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London, England, 1848-05-20 00:00:00

BRISTOL AND EXETER.

The Committee decided, in reference to the Bill of th"
above company for making the line from Castle Cary to
Taunton, that the subscription contracts were defective,
but inasmuch as those contracts had passed the ordeal of
the Standing Orders' Committee, they did not think it
expedient to visit the consequences of the defect upon the
company, and therefore they resolved to pass the pre.
amble. The clauses to the Bill were accordingly
agreed to.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
LANCASTER.
The scrutiny against Mr. Armstrong was resumed, but
the petitioners only succeeded in striking off one vote
yesterday, reducing the majority to five, while tw•o of the
objectionable votes were decided by the Committee to
be good.

[ THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
I SHRITENHAM, FRIDAY NlGHT.—Captain Blair, R.N.,
the unfortunate gentleman whose case has excited so
much sympathy in connexion with the late accident on
the Great Western Railway, died at eight o'cl,ock on
Thursday evening, having lingered eight days ;from the
date of the sad catastrophe. An inquest was 'held on
the remains of the :Jmfortunate deceased this morning,
before Mr. Wasborough, coroner for Berks, and the
same jury previously empannelled _on the other r cases.
The body having been viewed, the Rev. LMr. Atkinson
' proved its identity.
Mr. John Hall Barnett, surgeon of Faringdon, proved
having been in constant attendance upon the cluzcased
from the period :of the accident up to his death. The
cause of death was the dislocation of the 6th vertebra
of the spine.
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whandGeorge Haynes, carpenter, of Shrivenham, said he
had passed he saw ticket from the station-clerk, ant I was
up-platform when the express ti-s in to
upon the down line,
came up. After the train.
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Blair died from the effects of the injuries resulting from
the accident.
The jury were unanimously of this opinion, and ac-
cordingly confirmed their former finding, viz., " _Man-
slaughter against James Weybury and William Wil-
loughby," leaving the policeman, Pargetter, as flax as
they were concerned, to be dealt with by his employers.

COMMISSION DE LUNATIC° INQUIRENDO.--BLIS•
TOL, MAY lg.—This day an inquiry, under a commis-
sion of lunacy, took place at Long's Royal Hotel, Clii 'ton,
before Mr. Commissioner Barlow and a highly rest K)ct-
able jury of gentry and merchants residing in the n( igh-
bourhood, to inquire into the state of mind of Mrs. / ilary
Anne Walsh, a widow lady of fortune, who had been
residing at Pembroke Villa, Clifton. Mr. John S tone,
barrister, appeared for a Mr. Walsh, the nephew o f the
lady, at whose suit as next of kin the commissi on of
lunacy was issued, and stated that the unfortunate o bject
of the inquiry was the widow of a deceased barrister,
who had been residing at Dublin, and who was pos-
sessed of a landed estate and property in Dutch' bonds,
&0., to the management of which she was unequal.
Mr. Stone, then called, as witnesses, Dr. Greville, of
Bath, and Mr. Nathaniel Smith, surgeon, of Clifton.
Both these medical gentlemen deposed to Mrs.
Walsh's being reduced to a state of childish.
ness, and to her being quite incapable of the
management of property. A lady named Bars:7, at
whose residence Mrs. Walsh had been living for the last
two years, gave evidence that her mind had been affe .cted
for two years, during which period she had been gr adu-
ally growing worse. She was quite childish, and had
lost her memory. She had forgotten that her fa ther
and mother were dead, and often spoke of them as 4 com-
ing to dine with her, and she sometimes mistook : the
witness for her mother. They were obliged to treat her
as a child, and to watch her constantly,' as she would
swallow fragments of combs, pins, or anything, however
dangerous or hurtful. Upon one occasion, in Novemberlast, when she went to the Bank to craw her dividends,
she could not be got to sign the letter. They promised
to take her to a cake shop, and treat her, if she would
sign, and she then scrawled her name across the paper,.
but she had never signed her name since. A deputation,
of the jury then went to see and question Mrs. Walsh. at
her residence, it being highly inconvenient for her to 'be
brought to the hotel, and, upon their return, brought in
as their verdict " That Mrs. Walsh had been of unsot aid
mind, and incompetent to manage herself or her affs dm
since the Ist of January last."

TIIE ROYAL ARTILLERY AND ROYAL MARINE/.
—The affray at Woolwich, mentioned in our columns
yesterday, was renewed on Thursday evening. The
recruits of the Royal Artillery mustered in strong force,
nearly 500 being collected, and proceeded to the lower
part of the town, to try if there were any Royal
Marines there, threatening to have vengeance upon
them ; but two provost-sergeants and one corporal kept
the whole of the young men in check, and marched two
in custody to the garrison, as they appeared to be ring-
leaders. The authorities having been informed of what
was taking place, Brigade-Major Crippage proceeded on
horseback to the spot, and in less than an half hour the
streets were quiet. No person was hurt during the
evening.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, MAY 19.—The clipper
brig brilliant, Captain Newton, arrived here this morn-
ing, after a fine run of 14 days, from Madeira. The
weather has been comparatively fine during the voyage,
but the wind generally adverse. The Brilliant was built
at Cowes, and intended for a yacht. She is supposed to
be the fastest British merchant brig afloat, no vessel she
has ever yet met being able to equal her in speed. She
brings mail bags and 30 passengers. Nothing of interest
was occurring in the island of Madeira. The packet brig
Eclipse, Captain Davis, arrived in Funchal-roads, from
Cadiz, just as the Brilliant was leaving. In lat. 38 57 N.,
lon. 15 50, on the night of the 11th, the Brilliant fell in
with and boarded the wreck of a ship, apparently of
North American build, and of about 400 tons burden.
All her upper works had been washed away. The cargo
consisted of timber, and she had been previously set on
fire.: Ships spoken—On the 12th, the brig Megles, from
Constantinople to Falmouth, out 77 days ; on the
14th, the schooner Eagle, from Marseilles to Liverpool,
and the Mary Ann Gann, from Liverpool to Alexandria;
on the 17th, a man-of-war steamer steering to the south-
ward. Her Majesty's steamer Dee and frigate Havana
were at Madeira on the 4th inst. The Brilliant passed
a large fleet of homeward-bound merchant vessels on the
Portuguese coast. The following German ships have ar-
rived in Cowes-roads for refuge till a termination of ho s-
tilities in Northern Europe:—The Bremen bark Consti-
tution, Captain Smith, 37 days from Richmond with
tobacco; the Bremen bark Edmund, Captain Wehmami,
33 days from Baltimore, with tobacco; the Prussian bri, g
Emelie, Captain Kruse, 9 days from Bordeaux, wit. 't
wine; the Prussian brig Pomona, Captain Parrow, 20.
days from Lisbon, with salt; and the Prussian brigs •
Melee and Olivia, 23 days from Lisbon, with salt. The
American ship Arvum, Captain Vinall, with 2,553 boxes
of sugar, from Havannah, in 49 days, and the Americqn
brig Washington, Captain Smith, 1,221 boxes of sugar,
from Havannah, have put into Cowes for orders.
HAIL STORM.—On Wednesday afternoon, aboitt
three o'clock, the neighbourhood of Gopsall and Cod-
gerstone was visited by a tremendous storm of hail anal
rain, accompanied by flashes of vivid lightning and most
awful claps of thunder. For some time the wind blew,
a hurricane, and the hail and rain fell in torrents,shs
that in a few minutes the roads were covered ankle.-
deep in water. In the parish of Desford the hailstones
in some places lay upon the road from four to five inches
deep, and the ground was strewed with the foliage
which had been struck from the trees by the hail. We
fear that the gardens and fruit-trees have sustained con-

siderablo damage in the neighbourhood where th© raging
storm took its course.—Leicester Journal.

WATERLOO RELICS.—An importation has recently
taken place, by a steamer from Antworp, of a quantity
of articles of European modern warfare, accoutrements,
and other curious articles, which were stated to have
been found on the plains of Waterloo after the battle,
and have been imported by a metropolitan firm, col-
lectors of curiosities of this nature. We believe that

the articles, which comprise a large and most interesting
variety, both British and foreign, of different contineatal
stages engaged in that celebrated affray, were not found
on, but principally, if not entirely, dug from the field of
battle. As the importation of foreign arms is prohibited
bylaw, a special :application to the Government has
been rendered necessary for the admission of the various
articles so collected and introduced, merely as curiosi-
ties and interesting mementos of that remarkable affair.

- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 19.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool
sack at Five o'clock.
The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented several
petitions against the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill.
Lord HATHERTON presented several petitions in
favour of the Bill. -
The Bishop of DURHAM also presented several peti-
tions in favour of the Bill.
The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition
from Edinburgh, praying for the removal of the test
imposed on professions in Scottish Universities.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS (INDIA) BILL.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the Insolvent
Debtors (India) Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition, praying their
Lordships to pass some measure, giving the Church a
veto over the appointment of Bishops by the Crown.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented some
petitions in favour of the Sanitary Bill.
The Earl of EGLINTON presented petitions from
Glasgow, Paisley, and other places, against the Scotch
Births and' Marriages Registration Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from Paisley, praying for an alteration in the Scotch
Poor-law, so far as regarded rating; also several peti-
tions from various lodges of Odd Fellows, praying for
the legalization of their society; also several petitions
in favour of the Free Church Sites (Scotland) Bill.
Earl GREY presented a very large number of peti-
tions in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill.
POOR HOUSES (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
CROWN LIVINGS.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF rose to move an humble
address to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will
be graciously pleased to consent to the introduction of
a Bill for limiting the time during which Church bene-
fices in the gift of the Crown may be kept vacant. The
present privilege of the Crown was extremely injurious
in its operation. In the case which he was going to
refer to there was no charge of unsound doctrine or im-
morality; but the evil was a great one. There were
many parts of Wales in which the Welsh language was
still spoken, and particularly so in Glamorganshire,
where in almost every parish the Welsh as well as the
English language was spoicen; and a merelearning,of the
language from a dictionary and agrammar, like a school.
boy, would never qualify a man to be the pastor of a
parish. A gentleman called Paynton had been ap-
pointed by the Lord Chancellor to a parish in his dio-
cese—(Llanelly, we understood)—who did not tho-
roughly understand the Welsh language. He wrote to
Mr. Paynton, and told him it would be necessary that
he should be examined in the Welsh language, and the
result reported to him. He also desired the rural dean,
who had resided in that neighbourhood for thirty years,
to ascertain whether it was necessary that the
minister of the parish should understand Welsh,
and his answer was, that the people said they were all
Welsh; and he was of opinion that it was a clear case
for an examination. A memorial had also been pre-
sented to him (the Bishop) signed by the churchwar-
dens
and many of the inhabitants of the parish,
with r
ex-
pressing a wish to have a clergyman co
the language. Mr. Paynton declined to be examined,
and said that as he had several times preached in
Welsh, he hoped that would be considered sufficient. A
Mr. Griffith, a clergyman in the neighbourhood, who
understood the Welsh language well, agreed to ex-
change with Mr. Paynton for the living which he held,
if the Lord Chancellor would accede to it. He (the
Bishop), however, wrote to the Lord Chancellor in
October last, but did not get an answer even from his
private secretary. He had, under (the icircumstances,
declined to institute Mr. Paynton, bat the living
being in the gift of the Crown, there was no lapse,
although in any other case where a living was not
in the gift of the Crown, it could not remain vacant
for more than six months. He had taken an opportunity
since of expressing to the Lord Chancellor his view of
the case, but without effect; and things remained as they
were before. In January last the living of St. Andrew,
one of the best in point of income in his diocese, also in
the gift of the Crown, became vacant. For want of a
good resident clergyman during the last twenty years
the congregation in the church had been reduced to only
about five persons out of a population of 500. The last
minister who was appointed to the living did not under-
stand the langage, and the only remedy he (the Bishop)
had, was to compel him to appoint a curate who under-
stood the Welsh language. He wrote to the Lord Chan-
cellor when he found the living was about to become
vacant, to urge the necessity of the appointment of a cler-
gyman who understood the Welsh language, but he had
not received a reply, and that was nearly five months ago.
The other day, however, a gentleman from Kent called
on him, and, having used the name of the Lord Chancel-
lor, asked if he (the Bishop) would object to induct him
to the living. He found, however, that he did not know
the Welsh language, and although he offered to employ
a curate who did, he (the Bishop) could not consent to
violate the rule which he had laid down. The form of
the presentation by the Crown was in the most peremp-
tory terms. He could 'not, however, believe that the
honoured mother of the Prince of Wales would give her
sanction to any measure which offered an indignity to a
Bishop, and which was most offensive and insulting to
the people of his diocese. He had put his motion in a
form praying her Majesty to take means to prevent the
recurrence of such cases ; but he also hoped that some
remedy might be found for the present one. Unless
some alteration were made in the mode of dispensing
the Church patronage in the gift of the Crown in Wales,
the whole country would be ringing with complaints.
It was a growing evil which called for a public remedy ;
and although he might not press his motion to a division,
he hoped it would lead to the adoption of some measure
which would prevent the recurrence of the evil of which
he complained.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Right Rev.
Prelate's motion sought to propose a remedy for that
which he considered an evil in the existing state of the
law; but his speech had nothing whatever to do with the
subject, for it related more or less to a knowledge of the
Welsh language by persons who had been appointed to
livings in his diocese. The Right Rev. Prelate wanted
to limit the time during which Church livings in the
gift of the Crown might be kept vacant. Why, the first
living to which he had referred had become vacant in
'June, and a clergyman who had been appointed to it
presented himself to the Right Rev. Prelate to be insti-
tuted in July. The second living became vacant in Ja-
nuary, and in April the party to whom it was offered
tendered himself to the Right Rev. Prelate for institu
tion. By an extraordinary combination of error, the
Right Right Reverend Prelate would invade the prero-
gative of the Crown, and deprive Parliament of its
privileges. He proposed that the Crown should be
limitid in the time of presentation, which would be an
invasion of its prerogative; and it was now the privilege
of alai Member of that House to lay on the table a mea-
sure foi the purpose contemplated by the Right Rev.
Prelate, and proceed to a certain stage, without the
consent of the Crown. It was also the prerogative of
the Crown to dissent from the Bill in any stage. The
average time that had elapsed between the lapse of
livings that had fallen in, and their filling up by north
nation-of fresh incumbents, was three months. There
were, as the Right Rev. Prelate said, more than 700
livings in the gift of the Chancellor, but half of them
were' below 2001. a year in value, and great difficulty
existed in finding persons qualified who would accept of
such small livings. Whilst he was ready to admit the
great merits of the Right Rev. Prelate, he must say that
he thought he was mistaken in the view he took of the
question. He did not mean to say that the Right Rev.
Prelate had practised a surprise upon him in the present
case; but be certainly had given no notice of his intention
to enter upon the general subject which he had discussed.
The question of a knowledge of the Welsh language
being essential for the incumbent of Welsh livings had
often been mooted, and there was a number of great
authorities who stated it to be their opinion that it was
not an essential, but the contrary. He had always
been anxious to receive advice from a Bishop of a diocese
on the subject of appointments in the Church; but when
he found, as in the case of the Right Rev. Prelate, that a
very strong opinion had always been formed as to the
mode in which the exercise of the prerogative of the
Crown ought to be used, then it behoved him to be
extremely cautious how he entertained any such advice.
The Noble and Learned Lord then entered into a
statement of the facts relative to the refusal
of the Bighop of Llandaff to induct the gen.
tleman nominated to the living of St. Andrew's,
from which it appeared that the Bishop refused
to institute any one who was not a Welshman into any
living within his Welsh diocese. With respect to Mr.
Sampson, he denied that there was any relationship be-
tween himself and that reverend gentleman, and the as-
sertion was pure invention that Mr. Sampson was his
relative.„ He had appointed that gentleman, on condition
that he was acquainted with the Welsh language, but
*hen- he demanded to be examined in Welsh before the
'Bishop, the Right Rev. Prelate refused, and nothing
would satisfy him but to have the appointment bestowed
'neon a Welshman. With respect to the letter which the
sight Bev. Prelate had addressed to him relative to the
vacancy at St. Andrew's, it only amounted to the fact
that the Right Rev. Prelate had two or three candidates
who knew Welsh whom he wished to have appointed,
but certainl7 he (the Lord Chancellor) did not think,
whatever might be the respect he had for the office of
' the Bishop. that the Right Reverend Prelate ought to be
allowed to interfere with the exercise of the prerogative
of the:Crown.. The Right Reverend Prelate had certainly
done 4ar,fie had promised, and brought the subject
thfortitite House of Lords, but in doing so he had been
°bilged to bring himself before the House, and now the
only question was whether his doing so had been more
to the disadvantage of the patron than of himself. The
otter instance brought forward by the Right Rev. Pre-
.! late was that of a gentleman who had been appointed to
small living in Wales which fell vacant in June last;
'the Right Rev. Prelate had refused to institute him on
tee ground that he was not sufficiently well versed in the
Welsh language, but he (the Lord Chancellor) begged
to recall to the Right Rev. Prelate's memory a letter
mitten by him in the year 1638, wherein he mentions
with great praise the exertions of the very gentleman in
question, admitting that he was well qualified to officiate
in the Welsh language, aid to preach in that language,
and stating that the reverend gentleman had performed
his duties satisfactorily for many years in his diocese;
and, yet, when this same gentleman presented himself
for institution before the Right Rev. Prelate, the latter
refused, on the ground that be was not qualified to offi-
Okla in the, Welsh language. From that time to the
present he had taken no steps in the matter, but had
waited the results of the prooeedings which the Right
Rev. Prelate had (xpressed his intention to retort to, of
the imPriety of which their Lordships would now be
quati4ed to judge.
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S entertained no doubt
of the determination of the Noble and Learned Lord to
exercise his patronage in the most conscientious manner,
and, indeed, he was able to speak to this fact from his
own knowledge. The question before the House, how-
ever, was,iit no degree mined up with that larger one to

which the Noble and Learned Lord alluded, namely, the
expediency of extinguishing the Welsh language. To
this he must say he was entirely opposed ; any attempt
to do so in respect to the Church service in Wales would
in his opinion, only tend to drive the whole po ulation
of Wales into the arms of some other religious sect. It was
absolutely essential for the well-being of the Church in
Wales that every minister in that establishment ought
to be familiarly versed in the language and even the
habits and manners of the people of that country. Of
all the causes which bad tended to depress the Church
in Wales, there was not one which had operated more
fatally than the defect pointed out by his Right Rev.
Friend.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF, having replied, with-
drew his motion, and their Lordships then adjourned at
a Quarter to Eight o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 19.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Dover Landing Pier
Bill were considered and agreed to.
The Great Yarmouth Coal Duties Bill was read s
third time and passed.
The reports to the following Bills were considered
and agreed to:—
Heneage's Divorce Bill.
Lanark and Hamilton Court House and County Rates

Bill.
Queensferry Passage Bill.
The second reading of the New Ross Port and Har-
bour Bill was postponed till Monday.
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Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from
Mr. EWART presented a petitioa to the same effect
from Wigan.
Mr. G. CRAIG presented two petitions in favour of
the Sites for Churches Bill.
Several petitions were presented against the sale of
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NATIONAL LAND SCHEME.
Sir B. HALL, seeing the Hon. and Learned Gentle.
man the Member for Nottingham in his_ place, wished
to put a question to him in reference to a Bill he had
brought in for the purpose of amending the Friendly
Societies' Act, but virtually to legalize a scheme of which
he was the chief promoter. Since the Bill had been
introduced he had looked over it, and had had some
conversation with parties who were interested in it, and
tbis conversation had convinced him that it was necessary
that the measure should be inquired into. It would be
competent for him on the second reading of the Bill
to move that it be referred to a Select Committee, but
then it would be understood that the House approved of
the principle of the Bill, and the Committee would only
have power to inquire into its clauses. Now, in the other
House of Parliament the case was different; there the
Committee had power to inquire into the whole subject,
and he would venture to suggest to the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman that, instead of the Bill being read at so late
a period of the session as the 14th of June, it would be
much better that he should move for a Select Committee
to inquire into the nature and object of the scheme pro-
posed to be legalised by this Bill.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said, in reply to the question of
the Hon. Baronet, he presumed upon his moving the
' second reading of the Bill it was the intention of the
Hon. Baronet to move that it be referred to a Select
Committee. _

Sir B. HALL—No, it is not.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR. said, at all events the object of
the Honourable Baronet was the same as his own. The
Honourable Baronet was anxious for inquiry, and he
(Mr. Feargus O'Connor) was desirous that the most
searching investigation should take'place into the object
of the scheme. He had introduced the Bill for the pur-
pose of relieving himself from the responsibilities of
manager of the undertaking, and it was his intention to
nominate as trustees under the Bill the Noble Lord the
Member for Bath, the Hon. Member for Rochdale, and
Lord John Manners, being the three gentlemen in whom
the working classes had the most confidence, and who
would be empowered to investigate the affairs of the
society, and to ascertain whether the funds had
been properly managed. He understood, however,
that the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, who was good enough
to allow the Bill to be read a first time without dis-
cussion, intended to oppose the second reading, and that
if he found that were so to-night, he would adopt the
suggestion of the Hon. Baronet who had put the question
to him, and give notice that he should move the appoint-
ment of the Committee on an early day.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from
Rochdale complaining of some clauses of the Health of
Towns Bill, although favourable to the general principle
of the Bill itself.

Mr. SMOLLETT presented a petition from Ayrshire
against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill.
Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions in favour
of sanitary reform; and also one praying the House to
pass a measure to remedy the abuses in the existing
poor-law.
Mr. H. BEIULELICY moved for a return of the nature
of the Post-office service between Dover and Ostend,
Dover and Calais, and Dover and Boulogne, distinguish-
ing, with regard to each service, the number of British
vessels employed, their tonnage, and the power of their
engines, the gross and net expenses incurred, the number
of passengers carried, the rate of passage-money charged,
the average length of time employed in the voyages, the
longest and shortest time employed therein, the fixed
hours of departure for and from each port, and whether
that departure is from the roadstead or the harbour,
and how often from each during the last twelve months.
—Agreed to.
Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the Secretary at War
when the Committee, to whom the army, navy, and
ordnance estimates have been referred, may be expected
to report their opinion to the House, so that these esti-
mates may be taken into consideration, together with
the report thereon, should the labours of the Committee
be brought to a close during the present session. He
also made an inquiry concerning the distribution of the
long-delayed Peninsular medals.
Mr. F. MAULE (who was most indistinctly heard)
was understood to say that it was not likely that the
investigations of the Committee would be brought to a
close for some time to come, as they had not completed
the first part of their inquiry, namely, that into
the navy. With respect to the medals, some delay
had taken place in completing them, in consequence
of the person to whom they were entrusted having
met with a severe accident ; he hoped, however,
that but a short time would elapse befure their distri-
bution.

Sir DE LACY EVANS inquired if it was truo that
50,000 claims had been deeidod upon ?
Mr. F. MAULE was understood to say that 18,000
was the number.

Lord HOTHAM complained that the Committee had
not periodically reported the progress of its inquiries
to the House, and that the information hitherto supplied
had not been sufficiently ample and explanatory.
Mr. F. MAULE replied that the Committee in
making the reports had used their discretion as to the
evidence which it was desirable to lay before the House
fur its information.
THE LAND SCHEME.

Mr. O'CONNOR stated that since he had replied to
the question of the Hon. Baronet the Member for Mary-
lebone (Sir B. Hall), he had had some conversation
with the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey). He now
begged to give notice that on Tuesday next he should
move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquirc
into the plan.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

On the motion of Mr. PARKER. the House at its
rising was ordered to stand adjourned until Monday.