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respect of 10,0001. and upwards. His object was to en-
courage the application of capital and enterprise from this
country for the improvement of India. He would not,
however, divide the committee on the subject.
The clause was then brought up and read a first time.
On the question being put that it be read a second time,
Sir C. WOOD acknowledged the temperate manner in
which the hon. member had introduced the clause, but
doubted very much that it would be wise to adopt it.
The clause was then negatived without a division.
Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE then moved that the Chair-
man should report progress.
Lord J. RUSSELL did not object to the Chairman re-
porting progress, but in the present stage of the bill he
proposed that it should be proceeded with this day at 12
o'clock.

After a few words from Mr. PHILLIMORE, the Chairman
reported progress, and asked leave to sit again at 12 o'clock
this day.

CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND)_BILL.

On the motion that this bill besreacl a second time,
Mr. MAGUIRE wished to have some reasons from the
Government for the renewal of this measure at a time when
Ireland was unusually tranquil.
Sir J. YOUNG was happy to corroborate the statement
of the hon. gentleman that Ireland was at the present mo-
ment in a state of great tranquillity. The act would not
be necessary at the present time, if it were not that many
circumstances had convinced the Government that the

baneful system of Ribbonism extensively iraii;d; and
it was against that, and that alone, that the provisions and
powers of this act were directed. He was sorry to say
that disturbances prevailed in the north of Ireland, while
in the west and south they were tranquil. He denied that
the act was intended to be directed against the liberties of
the country, because every one who was the true friend of
his country would endeavour to put down those outrages.
With the ono single exception of these secret societies, he
could congratulate the house and the hon. gentleman upon
the general tranquillity and prosperity of the country.
Mr. F. SCULLY contended that the peace of Ireland
was not at the present moment in such danger as to re
quire so stringent a measure, which went far beyond the
necessities of the case. In the hands of a hostile Govern-
ment the bill might be enforced to a degree which would
interfere with the liberties of the people. He complained
also of the heavy additional taxation which the enforce-
ment of the provisions of the measure would entail upon
the unfortunate people. If the north of Ireland was so
disturbed let them pass an act applicable to it, but let
them not visit the sins of the north upon the south of Ire-
land. The bill interfered with the liberty of the subject,
and was a violation of the constitution, therefore he would
divide the house against it.
Mr. SULLIVAN protested against the attack made
upon the people of Kilkenny, in the presence of the
British parliament by the right hon. baronet the Se-
cretary for Ireland,
Mr. BOWYER moved that the bill be read a second
time that day three months. He did not think the
bill was needed for Ireland, and the house should pause
before it assented to such a stringent and unconstitu-
tional measure. In the county of Louth Ribbonism
was entirely extinct, in consequence of the efforts of the
clergy, aided by the pastoral of Archbishop Cullen. The
greater portion of the evidence given by the witnesses
before the committee on the state of crime in Ireland, as
regarded the county of Louth, was a tissue of fables, cal-
culated to convey a most false and mischievous impression
of the state of that county.
Mr. LUCAS was astonished at the statement of the right
hon. baronet as regarded the return. The proclamations
referred to were few of themrecent, some being since 1848,
and some antecedent. Since 1850 there was not one,
except from the province of Ulster, that was to say subse-
quent to the famine having passed away. This was a
subject worth serious attention. He (Mr. L.) drew the at-
tention of the right hon. baronet to certain words attri-
buted to the Irish Attorney-General, at the Monaghan
assizes, in which that great law officer of the Crown urged
the landlords of that county not to reduce their rents—
stating that in a country disturbed by crime the landlord
who did so would be an enemy of his country. He (Mr.
Lucas) wished to know whether these were also the senti-
ments of her Majesty's Government, assuming the facts to
be as represented. Re (Mr. Lucas) seconded the amend-
ment.
The house then divided—
For the second reading l4l
Against it 23
Majority
The bill was read a second time accordingly.
BURIALS (BEYOND METROPOLIS) BILL.
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The house went* into committee on this bill.
On clause 7 being proposed,
Mr. MIALL complained that no provision was made in
the bill for interments of deceased persons by dissenting
ministers in parishes where there was but one burial-
ground, and that attached to the parish church, in which
those ministers were not allowed to perform the rites ac-

cording to their own peculiar religious views. ----
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Lord PALMERSTON" said the bill was of a purely sani-
tary character, and was not intended to operate to the ad-
vantage or disadvantage of any particular sect.
Lord J. MANNER said the clause already provided
that there should be a piece of unconsecrated ground set
apart in every graveyard for the use of dissenters, so that,
in fact, the object of the hon. member was fully provided
for.

The clause was then agreed to, and the bill passed
through committee.
STAMP DUTIES (No. 2) BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bill.
On the third clause being read,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (in reply to
Mr. Newdegate) said that the effect of this clause would
be to enlarge the statutory size of the newspaper by one-
half, leaving it open to the proprietors to make what use
they pleased of the enlarged space, provided they did not
divide it into more than two sheets.

Mr. NEWDEGATE said they were about to make a
present of 34,030/. to some six newspapers, at the expense
of the smaller and struggling publications. He should
therefore move that the clause be omitted.
The committee divided—
For the clause
Against it 4O
Majority for the clause —s2
The other clauses were also agreed to, and the bill was
reported to the house.
The Land Tax Redemption Bill was read a third time
and passed.

The Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Highway Rates Bill was read a third time and
passed.
TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE, &c., BILL.

This bill was read a third time. On the motion that it
do pass,
Mr. FREWEN moved the insertion of a clause, to the
effect that upon the same trust a second toll should not be
paid at any turnpike-gate within two miles of the gate at
which the previous toll was paid.
Mr. FITZROY opposed the clause.
The house divided, and there appeared—
For the clause 27
Against it lOl
Majority —74
Lord NEWPORT then moved the insertion of a clause
prohibiting the use of dogs in drawing, or helping to draw,
carts or barrows on turnpike roads, under the penalty of
20s. and costs, or 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour.
Mr. 0. GORE supported the clause.
Mr. FITZROY opposed it, but expressed a hope that if
the clause were adopted by the house the noble lord would
consent to mitigate the penalty of hard labour.
Mr. FREWEN supported the clause as a means of get-
ting rid of a moot dangerous nuisance.
Lord NEWPORT said he had no objection to omit the
words " hard labour," if the Government would consent to
the clause in that shape.
The house went into committee, and the words " hard
labour" having been expunged from the clause, it was
agreed to, and read a third time, and the bill passed.
The Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill
was read a third time and passed.
The Consolidated Annuities (Ireland) Bill was read a
third time and

The Betting-houses Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on Thursday next.
The Dublin Coinage Bill was committed pro forma, and
ordered to be recommitted on Thursday.
The Customs, t&c., Duties Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed to-morrow (this day).
METROPOLITAN BUILDING ACT FURTHER
AMENDMENT BILL.
Mr. LOCKE moved the postponement of the second
reading of this bill until Thursday next.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH moved, as an amendment,
that it be read a second time that day three months, on
the ground that its object was to enable a private indivi-
dual to set aside the provisions of the Metropolitan
Building Act.
The amendment was agreed to, and the bill was accord-
ingly lost.
The Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Act Continuance Bill
went through committee.

The other orders having been disposed of, the house
adjourned at half-past three o'clock.

The Earl of ANNESLEY and Sir JOHN RAMSDEN have
paired for the session.

UPPER INDIA RAILWAY.--A -meeting of the scrip-
holders of this company is to be held on Thursday to re-
ceive a report from the directors of the terms of amal-
gamation which have been arranged between the
chairman of the company and the chairman of the East
India Railway Company. The directors have re-
solved to appropriate the remaining 23,980 unallotted
shares, pro rata, among the scripholders, in order that
the whole capital of 4,000,000/. should be subscribed.
This sum, added to the 2,000,000/. at present authorised
to be raised by the East India Railway Company, and a
further sum of 300,000/. required for the works, will
make a capital of 6,00,000/.
NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.—
This short line of railway which runs from the London
and North-Western Railway near Willesden, to Kew, and
Brentford, and which has hitherto only been worked for
goods traffic, is to be opened for passenger traffic on the
Ist August next, in connexion with the North London
(Dock line) and the Blackwall Railway. It is under-
stood, however, that only about four trains per day each
way can be worked between Fenchurch-street and Kew
until the Hampstead and Willesden Junction line is con-
structed.

THE MooN.—Baer, a German astronomer, calculates
that when we shall have an instrument nine time more
powerful than Lord Rosse's, it will bring the moon with-
in a German mile of us, so as to show an object as small
as a man.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentle-
men having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22d inst.:
—Messrs. Isaac Mennell Williams, York • John Segar,
Ainsdale, near Southport, Lancashire ; Robert Brown,
Wintershields, Cumberland ; Edward O'Niell, Mitchells,
town, county Cork ; William Lee Dawson, Cloughran,
county Dublin ; Evan Pierce Williams, Denbigh, North
Wales ; Thomas Windsor, Pincadilly, Manchester; John
Macloghlin, South Australia ; Wm. Henry Jones, Lon-
don ; George Manias Slaughter, Farningham, Kent, and
Christopher Young, Yarm, Yorkshire.
ARRIVAL OF PORPHYRY FOR THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
—A case of specimens of Swedish porphyry, from the
Royal quarries at Elfdal, has arrived in England. These
specimens include fifteen distinct varieties, some of great
beauty ; they have been presented to the Crystal Palace
Company by Mr. Charles Henry Edmands.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BANTRY.—This lady, SO
remarkable for her many charities and evangelical piety,
died last week at her residence, near Cork. Her lady-
ship was the wife of the Earl of Bantry, and sister to
the Marquis of Thomond, the head of the old kingly
Weise of ()Tryon.