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London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

Mr. BECKETT presented petitions from Leeds and
several other places. in favour of the navigation•laws.
CATHOLIC RELIEF. _ _

GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION.

Mr. BUSFEILD presented a petition from Bradford
against the plan, and also one in favour of it.
Mr. BECKE FT presented a petition, signed by 336
-Sunday-school teachers, in favour of the plan. The
Hon. Member also presented several other petitions in
favour of the plan.

Mr. HUME presented several petitions against it,
from places in Yorkshire, and said that the petitioners
complained that it would interfere with the liberty of the
subject.

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SMALL TENANTS.
Mr. ETWALL presented a petition from a person
named Saunders, of Andover, stating that the present
law materially interfered with the rights of those tenants
who were subject to the payment of rates.
BANKING LAWS.

Mr. SHEIL presented a petition from the governor
and directof a of the Hibernian Bank, praying that the
law with respect to stamps which now prevailed in Ire-
land might be assimilated to that of England.
EDUCATION.

Lord SANDON presented a petition from the two
rectors of Liverpool, praying the House to take
steps to improve the education of the middle classes.
The petitioners suggested, that as Queen's scholarships
had been established for promoting the education of the
poorer classes, there ought to be founded Queen's
fellowships for promoting the education of the middle
classes.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition against
the proposed Government scheme of education.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented several petitions,
one of them from Rugby, in favour of the scheme.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition against
the scheme.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
Captain PECHELL presented a petition in favour of
this Bill.
LONDON, CHELTENHAM", AND OXFORD
RAILWAY.
Several petitions were presented against this railway,
and referred to the Committee.
Mr. HUME moved, that the order made on the 15th
day of February last, for referring the London and
North-Western Railway (Bescot and Wolverhampton
Branch, &c.) Bill to the Committee of Selection, be
read and discharged.—Agreed to.
Mr. GREGORY moved that the Appendix to the
Evidence on the Dublin Improvement Bill be printed,
together with the evidence.—Agri ed to.
MASTERS IN CHANCERY.

Mr. HUME said he understood il;Ui ;;1;eof the Masters
in Chancery had resigned on account of ill health. Now
he trusted this vacancy would not be filled up until the
abuses, disclosed in the evidence taken before the Chan-
cery Commissions, were reiooved.
Lord J. RUSSELL would undertake to say that the
vacancy would not be filled up until sufficient time had
elapsed to see whether any improvement could be intro-
duced into the office.
Mr. HUME postponed his motion for returns con-
nected with the boys employed in the navy.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Lord J. RUSSELL, in rising to more that the House,

at its rising, do adjourn till Monday, the 12th of April,
said that he proposed that on that day the House should
go into Committee of Supply, when the notices of mo-
tion given by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Liverpool, and the Honourable and Gallant Gen-
tleman the Member for Westminster, might be
taken, and if there was sufficient time, any other
motion upon the orders of the day, to which there was
no objection, might be disposed of. He did not, how.
ever, on that day propose to take any further stage in
the Army Service Bill, but postpone it till a subsequent
day. On the Friday after the recess ho proposed to
take the consideration of the third reading of the Irish
Poor-lsw Amendment Bill, and the third reading of
the Bill for the Improvement of Property in Ireland.
On the question being put for the adjournment,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to a question, stated
that Government had a Bill under their consideration for
the removal of the religions disabilities of the Jews, but
be was afraid that it could not be brought forward in the
present session.

- Captain PEaIIELL asked the Noble Lord if it was
his intention to continue the Poor-law Commissioners
at Somerset House for the remainder of the session ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to bring
in a Bill upon the subject, of which due notice would
be given, after Easter.
Mr. GLIONBY said several clerks in the metropo-
litan Courts of Request had been thrown out of employ •
xi:tent by the establishment of County Courts, and he
wished to know if Government could give them com-
pensation in the shape of employment in another way?
Sir G. GREY said that the appointment of the judges
rested with the Lord Chancellor, but a provision for
compensation in such eases as were thought necessary
wa4 entered in the Bill, and he had no doubt that the
cases complained of would come under the class of cases
to which compensation would be awarded.
PRIVATE BILLS.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether a private Bill
on the subject of paving, cleansing, and lighting, which
had been referred to a private Committee, the evidence
upon which the Committee had refused to hear, would
be referred to any other Committee?
Sir G. GREY had no doubt that under the provisions
of the Bill to be introduced by his Noble Friend (Lord
Morpeth) all Bills of that nature would be referred to a
Select Committee.

FOREIGN TARIFFS.
Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to know when the re-
turns he had moved for, on the subj,ct of foreign tariff;
is relation to this country, would be Judd upon the table
of the House ?

Mr. HAWES said that the returns would be laid be-
fore the House as soon es possible.

PUBLIC WOCILCS (IRELAND).
Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to cot rect a statement
which he had made a few nights since with re-
spect to the reduction of the number of persons em-
ployed on the public works in Ireland. He then
stated that it was the intention of the Government to
make an aggregate reduction in the numbers employed,
leaving at the same time a discretionary power with the
Lord-Lieutenant as to the numbers to be reduced. The
Lord Lieutenant had, however, conceived that no dis-
cretion was vested in him, and that the officers of the
Board of Works were the only authorities by whom any
discretion could be exercised upon the subject. He
(Mr. Labouchere) believed that the Lord-Lieutenant in
80 deciding had acted upon a perfectly sound and correct
principle, and he regretted having misled the House
upon the subject of the discretionary power to be vested
With the Lord-Lieutenant.
Mr STAFFORD O'BRIEN quite concurred in the
opinion just expressed by the Right Hon. the Secretary
for Ireland, as to the propriety of leaving the exercise of
discretion in the hands of the officers of the Board
of Works.

ARMY RETURNS.
Sir DE LACY EVANS postponed his motion re-
!peeting the rations of the army until after Easter.
UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.
Mr. CHRISTIE gave notice that after Easter he
vvould move an address to the Crown on the subject
of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
SAVINGS' BANKS.
Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice that, on Tuesday, the
20th of April, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill
for the establishment of a more extensive system of
savings' banks throughout the country.
HOUSE.
ADJOURNMENT

The motion for the adjournment of the House, at its
rising, until Monday, the 12th of April, was agreed to.

NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
Mr. HUME gave notice that upon an early day after
the Easter recess, he would move for a return of the ag-
gregate amount of money expended upon the new palace
at Westminster up to the last day of December 1846,
sad also for an estimate of the whole amount required to
complete the building.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on Tuesday
the 20th of April, it was his intention to move for the
appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the
Operations of the Metropolitan Buildings Act.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS BILL.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL postponed until after Easter,
the introduction of a Bill for amending several Acts for
(nc appointment of Ecclesiastical Commissioners for
England.

WIDE STREETS (DUBLIN).
Mr. GREGORY moved for a return of all sums of
money handed over by Sir John Kingston James, late
asurer to the corporation of the city of Dublin ; also,
"I all sums paid by Lord Charlemont and the Wide
Street Commissioners to the credit of the corporation of
the
city " of Dublin ; and if same has been applied to the
liquidation of the debenture debt, or to what other pur-
?;)se; and, if any part of such debt has been liquidated,
b..ssnteredeatte and part:culars ; also a return from the Wide
Commissioners of the city of Dublin of all snms of
'me'Y lodged by the said Commissioners in court, as
ilr,e,h,ase money of certain premises belonging to the
thi,v,"4 Corporation, the legal proceedings thereupon.
s4ch
Judgment pronouticet by the Court, and the cast of
proceedings• and minted of the deed of 1819; by
.L.O eh trustees were ap for the manazernent of
re debenture debt ot the Corporation of Dublin, the
proceedings to remove such trustees, the judgment
ruaounced by the court, and the cost of such proceed-
it,'"-illotion agreed to.
4.".. CASE OF DICKSON v. PAYE.—EXCISE
LICENSE.
toll!. GREGORY also moved for returns (in addition
4,, the
_S.essional Paper, No. 662, for 1845) showing, in
ot_l_kle,ditional column, and opposite each spirit grocer's
4'em, the rate or amount of excise license duty which
to
i;luda.es
e, decided, in the case of Dickson v. Pape,
paie,that which ought to have been charged and
ti46°.9 each spirit grocer for his license respec- ,
k4Q4: and of the amount received by the /
Fipple from
each such grocer during the period I
'Yv4 QUI ad mewed such licenser fnal Ole "11 67

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
LIOCISE v 1 COMMth.VS, March 31.
The SPZIKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
SECOND HEADINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and or.
dered to be committed :
Caledonian Railway (Branches to Wilsontown, to Pauld-
house, and to Biggar and Broughton).
Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh :itation and Branches
to Granton, and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway).
Colchester Navigation and Improvement.
Dublin Consumers Gas.
London Sewage Chemical •'•anure.
Manchester Corporation Waterworks (Power to sell to
the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company).
Manchester Corporation Waterworks (Power to purchase
the Manchester and Salford Waterworks).
NAVIGATION-LAWS. _ _ _

Mr. ROUND presented petitions in favour of Catholic
relief.