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London, England, 1853-08-12 00:00:00

I RIPE PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.)
The LoRD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The only peers present besides the Lord Chancellor
were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Earl of Bessborough, Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl of
Lonsdale, the Duke of Grafton, and the Bishop of
Landaff.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Baron Vivian's Estate ; London and North-Western
and Buckinghamshire Railways ; Imperial Continental
Gas (No. 2) ; Harwick Docks and Pier ; St. Margaret
and St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, Vestries.
The standing orders in the case of the follow-
ing bills were dispensed with, and they went
through their several stages, and were passed :
South-Western Railway (Power to Purchase, &c.) ;
South Wales Railway (Deviation) : East India ailway.

PETITION.
Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from the
clerks in the office of Master Brougham, praying for
compensation in consequence of loss sustained by recent
legislation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he believed the
petitioners were not officers of the Court of
Chancery, and but only subordinate clerks in
the employ of such officers, and, therefore, they
were not entitled to compensation by reason of the abo-
lition of any Chancery office. He would, however, look
into their case again.

THE COURTS OF COMMON LAW (IRELAND

BILL.
This bill was reported with amendments, and was
ordered to be read a third time.

The Assessed Taxes, Insurance on Lives, Naval Coast
Volunteers, Liberated Africans (Sierra Leone), Land
Tax Redemption, Consolidated Annuities, Turnpike
Acts Continuance (Ireland), Passengers Act Amend-
ment Bills.

On the motion of the Earl of ABERDEEN, the above
bills were read a third time and passed.

SHERIFFS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.

Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
In consequence of the naval review at Spithead there
was no morning sitting to-day, and the hour fixed for
the meeting of the house was the unusual one of ten
o'clock in the evening. At that hour from twenty to
thirty members had assembled. By half-past ten the
numbers had increased to upwards of forty ; but the
Speaker did not arrive till ten minutes before eleven,
when the benches, especially those on the Ministerial
side, were pretty well filled.
' CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
that it be an instruction to the committee on this bill
that they have power to receive a clause of appro-
priation.
The motion was agreed to ; and the house having re-
solved itself into committee, the clause was received and
the house resumed.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
CROWN SUITS BILL.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
that the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill be discharged. The question involved in the bill
was one of considerable delicacy. As regarded the sub-
stantial object of the measure, namely, that in revenue
suits the Crown should take and give costs, there was
no doubt or hesitation ; but the subject was one that
ought to be dealt with as a whole, and he thought that
it would not be possible to proceed with it safely at the
present moment.

Mr. WALPOLE expressed his opinion that an altera-
tion in the existing law was necessary, so that the Crown
m'ght pay costs in the same manner as the private
suitor.

The order of the day was then discharged.
METROPOLITAN SEWERS ACT CONTINUANCE

BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of this bill,
Captain LAFFAN observed that he could not help
regretting that the hon. member for Westminster( SirJ.
Shelley) had thought proper, at an earlier stage of the
bill, to make remarks injurious to Mr. Chadwick. It
was not fair to attack that gentleman in his absence,
when he had no opportunity of vindicating his conduct.
Lord PALMERSTON concurrred with the hon. mem-
ber in regretting that an attack should have been made
on Mr. Chadwick, who had rendered great services to his
country; who was a man of great ability and zeal, and
was very undeserving of an attack being made on him,
either in his presence or in his absence.
Lord D. STUART was sorry that his hon. friend (Sir
J. Shelley) was not present to vindicate the course which
he had taken on a former evening. Hon. members had
only to turn to the minutes of evidence taken before the
committee appointed to examine into the proceedings of
the Andover Union, and to the opinion of the President
of the Poor-law Board of that day, and they would there
find the grounds on which the censure passed by his hon.
friend had been founded. He (Lord D. Stuart) protested
against the principle that no reflections should ever be
made upon the conduct of a public man because he did
not happen to have a seat in that house, and could not
therefore defend himself.

Captain LAFFAN did not mean to say that the acts
of a public man could be taken away from the cognizance
of the House of Commons, but he did say that due notice
should have been given by the hon. member for West-
minster of his intention to attack Mr. Chadwick, in
order that that gentleman's friends might have been pre-
pared with his defence. (Hear.)
The bill was then read a third time and passed.
LUNATICS CARE AND TREATMENT BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this bill,
Mr. MICHELL moved the followine, clause :-- "Pro.
vided also, that it shall not be lawful for a proprietor or
superintendent of any licenced house, to keep or confine
beyond the period of six months any person admitted
into such house as a lunatic under the provisions of this
act, unless a jury, as in the case of a writ de lunatic°
inquirendo, shall have been summoned to ascertain the
lunacy of such person ; on the unanimous finding of this
jury, the person shall be discharged or detained, as the
case may be ; if the jurors cannot agree, then the per-
son shall be transferred to the nearest county lunatic
asylum, as provided for by clause 20."
The clause was negatived with a division,
Mr. WALPOLE moved the following dame, viz. :
" And whereas by the said recited act it is provided that
every person to be appointed in the room of any com-
missioner, being a barrister of five years' standing at the
bar and upwards, shall be a practising barrister of not
less than five yeitri' standing at the bar ; and whereas
it is expedient to amend the said provisions as hereinaf-
ter mentioned, the present or any future secretary to the
commissioners, if at the time of his appointment to be
such secretary he was or shall have been a practising
barrister of not less than five years' standing at the bar,
shall be eligible to he appointed a commissioner in the
room of any such a commissioner as aforesaid."
The clause was added to the bill, and the bill was then
read a third time and passed.

EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL.
On the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill,

Mr. S. WORTLEY said that the law allowed a wife
or a husband to be examined in civil cases where either
of them was a party to the suit, but this bill would pre-
clude them from giving evidence in criminal cases. He
wished to know the reason for this exception.
Lord PALMERSTON said that, in the absence of
his hon. and learned friend the Solicitor-General, per-
haps it would, be better that the bill should be post-
poned till to-morrow.

The third reading was postponed accordingly.

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MITIA PAY BILL.
This bill went throTulgh committee.
The Copies of Specification Repeal Bill, the Chancery
Suitors Further Relief Bill, and the Ecclesiastical Leas-
ing Act Amendment Bill, were further considered, and
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
OMNIBUS NUISANCE.
On the question that the house do now adjourn,
Colonel SIBTI1011,1) again called attention to the in-
convenience and danger arising to the public from the
practice of Passengershe being taken up into and set down
fr omnibuses in mide of public streets, and ex-
pressed a hope that the noble lord the Home Secretary
(in whose hands ho could leave the
matter with perfect
confidence), would direct the olice to check the evil.
Lord PALMERSTON said the police had general
powers to Prevent obstruction or molestation arising out
and he bad called the
a the traffic of the metropolis,
attention of the commissioners to the subject, but he did
not think the act specified that the omnibuses should
take up or set down their passengers in a particular part
f the street.
The house then adjourned at ten minutes to 12 o'clock.

GENERAL SIR .T. TiIdAICKWELL.—This gallant officer
regarded with feelings of the
whose name is deservedly
warmest admiration by yyevery inhabitant of this city,
Gloucester on Monday last. The
paid a brief i
gallant veteran was on his way from Clifton to visit his
mock, and no sooner was kis arrival in
relations near
than the utmost anxiety was mani-
Gloucester known
fested b
y great nu'reeyrseaorsf pageros,ons once more to see a
was a distingnised resi-
gentleman, who, so
dent of this locality. The want of the means for giving
the gallant general a professional reception was no sooner
felt, than it was resolved to invite him to a. public din-
ner, given to him by the mayor and citizens gene-
rally, and the movement,
w having once been set
afloat, as taken up with such spirit as to war-
rant the chief magistrate in waiting upon the distin-
guished soldier, upon his return through Gloucester to
Clifton on Wednesday. and inviting him to the enter-
tainment. We are rejoiced to hear that the gallant
general immediately accepted the invitation, and
,up, to
the present moment some 100 persons have already an-
nounced their intention to form a portion of the party.
The banquet will take place at the end of the present
month, and will most probably come off in the concert
room at the Shire-hall. Our readers will, we are sure,
be rejoiced to know that the gallant general looks in ex-
cellent health.—Gloucester Chronicle.
Tint 140IIGVACATIO.—Wednesday the long vacation
commenced ; but not the long vacation of former er years.
The Common Law Procedure Act hasl madeat an altera-
the in law proceedings. Pleadings are
yitayed from
10th of August to the 24th October :t writs are
n ei nd
ahn
deevxeenetnot of a
issued with special indorsements angd
non-appearance, judgment can be si
judgment by default
issued in the vacation. There is no
in the County Courts, and no long vacation.