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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 7.
BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL.

In answer to a question from Sir G. CLERK,

The LORD ADVOCATE said it was not. his intention
to proceed with the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill. That Bill
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
Mr. M. PHILIPS brought up the Report of the Com-
mittees on three Naturalization Bills.

Mr. MORRISON presented a petition from Studeley
and another place, praying for the abolition of the Church
Rates.

Mr. WILKS presented a petition from the Governor
of Tottenham Workhouse, a most respectable man, in which
he stated that he was fur many years the renter of the
suttling houses at the Horse-Guards and Tilbury Fort, for
which he paid a rent of 300/., which went to the general
funds of the Government. He understood that in all other
places the Commanding Officers were the renters of the
suttling houses ; and he prayed that all funds arising from
such a source should be paid into the general funds of the
country. _ _ _

Mr. R. SMITH presented petitions from parishes in
Buckinghamshire, praying for the abolition of capital pu-
nishment.

Mr. EWART presented a petition from Stockport,
praying for a removal of the restrictions affecting the beer
trade.

Lord HENIKER presented a petition from a place in
Suffolk, praying for a revision of the Poor -Laws Amend-
ment. Act.

SCOTCH CORPORATIONS

Captain GORDON presented a petition from Peter-
head against the Bill for the regulation of Municipal Cor-
porations in Scotland.

RAIL ROADS.

Mr. BAINES wished to know whether it was the in-
tention of the Hon. Member for Ipswich (Mr. Morrison)
to proceed this Session with his Bill for the periodical revi-
sion of the tolls upon railways. There was a strong im-
pression out of the House that this was a very ex-
traordinary interference with property, and he therefore
wished to know whether it was the intention of the Hon.
Metither to proceed with his Bill, feeling as he must feel,
that the Bill was not approved of either in the House or
out of the House.

Mr. MORRISON had no hesitation in saying that
it was his present intention to proceed with his
Bill to the second reading. He would, however,
move that the second reading be pOstponed till
Monday, in order to give Hon. Members, whose constitu-
ents felt an anxiety on the subject, an opportunity of con-
sulting them. If he thought that his Bill could not be
passed this Session, he would withdraw it—(Cries of " No,
no,")—but he knew that it was the wish of a great number
or persons in the House, and out of it, that this Bill
should pass. One part of this Bill was much misunder-
stood, and he had been asked by some friends whether it
was his intention to introduce a Bill to the effect, that tolls
on rail-roads should hereafter be altogether abolished.
Now, the word " Abolition" occurred in the Bill,
but it was by no means necessary, and he had not
the slightest objection to strike out the word. It was cer-
tainly not his intention that persons who engaged in great
public undertakings should not be remunerated—it wag, in
his opinion, the duty of the House to encourage persons who
engaged in works of this kind, and his Bill would not have the
effect of discouraging—if it had, he would be very reluctant to
proceed with it ; but he was very sure it would have a con-
trary effect, and he was equally sure that no persons ought
to feel more interested in the Bill than the proprietors of
railroads themselves. The Hon. Member concluded by
moving that the Bill be postponed till Monday.—Agreed to.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL believed the Hon. Gentle-
tleman who had charge of the Poole Corporation Bill
was anxious to bring it on to-night, and as far as he was
concerned he did not object to the Hon. Gentleman bring-
ing it on after 5 o'clock.
Sir G. CLERK believed there were no less than six Bills
before the House most material to the people of Scotland.
He had waited patiently during the whole of the session
for some opportunity of discussing those Bills. The first
of them was of very great importance, relating to the com-
merce of Scotland, namely, the Bankruptcy Estates (Scot-
land) Bill, which had been brought in by the Lord
Advocate on the 25th of February, and from that day to
this there had not been an opportunity afforded of discussing
a single provision of the Bill.
The dropped orders were then read through, for the pur-
pose of being discharged.

WRITS OF REBELLION.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN complained that a person named
Conway, who had been taken up on a writ of, rebellion for
non-payment of tithes, and confined in Limerick gaol for a
month, had been compelled to break stones, and bad been
treated as a felon. He had been subsequently sent
up to Dublin, and the Barons of the Exchequer
decided that he had, been illegally confined.—(Hear.)
Conway had not been in possession of the farm for the pre-
vious two year:, and there was a dispute about the amount
of tithes due. Under all these circumstances, he begged
to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland whether
under existing laws tithe defaulters, who were always sim-
ply considered debtors, were to be treated as felons and
criminals ; and if not, whether any investigation into the
matter had been directed by the Government ?
Lord MORPETH was understood to say that he had
received no official information upon the matter.