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at 4 per cent. The whole principle of the measure was
that in effect the purchaser was to pay either in a sum of
money down, or in an annuity, one-half of the considera-
tion for the advowson instanter, and the other part was to
be kept and accumulated at compound interest, and not to
be paid until the purchaser should come into actual posses.
sion. They would see, therefore, that his object was to give
immediate benefit, but a still greater argumentation of the
living when it came into possession of the purchaser.
Lord CRANWORTH congratulated the noble and
learned lord upon the satisfactory character of the measure,
which he thought would not only be of great benefit to the
country, but would relieve any Lord Chancellor who might
hold the seals from a large amount of disagreeable trouble
connected with the distribution of those small livings. He
was not quite certain, however, that his noble and learned
friend had not over-valued them by not having deducted
the charge for curates.

Lord CHELMSFORD said that the object of augment-
ing those small livings had his entire concurrence.

THE CLOONE LOAN FUND.

The Earl of LEITRIM moved an address to her
Majesty for a Royal commission to inquire into the pro-
priety of the Loan Fund Board having elosed the Cloone
Loan Fund, and ordered the funds to be confiscated ; and
to inquire into the mode in which those funds had been
employed, and whether they could not be applied for the
benefit of the poor of the locality.
Earl GRANVILLE said the funds were being distri-
buted in that manner already, and there was no necessity
for any commission of inquiry, unless a prima facie case of
misapplication were shown.
The Earl of LEITRIM—That's not correct.
Earl GRANVILLE —The noble earl will be good enough
to address me ha parliamentary language when he wishes
to address me in that way again.
The motion Ras negatived without a division, and their
lordships adjourned at a quarter before eight.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock,
NEW MEMBER.

The Marquis of HARTINOTON took the oaths and his
seat for North Lancashire. The noble lord was introduced
by Mr. Grogan and Mr. Huggessrin.

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Aberystwith
and Welsh Coast Railway—Accrington Gas and Water—
Caledonian Railway (Bredisholm Deviation)—Caledonian
Railway (Carstaira and Dolphinton Branch)—Cocker-
mouth and Workington Railway—Cockermouth, Keswick,
and Penrith Railway—Leyland and Farington Gas—Mid
Wales Railway (Branch, &c.)—Newport Pagnell Railway
—North Bierley Gas—North-Eastern Railway (Newcastle
and Starbeck Branches)—Penarth Harbour, Dock, and
Railway. _

The following bills were considered and ordered to be
read a third time :—Bristol and North Somerset Railway
and Harrogate Gas.

PETITIONS.

By Mr. POTTER, from Carlisle, in favour of the reduc-
tion of the tea duty ; Mr. IN ILLIAMS, from Lambeth, to
the same effect; Mr. W. WooD, from a public meeting re-
cently held under the presidency of Mr. Sheriff Lawrence,
in the Guildhall, praying the house to present an address to
her Majesty to sanction and uphold the efforts of
the Poles to establish their independence, and
to cease diplomatic relations with Russia until such inde-
pendence was established; Mr. LAWSON, from Carlisle,
against the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath;
Mr. HORSFALL, from Liverpool, Mr. E. BAINES, from
Leeds, Mr. Locxa, from Southwark, Mr. BARNES, from
Bolton, to the same effect ; Mr. WHALLEY, from Peter-
borough, and Mr. PACKE, from Leicester, against the Pri-
son Ministers Bill; and Mr. BARNES, Bolton, and Lord
J. MANNERS, Loughborough, in favour; Mr. PENDER,
from several building societies in Liverpool, praying for a
modification of the fire insurance duty ; Mr. BARNES, from
Bolton, Mr. CARDWELL, from the mayor and corporation
of Oxford, to the same effect; Mr. WILLIAMS, from Lam-
beth, in favour of the alteration.