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IlkiPaIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
, The SPEASER the Chair shortly after Twelve
eicek.

The f THIRD READINGS.
ollowing Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Commercial-real (comprising the Cannon-street-roads,
the Commercial-road, the Horseferry Branch of Road,
the East India Dock-road, and the Barkilig-road).
Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company.
Mr. MASTERMAN presented a petition from the
Master bakers of the city of London, against the Sale of
Bread Bill.
Mr. HENLEY presented a petition from Oxford,
Praying for an alteration of the Beer Act.
SUPPLY.
!Mr. BERNAL brought up the report on the Com-
mittee of Supply, which was agreed to.
ESTATES LEASING (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the que,tion that this Bill be read a third time.
Mr. REYNOLDS again expressed his regret that the
Government had not deemed it necessary to assimilate
the mui i.ipal privileges of I'eland to those of England.
p e gave notice that early next session he would move
or leave to introduce a Bill on the subject.
Mr. SADLEIR wished to know whether it was the
inten.ion of Government to introduce a Bill next session
to extend municipal privi eges in Ireland.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the matter was under
consideration, but he could not pledge the Government
to introduce a Bill on the subject.
After a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. W.
ZATTEN,
Mr. J. O'CONNELL also expressed a desire that the
Municipal privileges of Ireland should be placed on the
same footing as those of England.
Mr. HAMILTON hoped the passing of the Bill would
prove satisfactery to the parties who had so long been
agitating the-question of municipal reform in Ireland.
The Rill was read a third time and passed.
SMALL DEBTS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
This that it dill was read a third time. On the question
Mr. 0 pass,
-1-11ORNELY asked if the power of granting coin-
pebeation tinder this Bill rested with the Treasury, that
be
Was,
ihad the Treasury the power of fixing the sum to
In the affirmative.
The Bill was then passed.
STOCK-IN-TRADE BILL.
On the motion that this Bill be read a third time.
Sir H. W. BARRON said it was unjust to make one
single species of property support all local taxation, and
therefore thought it his duty to enter his protest against it.
As, however, at that late period of the session, every one was
desirous that no division should take place unless it was
likely to be profitable and useful,
.he would not divide
the House upon the Bill.

After a short discussion, with reference to such a
privilege being extended to Ireland, in which Mr. Law,
Mr. F. French, Col. Dunne, and Mr. Anstey took part
the motion was agreed to, and the Bill was read a third
time.

REGIMENTAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES BILL.
Oa the motion that this Bill be read a third time,
Mr. HENLEY said the Bill had passed through its
various stages with great rapidity without one word
of
explanation being given with respect to the object which
it was contemplated to effect. He was desirous, there-
fore, that the Government should postpone it for a day
or two, in order that Members might make some
inquiry with respect to it; otherwise, he should consider
it his duty to take the sense of the House upon it, be-
cause it proposed to deal with private property in a way
'which was entirely unusual.
late Mr. F. MAULE said, he could hardly consent, at this
period ot t session, to postpone the measure. I had received thehe entire approval of the Commander-int
Net, and it was considered necessary on three grounds;
first, because these regimental benefit societies were
thought, to a certain extent, subversive of military dis-
cto ip
a line in
ertaitnhe army; secondly, because they interfered
banks; extent with the establishment of savings'
them were d .irda extant with
all parties connected with
such . . estrous that they should be brought under
those which were contained in this
Bill,bee
HENLEY said that this Bill would be an invasion
rights the sort of persons interested in other
societies of the sort already established. It was not the
,Ftl!toni of that House to deal with the property of private
Individuals without their previous consent.
.Mr. FOX MAIJLE explained that the Bill only dealt
With. benefit societies, and not with charitable societies.
plea DE LACY EVANS said that he was much
ppneetinsteiedrhwenit,h the attention paid to this Bill by the Hon.
but he thought it better to leave the matter
1 the hands of the Secretary of War.
ead a third
r After a few words from Col. DUNNE the Bill was
time and passed.
rep he Enlistment a (Artillery and Ordnance) Bill was
IN
third time and passed.
CUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL
tiOn,n. the consideration of the Lords' amendment to this
ieThe.SOLICITOR-GENERAL proposed some verbal
alterations
. .
titer-General
R. W.
BARRON called the attention of the Soli•
to a grievance under this Bill, which he
Learned sure had escaped the attention of' the Hon. and
had fled Gentleman. The commissioners under this Act
Power to sell an estate which, perhaps, might bring in
-11Lacosne of 2,0001. a year if it hada debt of 2001. upon it.
SADLEIR had to express his regret that the
twenty-second„ Clause had been added to the Bill. He
imnuid
eaten the
sloornrgy it these projected commissioners were
It'ven the Power to proceed to a peremptory sale of an
as the owner managed to keep up the
PaYment of the interest on the incumbrances on the
coestate, lie thought cases would occur in which the
mmissioners would proceed to such peremptory
84,1 c of an incumbered estate under circumstances
iwcich would be peculiarly hard to the owner of the
4Ni-
pas Besides, the most disturbed district in Ireland
Practically excluded from the operation of the in•
tended Commission. It was too late now to remedy the
Nl°Mission but in the next session of Parliament he would
the attention of the House to the desirability of
cringing that district within the operation of the Bill.
The Solicitor. General had more than once confessed
that his want of local knowledge of the coun-
try and the circumstances of Ireland had to a certain
extent incapacitated him from legislating for that
country. That confession did the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman's candour great credit; and he (Mr. Sadleir)
hoped that, in filling up the proposed Commission, he
would select gentlemen resident in Ireland, irrespective
of their politics, whose best qualification for carrying
out the objects of the Bill would be their intimate and
extensive knowledge of the unwritten law of the country.
Colonel DUNNE complained that a Bill of this im-
portance, which proposed to deal with the whole of the
landed property, was brought forward during a morning
sitting, when 53 many of the Irish Members were absent.
Surely this was a mean use of the subservient majority
?by f the Government. The amendment proposed
the Lords was at least calculated to pre
Eerve some of the property of Ireland; but
the amendment proposed at the table to-day was of a
different spirit. He should oppose the Bill, and support
the amendment of the Lords.
Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN spoke in opposition to the
amendment,
The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said the object of the
till was to enable estates to pay off incumbrances, which
could not be done under the present law.
hetMr. REYNOLDS was opposed to the Lords' amend•
, on the ground that it would not only embarrass
administration of this excellent Bill, but render it
nugatory altogether
Sir
the O'BRIEN held °Pe held that the amendment would
n door to fraud.
he house then divided on the amendment, when
there appeared_
For the Solicitor-General's amendment 84
Against it

.. 0
-. ••• ••• ••• •
Majority for the amendment ..• —B4
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then moved the in-
atertion of the word nett, instead of the word gross, in
he same clause amended by the Lords.
After some observationsfrom Mr. HENLEY,
Mr. SADLEIRsaid he was at a loss to know in what
manner the nett income was to be ascertained. He was
claus
hi hopes the Government would have rejected the
e.
Major
stood. BLACKHALL supported the clause as it
teaBRIGHT thought it would have been better for
overnment to reject the clause introduced by the
Lo into the Bill, but certainly the clause would be
improved by the suggestion of the Solicitor-General.
Mr. GROGAN supported the clause as it stood.
Mr. F. FRENCH also supported the clause.
Mr. REYNOLDS thought the introduction of this
clause had rendered the Bill less valuable than when it
Was sent up to the Lords, but the word " nett,"
,c)Pinion, was a far better word than g• gross." Although
Le entertained great respect for the other branch of the
Legislature, he bhould have esteemed them more had
in his
tlaey abstained from introducing this clause.
Colonel DUNNE,
Clause, and should on the other hand, approved of the
The amend vote for its continuance.
went was then agreed to.
(LEFT SITTING.)
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-MEETING AT BRADFORD.--THE AFFAIRS OF HUN-
GARY AND ROmE.-A meeting of the inhabitants of
Temperance
Bradford, convened by the Mayor (Titus Salt, Esq.),
was held in the
Hall, on Tuesday evening;
Alderman Forbes took the chair. Resolutions were
adopted calling upon tho Government to exercise it- in-
fluence for the esteblisbment of free institutions in
Rome, and deprecating the recent armed intervention by
the French—expressing sympathy with the Hungarians
in their present struggle, and adopting a memorial to her
Majesty's Government, cabin°. their attention to a con •
dicier of affairs threatening the public liberties. Several
speeches wire made in support of these resolutions; and
after the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, the
Meeting separated.
TILE NIAST MARKET AT BILLINGSGATR.--Yester-
day operations were commenced in mAking the proposed
itnproe I new market at Billingsgate. 'The dock which
was ginerally occupied by the small fishie yste
boats is to be filled in eu a lc vel with thepresent mar-
ko. A more ex:eesive and improved rooting will be
adoptcl, and the whole area will be properly and con-
of the prin-
verliently arranged with stalks, &c., worthy
eipul fish rntrlcct of !he grew metropolis. It is sdni that
the surn required in ei.mpletin4 the iii:prevernents sill
%Mount to bet,ceen 20 MO/. alio 30,0001.
I'oRTsMoUTII, JULY 18.—T to San Francisco be Louisa, from Loudon
char , which put in here 11th inst., is dis-
ging part of her cargo, being too deep.