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London, England, 1841-04-06 00:00:00

BILL.

Mr. JOHN PARKER moved that it be an instruc-
tion to the Committee on the Bid for granting further
p )..-ers to the Ncrth Midland Railway Comp,:ny, that
ti.ey have poNer, it they see fit, to dispense with the
Standing Orders, so as to allow the said Compact,' to

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borrow on mortgage the whole of the money which
they ask to raise by the Bill.
Mr. LABOUC HE RE said that parties concerned
in the Bill applied to the Board of Trade on this ques-
tion, and his answer was, that it was not in the pro-
vince of the Board to interfere, but that whenever it
came in his way to discuss the Standing Orders in the
House, he always recommended the House to adhere
to them. But he certainly did, at the same time, give
his opinion on this case, that if it should be found that
there was no violation of the Standing Orders in permit-
ting the course which these parties wished to adopt, he
saw nothing in the Bill itself to make that course objec-
tionable. But he most distinctly said that it would be
a most improper thing in him to give an opinion in fa-
vour of departing from the Standing Orders—(Hear)
—and so far from supporting any such departure, he
would decidedly oppose it. He was not opposed t 6 the
application on the part of the Company, if it could
be complied with without violating the Standing Orders.
Mr. BERNAL thought the House should take the
question of the St snding Orders into their considera-
tion and make some alterations in them before they
could entertain a motion like the present. He would
express no opinion upon the case trefoi; the House.
Sir R. INGLIS thought the Company, when they
came before the House to raise an additional sum of
money, should comply with the regulation which re-
quired them in the first instance to advance from their
own funds 10 per cent. of the amount required.
Mr. HUME said one of the p eat evils of the rail-
way system was the fallacious estimates on which they
were originally based.—(Hear, hear.) He would
merely instance the case of the Great Western Rail-
way, which had been compelled to come three times
before the House in order to raise further sums of
money in consequence of their estimate being so much
below the expenditure. He objected CO the House
giving these Companies any farther facilities in the
borrowing of additional capital.
Mr. SHIEL thought that if the words " to dispense
with the Standing Orders" were struck out, and it were
left to the Committee to construe them, the difficulty
would be removed.

After a few words from the SPEAKER, which were
inaudible in the gallery, the motion was withdrawn.
Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the Report of the
Committee on the Eastern Counties Railway Bill.

Mr. MARTIN presented a petition from Lancaster
against the Poor-law Bill.
Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Brid-
port in favour of the Mcdical Reform Bill. Also a peti-
tion praying that the judgment on Mr. Hetherington
might be remitted.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Sid-
mcuth and other places, praying for Church Extension ;
also petitions praying for the exemption of workhouses
from Parliamentary and (Aber taxes ; also a petition
from Torbay, praying that the packet station might not
be removed from Falmouth.

Sir IL INGLIS presented petitions from the
counties of Salop, Somerset, York, Durham, Lancaster,
Nottingham, Suffolk, Sutherland, and Stafford, praying
for Church Extension ; also a petition from the inha-
bitants of St. Martin's-lane, praying for the abolition
of tolls upon the metropolitan bridge!.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from
Birmingham, praying for the removal of taxes
from articles of necessary consumption. Also, a petition
from a borough in Scotland, praying for the Extension
of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parlia-
ments.

Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from
Westminster, praying for a better qualification for me-
dical practitioners.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from
certain rate-payers of Bristol, praying that the Poor-
law may not pass the House until the People's Charter
has been made the common law of the land.
Lord MELGUND presented a pet tion from Nor-
folk, praying that no farther grant might be made to the
College of Maynooth ; also from Montrose, praying for
the abolition of Church patronage.
General LYGON presented a petition from Worces-
ter, and another from Gloucester, praying for further
Church accommodation. . . .

Mr. A. WHITE presentei a petition against the
Poor-law Bell.

Mr. MU NTZ presented a petition from the inhabit-
ants of St. George's-toad, Lambeth, praying for the ex-
tinction of the tolls on the metropolitan bridges.
Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from L-o-
-minster, praying for the repeat of the Raman Catholic
Relief Bill. _ _

Lord ELIOT presented a petition from the paro-
chial Clergy of Hoy, in Corn all, praying for t'ae
revision of the tithe system.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Lambeth,
praying for the remission of the seatenee upon Mr.

Hetherington.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented eleven petitions from
different parts of Scotland, praying for the total abolition
of Church patronage in that country.
Mr. MORRIS presented .a pettion from Carmar-
then, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration
Bill.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN presented similar petitions from
several places in Ireland.
Mr. THORNHILL presented a petition from the
Mexican and South American Association at Liver-
pool, complaining of the high rate of duty upon toffee.
Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from
the County of Down, Ireland, against Church patronage
in Scotland.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition in
favour of the 81l before the House for Medical Reform.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition against the
Poor-law Commission and the Poor-laws, in which

the petitioners stated that the people had a right to
maintenance, and that, in their opinion, if they were
unable to obtain it, their allegiance to the Crown was
forfeited.