The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOCSE OF LORDS, June 26.
Their Lordships met to-day shortly after Four o'clock.
ROYAL COMMISSION—THE ROYAL ASSENT TO
THE CORN AND CUSTOMS BILLS.
The royal assent was given to-day by commission to the
following Bills
THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
THE CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.
The Administration of Criminal Justice Bill.
The Explosive Substances Bill.
London and York Railway Bill.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway ( Tay Ferry, &c.) P ill.
The North British Railway (Hawick Branches) Bill.
The North British Railway Bill.
The Scottish Midland Extension Junction Railway Bill.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway Bill.
Malton and Driffield Junction Railway Bill.
Arbroath and Forfar Railway Amendment Bill.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Pettycur Branch) Bill.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Bill.
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Bill.
Buckinghamshire Railway (Oxford and Bletchley Junction) Bill.
Great North of Scotland Railway Bill.
North Staffordshire Railway (Harecastle and Sandbach) Bill.
North Staffordshire Railway (Pottery line) Bill.

North Staffordshire Rail:vac, (Churnet Valley) Bill.
Belfast and County Down Railway Bill.

East Lincolnshire Railway Bill.
York and North Midland Railway (Leeds Extension) Bill.
Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Bill.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Bill.
North Western Railway Bill.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Bill.
Slamannan and Borrowstouness Railway Bill.
Great North of England Railway (Boroughbridge Branch) Bill.
Great North of England Railway (Bedale Branch) Bill.
Eastern Union Railway (Ardleigh to Colchester) Bill.
Great Grimsby -and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension
(No. 1) Bill.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension
(No. 2) Bill.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension
(No. 3) Bill.
Great Grimsby
.and Sheffield Junction Railway (Humber
Ferries) Bill.
Midland Railway (Erewash Valley Extension) Bill.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Bill.

Rallochney Railway Bill.
Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway and Ferry Bill.
Stowmarket Navigation Bill.
Port Ellen Harbour Bill.
Portsmouth Harbour and Pier Bill.
Liverpool Docks Bill.
Northumberland Docks Bill.
Lincoln Waterworks Bill.
Warrington Waterworks Bill.
Harrogate Waterworks Bill.
Stafford New Gas Bill.
Hartlepool Gas and Water Bill.
Kendal Union Gas and Water Bill.

Great Grimsby Gas Bill.
Hamilton New Gas Bill.

Burnley Improvement and Waterworks Bill.
Liverpool Improvement Bill.
Neweastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill.
Sittingbourne Improvement Bill.
York Improvement Bill.
Brornsgrove Improvement and Small Tenements Bill.

Leith Paving Bill.
Salford Hundred Court Bill.

Liverpool Sanatory Bill.
Rye and Derwent Drainage Bill,
Askew's Estate Bill. _

Upwell-cum-Welney Rectory Bill.
The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke
of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington, and the Earl of Dal-
housie.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the Lord
Provost, town council, and other inhabitants of the city of
Glasgow, praying to be heard by counsel at the bar against the
Clydesdale Junction Railway Lill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE submitted to the House
that a humble address should be presented to her Majesty,
eotnplaining of the want of accommodation in their Lordship's
House, and of the delay in preparing the new Houses for
their Lordships' reception through the obstruction occasioned
by Dr. Reid's system of warming and ventilating the House
of Peers.

Viscount CANNING said, he had to submit a report on
the subject to their Lordships, which in no way interfered with
the report laid on the able by the Noble Marquis. The Noble
Lord then read the report, after which the Noble Lord pre-
sented a petition from Dr. Reid, praying that he should be
heard at the bar of their Lordships' House against the intro-
duction of any other system of ventilation than his own.
Lord SUDELEY said that Dr. Reid had been very hardly
dealt with by those opposed to him. He (Lord Sudeley) had been
a member of the Committee for some time, but during the
time he had been so he had never heard the name of Dr. Reid
mentioned, nor any complaints preferred against him, though he
had heard several made against the architects and contractors.
Dr. Reid was obliged to submit on all architectural points
to Mr. Barry, who had done everything to obstruct his opera-
tions. He would ask any one of their Lordships, was net the
system of ventilation adopted by Dr. Reid the most scientific
and the most effective yet discovered? Notwithstanding this,
he would net be allowed to carry his system into effect, but the
ventilation of the Houses was given to a person by no means SD
competent. He therefore wished the resolution postponed till
the evidenee was laid before their Lordships.
Lord REDESDALE said, if they waited for that they would
be a long time before they got into the new Houses. He could
state, in reference to Dr. Reid, that as a member of the Com-
mittee, he (Lord Redesdale) had frequently called for Dr.
Reid's plans, but he had never yet given them. Under all the
circumstances of the case, he thought the recommendation of
the Committee ought to be attended to, and that they should
proceed to ventilate the House without Dr. Reid.

The Marquis of SALISBURY supported the motion.
Lord CAMPBELL thought they should continue to suffer
inconvenience before they perpetrated an injustice, and if they
adopted the resolution, he believed they would be treating Dr.
Reid unjustly. It was quite true that they were sometimes in
the temperature of Greenland, and at other times in that of
Bencoolen, but that was not the flub of Dr. Reid, who was not
allowed to carry out his principles. Ile believed that 'Dr. Reid
had never held nut any promise which he hzd not fulfilled, and
tie considered that it would be very unjust to eeprive him of
the honour of ventilating the new houses of Parliament.
Lord SUDELEY said hat no one could doubt that Dr. Reid
had succeeded in houses already built. Why then should he
fail in houses to be built, if he had a fair opportunity of carry-
ing out his experiments?
Lord REDESDALE said that the test of a man's abilities
was his being able to overcome difficulties. He had decidedly
failed in the ventilation of their Lordships' House, for they had
been some evenings almost roasted during the debates.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, believing that the object
of his Noble Friend's motion was merely to enable their Lord-
ships to enter the new House the next session, he should have
his support, and he hoped that their Lordships would adopt the
motion.
The Marquis of CL ANRICARDE said that the question
before their Lordships was not the ability or non-ability of Dr.
Reid, but whether they should take steps to enable them to
enter the new House the next session. He did not dispute
the abilities of Dr. Reid. _ .

Lord ASHBURTON, without throwing any reflection upon
Dr. Reid's character, submitted that for the purpose of
putting an end to these annoying discussions about ventilation,
the address should be agreed to.
—Earl GREY agreed with his Noble Friend near him that
Dr. Reid had been successful in his attempts to ventilate the
House of Commons ; there was invariably an agreeable and
steady temperature there. Formerly that House (when occu-
pied by their Lordships) was wretchedly ventilated. Since
1835, the time when Dr. Reid was called in, it had been ad-
mirably ventilated. He was sorry to hear that the plans of Dr.
Reid could not be introduced into the new Houses of Parlia-
ment.
The LORD CHANCELLOII then put the motion, which
was agreed to.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask his Noble Friend oppo-
site whether Mr. Edward Macdowall had been restored to his
place of Attorney-General for Van Diemen's Land, from which
he had been removed by Lord John Russell ?

Lord LYTTELTON said the fact was that both the Attor-
ney-General and Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land had
been removed from their offices by Lord J. Russell. In the
spring of last year, Sir E. Wilmot, the governor of Van
Diemen's Land, had recommended that Mr. Macdowall should
be appointed to the office of Commissioner of the Insolvent
Court in that colony, and accordingly in September last the
appointment had taken place.
After a few words from Lord STANLEY and Lord
LYTTELTON,
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Monday he would
move for the production of Lord John Russell's dispatch.

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CHANGE OF VENUE, (IRELAND.)
Lord BROUGHAM said he now begged to lay on the table
a Bill of great importance to the good government of the sister
kingdom. It was a measure for changing the venue in criminal
prosecutions in Ireland, and was similar to the Bill which he
had introduced in 3843, and which he had only abandoned at
the request of his Noble and Venerable Friend opposite (the
Duke of Wellington.) He would now lay it on the table with-
out discussion.

LORDS GOUG II AND HARDINGE'S ANNUITY
BILLS.—MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION.
The Earl of RIPON said that it was his intention that even •
'nit's" announce the course which the Government intended to
pursue ..i.s.
---,respect to these Bills, but in consequence of 6r-
(millstone's ~u,,i, bad
the recently occurred he did not consider it
his duty to call attention to them to-night, but would
postpone the reconsider
against presented
The Duke of RlCRaiMolf) the report for the present.
a aetition from a
parish in Herefordshire,
Lunatics Bill.
(JUVENILE
SUMMARY CONVICTION4.IPer
to movetmtliisale.
OFFENDERS) BILL.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER rose
second
all pr con
reading of this Bill. The Bill proposedthat
wilder seventeen years of age should be ronghtutol
as passible. It was one of the clauses of the II that
trates should have summary jurisdiction in altl.peertetyceliavreeen7
to
cases, and that that power should also apply la
stolen goods, and those prisoners who were cNoharble Lord wasged wittrisreo-f
re-
ceiving money under false pretences. The
proceeding with the details of the measure, when
The LORD CHANCELLOR, interrupting the Noble
Marquis, said that he should like to move the adjournment of
the debate till the House should be better attended, and he
would therefore move that the further consideration of the Bill
should be adjourned to Monday week.
The adjournment was agreed to.
PUNISHMENT OF CLERKS.
The Bishop of LONDON moved the second reading of the
Ptinib,hment of Clerks' Bill.
Lord PORTMAN said that it would be better, under the
existing circumstances, to take the second reading of the Bill
without discussion, and the second reading could be taken
merely pro formil,
The Bishop of LONDON concurred in the suggestion of the
Noble Lord. _ .

The Bill was then read a second time.
COUNTY WORKS PRESENTMENTS (IRELAND

BILL.

The County Works Presentments (Ireland) Bill was passed
through Committee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
Ileuse adjourned at Seven o'clock.