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ARMY ENLISTMENT BILL.

Earl GREY moved that this Bill should be read a
first time.

Lord STANLEY regretted that the Noble Earl had
introduced this measure at a time when it was to be dis-
cussed on its principles within three days after it was
laid upon the table of the House.
Earl GREY said that it was necessary that the Bill
should receive the Royal assent before this day week.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that this Bill
consisted of two parts, and he thought that it would be
advisable to take the discussions on both the points in-
volved on the same day. There was a necessity for the
Mutiny Bill being passed by Monday week, and if the
second reading were to be taken on Friday next,
there would be sufficient. opportunity for passing
it by Monday. This was the more advisable when
the debates of the House of Commons were taken into
consideration. They might then pass the Bills, if ne-
cessary, on Monday week.
Lord STANLEY said that this was the first time that
he had heard of there being two principles involved in
these Bills, and that furnished the greater reason why
the Bill should
-be postponed. •

The Duke of WELLINGTON conceived that as the
enlistment was to be confined to ten years, while there
was an opening for the soldier to take a further term
of eleven.years, no doubt whatever could be entertained
respecting what was properly the Mutiny Bill, and no
impediment therefore would be thrown in the way of
the discussion.

After a few words from Earl GREY, the Bill was read
a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
Monday week.
Several Bills were then advanced a stage..

Their Lordships then adjourned till MO'nday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. April 16.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
KILMARNOCK IMPROVEMENT.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of Kilmarnock against the measures which are
now being taken for the improvement of that town, and
complaining that they were proceeding without either
the consent or the knowledge of the inhabitants.
BRISTOL AND CLIFTON GAS BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
• PILE PIER EXTENSIONS.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
INVERNESS HARBOUR BILL.
This Bill was reads second time.
TYNE DOCKS.
This Bill was also read a second time.
LEEDS AND PERTH RAILWAY.
Mr. ALDAM presented a petition from Newcastle
against the Bill for this line.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION PLAN.
Mr. GODSON presented a petition from the Dis-
senters assembling at the Free Meeting-house at Kidder-
minster against the Government education scheme.

Petitions to the same effect were also presented by
Mr. Thornely, from Tipton,: in Staffordshire ; from
the city of York, by Mr. R. Yorke, and by Sir T. Trow-
bridge, from Ashton.
DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT.

This Bill was read a second time.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION PLAN.
Mr. C. BERKELEY presented petitions from Dis-
senting congregations in Bristol, and places in the
comity of Gloucester against the plan.
Mr.. MUNTZ also presented several petitions from
Dissenting congregations in Birmingham to the same
effect.

Sir DENIS LE MARCHANT. presented several
petitions from Worcester and other places to the same
effect.

Mr. WODEHOUSE presented several petitions from
Norfolk in favour of the plan.
Mr. CAYLEY presented a petition from the Wesleyan
Methodists of York against the plan.
Mr. WILSON FATTEN presented several petitions
from Wesleyan Methodist congregations, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, against the plan.
Similar petitions were also presented by Lord Duncan,
Sir M. Cholmondeley, and Mr. Brotherton, from Pendle-
ton, Brotherton, and Longford.

Mr. ALDAM presented petitions from Branley, in
,he parish of Leeds, and from the Unitarian congrega-
Lion, in favour of the plan.
Sir R. INGLIS also presented a petition from Witney,
in Oxfordshire, to the same effect.

Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from the corpora-
tion of Derby in favour of the plan, and another against
it from the Dissenting congregations of that town.
Lord RENI)LESHAM presented nine petitions from
the county of Suffolk in favour of the plan.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition signed at a
public meeting at Manchester against the measure.
NAVIGATION-LAWS.

Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from the artizans
of Poplar engaged in shipbuilding against any altera-
tion of the Navigation-laws, and moved that the same
be referred to the Committee.
Mr. LIDDELL also presented a petition from White-
haven to the same effect.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION PLAN.

Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition signed by the
congregations, and upwards of a hundred ministers, in
the county of Lancaster, praying that the House would
withhold its countenance from the plan. Ho had also a
hundred and forty petitions from various places to the
same effact, with the titles of which he would not trouble
the House.
PETITION OF BERNARD GRAHAM.

Mr.:WATSON moved the consideration of the petition
of Bernard John Graham (presented 13th April), for leave
to present a petition against the Great Western Railway
(Branch to join the West London Railway, Widening
and Enlargement of West London Railway, and
Branches to Hammersmith, and to join the London' and
South-Western Railway near Lambeth) Bill, after the
time allowed by the standing orders.
Mr. GREENE resisted the motion.
Mr. WATSON said the grounds upon which he made
the motion were these: this gentleman being in nego-
tiation with the other side, he neglected to sign his
petition within the time allowed by the standing orders.
Mr. STRUTT said it would be contrary to the rules
of the House to accede to the motion, and he must
therefore join with the Hon. Member for Lancaster in
resisting the motion.
Mr. WATSON said, under these circumstances be
would withdraw the motion.
The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
FEES OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. HUME wished to move that Mr. Speaker be re-
quested to cause to be prepared a tables of fees, as re-
commended by the Committee on Private Business in
their second report, with a view to abolish the present
complex system of charging a great many small fees on
the various proceedings of a Bill, and to substitute single
fees on the principal stages. There was an impression
abroad that the fees of the House formed a large portion
of the costs of passing a private Bill, but on inquiry it
would be found that such was not the case. The
report of the Committee on Private Business re-
commended that the fees should be simplified
and one of them payable upon every stage of the Bill,
such as on presenting a petition, first reading, second
raiding, and so on. He had consulted with many
Parliamentary agents, and they agreed with him that the
best course to be pursued was, to ask the Right Hon.
the Speaker to bring in a list of fees founded upon the
principle of providing for the actual expense of each
stage of a private Bill.
Mr. GREENE said that it was only in the last ses-
sion of Parliament that the fees received on account of
the private business of the House exceeded the salaries
of the officers of the House.
The motion was then agreed to.
GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION.
Lord R. GROSVENOR presented several petitions
from various places in the county of Middlesex against
the Government scheme of education.
LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from Bar-
net, praying for an alteration in the law of settlement.

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION.
Mr. P. SCROPE presented several petitions from in•
habitants of Stroud against the proposed scheme of Go.
vernment education.
POOR RELIEF (IRELAND).
Mr. E SCROPE al.o presented a petition from a
wish in the county of Cork sgaiast the provision