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London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

Ample information had been obtained, and all the
engineers had concurred in recommending Holyhead
harbour as harbour of communication with ail!
country. He trusted that the Government would
persevere to stand by the decision of the Committee
in
this case.
The ga!1( ry wai then cleared, but no' clivisien took
place, the H.lll. tmb r having withdrawn his !notion.
Messeug- rs fruu: the L ,rds brought up sundry

EDUCATION. -
Mr. WATSON presented a petition from the Romeo
Catholics of Newport, in Shropshire, and other pleces4
praying to be admitted to a participation in the vote
fur educational purposes.
CHANCERY.
Mr. WATSON presented a petition from several
solicitors and attorneys, praying for an inquiry into the
evils of Chancery.
EDUCATION.
Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition from the isle 49f
Wight, and other places, against Ihe vote for education.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Lord MAHON presented a peiition from certain grt;
ziers in Hertfordshire against the removal of Smith"'
market.

THE EDUCATION GRANT.
Lord J. MANNERS presented petitions from im
Roman Catholics of StarnfOrd, Penzance, and ot
eat
her_
places, praying for a participation in the Governs
educational grant.
RATE-PAYING CLAUSES.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE resented a petition front to{
inhabitants of Liverpool praying for the total repeal
the rate-paying clauses.
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT.
Mr. BANKES presented a
amendment of the Poor-law Act.
RAILWAYS IN IRELAND. certain
Mr. J. O'BRIEN • from
presented a petition Holy
parts of Leland. praying for the extension or ra
accommodation to Ireland. the
petition, praying for the
petition from
Lord G. I3ENTINCK presented
Midland Great Western orlrelsana Ritoway COPP
Rouse
pany, complaining of the selection by the and
Ireland, a
of three railway companies in Goverpreen rsh
also praying for assistance. from
They stated that they employ upwards of 4,00010070 i
representing 20,000 persons, who have, by f 1613 the
that coral=
public funds of this country. They further
that in consequynce of the depress;d
2.9, been kept off as a burden to
money market they will be compelled toLlors,
out of employment the whole of their lab': the
unless the same assistance is rendered to theta bf
Government as they proposed to render to othersho
patsies in Ireland. They further stated tha ,00.
state shoo'
most unexceptionable security to offer to the nor
meat for any loan tnat might be advanced.
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
SMITHFIELD MARKET. farsi
ffecS
Mr. PALMER preserved two petitions from the •
0/
mers and graziers of Reading
Mmarket against there al
of Smthfield market.
r.i lIAWES presented a petition to the Wet 9
from Croydon.
MEMBER FOR CORK. la nag
Mr. S. O'BRIEN gave notice that on lifon-rtse• to
he should move that the Speaker do issue his //litfor the
the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new svi"f-Ctsrict
election of a knight of the shire for the count,' °`
In the room of the late Daniel O'Connell, Es+
ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS 0. into
Ding Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that on at{ the
Committee
of Supply, he should call the attentionlor,
House to the accidents which occurred upon rill "Is.
and to the best means of guarding against these eel
Sfl RA PNELL SHELLS.
Sir DE LACY EVANS moved for *a return of t"
ea
number of Shrapnell shells ordered to be tuseurilrdis
at the Carron Foundery for the British and Bas"oinß
Company's
armies, since the period of the shell 131:. the
been adopted by the Government for the use (11
national forces.—Agreed to.
BI,‘DCAGE WALK. r caMise
Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the Chief %.,°- -ft to
be
of Woods and F.,r, sts whether anything was
done in regard to paving Birdcage-walk? laid
Lord MORPETH said that materials were ue'"."
down for the purpose.
PORTUGAL. a tho
Mr. B. OSBORNE said he had seen it reperte
the Conde Das Antas, with two thousand of hs :ea:
had been taken prisoners by the British fleet; he be"Go-
therwore, to ask th.. Noble Lord at the head of th h re,
7ernment whether he had received any papers wit pop
.erenc,a to that, and whether he would lay theca
the table?
~„rs 00
Lori J. RUSSELL said he had received no Pir-rted
the subject. He had seen a telegraphic dispatch rel-10,
in Mortiteur, where no doubt the Hon. Mem
ber

_
self had sreu
Mr. P. BORTHWICK begged to ask the Honourtibblve
Member for Montrose whether he intended abidieg_tira
his motion on the Portugal papers, and whether he ri'v
take the discussion tomorrow?
Mr. HUME said he was quite ready to take the dir
cussion to morrow.
Lord G. BENTINCE wished to tel the Noble ro
of
whether whether the instruc..ions of the Government wer°o,s
such a character that it was possible for her Mail be
naval force to have acted thus against the troops 01.,-ep
Junta, by taking the Conde Das Antas and his `"
prisoners ?
Lord J, /FIN RUSSELL said it was quite poseiblej
for Sir William Palmer had ordered the blockade oft lic
Douro. and in case the Conde Das Antas should bre!h
in upon these orders, it was very possible that stz-
might be the eonst.qu•nce. •
Mr. HUME said he wished to know whether th.
were all the instructions that had been sent out.
Lord JON RUSSELL said that the dispatches CO--.
tained all the diplomatic correspondence.
S MALL DEBTS (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. M. MILNES asked the Solicitor-General for mto
land whether ho intended introducing a Bill to mitig_ ios
the present practice of imprisoning for small debts
Ireland? .a the
The SOLICITOR GENERAL for Ireland sal oes
subject was under coesic•ration, and he was in 11is
of being able to introduce a Bill this session on

subject.
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TREATMENT OF A CONVICT IN VCR
all the
Mr. G. BERKELY said that he wished to fe colo-
attention of his Hon. Friend the Secretary for.teh no
nies to a circumstance connected with a convio.ining
Panco. It was stated that he was desirous of
r 7„ wog
the rite of baptism, which a Roman Catholice r___Uld
not permit him to do.
Hon and Gallon
-
Mr. to administer, but which the authorities wv
Mr. HAWES said, that when his 11°House en a tor-
Friend brought this subject before the
titute inquirie.s
and it
mer occasion, he stated that he would -n8 ade,
on the subject. Those inquiries had been w Bolan
appeared that the convict was attended byon, but as
Catholic Priest on the morning of his executl wen),
.1 not
minutes ,d hr wan
before
ftooraedtmhien administer
execution, rite
ehof
authorities
sanction it.
POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL,
The order of the day for goine into Committee OP.
the Poor-law Administration Bill was then read for
purpose of postponing it.
The further consideration of the Bill was then Pc°
ptis only _
poned until Monday next.
PRICE OF BREAD.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said that, in answer to
question asked the other evening by an Hon. Metobt
as to whether there was any intention on the
part of the
Government to bring in any measure to regulate SP f
price arid weight of bread in consequence of the price etc
.pdac?s witht
bread not rising and falling with the price of wheat. if
keptbegg atethethraztietheeofprwic;iseoaft
ibnrealdl
ihtsadoutietntimfotrioeine.l
./
He hoped that alarms of this nature woulda not be give
unnecessarily. be
Mr. BANKES said that he was amenable for what
d.
said, but not for the way in which it might be reerttehe
The speech he made was reported ver correctly le
3
public papers, but he could
not be answerable for any
alarm it might create. He then held in his hand f4.hPe,t
•
tition from a magistrate in the country, statlnbiisea
there was a considerable- amount of fraud daily Prrude'r to
upon the poor man in the price of bread. In
since the
prove that, he would state that a short time o-
price of bread in Paris was cheaper than it vves:leh in
don at the time when the corn in France was h'g ethere
price than in England. He thought that though,orot..
might not bo any complaints of these frauds ii
voice
minst(r, yet in other parts of the kin,gdore the Plant.
of the delivering fraudulent weight was very Pretread to
Mr. HEATHCOTE said that the price of price ca
London might be cheaper, in relation to the,g, east)!
corn, than it was in Paris, in consequence of liter ina-
mode of carriage upon the Thames, the better e
chinery and the cheaper price of fuel for ham''',:priee
could not, however, understand the reason of parts
of bread varying from 7id. to Hid. in different
Committee
of the metropolis, and he hoped a Cl'm
would be appointed to inquire into this subject' ible tu
Mr. B. ESCOTT said that it was not P°ll pro'
purchasecoarse br. ad in L•idon u tue
tor
duce of the bushel of wheat was wasn
tedups the
tion of white bread.

the motion that the ocl
PRISONS ILL. d'
On dear
of the ay _
~„ she
journed debate upon •
going into Committee aPv-
Prisons Bill be read,
Mr. NEWDEGATE saidshouldsot berm
that he .. p.
troubkd the House at all upon this occasion bad I' tor
been for the wrong f l' which Ses
ee ing ho knew was • a
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tained throughout the country that the aboli e
of transportation would be ta, great mistbrttiio;
of
rho evils which had arisen from the old sYs-40
transportation were attributable not to w 3
punishment itself, but to the way in which, h"
was administered. The failure of the system of Ptln'hi,"-i
for the a
ment in Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land --,
throughout been attributable to the inadequate aietid
which had been given for carrying it into effect. Isst:tio
of any attempt being made to correct the error ...
which the late Government tell on this subject, then
were pursuing a similar course. It was an 00 100,,,
among the public in this country that the abolitioub:
transportation would be injurious to this countrY, .4
doing away with a means of rid iing this country 0' r5l g
superabundant populatii n by sending out of it its of
members. They were adopting the principle of his
measure upon most erroneous grounds, and weret er
substitute for transportation the silent and other
experimental systems which had been by no Ing—os
successful. The Hon. Member here read ex.racts fr? ,
several letters, to show that the system of Lord Stau:
had failed, not through any intrinsic demerits of 0711
system, but from its being jumbled up with sums j°e„nd
regulations, and it was from that most unfair gr°- It
that the Goe,rnment proposed the present messure..
was alleged by Lord Grey that the ground of abolishing
transportation to the Australian colonies, was 14°t• of
local defects, hut from a conviction of the SOUT)dflelie
the total abolition of transportation. The Hos.
man here read some letters to show the peculiar aaa_nr-i:
0911 of the Australian colonies for purposes of tenor