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an opportunity of explaining the provisions of these bills
before the second reading of the present:measure.
Lord CHELMSFORD thought the state of the house
was accounted for by the fact of those noble lords who had
an interest in the bill having been satisfied with the noble
and learned lord's statement, and knowing th it the proper
timq for discussing its principles and details had not arrived.
He was not opposed to any measure for the simplification
and, registration of titles, as contradistinguished from the
registration of assurances. From what the noble and learned
lord had stated, he understood it to be his intention to refer
his bill to a Select Committee. On a question so difficult
and imiortant it was desirable that every plan should be
laid before that committee, that it might adopt either one
of them, or a union of several that might produce a satisfac-
tory measure. With that intention he proposed also to lay
on the table the two bills introduced by the Government of
which he was a member. These, with the two bills of the
noble and learned lord opposite, and the measure of the
noble lord on the woolsack, might all be considered by the
committee. He was most anxious that some satisfactory
measure should be adopted.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in reply, thanked their
lordships for the reception which had been given to his
statement, • and said he was glad that his -noble and
learned friends intended to lay their various bills upon the
table. With regard to the bill of his noble and learned
friend (Lord Chelmsfcri), there was very little antagonism
between that bill and his own, both being derived from one
common source—namely, the report of the Commission.
The several bills were then read a first time, and the
second reading was fixed for this day fortnight.
On the motion of the Earl of LEITRIM, certain returns
were Noted to respecting an alleged disturbance in` the
county of Leitrim.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAIOER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. CHAPMAN took the oaths and his seat as membQr
for Great Grimsby.
PRIVATE BUSINESS

The following private bills were read a second time :
Abbey Holme, Leegate, and Bolton Railways—Alford'
Valley Railway—Andover and Great Western Railway—
Andover and Redbridge Railway—Andover, Redbridge,
and Southampton Railway—Ashboume and Belper Road
—Bala and Dolgelly Railway—Bala Railway—Banstead
and Epsom Downs Railway—Barnsley Local Board of
Health—Berwickshire Railway—Berwick upon Tweed
Harbour—Birkenhead Docks and West Cheshire Junction
Railway—Birkenhead, Flintshire, and Holyhead Railway
—Birkenhead Railway— Bishops Waltham, Botley, and
Bursledon Railway (No. 1)—Bollington (Prestbury) Im-
provement and Lighting—Bolton and Blackburn Road—
Bradford Corporation Water—Bradford, Wakefield, and
Leeds Railway (Deviation, &c.)—Bridge of Weir, Rail-
way—Bridport (Second District) Brighton Abattoir—
Bristol and Clifton Railway—Bristol and South-Western
Junction Railways—Bristol Port Railway and Pier—
Briton Ferry Dockland Railway—Caledonianßailway (De-
viations &c.)—Caledonian Railway (Leith Branches)—Can-
neck Chase Railway (Extension)—Carlisle and Sillothßay
Railway and Dock—Cheadle Roads—Cleveland Railway—
Corwen, Bala, and Portmadoc Railway—Coventry. Poor
Act' Amendment—Cromford and High Peak Railway
(Lease, &c.)—Crystal Palace and South London Junction
Railway—Dare Valley Railway—Dartmounth and Tor-
bay Railway—Daventry Railway—Deeside Railway—
Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway—Dollow and '
Kilmore Commons Inclosure—Dundee and Perth and
Aberdeen Railway Junction, and Dundee arid Newtyle
Railway—Eastern Counties Railway and other Companies
Amalgamation—Eastern Counties Railway (Colchester
Branch)—Eastern Counties Railway (New Lines in Mid
dlesex)—Eastern Union Railway—East Gloucester-
shire Railway—East Grinstead, Groombridge, and
Tunbridge Wells Railway Eden Valley Rail..
way—Edgware, Highgate, and Loudon Railway—Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway—Edinburgh, Perth, and
Dundee and Fife and Kinross Railway Companies—
Faringdon Railway—Folkestone to Barham Downs Road
Frosterly and Stanhope Railway Furness and
Coniston Railway Furness Railway— Garston and
Liverpool Railway—Glasgow Barony Parochial •Board—
Glasgow Police—Great Northern Railway (No. I)—Great
Northern Railway (No. 2)—Great North of Scotland Rail-
way—Great Western and Andover and Redbridge Railway
Companies—Great Western, Hereford, Ross and Glouces-
ter, and Ely Valley Railways—Great Western Railway
(Additional Powers)—Greenock and Wemyss Bay Rail-
way—Halifax Corporation—Heckmondwick Gas—Here-
ford, Hay, and Brecon Railway (Deviations)—Horsham,
Dorking, and Leatherhead Railway—Keighley and Worth
Valley Railway—Kent Coast Railway—Kant County Gaol
and Lunatic Asylum (Water Supply)—Kington and Ear-
disley Railway—Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Ad-
ditional Powers)—Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,
(Doncaster, Goole, and Hull Junction Lines—Lead-
burn, Linton and Dolphinton Railway Leeds
and Bilston Road Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax
Junction Railway—Limerick Markets—Llanelly Railway
and Dock—Llanidloes and Newton, Mid Wales, and Man-
chester and Milford Railways—London and Blackwall
Railway—London and North-Western Railway (Addi-
tional Powers)—London and South-Western and And-
over and Redbridge Railways—London and South-
Western Railway (Additional Powers) London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Enlargement
of Stations, &c.)—London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
and Mid Kent Railway (Bromley to St. Mary's Cray)
Companies—London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Ex-
tension to Walmer and Deal)—London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway (Junction Railway at Battersea, &e.)—
Londan Railway Depot and Storehouses—London,
Tilbury, and Southend Railway Manchester.
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional
Powers)—Market Drayton and Newport Junction Rail-
way—Metropolitan and Thames Valley Railway—
Metropolitan (Dublin) Cattle Market—Metropolitan Meat
and Poultry Market (Western Approach)—Metropolitan
Railway—Mid Kent and Addiscombe Railway—Mid Kent
Railway—Midland Railway (Additional Powers)—Mid-
land Railway (Rowaley and Buxton Extension)—Mid
Wales Railway (Deviations, &c.)—Mold and Wrexham
Railway—Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway
—Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement—
New Chappel, Lindfield, and Brighton, &0., Roads—New-
port and Ryde Direct Railway—Newtown and Machynl-
lath Railway—North British and. Glasgow and South-
Western and other Companies—North British Railway
and Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Companies
—North British Railway and Port Carlisle Dock and Rail-
way Companies—North British Railway,Edinburgh,Perth,
and Dundee Railway, and West of Fife Railway and
Harbour Companies—North British Railway (Monk-
tonhall and Ormiston and Dalkeith Branches)—
North Devon and Okehampton Railway—North-Eastern
mad Hull and Holderness Railway Companies Amalgama-
tion—North-Eastern and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Car-
lisle Railway Companies Amalgamation—North-Eastern
Railway (Blaydon to Conside)—North-Eastern Railway
(Hull and Doncaster Branch)—North-Eastern Rail-
way Market Weighton and Beverley Extension, &c.)—
North-Eastern Railway (Team Valley Extension)—Nor-
wick and Spalding Railway—Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne
and Guide Bridge Junction Railway—Oswestry and New-
town, Llanidloes and Newtown, and Shrewsbury and
Welchpool Railway ' Companies Amalgamation, &c.—
Queenstown Improvement—Radstock and Keynsham
Railway Ramsgate, Sandwich, Deal, and Dover
Railway Rathgar and Sallymount Improvement
Red House and Weeland Roads Rick-
mansworth, Amersham, and Chesham Railway
Rotherham and Wortley Road—Salford Improvement—
Scottish North Eastern Railway—Sevenoaks Railway—
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South Leicestershire Railway—South Melton C
—Soul h Yorkshire Railway (Sheffield and Thorn:r)iTallodn-
ing and Bourn Railway—Stamford and Essendine Rail-
way—Stockton and Darlington Railway (Towlaw and
Crook)—Stockton and Darlington, South Durham and
Lancashire Union, &c. Railway Corivanies—Swansea
Harbour Trust—Tewksbury and Malvern Railway—
Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway—Tranmere
Local Board—Tupton and Ashover and Birkin Lane Roads
—Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway—Vale of Clwyd
Railway—Vale of Neath and Swansea and Neath Rail-
way Companies—Wareham Roads—Wellington and
Cheshire Junction Railwyay—Wem and Bronygarth
Roads West Cheshire Railway West Hartle
pool. Harbour and Railway (Dock Extension)—
West Midland' and :Severn Valley Railways—West Mid-
land Rellway (Additional Works)—West Shropshire Mi-
neral Railway=Weymouth and Portland Railway and
Extension to Harbour—Whitchurch, Wrexham, Mold,
and Connah's Quay Junction Railway—Winchester
Road—Wycombe R4ilway.
THE REVISED CODE OF EDUCATION.

Several petitions were presented from different parts a
he country against the Revised Code.

BULLION.

Mr. HANKEY moved-for a return of the amount of
bullion purchased and sold by•the Bank of England, die.
tinguishing gold from silver, dud bar gold from foreign gold
coin, in each month from the 31st day of December, 1860,
to the 31st-day of December, 1861-; also the excess of pay-
ments to or of receipts from the publie; of British gold
coin; and also the amount received frbra-fhe Mint during
the same period (in continuation of Parliatnentary
No. 62, of session 1861.)—Agreed to.

HARWICH HARBOUR.

Captain JERVIS moved an address for cella the re-
port of the engineer sent to inquire into the'freseht state
of the Landguard Point-of Harwich Harbour Of any cor-
respondence between theßoard of Trade, the Admiralty,
War-office, and Treasury, on the same subject-since the
Ist day of July, 1861-:•And of any communicalions-b'etween
either of these departments and the corporationiof Trwityfrt-,
and Harwich reapcctilig the same. • , -•
OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA:— 1"

Col. SYKES gave notice that he would dralethe atten-
tion of the house to this subject, and move for fhtf ptOduc-
tion of any papers connected with it in the posseasieh of
Government.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

Mr. H. SEYMOUR asked the Secretary of State for th 2

Homo Department, whethcr the Government had received
from the English and Irish prelates any heads of a measure
for the reform of the ecclesiastical courts?
Sir G. GREY said that the subject had received the' lit-
tention Of Government, and a bill had been prepiU•ed' bt
tcosubject, -which was under the nsideration bethe
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LAWS RELATING TO BANKRUPTCY.
Mr. MURRAY asked Mr, Attorney General whether it
was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce
a bill to consolidate the laws relating to bankruptcy?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was got the in