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HOUSE OF COMMONS. June 16.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.

HODGSON HINDE'S ESTATE.
This Bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed.

REPORTS.
The following reports were brought up and ordered to
lie on the table :
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branch from Burnt-
island to Dunfermline Branch, &c., No. 2.)
Leeds Waterworks (No. 2).
Norwich Small Tenements.
Townshend Peerage.
LINCOLN'S INN RATING.
The report on the Lincoln's Inn Rating Bill was
further considered and agreed to.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail-
way, and Chester and Birkenhead Railway Purchase

or Amalgamation.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Acts Amend-
ment (Diversions of Line in the parishes of Black-
burn and Bolton in the Moors).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Burntisland Pier,

&c.)
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
(Branch at Bugsworth, to join the Peak Forest Canal
Tramway, and Amendment of Acts).
North-Western Railway (Diversions at Skipton, Cas-
terton, and Sedbergh).
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments to the London Sewage
Chemical Manure Bill were considered and agreed to.

SMITHFIELD-MARKET.
Petitions against the removal of Smithfield-market
were presented by Sir E. FILMER and Mr. STAFFORD
O'BRIEN.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.
Petitions were presented in favour of the Medical Re-
gistration Bill by Mr. A LDAM, from the School of
Medicine of Leeds ; and by Mr. WAILLEY, from 136
different places.
HEALTH OF TOWNS.
Petitions were presented in favour of the Health of
Towns Bill by Mr. Wakley, from Paddington and other
places ; and' by Mr. Gisborne and Sir Denis le Mar-
chant.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the borough
of Finsbury, praying that the Rsja of Sattara might be
heard at the bar of the House in his own defence.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented petitions from
the Roman Catholics of Southwark, praying that they
might be allowed to participate in any grant for na-
tional education.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL.
Colonel SIBTHORP wished to know from the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade whether it was his intention to press on during
the present session the Agricultural Statistics Bill ?
Mr. MILNER GIBSON said that such were the diffi-
culties surrounding the measure, that he was afraid be
should be obliged to give it up for the present
session. He would, therefore, move that the order of
the day for the second reading be discharged.
Mr. W. BROWN was sorry that so useful a Bill
should be delayed to another session. He was sure that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer would find no difficulty
in paying the expenses contemplated by the Bill out of the
Consolidated Fund. He hoped that the Vice-President
of the Board of Trade would introduce the measure early
in the next session.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN thought that the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade had not been supported by the other members of
the Government. He was sorry that the Bill should be
withdrawn. He expected to hear to-morrow that the
Government would not allow the Bill to drop.
Mr. WAKLEY merely rose to say that he objected
to the Bill being withdrawn.
The SPEAKER said if the House would have the
subject debated it must be postponed till it came round
in the regular turn with the other orders of the day.
The subject then dropped.
SCHOOL OF DESIGN.

Mr. WAKLEY inquired when the evidence taken
before the Committee of Inquiry would be laid before
the House ?
Mr. GIBSON said the annual report, and the evi•
deuce with it, would be printed in a few days.
SALE OF GRAIN LAWS.

Mr. BANKES presented a petition from a magistrate
in Dorsetshire regretting the repeal of the laws relating
to the sale of grain previous to the 6 and 7 Wm. IV.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

Dr. NICHOLL wished to know whether the Govern-
ment meant to take any step this session in reference to
the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts.
Sir G. GREY said a Bill was actually under the con-
sideration of the Lord Chancellor, and it was
only matter of doubt whether it could be ready in
time for this session. But there were doubts which it
might be advisable to settle by Bill.
Mr. ROEBUCK hoped that no temporary measure
would be introduced, which would pass through the
House without discussion.
Sir G. GREY intimated that any permanent measure
would certainly be before the house in sufficient time
for discussion ; but there were doubts in regard to the
jurisdiction of these courts, which it would be very
desirable in the meantime to set at rest.
ASSIZES IN IRELAND.

Mr. S. O'BRIEN wished to ask the Secretary for
Ireland again whether the report was true that the Irish
judges had postponed the assizes?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the only official intelli-
gence he had got was the notification sent to the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland that the ensuing assizes generally
were postponed; but he believed that the judges would
generally tike the assizes as usual.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN was surprised that ar

postponement should take place, considering the danger
there existed of fever breaking out in the over crowded
gaols.
Mr. LABOUCHERE assured the Hon. Member
that some of these gaols were literally in the state of
hospitals by the number of fever cases in some of them.
DROPPED ORDERS.
The House then took up the consideration of the
dropped orders.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL (No. 2.)
This Bill, on the motion of the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL, went through Committee, and the report
was ordered to be brought up to-morrow.
PORT NATAL COLLECTION OF DUTIES BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
On the motion for reading the orders of the day,
Lord JOHN RUSSEL rose and said, he proposed to
take the Poor•law Administration Bill to-morrow; on
Friday, the Health of Towns Bill; the Railways Bill on
Monday ; and on Friday se'anight, a Committee of
Supply.

AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.
Captain HARRIS hoped that the letter of Captain
RA alluded to by the Hon. Member for Edinburgh in
his speech, would be laid upon the table.
Lord J. RUSSELL agreed that the papers should be

laid upon the table of the House.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK wished to know, after what
had fallen from the Noble Lord last night in reference
to the motion of the Member for Montrose, and the
amendment of the Member for Finsbury (Mr. Dun-
come), relative to the interference of the British in the
affairs of Portugal, whether the Hon. Member for
Finsbury had consented to bring forward his amendment
as a substantive motion.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, with regard to the
resolution of the Hon. Member for Finsbury, that the
constitutional rights of the people should be observed,
he did not consider it was of much importance whether
it was proposed or not, as the Government felt that it
was their duty to see that the liberties of the people
should be maintained.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He
was happy to be informed, within the last ten minutes,
that dispatches had been received from the Portuguese
Government that they were prepared to extend to
the prisoners who were lately taken by the British naval
force as full and ample an amnesty as was guaranteed in
the original conditions proposed by the Powers who had
signed the articles for the intervention.
Mr. DUNCOMBE thought that the lion. Gentleman
(Mr. Borthwick) (might rather to have asked the lion.
Member for Montrose what his intentions were.
—(Laughter.) For his own part he thought that
from the reception his resolution had met from the
House, as well as from her Majesty's Government,
he should rest satisfied. At all events, he con-
sidered that the Honourable Gentleman who had in-

terposed to put an end to the discussion, and the party
shouldthe Government with
be consulted as to
with whom he acted, and who had given vent to such
re indignationgard tothe
at the
intervention, e o n d u c t of
the course they would wish to adopt under the cir-
cumstances.—(Laughter.)
Mr. NEWDEGATE defended the course he pur-
sued last night in moving that the House be counted.
He justified his conduct by stating that when he made
that motion there was not a single Cabinet Minister on
the benches opposite.—(oh, oh. !)--[Mr. Hume entered
the House at this moment, amid much laughter.]—And
on his own side of the Howse he was solus. He consi-
dered, therefore, that he was justified in adopting any
course rather than that the debate should proceed under
such circumstances.—(oh!).
Mr. HUME agreed with the Honourable Gentleman
who had just sat down, that he occupied a very singular
position—(Laughter)—and he must say, that it was
little creditable to the. Government that this occurrence
took place. For his own part, he did not believe that
it could have taken place without an arrangement to
that effect.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet
who had addressed the House last night, in a tone of
the greatest acerbity, and his whole speech was a
tissue of the grossest absurdities and misstatements,
He believed that the House was counted out by a pre-
vious arrangement; and he considered it very discredit-
able that it should bo so on a question of that import-
ance. He had no remedy for it but a renewal of his
motion ; but he did not think the House was disposed
to follow him in adopting such a course. He would not,
therefore, adopt that course, unless some further acts of
Colonel Wylde, who had acted as a firebrand in Por-
tugal, should force this upon him. At present he thought
he had done his duty, and he deeply regretted that the
debate had terminated as it had done.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it was not his in-
tention to defend the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member
for Tamworth from the misrepresentations which had
been made respecting him, considering, as he did, that,
cinlosheliys taodmthireathalcets of andthe ee mprehensive speech, he kept
case, and deduced inferences
which in reason it was difficult not to perceive.—(Hear,
hear.) But the Hon. Gentleman who had just spoken
said: that there was an understading between the two
patio that the debate should be disposed of itt the iire,y