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London, England, 1846-05-27 00:00:00

WAY BILL.

Mr. LAWSON moved that this Bill, be further considered.
Sir G. CLERK wished to call the attention of the House
to the maximum charges in this Bill, which were higher than
those generally charged.
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Mr. LAWSON said he was not aware that such was the fact.
The Bill was then adjourned ; and the same How. MEMBER,
moved the second reading of the Knaresborough and Leeds
and Thirsk Railway Bills, and the Harrogate Gas Bills, which
were agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. LAWSON, also, the Dublin and
Kingston Railway Extension Bill was read a second time.
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KNNINGTON LANE LIGHTING BILL.
On the motion of Mr. HAWES, this Bill was read a second time.
Mr. GREENE said it was useless
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After a few words from Mr. HAWES,
Mr. HUME said the House ought to put a stop to this irre-
gular kind of legislation. In one town in the kingdom sixty
private Acts were in force ; and two Acts were passed in one
year which contradicted each other ; and, therefore, the
general law of the land was over-riMen by enactments passed
without sufficient deliberation. There were two authorities
in the same town, which awarded different punishments for
the same offence. He considered that these facts were suffi-
cient to justifying him in calling upon the House to stop the
further progress of this Bill until the Committee were enabled
to make their report, which would take place in about fourteen
days.—( Hear, hear.)
After a short discussion the further consideration of the Rll
was postponed for a fortnight..
The following Bills were read a second time :
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branches from the Dundee
and Arbroath Railway and Tay Ferry Improvement).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway ( Strathearn Deviation).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Newport Railway and
Saint Andrew's Branch).
Arbroath aid Forfar Railway.

NORTH KENT RAILWAY.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS wished to knew whether his Right
Hon. Friend at the head of the Government would have anY
objection to the evidence of scientific men being taken durirg
the interval of the postponement cf the North Kent Railway
Bill?

Sir ROBERT PEEL replied, that in a communication
he had received from the Admiralty, they had expressed a
wish that evey investigation calculated to throw light on the
subject should be gone into. He (Sir Robert Peel) concurred
in their wish.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN moved for copies of the corres-
pondence in which he had been engaged during his late incar-
ceration, and also for a copy of the letter which he had ad-
dressed to the Speaker.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Sir 11. PEEL moved, that the House at its rising do adjourn
till Thursday next, and, in reply to an observation of an Hon.
'Wernher, continued to say, that on a former occasion, he bad
stated it as his intention to move the adjournment of the
House from Friday to the Thur day following; but some
Hon. Gentlemen having intimated to him that it would suit
I their convenience better if the House were adjourned from
Friday until the following Friday, he had thought proper to
comply with their intimation.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his concurrence with the
motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman.
WEST INDIA COLONIES.
Mr. HUME intimated his intention of bringing forward, on
Friday, next his resolutions with respect to the agricultural
resources of the British West India Colonies, and to the re-
strictive policy pursued towards those Colonies.
VAN DIEWEN'S LAND.
Mr. EWART moved that it was expedient that
the present system of making the colony of Van Di"
men's Land a general receptacle for convicts should cease ;
and that it was expedient that transportation be no longer
maintained as a punishment, but be continued only as 11
supplement to the previous punishment of imprisonment'
The Hon. Member then proeeeded to quote a variety of doTe
ments to show that up to 1840 the population, the shipping, "If
imports and exports, the places of worship and education
Van Diemen's Land, had gradually been increasing, and that
the colony had then arrived at its greatest state of prosperity!
A change, however, then took place, which caused the most
prejudicial effects. The moral consequences that resulted
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soon
manifested thweremsee lveats,present and the abomw inable and unutterabis l.
s itnesses in that
defied description or even conception. The Hon. Memberr
was about to quote some statements he had before him relative
to this moral degradation, when
An How. MEMBER moved that the House be counted.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and there being only xi
Members present, the House adjourned till Thursday.

LAW INTELLIGEN CE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 26.
(Sittings in Banco.)
LOWE V. PENN.
The Court gave judgment in this case to-day. It was arggel
fully on Friday, and was one in which was invelved the question of
an alleged infringement of a patent invention for propelling steam,
vuscls by means of an improvement upon the original Archimecill
screw. The public are already familiar with the facts of the oso.!;
as they have already been published several times. The Court gran7
a rule for a new trial, and then proceeded to try cases at Nisi Prnt
They were all either undefended cases, or actions upon bills of
change of no interest to any but the parties concerned.