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London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening,

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at

5 o'clock.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from various
cattle dealers and others inKincardineshire against the law
of hypothec.
The Earl of DERBY presented a petition from Lanca-
shire against the County Courts Bill,
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bulbs were read a second time :—Dundee
Churches and Hospital, Garstang and Knot End Railway,
Sunningdale and Cambridge Town Railway, North British
Railway (Perth Branch).
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
E r ith Tramway, Chichester and Midhurst Railway, and
Chelmsford and Hernston Lane Head Road.

EAST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND
BLOCKLEY AND BANBURY RAILWAY BILLS,

Lord CHELMSFORD moved the re-committal of these
bills, on the ground of the exclusion of certain evidence and
undue curtailment of the right of counsel to cross-examine
witnesses before the select committee,to which the bills were
referred.

Lord STRADBROKE, chairman of the committee in
question, entered into a detailed explanation of the circum-
stances relative to the two bills, and defended the course the
committee had pursued. Not taking evidence and not per-
mitting to cross-examine by counsel, formed no part of the
case of those who were now complaining of the conduct of
the committee.

The motion was negatived without a division.
On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, the Penal Ser-
vitude Acts Amendment Bill was read a second time.
The other business on the paper was disposed of, and
their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening,
The ►SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock,
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Scottish Central Railway (Dundee and Newtyle
Extension) Bill was read a third time and passed.
PERU.

Mr. WEGUELIN asked the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty's Government
had received despatches relative to the seizure of the Chin-
chit Islands, belonging to Peru, by a Spanish naval squad-
ron; whether it was the opinion of her Majesty's
Government that the occupation in time of peace of the
territory of a friendly nation, without cause or declara-
tion of war, and the forcible detention of individuals of that
nation to serve as hostages, was consistent with the usages
of civilised nations, or the dicta of international law ; whe-
ther her Majesty's Government were prepared to admit the
claim put forth by the Spanish Admiral and the Spanish
Commissary of the right on the part of the Spanish
Crown tc revindicate the property of said islands, a
right they assert similar to that which Great Britain sanc-
tioned when she restored the island of Fernando Po,
Azmolon, and Coserco, after a formal and uninterrupted
possession during a considerable number of years : and,
whether her Majesty's Government will interpose their
good offices to bring about a settlement of the trifling matter
of dispute which has led to these high-handed proceedings
on the part of the Spanish officials ?
Mr. LAYARD said that he was sorry to say he could
not give satisfactory information on this matter. On
Saturday last her Majesty's Government received dispatches
from the British representative at Peru, from which it ap-
peared that the seizure alluded to was in consequence of
certain claims not having been acceded to.