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

TUESDAY EVENING,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 3.

The Royal Assent was given this afternoon, by com-
missioe, to the following Bills. The Royal Commis-
sioners were the Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, and the Duke of Montrose:—
Exchequer Bills (17,742,8001.).
St. Albans Disfranchisement.
Sheep, &c., Contagious Disorders Prevention.
Mansfield Gas.
Liverpool Museum and Library.
Wolverhampton Gas.
Yaxley Drak age
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 on the
Woolsack, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor.
LAW OF EVIDENCE.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the
Royal Burghs of Scotland, iu convention assembled, in
favour of the Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill. His
Lordship added that he concurred in the prayer of the
petition, and born testimony td the moat successful
working of the measure relating to England passed on
this subject last session.
Lord LYNDHURST gave notice that with reference
to this Bill he should, when it came into Committee,
move to strike out certain words fur the purpose of
making it more extensive and more beneficial.
BEER HOUSES.
Tho Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition pray-
ing for the better regulation of beer houses.
MAYNOOTH.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from
Chichester, from a place in Aberdeenshire, and also
from other places in Scotland, against the Maynooth
grant.

IRISH DRAINAGE.
The Earl of ROSSE rose to move for the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee to inquire into tho operation
of the Act relating to the drainage of land in Ireland,
as administered by the Board of Works. The
Noble Lard 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
originally drawn up, and had frequently left the works
unfinished, after having spent the original sum. There had
been on the part of this Board a great dereliction of duty
and it had expended great 811131 i of money without hav-
ing adequately benefited the country. It was to inquire
into this conduct of theirs that ho 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 on 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 the two
Houses of Parliament, and he 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., Bill
Manufactures (Ireland)

POOR RELIEF ACT 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
Lord-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 the 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
he (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 Laid-
Lieutenant of Ireland should feel anxious to consider
any question likely to be of advantage to Ireland, and
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 mach 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, ho 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 he had 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-

furred to the reports of deputations, and he might also .
observe that such of their Lordshipsfri(tlo as had official ex.
perience well knew that they
w receivedith
respectlettersreminding them of somo promislegtnityt
en appointment, and on referring
promised to put the applicant down on
found they had
a n the list, at the
same limo telling him there weretargreat many before
him, but that when it C31:113 to his
should be coneidered.
berined into a posi-
Thie was c eista his application
'eying that there
live promise; and he could not help
had been, not from any wish to misrepresent but from
an over sanguine view of the case, some •
, m
lion in the present instence, In consequencemresent,o of the
notice which had been given by the I\.b
Earl of the
question he had just put, the Lord-Liele utenant of Ire-
land wrote to him (Lord Derby), stating
that he saw to
aiddhd been consider-
his great surprise that what he the
ably misrepresented, and that the 140
ad of Dublin
bad called on him next day to
regret at the misrepresentation. webxpress his great
ea he mentioned
the answer which the Lord-Lieutenant had given to
the deputation, he felt sure thaatsttilaatiLordships would
agree that it was just such
Lieutenant ought to have made ouenatsent as the Lord-
stated that he felt a dt,ep interest ettue occasion. Ho
the welfare and
prosperity of Ireland, and that he Was personally anxious
to
.see the whole trade, not of Eng! '
but that anyand only, but of all
Europe, pass through Ireland to America,
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 thetheb granting of the re-
quest of the deputation for
of a pier in
Galway harbour. That was the°n;liadnisnwger the Lord-
Lieutenant gave, with the exception
that he would transmit the representations
of an assurance
tation to the Government. In
of the depu-
question put by the Noble
reference to the
Derby) replied that Government Eerl, he (Lord
reason to come to any decision
had, not seen
adverse to the
conclusion at which the commissio 113 n
referred to by the
Noble Earl had arrived, and, eensen
Govern-
ment, as at present advised, had no intention
the
intention of remov-
ing the Transatlantic packet staotritosn from Liverpool, and
establishing it in any of the p
°i
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 ngland
and Ireland, if it should bo curried
might render it desirable that snob a packet station d into effect, which
had been alluded to should b© at as
some future time esta-
blished, and that every encouragement should bo given
to the improvement of those splendid harbour, in which
mere the west coast of Ireland especially abounded.
Nevertheless, he would not, en th
ment, desire to hold out any ea, C part of the Govern-
the present, that the Trausatla-nerlation, at all events for
be established on the west coast of
packet station would
preference was intended to bo'°F Ireland, or that any
port over another, more „ne shown in favour of one
ports which had been ciallY as between the two
Lime-
rick and Galway. prominently put forward, Lime-
theTlh.eordA!Lariequutiesnonnf
Lieutenant of A
IrNeill/
CARDE was sorry that
he had been represented to hand had nut said as much as
in the report of the Comm. ave said. It was admitted
nica.tion was concerned, mission that, so far as comuiti-
the establishment of a vantages would be gained by
Tr
Galway, but that those Einsatluntic packet station at
mensurate with the cost. advantages would not be corn-
whether the expense wa The question, however, as to
gained, was ono which ought worth the advantage to be
by the Government of tLught to be kept in sight both
ticularly by the u°United States and more par-
port of the Government Commission of this country. The re•
Holy-
head as the point of d_ distinctly recommended Holy-
When he was at the Yost-office
and arrival for the mails.
ter, and the t-office he considered that mat-
rities, in which he joined recommendation
of the Post-office autho-
rities,
should be was that that part of the re-
abused in Ireland, fee oat, For this he had been
duty wiehout regard t when a public man fulfilled his
groat deal, he Was ° the country to which he owed a
free to admit that consideredthe
unpatriotic; but ho was
service of the mails adoption of Holyhead fur the
mately led to the would, in his opinion, have ulti-
would have led to :mention(m of a port in Ireland, as it
and roof in the system of naviga-
tion
mendution of tha 'etl°n• no hoped that the recom•
adoption of u port it:(lPort, which was adverse to the
After a few words Ireland, would be reconsidered.
were not distinctly from the Earl of CA WDOR, which
Lord heardN.ONTEAcii in the gallery,
on the will or E said he did nut intend to reflect
thought .that the impartialityr of the Commission, but he
wry
No doubt, whatev'eAl was in ono respect incomplete.
area goods forramight be done in lreland, manufac-
turesfrom thea most favourable trading would he sent out directly
and the question 55 r trading port ill this country;
itself ceclusively esPected Ireland, therefore, resolved
though he did not intomean one of vestal conainunication,
passenger t an to say th 1.47, a consideration with
regard eu
be involved to it. _raffle might not, to a certain extent,
mission had greatlyile thought the report of the Corn-
that might arise underrated the possible benefits
from a wi. adward rout communication with America
Port; and it appeared from the evidence
of an emit sent engineer that if a vessel were exclusively
built for
°sc'eflLe and passenger purposes, and stationed
at a windecard
6400 ~, Purl, the voyage from Ireland to Halifax,
Nova
'", might be made in rai days. Ile believed