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

NORWICH LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Lord D. STUART wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department whether he had re-
ceived a report from the visiting magistrates of the luna-
tic asylums in Norwich, containing the results of an
inquiry, by which it appears that justice was evaded on
a criminal charge ; and whether he would not direct a
strict investigation to be made into all the circumstances
of the case.

Lord PALMERSTON had received no official infor-
mation on the subject, hut the facts which the noble lord
had communicited to him he had submitted to the Lu-
natic Commissioners.
MEDICAL REFORM.
Lord D. STUART wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, whether it is his inten-
tion to appoint a commission to inquire into the present
state of medical education, and the laws regulating the
practice of medicine, surgery, midwifery, and pharmacy
in the United Kingdom ; or to appoint a committee of
the House of Commons for that purpose. And, whe-
ther, if a commission is appointed, it is to be composed
of practitioners in medicine, surgery, midwifery, and
pharmacy from England, Ireland, and Scotland, or those
only practising in England.
Lord PALMERSTON had already stated that it
was the intentio:foofrthaesGioeveternment to appoint a com-
mission or ask
committeebe to enquire into
this subject, but it had note yet determined whether
the enquiry should be through theen medium.former or the latter

Sir J. PASO UT
AUSTRALIA. _....
GTON had been given to understand
thistransmitted to that Acts of Constitution had been
country for confirmation the Crown from
Victoria, each South
Wales, South Australia Y
the principle of a nominated er chamber, and containinghe
should be glad to know what stepsu the Government in.
tended to take with regard to theps
that such acts
Sir G. GREY said it was quitneatimtsa
had been received, but they could be confirmed without
the sanction of the Parliament, and therefore instruc-
tions had been sent out to the Colonies that they would
ba reserved for future consideration.
BRIBERY BILL.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving that the Lords'
amendment to this bill be considered forthwith, ex-
plained the nature of these amendments which will be
found fully reported in our Lords report of yesterday.
The motion was agreed to.
Lord J. RUSSELL then moved that the house do
agree to these amendments.
Lord HOTHAM objected to these amendments, and
expressed his surprise that the noble lord should have
asked the house to agree to them, seeing that already
more than once he had voted and spoke against them.
It was, moreover, exceedingly strange that these amend-
ments had been introduced not at the instance of the
noble lord's opponents, but on the motion of one of his
own colleagues. He strongly objected to that amend-
ment which struck out the clause allowing reasonable
travelling expenses to county voters, and he could not
helpthinking that it the house agreed to it, they would
so
scorntar and Stultifycontempt
their former decisions as to excite the
..ontempt of the country, At the same time,
at this period of the session, it was. hopeless to oppose
the Government, because the attendance of members was
so small, that
__Ni,ters could if they chose make
bribery a capital off
ence ; and he should, therefore,
noble lord. IT
abstain from geo,ing t
however,o a division on the motion of the
called upon the noble lord,
both for the sake of h
own
.consistency and the cha-
acter of the house, to mow
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er the determination he ,
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had come to, and disagree with the Lords' amendments
so far as they related to the travelling expenses claim.
Some verbal amendments made by the Lords having
been agreed to,
Lord HOTHAM moved that the consideration of the
Lords' amendments, which struck out the travelling
expenses clause, be postponed until this day month.
Lord J. RUSSELL could not agree with the noble
lord in thinking that the house would be at all dis-
paraged in the estimation of the country by agreeing
in this amendment of the Lords. If the motion of the
noble lord were carried it would have the effect of de-
feating the bill for this session.
Mr. HILDYARD said there was no wish to de-
feat the bill altogether. All that his noble friend re-
quired was simply to negative this amendment of the
law ; and if his motion would have the effect attributed
to it by the President of the Council there would be no
objection to alter its terms. The House of Lords, in
striking out this clause, had acted from caprice.
Mr. HUME said the Lords had a perfect right to
make the amendment if they so thought fit ; and it was
an insult to the House of Lords, nay, it was revolution-
ary, to say that they acted from caprice in doing so.
With regard to this bill, he did not believe it would be
effectual unless the ballot were engrafted upon it ; but
at the same time he thought the Lords had done right
in rejecting these travelling expenses. If a man would
not take the trouble to vote without having his expenses
paid let him stop away ; give him plenty of polling
booths, but no travelling expenses of any kind.
Lord HOTHAM explained that he should take every
opportunity of obstructing further progress of this bill
unless the travelling expenses were re-inserted in it.
Mr. T..DUNCOMBE supported the Lords' amend-
ments, but strongly censured the upper house for at-
tempting to control the House of Commons by refusing
to read bills a second time after the 25th of July, which
was tantamount to trenching upon the rights of the
people and the prerogatives of the Crown.
Sir J. PAKINGTON approved of the resolution
which the Lords had come to, and hoped they would
adhere to it in future sessions. This bill in its present
form was a delusion, and it would be no great loss to the
country if it were altogether thrown out.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. G. Butt,
Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, Mr. Cayley, Mr. Melina, Sir C.
Burrell, and Lord R. Grosvenor took part, the house
divided, when there appeared—
For agreeing to the Lords' amendments ... 78

- doing ong so
21
Majority —s7

Lord HOTHAM then moved that the house "do now
adjourn." His only desire was that the bill should re-
main in the state in which the House of Commons had
declared it should remain.

Mr. HILDYARD explained that if the House of
Lords had thought proper to reject the bill, he had said
the Lords would act capriciously, and to every word of
that he intended to adhere.
The house then divided, when the numbers were—
For the amendment
Against it B4
Majority
The motion was consequently lost.
Lord HOTHAM then moved that the debate be new
adjourned.
After a few words from Mr. nILDYARD,

Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the noble lord (Lord
Hotham) would try the question as to the decision of
the House of Lords, or that of this house.
Mr. V. SCULLY rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 22.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
Bell, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul, to be her Majesty's
Csnsul-General in Algeria.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Alm. 1.
The Queen has been graciously pleased appoint Arthur
Edward Kennedy, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-
in-Chief in and over the Colony of Sierra Leone and its
dependencies, to be also her Majesty's Consul-General in
the Sherbro country on the west coast of Africa.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
Duncan Thompson as Consul at Cape Town for his Ma-
jesty the King of Portugal.

OSBORNE, AUG. 3.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to
appoint the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Canon of Can-
terbury, to be Chaplain in Ordinary to his Royal Highness,
vice the Rev. Dr. Richards, deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 7.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copies of de-
spatches from her Majesty's Consuls at the places noted be-
low, relative to the quarantine measures that have been
adopted in the south of Europe in consequence of the out-
break of cholera :