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London, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—{THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords Amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Bolton Improvement; Brad-
ford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway ; Leeds, Bradford,
and Halifax Junction Railway ; York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway (Construction of Docks, &c.)
The following Estates bills were read a third time and
passed :—Fleming's Estate ; Masters' Estate ; Smith's
Charity Estate ; Thornhili's (Clara) Estate.
The Oxford Poor Rate Bill was ordered to be read a
third time to-morrow.
The Aberdeen Shoemakers Trade Estate Bill and the
Ratcliff Gas Company Relief Bill were read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. GREENE, from Lan-
caster, against the Mona:Lain Bill ; Mr. GEo. DUNDAS,
from a place in Scotland, against the Scotland Valuation
Bill ; Mr. I. BUTT, from the Secretary of the late Board
of Health, in Ireland, complaining that his office had
been abolished without compensation.
VALUATION OF LAND (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill.
Mr. A. HASTIE moved as an amendment to clause
4, that the time for giving notice of valuation under the
bill should be extended from the 15th to the 31st of
August.
The committee divided, when there appeared, '
For the amendment.
Against it 39-24

The amendment was consequently lost, and the clause
was agreed to.
Mr. DUNLOP moved the following proviso at the
end of clause 5 : —Provided also, that when lands and
heritages are subject to a feu duty or ground annual,
the proprietor shall be entitled to relief from the superior
or the party in right of the ground annual, and to
deduction from the fe._l duty or ground annual
payable by him, of such proportion of all assessments
laid on according to the valuations made under this
act, which, in so far as effairs to such feu duty or ground
annual, such proprietor is not by contract or obligation
in his titles, or by law, liable in payment of, and that
without relief, as shall correspond to the amount of such
feu duty or ground annual as compared with the amount
of the valuation of such lands and heritages under this
act."
After some discussion, the committee divided, when
there appeared
For the proviso

Against it 52
Majority....

The proviso was accordingly lost.
Clause 5 was agreed to ; as were also clauses from 6
to 14 inclusive.
On clause 15,
Mr. CRAUFURD moved an amendment with the
view to abolish distinctions of property brought to valua-

tion.
The committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 26
Against it 56-30
The amendment was consequently lost, and the clause
was agreed to.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to.
Mr. E. ELLICE than moved the following new
clause :—" That no minister, or pastor, or preacher, or
priest of any Christian congregation, of any donomina-
tion, shall be liable to any rate or assessment, in respect
of his manse, glebe, or stipend, or the annual salary or
emolument of his office, from whatever source derived,
anything in the said act of the Bth and 9th Vic., cap.
83, or in anv other act or act of Parliament to the con-
trary notwithstanding."
After some discussion the clause was agreed to.
Some other new clauses were proposed and agreed to,
and the bill, as amended, was reported, and the house
resumed.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS' (SCOTLAND)
BILL.
This bill passed through committee without discus-
sion, and the house again resumed.
SUPPLY—REPORT.
Mr. BOUVERIE then brought up the report of the
supply, which was agreed to.
fclock the sitting was suspended.
resumed at six o'clock, and was
(LEFT SITTING.)
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THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3d day of July,
1854,
Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
r,
the Right Hon. Granville George Earl Granville, Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to be a member of the
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 4.
Lady
Churchill, Queen has been pleased to appoint Jane,
i Churchill, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber n
committee of Council on Education.
Ordinary to her Majelty, in the room of Caroline Augusta,
Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe resigned.
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ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Caroline-Augusta,
Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe, to be Extra Lady of the
Bedchamber to her Majesty.

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DOWNING-STREET, JULY 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable
John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton to be Lieutenant.
Governor of the Province of New Brunswick.
WHITEHALL, JULY 1.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
Major-General William Thomas Knollys to be Lieutenant-
Governor of the Island of Guernsey, in the room of Lieu-
tenant-General Sir John Bell, K.C.B.