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London, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

MPE RIA L PAR L ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The house met at five o'clock.'
The royal assent was given by commission to the fol-
lowing bills : —High way Rates; Turnpike Trusts Arrange-
ements ; General Board of Health ; Registration of Bills
of Sale (Ireland) ; Jamaica Loan ; Sheriff and Sheriff-clerk
of Chancery (Scotland) ; Joint-stock Banks (Scotland) ;
Cruelty to Animals; Portland, &0.,. Chapels ; Returning
Officers ; Turnpike Acts Continuance ; Jury Trial (Scot-
land) ; Friendly Societies (No. 2); Royal Military
Asylum ; Poor-law Commission Continuance (Ireland) ;
Heritable Securities (Scotland) ; Borough Rates ; Eccle-
sis.stical Jurisdiction ; Stock in-Trade Exemption ; Com-
mon, &0., Rights (Ordnance) ; Land Revenues of the
Crown (Ireland ; Highways (Public Health) Act ; Public
Libraries ; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and
Eastern Junction Railway (Working Arrangements with
Great Northern Railway) ; North Shields Quays and Itn- •
provements ; Selkirk and Galashiels Railway ; Stock-
port, Disley, and Whaley-bridge Railway ; London and
North-western Railway ; Great Western Railway (Berks
and Hants &c.) ; Electric Telegraph Company (No. 2);
West London Railway - Westminster Terminus Railway ;
Cork and Waterford Railway ; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway (Stratford-upon-Avon and
Stourbridge Branches) ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway (Chipping Norton Branch; Portsmoub
• and Direct London' and Portsmouth Railways ; West
London and Crystal Palace Railway (Bromley and Farn-
borough - York, Newcastle, and Berwick, York and
North Midland, and Leeds Northern Railway Companies
Amalgamation ; Border Counties Railway ; Ratciiff Gas
Company Relief ; Stockport Rectory Division ; Merton
College Estate ; Wilkinson's Estate ; Mitford's Estate ;
Earl of Fife (Trustees) Estate ; Stainforth's Estate ;
Stirling's Estate ; Milbank (Thornhill's) Estate ; Saint
Catherine's Parish (Dublin) School and Charity. Estate s
Bill ; Caton's Divorce.
The Lords' Commissioners were—the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Marquis of Westminster, and Lord Stanley of
Alderley.
The Earl of HARRINGTON presented a petition
from certain Poles, praying to be allowed to serve
in the ranks of the allied armies. The noble lord
said he certainly had some misgivings as to the inten-
tions of the Government in availing itself of the services
of the Poles.

CONSOLIDATED FUND CHARGES BILL.
In reply to Lord MONTEAGLE,
Earl GRANVILLE said it was the intention of the
Government to re-introduce this bill, with the amend-
ment of the select committee to which it had been
referred.

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.,
which had had the effect of greatly facilitating the busi-
ness in both houses. The bill had been several times
recommitted in the House 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 BROUGHAM thought the bill should be pro-.
seeded with as speedily as possible.
After some further discussion, the subject dropped.
IRISH ENCUMBERED ESTATES BILL.
The Lord CHANCELLOR. in reply to a question
from the Marquis of Clanricarde, said the Government
did not contemplate depriving Ireland of the benefit
arising from the establishment of the Encumbered
Estates Court.
The Towns Improvement (Ireland) bill was read the
third time and passed.
The Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) bill passed
through committee.
REAL ESTATES CHARGES BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on the Real '
Estate Charges bill,
Lord St. LEONARDS strongly objected to the
measure, as a hasty and ill-advised interference with
the existing law of real property and the law primo-
geniture. He moved that it be committed this day
three months,
Earl FORTESCUE replied to the objections, urging
that the sole effect of the bill was to cure hardships
upon younger children, from personal property beinq
made available in certain cases for discharging encuni-
brances upon real estate.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said that though the bill
was not a Government measure, he yet approved of its
introduction. The first clause would be productive of
unmixed good, inasmuch as it would make the disposi-
tions of property, in ca.i:cs where the testators had not
actually described how it should g,), conformably to
their real intentions. It had nothing whatever to do
with the 13w of primogeniture.
Their lordships then divided upon the question of
- going into committee, when the numbers were—
Content
, Non-content
Majority —3
Their lordships therefore went into committee.
In the first clause alterations were made fixing the
date at which the act should come into operation as the
31st December, 1854, extending the provisions of the
clause, not only to personal property, but also to other
real property than that which was the subject of the
mortgage.
Lord ST. LEONARDS said that the bill ought not
to pass unless all wills now made were exempted from
its operation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the bill would
operate less in cases of wills than in those of intestacy.
Be thought that a period of six months was sufficient to
allow before the act came into operation ; but he pro-
mised to consider the objection of his noble and learned
friend before the report was brought up.
Lord ST. LEONARDS said that upon this under-
standing he would abstain from dividing the committee.
The clause was then agreed to. The second clause
was, with the consent of the noble lord who had charge
of the bill, struck out, and the bill was reported to the
house.