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London, England, 1854-07-26 00:00:00

" `." RIAL PARIA AMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS---(YtSTERDAY.)

The house met five o'clock.
LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

Lord CAMPBELL said he was instructed by that
respectable body—the Northern Circuit—to make a
re-
presentation in his place in that house to the Lord Chan-
cellor. The judges, bar, attornesy, grand jurymen, &C.,
attending upon the assizes, for the county of Lancaster,
Were all in a state of the greatest dismay, in consequence
of the intelligence they had received from the Mayor of
Liverpool that at the coming assizes in that town. they
were to be turned out of St. George's Hall, which had
been accorded to their use by solemn compact, and con-
demned to sit in a place which was situated in locality where
`the cholera generally raged, and which he could say from
experience very much resembled the black hole of Cal-
cutta. The reason for this proceeding, he understood,
was-that St. George's Hall was being decorated prior to
'the visit of her Majesty to Liverpool ; but he did not
think her Majesty would wish her visit to impede the
-
teourse of justice; Be hoped his noble friend would in.
quire into the subject, and that, in the event of no other
remedy being! • found, a bill would be introduced for
holding ali the assizes for the county at Lancaster
Castle, where there was ample accommodation for the
courts of justice.
Thit•LORD CHANCELLOR said that was the first
time he had heard of the circumstance. He sould hardly
suppose•the visit of her Majesty was the real reason for
• shuttiug up the courts of justice. He should direct a
letter to .be written to the Mayor of Liverpool, request•
ktirtn' ta give some explanation of the matter.
Lord BROUGHAM sympathised with his learned
brethren on the Northern Circuit in the inconvenience
they would suffer by their-removal to the place men-
tioned. This was another instance of the necessity for
, the appointment of a public prosecutor, whose duty it
-4,should bet° watch over the administration of justice.
I The: Borough Rates Bill, on the motion of Lord STAN-
-LEY • of Alderley, was read a second time.
sign tha;Refortnatory' Schools (Scotland) Bill was also read
.i'ai -second timer on: the motion of the same noble
-lord.: • •
*-TheAllowing;iilletwere also, read a second time
°f dze ; 'Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction ; Stook-
'e w-ii nude Exemp :Exemption ; Inalosure, &c., Land ; Common,
3Otte.4 Right* (Ordnance) ; Friendly • Societies (No. 2) ;
r 4 .(Ireland) ; Burials beyond the Metropolis; Ad-
-1 miralty Court ; Land. Revenues of the Crown (Ireland) ;
s Highways' Public Health. •
The following hills passed through committee :
Public Libraries, Registration of Births, &c. (Scotland),
--Usury Laws Repeal, Returning Officers, Turnpike
. Acts Continuance, &c., Jury Trial (Scotland).
MEDICAL GRADUATES (LONDON UNIVER-

SITY) BILL.
Lord' MONTEAGLE moved the second reading of
bill, with a short explanation of its ob)ects, which
Chave already been fully reported.
The Duke of ARGYLL approved of the principles of
the bill, but feared that it would settle the grievances of
•Lihe'protession in a partial manner. At present licen-
liiitee of the medical schools of Edinburgh and Glasgow
41-3 were prevented practising in England, and their case
3 wee not provided for by this biil. It was quite clear
' that this exclusion could not be preserved, but that in
any general measure of medical reform we must have
free trade in doctors ae well as anything else. Pending
that measure? he would confine the privileges conferred
on graduates of London, to a removal of the penalties
respecting vaccination and lunacy, which were provided
for by the second clause. He begged to remind the
house that this bill, although supported in the other
1" house by Lord Palmerston and Lord J. Russell, was by
4.1 no means to be considered as a Government measure.
He moved that the object of the bill be confined to re-
' moving the pains and penalties inflicted for practising in
vaccination and lunacy cases.
Lori.l CAMPBELL asserted the claims of the Scotch
. .
universities, but was willing to accept the compromise
,propcised by'tbe noble duke, pending a general measure
of niediCal reform.
.
Lord_MONTE iGLE replied.
. _ _

Lord BROUGHAM defended the bill, as being only
a just following up of the charter upon which the Uui-
versity of London .was founded.
After a short discussidif the bill was read a second
time, with the understanding that the Duke of Argyll's
suggestion should be considered in committee.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.

This bill was committed and reported.
REGISTRATION OF BILLS OF SALE (IRE

• LAND) BILL.
This bill was reaira third time and passed.
JAMAICA LOAN BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM BILL.
This bill went through committee.
'1 SHERIFF AND SHERIFFS' CLERK (SCOT.
- • LAIN.TD) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
JOINT STOCK BANKS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
a, This bill was read a third time and passed.
in. CRIME AND our RAGE BILL (IRELAND).
.1 This bill was read a third time and passed.
POOR LAW CONTINUANCE (IRELAND) BILL
This bill was read a third time and passed.
c_ HERITABLE SECURITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL
This bill passed through committee.
JUDGMENT EXECUTION BILL.
This bill was read a second time.

NATIONAL GALLERY (DUBLIN) BILL.
This bill went through committee, and was reported.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS, IRELAND.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE rose to call attention
to the state of postal communication in Ireland. He
„stated the fact to be, that since the establishment of rail-
4,,mays inireland, there was leas postal accommodation
sf,:than before.
-e Viscount CANNING could assure the noble earl that
nithe Government, both then and at all times, were quite
ready to make any improvements which were needed.
'1
-He could assure that house that the Post-office authori-
ties were most anxious that justice should be done to the
' commercial community of the sister country.
After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE, the sub-
.,ject dropped.

of COMMUNICATION WITH THE GUARDS
OF RAILWAY TRAINS.
er 'Earl-FITZHARDINGE rose to inquire whether the
Liktterition of her Majesty's Ministers had been drawn to
late attempt to murder a policeman in a railway car-
' 'riage ; and whether, in consequence, they had any in.-
, tention to, introduce a measure to compel the railway
..companies to adopt some means enabling the guard to
communicate with the engine driver when trains were in
motion. The attempt to which he referred took place on
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway,
, and the victim of the assault was an inspector of police,
who had in his custody two prisoners. These prisoners,
having ascertained that the train in which they were tra-
. yelling would not stop for some time, commenced ill-
treating the officer, with a design, if possible, of killing
him. It appeared that the guard made cries for three
miles without being able to attract the attention of the

driver. At length he succeeded in making him hear,
~but, as the- judge who tried the case observed, the maul
might have died in the meantime. When such an out-
rage could be committed legislation ought to be resorted
to in order to compel railways to provide some means of
communication between the guard and the driver of a
train. Whatever difficulty there might be in supplying

the defect, he felt quite certain that in this mechanical
se it might be overcome. Capt. Claxton, of the
Navy, f who had been frequently employed in assisting
I:1dr. Brunel, bad written to him stating that in his opi-
nion neither Mr. Brunel, Mr. Stephenson, nor Mr.
cLoeice, would allow that there was any mechanical ffi di-
e,culty in-keeping up a communication between the guard
•-and the driver, adding, that on the London and South-
Western. Railway the object had been accomplishedby the simple contrivance of a line running
C ,under the carriages. He (Earl Fitzhardinge) hoped
..'Parliantent would not separate at the end of next session
without-having compelled railroad companies to adopt.
,some means of preventing a recurrence of such scenes as
vhe had. described.
.. :Lord STANLEY of ALDERLY—The subject has
already occupied the attention Of the Government. In
the committee on—ran Ways which sat last year strong re-
, prestentitiisns Were'•rinicle- et) the effect that it should be
..xendurocLobligatOry my railway coMpames to provide an
. eftityotiod elaticonnutmicatlon bet7resn'the guard and the
driver; .-1 .Attthe) same time the 'railway authorities ex-
pressed Ureic
hllPpeared l 'peikOrfect readiness to adopt any measure
Jivbiey to effect the' object ad td
h e p
which: was ,uggeeted was that whicli was carried ontlan on
the.Sautki.,Western Railway, where there waczoamaziii:
, cation.by means of a rope worked-by
a winch,
sins along the carriages from the guard to the engine-
driver. Much attention bad been attracted to an in e-
. 1110114 patent of Professor Gluckman, which had begen
tried. on the:.Great Northern Railway, and respecting
. which Captain Wynn, of the Board of Trade, had re.
„rted, that it worked satisfactorily. In a hill which
rwa--s introduced in the other house during the present
was inserted to compel railway corn a-
::eirsiciton'parocvliadueses e mode of communication. Re Pre,
m enaesxutr surer,
session.
that,ornowing to the pressure of business,
astted. to say
important
likeu but it
manywoul
would be
other
r;,tgrlsa"-t bill had,
abandoned ; b
satisfactory to their lordships, as evinc-
le was but fair to their lordships to state, and the state-
ment would be
by the different persons con-
re shown
management, that during the last
..ing the great ca
had occurred on any
single accident sleeted with railway
psis months not a
1 railway from causes over which the companies had any
-.control, This, however,
son why every pre-
.
was no reason
.: tion should not be taken in future to prevent further
'saccidents.' (Hear.)
. Earl FITZHARDINGE said nothing
could exceed
the attention and care of officials of the railway with
whicla he was most familiar, namely,
: the Great Western
. Ranlway.
regard ~4.1 Lord CAMPBELL thought their lordships had so.ne
reason to complain that the bill, with to rai;-
......e had
wigs; had not been brought before them. ..ict
',himself pointed out several defects which mosty
burgentlyth!
required to be remedied. It had been held
judges that the companies were not liable for any act
done by their servants unless it were done under the
authority of the seal of the company ; and in a l
case to which he had referred, a respectable clergyman„ 1
who was supplied with a return ticket
~ by any train,
:.baving travelled by an "express train," and refused to I
pay half-a-crown extra which was demanded of him, was li
linibie-to obtain redress for having been locked up for 1
. fenti-and-twenty hours. The judge said the company I.
.were-not liable,.,beeause the official exceeded his autho-
,;aitjcstid did not act under the-Common seal. As he had '
before stated, it appeared to him most reasonable 'that