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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 18.

The SPEAKER tock the Cba:r at the usual hour. 1,
On the nmtion cf Mr. BIZ OT lIE ItTON, the Sugar Itefin-
ibg Patent Bill was read a second time and ordwed to be

Committed. •
On the mution of Sir E. WILMOT, the Lordi' amend-
ments to the Derby and Biriningham Railway ,Bill were

agreed to.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURTS BILL.
Mr. CRAWFORD moved the Order of the Day for the
adjourned debate on the Middlesex County Courts Bill.
The adjournment he said had taken place at the instance of
the Under Secretary for the Home Department, to ascertain
the intention of Government with respect to a particular clause
which had been objected to. He then moved the insertion

of the clause.
Sir E. SUGDEN objected to the 40th and s'me other
clauses. There was a general Bill before the Hous,, which
would come on in the course of the evening, in which juris-
diction was given to Justices generally over the kingdom.
Mr. FOX MAULE thought his Hon. Friend had better
withdraw the clause.
Mr. AGLIONBY hoped the Hon. Member would not
I consent to withdraw the clause, as in his opinion is was the

most valuable part of the Bill.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—
For the motion
For the Amendment
Majority in favour of the clause JO
The clause was then added.
On the question that the Bill do pass,
Captain WOOD said he could not help, before the Bill
passed, protesting against a measure of this kind being intro-
duced under the guise of a private Bill. He believed this was
the first time power was given to the Crown to appoint a
Judge without a salary.
Mr. AG LION BY said the Bill throughout the proceed-
ings in the Committee had been treated as a public measure ;
and the Members of the Committee, feeling there was some
responsibility on them, paid more attention to the Bill and to
particular clauses than they otherwise would have done.
Lord TE IGN MO UT H did not feel competent to give an
opinion on the legal provisions of the Bill ; but after a most
violent opposition of four dars, not a single accusation was
brought forward to induce the Committee to reject the Bill.
In fact no division took place on the preamble. There were
on the Committee gentlemen of great legal skill of both par-
ties, and in addition to this it had come under the revision of
the House. He hoped, therefore, credit would be given to
the Committee for not having endeavoured to smuggle the
Bill through the House after they had taken four weeks to
consider its provisions.
After a few observations from Mr. Darby, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Mr. Freshfield, the Bill passed.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH CHURCHES.
Mr. GILLON gave notice, that on the motion for the
third reading of the Scotch Churches Bill, he should move that
it be read a third time that day three months.
Mr. HUME gave notice of his intention to- morrow, when
the Noble Lord at the head of the Home Department moved
his resolution relative to the proposed grant for the Esta-
blished Churches in England and Ireland, to move that they
would be unjust to the interests of Scotland, and totally sub-
versive of those principles on which alone good Government
could be based.

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FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Mr. M‘LE AN had a petition to present from the Merchants
and Traders of Glasgow, praying the House to take into their
serious consideration the state of the Foreign Commerce of the

country.
Captain PEC HE LL rose to order. He had been informed
by the Speaker that no petition could be received after half-
pat four o'clock. Acting upon that information, he had been
disippumted of an opportunity of presenting a public petition
on two days, as the private business had consumed the half
hour.
The SPEAKER said the present petition required to be
presented, as it must be printed, in order that a motion might
.be founded upon it.
Sir R. PEEL suggested that, as none of the Ministers
were then in their places, probably it might be convenient that
the House should receive petitions for a short time longer.
The SPEAKER said whatever was convenient to the
[louse was convenient to him; only it was his duty to attend
to the orders of the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. *LEAN then brought up the petition, and gave no.
tice that he would call the attention of the House to it on the
26th of July.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND) BILL.
The Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill went through
Committee.