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London, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

LOCAL COURTS.

The Earl of POWIS presented a petition from Car•
narvon, Monmouth, and other places in Wales. praying
for the e4abliAment of local roams.

MARRIAGES IN IRELAND.

Lerd CAMPBELL obtained h;ave to bring in a 13H1
for the hot:er regulation of marriages in Ireland. It
was in•e:; led to make provision for those cases to _which
the Bill brought in by Lord Lyndhurst in 1844 was not
applicable. It referred to those cases where one of the
parties might reside in Scotland or England, and was
Intended to oblate the difficulty which at. present ex-
isted wit regard to them. As it met with the appro-
bation or the 14w officers of the bite G►vernment and
those of the present Government, he Has sure it would
meet with no oppoLition from their Lordships. As re-
lated to per.sons of a middling station in life, the present
law prey-A very heav►l3. He would, therefore, move
the first notAing or the Bill. •

PFiIsI,46NS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES.
Lord BROUGHAM moved for a return of the pea-
sioni tot;ited for public services. On the ground of
education, it would be of great gerv4e to have these
returns brought forward. He had stated to his felloN
members of the Education Committee to go to the
set), 1111 s near Finsbury-square ; and Mr. Wilberforce,
though t)ppo-e:1 to Mr. Owen's principles. and. other
subjects, and Mr. John Smith, and others, had pro-
ceeded '0 vi.it the schools in Wilay.r-street. The
ir.•valt wI.A, that as many as fifty Members.ofd'arliament
bad gone there, and had quite assented to the views of
Air. Wilberforce and himself, that, however touch en-
titled Mr.-Wiljerspin might be for credit in the esta-
blishment and extension of infant schools, yet, certainly,
Mr. Ovv,ii alone was the author of them.
The Mqrquis of LANSfIOWNE tb-,ught that although
his Noble and Learned Friend had pm many witnesses
into the b..x in the- course of his life,,.he ,had never
acted more judiciously than on the present occasion, for
he could c3nfirm every word that. he had uttered. Ho
was hi i.,elf quite cognisant of the respective merits
of Mr. k )wen and Mr. Wilderspin—the former as the
author and the latter as the extender of infant schools.
He should never forget the enthusiastic joy of 400 chil-
dren in Dublin, when the toys and the games of the
infant schools were first made known to them. He fully
assented to the merit of:,Mr. Wilderspin, and that he
was entit'ed to any testimonial which could be offered.
Lord BROCGHAM said that the whole history of
the thins; would be found in Dr. Cake's account of infant
schools.

LOCAL COURTS,
Lord BROUGILINI present* a petition in favour of
1uc.41 courts.

CoRRESPOYDING SOCIETIES.
Lord tißoUtiliAlt preseoted petitions from tip*
~f tht• We.li-ltreet, Mechanics' Listitation,'and
mk.4.tbpry of Ow Wult,?.field Mhohanics"-Instito-
lion, for 0,.,4 ',i,,proecnr.pt ia the lAN if eo responding. .

T 1 F.; EARL CAF DUNDONALD. \ •
LinOLlci HA rose to present a petition of very
. nnreat hunertanee, and one to which he begged to cull the
sat:mons the Governmcnt, from an individual
that e. 4* known, not only in this country and in Europe,
but Le rn;nln. say in the World. it was from Lord atti-
.44,,mtlii .ietnen known under the name of Lord CA:brane.
Ile would venture to assert that no captain either by tea
. or on shore had performed. nobler exploits, or had been
- in re service, during the contest of the late war; then •
Lord Cochrane. It would be recollected- that Lord
Punt:if-maid. had been dismissed from the service of his
Sovereign, and had been degraded from his high rank
for being connected with certain transactions of which
he was a holly ignorant. On the trial, when this affair
was investigated, his counsel, including himself, Mr.-B€.lt
(Lord Wyurord) and Mr. Topping had all vehemently
urged him to declare the truth, which was that the guilty
party, Mr. Coehrane Johnson, a- near relative, was the
r-r-on who had committed the act for which his-relative
seiffered such disgrace and loss. They had all tinged him
for hourn bet he would not commit a near relation, and
neither then nor now did he allude to the circumstances.
Re had suffered tlint lass, and in 1832 the. GOvernment
of which he (Lord Brougham) Was a intnober, thounht
the tune was cutne fur resturinn, him to his rank in.the
country and to his estates. but they. had not restored
Urn to the Order of the Bath, of which he had won the
knighthood by tie noblest daring and immortal ex-
plodn. Ti'e Noble .Lord then detailed the great.ex-
pndts of tit petitioner in dif&rent parts-of the world, Bra-
Ae. The principal of repddiation, however, had
wade its way among the states of the southern hank-
. Penre, soni hough they were his cre3itora there to the
am ,ant 75.0001., he never received a single farthing
of that Innney. This wa more sinnular, as it was
to him tit y , weil their matpreFion as independent states.
What the :NI, oiile L=ord wished from their Lordships was,_
that the v woula bear testimony that he was not in the
• degraded position he was before he received his pardon
and by that means to enable hirn the better to aslnure
.cl Another reason why should regiud his petition
was, that he was in post-easion of a secret of the greatest
value in thn event of war. It had nothing- to do witk
Captain Wanner. Lord Keith, Lord Exmouth, and
others, had borne testimony to its value, and the latter
N,Ann, L ,rd had: stated that if he had been aware of it
when he ,1 a.. before Algiers, not a shot would have been
fitnai at tt.n linen The, Noble Lord (Lord Dundonald)
.
ved that an investigation should take place
rt're?br ' PrA ' his the destruction of
into the werits of plan for
sod flc=et. h manner• as their Lordships might
inflnP•uhe a
had therefore deemed it his duty to lay
fore their Lordships.
Tll
tit';; 4INT,S rock BANK COMPANIES.
• '• rl .• 9 .4
EGLINTON gave notice of his inten.
-tion..tn ask the. Noble Marquia opposite a question re-
. sp, citing the BU i
J for regulating jOint•stock. banks n
beta rd:
.• '-i'he -Earl of RA•DNOB gave notice of a similar
- mo:iuu

BATE-IS AND WASIIIIOUSES.
The Marquis of LANsDOWNE said that in rising to
move the fk.ei: oci d r,,ading of the Bill fGr the establish-
' meat imblie instltuti"ns for bathing and washing for
the
~poorwe t'asaes i the. bmoughs, of England and
; 1Valos; i 6. would be nee.,s,ary to offer a few preliminary
404rvai,iong.. HC was sure their Lordships would view
thistgahjeet in the same light aslie viewed it, and eon-
-eimsiderable respect.—(Hear, hear.)
lie b'tti ieved thaz if the-Ph was.any one thing more demon-

• • stt▪
-able than 'air;ther, it was -that the certain effect of
• ent-etairrn....4,ejelt:.-4,raeq make per-
fo,'",t7 ‘appta'r . that-
were connoted impcFceptibly‘lh,_moraf efforts.
hgar,). The- truth of _Priv' prppolitibtr
if? Yi4S Aditlrod) 40 fury aawitted, that* t4tegilt

necessary to trouble their Lordships with any further
observations on that head. There .was one establish-
' merit for the purpose of affording the means of cleanli-
ness, to those who were desirous of availing themselves
of that advantage, in London ; and there was another of
a similar character at Liverpool. Having made himself
acquainted with the circumstances of these institutions,
he felt himself justified in stating to their Lordships
that institutions such as were proposed by this Bill
were established, so that for lid. a-head the invaluable
advantages of bathing and washing would be-offered to
the poorest person in the country. In Liverpool it was
known that where an expense of but 2,000/. or 3,0001.
waaincurred, the actual profit was 3701. per annum, or
something like threennd-a-half per cent. on the capital.
He thought that fact important, because it proved
that poor persons were ready to avail themseives of
these baths if they had the opportunity. All, there-
fore, that was sought by the present Bill, was to give a
stimulus to the feeling that induced the establishment
of these institutions, The object was not to extinguish
these establishments which were now working benefi-
cially for the public, not to compel the vestry of every
parish to set up these baths, but to enable them, with
the consent of the Secretary of State, to establish these
baths with a certain rate of payment that would make
them acceptable to the poor, and remunerative to the
promoters.—(Hear, hear.) He did not know what par-
ticular baths had been alluded to by a Noble Lord op-
posite ; but if baths of this kind existed, it was not in-
tended to interfere with them. All that was desired
was to step in were private interest had. not interfered.
In Glasgow-yard baths, it was ascertained that parties
esed to walk three or four miles to obtain the benefit

them.—(Hear, hear.); There would' be a chine in
the Bill which would be. of very material itAvantage;
namely, to allow parties to purchase the interests of the
institutions proposed to be established. There would
also be power, in cases similar to those which. their
Lordships knew to exist, to transfer their power to
commissioners. He would conclude by moving the se-
cond reading of the Bill.
Lord BEAUM3NT said, it struck him that this was
a most desirable object, but that the machinery of the
Bill might lead to jobbing. He thought it might in-
duce parties investing, by the patronage it would af-
ford them, to abuse their power in giving offices, and
charging the same on the poor-rates. But the statement
of the Noble Marquis, as to the consent of the Secre-
tory of State being required, removed tliese objections.
Re alluded to the sth or 6th clause, by which baths were
to be erected for persons in the superior classes. The
check to which he had alluded would however prevent
any abuse whatever on that score, for as those persons
would contribute in proportion to the expenses, that
would give a security for the poor-rates which might
otherwise be done away with, and of course this there-
fore obviated the objection. Although, therefore, there
might be a small increase of the poor-rates, the benefits
arising from the Bill would more than counterbalance
the evil.

The Bill wns then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.
WELSH JUDGES.:

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Earl POWIS - presented a petition',- signed by more
than 20,000 persons, praying that judges might be
appointed for the principality acquainted with the Welsh
language. If the objections, therefore, were not cxreat,
or such as might be easily obviated, he trusted' tip
Government would take the matter into consideration,
and. accede to the prayer of the petition.
The LORD CHANCELLOR conceived that,certainly
it would be of great advantage if the judges under*tood
the language chiefly spoken in Wales; hut, as the judges
were all appointed after having been barristers, the
difficulty would be to find gentlemen who understood the
language, but the possession of that faCulty-Would always
be a recommendation to a candidate.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill,
when

'rho LORD CHANCELLOR moved the adoption
of the first clause, and stated in so doing, that it wes
adviiable to consolidate the authority on which the Sixty
Courts for the recovery of Small Debts . now existed.
Sr-tie of them were of ancient tenure, but most of them
were erected under the authority of the late Acts of
Parliathent. Doing this would render the selection -of
persons to fill the office of judges in these courts, and
in those to be established, much more easy, and would
greatly facilitate the process of the courts.
The clause was then agreed to.
The 23c1 clause was then agreed to, whereby the salary
of the judges of the court is limited to 1,2001. per
atintun.

The other clauses were then agreed to, and the Bill
was ordered to he reported to-morrow (Tuesday).
--NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.
• Lord \ION rEAGLE moved the postponement of the
third rea ling of th• Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to
Friday next.,7:4Agrey&to. - • •..

'rhe other Bills on their Lordship' table were then
advanced a stage, and the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COLILIIOIVS, August 3.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Ten rnlnutes before
Fnur o'clock.

Mr., D, Dumas, !.he Solicitor• General, was introduced
b}• Lord Etnington and Mr. Tufnell, and took the oaths
and his seat for Sutherlandsh ire no his ro-election.

ROYAL COMMISSION.

At four o'clock Sir Augustus C:itford, the Usher of
the Black Rod, appeared at the table, and su►ninoned
-House to the Rouse of Peers, to hear thee Royal
Assent given to 61 Bills), fey the titles of which see
Lirds' report).

WISBECH, ST. IVES, AND CAMBRIDGE JIINC-

Tioß 'BALI-MAY.

Mr. ALLIX moved the third reading of the Wisbech,
Sr. Ives, and Cambridge Junction Railway Bill.
Colonel PEEL opposed the motion. The Bill was
',oaring better than an attempt, on the part of the East-
ern Counties Railway, to carry the traffic from Wisbecir
and Sr.. Ives over their line in preference to a far better
erre. He trusted the House would not allow this without
ftirthcr inquiry ; and ti give an opportunity for that
taking place, he would move that the . Bill be read a
third time that day three months.
Mr. ALLIX--Considering that this railavy was most
essential to the interests of the people of Wisbech, St.
Ives and Cambridge, he was determined to persist in his
motion. Wisbech was one of the largest corn markets
in the kingdom, and St. Ives, next to Smithfield,
was one of the greatest cattle markets in England; and
he hoped that the Hon. and Gallant Member for
Huntingdon would withdraw his opposition, because, if
it were successful, the people of that district would be
deprived for the period of nine months of the advan-
tnges which this railway would confer upon them.
Mr. BING II AM BARING was convinced of the
necessity of this line. lie had voted for it before, and
he was now also determined to give it- his hearty sup-
port. He hoped that the House would support the
decision of the Committee on this Bill (of which he
had been chairman); by passint7, the Bill. Under all
the circumstances he trusted the House would allow the
Bill to pass in its present state.'" _

Mr. B. DENISON denied that. the London and York
7upany, as a company, were opposed to this Bill.
: Mr. GARDINER opposed the Bill.
Strangers were then ordered tO withdraw, when there
appeared—

- - For the third reading
Against it
- , Mijosity for the third reading —34
The Bill vas then read a third time and gassed.
The Yeovil Borough Estate Bill was read a se3ori
Owe. tt.tli (,rcier*i..l to 1),. committed.

The 11,-rropolitan &'wage Manure Bill was read u
tHrJ time and passed. -
The Siainc..)rd 'and Spalding Railway Bill was also
r.,aal a third fine and passed.
• On the nwtion-of Mr. GROGAN, the .z.ltnenchnents to
the Dublin Wide Streets Bill were, agreed to, and the.
ordered t.,) be engrossed.

• Mr. CAVENI)ISH moved that theTepprkfrom t4ie
C,nninittee on ihe-Mniaester and Lincoln Union Rall-
y, ay and Che*terfield and Gainsborongh Canal Bill be
t.A.kon into consideration to-morrow, provided the
amerAed bretiate be laid upon the table, and tho
ornery-Ted points be deposited this day.—Agreed to.
On the iinc..tion of Mr. BROTFIERTON; Lord Kin-
Egateßill was read a third time and passed.
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.

Mr. BART LY begged leave to give his Noble Priend
the First' Coromisstoner_ of her Majesty's. Woods and
Forests .notice that, to-morrow, he should ask what
anbwer he had received as to thelroMistd inquiry of
ths: Sub-Corainittee of the Wellington Testimonial Com-
mittee. „ • .