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indictment had been found by a grand jury; and also to
make provision for supplying the prisoner, free of ex-
pense, with a copy of the information, of the depositions
whereon it is founded, and with such subpoenas for wit-
nesses as he may require.
Mr. Charles Pearson—Bill to regulate the practice
and charges of solicitors defending prisoners at the
Metropolitan Police-courts, and at the several courts to
which such such prisoners may be committed for trial;
and to provide for the speedy and cheap taxation of
bills of cost therein by the officers of the court by whom
the costs of prosecutions are now allowed.
Mr. C. Pearson—Bill to amend the laws which autho-
rise the acquittal of prisoners on the ground of insanity,
and to make suitable provision for their subsequent de-
tention and treatment,
Mr. C. Pearson—Bill to provide profitable employ-
ment for convicted prisoners, with scales of diet suited
to their sex, age, and strength, and to the amount of
their labour; also to empower Courts of Criminal Judi-
cature, instead of imprisoning offenders for fixed periods
of time, to pass sentenees of task labour proportioned
to their offences, so as to diminish the cost of gaols and
induce prisoners to work out their sentences by motives
that excite and means that confirm those habits of in-
dustry and self-control which will qualify them on their
discharge to gain their living without returning to
criminal pursuits.
Mr. C. Pearson—Bill to declare and explain the un-
altered common law of England, which pronounces, as a
rule, that children under the age of discretion are inea-
paces deli; and also, to make such provisions for the
treatment of juvenile offenders in conformity with the
principle and spirit of the common law, as experience in
this and other countries has proved that the existing
state of society requires.
Mr. P. Scrope—To call the attention of the Govern-
ment to the expediency of affording a discretionary
power and due facilities to the Boards of. Guardians of
the several unions both' in England and Ireland, for
setting to work.their ablelhodied.poor, as prescribed by
the poor-law of Elizabet,h,
Mr. Ewart— Bill to give a power of appeal in criminal
cases.
Mr. Baillie Coohrane—Copies of the recent corre-
spondence which has passed between the Noble Lord the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Sir Edmund
Lyons, her Britannic Majesty's Minister at the Court of
Greece.
Mr. Hutt—Select Committee, to inquire into the ex-
pediency of maintaining the existing system for the sup-
pression of the slave trade.
Lord Ashley—To bring under the notice of the House
the evidence taken before the Committee in 1844 on me-
dical relief to the sick poor ; also, the state of the juve-
nile population in many parts of the metropolis and other
large towns.
Mr. Evelyn Denison—Select Committee to inquire into
the composition and management of the Ecclesiastical
Commission.
Mr. Bouverie—Motion respecting the Ecclesiastical
Courts.

Col. Sibthorp—Reduction of duty on fire insurances.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane—Select Committee to inquire
into the duties, emoluments, and present condition of the
schoolmasters in Scotland.

Mr. Anderson—On Mr. Cochrane bringing forward
his motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the
duties, emoluments, and present condition of the school-
masters in Scotland, to move that the following words be
added:—" Also to inquire into the expediency and
practicability of so far altering the plan and principle of
management of the Scottish Parochial Schools, as to
render them more efficient and available for the educa-
tion of the children generally of each parish, whatever
may be the religious profession or denomination of the
parents."
Mr. Urquhart—Address praying her Majesty to
exercise her Majesty's undoubted prerogative of sum-
moning within her Majesty's realm of Ireland the peers
spiritual and temporal of that realm, and the knights,
citizens, and burgesses thereof, in order that her Majesty
may take counsel with the same in regard to the great
and manifold derangements and sufferings of that
kingdom.
Mr. Callaghan—To bring under the consideration of
the House the state of the tax in certain cities in Ireland
called " Ministers' Money," with a view to its repeal.
Mr. Bright—Select Committee to inquire into the
growth of cotton in India.
Mr. Hume—Select Committee to consider whether, in
all cases of shipwreck and of collisions of merchant res
sels, attended with loss of life, an inquiry, as speedily
after the accident, and as near as possible to the place,
should be appointed, to examine into the attendant cir-
cumstances and causes of the shipwreck, and to report
to the House in what manaer that inquiry should be
conducted.
Mr. Hume—Select Committee to inquire into the
state of the public income and expenditure of the United
Kingdom ; to examine the public revenue, under its
separate heads, as regards the assessment, collection, cus-
tody, and the establishments employed for the same, and to
report whetherjany and what alteration or repeal can be
made under any of these heads, with benefit to the public
revenue e also, to examine into the public expenditure,
under separate heads, and to consider and report what
measures can be adopted for the relief of the country,
by altering or reducing any portion of the said expen-
diture, without detriment to the public service.
Mr. Reynolds—Bill to place the municipal corpora-
tions of Ireland upon a snore equal footing as to rights
and privileges with those of England and Scotland.
Mr. Moffatt—Bill for assimilating the warehousing
privileges on Colonial and British spirits.
Mr. Moffatt—Bill to permit spirits to be rectified in
bond for exportation, and to permit rectified spirits and
compounds to be warehoused for exportation.
Mr. Baillic—Address, praying that her Majesty will
give directions that negotiations may be entered into
with foreign powers for the purpose of relieving this
country from the obligations of those treaties by which
we are bound to maintain a squadron upon the coast of
Africa.
Colonel Thompson—Correspondence, or extracts of
correspondence, between the Foreign-office and the Go-
vernment of the United States or of Mexico, throwing
light on the intention of the United States to annex any,
and what portions of the territory of the republic of
Mexico, for the purpose, or with the effect, of re-
establishing slavery therein.
Mr. Sharman Crawford—Bill to secure the custom
known in the province of Ulster by the name of
tenant-right; and to extend to tenants in other parts of
Ireland, under fitting regulations, the benefits of said
custom.
Mr. Sharman Crawford—Bili to relieve tenants in
Ireland from the liability to pay landlords' rates, and to
make provision otherwise for securing the payment of
rates chargeable on landlords.
Mr. Hume—To bring the existing laws respecting
banks of issue before the House, with a view of repeal-
ing the restriction clauses of the Act of 1844 (7th and
Bth Viet., c. 32) on the Banks of Issue of England; and
of repealing the Acts of 1845 (Bth and 9th Vic., c. 37
and 38), which restrict the Banks of Issue of Scotland
and Ireland, and of placing the Banks of Issue of the
United Kingdom on the principle of free trade, taking
adequate securities for the issues.
Mr. Slaney—Appointment of an unpaid standing
committee, or commission, to consider the state of large
bodies of the working classes in Great Britain, with a
view to the improvement of laws and regulations affect-
ing the social condition and suggestions for their benefit.
Mr. Pigott—Bill, by which the owners of houses
under the value of eight pounds a year in towns, and
five pounds a year in the couutry, shall be assessed, and
not the occupiers.
Mr. Urquhart—Copies of all correspondence between
the Hon. Captain Denman, RN., and her Majesty's Go-
vernment relating to the undertaking given by the Go-
vernment to defend the actions now pending in the
Court of Exchequer against the said officer for the
destruction of property on the west coast of Africa.
Colonel Dunne--Select Comnsittee to inquire into the
working and efficiency of the Poor-law in Ireland.
Mr. George A. Hamilton—On the motion of Colonel
Dunne, for a Select Committee for inquiring into the
working and efficiency of the Irish Poor-law, to call the
attention of the House to the unequal and oppressive
taxation to which the present mode of rating subjects
the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland.
Mr. Poulett Scrope—To call the attention of the
House to the means of facilitating the setting the able-
bodied poor, whether of England or of Ireland, to work
of a productive character, and of substituting partially
the out-door labour-test for the exclusive workhouse-
test of able-bodied pauperism.
Mr. Poulett Scrope—Bill to extend the provisions of
the Saving Banks Annuities Act, to the granting of de-
ferred Government annuities of small amount to mem-
bers of the industrious Classes, on the principle of mutual
assurance.
Mr. Poulett Scrope—Bill to exempt the occupiers of
small tenements from local taxation.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor—Bill for the establishment of
district registration courts in Ireland, for the registra-
tion of leases, contracts, and other documents between
landlord and tenants. Also, for the appointment of six
equity judges from members of the Irish bar, of not less
than fourteen years' standing, such appointment to be
made by the Lord-Lieutenant, by and with the consent
of the Law Officers of the Crown in Ireland, the duty of
such Judges to be to hold courts in convenient places on
their several circuits for hearing and determining all
matters in dispute between landlord and tenant, and
whose judgment shall, in all such cases, be final. Also,
to take away the powers of distress in all cases where a
lease has not been granted, and in cases where a lease
has been granted for a term to be specified, to render.
the process of ejectment more immediate and less ex-
pensive.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor—Bill to alter the rate .paying
clauses in the Irish l'oor-law Act, wi ththe view of eats
Wishing a graduated scale for the rating of property
whereby in alt eases vrtere landlords do not reside in
Ireland for seven consecutive months in the year, the
whole amount of the rates payable upon the property of
such landlords shall be paid by such absentee landlords,
or if paid by the tenants of such landlords shall be de-
ducted and allowed out of the rent; and in cases where
tenants do not hold immediately of the owner of the
land, or where they hold without leases, such tenants
shall be exempt from the payment of poor-rata
Sir Denham Norreys—Measure to relieve the citie s
end towns of Ireland from excessive taxation for po or-
rates.
Mr. G. Thompson—Select Committee to inquire into
the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ovans (of the
Bombay army), while British Political Resident at the
Court of Sattara; and into the proceedings of the Bombay
Government, and the Court of Direc,,ors of the East
India Company, in relation to certain. charges preferred
against that officer.
Sir B. Hall—Statement of the Church property in the
parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex., held by the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's, together with an account of the
revenues derived therefrom, showing upon what terms
leases or alienations have been granted, and to whom,
with the rents or fines taken, and how the proceeds have .
been appropriated; together with an account of all sums '
of tuouey tuibscribed by the said Deau anti Chapter of