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London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

AMENDMENT BILL.

This bill passed through committee, and was reported
with amendments.

Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.--This Day.

The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes after 12
o'clock, a house not having been made before that time•

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Caesar_
then and Cardigan Railway (No. 1), Newry and Greenore
Railway Pier and Wet Dock, North British Railway
(Steamboats),
The following bills were read a third time :—Edinburgh
Ra
and Dunfermline and Perth (North British) ilway,
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Newcastle and Carlisle
Ruad, North Eastern Railway (Hull and Doncaster
Branch), Scottish Central Railway.
The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a third time :_Great Eastern Railway, Great Northern
Railway (Cheshire lines), and Bonelli's Electric Telegraph
Company (City) Traffic Regu-
of the London
The second reading
lotion Bill was postponed until Thursday.

FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL.

The house then went into committee on the bill.

The consideration of clause 4 was resumed.

Mr. BRUCE explained that the Government had lis-
tened with great attention to sugg3stions from all parties
interested in these fisheries, and he believed that whilst the
best parts of the Act of 1842 were conserved by this bill,
it would likewise lead to tho proper distribution of salmon,
which all unbiassed and disinterested persons desired. The
Government considered that the clause as amended would
work well.

Sir N. SOMERVILLE said he was a supporter, though
reluctantly, of the compromise which had resulted in this
bill, and it was rather too bad for its supporters to feel it
their duty to oppose such alterations in the clause on the
part of the Government, which would legalise stake and
bag nets, and thus destroy all salmon that ascended the
rivers. Had the bill of the hon. member for Wexford (Mr.
M'Mabon) not been interfered with by the Government,
he believed it would have received the assent of the house•
Mr. BRUCE denied that the clause as amended would
legalise these nets.
After much discussion, the committee divided on the
clause as proposed to be amended, the Government having

proposed the omission of the words "or any other waters,"
when there appeared—
For the amendment 33
Against
Majority —2
Several verbal amendments were then agreed to.
alteration
afterwas the
opposed. word " rivers."
Mr. REDMOND proposed the insertion of the words
"or
The
After some discussion, the house divided, when there
appeared—

For the amendment 76
Ayes
Majority
Mr. BUTT proposed the addition of words to the effect
that in cases where persons owned the whole of the rivers
and the right of fishing therein, they should have power to
maintain or erect bag nets.

Mr. O'HAGAN did not approve of the amendment in its
present form; but the Government would consider the sub-

After some discussion the amendment was withdrawn,
the Government having undertaken to frame a clause on
the subject.
The discussion of the subject occupied the remainder of
the sitting.

The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
(LEFT SITTING.)

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

WAR OFFICE, JUNE 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Edward
Alfred John Harris, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Swiss Confederation, and Horatio N. Lay, Esq.,
employed with the special mission of the Earl of Elgin to
China,
in the years 1857 to 1856, to be Ordinary Members
of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 12.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ludwig
Wiese, as Consul at Victoria, Hong Kong, for his Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway.

JUNE 13.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. B. R.
Hebeler as Consul-General in the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland for his Royal Highness the Duke
of Nassau. _ _

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Walter Graham as Consul at Cape Town for the United
States of America.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 15.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Rogers
Griffiths, Esq., to be Stipendary Magistrate for the Falk-
land Islands.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 15.

The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Rev. Her-
man Douglas, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of the church
of Newborough, in the county of Northampton, and diocese
of Peterborough, void by the cession of the Rev. John
Watson.

JUNE 16.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Henry Christian David Chandler, 8.A., to the rectory of
Narbeth, with the chapelry of Robeston, Watham, other-
wise Robeston East, anvexed, in the country of Pembroke,
and diocese of St. David's, void by the death of the Rev.
William Lloyd.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Walter
Gregor to the church and parish of Pitaligo, in the presby-
tery of Deer, and county of Aberdeen, void by the death of
the Rev. Edward Hume.