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London, England, 1849-04-02 00:00:00

MONTE VIDEO.

Mr. EWART, adverting to the former question,
wished to know when it was likely the blockade would
cease?

Lord PALMERSTON thought, from the general as-
pect of affairs, that the matter would be shortly arranged,
but he hoped the Hoe. Gentleman auderatood that the

blockade in no way impeded tho operations and progress
of British commerce.—(Hear, hear.)
RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE BOSPHORUS.

Mr. C. ANSTEY gave notice that to-morrow he
should ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether he had received any intelli-
gence, official or private, of,any demand addressed to the
Ottoman Power for the admission of a Russian fleet into
the Bosphorus, and whether any means had been used
to obtain such admission, and whether Government was
prepared to resist and prevent such an invasion of the
rights of the country under existing treaties.
Lord PALMERSTON said he could answer the
question then,—(Hear, hear.) No such demand bad
been made by the Russian Government.—(Hear, hear.)
That was the Russian Government had not demanded
permission for a Russian squadron to enter the Bos-
phorus.—(Hear, hear.)

IRISH COURT OF EQUITY.
Mr. B. R. OSBORNE said on a former occasion he
took occasion to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Government in-
tended to introduce any bill for regulating the fees
of the equity department of the Court of
Exchequer iu Ireland, and the Right Hon. Gentle-
man replied, that as a committee was on the subject,
he could not answer the question until he had received
its report.—(Hear, hear.—Now he had since searched
the votes for the appointment of such committee, but
be could find nothing of the sort.—(Hear, hear.)
He begged to ask whether there was any intention on the
part of the Government to bring in a Bill this session
for regulating the fees in the Court of Exchequer in
Equity in Ireland ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he did not state that there was a Committee sitting up-
stairs on the fees of the Court of Exchequer in Equity in
Ireland.

THE GAOL OF NENAGH.
Mr. SCULLYikished to inform the House that be had
seen it stated in re cent judge's charge for the county of
Tipperary, that there were no less than 68 prisoners con-
fined iu the gaol of Nenagh under sentence of transporta-
tion; that typhus fever had broken out in the gaol; that
some of the cells in the hospital were so small as to be
sixteen feet square, and that in many cases the prisoners
lay four in a bed. He would ask the Secretary for the
Home Department if it was not an exceedingly inconve-
nient practice to keep convicts for a considerable time in
a gaol previous to transportation.
Sir G. GREY said he had not received any official
information respecting the state of th• gaol in question;
nor had he seen the judge's charge which the Hon. Mem-
ber had referred to. He had received no communication
on the subject from the Irish Government. He knew that
with respect to some of the gaols in lieland, that addi-
tional accommodation had to some extent been afforded.
LORDS' REPORTS ON IRISH POOR LAWS.
Sir H. H. BARRON moved that an address be con.
veyed to the House of Lordi, requesting their Lord-
ships to communicate to this House copies of
all reports of their Lordships on the subject of Irish
poor-laws.—Agreed to.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.

In reply to a question by Mr. GLA DSTONE,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed to bring on the
Parliamentary Oaths Bill on Monday the 30th instant.

ORDERS OE THE DAY.
Lord J. RUSSELL rose to move, that on Thursday
the 19th day of April, and every alternate Thursday fol-
lowing, orders of the day have precedence of notices of
motions. He felt there could be no doubt that that rule,
if adopted by the House would contribute to the
dispatch of business. It appeared to him that for se-
veral years past, Gentlemen had brought forward mea-
sures of the very last importance on Thursdays; and the
consequence had been that Hon. Members had asked
Bills to be proceeded with which it was utterly impossi-
ble to proceed with, there being so little time allowed to
go into the considerotion of Bills brought forward by the
Government ; and another consequence had been
that many Bills of great importance had been brought
forward at a very late period of the session, and the
other House of Parliament had refused to consider
those Bills on account of the lateness of the period when
those Bills were carried up to them. He did not
mean to propose that, in every case, orders
of the day should have preference of notices
of motion on Thursdays. He should think an arrange-
ment might occasionally be made by which in certain
Bills, Which were of such interest that they could not
well be taken out of their course, the rule might be
varied.

With regard to the measure with respect to oaths taken
of Members of Parliament, he would propose that that
should be taken the first Thursday after the recess.
With respeet to the navigation laws he trusted
that the House would allow the report on that measure to
be received during the present sitting and if they did so
he would propose to fix the third reading for the 23d of
April. With respect to the Rate-in-Aid Bill provided,
the Government got votes on account, he should
hope that the debate, on the second reading
of the Bill would close to-night, so that they
might come to a decision upon it. The motion
for the large grants of which he had given notice
was likely to give rise to considerable discussion ; and
it would be inconvenient that a question like that should
be postponed till after the recess. He should, therefore,
propose, if the Rate in Aid Bill was read a second time,
that evening that it should be committed on the 16th of
the present month, he wished to dispose of all these ques-
tions before be proceeded to the other business before
:he house.

Mr. HUME doubted very much, judging by the ex-
perience of last Session, whether the encroachment
on the privileges of Members would be attended
with success. He thought that if the Noble Lord
had delayed the motion until next June, it 'would
have a much better efflict. lie would strongly suggest
to the Noble Lord to wait till the end of May if not to
the middle of June, before he tried the experiments.
He would, therefore, move as an amendment
to the motion of the Noble Lord, that inetean of the 19th
of April, the 31st of May should he inserted, and after
that date, he had no of that the Government
shou!d take every Thursday if they pleased.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a few observations in
reply to the observations of Mr. Hume, which were
totally inaudible in the gallery.
MI. EWART conceived that if this system were to be
agreedto, there would be less chance than ever for pri-
vate Members to introdtre their business to the House;
for if it were to be left till the end of the session, there
would be greater difficulty than ever in making a
House, especially when there were many notices of the

kr. A. STAFFORD was proceeding to ask a ques-
tion on a partcular subject, when he was called to order,
and reminded that there was a question already before
the House.

Mr. HUME thought that if this motion were to be
acceded to that the tErms of the motion ought at any
rate to be extended to the second Thursday in May.
Lord J. RUSSELL was ready to accede to the mo-
tion of his Hon. Friend to the extent that he would say
every alternate, instead of every Thursday.

Air. STUART WORTLEY said that the alteration
of the law of Marriage Bill was fixed for the 19th of
April, and if the other subject were to be brought before
the House, there would bar a palpable impossibility of ob-
taining any discussion upon it. He was quite willing
to postpone the matter to a future day. _ _ _

Lord J. RUSSELL said that if the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman would postpone his Bill till the 3d of May, he
would offer no opposition to the introduction or discus-
sion of the measure.

To this Mr. WORTLEY agreed, and the matter:was
so arranged.
Sir R. PEEL said that a notice stood on the paper
for to-morrow night, with respect to the affairs of
the Punjaub which it would be very inconveniet to bring
before the House without a longer notice.—(Hear.)
Mr. OSBORNE said that this was only another
attempt on the part of the Government to
deprive the independent Members of their
privileges. One thing had been given up
after another till concession only seemed to lead to
concession. He was sorry to observe that his Hon.
Friend the Member for Montrose had set the
worst example of all in last session agreeing
to a sot of rules which materially :crippled the
rights of private Members, and this session he had ac-
ceded to another set of rules which were equally mis-
chievou3.

After a few words from Mr. BRIGHT, deprecating
she alteration,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that in order to a -et

the wishes of the House, instead of every Thursday
he would propose that on every alternate day orders of
the day should take preceeelce of notices of motion.
Mr. HUME having acceded to this arrangement, the
resolution was agreed to without a division.

NAVIGATION-LAWS.

Lord J. RUSSELL then fixed the bringing up of
the report of the Navigation Laws for the 19th inst.
and the third reading for the 23d.
SUPPLY AND RATE IN AID.

In reply to Mr. A STAFFORD,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that it was his intention
to take the committee of supply before the debate on
the Rate in Aid.
BISHOPWEARMOUTH RECTORY.

Lord CASTLEREAGH said he had received a
statement from Mr. Davidson, the receiver of the Rec-

tory of Bishopwearmouth during the time of Dr. Wel-
lesley, which seriously impugned the facts stated by the
Hon. Member forCoekermouth,on the occasion of his bring-
ing the state of the rectory under the consideration of the
and as it was of importance not only to the individuals
concerned, but to the Church itself, he would read to
the House the communication of Mr. Davidson. It ap-
peared from his letter that Dr. Wellesley took posses-
sion of the living in 1827, and the average return of his
income from all sources during the 21 years he held the
living did not average more than 3,9001. The greatest
amount ever received in any year was 4,000/.; whereas
the Hon. Gentleman stated that sixseen years ago the
income amounted to no less than 5,000/.
The general result of the settlement was this,
that the increase never exceeded 3,4501., from which had
to be deducted for parochial rate courts, &c.,
9304 leaving only 2,5321., cut of which Dr. Wel-
lesley paid for the repairs of churches and
contributed to charities sums which had never been less
than 2004 a year.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HORSMAN said, as the Noble Lord had given
him no notice of his intention to make his statement,
it was difficult for him to follow him through
the details of his matter.--(llear, hear.) The state-
ment he made was upon the authority of parties
with whom no doubt the Noble Lord was well ac-
quainted, and who were quite likely to be correctin their
information, and ho must, therefore, adhere to the state-
ment which ho made, which he still maintained was
correct in every essential particular.—(Hear, hear.) The
Noble Lord said he had stated that 16 years ago Dr.
Wellesley's income was 4,5004 Now he did no such
thing. He merely made a calculation from the doctor's
sources of income, which would make the amount
appear to be 4,6001. per annum,—(Cties of "

However, he still beli eyed his statement was founded
upon accurate details , and so ha should continue to
think until he was c ,avinced to the contrary.—(Hear.)
VAN DIESIAN'S LAND.

Upon the suggest ion of Lord J. RUSSELL,
Mr. ANSTEr :postponed his motion on the subject
of certain illegal ordinances relative to the taxation of
the people of Elm' colony.
AC CIDENTS IN MINES.

In reply to a qt testion from Mr. HUME,
Sir G. GREY ...stated that the attention of tho Go-
vernment was at present directed to the subject of acci-
dents in mines, with the view of ascertaining whether
smile means could not be devised to prevent the repeti-
tion of any frightful calamities.