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amendment was negatived without a division, and both
Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be referred
to a Select Committee.
Their Lordships adjourned at Eight o'clock until
Thursday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 9.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.
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THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
Arbroath and Forfar Railway (additional Capital).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Amendment
and Branches, &c.)
Manchester Corporation Waterworks Act Amendment

(No. 2). -
Midland Railway (Branch to Ripley, &c.)
Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).
Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Amendment and

Branch to Laurencekirk).
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Act Amendment.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY

_
(NEW WORKS, &c.) BILL.
The report on this Bill was further considered and
agreed to.

PETITIONS.

Colonel REID presented a petition from the Windsor
Society of Odd Fellows, praying that they might be
placed on the same footing as friendly societies.
Lord D. STUART presented four petitions from St.
Pancras in favour of the Charter.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from White-
chapel in favour of the Health of Towns Bill.
Mr. B. ROCHE presented a petition from Kilmarnock
complaining of the conviction of Mr. Mitchel, and pray-
ing that her Majesty would dismiss her present advisers
and restore Mr. Mitchel to his family and society.
Mr. G. THOMPSON presented fifty petitions from
Preston in favour of a reform in Parliament. Also pe-
titions from the Tower Hamlets, containing 400 signa-
tures, cemplaining of the proceedings of the police on
Sunday last, and praying for a searching inquiry into
their conduct. The petition stated that four persons
were very seriously injured by the police.
from
Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition f be-
tween 400 and 500 inhabitants of the metropolis, praying
that interments in towns might be prohibited.
Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from Plymouth,
praying that no alteration might be made in the naviga-
tion-laws.
Mr. BRIGHT presented 'petitions in favour of Par-
liamentary reform;
also a petition from a person named
Watson, residing in Manchester, complaining of the
treatment of Mr. Mitchel.
Mr. HUME also presented a large number of peti-
tions in favour of Parliamentary reform-7 from different
parts of the metropolis, 1 from Chester, 99 from Preston,
and 18 from different parts of the country.
Mr. COBDEN presented petitions from several families
to the same effect.
On the motion of Dr. BOWRING, copies of reports
to the naval department since last July, on the effects
of chloride of zinc as a disinfecting and deodorising
agent, were orderedjusTtlocbEe lmaidoNonTtAheGtu.
table.
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—DISMISSAL OF MR.
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seeing the Right Hon. the Under-
Secretary for the Colonial Department in his place,
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subject had only just arrived from the colony, and it had
not then received the attention of the Government. Now
he (Mr. Denison) saw that a notice stood on the paper
upon the same subject, and he thought it was not just to
the public service, or fair to the individuals con-
cerned, that a question of this sort should remain unde-
cided for an unlimited time. As the House was
about to separate for a few days, he took the
liberty of asking the Right Hon. Gentleman whether the
dispatch had received the consideration of Government,
and whether he was able to give any information to the
House on the subject? .
Mr. HAWES said the dispatch went at great length
and in detail into the grounds upon which Mr. Justice
Montagu had been removed from the office of Judge
of the Supreme Court of the colony, and he was bound
to say that the Governor appeared to have acted with
the greatest caution and deliberation, acting in con-
junction with the Executive Council and under the ad-
vice of the law officers of the Crown. The simple facts
of the case were these :—Mr. Justice Montagu was sued
for debt in the Supreme Court, and he pleaded that an
action could not be maintained against him in that court.
The Chief Justice held that the plea was a bad one.
The plaintiff then complained to the Governor, and
upon a lull investigation of the whole circumstances of
the case, the Governor, through the advice of the
Executive Council, and acting under the advice of the law-
officers of the colony, came to the conclusion that there
was no other course to pursue except that of removing
Mr. Justice Montagu from the office of Judge.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Sir A. CLIFFORD here appeared at the bar, and
summoned the House to the House of Peers to hear the
Royal assent given by commission to several Bills (fur
which see Lords' report).
The SPEAKER, on his return, enumerated the Bills
that had received the Royal Assent.
DISMISSAL OF MR. JUSTICE MONTAGU.

Mr. E. DENISON hoped the Hon. Gentleman
would continue his statement from the period at which
it was interrupted by the entrance of the Usher of the
Black Rot'..—(Laughter.)
Mr. HAWES said he had very little to add,
except that the authorities and Governor of §Vau
Diemen's Land acted with great caution and deliberation
before the dismissal of Mr. Justice Montagu was de-
termined upon. He was fully heard, but his defence was
deemed very unsatisfactory. He was bound to
add that the determination was in some degree
based upon the fact that previous Secretaries
of State and successive Governors had complained of the
conduct of this gentleman in respect to pecuniary trans-
actions. He had on various occasions received the
severe animadversion of Secretaries of State.
As " he had appealed to the Privy Council,
it was only right that he should say thus much in ex-
planation and in justification of the course the Colonial-
office had felt it incumbent upon it to adopt.