The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAsT EVENING•
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock. _ _

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Mistley, Thorpe, and Walton Railway ; the Glas-
gow Markets and Slaughter-houses ; the Sheffield Water ;
and the Whitechapel and Holborn Improvement Bills were
severally read a second time.
Tho Exmouth Gas Bill, and Carmarthen and Cardigan
Railway Bill, were read a third time and passed.
PRIVATE BILLS.

Lord SHAFTESBURY moved that the standing
order No. 191 should be amended as follows :—" That in
the case of any bill for the making of any work, in the con-
struction of which compulsory power is sought to take
15 houses or more, inhabited by the working classes, the
promoters be requested to deposit in the office
of the Clerk of the Parliament, on or before the 31st Dec.,
a statement of the number, description, and situation of the
same houses, the number, so far as can be ascertained, of
the persons to be displaced, and whether and what provi-
sion is made in the bill for remedying the inconvenience
likely to arise from such displacement, and that such
statement be referred t'o the committee on the bill ; and
that the said committee do inquire and report thereupon,
and that in every such bill a clause be inserted to enact
that not less than eight weeks before taking any such
houses, making known their intention to take the same,
either by personal notice to heads of families inha-
biting the same at the time of giving such notice,
or by placards or other general notice in public view within
a reasonable distance from such houses, and the company
shall not take any such house until they have obtained the
certificate of a justice that it had been proved to his satis-
faction that the company had made known their intention
of taking the same in the manner required by this provision.
He said any one who was in the habit of reading the
public papers must be aware of the necessity for legisla-
tion on this subject.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved a standing order
requiring companies promoting new enterprises in the
metropolis to give certain notices and particulars in the
event of their intending to pull down more than 15 houses.
The noble earl complained of the great hardships inflicted
upon the working classes by the destruction of dwellings
on account of the railways and public works now in pro-
gress in the metropolis.
After some discussion, however, the motion was with-
drawn.

Lord ST. LEONARDS presented a petition from Kings-
ton-upon-Thames against a removal of Raphael's cartoons
from Hampton Court Palace to Kensington Museum.
Earl GRANVILLE observed that it was necessary for
the preservation of the cartoons themselves that they
should be removed from Hampton Court, where they were
decaying, while, as far as safety and accessibility were
concerned, Kensington was a superior and more convenient
locality.
The Marine Mutiny and the Mutiny Bills were read a
second time.
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Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Metropolitan District Railway ; Bath Gas ; Folkestone
Gas; Gosport Gas ; Great Eastern Railway (Capital, &c.);
Great Northern Railway (Hornsey and Hertford Branch) ;
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Saint Leo-
nard's Line and Deviations); Newport Pagnell Railway ;
Winchester Water and Gas.
JERSEY ROYAL COURT.

Mr. LOCKE moved an address for copy or extracts of
further correspondence with the Secretary of State for the
Home Depactment on the subject of the amendment of the
laws or constitution of the Royal Court of Jersey (in con-
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 364, of session 1864).
—Ordered.