, or hereditaments."
The clause was added to the bill, and the bill as
amended was ordered to be considered on Friday next.
DWELLING-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill,
Mr. DUNLOP moved the insertion of a clause to
enable labouring men to acquire housei under the Act
by a cheap, easy, and secure method oftransfer, in lieu
of the present vexatious system prevailing in Scotland.
Mr. G. BUTT seconded the motion, which was also
supported by Mr. WiLKINSON.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXOEIEQUER sug-
gested the postponement of the third reeding of the bill
till to-morrow, in order that he mighshave an oppor-
tunity of consulting the Commissioners cflnland revenue
on the f
opuerrtahteirencoonfstidheerpartioopnosoedf ethlaeubseir
wast postponedhe revenue.
accordingly.
The Stock in Trade Bill was rear a third time and
passed:
COAL MINES INSPECTICN BILL.

The house went into committee on the above bill.
Clauses up' to 17 were, after &me 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 had
raised. Instead of being one Parliament legislating for
the whole kingdom, they were $ Parliament legislating
separately for England, Irelani, and Scotland. He
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-
enceeary ftoor tthheems
safe
special rules neces-
galotefrtahteiomn
ionfes.
A discussion ensued, in which Lord Lovaine, Mr.
Mowbray, Mr. Hutchings, Captain Scobell, and other
inwgoraknidn
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 br colliery for at least seven clear days.
Sir G. GREY opposed it.
The committee divided—
For the proviso
Again-•t it lo3_

Majority -70
Mr. CROOK moved the following clause :—That one
of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, on the
reports and recommendation of an inspector, may em-
power such inspector to direct one or more actions t,) be