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proprietors residing in Carlisle, complaining of the pre-
sent mode of assessing railways for the poor and church
rates.
Mr. B. DENISON presented a retition from the
West Riding, complaining of the powers granted to
county courts; also one against the extension of beer-
shops.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented two petitions from
Lincolnshire; one against the alteration of Parliamentary
oaths, and the other in favour of international arbitration.
Captain BERKELEY presented a petition from
Gloucester, praying for the abolition of capital punish-
ment.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the copy-
holders of Ellenborough, in Cumberland, praying that the
Bill for the compulsory enfranchisement of copyhold
land might pass into a law.
GROUP XIX.

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Mr. WRIGHTSON moved that Mr. Parker, Mr.
he Committee on Group 19 of Opposed Private
Ov
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irnn et
Bills provided they deliver in the prescribed forms of de-
claration.
The motion, after a few observation from Mr. WIL-
SON PATTEN, was agreed to.
NEW NORTH ROAD BILL.

Mr. J. B. SMITH moved that the petition of inhabi-
tants, householders, and owners of property in the New
North Road, Horton, and its vicinity, against the New
North Road (Continuation Act) Bill, (deposited in the
Private Bill-office on the,lsth instant), be referred to the
Committee on the Bill; and that it be an instruction to
the Committee to entertain the same, notwithstanding it
was not deposited in the Private Bill-office within seven
clear days after the second reading of the Bill, by reason
of the illness of Mr. Hume, the Member to whom it
was intrusted.—Agreed to.
Mr. C. BRUCE begged to give notice that when the
House went into Committee on the Bill for the Regis-
tration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for Scotland,
he would more an amendment to clause 37.

ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.-TEIREAT-
ENED EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS FROM

THE HOUSE.

Mr. O'CONNELL said he rose to call the
attentionJOHoN
of
the
House to a breach of its privi-
leges, which was connected with the last discussion
in the House on
the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. In
consequence of his having seen in the limes newspaper
an infringement of the rules of the House—(ob, oh)—
in a report of the last discussion on the Bill which
ho had mentioned, in which report not only
were the rules of the House violated, but the oaths taken
by Catholic Members were entirely omitted from that re-
port, whilst other oaths were giver. He should when the
House went into Committe on the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill tonight, notice whether strangers were present or
not, and if he should ascertain that fact, he should draw
the attention of the House to it.—(" Oh, oh," and
laughter.)
SENDING CONVICTS TO THE COLONIES.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH said he wished to know
whether it was the intention of the Government to send
any more convicts to Van Diemen's Land; secondly,.
whether there was any dispatch from the Governor of
Van Diemen's Land as to whether or no there was any
more room for convicts in that island?
Mr. HAWES said in answer to that question he
could give no pledge that the Government would cease
to send convicts to Van Diemen's Land. With regard
to any dispatch from the Governor of that colony as to
whether there was any more room for convicts in that
colony, he begged to state that no such dispatch had
been received on which any interpretation of the kind
could be put.
ARBITRATION CLAUSE IN TREATIES.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from the congrega-
tion of the Unitarian chapel at Tamwo!tht praying for
the insertion of an arbitration clause in international

treaties.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the House at its
rising do adjourn till Monday next.
WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.
Mr. HORSMAN asked the Noble Lord when the
House would adjourn for the Whitsuntide holidays?
Lord J. RUSSELL said on Friday next he would
move that the House at its rising adjourn till the Thurs,
day following.

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et the Ninobtl;eLoarbdseaeteetheerhethade
Noble Lord the Secretary tor Foreign Affairs. That
last named Noble Lord having stated on a pre-
vious occasion that Great Britain did recognise the in-
dependence of the Sicilian Government, independently
vhether Great
of the Tao Sicilies, he now asked r
Bri-
tain still recognised the independence of the Sicilian
Government instead of the Government of the Two
Sieilies?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said his Noble Friend the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs had stated on the occa-
sion to which the Hon. and Learned Member had re-
ferred, if he (Lord John Russell) recollected rightly,
that there was at that time a negotiation going
on with the Government of Sicily. He had only
to say that an independent Government of Sicily no
longer existed.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BANKES would ask the Noble Lord, secondly,
whether he was aware what was the result of the per-
mission given to transport ordnance from her Majesty's
stores for the avowed use of the Sicilian insurgents,
and other encouragement given to those parties who
formed the provisional insurgent Government in Sicily.
A British offier:r, who had formerly held a command in
Sicily when Lord William Bentinek was there, was
afterwards engaged in the British service in the Penin-
sular war ; and understanding that guns had
been thus furnished, and stores from the
ordnance of her Majesty, he accepted a
command under that Sicilian Government. And
be accepted a mission to this country to raise
troops for the use of the Sicillians. Those arms and
troops were, he understood, partly embarked in a
steamer named the Bombay, then lying in the Thames,
and the others in a ship then lying at Liver-
pool. The steamer engaged to leave the
Thames was detained by order of the Cus-
toms. A question rose upon the matter, and the
whole thing was referred to the Treasury. The Board
of Treasury, after deeply considering the subject, and
after much conversation with the Noble Lord, and
most likely with the Minister of the Crown of
the King of the Two Sicilies---he might, how-
ever, be mistaken, but he understood that it was
agreed that the detention of that vessel should be con-
tinued. The Treasury declined to interfere, and the
result was that that vessel left for Palermo. The other
left Liverpool also, and just at the time that the Secre-
tary at War of the Sicilians desired. It sailed first to
Marseilles; when it reached that port, the French
Minister taking a different view of the law with
respect to the detention of ships, did detain and had de-
tained that vessel in the port of Marseilles. He had to
ask if the Noble Lord was aware of these facts, which
he was bound to say he had received from a source
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detailed m b e r
information as if he had been "our own correspondent."
—(Much laughter.) He could not give the Honour-
able and Learned Member the whole details with
respect to what the French Government had done. Ac-
cording to the last accounts from Palermo there wss no
engaged in protecting themselves against the
could state, in reply to the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, that having taken some pains to
discover what had become of the formidable guns
sent to
Syracuse, he had ascertained 1 that they
were now is
the possession of the King of the Two
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Sicilies.—(Lau •
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was sent to this country for the purpose of raising men,
but he had good reason to believe that no men were raised.
With regard to the vessels, it was true that one
steamer did leave Liverpool. With respect to the
itslos loaded
leaving withthis men,
country
Bombay, which lay in the Thames, the facts were
these:—An application was made by the Neapolitan
Minister for the detention of that vessel, as it was
guns,
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the
Foreign Enlistment Act, The question was referred to
the Treasury, the Foreign-office having nothing
to do with the law that prevailed is this
country on the subject. The whole transac-
tion was carried on with the Treasury and the
proper law officers of the Crown, and in consequence of
the legal advice they received, that there was no just
ground for detaining, the vessel, it was released.
Mr. ANSTEY then repeatel his questions as to
whether the Noble (Lord Palmerston) would
have any objection to lay on the table a
dispatch from Lord Heytesbury, the Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, with respect to
a widow who had married the subject of a
foreign country; and also a letter to a Mr. Paget, from
Lord Ponsonby, with respect to the refusal of claims
made by his wife, she being a Hungarian.
Lord PALMEBSTON had no objection to lay the
letters on the table of the House. The subject
had been fully considered and had been brought
before the Consul, and it had been decided teat
there was no right on the part of the British Consul
to take any cognizance of the property of the individual
in the case alluded to. Instructions had been sent to
communicate that fact to the widow, and that
the British Government had no right to in-
terfere in the matter, as her claim must
fall under the cognizance
• cf the courts of the
country cf which her husband was a_native. With re-
gard to the second case, that of Mr. Paget, he would
luck and see if there was any such letter
in his office, and if there was, he should have no objec-
tion to produce it. But that case was very different to
the one previously referred to by the Honourable and
Learned Member. The latter was the case of an Austrian
subject, and the question arose in the Austrian courts.
Mr. ANSTEY wished to know whether the law
officers of the Crown had been advised with on this
subject. _ _

Lord PALMERSTON said that the doctrine in-
volved had been plainly laid down and settled, and it
was therefore unnecessary to consult the law officers
upon it.

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE.
Mr. WYLD wished to ask the, Noble Lord whether
the British Government bad sent any protest against the
occupation of Hungary by the Russian troops?—(Hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON said that her Majesty's Go-
vernment had made no protest on the subject.
WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN.

Lord JOAN RUSSELL having moved that the re-
cord of the judgment of the House of Lords, affirming
the decision of the Court in Ireland itgaino Mr.