The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
the usual hour.
LAND ESTATES COURT BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the first reading of
this bill, the object of which, ho stated, was to confer on
the court in Ireland the same power that was possessed by
the court in England of continuing the registry of land
which worked so beneficially in this country.
The bill was read a first time.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Brighton, Hove, and Preston Constant Water Sor
vice Bill was read a second time.

The Crystal Palace District Gas Bill and the Merthyr..
Tydvil Local Board of Health Bill were also read a second

time.

The Whitehapel and Holborn Improvement Bill was read
a third time and passed.
The Bank of Ireland Bill, and East India High Courts
(Amendments) Bill were also read a third time and passed.

PRIVATE BILLS, &c.
Lord REDESDALE moved that no bill brought from
the House of Commons should be read a second time after
the 29th of June next. That no bill confirming any pro-
visional order of the Board of Health,' or authorising any
enclosure of lands under the special report of the Inclosure
Commission of England and Wales, or for confirming
the scheme of any charity commissioners of England
and Wales should bo read after the 29th June next, and
that no bill confirming any provisional order of the Board
of Trade under the general Pier and Harbour Act, 1861,
should be read a second time after the same date. He also
moved that when a bill should have passed the house with
amendments these orders should not apply to any new bill
sent up from the House of Commons, which the chairman
of committees should report to the house was substan-
tially the same as the bill so amended.

These formal motions were agreed to.
• PRIVATE BILL COSTS BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this bill,
The Duke of CLEVELAND moved the insertion of an
amendment with a view to protect landowners from what
he contended would be a great injustice if the present bill
were carried in its integrity. By its provisions the land-
owners would be compelled to pay the costs of an unsuc-
cessful opposition in defending his rights, if the committee
should consider the opposition vexatious.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said he did not think the
amendment of the noble duke would effect his object.
Many persons who had no locus standi induced landowners
to come forward and oppose a bill, and, under the guise of
landowners, they were really the opponents of the bill.
He suggested an alteration to the effect that the committee
on a private bill should have the power of taxing the
opponents of the bill when they considered that
opposition vexatious, and not, in fact, promoted by the
landowners themselves.

The alteration of the Lord Chancellor was agreed to, and
she bill, with some other amendments, was read a third
,ime and passed.

The East India (Governor-General's Powers, &c.) Bill
was read a second time and passed.
The house then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
NEW MEMBER.

Lieut.-Colonel BROWNE took the oaths and his seat for
Evesham, in the place of the late Sir H. WILLOUGHBY.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Acton and Brentford Railway—Banbury Water—Barnet,
Hendon, Hampstead, and London Railway—Bristol and
Exeter Railway—Bristol Docks—Coventry Central Sta-
tion and Southam Junction Railway—Great Eastern
Railway (Additional Powers)—Littleborough Gas—Man-
chester Improvement—Maryport and Carlisle Railway—
Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway—Redhill Gas—
Scarborough and Whitby Railway—South Metropolitan
Gas—Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway—Sunderland Corpo-
ration—Birmingham Water—Cheltenham Water—East
London Railway—Fulham Railway—North Eastern Rail-
way (Pelaw and other branches)—and Metropolis Sewage
and Essex Reclamation Bill