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London, England, 1847-04-26 00:00:00

BILL.

Captain PLUMRIDGEmoved the second reading of
the Westminster and Lambeth-bridge Bill.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS said that he had a petition
to present against the Bill from his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury.
The SPEAKER said, that the second reading of the
Bill having been moved, the Hon. Baronet could not pre-
sent the petition.
Sir R. INGLIS then moved that the Bill be read a
second time that day six mouths. He was in hopes
that the Honourable and Gallant Member who had
moved the second reading of the Bill would have
stated the grounds on which he made that motion.
The Bill purported to be a Bill to enable ore solitary
individual to take, in a compulsory manner, a certain
amount of property, and that, he thought, was a reason
why the Bill should not be read a second time. As he un
derstood it, the Bill proposed that the bridge should
be a suspension-bridge. Now he could never give his con-
sent to the erection of such a bridge, because such a bridge
was perpetually in action, and always liable to accident.
He deprecated the erection of a suspension-bridge
in any case, but in the pi-eSe , one particu•
larly, as the land, was low, on 'each" side, and
the raising of it would greatly interfere with the pro-
perty of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mr. LAW seconded the motion for the reading of the
Bill that day six months.

General EVANS supported the second reading of the
Bill. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Oxford had
stated that the Bill was put forward by a single individual,
Sir Samuel Brown; that might be true, but it was equally
so that it was opposed only by one individual, anti that
individual was the Archbishop of Canterbury. He
thought that the arguments that had been used by the
Hon. Baronet for the second reading of the Bill were
strongly calculated to induce the House to send it to a
Committee up stairs. He could assure the Howe that
there was no wish on the part of the promoters of the
Bill at all to incommode the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dr. NICHOLL said he believed that Sir Samuel
Brown, one of the principal promoters of the scheme,
was a partner in a large chain-cable manufactory at
Newbridge, in Glarnorganshire, and his chief object
was, no doubt, to get rid of some of his chain-cables.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when there
appeared,
For the second reading
Against
Majority agaiust the second reading —l5
NAVIGATION LAWS.
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS presented a petition,
signed by six hundred of the merchants and principal
inhabitants of Liverpool, against any alteration in the
Navigation Laws.
Mr. M. 3. O'CONNELL presented several petitions
from the county Longfurd against the ex officio and other
clauses of the Poor-law (Ireland) Bills ; also several
petitions from the same county, praying for a system of
railways for Ireland, by loans or advances of the public
money. _

Mr. HUDSON presented a petition from South
Shields, against any alteration in the navigation laws.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK presented petitions from
Kilmarnock and other places in Scotland, against the
Marriage (Scotland) Bill. Also, petitions from various
places in Ireland, in favour of a system of railways for
that country.
SCOTCH MARRIAGES BILL AND REGISTRA-
TION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS BILL.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from the in-
habitants of the Isle of Skye, against these Bilis.
Mr. FORBES presentep several similar petitions from
parishes in Scotland.
LAW OF SETTLEMENT.

Mr. MAClinsl IslON presented a petition from the
guardians of the Richmond union, against the law of
settlement.

EDUCATION.
The HoN. GENTLEMAN presented a petition from Lan-
cashire, in favour of the Government scheme.
MARY YOUNG.
Mr. WAKELY presented a petition from Mary
Young,
of Finehate, in Norfolk, complaining of the con-
duct of the committing magistrate towards ber boy.
The lion. Member said, that on the 9th of December,
1846, the petitioner's husband sent his son, a boy of
fifteen years of age, on a message to the superintendent
of police. When the boy appeared there the superin-
tendent said, " That's the boy that stole the spoons nine
months ago." The boy was consequently charged be-
fore the magistrate, notwithstanding that the charge
was distinctly repudiated. And before the magistrate
when the petitioners said that a witness, Small by name,
in Court could prove that the boy was absent five miles
from the place of the robbery at the time in question,
but the magistrate would not hear Small upon his oath.
The boy was therefore remanded to Swaffham gaol for
nine days, and during that period both the silversmiths
to whom the spoons; had been offered for sale
were confronted with him when both positively
said the boy was not the same person. The boy was
discharged ; but in consequence of the ill condition of
the cell in which he had been confined for nine days he
had been seized with inflammation in the hip joint,
which would make him a cripple for life. The peti-
tioner's husband, in consequence of his anxiety and the
exposure to which he was subjected, had become ill, and
died. The Hon. Member
hoped that the statement of
the case would receive the attention of the Secretary for
the Home Department.
Mr. HODGSON EINDE presented a petition from
the magistrate mentioned in the petition of the Hon.
Member for Finsbury-, praying the House to receive
with caution the statement contained in the petition of
Mary Young, and denying We correctness of the asser-
tions made therein.
Sir G. GREY said that with regard to the petition
presented by the Hon. Gentleman, the facts had not as
yet been brought under his notice. When be. eceived

an official intimation of the facts he should be better
able. to judge what course should be pursued.
The petition was ordered to he on the table.
I;EALI II OE TOWNS.

Sir G. GREY then presented a petition from the
clergymen of Sheffield in favour of the Health of
Towns Bill.

SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCE OF POOR,

LAW OVERSEERS.

Mr. lIODGSON presented a petition from the over-
seers and administrators of the poor-laws, praying the
House to adopt some means of giving a proper super-
annuation allowance to persons employed in that capa-
city. He wished to ask the Hight Hon. Gentleman the
Secretary for the Home Department whether it was the
intention of the Government to adopt any means for
making these superannuation allowances in this session.

Sir G. GREY said that he vas net prepared at that
moment to state the course the Government intended
to parsue.

Lord MOII,PETII presented a petition from the West
Riding of Yorkshire against the Factories Bill ; and
also seven petitions from the saute place, six against and
one in favour of the Government scheme of education.
REGISTRATI( )N OF MARRIAGE BILL.
Sir ANDREW LEIrFI HAY said he wished to task
the Learned Lord Advocate of Scotland, first, what was
his intention with regard to the Registration of Mar-
riages (Scotland) Bill; and, secondly, whether he in-
tends to alter or omit the twelfth clause, and whether he
proposed any, and what alteration in the Bill.
The LORD ADVOCATE said, in answer to the
question of his Honourable and Gallant Friend, he
could state that it was his intention not to in-
sist upon the twelfth clause. The ground upon
the Bill was introduced had been much misrepresented,
but he should have another opportunity of explaining
himself upon that subject. With reference to the
various objections made to the Bill, he proposed
to make many great amendments which he should
have hardly otherwise have ventured upon. He
believed that his Hon. Friend would not object to
the course he intended to pursue, namely, that they
should go into Committee pro, forma, so as to enable him
to send the Bill down to Scotland in time for the public
meetings which were shortly to be held in different parts
of the country.

Mr. HUME hoped that the alterations which were to
be introduced in the Bill would be at the same time
made clear to the pers,,ns interested in it.
Mr. RUTHERFORD intended to do so.
After a few words from Sir R. H. INGLIS,
Mr. RUTHERFORD said that time had been given
to enable the people of Scotland to express the objec-
tions they might entertain against parts of this measure.
Sir G. CLERK would not object to go into Com-
mittee, pro forma, but he reserved to himself the right
of giving such opposition as he might see proper in the
after stages.

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL.
Mr. FORBES wished to know, because he thought
that the previous answer of the Right llon. Gentleman
was misrepresented by the organs through which the
public derived their information, whether the expense of
collecting the rates was to be paid out of the Consoli-
dated Fund, or from what other source it mast be de-
rived; and whether, if farmers refused to be amenable to
therequisitions e Bill, they would be proceeded
against by fine, or otherwise.
Nsaid
hat on a Bill not before the House
Gfß6o o fth
it would be somewhat inconsistent to go into the details
of the measure; but he could assure the Hon. Member
that the whole Bill would shortly be laid before the
House.