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London, England, 1849-07-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LTMDS, July 13.

The Royal Assent was given by commission to the
undermentioned Bills:
Passengers. . .

Small Debts (Scotland) Act Amendment.
Highways (Annual Returns).
County Cess (Ireland).
Loan Societies.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
Soap Duty Allovrances.
Assaults (Ireland).
Silver Coinage.
Sheriff of Westmoreland.
York and North Midland Railway (Deviations, &c.).
Black Sluice Drainage Act Amendment (Amendment
of Acts, Extension of Tune for Completion of
Works, Power to levy and raise further Rates and
Moneys, to Alter existing Rates and Tolls, atld for
other Purposeo.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Barmoor and
Alninouth New Branches).
Charing Cross Bridge Amendment of Acts (Power to
alter Authorised Approaches. &c.)
East Anglian Railway an l Ely and Huntingdon Rail-
way (Extension of Time).
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (Alterations of and
Branch from Aston Branch).
Truro Turnpike Road, Penryn and RAruth Turnpike
Road (Consolidation of Trusts, Alterations of Tolls,
Forms ion of New Road.).
Renfrewshire Justices ..f the Peace Courts.
Surrey and Sussex Roads (Amendment of Act and Al-
teration of Tolls).
Congletim Inclosure Act Amendment.
Great Yarmouth Haven Bridge and Navigation hi-
provemen
Wes head's Patent (for Improvements in Manufacturing
Fur into Fabrics).
East Lothian C..ntral Railway (Abandonment of the
Railway and Dissolution of the Company).
Stockton and Darlington Railway (Consolidation of
Acts. &c.)
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (for Branches to the
River Dee, Agreeinent for Joint Station at Shrews-
bury. Power to Subscribe towards the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway).
Torq'iay Market.
Wh,b-en, Chatteris, Tid-gote, and Downham• bridge
Turnpike.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Extension of Ash-
ton Branch and Clitfird Branch); and
The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury's (Walworth)
Estate Bill.
The Commissioners were the Earl of Shaftesbury,
the Earl of :lento, and L,,rd Campbell
rRorECTION OF MINORS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this
Bill. This Bill was rendered necessary because there
were no officers in Scotland exercising functions anala-
gous to those of the Masters of Chancery in England.
I; had received the approbation of Lord Robertson, one
of the most learned of the Scotch Judges, and of several
other members of the Scottish judicial bench.
The Bill was then read a second time.
MARRIAGES AND REGISTRATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILLS.

The Earl of ABERDEEN rose to address a few
words to their Lordships in consequence of certain pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons, from which he
learned that her Majesty's Government had abandoned
these two Bills. As he had taken a decided part in
opposing cne of those Bills, and hal entered a protest on
their journals against its passing, he could only say that
he was satisfied with such a result. But, although he
deprecated very much the alteration recently proposed
in the Scotch law of marriage, he had always been sen-
sible of the evils arisiag from the difference of the law
in the two countries. He thought that the border mar-
riages were disgraceful to both countries, and he was
therefore anxious to see a remedy provided for the
evasions of the marriage law of Er.gland by a native of
England. If his Noble and Learned Friend near him
(Lord Brougham) would resume the Bill which he in-
troduced on this subject some years ago it would give
him great satisfaction; or if some other Noble Lord
were disposed to take it up, more competent than his
Noble and Learned Friend—which would be very easy—
he should certainly acquiesce in that arrangement; but,
if no one else would undertake the responsibility of in-
troducing such a measure, he would in the course of
next session lay up in the table a Bill to remedy the
great evil so long and so justly complained of.
Lord•BROUG HAM agreed with his Noble Friend,
that it would not be difficult to fled a party more comp-
teat than he was to deal with such a measure—(A
laugh)—and further added. that be would willingly sup
p irt hit Noble Friend in bringing in such a BM. The
23i11_ which he had introduced in 1845, though highly
approved of in that House, had not passed into law;
and be again promised to give Lord Aberdeen his best
support if he would reintroduce it. If eis Noble and
Learned Friend opp site (Lord Campbell) did not rei
new the Bill which had been so unfortunately thrown
out in another place, he would again brig in his Bill,
in,order to give Parliament an opportunity of doing its
duty by the Saiitch law of marriage.
LordCANIPBEE.g, deplored the.lo,;s of the two Bills
in vestion. Tney had twice passed through tha,
Hotta., once this year :md once lt't. They passed with
one exception unanimou,lv. Elsewhere a diff-rent tate
bad befall. n nein. He herd that these Bills would
prosper better under the auspices of his Noble and
Learned Friend. lie had done his best to benefit his
native coun ry. He should now wash his hands of these
Bills entiro'y, and have nothing more to do with them.
Lord BROUGHAM hoped tear, when the prafer
vidum ingeniurn Suotarum had sobered dawn a little, his
Noble and Learned Friend would change his &tenni
nation, and would net fellow his (Lord Brougham's)
example by transferrin, these Bills to some uric -Ise. '
Tne Earl of ABERDEE v said, the Noble and
Learned 1,1.3 s had condoled with e9Ch ether upon the
throwing out of this detestable Bill; but he would say
that, if it had not been withdrawn by the Government,
a representative Government would have been a farce; '
for the whole kingdom of S.3oila,lel was universally
against it.—(Hear, hear.) Oct of the 33 or 34 Mem-
bers for Scotland, even the friends of the Government,
almost to a man, hail voted against it; they were, there
fore, compelled to withdraw it.
The Earl of MIN TO said, the nature of the Bill had
been most grossly misrepresented. He had looked into
the petitions against it, and found that they might have
been presented against any other measure rather than
this.

The Earl of HADDINGTON said there never was a
more universal feelitg against a bill than existed in
ScoAlnd againit this. He would ask his Noble Friend
(the Esrl of Minto) whether he was not aware that reli-
gious denominations of every cl,scription in Scotland
were against it?
Lord BROUGHAM said he should in the next session
present in one both this Bill and that of 1835, so as to
etre .t a complete reform in the Se tch law of marriage.
THE LATE INTERVENTION IN THE ROMAN
STATES.
Lord BROUGHAM lid on the table his resolutions
Tcap,cting the 1 ite intervention in the Roman states, and
said he shout t move them on Friday next.
The Earl of HARROW BY presented several petitions,
but it was impossible to catch from what place or upon
what subject.
The General and Quarter Sessions Courts Procedure
and the Marriages in Foreign Countries Facilitating Bills
passed through Committee.
The report on the Sites of Schools Bill was laid on
the table.

THE IRISH POOR RELIEF BILL.
After a brief discussion respecting the expediency o
taking the discussion on the principle of this Bill, or
the rn,,tion for the second reading, or reserving it until
their Lord-4dpi were moved to considir the Bill in
_Committee, L.,rd Mouteagle objecting to the latter
course,
The Msrquis of L IN''sl)lll7NT, presented a petitinr.
ow the Corporation of Cork, praying that the amended
peer law might not reeoeniee any alteration of the pro.
portion of pout rate p .yeb'e between isodlord and tenant,
and then proceeded to move the sec end reading ..f th.
Bill for amen ling the Art for the more t- ffdetoll relief o:
the poor in Ireland. In doing so he succinctly state,:
the principal provisions of the measure. The measure
was introlneeri at the time of the greatest distress pre-
vailing in Ireland, and from that circumstance, and
others it had given rise to, it was impossible to pro-
duce any measure fur the all:vistion of that distre:,
and to meet the cireumstineee in which th .t colintr •
was pl teed, which would not he open t ) much
and difference of opinion. It was witn a full ap.
precialon of all the difficulties and emergenci,„
of the case, however, that the Gov .rnment ha
introduced the present measure. They were fur ,
aware of the diff-Tence of opinion any measure, havie
kr
for its object the alleviation of the distress in Ireland,
would give rise te. In laying before their L_irdships
general summary of the previsions of the measure. h
should, in the first place. advert to the two first clauses
wh ch he conceived were the most likely to elicit di,.
cession. These clauses r,lattd t a maximum rate ni
ss. in the pound, beyond which the people of Pekin ,
could not be subjected to be texe 1 for the relief of th
poor; a provisen which. he conceived, would have a very
beneficial tendeneet. The idea of the imposition of
rate to which, fro' the circumstances which had arisen
and which might again rise, there appeared to be xi'
end, had had a meat injurious effect on those who pos
sessed property, or who meditated the possession of pro
perty in Ireland. The general opinion was, that by such
a system a burden might be imposed OD property t.
which there might be no termination, and, therefore, i;
was conceived that the establishment of a maximum
rate would be the most effectual nr,ans of remedying
the evil. It was accordingly proposed that 5s
pound on each electoral division should form'in t
the
maximum, while provision was made in thesecond
clause, that when the ss. rate in electoral divisions
failed in providing for the peer, a union rate of two
shillings in the pound could be levied. In ordinary
cases, however, such would not be required. No one
could he prepared to say that such a measure would to-
tally do away with all the evils which at present existed
in Ireland, and fully provide for the poverty of that
country ; but he did indulge the hope that each a rate
having been exacted and collected, it would place Ireland
in a far better position than what it had hitherto been.
It was a consolation to think that they were doing that
which enuld not fail to limit the distress which might
arise inireland, and place that portion of the kingstbm
on a better footing than it wag at present. By the third
•clatue of the Bill •it was provided that claimants for
relief theuld be referred to the electoral diatrict.in

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Their Lrrdships assembled at Five o'clock.
The Duke of WELLING TON presf-med a petition
from the depositors in the county of Kerry Savings'
Bank, complaining of the delay occasioned in the pro-
ceedings undertaken to give the redress caused by the
non-returns of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland of
the record in the case.
ROYAL COMMISSION.