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was not to he debarred from resisting every future crea-
tion that may be proposed upon the same principle.
The Bishop of SALISBURY regretted that this Bill
had been placed in the bands of Noble Lords at so late
a period as this morning, and preventing thereby that
careful and deliberate attention which a Bill so important
deserved at the hands of their Lordships. The objec-
tions urged by the Noble Lord against this Bill were
such as had otter been repeated in this House, and had
as often been most completely answered. The present
Bill proposed to remedy an evil universally admitted, viit,
that of the large amount of superintendence which de-
volved upon the present Bishops, and their inadequacy
to the performance in a proper manner of those high
and important duties. And it was from a deep sense of
the necessity of an increase in the number of Bishops,
that he and his Right Reverend Brethren were resolved
to give their most cordial assent to the Bill now before
their Lordship's House.
Earl FI ISZ IX IL LA M concurred with the observation
of the Noble Lord, that it would be a serious anomaly
that there should be one Bishop who had not a seat in
their Lordships House in common with the other Right
Rev. Prelates. Be felt quite convinced that there was a
necessity for a very extensive addition to the present
number of Bishops, and he thought also that it would
be desirable that a careful subdivision of the large
dioceses already existing, with a view to a more efficient
administration of the duties which devolved upon those
Right Rev. Prelates.
The Bishop of OXFORD wished to tender his most
hearty thanks to the Government for having brought in
the present Bill, end for having given their minds
heartily and warmly to the consideration of the ques-
tion. He thought, however, that there were some
grave objections to the measure. The positio❑ of the
English Bishop required that his funds should be ample
and fully equal to that which they at present received.
It was not a seat in the House which required the ne-
cessity of those funds. It had been said that seats in
this House gave the Bishops a great deal of power ; he
did not believe that such was the case. On the contrary,
he thought that seats in that House tended to a dimi-
nution of the spiritual authority of their Lordships. He
wished their Lordships to pass the Bill with the greatest
possible unanimity, but at the same time with some
minor amendments which seemed to him necessary; but
one great fundamental oifficulty met with in the Bill was
the limiting ef the new Bishops to four, because if they
limited the number of spiritual teachers, they would
limit the spiritual instruction of the people. He thought
that the extension of the see should be a matter to be
dealt with on a future occasion.
After a few words from the Bishop of BANGOR in
favour of the all, and expressive of his thanks to the
Government for its introduction, and from Earl Powis,
the purport of whose observations could not be heard in
the gallery (he was understood, however, to support the
Bill),
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, as none of the
Noble Lords who had addressed the House had ex-
pressed their intention to oppose the Bill, it would be
necessary for him to detain their Lordships with a few
observations. He did not feel satisfied at present
to rest only with a Bishopric of Manchester,
because he thought that they must carry their reform
further, and increase the number to four. The funds by
which the three additional bishops would be sustained
were accruing, and when he looked at the extent of the
population, at its rapid increase, and its increased
spiritual wants, he confessed that he considered three
additional bishops absolutely necessary, and as soon as
the funds now accruing were provided, the three would
be appointed. Her Majesty's Government believed that
they were faithfully discharging their duty in bringing
forward this Bill. The amendments proposed would be
printed and placed in the hands of their Lordships, and
wh« n they came under their attention, he confidently
trusted that they might be favoured with the rosesence of
the Right Rev. Prelate at the head of the Church, whose
presence on all occasions was gratifying.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be reported to-morrow.
RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented the report
of the Select Committee appointed to report relative to
the suspension of the Railway Bills of this session, and
moved that it he considered.
Lord KINNAIRD considered that the Bill would not
prevent the evils it was intended to obviate; for i-aitanee,
it said that interest was not to be paid up!in calls. He
thought that these resolutions had neen passed without
due consideration.

Lord REDESb ALE said that he was opposed to
those resolutions on many accounts. He Vonsidered
them especially objectionable, as binding the House of
Commons to a course which they were utterly unable to
carry out. They gave the Railway Companies, having
Bills before Parliament, the option of upending in this
session, and resuming the same Bill in th.- next. Now,
it was notorious that the very constitution of that House
rendered any arrangement of this nature futik, because
no arrangement entered into by this, would be binding
in the next Parliament.

After a few words from Lord GRENVILLE, the re-
solutions, with amendments, were agr.ed to, and their
Lordships adjourned soon after Eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 10.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The Huse re-assembled at Five o'c!ock.
THIRD READINGS.
The Manchester, 13,ixtim, and Midland Junction Rail-
way Bill was read a Laird time and passed.
The Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincnin,hire Railway,
and Manchestar and Lincoln Union Railway, and Choi-
terfield and Gain-borough Canal Amalgamation Bill
was also read a third time, and the svveral amendments
agreed to.

REPORTS.
The reports upon the iollowirig Bills were brought up
and ordered to lie upon the table:—
Croydon Commercial Gas arid Coke.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Ri ing Junction Railway
(Burnley and Coll cry Branches).
Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains-
borough and Rineaster.)
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations and
Alterations in Oldham Branch, &c.)
Ipswich Docks.
Legal Quays (London).
Leominster Canal Navigation Sale.
London-bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement.
London (City) Improvements.
London and North- Western Railway (Lease and Pur-
chase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester
Railway).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station
at Sheffield and Branch to the Sheffield Canal).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef-
field Canal Purchase).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (June
tion with the Midland Railway, via Barnsley, and
Branches therefrom).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch
to Chapeltown and Thurgeland Coal Branch.).
Midland Railway (Masbrough an Normanton Stations
Enlargement).
Midland Railway (Extension from near Leicester yid
Bedford to Ilitchin, and to Northampton and Hun-
tingdon, and Enlargement of the Leicester Station).
Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).
Midland Railway (Hangotsfield to Bath).
North British Railway (No. 1).
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Rudders-.
field, and Goole Railway (Partial Alteration of
Levels, &c.)
South-Eastern Railway (Widenink of the Greenwich
Railway and Arrangement and Enlargement of the
London bridge Station).
South Yorkshire, D3neaster, arid Goole Railway (Peni-
stone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham,
Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail-
way, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal).
Swansea Harbour.
Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Wear.
dale Extension, arid Wear and Derwant Railways,
and Shilthesi Tunnel Amalgamation.
Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers.
York and North Midland Railway (Knottingley Branch).
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments on the following Bills were
considered arid agreed to :—Belfast Port and Harbour
Railway, Ewell Rates Bill, Sheffield Markets Bill.
ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAILWAY (SALE
OR LEASE).
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS HAR-
BOUR AND BRIDGE TRUSTS.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.
Mr. WILLIAMS moved that Captain Berkeley, Mr.
0. Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Bankes,
and Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on
the Holyhead Harbour Bill. He would not have
detained the House one moment on this subject,
but that he understood the Secretary of the
Admiralty was to oppose it. The Committee ap-
pointed on the Bill was most unsatisfactory ; two of the
Gentlemen appointed being directly interested in this
Government job. The Hon. Gentlemen then quoted
the opinions of some eminent engineers against the
availableness of the harbour. Now, in the Owe of such
statements as had been made by eminent engineers,
whose attainments could not be questioned, and who had
been employed in public works for a number of years, were
they determined to act contrary to tin ir expressed opinion
on the matter ? It was estimated that the cost of the work
would be 600 0001. That estimate was made by an
engineer of eminence, opposed to which was the esti-
mate of -ir George Rennie, that the cost would be
1,800,000/, who had stated also that great loss would
be sustained by the blasting that would be necessary,
and that it would be almost impossible to obtain blocks of
stone of sufficient size. Sir George Rennie also stated
that the labour of throwing down the breakwater
would be very great. Now by which of these opinions
should they be guided ? He thought the House
called upon to appoint a fair Committee, and he begged,
therefore, to move that Captain Berkeley, Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Benkes, and
Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on
the Holyhead Harbour Bill.
On the motion that Captain Berkeley be added to the
Committee,
Mr. WARD opposed it on the ground that the addi-
tion of other names to the ten already appointed was
utterly unnecessary and unwarranted by the usages of
the House.
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