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BRIBERY BILL

This bill having been brought up from the committee
and read a first time,

Lord REDESDALE expressed a hope that the
house would not depart from its resolution, that no
bills should be read a second time after the 25th inst.,
wh►ch had had the effect of greatly facilitating the busi-
ness in both houses. The bill had been several times
recommitted in the Roue of Commons, and had
been materially altered, both on the bringing up of the
report and on the third reading, and he believed that
many of the members of that house hardly knew in what
shape it had come to their lordships. He might men-
tion, also, that the House of Commons seemed to have
so little confidence in the bill, that it only passed
it by a majority of seven. Under these cir-
cumstances he thought it was too late a period of tha
session to take into consideration so important a mea-
sure.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE expressed a hope on the
ground, of urgency that an exception would be made in
favour of this bill, as it was desirable that elections should
take place for the boroughs at present unrepresented.
The Earl of DERBY considered that if the bill was
proceeded with their lordships would break faith
with the public, having passed a resolution to the effect
that no inconsiderate legislation should take place at the
end of the session, when there was generally a small
attendance of members.

The Earl of ABERDEEN was of opinion that the
bill came under the exception mentioned in the resolu-
tion respecting measures of urgency.
Lord BROUHAM thought the bill should be pro-
ceeded with as speedily as possible.
After some further discussion, the subject dropped.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY).
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PETITION.

Mr. WICKHAM resented a petition from the retail
brewers and beersellers of Bradford, Yorkshire, in
favour of an alteration of the present licensing system.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords Amendments to the following bills were
considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Car-
marthen and Cardigan Railway and Cardigan Harbour,
aid Eastern Counties Railway (Purchase of Railways,
&c.) Bills.

THIRD READINGS.
The Earl of Harrington's Estate, and Lord Wil-
loughby de Broke's Estate Bills were read a third time
and passed.
The following bills were ordered to be considered :
Hornyold's Estate, Park's Estate, Peel's Estate, and
Staveley's Estate Bills.
Stocker's Divorce Bill was read a second time.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord PALM.ERSTON on moving the second read-
lug of this bill, said, health to the labouring population
was existence itself. Whilethey were in health they were
enabled to perform work useful to themselves and bene-
ficial to the country. The reqrrenie
tsof soc ietyin
later days all tended to corn men to live together
in large masses, and thereforee
serving the public health were rendered
necessary. for pre-
necessary. Tile noble viscount, after . the more
describing the
formation and functions of the General Board of Health
established by Act of Parliament in 1848, said the ftuactio
of that act would expire at the end of the present :
sion. He reminded the house that they were on athie
subject dealing with the interest of millions of their fel-
low-subjects—the moral, commercial, and local interests
of their fellow-countrymen. He did not wish to excite
alarm, but the truth ought to be known, and the truth
was that that formidable epidemic, cholera, had been lin-
gering in various parts of this country for the last twelve
months.
ths Every one remembered its ravages at New.
castle last year; it had been very severe at Glasgow and
other places, and there was too much melon to believe
it had now made its appearance in the metropolis. He
repeated, he did not wish to create alarm by this state-
ment, but the 2ontrary; tor terrible a disease as the cho-
lera was, there
no disease that yielded more
gsov earlyern
readily to medical
iftreatment,
to
direction taken in it
stages. (Hear.) But there must
be
that treatment ; and one
of the most efficacious, he
obe-
lieved, would be found in a housew
tuoldhocousnesenvtisitotation.
o
He therefore trusted the
hus
con-
tinuo the Board of Health °with the
he believed the present bill would introduce. amendment
di °e HHe which-
posed that the Board of Health tunaer the con-
trol of the Secretary of State for the 110
Who, in his opinion, as he might say, as__ t
look after
"NlefiDniesptearrtornfetifilte
Interior, was peculiarly fitted by his office 0
the general health o f the country, and who would be in
1)1 in Parliament to answer as to any questions
on that subject that might arise. (Hear, hear.) As to
that subject composing the present board, they had all
Laced their appointments in his hands. (Hear, hear,)
41° felt bound to state th's in justice to those gentle-
medn ' prejudice au s e ahavde rb
y '
considerable. amount of clamour
°harp, of a very im een raised against them in the dis-
(Hear.)
,Ortant
Lord SEYMOUR, in. rising
and difficult duty.
tea.ding of this bill, said he was actuated by n
to oppose the secondo
feeling of opposition to
Itoard of Health Act being
the Government ; but the
on the point of ex • -
log, this was a proper occasion for
reviewing pir.
ration. He did not deny that there ought to be
its ope
a Board of health
,Act, but tho value of such an sot

RAILWAY SHARE MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 29.

STOCK EXCEIANGIL—The upward tendency of prices
continues, but the transactions to-day were unimportant,
and prices of the leading stocks have advanced j to 1 per
cont. Caledonian, 31i ; Eastern Counties, 13i • East
Lancashire, 161 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 67i ; London
and North-Western, 104, 6; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 23j, d ; Midland, 67i, ; North British, 8 9-16, 4;
South-Eastern, 19 7.16, ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
18g.
MANCHESTER, JULY 29.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—A slight improvement was ex-
hibited to-day in some descriptions of stack, and rather
more business was transacted than is usual at the close of
the week.

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business
transacted on 'Change to-day, and the variations from
yesterday's quotatious were altogether unimportant.

BRISTOL, JULY 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was tolerably steady,
but with very little business doing, and no alteration in
prices.

crease of the panic in the money market. A
NeNwIWYYork"KbyISit°IINeETWMARKET.—Theday accounts fronm
.
Previously there had been a tendency to recovery, but
ra.
tors had produced new confusion. A Mr. Purdy,
the announcement of fresh failures of large stock P
a,
oe
New York, and a Mr. Wetherbe, at Boston, had _
sus-
pended for heavy amounts ; and the excitement had
been increased by the discovery that the cashier of Mr.
Belmont, Rothschild's agent at New York, had ab-
stracted about 3,000/. in bank-notes from the iron safe
in that gentleman's banking-house by means of false
keys. The day after the robbery the notes, with the ex-
ception of a sum of about 701., were returned by post ;
and, the writing on the direction, not having been suffi-
ciently disguised, the cashier was suspected and appre-
hended. He is said to have confessed the offence, and
to have attributed it to large losses in stocks. The
books of the house were, therefore, undergoing a
Thorough examination to ascertain if any other misap-
propriations had taken place. One cause of the further
decline in prices consisted in the apprehension that the
news of Mr. Schuyler's defalcations, and of the general
prevalence of discredit, would alarm persons iu England,
and induce the transmission of American securities for
sale. On this head, however, the real danger is pro-
bably small, since holders at a distance would be less
affected by the immediate exaggerations of fear than
those on the spot. The English public have long had
cases before them much more damaging to American
credit than that of Mr. Schuyler, wh ) was evidently led
of soon
into his delinquency by the common hope of speculatorsld
aide the
endjle him to restore . o
that an inevitable tuervner
yinthinthae. marketßy the You
transactions
American Trust Company, through which
in connexion with the Dry Dock Bank and
the
others have been deliberately plun-
dered, and . .
Mr. Morrison •
ffair loses its enormity, especially as
such an
.a
North
Mr.
is himself ruined.
Schuyler, unlike those who have become wealthy i
by these practices,