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London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BILLS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Crief Junction Railway ; Tralee and Killarney Rail-
way (No. 2) ; Westminster Improvements (Dwellings of
the Working Classes) ; Life Association of Scotland ;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Ex-
tension of Time, &c.) ; London and North-Western
Railway (Crewe to Shrewsbury) ; Wellington and
Severn Junction Railway ; Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport Railway.
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY BILL.
Petitions against this bill were presented by Lord
OvERsToNE and Lord BEAUMONT.
Lord BEAUMONT expressed his astonishment that
such a bill should have been brought before the house,
as it involved a gross violation of private property, and
intimated that when it was brought forward this even-
ing, he should move that it be read a second time this
day three months.

Lord DONOUGHMORE moved the second reading
of the bill, and stated the reasons why it had been in-
troduced. He intimated that it had passed the select
committee to which it was referred, but owing to an ob-
jection taken by the President of the Board of Trade,
it was sent to another committee, but it also received
their sanction. Under those circumstances he trusted
the bill would not be rejected by their lordships.
Lord BEAUMONT objected to the bill, because it
would deprive persons against their will of property
which had been secured to them by act of Parliament.
If the bill was passed, it would shake the confidence of
the public in preference railway shares, and tend, per-
haps, to the ruin of many families. He concluded by
moving that the bill be read a third time this day three
months.

The Earl of HARROWBY said the committee of the
other house had heard all the objections to the bill,
and had decided that they were entirely futile.
If the proposed arrangement was not agreed to, the cre•
ditors of the company would come in and deprive the
preference shareholders of all claims on the property.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE opposed the bill.
Lord WYNDFORD supported the bill.
Lord STANLEY trusted the house would reject the
bill, believing that it would establish a principle which
would lead to very dangerous consequences.
After a few words from the Earl of YARBOROUGH,

Lcrd St. LEONARDS said he would vote for the
second reading on the ground that it came out in com-
mittee that the preferential shareholders had agreed to
certain propositions of which they were now receiving
the benefit.

Their lordships then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading
Against it
Majority —l7
The bill was then read a second time.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.—THE NAVAL
REVIEW.

in reply to a question from the Earl of DONOUGH-
MORE,
The Earl of ABERDEEN was understood to say that
it was not considered necessary that the house should
meet on Wednesday, and as the business for Thursday
was only of the ordinary character, and was not likely
to occupy much time or occasion discussion it was not
proposed to adjourn over that day.
LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IRELAND.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the second read-
ing of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, the
Tenants' Improvement Compensation (Ireland) Bill, and
the Leasing Powers (Ireland) Bill. In the course of a
long speech explanatory of the objects of these measures,
his grace chimed for them the support of the adherents
of the Earl of Derby, on the ground that they had been
introduced by his government, and expressed his assu-
rance that were the noble earl present he would not op-
pose them. He disclaimed any party object, or any
other object than the welfare of Ireland, in introducing
these measures, and entreated their lordships to allow
them to pass the stage, not as a preliminary to passing
them necessarily in their present form, but in order that

they might have the full consideration of the house.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE urged the neces-
sity of postponing the bills until next year, on account
of the many difficulties at present in their way—the late-
ness of the session and the necessity for attentive and
deliberate consideration of their provisions. With re-
gard to the bills themselves, he urged various objections.
Without opposing the second reading, he proposed that
the bills should be referred to a select committee.

The Earl of MALMESBURY would not object to
going into committee on the two firstnamed bills, be-
cause they yet retained some of the spirit of Mr. Napier
in their provisions, but he urged them to reject the third
(the Leasing Powers), with which Mr. Napier had no-
thing to do, and which Mr. Napier condemned—as
Lord Malmesbury showed by reading a letter from that
gentleman.
Lord RODEN condemned the bills generally and re-
commended the straightforward course of rejecting them
altogether.
The Earl of WICKLOW was for giving fair conside•
ration at any rate to the Leasing Powers and Landlord
and Tenant Bills during the present session.
Lord ST. LEONARDS, without denying that the
late Government had intended to legislate for Ireland in
the form proposed, maintained that the present state of
the bills must now be taken into consideration.
The Earl of ABERDEEN confessed that it was not
without some concern that he observed the feeling which
manifestly prevailed in the house on the subject of these
bills. He had hoped that the time was come when, after
the lapse of many years, they had arrived at the point at
which it would be possible to bring this difficult and ex-
citine• question to a conclusion. There could be no
doubt that these bills, whether they were or were not
precisely so, were in fact substantially the same as those
introduced by the late Government ; and this circum-
stance had naturally given him ground to expect that
they would be readily brought to a successful conclusion.
He perceived that the reverse was the case. He re-
gretted the feeling that evidently prevailed among the
majority of their lordships, but he assured them most ex-
plicitly that her Majesty's Government, in taking up these
bills had no other desire than the benefit of Ireland. It
appeared that the feeling was against them, and that being
the case, he did not wish to press them. He would,
therefore, accept the proposition made by the noble
marquis, and he advised their lordships to concur with
him in the second reading of these bills. If they agreed
to that, he on his part, and on the part of the Govern-
ment, would undertake that, at an early period of next
session, the whole subject should be taken into con-
sideration in their lordship's house, with the view of
seeing whether it could not at last be settled. Mean-
while these bills should go no further. (Hear, hear.)
Under these circumstances he would abstain from dis-
cussing their merits, and would merely observe, in con-
clusion, that he thought the proposition made by the
noble marquis should be accepted by their lordships, and
especially now that they had the undertaking which he
had given them. (Hear.)
The Earl of MALMESBURY was as anxious as was
the noble earl himself that at the earliest period of next
session the question should be considered again, and
that bills analogous to these should be brought forward.
He would suggest that these bills and other important
measures should be introduced into that house in the
first instance, and that they should not be called upon
to consider them at the end of the session.
The Earl of RoDEN declined to divide, and after a few
remarks from the Earl of DONOUGLIMORE, in approbation
of the course the Government had taken, and expressing
a hope that the question might in another session be
satisfactorily settled, the Landlord and Tenant Bill was
read a second time.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE hoped the noble marquis
did not intend to press his motion to refer the bills to a
select committee as it was obvious no practical result
could follow at this late period of the session.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE assented • he was
perfectly content with the arrangement suggested by the
noble earl at the head of the Government.
The other two bills—the Tenants Improvements Com-
pensation (Ireland) Bill, and the Leasing Powers (Ire-
land) Bill, were also read a second time on the under-
standing that all three bills were to be withdrawn for
the present session.
The Merchant Shipping Bill, and the Drainage of
Lands (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, were severally
read a second time.
IN CUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) ACT CON"