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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 16.
Supply—Committee.
Parliamentary Oaths Bill—Second reading.
Apprehension of Deserters (Portugal Bill)—Second
reading.
Administration of Justice (Metropolitan Districts)
Bill—Second reading.
Ways and Means—Committee.
Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland)
Bill—Second reading.
Elections and Polling Places (Ireland) Bill—Second
reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Mr. Scott—Select Committee to inquire into the politi-
cal and financial relations between Great Britain and her
dependencies, with a view to reduce the charge on the
British Treasury, and to enlarge the functions of the
colonial legislatures.—Copies of any correspondence be-
tween the Boards of Admiralty and the Treasury, or
between those Boards and the India and Australian
Mail Steam Packet Company, relative to the conveyance
of her Majesty's mails between England and Alexandria,
and to the establishment of communication by steam
navigation with the Australian colonies.
Mr. Mackinnon—Select Committee for the 11,moval
of Smithfield Market:—Lord Robert Grosvenor, Vis•
count Mahon, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Alderman Copeland,
Mr. Masterman, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Yorke, Mr.
Stafford, Mr. Pugh, Mr. Mackinnon, Sir Edmund
Filmer, Mr. Cornewall Lewis, Sir Charles Douglas, Mr.
Childers, and Mr. Christopher.
Mr. Ward—Navy Estimates (in Committee of Supply).
Sir De Lacy Evans—On the motion for going into
Committee on Army and Navy Estimates, to bring
under the consideration of the House the claims of the
medical officers of the army and navy to military rewards
and distinctions.
Mr. Urquhart—On going in Committee of Supply on
Navy Estimates, to move, that the naval force be em•
ployed only in accordance with the laws of England and
of nations : that officers in command shall only em-
ploy that force on patent instructions from their imme-
diate chiefs, and not presume to negotiate on their own
bottoms with foreign states.
Mr. Anstey—On going into Committee of Supply, to
move for an humble address to her Majesty, on the sub-
ject of certain illegal ordinances or acts of Council for
the taxation of the people of Van Diemen's Land,
the attempts of Lieutenant-Governor Sir William
Denison to intimidate the Judges of the Supreme
Court of that island into declaring such ordinances
or acts to be legal, and the grievances complained
of by the colonists of that island in their
petition presented last year to her Majesty, and printed
by order of this House; and that her Majesty may be
pleased to direct the local autherities in future to respect
the independence of the judicial function of that court,
and also to signify her disallowance of any ordinance or
act subsequently passed by the said Lieutenant-Gover-
nor in Council, for giving to such illegal ordinances or
acts the force of law.
Mr. Fagan—ln Committee of Supply on Navy Esti-
mates, in vote 0. 11, tor " New works, improvements,
and repairs," tb bring under consideration the expendi-
ture for the erection of a steam factory at Haulboline.
Mr. Hume—On the motion for going into Committee of
Suppiy, to move, that the repeated explosions from fire-
damp in coal mines, by which great sacrifice of life from
time to time has t Ikea place, render it the imperative
duty of the Legislature immediately to adopt means
now at command to prevent the occurrence of such
calamaties iu future.—ln Committee on the Navy Esti-
mates, to move to agree with the recommendation of the
Select Committee of the last session on the Navy, Army,
and Ordnance Estimate:;, in that part of their report in
which they state " a certain proportion of the list of
admirals must be composed of officers who have grown
old in the service, who deserve well of their country,
and who are entitled to higher rank and to
higher pay on account of their merits, although
they are no longer able to servo afloat. But when it is
considered that in the last naval war with France, the
greatest on record, not more than thirty-six admirals
were employed at any ono period, and that at the present
moment the services of only fourteen are required, it
would not seem unreasonable that the number of admi-
rals, now fixed, according to the scheme
sanctioned in 1846, at one hundred and fifty,
should be gradually reduced to a number not
exceeding one hundred.•—ln Committee on the Navy Es-
timates, to move to reduce the estimate of the number of
admirals to one hundred, and the number of seaman for
the service of the year to 35,000; and also to reduce the
dockyard battalions.—ln Committee of Supply (Navy Es-
timates), on vote No. 8, for wages to artificers, labourers,
and others employed in her Majesty's dockyards at
home, to move to deduce the establishment of shipwrights
in the dockyards at home to 2,650, and as fixed by the
Admiralty order of the 29th day of June, 1833.—0 n
vote 10, for naval stores, to reduce the amount for stores
in the same proportion as the number of shipwrights.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Sir Henry Willoughby—To ask Mr. Bouverie whe-
ther it is the intention of the Committee on Fees in the
Courts of Equity and Law in England to make any re-
port on that subject.
Mr. Sadleir—To call the attention of the House to
the legal circumstances which unduly impede the sale of
landed property in Ireland, and to those facilities which
may be safely afforded for its free transfer.
Mr. George Thompson—To call attention to the state
of affairs in the Punjaub, with a view to an inquiry into
the justice and policy of the war there waging.
Mr. Urquhart—That, in the opinion of this House,
the recent interference in the affairs of Sicily has been
uncalled for by any interest and unsanctioned by any
obligation of the British Crown.
Mr. Wodehouse—To call the attention of the House
to the consideration of the establishments under the
poor-law, with a vie.v to their being further provided for
by application to the Consolidated Fund.
Mr. nlacgregor—To move, that in consideration of the
parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Ilain-
mersaih, containing a population of about 120,000 in-
habitants, residing on an area not exceeding 8,000 acres,
and comprising also above 18,000 houses, of
the annual rental of lot and upwards; and
further, in consideration that there is no other district
in Great Britain with so great a number of inhabitants
and houses unrepresented directly in this House, it is
expeditnt and just to incorporate, by an Act of Pat lia-
ment, the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and
Hammersmith, into a Parliamentary borough, em-
powered to return two Members to this House, to fill up
the vacancies caused by the disfranchisement of the late
borough of Sudbury.
Mr. Osborne—Select Committee to inquire into the
state of the law as respects the atpointment of receivers
of the Courts of Chancery and Equity Exchequer in
Ireland, and the effect of the present laws and regula-
tions of the said Courts in the management of estates
under their control; and how far the same have con-
duced to the improvement of the said estates and the
condition of the tenantry, or the contrary.
Mr. Anstey—To :move the following resolution :
That this House views with serious concern and disap-
probation the great and growing increase of the consump-
tion of the plant chicory in the adulteration of coffee,
contrary to Act of Parliament ; such increase
having been, in the opinion of the House, chiefly
owing to the orders given by the Administration
to the officers of Excise not to enforce the said
Act. That the direct results of such orders have
been the fraudulent sale of ground chicory, under the
name and at the current prices of ground coffee ; a cor-
responding depreciation of the value and decrease in the
consumption of coffee, although the supplies of colonial
coffee have at the same time averaged 5Q per cent. more
than those of any former year ; increased depression
and
distress in Ceylon and other coffee-growing colonies; a
permanent loss of revenue to the actual amount of some
hundreds of thousands of pounds annually, and which
loss in the last year was augmented by the addition of
upwards of forty thousand udsittenedenfeounds more ; the prejudice
of the fair deales. and disaffection in the
colonies , and the encouragementbof the evil-disposed,
both at home and abroad, to
ettrary pleasure of
appear to them to depend upon the elil)ws, which must
administration for sanction and enforcement.;
Mr. moneys
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Cham-
berlain Divett—Return of
of Lonrdonberlain of the city of London by
nomi-
nated or elected to the office of
Middlesex, with the date, cause, and amount of each
and
payment, and the names and addresses of the respective
payers, from the Ist day of January, 1800, to the _ pro,
sent time, stating also, the amount received in each year,
the sum total, and the purposeS to which the money was
applied by the Corporation of London.
Mr. Urquhart—That the petition from Stafford, re-
lative to the law of nations, and against intervention in
Foreign State.; (presented April 2), be printed with the
votes.
Mr. Hume—To call the attention of the House to the
state of the postal communication from England to India
by Alexandria; and to move for copies or extracts of
any memorials or representations to the Treasury, the
Post-office, Adm iral;y, or Board o t Control, relative to the
discontinuance of the st2ain,p ,stal communication with
India, wh. ► .•, • day of Juue, 1848. used
to depa .-y'< regularly on the 3d
day • eturns of the amount
of t ".• the French Post-
office, immediately previous,
and , •
.1 el; -4:±t .. media t ely subsequent
to the .
Of the steam-packets
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now employed by the Admiralty in maintaining !
the mail communication in the Mediterranean, namely,
between Marseilles and Malta, between Malta and
Alexandria, between Malta and the lonian Islands,
stating the number and names of the packets empwyed,
and how often the packet arriving at Malta from Mar-
seilles has, since the 14th day of June, 1848,
proceeded in continuation to Alexandria : Account
of the net amount of passage money received for
account of the public, for passengers conveyed in
these packets : Estimate of the total charge for these
steam-packets, in the year 1848, distinguishing,
under separate heads, the amount of expense for wear
and tear, for wages and victuals, sea risk, and
other expenses : And abstracts of any pro •
posals made to the Treasury, Admiralty, or
President of the Board of Control, for re-establishing
the steam postal communication of the third day of every
month between Southampton and Alexandria, and for
improving and reducing the general charge of the steam-
packet communication in the Mediterranoan and between
Suez and Bombay, and the answers thereto, or decisions
thereon.

Mr. Ewart—Return respecting proceedings adopted
to promote legal education by the Inns of Court.

ORDER OF THE DAY.

Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill—Second reading.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Public. Roads (No. 2) Bill—Second reading.
Indictable Offinces (Ireland) Bill—As amended, to
be considered.
Summary Convictions (Ireland) Bill)—As amended,
to be considered.
Landlord and Tenant Bill—Committee.
Affirmation Bill—Third reading.
NOTICE OF MOTION.

Mr. Pusey—ln Committee on Landlord and Tenant
Bill, in the first clause, to strike out the words "of
artificial manures, or the purchase of food for cattle or
sheep;" and insert these words, " and use of such de-
scriptions of manure, and of such articles of food for
cattle, sheep, or pigs, as shall be specially mentioned in
the agreement."

THI7RSDAYs'AFIRIL 19.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Navigation Blll—As amended, to be considered.
Poor• laws (Ireland) (Rate in Aid) Bill—Committee.
Poor-laws (Ireland) (Rate in Aid) [Advance of Money]
—Committee thereupon.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

On consideration of Navigation Bill, as amended :
Mr. Gladstone—ln lieu of clause 14, to move the fol-
lowing:—Provided always, and be it enacted, That it
shall be lawful for her Majesty in Council, upon an
address, or joint address, as the case may be, from the
Legislative Council, or Council and Assembly, or proper
legislative authority, of any British possession,praying her
Msjesty to authorise the conveyance of goods and pas-
sengers from one part of such possession to another part
of such possession in other than British ships, to
declare, by Order in Council, that such conveyance
shall be authorised accordingly, in such terms
and under such conditions as to her Majesty
shall seem good. And, be it enacted, that upon a like
address from the proper legislative authority of any two
or more colonies, which her Majesty in Council shall
declare to be neighbouring colonies for the purposes of
this Act, praying her Majesty to place the trade be-
tween such colonies upon the footing of a coasting
trade, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by Order in
Council, to declare that it shall be deemed and taken to
be a coasting trade accordingly, for all intents and pur-
poses; provided always that the privilege conferred by '
this Act upon foreign ships shall not be diminished by
any such Order in Council, unless by regulations which
shall be equally applicable to British ships.
Mr. Anderson—ln clause 1, page 2, line 43, after the
word " deficient," to insert:—" and that any seamen
quitting any vessel whatever in order to enter her Ma-
jesty's naval service, and being received into such ser-
vice, shall be exempt from any penalty or forfeiture to
which they would otherwise be liable as deserters."
Captain liarris—To move the following clause :—And
be it enacted, that the master or owner of every ship
belonging to any subject of her Majesty, and of the
burden of 80 tons and upwards (except pleasure yachts),
shall have on board at the time of her proceeding from any
port of the United Kingdom, and at all times when absent
from the United Kingnom, or navigating the seas,one ap-
prentice or more, in the following proportion to the number
of tons of his ship's admeasurement, according to the cer-
tificate of registry; (that is to say), for every ship of 80
tons and under 300 tons, one apprentice at the least; for
every ship or 300 tons and under 600 tons, two appren-
tices at the least; and for every ship of 600 tons and
upwards, three apprentices at the least; all of whom
at the period of their being bound respec-
tively, shall be subjects of her Majesty, and
above 12 and under 17 years of age, and be duly
bound for the term of four years at least; and if any
such master or owner shall neglect to have on board his
ship the number of apprentices as hereby required, to-
gether with their respective registered indentures, as-
signments, and register tickets, he shall for every such
offence forfeit and pay the sum of 104 in respect of each
apprentice, indenture, assignment, or register ticket so
wanting or deficient.
Sir Henry Winston Barron—lnstruction to the Com-
mittee on Poor-laws (Rate in Aid) Bill, to have all funds
raised by this Bill levied off all property and income in
Ireland not paying to the support of the poor of that
country at present.
In Committee on Poor-laws (Ireland) (Rate in Aid)
Bill :
Mr. Sharman Crawford—To move a clause to consti-
tute a national representative board in Irelankconsisting
of members to be elected under certain arrangements
from the several boards of guardians in Ireland, with
powers to such board to direct the disposal of all moneys
to be levied for the purposes of the national rate in aid.
Mr. Sadieir—To leave out all the words after the word
" Whereas," in order to add the words "on account of
the extreme and unparalleled poverty and distress occa-
sioned in Ireland by the joint effect of the failure of the
potato crop and of the Acts of Parliament repealing
the duties upon the importation of foreign corn and
cattle, it is expedient that some national provision should
be made in aid of certain distressed unions and electoral
divisions in Ireland." To move that the words " limited
time" be struck out, and the words " period of two years"
inserted instead. To insert atter the words " annual
value," in page 2, and 3d line, the words " and provided
that the entire amount of all sums to be raised or levied
under this Act shall not exceed one shilling in the pound
on such annual value." To omit at the end of clause 3,
the words "or of assisting the emigration of such desti-
tute poor persons."
Sir Denham Norreys—To move the following :—To
exempt from payment of the rate all districts which
shall have paid for the maintenance of their poor, during
the year ending the 25th day of March, 1849, 4s. in the
pound of their valuation.—To make the rate in aid a
graduated rate, varying from one penny to one shilling
in the pound, according to the amount of poor-rate paid
by each district during the year ending the 25th day of
March, 1849.—T0 mae so much of the rate advanced
for the relief of any district as shall be equal to the dif-
ference between the rate actually collected, and 7s. in the
pound, a loan to such district.
Mr. Fagan—To move at the end of the first clause,
the following proviso:—Providcd always, that the occu-
pier of all rateable hereditaments in any union who
shall not have any greater estate or interest therein than
a tenancy from ye ir to year, or who shall hold under a
lease or leases terminable on the demise of one life, con-
current with 31 years, or under a lease of years not
exceeding 31 years, or under a lease for one life without
years concurrent therewith, shall be entitled to deduct
from the rent payable by him to his immediate lessor,
the full amount of all rates and arrears of rate paid by
him under and by virtue of this Act. Provided further,
that every person not an occupier as aforesaid, who shall
pay rent in respect of any lands or tenements, shall not
be entitled to deduct from the rent paid by him any
greater sum than a sum bearing such proportion to the
amount of rate deducted from the rent received by him
as the rent paid by him bears to the rent received by
him. _ . .

Lord John Russell—Committee of the whole House,
on relief of distressed unions in Ireland.
Mr. Henry Herbert—Amendment on Poor-laws (Ire-
land) (Rate in Aid) [Advance of Money], to leave out
all the words after the words " distressed unions in
Ireland," in order to aid the words, "and in considera-
tion thereof that an income and property-tax be assessed
on inc,,mes and property in Ireland not liable to income
and property-tax under the Act 11 and 12 Vic., c. 8."

FRIDAY, APRIL 20.

ORDER OF THE DAY.

Lunatic (Scotland) Bill—Second reading.
MONDAY, APRIL 23.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Public Health (Scotland) Bill—Second reading.
Ecclesiastical Commission Bill—Second reading.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24.
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NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Cobden—That an humble Address be presented
to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously
pleased to direct her principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs to enter into communication with fo-
reign powers, inviting them to concur in treaties, binding
the respective parties, in the event of any future misun-
derstanding, which cannot be arranged by amicable ne-
gotiation, to refer the matter in dispute to the decision
of arbitrators.

Mr. Milnes—To move as an amendment to Mr. Cob-
den's motion respecting " arbitration " that it is desirable
that this country should use its influence with Foreign
Governments to prevent war and bloodshed; or, where
this is not practicable, to induce the contending parties
to suspend hostilities, so as to give time for the full
consideration of the evils they are about to suffer and
inflict.
Mr. Milner Gibson—To call the attention of the House
to the state of our relatiohs with the empire of Brazil,
and to submit a motion for the repeal of the Brazilian
Act, 8 and 9 Vic., c. 122.
Mr. Wyld—Bill to explain and amend the law relat-
ingensz o fire
holding of inquests or courts of inquiry in
Mr. Ew
f rae within the United Kingdom.
An
nriet
t—Bill to amend the Act 7 Will. IV. (inti-
tuled
it renders for Marriages" in England), so far as
necessary the giving a notice to the Super-
intendent Registrar, and
the issuing of a certificate by
him.
M r. Scully—To
call the attention of the House to a
Fethard
(presentedithe administration of
Ist of March), praying
petition
from
for inquiry into abuses existing
the fever hospital in that town a
Mr. Reynolds—Tabular returns of the yi u„„,„„;
banks now in existence in the United vilin°
gdom, the
amount o' money to their credit resp.,ctiv..lY (
Ist day of January. 1849,) with the Commissionersapto the
the Reduction of the National Debt. Also, of the grossier
amount of the separate surplus fund to the credit of such
resp-ctive banks with the said Commissioners, up to the
Ist day of January, 1849„and stating in what manner
the said surplus fund is legally disposable.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Attorneys and Solicitors (Ireland) Bill—Second
reading.
Bribery at Elections Bill—Committee.
Bankruptcy (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
County Rates and Expenditure Bill—Second reading.
Sunday travelling on Railways Bill—Second reading.
Attachments, Courts of Record (Ireland) Bill—Com-
mittee.

Passengers Bill—Committee.
Tenants at Rack Rent Relief Bill—As amended, to be
considered.

Sequestrators Remedies Bill—As amended, to be con-
sidered.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Reynolds—To nominate the Select Committee
on Savings Banks:—Mr. Reynolds, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Henry Herbert, Mr. Goulburn, Mr.
Napier, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Gibson
Craig, Mr. George Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Spooner,
Mr. Forbes, Mr. Henley, Sir Henry Willoughby, Mr.
Richard Fox, and Mr. Bourke.
Mr. Henry Herbert—On nomination of Committee
on Savings Banks (Ireland), to leave out the name of
Mr. Richard Fox, and insert Mr. Keogh instead.
Mr. Cowan—On the Second Reading of the Sunday
Travelling on Railways Bill, to move, as an amendment,
that the said Bill be read a second time that day six
months.

Mr. Slaney—To move for the appointment of a stand-
ing committee, or unpaid commission, to consider and re-
port from time to time on practical measures (uncon-
nected with political changes), likely to improve the
condition of the working classes, to encourage their in-
dustry, and increase their contentment.
Mr. Macgregor—To move the following resolutions:-
1. That considering the magnitude of the maritime com-
merce of the British empire, and that no vessel or ship, with
a cargo, in ballast, or with passengers, can, when engaged
either in the coasting, colonial, or foreign trade, arrive at,
discharge, or take he a lading, or passengers, or depart from
any port in the United Kingdom, without the interference of
the officers and submitting to the regulations and laws of
the Customs, it has become necessary for Parliament to take
into consideration the whole subject of the administration,
organization, management, and regulations of that depart-
ment :

2. That the friendly and peaceable relations, and reciprocal
social benefits, and commercial advantages between the
United Kingdom and all foreign countries, can be most
harmoniously and durably maintained by the maritime and
trading intercourse being rendered as free as the security of
the revenue may allow from all vexatious, ignorant, and
useless restrictions, delays, and expenses :
3. That with a view to facilitate maritime intercourse be
tween British and all foreign ports, and to effect a direct re-
sponsibility of duties and efficiency of services in regard to
the security of the revenue, and the quick dispatch of the
commercial and shipping business of the United Kingdom, it
appears the following changes are absolutely necessary :
First. A complete reform of the system of regulations,
orders, and management of the Customs.
Second. An abolition of the present administrative
organization of appointments, and especially that of
the Board of Commissioners.
Third. That for the purposes of responsibility of duties,
the security of the revenue, and the quick and
efficient dispatch of ships and their cargoes, an efficient
re-arrangement of the personal organization of the
Customs' department appears necessary.
4. That considering the effect which the commerce and
the financial legislation of the United Kingdom have, at all
times, upon the employment of the people, the prosperity of
the empire, and the public revenue and credit, it appears
necessary to inquire into the progress of the trade and navi-
gation between the United Kingdom and foreign countries,
and also between the United Kingdom and the British pos-
sessions abroad, including India, from the sth day of January,
1827, to the sth day of January, 1849.
bir John Yarde Buller—Select Committee to inquire
into and report upon the petition of Arthur Howe Holds-
worth, Esq., which was presented upon the 28th day of
March last, relating to his invention for cooling the
engine-rooms of steam-vessels.
- Mr. Hume—To move the following resolutions:-
1. That, as the prices of corn food and articles of gene-
ral consumption are as low now as in the year 1797, it
is the opinion of this House, with the view of lessening
the expenditure of the country, and of affording relief
from taxation, that in all appointments to office after
this date, at home and abroad, the salaries should be
fixed, as far as possible, and without detriment to the
public service, according to the scale of salaries in the
year 1797. 2. That it is the opinion of this House that
a careful and searching inquiry should be forthwith
made, whether the number of persons now employed in
the several departments of the state, at home and abroad,
may not be reduced, without detriment to the public
service.

MONDAY, APRIL 30.

ORDER OF THE DAY.

Charitable Trusts Bill—Second reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Ewart—Bill to repeal the punishment of death.
Mr. Hame—Bill to amend the national representation,
by extending the elective franchise, so as to include all
householders, by enacting that votes shall be taken by
ballot, that the duration of Parliaments shall not exceed
three years, and that the apportionment of representa-
tives be rendered more equal to the population.
Mr. Keogh—To call the attention of the House to the
general management of Crown prosecutions in Ireland
at assizes and sessions, and to the expenditure incurred
in those prosecutions.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
Cattle and Sheep (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
Clergy Relief Bill—Committee.
Bankrupt and Insolvent Members Bill Second
reading.

Chattels Partition and Sale Bill—Second reading.
-THURSDAY, MAY 3.
ORDER OF THE DAY.

Marriages Bill—Second reading.
NOTICE OF MOTION.

Mr. Goulburn, on second reading of the Marriages
Bill, to more that it be read a second time upon this day
six months.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Employment of Labour (Ireland)Bill— Second reading.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Police of Towns (Scotland) Bill—Second reading.

NOTICES OF MOTION AFTER THE RECESS,
FOR WHICH NO PARTICULAR DAY HAS
BEEN FIXED.
Mr. Raphael—To repsal the legacy duties on charit-
able bequests, not to private individuals, but to public
holies.
ViscountofMaelßgiulnl dfofithioe mimopvreo(vwemithentaofvitehwe tpoartohcehiai
in-
troduction
school establishment of Scotland) that this House will
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, upon
the law and practice of Scotland, by which parochial
schoolmasters are required to sign the confession of faith,
and the formula of the Established Church.
Mr. Lawless—Bill for the repeal of the 10th clause
(commonly called the quarter-acre clause) of an Act of the
10th and 11th years of her present Majesty, for the relief
of the destitute poor in Ireland.
Mr. Curteis—That the excise duty on hops is local,
partial, and oppressive in its operation, entailing periodi-
cal distress, and not unfrequently ruin upon the grower;
that it greatly limits the means of employing labour,
thereby promoting pauperism, with its attendant evils;
that it forms but a precarious source of revenue to the
Exchequer, and that such duty ought to be forthwith
repealed.
E Lrl Grosvenor—Select Committee to inquire into the
Navigable Rivers and Tidal Harbours of England and
Wales, and to report their opinion thereupon to the
House.
Mr. Monsell—To call the attention of the House to
the question of emigration in its relation to the interests
of Ireland.
Mr. John O'Connell—As an amendment to the motion
of Mr. Monsel on emigration, to move that the dispro-
portion between capital and labour, which is at the root
of the evils in ireland, can be effectually remedied only
by such measures as shall, in the first place, check the
money drains from that country; and, secondly, give
security to the tenant in the profits of his industry and
outlay upon the land.
Sir John Tyrell—To move for a proclamation in the
hands of Head Constable J. Thompson, and filed in the
police-office in the town of Kenmare (it is a counter pro-
clamation to that of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland), by order of the council of the Irish Confe •
deration, dated May 3, 1848, and signed W. Smith
O'Brien, chairman. The police reports severally within
the last three years, with reference to altar denuncia-
tions in Kenmare; the police reports of the March 18,
1848, April 17, 1848, April 24, 1848, and May 19, 1848.
And, copies of any correspondence with the Government
in Ireland, respecting such altar denunciations, from the
district of Kenmare.
Mr. John O'Connell—Return of the number of sum-
monses issued during the last seven years :at Templenoe
or Cloverfield Petty Sessions, in the county of Kerry,
stating the matter in which each was issued, sad at
whose suit: copies of the correspondence relative to the
breaking up of the police-station at Cosa Castle: and of
the correspondence relative to the informations sworn by
the sailors of Lord Rodney's yacht, with a statement of
the reasons why these informations, sworn on the 25th
day of July, 1848, were not returned to the Crown-office
until the 30th day of January, 1849.
Lord Nugent—Committee to consider the question of
charging the maintenance of the destitute poor on the
general revenue of the country.
Mr. Reynolds—Select Committee to inquire and re-
port upon the state of the paper manufacture of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the effects resulting from the
state of the laws relating to the manufacture and traffic
of that article in its various branches.
Mr. Milnes—To call the attention of the House to
the treatment of juvenile criminals, and the circumstances
connected with juvenile crime in this country.
Mr. John O'Connell—Committee to inquire into the
fiscal relations between Great Britain and Ireland.
Mr. Headlam—Bill to render lawful the formation of
incorporated joint stock banks, based upon the principle
of a limited liability of the shareholders.
Sir De Lacy Evans—Bill for providing that the pay-
ment of direct taxes to the state, or for the maintenance
of the poor, shall be a qualification for voting at elec-
tions of Members of Parliament.
Major Blackall—That the peculiar circumstances of
Ireland, consequent upon four successive years of dis-
tress, require the immediate adoption of such measures
as may assist and encourage the individual exertion of
the owners and occupiers of Irish property, and promote
industry, by giving remunerative employment; and that
all grants or loans of money to particular districts should
hr applied, as far as possible, to such purposes as may
conduce to the eventual improvements of those districts,
and enable them to support themselves from their ordi-
nary resources.
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