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London, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 3.

The Royal Assent wal given this afternoon, by cam-
mission, to the following Bilk. The Royal Coutoia-
sioners were the Earl cf Lonedelo, the Mtaquis of Salis-
bury, and the Dolco of Montrose:
tExchequeribAons n
Biilafun
lsr(l ichel
,7i!2;81e0n0t1.?.
St.
Sheep. &c., Contagious Disorders Peeveation.
Mansfield Gas.
Liverpool Museum and Library.
Wolverhampton Gas.
Yaxley Drainage
Patent Solid Sewage Manure Company.
East London Waterworks.
Scarborough Market and Approaches.
Their Lordships then adjourned, during pleasure.

At Five o'clock Lord REDESDALE took his seat OD the
Woolsack, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor.
LAW OF EVIDENCE.
Lord CANIPBELL presented a petition from the
Royal Burghs of Scotland, in convention assembled, in
favour of the Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill. His
Lordship added that he concurred in the prayer of the
petition, and bore testimony to the most successful
working of the measure relating to England passed on
this subject last session.
Lord LYNDHURST gave notice that with reference
to this Bill ho should, when it came into Committee,
move to strike out certain words for the purpose of
making it more extensive and more beneficial.
BEER HOUSES.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition pray-
ing for the better regulationOOTH. of beer houses.
MAYN
Tho Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from
Chichester, from a.plaoe in Aberdeenshire, and also
from other places In Scotland, against the Maynooth
grant.

IRISR DRAINAGE.
The Earl of ROSSE rose to move for the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation
of the Act relating to the drainage of land in Ireland,
as administered by the Board of Works. The
Noble Lord entered into a long statement
of the :different operations undertaken by the
Board of Works, contending that in numerous
instances the Board had grossly exceeded the estimates
unfinished, after having spent the original sum. There had
and it had expended great sums of money without hav-
oibnre igegniandoaenl ytuha drawn repal
aywr o P
benefited
eu• and had frequently loft the works
nefited the country. It was to inquire
of
this Board a great dereliction of duty
into this conduct of theirs that he desired the present
investigation.
The Earl of DERBY said that he had no intention of
opposing the appointment of this Committee, though by
so doing he disclaimed any idea of coming to any pre-
judged opinion ort the Board of Works for not having at-
tained results which might frequently have been beyond
their control. Considerable powers had been given to
this board to carry out the objects confided to them to
be executed, and he was by no means prepared to say
that its proceedings ought not to be watched with great
vigilance. A Very voluminous correspondence on this
subject would speedily be laid before tho two
Houses of Parliament, and ho thought until that
correspondence were laid before them the Committee
would do better to abstain from any active operations.
The motion was then agreed to, and the Committee
appointed.

-On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Linen,
&c., Manufactures (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.

POOR RELIES AC r CONTINUANCE BILL.
This Bill was also read a second time.
LOAN SOCIETIES BILL.
This Bill was also read a second time.
TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION.
Earl GRANVILLE rose to inquire whether it was the
intention of the Government to take any measure to re-
move the Transatlantic packet station from Liverpool to
any one of the southern or western ports of Ireland?
He had given notice of this question the other day in
consequence of seeing an extract from a Dublin paper,
giving an account of a deputation which waited on the
Lore-Lieutenant of Ireland for the purpose of soliciting
a grant of public money for the purpose of improving
Galway harbour. The. Lord-Lieutenant was reported
to have expressed a hope that this whole of the traffic
between this country and the United States might pass
through Ireland; but that he did not pledge himself to
anything, as much must depend on the Chancellor of the
Exchequer; and that he would communicate with the
Government on the subject. The commission over which
ho (Earl Granville) presided collected a great mass of
evidence in respect to this matter, and, having anxiously
considered it, they came to the conclusion that it would
not be consistent with their duty to recommend the re-
moval of the Transatlantic packet station from Liver-
pool to one of the Irish ports. Now, he thought that it
was very natural that any one in the position of Lord.
Lieutenant of Ireland should feel anxious to consider
any question likely to be of advantage to Ireland, and
shouldlaiaimme,
promise;
which its geographical position might seem to entitle it
to. On the other hand, it was not unlikely that the ac-
count in the newspaper to which he referred might not
be correct, for very few persons in official life were un-
aware that in the case of deputations, the person who
received them frequently found himself, on seeing
the account given of them, very much like the lion in
the fable when he found himself represented by the
sculptor. As many false alarms might be excited by
any misapprehension on this subject, he thought the
matter of sufficient importance to justify him in asking
whether the hope expressed by the Lord-Lieutenant was
such as described in the report ho bud alluded to; if so,
whether the Government concurred in it, and whether
they intended to take any steps for the removal of the
Transatlantic packet station to any harbour in Ireland?
The Earl of DERBY said the Noble Lord had re-
ferred to the reports of
of some promise given with respect to
deputations, and he might also
observe that such of their Lordships as had official ex•
pone
it came to his turn his application
' nee well know that they frequently received letters
the applicant down on the list, at the
btui mbseethetaoetiallswiindhgnerne d. This was construed into a
tive
wish to
andhi
him there
h erreele:roirneg
arpenrmoainivnipsdoei
appointment,
hepenumtt,
tahgeyreafotumildantyhebyefboarde
and he could not help e
believing that there
misrepresent, but from
e, Some misrepresenta-
tion in the present instance.
him (fiord Derby)
consequence of the
notice which had been given by the Noble Earl of the
questio
• n he had just put, the Lord-Liontenant of Ire-
landcase,
wrote to stating that he saw to
hie great surprise that what he had said had been consider-
ablythedii,nasetaenndext
ya Lordes express his great
Mayor of Dublin
felt sure that their Lordships would
regret at the misrepresentation. When be mentioned
the answer which the Lord-Lieutenant had given to
agree that it was just such a statement as the bad IncaislrleedPreoln"
have
Lord-
Lieutenant ought to made on the occasion. He
stated that he felt a deep interest in the welfare and
prosperity of Ireland, and that he was personally anxious
to .see the whole trade, not of
the deputation, he
England only, but of all
e, pass through Ireland
Europe, to America. but that any
good wishes that he might entertain not only could not
obtain the establishment of a Transatlantic station in Ire-
land, but could not even obtain the granting of the re-
quest of the deputation for the
budding of a pier in
Galway harbour. Tht a the only answer the Lord-
withath w e
s
Lord-
Lieutenant gave,
exception of an assurance
that he would transmit the representations of the depu-
tation to the Government. In reference to the
question put by s the Noble Earl, he (Lord
Derby) replied that Government had not seen
reason to come to any decision adverse to the
conclusion at which the commission referred to by the
Noble Earl had arrived, and, consequently, the Govern-
ment, as at present advised, had
no intention of remov-
ing the Transatlantic packet station from Liverpool, and
establishing it in any of the
, ports of Ireland. But, at
the same time, he must observe, that the subject was
open to inquiry, and there were many motives, more
especially the submarine telegraph between England
and Ireland, if it should be earned into effect, which
might render it desirable that such station as
a packet
had been alluded to should be at some future time esta-
blished, and that every
Pleeneagement should be given
to the improvement of loose splendid harbours, in which
the west coast of Ireland
more especially abounded.
Nevertheless, he would not, on the part of the Govern-
ment, desire to hold out a
-by expectation, at all events for
the present, that the Transatlantic packet station would
be established on the we
, 31 coast of Ireland, or that any
preference was intenued to be shown in favour of one
port over another, more especially as between the two
ports which had been Prominently put forward, Lime-
rick and Galway.
The Marquis of er. e
--seNRICARDE was sorry that
the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had not said as much as
he had been represented to have said. It was admitted
in the report of the Commission that, so far as commu-
nication was "I"rhod, advantages would bo gained by
the establishment of a Transatlantic packet station at
Galway, but that those advantages would not be com-
mensurate with the cost. The question, however, as to
whether the expense was worth the advantage to be
gained, was one which ought to be kept in sight both
by the Government of the United States and more par-
ticularly by the Government of this country. Tho re-
port of the Commission distinctly recommended holy-
head as the point of departure and arrival for the mails.
When he was at the Post-office he considered that mat-
ter, and the recommendation of the Post-office autho-
rities, in which he joined, was that that part of the re-
port should be carried out. For this he had been
abused in Ireland, for when a public man fulfilled his
duty without regard to the country to which he owed a
great deal, he was considered unpatriotic; but he was
free to admit that the adoption of Holyhead for the
service of the mails
would, in his opinion, have ulti-
mately led to the adoption of a port in Ireland, as it
would have led to an alteration in the system of naviga-
tion and communication. He hoped that the recom-
mendation of the
report, which was adverse to the
adoption of a port in Ireland, would be reconsidered.
After a few words from the Earl of CAWDOI-t, which
were not distinctly heard in the gallery,
Lord MONTLAGLE said he did not intend to reflect
on the zeal or impartiality of the Commission, but ho
thought that the inquiry was in one respect incomplete.
No doubt, whatever might be done in Ireland, manufac-
tures and goods for America would be sent out directly
from the most favourable trading port in this country;
and the question as respected Ireland, therefore, resolved
itself exclusively into one of postal communication,
though he did not mean to say that a consideration with
regard to passerger traffic miht not, to a certain extent,
be involved in it. Ho thought the report of the Com-
mission had greatly underrated the possible benefits
that might arise from communication with America
from a windward port; and it appeared from the evidence
of an eminent engineer that if a vessel were exclusively
built for Post-office and passenger purposes, and stationed
at a windward port, the voyage from Ireland to Halifax.
Nova soli., might be made in a days. He believed