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tisfied with the promise of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to consider the question against next session.
The house then went into committee of ways and means,
and two or three votes were agreed to.
The house having resumed, Mr. BOUVERIE brought
up the report of supply, which was received.
The Pilotage Bill was read a third time.
THE CUSTOMS BILL.
The house went into committee on the Customs Bill.
Mr. PELLATT moved to insert in clause 1 the following
words :—" And that no persons who have not undergone a
„icy f'ghers locker,
long training in the lower classes,
.51 giblewtoir the 'office of
or superintendent locker, shall
landing-waiter or gauger ; thatb:adll 'vacancies in these de-
and experienced ffi o cers
partmente be filled by well-qualla
6t. W. BROWN could bear his testimony to the benefit
which the present measure would confer, having sat upon
the committee which the House of Commons appointed to
consider the subject. There was scarcely a suggestion
which that committee made but was embodied in the
present enactment, and there could be no doubt that so
far as it went it would be a measure of the most useful
character.
Mr. WILSON said the subject of the amendment of the
hon. member for Southwark had been taken into consid-
eration, in fact, it was provided for in the bill, and he did
not, therefore, see that there would be any use in pressing
the motion he had put upon the paper.
Mr. MICHELL bore his testimony to the benefit the
measure would confer on the mercantile and trading
classes.
Mr. HORSFALL could not allow the opportunity to
pass without thanking her Majesty's Government for this
measure, certain as he was that it would be a great benefit
to the trade to which it more particularly applied.
Mr. GEORGE DUNC AN also considered the measure
of a most beneficial character.
Mr. PELLATT then withdrew his amendment, and the
clause was agreed to.
The remaining clauses up to clause 140 were then agreed to.
On clause 141 being proposed,
Mr. BLACKETT proposed to add, at the end of that
clause, the following words :—" And in the case of coals
such transire or pass shall contain the distinct name of the
coal and of the colliery from whence it has been wrought
and gotten, and such transire or pass shall be signed by the
coal-owner or his authorised agent, in addition to the sig-
nature of the master."
Mr. WILSON said he did not think the addition to the
clause at all necessary, inasmuch as under the present law
there could be no fraud practised in the respect the hon.
member referred to.
The amendment, after a few words from Mr. BROWN,
was withdrawn.
The bill then passed through committee, and the house

resumed.
The house then went into committee on the Customs
h that stage.
Acts Consolidation Bill, which passed throng
THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a third time,
Mr. LUCAS wished to remove a colourable impression
on the minds of some parties, that the Catholics wished
for exceptional legislation on
the subject. He considered
it would be a great blunder in the Roman Catholics to
seek for such legislation, and that they should stand on the
common law with every other class of their fellow-citizens.
He had a clause which he meant to propose, respecting the
regulation of Catholic trusts, and the placing Catholics on
the same footing with all other denominations with respect
to their charities and their uses.
Lord J. RUSSELL concurred with the hon. gentleman,
that some such clause as that which he referred to was ne-
cessary ; but he was afraid that it was now too late in the
session to effect the object which the hon. gentleman had
in view. It was also to be observed, that several hon. mem-
bers, who were interested in the subject, were now absent
from the house. He begged to say, that in the next session
of Parliament, he would introduce a bill which would
place Roman Catholic trusts on the same footing with other
charitable trusts.
Mr. HEADLA.M considered it right to introduce a
clause on the subject into the bill, and would be happy to
render any assistance in his power in effecting the desired
change.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD could not entirely agree with
his hon. friend (Mr. Lucas) on the subject. He was not
one of those who thought this bill ought not to apply to
Roman Catholic charities. He looked upon it as an ex-
cellent bill, and he should like the house not to pass any
act merely for the management of Roman Catholic chari-
ties ; but to legislate for charitable trusts of all denomina-
tions, whether Protestant, Dissenter, or Roman Catholic.
Mr. HADFIELD referred to the difficulty of getting
land with a proper title for benevolent purposes, whether
for an infirmary, a school, or other institution. He felt
that mortmain never intended to create those difficulties
which were almost insuperable, and were very expensive
He, therefore, trusted that the difficulties would be re
moved.

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