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now employed by the Admiralty in maintaining
the mail v, mmanicatinn in the M:dt-err-rce-n, r.rnely,
hetw,,,n Man.-111,s aid \,12,1ta, b-t..e,,n Malta and
Al xan.iria, between Malta and th
stating the number and Eiame, the p,eke.s etnp.oy, d,
and how often the packet arriving at Malta from Mar-
seilles has, since the 14th day of June, 1348,
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 TEE DAY.
Public Roads (No. 2) Bill —Second reading.
Indictable Offences (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."

THURSDAY, APRIL 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
Majesty 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 otherwi,e be liable as deserters."

Captain Items—To move the following clause : —And
13-) 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),
hall 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 of 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 101. 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 incom6 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 Ireland, consisting
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. Sadleir—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 o.:nham Norreys—To move the followings—To
exempt from payment of the rate all districts which
shall have paid for the maintenance of their poor, during
the year ending the 25 h 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
i❑ the pound, according to the amount of poor-rate paid
by each district during the year ending the 25th day of
March, 1849. —To make 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 year 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 concu-rent 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
bs 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 Russzll—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
alt 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 incomes and property in Ireland not to income
and property-tax under the Act 11 and 12 Vie., 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.
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-
der.tanding, which cannot be arranged by amicable ne-
gotiation, to refer the matter in dispute to the decision
o: arbitrators. _ _ _

Mr. Mclnes—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

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2f.or the repeal of the Brazilian Mr. Wyld—Bill to explain and amend the law relat-
ingof in_quests or courts of inquiry in
cas_ri_s of fire within the U
Mnitd ngom•
. to amend theKi Actd 7 Will. IV. (inti-
tuled " An Act for Marriages" in England), so far as
it renders neces,iary the giving v.n a. notice
Super-
intendent li,gistrar, and the issuing- Of atcoetbtie ficateb
him.

Mr. Scully—To _call the.attention of the House to a
petition from Fethard (presented Ist of March). praying
for inquiry into abuses existing in the administration of
the fever hospital in that town.
Mr. Reynolds—Tabular returns of the various savings
banks now in existence in the United Kingdom, the
amount of money to their credit respectively (up to the
Ist day of January, 1849,) with the Commissioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt. Also, of the gross
amount of the separate surplus fund to tho credit of such
respective 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.