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 ohj'ct of the Bill.
Mr. AGLIONBY stated that the New Zealand Com-
pany 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. The grant from the
Crown having, however, at length been obtained, it was
desirable to make the necessary conveyances; but the
expense of doing so in this country would be so great,
besid. s 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 former rights over the
land granted 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 coa-
sts yance B.

kr. 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 precedent of the North
Canada Act had been observed in this case.
Mr. HAY'IER said the exemption clause had been
considered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he
thought it just and fair that the same advantage should
he extended to New Zealand as had been granted to
Canada.
Mr. GOULBURN did not admit that the existence of
a bad precedent was any reason for continuing it.
Mr. HAYTER did not urge the case as a matter of
precedent. The same reason that existed in the case of
Canada operated in the case of New Zealand.
Mr. GLADSTONE suggeited that the second reading
of the Bill should be postponed till Monday. It was a
question affecting titles to land, and ought, therefore, to
be considered by the legal Members of the House.
After a short c,‘nversation, in which Mr Mangles, Mr.
Goulburn, Sir J. Graham, and Mr. Roundel]. Palmer
took part,
Mr. AGLION BY consented 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 RAigious
Congretvions (Scotland) Bill, were respectively read a
third time and passed.

The second reading of the Audit of Railway Accounts
Bill was postponed till Monday.
Mr. GLADSTONE expressed a hope that a Bill in-
volving such unprecedented provisions as this did would
not be proceeded with at this late period of the session.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that if the Bill contained
unprecedented provisions, railway affairs were of an un-
precedented description, and required a stringent
remedy.—(Hear, h.•ar.)
Mr. MANGLES expressed his surprise at the Right
lion. Gentleman applying the argumentum ad invidiam
in such a manner.
Mr. W. FATTEN believed that there would be a good
deal of discussion upon the Bill in Committee, and hoped
an early day would be named for that purpose before
Hun. Members left town.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. F. MAULE obtained leave to bring in a Bill
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.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
The Queen and Princovalked this morning in Os-
borne-park.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Seymour,
Equerry in Waiting, crossed to. Gosport in the Fairy
royal yacht, and proceeded to 'Winchester to see the
cathedral and college at that city.
The Countess of Desart has relieved Lady Mount Edg-
cumbe as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes-
terday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the H,re litary Grand Duchess of
bh eklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Lady Augusta Ca-
dogan and Mr. Edmond Mild.may, honoured the Duchess
Dowager of Bedford with their company yeserday
morning, at the public breakfast given by her Grace, :t
her residence on Catnpden Hill.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday, at Cambridge House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, honoured Mrs. Wyndham with
their company on Wednesday evening, at her residence
in Grosvenor-place.
Mr. Joseph N. B. Kerr, from( Nova Scotia, had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-
office. Mr. Hincks had also an interview with the Noble
Earl yesterday.
Mr. Child had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview v rith the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his c ifficial residence, in Down-
ing-street.

PLEASURE BOATS ON TH CANALS.—The adap-
tatiln last summer of one )ir two of the barges for
Pleasure boats to take part ies for excursions on the
Paddington (Grind Junctio a) Canal was found to
be so palatable to the larger body of the respect
able working classes who patronized the specula-
tion, that this summer the slumber of such pleasure
boats has been increased, an .ti, aided by the material
advantage of genial weather, the canal, which was for-
merly—before the great lines ,of railway monopolised s'
large a portion of the ireern Al traffic of the kindgom
the great source of intercom nhunication and the means
all weed for the transmissio a of goods and merchan-
dise from one part of the country to another,
has become quite a pleasures ;Dream, and the scene which
Western Railway, be ;he arrival and departure of
presents itself at Paddington , near the terminus of the
Great ,
parties on these pleasuretrips 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- de, •Or; ted are not unsuitable
vehicles for the enjoyment oafrl ;e Parties, which include
hosts of respectable women ansil children, who, with their
provisions and o.:,her adjuncts,, avail themelves of this
novel means of making water. ,excursious several mile::
from the metropolis.