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London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ORDERS Olt THE DIY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 16.
Supply—Committee.
Parliamentary Oaths Bill—Second reading.
Apprehension of Deserters (Portugal Bill)—Second
reading.
Administration of Justice (Metropolitan Districts)
Bill—Second reading.
Ways and Means--Committee.
Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland)
Bill—Second reading.
Elections and Polling Places (Ireland) Bill—Second
reading.
NOTICES OP MOTIONS.
Mr. Scott—Select Committee to inquire into the politi-
cal and financial relations between Great Britain and her
dependencies, with a view to reduce the charge on the
British Treasury. and to enlarge the functions of the
colonial legislatures.—Copies of any correspondence be-
tween the Boards of Admiralty and the Treasury, or
between those Boards and the India and Australian
Mail Steam Packet Company, relative to the conveyance
of her Majesty's mails between England and Alexandria,
and to the establishment of communication by steam
navigation with the Australian colonies.
Mr. Mackinnon—Select Committee for the Removal
of Smithfield Market:—Lord Robert Grosvenor, Via.
count Mahon, Mr. Brans.ston, Mr. Alderman Copeland,
Mr. Masterman, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Yorke, Mr.
Stafford, Mr. Pugh, Mr. Mackinnon, Sir Edmund
Filmer, Mr. Cornewall Lewis, Sir Charles Douglas, Mr.
Childers, and Mr. Christopher.
Mr. Ward—Navy Estimates (in Committee of Supply).
Sir De Lacy Evans—On the motion for going into
Committee on Army and Navy Estimates, to bring
under the consideration of the House' the claims of the
medical officers of the army and navy to military rewards
and distinctions.
Mr. Urquhart—On going in Committee of Supply, on
Navy Estimates, to move, that the naval force be em•
ployed only in accordance with the laws of England and
of nations : that officers in command shall only em-
ploy that force on patent instructions from their imme-
diate chiefs, and not presume to negotiate on their own
bottoms with foreign states.
Mr. Anstey—On going into Committee of Supply, to
move for an humble address to her Majesty, on the sub-
ject of certain illegal ordinances or acts of Council for
the taxation of the people of Van Diemen's Land,
the attempts of Lieutenant-Governor Sir William
Denison to intimidate the Judges of the Supreme
Court of that island into declaring such ordinances
or acts to be legal, and the grievances complained
of by the colonists of that island in their
petition presented last year to her Majesty, and printed
by order of this House; and that her Majesty may be
pleased to direct the local authorities in future to respect
the independence of the judicial function of that court,
and also to signify her disallowance of any ordinance or
act subsequently passed by the said Lieutenant-Gover-
nor in Council, for giving to such illegal ordinances or
acts the force of law.
Mr. Fagan—ln Committee of Supply on Navy Esti-
mates, in vote .40. 11, for " New works, improvements,
and repairs," w bring under consideration the expendi

ture for the erection of a steam factory at liaulboline.
Mr. Flume—On the motion for going into Committee of
Supply, to move, that the repeated explosions from fire-
damp in coal mines, by which great sacrifice of life from
time to time has taken place, render it the imperative
duty of the Legislature immediately to adopt means
now at cornmaint to. prevent; the' occurrence of such
..galarataties :in future.—ln. Committee on the NaVy Eiti-
Ratei„ to ,overt agree with the recommendation ofihe
. Cpsnuaittee of the-last session- on the) Navy, Ar
and grilnrec*,...Estitnatesoirs:that. part. of their ,reporti, in
whiA they state " a certain proportion of the list of
admirals must be composed of officers who have grern
old in the service, who deserve well of their country,
and who are entitled to higher rank and Ito
higher pay on account of their merits, althouigh
they are no longer able to serve afloat. But when it is
considered that in the last naval war with France, the
greatest on record, not more than thirty-six admirals
were employed at any one period, and that at the present
moment the services of only fourteen are required, it
would nut seem unreasonable that the number of admi-
rals, now fixed, according to the scheme
sanctioned in 1846, at one hundred and fifty,
should be gradually reduced to a number nut
exceeding one hundred. —ln Committee on the Navy Es-
timates, to move to reduce the estimate of the number of
admirals to one hundred, and the number of seaman for
the service of the year to 35,000; and also to reduce the
dockyard battalions.—ln Committee of Supply (Navy Es-
timates). on vote No. 8, for wages to artificers,labourers,
and others employed in her Majesty's dockyards at
home, to move to reduce the establishment of shipwrights
in the dockyards at home to 2,650, and as fixed by the
Admiralty order of the 29th day of June, 1833.—0 n
vote 10, for naval stores, to reduce the amount for stores
in the same proportion as the number of shipwrights.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Sir Henry Willoughby—To ask Mr. Bouverie whe-
ther it is the intention of the Committee on Fees in the
Courts of Equity and LAW in England to make any re-
port on that subject.
Mr. Sadleir—To call the attention of the House to
the legal circumstances which unduly impede the sale of
laeded property in Ireland, and to those facilities which
may be safely efferded for its free transfer.
Mr. George Thompson—To call attention to the state
of affairs in the Punjaub, with a view to an inquiry into
the justice and policy of the war there waging.
Mr. Urquhar —That, in the opinion of this House,
the recent interference in the affairs of Sicily has been
uncalled for by any interest and unsanctioned by any
obligation of tno British Cr.. Nu.
Mr. Wodehouse—To call the attention of the House
to the consideration of the establishments under the
poor-law, with a vie :v to their being further provided for
by appiicetion to the Consolidated Fund.
Mr. elac;regor—To move, that in consideration of the
parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Ham-
mersmith, containing a population of about 120,000 in-
habitants, residing on an area not exceeding 8,000 acres,
and comprising also above 13,000 houses, of
the annual rental of 101. and upwards; and
further, in consideration that there is no other district
is Great Britain with so great a number of inhabitants
and houses unrepresented directly in this House, it is
expedient and just to incorporate, by an Act of Parlia-
ment, the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and
Hammersmith, into a Parliamentary borough, em-
powered to return two Members to this House, to fill up
the vacancies caused by the disfranchisement of the late
borough of Sudbury.
Mr. Osborne—Select Committee to inquire into the
state of the law as respects the ae:pointment of receivers
of the Courts of Chancery and Equity Exchequer in
Ireland, and the effect of the present laws and regula-

tions of the said Courts in the management of estates
under their control; and how far the same have con-
duced to the improvement of the said estates and the
condition of the tenantry, or the contrary.
Mr. Anstey—To move the following resolution :
That this House views with serious concern and disap-
probation the great and growing increase of the consump-
tion of the plant chicory in the adulteration of coffee,
contrary to Act of Parliament ; such increase
having been, in the opinion of the House, chiefly
owing to the orders given by the Administration
to the officers of Excise not to enforce the said
Act. That the direct results of such orders have
been the fraudulent sale of ground chicory, under the
name and at the current prices of ground coffee ; a cor-
responding depreciation of the value and decrease in the
consumption of coffee, although the supplies of colonial
coffee have at the same time averaged 50 per cent. more
than those of any former year ; increased depression
and
distress in Ceylon and other coffee-growing colonies • a
permanent loss of revenue to the actual amount of some
hundreds of thousands of pounds annually, and which
loss in the last year was
naugmented by the addition of
upwards of forty thousad pounds more ; the prejudice
of the fair dealea ; discontent and disaffection in the
colonies , and the encouragement of the evil-disposed,
both at home and abroad,o disobeyabal arbitrary w
appear to them to depend upon the
personsyphleicahsumreuostf
ile
ite
administration for sanction end enforcement.;
Mr. Divett—Return of all moneys
pablut t:Oit
Cham-
berlain of the city of London by persons
nomi-
nated ooffice r elected to the of Sheriff of Lt
onrdo and
Middlesex, with the dste, cause, and amount of
e
payment, and the names and addresses of the respective
payers, from tee Ist day of January, 1800, to the pro
tent time, stating also the amount received in each year,
the sum to'al, and the purposes to which the mraley was
at plied by the Corporation of London.
Mc. Urquhart—That the petition from Stafford, re-
lative to the law of nations, and against intorvention in
Foroign 6tate3 (presented April 2), be printed wi.h the

VOrds.
Mr. Ffume—To call the attention of the House to the
state of the postal communication from England to India
by Alexandria; and to move for copies or extracts of
any memorials ur representations to the Treasury, the
Post-office, Admiralty, or Board of Control, relative to the
discontinuance of the steam-postal communication with
India, which, previous to the 3d day of June, 1848, used
to depart from Southampton regularly on the 3d
day of every month . Returns of the amount
of transit postage paid to the French Post=
office, for the six months immediately previous,
and for' the six months immediately subsequent
to the 3d day of June, 1846. Of the steam-packets

now employed by the Admiralty in maintaining
the mail communication in the Mediterranean, namely,
between Marseilles and Malta, between Malta and
Alexandria, between Malta and the lonian Islands,
stating the number and names of the packets employed,
and how often the packet arriving at Malta from Mar-
seilles has, since the 14th day of June, 1848,
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. Evart—Return respecting proceedings adopted
to promote legal education by the Inns of Court.
ORDER 07 THE DAY.

Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill—Second reading.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18.
ORDERS OF THE 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 Bill—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 otherwise be liable as deserters."
Captain Harris—To move the following clause:—And
be 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),
shall 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 390 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 income 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 I
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 .
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 Denham Norreys—To move the following:—To
exempt from payment of the rate all districts which
shall have paid fur the maintenance of their poor, during
the year ending the 25th 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
in 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 hoed under a
lease or leases terminable on the demise of one life, con •
current with 31 years, or under a lease of years nut
exceeding 31 years, or under a lease for one life without
years concurrent 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
be 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 Russell—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
all the words after the words " distressed unions in
Ireland," in order to add the words, " and in considera-
tion thereof that an income and property-tax be assessed
on incomes and property in Ireland not liable to income
and property-tax under the Act 11 and 12 Vie., c. 8."

FRIDAY, APRIL 20.

ORDER OF TILE 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-
derstanding, which cannot be arranged by amicable ne-
gotiation, to refer the matter in dispute to the decision
of arbitrators.
Mr. Sidnes—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 fall
consideration of the evils they are about to suffer and

inflict.
Mr. Milner Gibson—To call the attention of the House
to the state of our relatiohs with the empire of Brazil,
and to submit a motion for the repeal of the Brazilian
ienrsit:
et
fhne
Act, 8 and 9 Vic., c. 122.
Mr. Wyld—Bill to explain and amend the law relat-
ing
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it renders necessary rah vfclilithinign othteinUrinuietetds
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him.Koringcoduormts. of inquiry in
Bill to amend the Act 7 Will. IV. (inti-
Aet for Marriages" in England), Fo far as
the
,gistrar, and the •
giving a notice to the Super-
intendent issuing of a certificate by

Mr. Scully--To callthaattention of the House to a
petition from Fethard (presentedrn.n the administration of
Ist of
of
the ofM a rch),psraavyi
ni rgi gs
for inquiry into abuses existing u
themfre.veßrehyonsopiditsa-1 iTnatbhualtatrorwent.
I variousi Kingdom, the
banks now in existence in the United Ic
amount of money to their credit respectively
Ist day of January, 1849,) with the Commissioners to
the
r
the Reduction of the National Debt. Also, of the gross
amount of the separate surplus fund to the 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.