The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-13 00:00:00

BILL.

Mr. AGLIONBY moved that this Bill be read a
second time.
Sir J. GRAHAM asked his Hon. and Learned Friend
to state the oltj-ct of the Bill.
Mr. AGLIONBY .tited that the New Zealand Com-
nany had sold upwards of 300,000 acres of land in New
Zealand to various persons, who had been in possession
for the last seven or eight years, but in consequence of
various circumstances the company had not been able to
give a title to the purchasers. Tne grant from the
Crown having, however, at length been obtained. it was
desirable to make the necessary conveyances; but the
expense of doing ao in this country would be so great,
besides the difficulty of giving a proper description of the
premises. that it was thought advisable to introduce a
Bill to enable the company to make the grants in the
colony by means of a power of attorney authorizing
parties there to affix the seal of the company to the deeds.
Sir J. GRAHAM wished to know whether the Bill
had received the sanction of the Government; because
there existed, he believed, an arrangement between the
company and the Government that upon certain terms
the Crown might resume all its Ammer rights over the
land gran;ed to the company. He also observed that
there was a clause in the Bill which relieved the
parties from the payment of stamp duties on the con-
V. yane. s.
Mr. AGLIONBY said the Bill had been submitted to
the Colonial office, and it did not interfere in the slightest'
degree with the arrangements entered into between the
Government and the company. With regard to the ex-
emption from the stamp-duty. the preced. nt of the North
Canada Act had been oeserved in this case.
Mr. HAY I ER said the exemption clause bad been
considered by the Ceancellor of the Exch. quer, and he
thought it just and fair that the same advantage should
be extended to New Zealand as had been granted to
Canadi.
Mr. GOULBURN did not admit that the existence of
a bad prec dent was any reason for continuing it.
Mr. HAYTER did not urge the case as a matter of
precedent. The same reason teat exist, din the case of
Caned. op. rated in the case of New Z .aland.
Mr. GLADS CONE suggested that the second reading
of the Bill should be postponed till Monday. It was a
question alfeetin4 titles to land, and ought, therefore, to
tie considered by the legal Members of the House.
After a short cenversation, in which Mr Mangles, Mr.
Gouiburn, Sir J. Graham, and Mr. Rottadell Palmer
took part,
Mr. AGLIONBY conientel to postpone the second
reading of the Bill till Monday next.
The County-rates, &c., Bill went through Committee.
The Boroughs Relief Bill, and the Titles of R-ligious
Congreaions (Scotland) Bill, were respectively read a
third time and passed.
The second reading of the Audit of Railway Accounts
Bill was postponed till Moneay.
Mr. GL ADSTONE expressed a hope that a Bill in-
volving such unprecedented provisions as this did would
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to dissolve certain regimental benevolent societies, and
to distribute the funds thereof; also a Bill to shorten
the second period of enlistment in the artillery and other
ordnance corps; which were brought in accordingly, and
ordered to be read a second time on Monday.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.

COUE.I7 CIRCULAR.
OS BORNE, THURSDAY.
The Qneen and Prince walked this morning in Oa-
borne•park. _ _

His Ry al Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hun. C. B. Phipps and Colon-I Seymour,
Equerry in Waiting, crossed to GoAport in the Fairy
royal yacht, and proceeded to Winchester to see the
catileilir.l and college at that city.
rhN C,,untess of Desert has relieved Lidy Mount Edg-
cumbe as the Lady in Waiting on her MAyesty.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes-
terday.

Their Roynl Highnesses the Duke end Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hap litary Grand Duchess of
M elclenburei Strelitz, attended by Lady Augusta Ca-
d 'loin and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the Duchess
D 'wager of Brdf, •rd with their company yesterday
m 'ruing, at the public breakfast given by her Graee,
her residence on Campden
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
their Roy sl Highnesses the Duk. and Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday, at Cambridge House.
Their Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge. and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Streli,a. honoured Mrs. Wyndham with
their company on Wednesday evening, at her residence
in G rosvenor -place.
J,...eph N. B. Kerr, from Nova Scotia, had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday. at the Colonial.
“tfice. Mr. Hincks had also an interview with the Noble
E ycste, day.
Mr. Child had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesti rday. at the Home-office.
Mr. Jahn Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an inttrview with the Chancellor of the
Exchevoer yesterday, at his official residence, in Down-
ing •street.

PLF.ASURE BOATS ON THE CANALS.—The adap-
tati last summer of one or two of the barges for
pleasure boats to take parties for excursions on the
Paddington (Grand Junction) Canal was found to
be so palatable to the larger body of the respret-
able working classes who patronized the specula-
tion, that this summer the number of such pleasure
boats has been increased, and, ailed by the material
advantage of genial weather, the canal, which was for-
merly—before the great lines of railway monopolised
so
large a portion of the internal traffic of the kindgom
the great source of intercommunication and the means
afforded for the transmission of goods and merchan-
dise from one part of the country to anoth-r,
has become
presents itself at Paddington, near the terminus of the
quit. a pleasure stream, and the scene which
Great Western Railway, by the arrival and departure of
parties on these pleasure trips down the canal,
is of the most lively and cheering .cha-
racter. The barges are entirely devoted to the
purpose, and furnished with seats covered and orna-
mented, and being gaily decorated, are not unsuitable
vehicles for the enjoyment of the parties, which include
hosts of respectable women and children, who, with their
provisions and other adjuncts, avail themselves of this
novel means of making water excursions several miles
from the metropolis.