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London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

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(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OP LORDS.

The House met to-day shortly after Twelve o'clock,
the Earl of SHAFTESBURY in the Chair.

SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed :
Workhouse Loans (Ireland).
Slave Trade Persian Gulf.
Boroughs Relief.

COMMITTEES.
The following Bills went through Committee:—
Turnpike Act Continuance.
Stamp, &c., Allowances.
Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention.
General Board of Health.
Metropolitan Sewers.
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation).
Treasury Instruments.
Customs.
Defects in Leases Suspension.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
Municipal Corporations (Ireland).
Pilotage.
New Forest and Waltham Forest.
Collection of Rates (Dublin).
Royal Pavilion (Brighton).
Chapels of Ease (Ireland).
New Zealand Land Conveyances.
Poor-law Union Charges Act Amendment.
COMMONS' AMEN DM.ENTS.
The Commons' amendments to the following Bills
Were considered and agreed to:—
Inclosure Act (Extension of Powers).
Drainage of Lands.
Cruelty to Animals.
Admiralty Jurisdiction in the Colonies.
BANKRUPTCY.

Lord BROUGHAM gave notice of his intention,
early in the next session, to introduce a Bill to further
amend the law of bankruptcy.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.
Earl POWIS moved the third reading of the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
and Carlisle Railway Lease and Amalgamation Bill, and
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, and Mary-
port and Carlisle Railway Lease and Amalgamation
Bill.

Lord MONTEAGLE moved the insertion of a clause
extending the period of auditing the accounts for five
years. _

Lord REDESDALE opposed the insertion of the
clause.

Lord CAMOYS objected to the clause.
Earl GREY supported the clause.
Lord COLCHESTER supported the clause.
Atter a short discussion, the clause was withdrawn,
and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from Van
Diemen's Land, complaining of its being made a penal
colony.
Earl GREY said that most of the grievances of which
the petitioners complained had been redressed.
ROYAL ASSENT.
_

Shortly after two o'clock the Earl of Shaftesbury,
the Earl of Minto, and Lord Campbell took their seats
below the Throne, robed as Lord Commissioners, and
gave the Royal Assent to the following sixty-five public
and private Bills:
Consolidated Fund.
General Quarter Sessions Courts Procedure.
Turnpike Trusts Union.
Mutiny and Desertion (India).
Attorney and Solicitors (Ireland).
Sites for Schools.
Administration of Justice (Vancouver's Island).
Turnpike Roads (Ireland).
Sewers Acts Amendment.
Pupils Protection (Scotland).
Militia Ballot Suspension.
Commons Inclosare (No. 2).
Highway Rates.
Excise Benevolent Fund Society.
Newgate Gaol (Dublin).
Lunatic Asylums (Ireland).
House of Lords' Costs Taxation.
Marriages in Foreign Countries Facilitating.
County Rates, &c.
Poor Relief Cities and Boroughs.
Stock in Trade.
Advance of Money, Athlone to Galway Railway.
Relief of Distress (Ireland—No. 2).
Inland Posts (Colonies).
Land Improvement (Ireland).
Labouring Poor Act Amendment (Ireland).
Sequestration Remedies.
Indictable Offences (Ireland).
Summary Convictions (Ireland).
Ineurnbered Estates (Ireland).
House of Commons Offices.
Regimental Benefit Societies.
Militia Pay.
Protection of Women.
Trustees Relief.
Enlistment (Artillery and Ordnance).
Rock Life Assurance Company.
Sheffield and Tinsley-road (Extension of the Tinsley
and Doncaster Turnpike Road to Sheffield).
Taff Vale Railway (Extension in Merthyr Tydvil).
Lancashire and
tenirVionnd of ell
Time,
Blackwell Railway Amendment and Ex-
Time
eston and C°l4
Western RailwayPrergulang Yorkshire, and London and North-
pan s(transfer of interest in the
Wyre Rail Ya
Harbour, and Dock, and
the managementyo'f the undertaking).
Irish South-Eastern Railway, Amendment of Acts.
Caledonian Railway (Purchase on Lease of Wiehaw
and Coltness Railway).
East Lancashire Railway Act Amendment and Devia-
tion.
Transfer of Sheffield Canal to the River Dun Naviga-
tion Company.
Ilemevell Vent to Hastings Turnpike Road.
....anarkshire (East and West Line), and Glasgow and
Sholts Turnpike Roads, Amendment of Acts.
Dublin, Ashbourne, Slane, and Drogheda Road Act
continuation and Amendment.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (Wilsontown, Morn-
ingside, arid Coltness Railway Transfer).
New North Road (Continuation Act).
Kingston. upon- Hull Dock Company.
Borough of Louth, and Free Grammar School of
Louth.
The Aberdeen Destitute Female Orphan Asylum
(Davidson's Estate).
Duke of Norfolk (Duke of Sutherland's Estate).
Canning's Estate.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Two o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Airdrie Police and Municipal Bill.
Binbrooke St. Gabriel and Binbrooke St. Mary In-
closure (Amendment and Extension of Acts, Alteration
of Awards, settling Titles to Lands, &c., and defining
Parish Boundaries).
Caledonian Railway (Lease or Purchase of the Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway).
East Indian Railway Company (for making and main-
taining one or more Railways in the East Indies) In-
corporation. _

Eastern Union and Eastern Counties Railway Com-
panies (Amendment of Acts, and Power to lease, sell, or
amalgamate to or with the Eastern Counties Railway
Company).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Formation of Slip
Quay and other works at Granton, Extension of Station
at Edinburgh, Regulation of Perth Stations, and Amend-
ment of Acts).
General Land Drainage and Improvement Company
(Incorporation and conferring of Powers).
Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
Great Northern Railway (Amendment of Acts, Devi-
ations and Enlargements at and near Boston, Bentley,
Lincoln, and King's Cross).
Hospital for Consumption.
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
(C", solidation' and Amendment of Acts).
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Acts Amend-
ment (Branches and Deviations).
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (Deviation of Branch
to Alloa Harbour; Diversion of certain Works; Exten-
sion of Time for completing Line and taking Land; and
Amendment of Acts).

THIRD READING.
Hudson's Divorce Bill was read a third time and
passed.

The Usher of theROYAL Black RodASSENT appeared at the table,
and summoned the House to attend at the bar of the
Rouse of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by
Commission to several public and private Bills (for which
see Lords' report).
The SPEAKER, on his return, enumerated the Bills
Which had been assented to.