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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 13.
Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock.
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented 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.
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 Allowances.
Assaults (Ireland).
Silver Coinage.
Sheriff of Westmoreland.
York and North Midland Railway (Deviations, &e.).
Black Sluice Drainage Act Amendment (Amendment
of Acts, Extension of Time for Completion of
Works, Power to levy and raise further Rates and
Moneys, to Alter existing Rates and Tolls, and for
other Purposes).
York, Newcastle, and-Berwick Railway (Barmoor and
Alleniotith New Branches).
Charrx*7r.Crees -Bridge. Amendment of Acts (Power to
altete*Ahthorised Approaches, &c.)
East Anglian-Railway and Ely and.sHuntingdon Rail-
way (Extension of Time).
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (Alterations of and'
Branch from Alston Branch).
Truro Turnpike Itoad, Penryn and Redruth Turnpike
Road (Consolidation of Trusts, Alterations of Tolls,
Formation of New Roads).
Renfrewshire Justices of the Peace Courts.
Surrey and Sussex Roads (Amendment of Act and Al-
teration of Tolls).
Congleton Inclosure Act Amendment. -
Great Yarmouth Haven Bridge and Navigation Int-
provemen`.
Wes head's Patent (for Improvements in Manufacturing
Fur into Fabrics).
East Lothian Central 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, Agreement for Joint Station at Shrews-
bury, Power to Subscribe tuwards the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway).
Torquay Market.
Wisbech, Chatteris, Tid- gote, and Devenham• bridge
Turnpike.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Extension of Ash-
ton. elranch and Clifford Branch); and
The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury's (Walworth)
Estate Bill.
The Commissioners were the Earl of Shaftesbury,
the Earl of Minto, and Lord CampbelL
PROTECTION 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-
gnus 'to those of the Masters of Chancery in England.
It 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 awn read a second time.
MARRIAGES AND REGISTRATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILLS.
The Earl of ABERDEEN rose to address a few
words to their Lordships in consfquence of certain pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons, from which he
learned that her Majesty's Government had abandoned
these tyre, Bills. As ho hail taken a decided part in
opposing one of those Bills, and had entered a protest on
their journals against its pasting, 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 arising 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 England 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 nd one else would undertake the responsibility of in-
troducing such a measure, he would in the course of
next session lay upon the table a Bill to remedy the
great evil so long and so justly complained of.
Lord BROUGHAM agreed with his Noble Friend,
that it would not be difficult to find a party more compe-
tent than he was to deal with such a measure—(A
laugh)—and further added, that he would willingly sup,
port his Noble Friend in bringing in such a Bill. The
Bill which he had introduced in 1845, though highly
approved of in that House, bad not passed into law;
and he again promised to give Lord Aberdeen his best
support if he would re-introduce it. If his Noble and
Learned Friend opposite (Lord Campbell) did not re-
new the Bill which had been so unfortunately thrown
out in another place, he would again bring in his Bill,
in order to give Parliament an opportunity of doing its
duty by the Scotch law of marriage.
Lord CAMPBELL deplored the loss of the two Bills
in question. They had twice ' passed through that
House, once this year and once last. They passed with
one exception unanimously. Elsewhere a different fate
bad befallen them. He hoped that those Bills would
prosper better under the auspices of his Noble and
Learned Friend. He had done his best to benefit his
native country. He should now wash his hands of these
Bills entirely, and have nothing more to do with them.
Lord BROUGHAM hoped that, when the prrefer
vidum ingenium Scotorum had sobered down a little, his
Noble and Learned Friend would change his determi-
nation, and would not follow his (Lord Brougham's)
example by transferring these Bills to some one else.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said, the Noble and
Learned Lords had condoled with each other 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 Scotland was universally
against it.—(Hear, hear.) Out of the 33 or 34 Mem-
bers for Scotland, even the friends of the Government,
almost to a man, had voted against it; they were, there-
fore, compelled to withdraw it.
The Earl of MINTO 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 feeliag against a bill than existed in
Scotland against this. He would ask his Noble Friend
(the Earl of Minto) whether he was not aware that reli-
gious denominations of every description 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
effect a complete reform in the Scotch law of marriage.
THE LATE INTERVENTION IN THE ROMAN
STATES.
Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table his resolutions
respecting the late intervention in the Roman states, and
said he shout I 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 of
taking the discussion on the principle of this Bill, on
the motion for the second reading, or reserving it until
their Lordships were moved to consider the Bill in
Committee, Lord Monteagle objecting to the latter
coarse,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from the Corporation of Cork, praying that the amended
poor -law might not recognise any alteration of the pro-
portion of poor-rate payable between landlord and tenant,
and then proceeded to move the second reading of the
Bill for amending the Act for the more effectual relief of
the poor in Ireland. In doing so he succinctly stated
the principal provisions of the measure. The measure
was introduced 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 for the alleviation of that distress,
and to meet the circumstances in which that country
was placed, which would not be open to much discussion
, and difference of opinion. It was with a full ap-
preciation of all the difficulties and emergencies
of the case, however, that the Government had
. introduced the present measure. They were fully
aware of the difference of opinion any measure, having
for its object the alleviation of the distress in Ireland,
would give rise to. In laying before their Lordships a
general summary of the provisions of the measure, he
should, in the first place, advert to the two first clauses,
which he conceived were the most likely to elicit dis-
cussion. These clauses related to a maximum rate of
51.-in the pound, beyond which the people of Ireland
could not be subjected to be taxed for the relief of the
poor;ene Provison which, he conceived, would have a very
beneficial tendency. The idea of the imposition of a
rate to which, from the circumstances which had arisen,
and which might again rise, there appeared to be no
end, had had a mostinjuriousmeditated effect on those who pos.
sessed property, or who. the possession of pro-
perty in Ireland. Thein general opinion that by such
a system a burden
and,
on property to
which there might be no termination, therefore, it
was conceived that the establishmntnof
rate would be the most effectual means o;%remedyingmaximum
the evil. It was accordingly proposed that ss. tlie
pound on each electoral division should ft
maximum, while provision was made in the the
clause, that when the ss. rate in electoral divisci,
failed in providing for the poor, a union rate of rill
. shillings in the pound could be levied. In ordinarywo
cages, however, such would not be required. No one
. could be 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 such a rate
- ae having been exacted and collected, it would place Ireland
12 /-:tv n,a far better position than what it had hitherto been.
cse 6. It *llll/6 Rolsolation to think that they were doing that
. - latch eotlldllnot fail to limit the distress which might4
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