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London, England, 1864-05-14 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIANLINT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening, 1
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The royal assent was given this afternoon to the follow-
ing bills:—Customs and Inland Revenue—Charitable Assn-
ranee Enrolments--Land Drainage Provisional Orders
High Courts at Bombay—Testry Cess Abolition (Irela, ad)
—Court of Chancery (Despatch of Business)—Promisf wry
Notes and Bills of Exchange (Ireland)—Joint Stock Com-
panies (Foreign Countries)—Huntingdon and God man-
chester Gas—Dublin and Neath Railway—South Yorkshire
Railway—Great Northern of Scotland Railway (No. 1)—
North Eastern Railway (Muckleford Branch)—Salisbnry
Railway and Market House—Llandiloes and Newtown
Railway—Clayton, Allerton, and Thornton Gas—Commer-
cial and Grand Surrey Docks and Canal—Aberbrothwick
Harbour—Salisbury Gas—Sudden Bridge and Bury Roads
Halingdon and Rawtenstall Water—Edgeware,
and London Railway—Anglessy Central Railway—Lon-
don, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Kemp Town
Station)—Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (additional

powers).
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

COUNTY COURTS.
Lord CHELMSFORD said with regard to the bill intro-
duced by his noble and learned friend on the woolsack, the
second reading of which was given notice of on the paper
this evening, he had placed into his hands some important
returns made by county court judges in reference to the
imprisonment for debt. He thought they should have been
laid upon the table before the bill was introduced, and he
hoped the second reading would be postponed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had already stated
that he would, in deference to the opinion of any noble
lord, postpone the second reading. He would have much
pleasure in postponing the motion for the second reading
until the first day on which the house would sit after
Whitsuntide.
THE DANO-GERMAN WAR.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH drew attention to this
question, and after commenting strongly on the conduct of
the allied armies, characterising the war as a war
against freedom carried on by despotic P owers, he
said he hoped the Conference would look into the
doings of the Germans, and when they considered the
subject of the contributions that had been imposed by the
Prussians, they should be informed that whilst war has its
rights humanity has rights also. (Hear, hear.) He con-
cluded by asking whether it was understood by
the Conference that war contibutions imposed
before the armistice was known in Jutland could
be collected during the suspension of arms ; also,
whether any war contribution were to be imposed after the
armistice had become known, but, before the suspension of
arms commenced on the 12th; and, also, whether any new
war contributions were to be imposed during the suspension

of arms
Earl RUSSELL replied that the Conference had agreed
that during the suspension of hostilities there should not
be levied by the allied troops in Jutland or elsewhere, any
contributions of war, and, on the contrary, they will pay
for the articles they require tor the troops. (Hear, hear.)
The Conference did not lay down any rules with regard to
the contributions previously imposed, but he believed the
spirit of the article was that the allied troops should cease to
levy contributions of war. That appeared to him to be the
fair spirit of the meaning of the Conference, which was
anxious to stop the effusion of blood, but was also anxious
to stop those contributions of ear ; but having decided on
the maiu point, they have left it to the naval and military
commanders and others interested to settle the details
between each other. He was not authorised to say more.
The Earl of EL LENBO ROU Gi was sorry that nothing
more definite had been decided upon. There was nothing
he thought to prevent a seal understanding that no new
contributions were to be levied during the armistice.
Earl RUSSELL—Not levy any contributions of war,
not that they would not levy any new contributions.
The Earl of ELLENBOROU OH regretted that the
Conference had not used the most decisive language to pre.
vent the levying of any contributions imposed before the
armistice. They seemed to have imposed the last contribu-
tion on the very last day on which the Conference met, in
fraud of the Confereace in fact.
THE REGIUS PROFESSORSHIP OF GREEK
(OXFORD) BILL.

On the order of the day for going into committee on this

bill,
Lord LYTTLETON presented a petition from the Arch.
deaconry of Bristol against the bill, and intimated that,
though ho did not approve of the principle of the measure,
ho would not oppose it at its then stage,
Lord CHELMSFORD suggested that the patronage of
the professorship should be transferred to the University,
which would then be willing to ert,ow it from its own

funds.
Lord TAUNTON felt that Professor Jowett had been
treated very unjustly by the University; but he had great
objections to the hilt, inasmuch as it excluded laymen from
the chair, and proposed to remedy a temporary evil by a
permanent one.
The Earl of DERBY observed that the University did
not objeet to endow the professorship because it was in the
patronage of the Crown, but because they conscientiously
objected to the opinions and doctrines of the person who
now held it. The noble earl also suggested that the mea-
sure should be postponed to give more time for its consi-
deration.
Tho LORD CHANCELLOR admitted that his proposal
was not the best method of endowing the professorship, but
it was the only one left open to him for remedying the in-
justice of the University. Under the circumstances he felt
that the Crown was bound to endow the professorship, as
it was in its patronage.
Somo further discussion followed, when the previous
question was moved by Lord REDEsDA.LE, and carried upon
a division by 55 to 25.
Their lordships then adjourned until Monday week, the
23d inst.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
'The SPEAKER.,to3k tho chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills wero read a third time and passed :
Alford and Mablethorpe Railway, Clifton Hampden Bridge,
Corris Railway or Tramroad, Deal and Walmer Gas, Edin-
burgh and Glasgow and Alva Railway Companies,
Ilytholm Royd Bridge and Blackstone Edge Road, Scot-
tish North Eastern and Scottish Central Railway Compa..
nice, Scottish North• Eastern Railway (Dundee and Forfar
Line), South Eastern Riilway (No. 1), South Eastern
Railway (No. 3), Wallingford and Wellington Railway,
and Wellington (Salop) Markets.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Colonel CLIFFORD, the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Red, appeared at the bar and summoned the members to
the Upper House to hear the Royal assent given by corn.
mission to several bills, for which see Lords' report.
THE HERRING FISHERY LAWS (SCOTLAND).
In reply to Mr. CA.IRD,

The LORD -ADVOCATE said that the subject was
attended with some difficulty, but he hoped to be able to
introduce a bill in regard to it after the recess,

SMALL ARMS.

Lord ELCHO asked for some information as to the in-
tention of the War Department in regard to the money
for the manufacture of small arms._

The Marquis of HARTINGT ON said it was intended
to reduce the manufacture of aims at Enfield. For the
past year, up to April last, 50,000 rifles had been manufac-
tured, of which only 40,1,00 had been used. He believed
the production for the past year would bo about 1,000 a
week.