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London, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

(IRELAND) BILL

The report on this Bill was received, and the Bill was
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow at twelve
o'clock.

LOCK-UP HOUSE BILL.

This Bill went through Committee, was reported,
and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow at
twelve o'clock. ,

DRAINAGE CERTIFICATES DILL.
This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered
;o be read a third time to-morrow, at twelve o'clock.
The House then adjourned to Five o'clock.

The House resumed at Five o'clock.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY presented a petition from
the electors of the northern division of the county of
Lancaster against the establishment of vote by ballot and
annual Parliaments.

NEW WRIT.
Mr. PINNEY moved that Mr. Speaker do issue hie
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new
writ for the electing of a burgess to serve in this pre-
sent Parliament for the borough of Cheltenham, in the
room of the lion. Craven Berkeley, whose election has
been determined to be void.—Agreed to.
LOSS OF THE OCEAN MONARCH.
Mr. HUME, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman the
President of the Board of Trade in his place, wished
to put a question to him respecting the loss of that ill-
fated vessel the Ocean Monarch; and he wished at the
same time to take the opportunity of recalling the cen-
sure which he felt called upon on Saturday to throw out
against the Cambria steamer. It was right that the
House should know that the commander of that vessel
had written a letter to the newspapers, in which he
stated that he was proceeding to Liverpool with two
hundred passengers, and with his decks full of cattle—
he had given up to another vessel all his coals except
what was absolutely necessary for the purposes of the
voyage to Liverpool—that when he saw the vessel on
fire ho was ten or twelve miles nearer Liverpool than
the Ocean Monarch, and that had he gone to her
assistance he would not have had sufficient coals to
carry him back again. Now that appeared to him ,
(Mr. Hume) to be a complete justification of the com-
mander's proceedings, and he was therefore glad to have
that opportunity of retracting what he said on Satur-
day.—(llcar, hear.) The question he wished to ask
the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board
of Trade was, whether he intended to make any inquiry
into the loss of this ship?—(Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Board of Trade had no

vessels. The Ocean Monarch
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InDulri.-HUME remarked that when a vessel was lost in
the Russia invariably caused every inquiry to be
instituted Baltic
cinto the circumstances of the loss, no matter
whether the vessel belonged to her or not, and he hoped
some arrangement would be made by which England
could obtain and exercise the same power.—(Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE said, without going into the
question of its being desirable that England should have
the power. ho wished his Hon. Friend and the House to
understand that the Board of Trade hnd been guilty of
no neglect, inasmuch as it had not the power to inquire
into the loss under the circumstances of the case.
Mr. HAVES, in reference to this subject, was happy
to inform the House that: an Emigration Commissioner
had been sent down to Liverpool to render what assis-
tance he could to the survivors, and he was able to
state that arrangements had been made with
the charterers of this ill fated vessel to for-
ward the survivors at the earliest possible period.
He was sorry to add, that the loss, both of life and pro-
perty, had been very great---the loss of the property
belonging to the emigrants could not be less than
20,000 Z

Mr. STANLEY said he was personplly acquainted with
the commander of the Cambria, and he could assure
the ilouse that he was a gallant seaman and a most
humane man. nothing but the peculiar situation in