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NING, MAY 5, 18

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

THIRD READINGS.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the following
Bills were read a third time and passed :
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Rail.
way (Lease to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's
Railway Company).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Rail-
way (Extension to Melford, Lavenham, and Clare)
(Clause and Amendment to be proposed).
Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company.
REPORTS.
The following reports were brought up and agreed to,
and ordered to be engrossed :
Chard Canal and Railway Extension and Amalgamation.
Dunfermline and Cupar Court-houses.
Inverness Gas and Water.

Liskeard and Caradon Railway.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (No. I)—Bru-
ton, Pitcombe, and Rodden and Bradford Deviations).
Mr. R. SI'OONER moved, according to notice, that
it be an instruction to the Committee on the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Bill, that
they have power to entertain the petition of the com-
pany of proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Naviga-
tion, notwithstanding the same was not presented to the
House on or before the 3d day of this instant May, pur
suant to the resolution of this House of the 19th day of
April last.—Agreed to.
Mr. GREENE moved, pursuant to notice, that the
petitions presented against the Leeds Waterworks Bill,
and referred to the Committee on that Bill, be referred
to the Committee on the Leeds Waterworks (No. 2)
Bill ; with leave to the petitioners to be heard thereon,
by themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses.—

Agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. GREENE, it was ordered that
th© order referring the petition of owners, lessees, and
occupiers of land in Southorpe and Sutton to the Com-
mittee on the Midland ;Railway (Syston and Peter •

borough Deviations and Approach to Manton Station)
Bill, be discharged.
On the motion also of the same HON. MEMBER, the
order made on the 26th day of February last, for refer-
ring the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction
Railway (Masbrough to Doncaster) Bill was discharged,
and the Bill withdrawn.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.

Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN presented several peti.
tions from different parts of the country against the re.
moval of Smithfield market.
FEES IN CHANCERY. _ _

Mr. M. GIBBON presented a petition from the Law
Society of Manchester, for the reduction of the fees in
the Court of Chancery. The petition, on the motion of
the Right Hon. Gentleman was ordered to be referred to
the Committee appointed to consider the subject.
DUBLIN PAVING.

On the motion of Mr. T. O'BRIEN, tlse papers rela-
tive to the Dublin Paving, &c. (printed Ist March) were
ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Dublin
Consumers Gas Bill.
CORPORATION OF DUBLIN.
On the motion of the Horz. MEMBER, the following
return was also ordered :—Return of all expenses incurred
by the Corporation of Dnblin in deputations, stating ex-
penses of each deputation, its object, and the names of
the persons comprising that deputation, from the Ist day
of November, 1830, to 30th day of August, 1841.
SUPPLY.

The report from the Committee of Supply was brought
up, received, and adopted.
POLICE CLAUSE BILL.

On the motion of Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE,
this Bill was referred to a Select Committee, to consist
of the following Members:—Viscount Morpeth,
Greene, Mr. Attorney-General, Viscount Sandon,
Viscount Ebrington, Sir William lleathcote, the Lord-
Advocate, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Brotherton, Mr.
Escott, Mr. Loch, Mr. Beckett, Dr. Bowring, Mr. W
son Patten, and Mr. Morgan John O'Connell.
The LORD-ADVOCATE stated, in reply to a ques-
tion from an lion. Member, that he would ascertain
whether the Bill could be applied to Scotland in its
present shape; if it could not, a Bill having especial
reference to that country would be introduced.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION AND MEDICAL
LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

Sir W. JOLLIFFE wished to ask the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment whether he had received any communications
from the presidents of the three medical colleges with
respect to this Bill, and whether it was the intention of
the Government to oppose or support it?
Sir G. GREY said he had received communications
from these bodies, requestingao be allowed to wait upon
him as a deputation ; and it' the Hon. Gentleman the
Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley) had been in his
place, it was his intention to have asked him to postpone
the second reading of this Bill, as it had only been
printed that morning, and as the President of the Col-
lege of Physicians, and others, had not had an opportu-
nity of stating their objections to it. He had also re-
ceived communications from persons connected with the
medical profession, and as he was as yet ignorant of
their objections, the postponement of the second reading
of the Bill was indispensable. No doubt the Hon.
Gentleman would be in his place in the course of the
day, and he should endeavour to induce him to consent
to its postponement.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL.
On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Colonel SIBTIIORP rose and inquired it the Noble
Lord ( Lincoln) would have any objection to intro-
duce a clause into the Bill tor the protection of copy-
holders, who, without the insertion of such a clause,
would be materially injured ? He disapproved of the
machinery by which the Bill was proposed to be carried
out, as it would lead to the appointment of commis-
sioners and others who would have nothing better to do
than going about the country, without conferring any
real good upon property.
Lord LINCOLN certainly should object to the in-
sertion of such an amendment in this Bill, which
referred simply to property, and not to the mode in
which it was held. It was an amendment which would
more properly find a place in a Bill having direct refer-
ence to copy holders. He, however, at the same time,
fully admitted that the laws relating to cupyholders re-
quired amendment, and he should be happy to
lend his assistance to the Gallant Colonel, or
to any other Honourable Member who might
bring forward a Bill for the purpose of amending those
laws. It was a mistake to say that new commis-
sioners would be appointed to carry out the Bill, as the
Enclosure Commissioners would be entrusted with the
carrying of it out: it certainly would not add to their
emolument, but it would add materially to the labour
which they were now called upon to perform.
After a few words from Sir G. STRICKLAND, the
House went into Committee on the Bill.
The clauses up to 17 were agreed to.
Sir G. STRICKLAND moved an amendment in the
17th clause.
After a few words from the Earl of Lincoln, Colonel
Sibthurp, and Mr. Ilume, the original clause was
agreed to.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to.
The House then resumed, and the report was ordered
to be brought up on Friday next.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.
On the order of the day for the second reading of the
Registrationr\v io,fo Voters
called
the
beingttearnetaidon of the house to
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the reckless
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rinthwt the voteshichobje willction be struckswereta koeffn
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voters, not n the
roll, but that the voters may be deterred from coming up to
the hustings. A number of persons were paid to make
these objections, and he would ask the House, ought
there not to be some guaranteee for the bona fide
character of the objector? He thought that it was abso-
lutely necessary that the objector to a vote should be
resident in the same district as the person to whose vote
the objection was made. It would also be of great
benefit to the country, and the means of saving much
trouble, if the objector and the voter had an opportunity
of communicating with each other before they came
before the court. He thought also that a certain
sum of money should be paid into the court by
the objector, and, in case of his succeeding in his
objection, it should be returned to him, but if he failed
it should be handed over to the party to whose vote the
objection was made. In conclu,ion, he ought to men-
tion that there was one of the suggestions made by the
Committee that was not inserted in this Bill. That was
with reference to what was called the system of splitting,
namely, the plan of dividing a house into so many
compartments, giving a vote for each. He should
venture hereafter to call the attention of the House
to the subject, but as it was likely to cause much
party discussion, he had for the present omitted it.
The subject was one of immense importance, and de-
serving the most serious attention of the Legislature.
The other suggestion of the Committee was that there
should be paid public officers to investigate these ob-
jections. He thought that under the present system the
business was hurried over much too quick. That was,
however, a question for the Executive Government. He
hoped that the Government would discontinue the practice
of placing persons in the anomalous position of judges
for one part of the year, and in their places advocates
for the remainder. The one office was not compatible
with the other, and he hoped that the system would be
altogether changed. These were the observations he
had to make to the House upon this measure. It would
remedy the reckless and indiscriminate manner in which
these objections were taken to the best and most un-
doubted voters, and save much serious and unnecessary
expense in defence of their votes, which were
attaked year after year on the same grounds, and with
the same chances of success.--(Cheers.)
Sir G. GREY said that he did not rise for the pur-
pose of following the lion. Gentleman through all the
clauses of the Bill, but merely to express a hope that
the House would permit the second reading to take place
without any objection. The Bill was one which em-
bodied many valuable suggestions made by the Com-
mittee, and was very likely to prove most beneficial in
its effects.
Mr. BRIGHT said he rose for the purpose of calling
the attention of the House for one moment to the
statements which were made on moving for this Com-
mittee by the lion. Member for Warwickshire. Ist'O'n"s
stated that choice was made in serving these objec and
to persons whose votes were been known to be legal,
who resided at the greatest distance from the courts. The
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report of the Committee did
pdivdLottubNeG.)arout this statement.

THE ARMY ♦ND NAVY Gnus-Housz.—Yesterday
the whole of the houses on the west side of George-street,
St. James's-square, as well as several in Pall-mall, were
being demolished, this spot having been selected by the
committee for the erection of the intended new Amy and
Navy Clab