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SICILY.

The following is the decree of the Sicilian Parlia-
ment, nominating the Duke of GENOA King of
Sicily :
" Art. 1. The Duke of Genoa, second son of the pre •
sent King of Sardinia, and his posterity, are called to
reign in Sicily, according to the constitutional
statutes of the 10th July, 1848. Art. 2. He will
assume the name and title of Albert Amedee 1.,
king of Sicily, in virtuo of the constitution of
the kingdom. Art. 3. He shall be invited to ac-
cept and take the oath required by the 40th article of the
statutes. Done and delivered at Palermo on the 11th
July, 1848. (Signed) The President of the House of
Commons, the Marquis do Torrearsa; the President of
the House of Peers, the Duke de Serra di Falco."

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

DOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD SHAFTESBURY'S Co ‘I NIITTEE.—DIIN-
DEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY (DRIldQe Junction).—
This Bill was re-committed to introduce certain amended
clauses relating to the capital.

ROYSTON AND HITCRIN EXTENSICN RAILWAY.—
Clauses further considered, and Bill ordered to be re-
ported.
GROUP No. B.—NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY (Harrow to Breutford).—Case for the pro-
moters and opposition of the Great Western Company
further considered.
GROUP No. 9.—Scornsu MIDLAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY (Amendment of Acts, and Branch to Law-
rencekirk).—The case for the promoters and the oppo-
sition of the Aberdeen Company being closed, the room
was cleared, and the Committee, after a short delibera-
tion, decided that the preamble was not preyed.
PAISLEY, BARRIIEAD, AND lIURLET RAILWAY.—The
object of this Bill is to authorise the construction of a
line of railway to open up the mineral field in the imme-
diate vicinity of Glasgow. The case was opened to-day,
and evidence taken in its favour.

GROUP No. IO.—LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE- UPON • TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The
object of this Bill is to authorise the abandonment of
the line and the dissolution of the company. It is op-
posed by several landholders along the route of the
proposed railway, who insist that the dissolution of the
concern is sought for stock-jobbing purposes, and that
the public ought not to be deprived of the
benefit of the line to enable the shareholders to pocket
large sums, and A competing line to monopolise the
whole traffic of the district. The case was opened to-
day, and evidence taken in its favour.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny into the ;;11Clity of Mr. Reynolds'
majority was resumed, and in the course of the day the
petitioners succeeded in striking off one additional vote.

NORTH C ESHINE.
The North Cheshire Election Committee met again
this morning, and proceeded with the ease of treating
against Mr. Leigh, the sitting Member. The evidence
went to show that each voter was supplied
with a voting card, which was exchanged for
a refreshment ticket after he had polled. The
refreshments supplied to the voters consisted of
eJld meats, beer, and brandy and water. One of the
witnesses stated that he had promised to support Mr.
Leigh's opponent, but the prospects of a good dinner,
which Mr. Leigh's friends held out to various electors,
induced him to vote for that gentleman.
The evidence had not closed when the Committee ad-
journed.
The charges of bribery contained in the petition are
abandoned.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Earl of DARNLEY took the oaths and his seat.
'[he Earl of lIARROWBY presented a petition from
the journeymen bakers, praying for a diminution of the
hours of labour; also from. the Shrewsbury Waterworks
Company against the llealths of Towns Bill.
ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE (IRELAND)
BILL.

On the motion of Earl FUPTESCUE, this Bill was
read a second time.

AI)MINISTIZATION OF JUSTICE BILL.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL (No. 2).
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
VEXATIOUS ACTIONS BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL moved that this Bill be read a
second time.

The Earl of WICKLOW hoped a similar Bill would
be introduced for Ireland.

The motion was then agreed to.
IRISH CONSPIRATORS DETENTION BILL.
This Bill having been brought up from the Commons,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that it be read
a first titne.—Agreed to.
The NOBLE MARQUIS then said he was about to pro-
pose to their Lordships to adopt an unusual, but not an
unprecedented, course. He had in the first instance to
state to their Lordships, that only three days having
elapsed since this matter had been discussed in
that House, additional and overwhelming proof
had been furnished of the existence of the exi-
gency under the pressure of which their Lordships
were called upon to act. He held in his hand a short
report on the state of Ireland, which contained a state-
ment of facts relating to that country up to Saturday.
It stated that the system of clubs for organizing rebel-
lion was advancing at an accelerated pace, and that in
Cork, Waterford, Meath, and Kilkenny, those clubs
were endeavouring to gain possession of the country
since the Lord-Lieutenant had proclaimed Dublin, Cork,
and Waterford, the leaders of the conspiracy had been
moving from county to county to review their forces.
These measures had been adopted without disguise, and
it would seem as if the leaders had endeavoured to prove
the necessity of passing this measure. But without allud-
ing to the sedition and treason with which numerous
Irish papers had come laden to this country, he would
allude to a few significant paragraphs which clearly
showed the objects which those parties had in view.
In one of these papers he found a paper signed by a
leader, named Brennan, declaring that they were now
in a state of war, from which they could not recede,
and urging the young men of Ireland, as very rash and
rather inclined to be fiery, to proceed at once, and to
let their watchword be " Now or never." Then there
was another article, signed by Mr. Thomas F. Lalor,
urging the Irish to destroy'the 40,000 English soldiers
in Ireland, to kill and capture them in the best and
swiftest manner possible. There was another paper
which, after sneering at the Earl of Clarendon's prac-
tical instructors in Ireland, headed a column as their
own practical instructor, instructing the people
in every means of destroying life and property that
the most hellish ingenuity could imagine. He,
therefore had turned to those precedents which
showed to what means their Lordships had recourse to
pass measures in times of emergency to proeeed in one
day to carry a Bill of this importance through all its
stages. lie found that in 1803, without any previous
notice, two Bills for the suppression of rebellion in Ire-
land, and enabling the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to
Lord
arrest suspected persons were passed throughte
rd
L the
House in one sitting, that the standing orders were sus-
pended, and a resolution passed enabling
Chancellor to put the question upon every
stage on the same day. lie had no hesitation In pro-
posing to their Lordships to act upon that precedent.._
(Hear.) Ile had no doubt but the persons who were
engaged in organizing rebellion, who had proclaimed
war without subjecting themselves to the da!igersotwar,
were not entitled to the benefit of those regulations,
which were never intended for rebellions. subjects.
One of those writers had asked who would strike the
first blow for Ireland—who would shed the first blood ?
and if no one should be found to strike the first blow or
to shed the first blood, it would be mainly owing
to
whichtheir
Lordships passing this Bill without delay, and
would at once receive the Royal assent. Ile concluded
by moving the second reading of the Bill, and the sus-
pension of the standing orders.
Lord BROUGHAM was aware that it was a most
dangerous power with which it was now propose
to invest the Lord Lieutenant, but it was an absolutely ne-
cessary one. Without detaining their Lordships, he would
at once say that he gave his cordial consent to his Noble
Friend's proposition, but when he saw the exultation
which those events had produced in France, he
must protest against it being understood that we
wanted this measure or any measure to protect the
Integrity of the empire or to retain for us Ireland.
The integrity of the empire was never in jeopardy.
This measure was not wanted to prevent the severance
of the empire, but to prevent attempts at that severance,
which would produce bloodshed and civil war, which
civil war would end in the destruction of those rebellious
persons whO excited it.—(Hear, hear.) One of those
proclamations which his Noble Friend had read
had been issued by a man who was in prison
for his crimes. Ile trusted that there was some
prison discipline in Ireland as there was in England, to
prevent prisoners, when committed to prison, from com-
mitting a repetition of their crimes. If such were not
the law of Ireland, it ought to be the law of Ireland ,
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and if it were, he trusted it would be carried out. A;
would
not the leaders of these people, ho believed
not be very sorry to see this Bill passed,
had in Ireland leaders of two sorts—the first whoy
preached up repeal but took care not to commit them-
selves, and warned the people to do nothing unlawful_
these were sordid, cautious, crafty, money-getting Wen,
who thought they did enough to absolve their con-
sciences—if any they had—or to save themselves
from prosecution if they said pray do dot break the
law as if they had taken gunpowder and placed it near
a fire and said pray do not explode. Of lute had arisen an-
other set of leaders who wished to make a noise to make
speeches to become notorious. He believed that rebellion
was the last objectthey had,in view; andithen they were
hatching a rebellion which they wished never to
come into existence, but which would come into

and existence of the persons of those leaden were not
secured, and it was to secure the safety of the
country from those who wished to rebel, viz,
the followers, and from those who did not wish, but who
would be forced to break it, viz., the leaders, that he
vote for this Bill.

The Earl of WICKLOW asked for some assurance
that measures should be adopted for preventing pri-
soners in gaols from writing and publishing seditious
letters?

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there was every
reason to believe that although these letters bore the
initials of the prisoners, they were not written by them,
although they might have been written by their au-
thority.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH believed that this
measure, if introduced some months ago, might have pre-
vented the organization of the clubs, but he believed
that now it would be too late to prevent rebellion. Writings
as exciting had been published three months since by that
person who have now been transported for his crimes,
and no steps had been taken in consequence. Three
months since, he (Lord Ellenborough) had urged the
necessity of proclaiming Dublin.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPE/xEn took the Chair at Four o'clock.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to Payne's Patents (Improve-
ments in preserving Vegetable Matters) Bill was
agreed to.
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time :—New.
ton's Estate Bill. North Wales Railway (Dissolution of
Company) Bill.

SECOND READING.

The Regent's Quadrant Colonnade Bill was read a
second time.

POOR-LAW.

Mr. WARD presented a petition from the guardians
of Greenwich and other parishes in its neighbourhood
against the Bill for altering the charges for the relief of
the poor.
Mr. MILES presented a petition to the same effect.

THE RIVER DEE.

Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from Chester,
complaining of the management of the navigation of the
river by the joint stock company to whom it is intrusted,
and praying that the inhabitants might have the benefits
which that Act was intended to confer. The Right
Hon. Baronet said the petition was one of considerable
importance, and ho trusted the Hon. Baronet the Member
for Chester (the Attorney-General) would move that
the petition be printed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition
to the same effect from the town• council of Chester.
The Hon. Gentleman said he should to•morrow move
that buth the petitions be printed.
EMIGRATION.

Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from the
board. of guardians of the Hanwell Union, praying for
greater facilities for emigration,
DUBLIN ELECTION.

Lord R. GROSVENOR moved to discharge Alr.
Baines from further attendance on the Dublin Eloction
Committee, on account of the serious indisposition of a
near relation.—Agreed to.

Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Liver-
pool, signed by the Mayor and by persons of all classes
and ()pinions in that place, stating that they viewed with
the greatest satisfaction the introduction of a measure
into Parliament for the suppression of rebellion in
Ireland, and praying that as Liverpool was so
near Ireland, and as so many persons connected with
that country came over to the port of Liverpool, among
whom were many of the disaffected, that the provisions
of the Bill might be extended to Liverpool, or that a
Bill might be introduced, with similar provisions, ex-
tending to that town.
POOR-LAWS.
I❑ reply to a question from Mr. URQUHART,
Mr. C. BULLER stated that he intended to proceed
with the four Bills for amending the poor-laws, and he
proposed to-morrow, at twelve o'clock, to bring the union
charges under the consideration of the House.

PRIVILEGE.
Mr. C. ANSTEY wished to explain a mistake which
had crept into the report of Friday night's debate. He
was repurted to hare charged the Right Hon. Baronet
the Secretary of State for the Home Department with
having selected passages from a speech of his Hon. and
Learned Friend the Member fur Athlone, and sup-
pressing others which would have materially qualified
his Hon. and Learned Friend's opinion. He wished it
to be understood that he had made no such charge.
OVERLOADING STEAM-BOATS.

Mr. LUSIIINGTON wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department a ques-
tion of come importance to the metropolis. It would no
doubt be in the recollection of the House that the
attention of the Lord Mayor had been directed to the
circumstance of overloading steam-packets plying on the
river Thames, and his Lordship had given it as his opi-
nion that no real remedy would be applied to the evil
until between 400 and 500 had been drowned. He
therefore wished to ask whether, under this state of
things, Government were prepared to propose any regu-
lations for the purpose of reforming the system?
Sir G. GREY said the question came more imme•
diately under the cognizance of the department of his
Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade,
and he would be glad if the Hon. Gentleman would re-
peat his question on another occasion.
DISTURBANCES IN EDINBURGH.

Mr. lIUME, seeing the Lord Advocate in his
place, wished to ask him a question connected
with an occurrence that took place in Edinburgh on the
3d of July. It would be remembered that a disturbance
arose there relative to a sale of the goods of a defaulter
in payment of the minister's rate, and the military
were called out to protect the auctioneer who
conducted the sale in the execution of his
duty. The question he wished to ask was, why the civil
power was not used instead of the military to quell the
disturbance ?
The LORD ADVOCATE was understood to state
that the occurrence referred to by the Hon. Member
took place on the occasion of a sale in Edinburgh. The
mob which had collected became so unruly that the police
were not sufficiently numerous to disperse it, and the
consequence was that the military were called, and
he had been assured by many persons of great
judgment and experience that it would have been
utterly impossible, without their assistance, to have put
down the disturbance. He observed that the police
force of Edinburgh was entirely inadequate in numbers,
and was besides badly paid, and had it been sufficiently
numerous he was cf opinion there would have been no
necessity to have called in any part of the military. He
hoped that the Commissioners of tho Edinburgh Police
would turn their attention to this matter, and see that
the police force was increased.
IRELAND.

In reply to a question from Mr. S. CRAWFORD,
Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. Member's motion
with respect to the state of Ireland might b© taken on
Friday next.
STOCK IN TRADE EXEMPTION BILL.

Sir R. LI. INGLIS inquired if it was the intentio❑ of
the Government to bring in a general measure on this
subject?
Sir G. GREY said the subject was one surrounded
with difficulties, and that he could not give a pledge to
that effect.