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':-.IIIPERJAL PARLIAMENT.
HoZ;NE OF I.oiiDs, July 16.
Their Lord-It:pa met to-day Four o c:oek.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The royal tvseat was given by Ct.mtnission to the
101 l ing public and private Bills,
The Lords Commissioners, who arrived shortly after
four o'clock, were the Earl of Minto, and Lords Cotten-
ham and Campbell.
The following is the list of the Bills, 92- in all :
Election Notices (Ire atid).
Dublin, Dutidnatn, and Enniskillen Railway.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (North-Eastern Extension,
north to IlAttlepool).
Scottish Central Railway (Allo. Branch).
London and Birii-tingtonn Railway (Camden and Euston
Stations Enlargement).
Slamanuan Railway (Bathgate and Jaweraig Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (St. Helen's Branch Devia-
tion).

nis and Thirsk Railway (Keureaboreugh Extensieb).
nabergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junc-
tion Railway.
Midlard Railway (Ereaash Branch).
Midland Railway (Clay to Nee ark).
Deeside Rail v. ay.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ai drossan Railway.
Morningsiche and Coltness Belie ay (Cale
donian Blanch).
Wilsontowie Morningside. and Coltneas Railway (Im-
provement and Branches).
Wilsentown, Merningside, and CoWiese Railway (Bath-
gate Breech).
Midlan" Railways (Nottineum and M ensfiebi Breech).
Etet t,n i Yorkshire Junction Railway.
rengshire Sin land Junction Ralway.
lire t Western and Uxbridge Railway.
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway. ,
Great Lsinster and Munster Railway (Carlow to KA-
It 4 ney).
N. rte Hallway (Dereham, W ilts, and Ralteney Ex-
tension).
Can brido and Orford Railway.
Reading, Guildford, teed Reigate Railway.
NON mai !tee and Chi stei field Railway.
f.: neon and South-Western Railway (Farnham and
Alton Brerreh)
London and South-Western Railway (Chertsey and
.141.4tiain Branch).
Lotidrn and S,:uth.Western Railway (Hampton-court
Branch).
Danhfane, Doane, and Callender Railwar.
Lancashire and Yorkshire (North-E.sterreßailway)..
Morayshire Rail va •
Menkland and lieltintidoch. Railway (Chapel Hall
B anch).
Seotti,h Central Railway (Denny Branch).
Bristol and Ex. ter Railway (Crewsiosie Branch).
L non:. and'llirminAhani .dway (A. lesbur) Raiisv,t3
Purchasc).
St. lelyn's Canal and Rail say. ,
Morecont he Hartuair and R tawny.
‘Vskerield and Poreefreset Wen) (Extension Branches)
Midland Great Western Italie ay of Ireland (Muliingar
to a' w ay).
Shoed i, Ashten-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
(Deekibfield and other Betoiche.).
Glisgew, Paisley, and Greenock liai:way (Polloc an
Govan Branches).
Scottish Centre; Railway (Pei th T •rmini and S ations)
East Of Fire Railway.
Scottish Central Railway (Crieff Branch).
Mencle stele Buxton, &c. Railway (Huy tin, and 11%,r
ringron Branch).
Mallow and Fermoy Railway.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killalce Junction Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland (C,
Exteesian).
M mutruellick Junction Railway.
Chem& and nudes Railway.
Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway.
Killarney Juncticri Railway.
Glasgow and Northern Terminal Railway.
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Midland Railway (Burton to ..Ntineaton Branch and
Ashby Canal Purchase).
leneion and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manches-
ter and Bimini...ham Railways Amalgamation.
Eastern Counties Reilwae (Epping Exseitsiai).
Wiahaw and Coitness Railway (Greenhill Extension).
Newcasile and Wrwick Railway.
Waterford, aVexford, Wicklow. and Dublin Railway.
Midland Great Ws-stern Railway of Ireamil (Liff)
Branch and LongfOrd Deviation).
Kilmarnock and Triton Railway.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and P r t o!'
Dublin and K ugstown Railways
South Leith Church Bill.
Chard Canal Bail.
Moukton Gas Bid.
Yeovil Markets and Fairs Bill.
Manchester Markets 88.
Bath Waterworks Bill.
wport and Pillguynly Waterworks Bill.
Bristol Waters orks Bill.
iVitham Navigation Acts Amendment Bitl.
Ardressan Muni- ipal Police Bill.
Aston Rates Bill.
Schoolmasters Widows' Fund Bill.
Reaffsbire Roads Bill.
Kielseame's (or I)uddnosse's) Estate.
Videan's Estate.
Abbess of York', Estate.
Wauchope's Estate.
Derides's: Estate.
Tyson's (or Culleu'a) Estate.
Deltenton's Estate.
Mackenzie a (or Thompson s) Estate.
Creagh's Divorce Bill.
Curtis's Divorce Bill.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Bills, which Win ordered to lie on the table.
COUREC OF CLERKS BILL.
The Bishop of LONI:ON said that, with their Lord-
ships' permission, he would move that the order of the
day for going into Committee on this Bill be dis-
charged. He did so principally in. consequence of the
advice of his Noble anti Learned Friend tin the Woolsack,
to whom some of the provisions of the Bill were objeae
Boilable, anti who had promised that if the Bill were
postponed, he would devote his first leisure Baas before
the next session for the purpose of drawing up a Bill to
rem; dy the present state of things, which every one
must admit required creatalteration. Unless the Church.
were armed with greater power for the punishment ot
such as were her ministers, and who had disgraced them-
selves, the Church, and the morality of the people, must
suffer great injury.
The order • if the day for going into Committee on the
Bill was accordingly discharged.
The Bishop of NORWICH presented a petition in
favour of this Bill He was decidedly of the same opinise,
as his Right Rev. Friend as to the necessity of some such
-measure as this. He knew many instances in which
clergy men of the Church, notwithstanding their awhl
preffigacy, retained their living:, and it was almost im-
possible, units r the present law, to dispossess them.—
(Hear, heae) He himself had convicted one 0!
this sot t of disreputable clergymen, but it hail
cost him 3501. To the h etour of the clergy of his
diocese he has received addressed from them, thanking
him for his conduct in that case, and 150/ was raised
and paid by them into the_ Nora ich bank to defray as
tar as they could the expenses to which he had been
put. This showed their anxiety to maintain the disci-
pline of the church as well as the great diffi-
culty and expense , of punishing the .guilty.
Livings might be gambled for, and yet the
bishops were disabled from putting a stop to such
nefarious proceedings. He did not grudge the mom!).
that was expended in the prosecution of clerical offenders,
for, in his opinion, money could not be better expended.
but surely it was high time that something should bs
done by the Legislature to make it an easier matter than
it now a a- to visit such offenders with just punishment.
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said that some Bill of
the kind sae necessaly, but he thought it inexpedient
to discuss its prsvisiens at present. As the Bill had
been withdrawn y the proposer of it, he would not take
up their tirne in alluding to it further; before the next
session of parliament he would consider the propriety '
of bringing torward a Bill to carry oat the intentions of
the Right Rev. Prelate.
The aW-ject then dropped.
PROTEST AGAINST THE CORN IMPORTATION
BILL.
le-.rd RADNOR complained of the courrie.adopted
c!rtain L..rds who had signed a protest agehnst the,
C. Bill, but who had never been in the House during
the discussion of that measure. He thought: the practice
quite unusual and objectionable.
Lord BROUGHAM thanked the Noble Lord for re-
ferring to the subject. The practice of voting by proxy,
and protesting by proxy, was sanctioned by the Irish
Parliament, but it had never been usual in the British
Parliament. He thought, however, that the Noble Lord
ref: reed to had acted through inadvertence, and from
not being aware of the r gulauions" which obtained in their
Lordships 11 use regarding protests.
ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.
rh.- LORD CHANCELLOR prese :fed a Fetition from
th 3 clergy of the diocese of Leicester against the Bill for
the tiniest of the sn s of St. A-aph and Bangor, and Ft%) -
iug their Lordships to provide a bishop fur Manchester.
The Male p of OXFORD presented a petition from
the Archdi-acon and clergy of' the erchdeaconcy ot
Oxfs,rd, against the Bill which proposes to unite
the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. The Right
Rev. Prelate would conclude by laying on the
table the petition of the University of Oxford against
the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Lord S fItAieBROKE presented a blubber of peti
tiens relating to railway Bills before the House.
Bri:trf,
tuhtlaes-i,
irrgruisg)fLANSDOWNE laid on the table the
a turt s :mfurnished by the Registrar-General of
a ndD t 11 s.
LORD
GOUGH AND LORD HARDINGE'S AN-
Theing up of
Mara.; NUTTY BILL.
LANSDOWNE moved the bring-
so prayed ivriBitaort of :his Bill, and in doing
oornigniinnial the Bill be restored to its
prt-Ishtgrest, d that the first duty imposed
the ri.z.et course,
whieshitua..tioe should be the taking of
th not like due ackeeeerni:.gibt construed into some-
him to
rei.dered by he illtistr:ous indll‘nt of the great services
h,,„eer, the ghest sense in quiesi rent. He felt
eti(a)-ati set vices mnderrd,.
lea:!ther House or
still his duty t., the public
Parliament compelled
given, and
to ttr
place
ensidtehre thßeilldeicaisioints thoe)r-igitniaadi
form.
Before
asking' them to take that step, it would be neces-
sary Ihr him to go into the circumstances that had
led to the proposal of the grant in question.
lie was bound to say, 10 'king at precedents under si-
milar eireinte;tances, anti looking at the substance
of V a Bill, it seemed to him that it did
co: - for on these i<tinguislied individuals Foe_
quate cerepcn3a-i a. This was his decided view after
taking a gl;,f“.. at similar circumstances in the history of
the eteletry. de would en 4 &Lathe, attention of
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