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London, England, 1862-07-04 00:00:00

HIGHWAYS BILL.

Their lordships went into committee on this bill.
After a long and uninteresting discussion the first four
clauses were agreed to.

Clause 5 was agreed to after it had been amended by the
Earl of Carnarvon.

An amendment of the Duke of RICHMOND on clause
44 was also agreed to. _ _

Lord BERNERS, in moving the second reading of the
Game Laws (No. 2) Amendment Bill, explained the pro-
visions of the measure, and observed it was very different
to the one which he had withdrawn.
After a short conversation, the bill was read a second
time, on the understanding that it should be referred to a
select committee.

The Courts of Church of Scotland Bill passed through
committee, in spite of the objections which Lord DAD-
HO U SIE made to the arbitrary nature of the measure.
The house adjourned at 10 minutes past 8 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway—Hatfield Chase Level.
GREAT NORTHERN AND WESTERN (OF IRE-
LAND) RAILWAY BILL (LORDS).
Col. W. PATTEN moved that the resolution, which
upon the 17th day of June was reported from the select
committee on standing orders, in relation to the Great
Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway Bill, be re-
committed.—Agreed to.
PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENTS BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on the bill,
Mr. KNIGHT moved an amendment to the effect that
the house resolve itself into such committee upon this day
three months. _ .

.—.,„
Atter a short discussion the house divided, and the
numbers were :
Ayes
Noes 4l
Majority -53
The house then went into committee.
Six clauses were agreed to, and at 10 minutes to four the
Chairman reported progress.
The sitting was then suspended.

At six o'clock the house resumed
THAMES EMBANKMENT.

Before the business upon the paper commenced, a dis-
cussion arose, in which Sir J. SHELLEY made a statement,
the effect of which was that a resolution of the Thames
Embankment Committee had been taken away by the
chairman, instead of being left with the committee clerk,
and altered in its terms. This charge was met by Mr.
COWPER with an explanation, in which, with some warmth
he accused Sir 3. Shelley of giving an erroneous colouring
to the facts. _

Vv
On the order for going into committee upon the Thames
Bmbankment Bill,
Sir W. JOLLIFFE complained of the imputations un-
justly cast upon the select committee, and justified the con-
clusion at which they had arrived, explaining the grounds
of their decision.
Mr. DOULTON moved, as an amendment, " That the
bill be recommitted to the former committee; and that it

be an instruction to the committee on the bill to make pro-
vision therein for the construction of a continuous I,ineifoef
roadway from Blackfriars to Westminster-bridge's'howed
gave a history of this question of a roadway, and.
that the committee of 1860 and the royal coninialsslez
ekf were
tiers to
in favour of a roadway continuous from
Westminster-bridge, to which the plan
of
1862 was directly opposed,pi
pt tseree
no
tf
that private interests were naontdahlteo
altogether
ralanced the testi-
mony the
thought
xt tieuwcd oeans'd
consideration of the committee.
He
Taus in question, in-
mony in support of each of the twee athPe
evidence, as well as
sisting that the greater weight of 0
f the continuous road-
public convenience, was in
trnfracevethruad annexed a condition to
ust be widened.
way. Even Mr. Pennetho
his plan, that Parliament-stream
to a reference of the bill to a
Mr. K. SE YMBB, objected
after condemning the man-
second select committee. and,
had been treated by the press,
ner in which tnisu
duct of the committee. As a member of
vindicated the co
it,
he had bee, guided entirely by the evidence, and it was
only gradually that he had come to the conclusion that the
roadway had better stop.at Wh.itehall-stairs. He was glad
that the question of private interests had been brought
under the notice of the commitee, as it placed the whole
case fairly before them.
Lord H. VANE likewise defended the committee, of
which he was also a member, and repelled the charge of
being influenced by a motive of" base subserviency," of
which they had been accused. He suggested various rea-
sons in favour of the decision of the committee.
Mr. TITE was of opinion that it was very much better
that the road should turn up obliquely at Whitehall-stairs
into Parliament-street tithe block of buildings on the north
side being taken down) than that it should be carried
exactly to the foot of Westminster-bridge, the objections to
which proposal he explained.
Mr. LOCKE pointed out what he considered an incon-
sistency in the views of Mr. Tite. The bill contemplatednluestion
an embankment up to Westminster, and
was whether that part of it from Whirtoehdath. The objections
llfstairys toq West-
minster should be a footpath or a a
offered to a road were in his opinion most futile. He cri-
ticised with some asperity the plan of Mr. Pennethorne,
who would confine the public, he said, to only one road,
whereas he preferred two roads.
Mr. P. URQUHART,
Some observations were; made by

and
Sir J. SHELLEY, after denouncing in bitter terms the
attacks made upon a noble duke in relation to this ques-
tion, wad the committee had arrived at their decision dis-
tinctly upon public grounds—and, as a member of the
committee, he had never come to a conclusion whim
rights
upon :nature consideration, be more believed to bo

than the one adopted in favour of the alternative line of Mr.
Pennethorne. He read portions of the evidence of the
Duke of Buccleuch, and concurred with his Grace that no
necessity or public convenience called for a roadway up to
Westminster-bridge. He hoped the house would not listen
to the proposition made by Mr. Doulton.

Mr. HORSM A.N observed that charges had been brought
against the Duke of Buccleuch of appearing before the
committee in opposition to the public interests, and of over-
riding the committee, and the house was bound to inquire
whether the charges were true. If it turned out, as the
fact was, that they were not only untrue, but the very re-
verse of the truth, the house should support its committee
and vindicate them from the aspersions with which they
had been attacked. In reviewing the history of the pro-
ject of an embankment, he took exception to the nomina-
tion of the Royal Commission of 1861, and to the mode of
inquiry, contending that the commissioners had entered
upon it with a foregone conclusion. He then examined
the course taken by the Government upon the subject of
the embankment, adverting to the antagonism of different
departments, before the appointment of the select commit-
tee upon the bill, and justified the conduct of the Crown
lessees in the inquiry, observing that it was not true that
they had put themselves voluntarily forward. In conclu-
sion, he appealed to the house in what respect the Duke of
Buccleuch had committed any offence against the public
interests. He had used no political influence ; he had ap-
peared before the committee, like any humble petitioner,
asking only for justice. Yet a cry had been got up against
ducal influence, as if this had been a question of public
right against aristocratic power, in order to inflame popular
prejudice and irritate the public mind against a nobleman
who, he believed, was an honour and an ornament to his
country.

Mr. COWPER declined to follow Mr, Horsman in his
personalities, or to discuss the character of the Duke of
Buccleuch, which was not the question before the house.
He entertained the utmost respect for the duke, who had
given evidence before the committee in a manner which
did him the highest credit; but he had not taken the course
in this transaction which he (Mr. Cowper) should have
taken. He then, in reply to Mr. Horsman, entered into
points of detail, and with respect to the continuous road, he
had, he said, high authority for saying that there was no
practical difficulty whatever.
Lord J. MANNERS expressed surprise at the injurious
observations upon the committee which had fallen from Mr.
Cowper, its chairman. He attributed all the confusion and
embarrassment into which this question had lapsed to the
course adopted by the Government, which was a hybrid
scheme of divided responsibility.
Lord PALMERS 1 ON said he hoped Mr. Doulton would
not press his amendment, which was not applicable to the
bill in its present stage. The question before the house
was a very simple one, yet the most complicated discus-
sions, personal disputes, and every possible topic had been
introduced to draw away the attention of the house. It
seemed to him that if the Thames was to be embanked from
Blackfriars to Westminster-bridge, to be paid by taxation
on the metropolis, the metropolis ought to have the benefit
of it. Nobody disputed that the embankment was a great
improvement, and the only question was whether there
should be a broad road or a footway ; but let the house de-
termine as it would, a restriction would not and could not
be maintained. He had heard no real argument against
continuing the roadway to Westminster-bridge.
Mr. DOULTON withdrew his amendment, and the
house went into committee upon the bill, but, on reaching
the Gth clause, the chairman was ordered to report pro-
gress.

The African Slave Treaty Bill, and the Pier and Har-
bour Orders Confirmation Bill were read a third time and
passed.

On the order for reading the Enclosure (No. 2) Bill a
third time,

Mr. PEACOCKE moved the recommitment of the bill,
and upon a division this amendment was carried by 76 to

The Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill was recommitted, and a
clause was added on the motion of Sir R. PEEL.

Other bills were forwarded a stage, and, the remaining
business having been disposed of, the house adjourned at
25 minutes past two o'clock.

THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAILS—SOUTHAMP-
TON, July 2.—The Hamburg and American Company's
steam ship Borussia, Captain Trautman, sailed hence at
4 p.m. this afternoon, with the German, French, and Eng-
lish mails for New York direct. She took out 450 passen-
gers, jewellery, &c., from Havre, value 16,000 f., and a very

full cargo of French and English goods.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—About
10 o'clock yesterday the Rev. H. Oliver, who resides at
Rickmansworth, Herts, and who had arrived a short timo
previously at the Euston-station by train, was crossing the
Tottenham-court-road, when he was knocked down by an
omnibus, and the fore and hind wheel passed overy hie right
ancle, crushing the bone in such a dreadful manner that,
on his being conveyed to the hospital it was feared ampu-
tation would become necessary.

A correspondent writes to the Bristol Utiles :
" A short time ago, at Langdale Chapel, a primitive ham-
let (a morning's walk from where I am), the rotten old
pulpit fell with the clergyman, Mr. Frazer, in it, just after
he had begun his sermon, from the text, Behold I come
quickly .' He fell on an elderly dame, who escaped won-
derfully. Mr. Frazer, as soon as he found his feet, congra-
tulated her on surviving such an adventure ; but she
tartly refused his sympathy, saying, If I'd been kilt I'd
been reet serrat (rightly served), for you'd threatened ye'd
be comin' doon sune.' "

If men did but know (says Jeremy Taylor) what
felicity dwells in the cottage of a virtuous poor man—how
sound he sleeps, how quiet his breast, how composed his
mind, how free from care, how easy his provision, how
healthy his morning, how sober his night, how joyful his
heart—they would never admire the noises, the diseases,
the throng of passions, and the violence of unnatural appe-
tites, that fill the houses of the luxurious and the hearts of
the ambitious.

THE MURDERS IN LONGFORD AND LIMERICK.—
£lOO has been offered by the Government for such infor-
mation as shall lead to the arrest of any person who has,
since the murder of the late Mr. Francis Fitzgerald, of
Garrynoe, near Kilmallick, county Limerick, knowingly
harboured, concealed, assisted, or in any way aided in the
escape from arrest (4 James Walsh, now a prisoner in the
gaol of Limerick ; also a reward of £lOO, with a similar in-
tent and for a similar reason, in the case of the murder of
John Corrigan, and firing at and wounding his wife, near
Malkagh, in the county of Longford, on April 20.
' ELOPEMENT.—Some little stir has been tensed
in in the Market Harborough district by the elopetnet°
beautiful young lady from under the roof of her guardian,
te
on Friday last. It is most currently runiouredtaith.nat h
who ham
gen-
tleman with whom she has made off is a
captain
and Kib-
for several days past been staying at Harborough
or
pretending to
worth, and, of course, being a straniesgaebrou,
t the neighbonr-
be so, made various anxious inquirougb,
where ho appeared
hood, and last week was at ilartrr,
with others. It is also
to enjoy himself, in a joviauler
-Zs" was arranged by a Har-
currently believed the
alinsmtinagll
well,tknownndguardian i n t hienh
field, resided
with her
rMarket Harborough, and has
borian party. The lady"
been,
t pretending to be rather poorly ; so,
me will have i ,
Or as 60 'rbwelhatoioisn
course, must retire to her room rather early
evening last ; but here she appears to have stayed
quiet village N.R'• of. .
as a matter of
for about 10 o'clock a fly and pair, with
bonutFe
at
the gallant captain, arrived a certain guide-post 4my
ten minutes' walk from the house, and here awaited
stout
the lady, who, true to her promise, made her appearance,
Friday
Yrt time, .
and " Cabby" drove off with all speed to Rugby, where
they arrived in time for the midnight train for for London.
The feelings of the guardian of this lady appeared greatly
wounded at the discovery of her absence, and he at once
set off to London by train, but the sequel we are not at pre
sent able to state.—. Leicester Chronicle.

IN CENDIARISIT NEAR FOLKESTONE.—About half-
past 12 o'clock on Wednesday night a police-constable at
Sandgate suddenly saw flames on the high ground between
him and Folkestone. He ran off towards the spot. On
approaching it be saw a ragged lad of 18 skulking under a
hedge and asked him what was on fire. The reply was "A.
stack; I set it alight." On being asked his reason for doing
so the young man said, " That is my business." The con-
i stable took him into custody and proceeded with him to the
fire. He found the stacks and loose straw in the yard of
the Plain Farm in flames, and woke up the people living in
the cottages which surrounded the yard. After he had done
so he found that the flames had extended to sheds at both
ends of the enclosure. On his return to the yard a young
man appeared in the midst of the flames in front of one Of
the sheds, who was unable to get out, and calling loudly for
assistance. A number of soldiers and other persons.l.llf.
assembled, but all efforts to rescue him proved unavatinuril
Water could only be obtained from a well, so that no
.I,if..
could be done to extinguish the flames. When
theirad found
lence had abated some persons entered the yard, "...
that the unfortunate young man had perislVair
and frag-
, I was brought out and identified, by
its
14%1
that of a home-
ments of a cap, which remained unburnt, as
s brought be-
less you hof 15. Yesterday the prison!orne
on a
charge of
fore the borough magistrates at ro
J.lrhat liis body
Horsley, shoe-
arson. He described himself as
001, traHdiectwtharje
maker, of Marylebone,
statement he had made to
remanded till Monday.LiverP
proposed further issue of
It is stated that
. uthGeovernment stock has been
/800,000 of EgYPfa t- e
the poarieded-eidonsnittabcolen.
h completion of the instal-
postponed until. afterexitiilnlg stock in September, and that
then probably be intrusted to
Frehith g and. 0 G h ' •
sc en. Objection has
M srs.
, es
roperly been raised to the additional amount
forward as an addendum to the
being
tt
spr transaction 1.
os
uat chgteihot n
original issue, the subscribers to which were in ig-
norance of any further creation of stock being con-
templated. The second loan may be intrinsically
Iquite as good as the first, but the first must always
enjoy a prior right to the revenues pledged.