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measure would get rid of all the difficulties that cur.
rounded the former one.

Lord CRANWORTH said that the Dissenters were
under the apprehension that, when this Act was passed,
they would be deprived of their right of being buried in
consecrated ground. He did not think that the Bill
could bear any such construction.
The Earl of HARDWICKE said the Dissenters
would have this advantage under the Bill—they would
be able to bury their dead in the cemetery or burial-
ground of their parish, either in the consecrated or the
unconsecrated ground, just as they pleased. The. Noble
and Learned Lord had expressed his regret that they
were not also to be allowed burial by their own ministers
in consecrated ground. That was a question which had
been over and over again discussed in the House of
Commons, which, however, had declined to agree to
any such arrangement. It was felt, indeed, that if Dis-
senting ministers wore permitted to bury their dead in
consecrated ground the character of consecration would
be totally and entirely changed. Still Dissenters would
be able to make their selection, and be buried by mi-
nisters of the Church of England in consecrated, or by
their own ministers in unconsecrated ground.
Lord ORAN WO RTLI suggested that before the Bill
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was read a third time a pro-7;ision should bo introduced
against building upon unconsecrated burial-groundp.
The Bill was then passed through Committee, and re-
ported, with amendments, to the House.

The General Board of Health (No. 2) Bill was passed
through Committee and reported.
The Pimlico Improvement Bill was passed through
Committee, and reported.
The following Bills were severally read a third time
and passed :—The County Rates Bill, the Excise Sum-
mary Proceedings Bill, the Woods, Forests, and Land
Revenues Bill, the Valuation (Ireland) Bill, the Metro-
politan Sewers Bill, the Friendly Societies (No. 2)
and the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill.
INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
On the order of the day for reading this. Bill a third
time,

Lord MONTEAGLE, whilst admitting the advan-
tages which had arisen from the operation of the -In-
cumbered Estates Courts in Ireland, objected to this
measure, that although', in consequence of the approach-
ing expiration of the period during which petitions were
to be presented to those courts, and the vast accumula-
tion of business which that circumstance had occasioned,
it proposed to extend the period for receiving petitions
another year, it did not go further, and extend the
period for considering those petitions. The result would
be, he feared, the bringing an accumulated quantity of
land into the market, without the court having a cot,
responding power to distribute it, and also a great de-
preciation in the value of landed property in Ireland.
The Earl of DERBY agreed with the Noble Lord
that it was highly desirable that a glut in the supply of
land, by forcing large quantities of it into the market,
should be prevented. The object of the Bill was merely
to extend the time for presenting petitions, and taking
those other Opal steps which were directed under the
Incumbered Estates Act, and which time would
otherwise expire in the present session of Par-
liament. But, inasmuch as the powers of the
Commissioners to act upon the presentments made to
them were to continue for two years longer, there
would be ample time for Parliament hereafter to con-
sider Whether or not it might be advisable to amend the
existing Act, or to do away with this exceptional tri-
bunal, and by adapting the machinery of the Aot to the
ordinary law tribunals of the country, give them greater
facilities than they now possessed for dealing with the
peculiar cases which came before the Commissioners.
That was the view of the question which was taken by
his Noble and Learned Friend, to whose opinion he
was certain his Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle) would
readily defer—he meant the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
—(Hear, hear.) Hie Noble and Learned Friend had for
some time been engaged in the preparation of a measure
giving the Court of Chancery in Ireland the further
poWer of exercising the functions which were vested in
the Incumbered Estates Commissioners; and his Noble
and Learned Friend was desirous of continuing by the
present Bill the existing machinery Of the Act for
another year, in order that be might have the opportu-
nity of considering and maturing that measure.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed, as
were also

The Distressed Unions (Ireland) Bill, and the Hol-
loway House of Correction Bill.
On the order of the day for considering the C om-
mons' amendments to the Common Law Procedure
Amendment Bill.

Lord MONTEAGLE expressed a hope that a copy
of the Bill would be sent to the Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land, with a request that he would consider if some
analogous measure could not be brought in for that
country at the commencement of the next session of
Parliament.
The amendments were agreed to.

The Commons' amendments on the Secretary of Bank-
rupt's Office Abolition Bill, and on the Aberdeen Boys
and Girls' Hospital Bill, Were also considered and agreed
to. And

The Earl of DERBY ha►ing presented a petition
from Leith, praying an alteration of the new navigation
laws,

Their Lordships adjourned.

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