The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening,
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the fo
lowing bills :—Tlnion Assessment Committee Act Amend
ment—Coventry Free Grammar School—Superannuation
(Union Officers) Government Annuities Act—Divorce and
Matrimonial Causes—Greek Loan—Life Annuities and
Life Assurance—Worcester, Bromyard, and Leomins-
ter Railway Settled Estates Act Amendment
Durham University—Sunningdale and Cambridge Town
Railway-Argyllshire Roads—lndependent Gas Company—
New Quay and Cornwall Junction Railway—Midland
Railway (Bath and Tliornbury)—Leeds, Bradford, and
Halefort Junction—London and South Western Railways
—oswestryand Newton and other Railways (arrangements)
—Llandilo and Teiffo Valley Railway—Bodmin Railway—
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway—(Tunbridge
Wells)—Scottish and North Eastern Railway—Southamp-
ton and Netley Rai way—Rammell's Patent—Furness Gas
and Water—Hayling's Railway—London Docks, St.
Katherine's Docks, and Victoria Docks Amalgamation—
Stockport and Ashton Roads—Wisbeach Water—Grand
Western Canal and Bristol and Exeter Railway—
Newry and Armagh Railway—Carnarvon and Llanberris
Railway--Fleetwood Docks—Vale of Crickhowell Rail-
way—Crieff and Methvin Junction and Branch Railway—
Finchley, Willesden and Acton Railway—Londonderry
Improvement—Cheddar Valley and Yalton Railway—
Wersum Valley Railway—Pembroke and Tenby
Railway—Wellington and Drayton Railway—Helston
and Penryn Railway—London and North Western Rail-
way—London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (No. 2)—
Shrewebury and Welchpool Railway—Charing-cross Rail-
way—Peeblesshire Roads (No. 2)—Belfast Improvement
(No. 2) —Kingston and Eardsley Railway—Southern
Railway—Ardrossan Ilarbour—Bolton Improvement—
Great Northern Railway (Barnet Branch)—Wallasey
Embankment—Llanelly Harbour Improvement—Maccles-
field, Bollington, and Maple Railway—Walford and Edge-
ware Junction Railway.
The Lords' Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Viscount Sydney, and Earl St. Germans.
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the woolsack
at the usual hour.
PERILS OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.
Lord BROUGHAM called attention to this subject, and
said it was exceedingly desirable that some steps should be
taken to insist on some arrangement by which the pas-
sengers in railway carriages should have mean of com-
municating with the guard. On foreign railways the sys-
tem was universal. He concluded by asking whether the
Government intended taking steps to compel railway com-
panies to effect such a desirable object.
Earl GRANVILLE said the subject was engaging the
attention of the Government. His experience of foreign
railways was, that whilst the guard could communicate
with the passengers, the passengers could not communicate
with the guard.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time :—Whitby
Water—Bourton on the Water Railway—lsle of Wight
Water—Hamilton and Streathern and Caledonian Railway
—Clyde Navigation—Bristol Port Extension Railway—
Stockport Distrist Water—Blyth and Lyme Railway—
Torbay.and Brigham Railway—Midland Railway—North
London Railway (Additional Powers).
PENAL SERVIIUDE.
The Commons' amendments to this bill were then taken
iato consideration.
The Earl of SHAF TESBURY moved that their
lord-ships insist on their amendments. Clause 4
provided that the ticket of leave man should report
himself once a month, but their lordships were
of opinion that such an arrangement would be pro-
ductive of much evil, and accordingly altered the clause so
as to make compulsory upon the ticket-of-leave man to
report himself after leaving the prison, and after that as
often as might be agreed upon. The bill went back to
Commons, where their lordships' amendment was objected
to, and the clause was restored to its original state. He
moved that their lordships insist on their amendment, as he
would rather imperil the passing of the bill than agree to
such a cruel and unnecessary provision. The result
of making a ticket of leave man report himself once a month
would in effect be to prevent him ever.obtaining honest
employment, and under such circumstance the only course
open to him was to relapse into crime. He contended that
if thcseunfortunate men were taken by the hand at the proper
time it would be the means of making them honest and in-
dustrious, but if they were thrust back into their old courses,
by having to report themselves, as the bill now stood, evil,
any not good, would be the result.
The i',:irl of CARN ARV ON supported the amendments
of the Coultav'us.