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London, England, 1864-04-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

ROUSE OF LORDS—LastEvening, 1
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The following bills received the Royal assent by Com-
anission, viz. : —Consolidated Fund (L 15,000,000)—Bills of
Exchange and Promiseory Notes (Ireland)—Convey-
ances (Ireland) Malt for Animals— Union Relief
Aid Acts Continuance Warehousing of British
Spirits—Hull Docks—Llanelly Railway and Docks—
Newry and Greenmore Railway—Southwark Park—
Folkstone Water-.-Matlock and Bath Water—Marple New
Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway—Chertsey Gas—
Kingston-upon-Thames Gas—Southwark and Wrexhall
Water—Tunbridge Wells Water—Dublin and Belfast
Junction Railway—Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway—
Dover Gas—Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market—
Caine Gas—lpswich Gas—and Swansea Vale Railway.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Earl St. Germans, and the Duke of Argyll.
Their Lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
REGISTRATION OF TITLES TO LAND.
The Earl of LEINSTER. presented a petition from the
corporation of Dublin in favour of a bill to amend the law
relating to the registration of titles to land.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Wrexham Water, Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way (additional powers), London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway (Kemp Town Station), North Eastern,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire Railway
Companies, and North Eastern Railway (Micklefield
branch) were read a second time.
The Herne Bay, Hampton, and Reculver Fishery, and
Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway Bills
were read a third time and passed.
INDIA.
In reply to a question from the Earl of ELLENBOROUGII,
Lord WO DE HOUSE said that no official information
had been received from India in reference to the orders
given as respects the disposal of the dead.
Sir Charles Wood had received a private note from
which it appeared that an order had been given, with the
sanction of the Governor-General, to discontinue throwing
dead bodies into the Ganges. Arrangements had been
made to burn the bodies of those whose friends were
too poor to do so themselves. It would be a great sani-
tary improvement. He further said that no resolution had
been come to to change the seat of Government from Cal-
cutta to the upper provinces.
PUNISHMENT OF RAPE BILL.
On the motion that the bill do pass,
Lord WODEHOUSE moved an amendment to one of the
clauses, the effect of which was to make the punishment of
whipping those found guilty under the act discretionary
with the judge, and not compulsory.
After a short discussion their lordships divided, when
there appeared—
For the amendment.
Against it
Majority
The amendment was then agreed to, and the bill passed.
THE REGIUS PROFESSORSHIP OF GREEK
(OXFORD) BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading
of this bill.
The Earl of DERBY said he did not intend to oppose the
bill, as he understood the University desired that it should
pass. At the same time he entertained considerable objec-
tions to some of its provisions, especially to that which re-
quired the professorship to be held by a clergyman. If such
a limitation had existed in bygone times, Professor Person
could never have held the appointment, and he thought that
the professorship of Greek was not one that could at all
times be advantageously held by a clergyman.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH opposed the bill on
the ground that it took away from the hard .working clergy
one of the few rewards which had hitherto been allotted to
them, and applied to a peculiar secular object.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, speaking in defence of the
bill, observed that it was regarded as satisfactory by the
University, who had accepted it as the best remedy for the
painful scones that had recently occurred. He had no ob-
jection to the insertion of a provision to the effect that, in
the event of the University endowing the Greek professor-
ship to the amount of £6OO a year, the canonry he proposed
to attach to the chair should be placed at the disposal of the
University.
The Earl of HARROWBY supported. the bill.
Earl GREY concurred with the Earl of Ellenborough,
that it would be unwise to withdraw a valuable piece of
Church preferment from the position it had hitherto occu-
pied of being a reward for peculiarly clerical services.
Alter a few observations from the Earl of Carnarvon,
The B;shop of LONDON remarked that he had no doubt
the clerical body would be always able to supply a gentle-
man fit to undertake d
he could only express a hope that all the canonries might
be as well disposed of as being conferred upon a man who
must necessarily be one of the most eminent Greek scholars
of the day.
The bill was read a second time.
The Joint-Stock Companies (Foreign Countries) Bill
was read a third time and paased ; ant the Registration of
County Voters (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.
Their lordships then adjourned

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

the following bills were read a third time and passed :
Bedford and Cambridge Railway, Ely, Haddenham, and
Sutton Railway, Greenwich and South Eastern Docks,
North Cheshire Water, Portmadoc and Beaver Pool Bridge
Road, and the Scarborough Valley Bridge.