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London, England, 1848-08-18 00:00:00

CONTROVEWIED ELECTIONS BILL.

The report on this Bill was brought up and agreed
to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on
Monday.
WOLVERHAMPTON CURACY BILL.

This Bill went through Committee, and the report was
ordered to be received on Monday.
RENEWABLE LEASEHOLD CONVERSION
(IRELAND) BILL.
The committal of this Bill was ordered to be pro-
ceeded with after the other orders of the day.
UNLAWFUL OATHS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was ordered to be committed after the other
orders of the day were disposed of.
SLAVE TRADE TREATY.

The report on the Slave Treaty (Equator and Mus
cat) was ordered to be received after the other orders o
the day were disposed of.
ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE SUITS COM.
PROMISE (IRELAND) BILL.

This Dill was read a third time and passed.
The House, at a Quarter-past Three, adjourned to a
Quarter-past Five o'clock.

The House resumed at a Quarter•past Five o'clock.
Mr. HUM.E presented a petition from an Odd Fellows'
Society 'complaining of the Provident Associations
Fraud Prevention Bill, and praying that it might not
be passed into a law.
The Hort. MEMBER also presented a petition from
merchants, maltsters, and others, residing at Southwall,
in Suffolk, complaining of certain .encroachments which
bad been made in the harbour at that place, and praying
for an inquiry.
The Hort. MEMBER also. presented a petition signed
by a great number of female-householders in Edinburgh
complaining of the Annuity Tax.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The Hox. MEMBER also presented a petition from the
Editor of the North British Press, stating chat he had
been arrested and imprisoned, that all the copies
of the papers bad been seized, that his letters bad
been stopped for several days, and, to the best
of his knowledge, in the absence of any proper
warrant, and praying that as it was an unwarrantable
interference with the rights of property and the liberty
of the press, some inquiry might be instituted into the
matter by the House.
ODD FELLOWS.
Lord D. STUART presented several petitions from
the order of Odd Fellows against the Provident Associ
ations Fraud Prevention Bill.
TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

Mr. EWART said he had presented a petition from the
free settlers of Van Dieman's Land, complaining of the
resumption of the system of transportation to that colony,
and he wished to ask the Secretary for the IJome De-
partment, whether the present system of transporting
convicts to Van Dieman's Lend was to be continued, or
whether •it was only temporary?
Sir
GREY said it was in the contemplation of the
Go
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v?rmaient that convicts should undergo the greater
epord that theytion of their term of imprisonment in this country,
should be sent out to the colony at a

et iod when they were more likely to be useful to it,
and able to earn their!own subsistence.
PROVIDENT ASSOCIATIONS FRAUD PRE.

VENTION BILL

In reply to a question of Dr. BOWRING,
Lord DUDLEY STUART stated that as he found
this Bill was not acceptable to the different Odd Fellows
Societies, it was his intention to withdraw it, and move
that the order of the day for going into Committee upon
it be discharged.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS—COURT OF CHAN-
CERY FEES REGULATION BILLS.

Mr. TURNER inquired what course the Noble
Lord intended to pursue with respect to two Bills
of great importance. He alluded to the Bill for the
Regulation of Charitable Trusts and the Court of
Chancery Fees Regulation Bill. The first Bill involved
a matter of the utmost importance, since it had reference
to property of the value of one million sterling. As
the Bill required the utmost 'consideration, and as
much discussion could not fail to arise upon it,
be trusted the Noble Lord would postpone it until next
session. On the subject of the second Bill a Committee
had sai for the last two sessions, and as the Bill had,
he understood, not been printed, and as the report of
the Committee was uot yet in the hands of Hon. Mem-
bers, he thooght the Noble Lord would do well if he
were also to postpone this Bill.—(Hear).
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he had consulted the
Lord Chancellor with respect to the. first Bill. He at-
tached considerable importance to its passing during the
present session, but if the Hon. Gentleman was of
opinion that much discussion would ensue upon it,
he should not feel it his duty to proceed with it dur-
ing the present session.—(Hear, hear.) He had
no hesitation in saying that it was not his intention to
proceed with the second Bill during the present ses-
sion.—(Hear, hear.) _ _ _