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London, England, 1846-06-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P&R'LIAMENT.
HOfUSE OF LORDS, June 26.
Their Lordships met to-day shortly after Four o'clock.
ROYALCONIMISSION—THE ROYAL ASSENT TO

THE CORN AND CUSTOMS BILLS.
The royal assent was given to-day by commission to the
following Bills:
THE CORN IMPORT ATION BILL.
THE CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.
The Administration of Criminal Justice Bill,
The Explosive Substances Bill.
London and York Railway Bill.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Tay Ferry) Bill.
The North British Railway (Ha-wick Branches) Bill.
The Scottish Midland Jur.ctkin Railway Branches Bill.
Colchester, Stour Vallty, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway Bill.
JUalton and Driftlek'i Junction Railway Bill.
Arbroath and Forfar Railway Amendment Bill.
Edinburgh stir; Northern Railway (Pettycur Branches) Bill.
Manchester :and Birmingham Railway Bill.
Caledonia!, and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Bill.
Buckin'aamshire Railway ( Oxford and Bietchley Junction) BilL
Great Worth of Scotland Railway Bill.
North Staffordshire Railway (Harecastle and Sandbach) Bill.
Nroth Staffordshire Railway ( Pottery line) Bill.
North Staffordshire trail say (Churn-t Valley) Bill.
Belfast and County Down Railway Bill.
East Lincolnshire, Railway Bill.
York and North. Midland Railway (Leeds Extension)
Lancashire an/1 North Yorkshire Railway Bill.
Birkenhead, 'Lancashire, and Chethire Junction Railway Bill.
North Weviern Railway Bill.
Boston, S'casnford, and Birmingham Railway Bill.
Slamanniva and Borrowstouness Railway Bill.
Great North of England Railway ( Boroughbridge Branch) Bill.
Great :north of England Railway (Bedale Branch) Bill.
Eastern Union Railway (Ardleigh to Colchester) Bill.
Grep,t, Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension
(k No. 1) Bill.
cfreat Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Extension
(No. 2) Bill.
Great Grimsby and Sheffiehi Junction Railway Extension
(No. 3) Bill.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway (Humber
Ferries) Bill.
Midland Railway (E.rewash Valley Extension) Bill.
Direct London am; Portsmouth Railway Bill.
Ballochney yßill.
Bristol and Sott.th Wales Junction Railway and Ferry Bill.
Stowmarket -fiavigati.n Bill.
Port Eller, Harbour Bill.
Portsmituth Harbour and Pier Bill.
Ljvcrpool Docks Bill.
4'.Corthumberland Docks Bill.
Lincoln Waterworks Bill.
Warrington Waterworks Bill.
Harrogate Waterworks Bill.
Stafford New Gas Bill.
Hartlepool Gas Bill.
Kendal Union Gas Bill.
Great Grimsby Gas Bill.
Hamilton Nee; Gas Bill.
Burnley Improvement and Waterworks Bill.
Liverpool Improvement Bill.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement BiIL
Sittingbourne Improvement Bill.
York Improvement Bill.
liromsgrove Improvement and Small Tenements Bill.
Leith Paving Bid.
Salford Hundred Court Bill.
Liverpool Sanatory Bill.
'le and Derwent Drainage 13111,
"-Askew's Estate Bill.
Tipwell-cum-Welney Rectory Bill.
The Commissioner; were the Lord Chanc,:llor, the Duke
of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington, and the Earl of Dal-
housie.

Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the Lord
provost, town council, and other inhabitants of the city of
Glasgow, praying to be heard by counsel at the bar against the
Clydesdale Junction Railway Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE submitted to the House
that a humble address should be presented to her Majesty,
nomplaining of the want of accommodation in their Lordship's
Mouse,
/louse, and of the delay in preparing the new Houses for
,!heir Lordships' reception through the obstruction occasioned
by Dr. Reid's system of warming and ventilating the House
f Peers.
_ 'Viscount CANNING said, he had to submit a report on
the subject to the:ir Lordships, which in no way interfered with
the report laid on the table by the noble Marquis. The Noble
Lord then read the report, after which the Noble Lord pre-
sented a petition from Dr. Reid, praying that he should be
heard at the bar of their Lordships' House, against the intro-
Unction of any other system of ventilation than his own.
Lord SUDELEY said that Dr. Reid had been very hardly
dealt with by those opposed to him. He ( Lord Sudeley ) had been
11,, Member of the Committee for some time, but during the
44rnet he had been so he had never heard the name of Dr. Reid
mentioned, nor any complaints preferred against him, though he
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heard several made against the architects and contractors.
Dr. Reid was obliged to submit on all architectural points
to Mr. Barry, who had done everything to obstruct his opera-
tions. He would ask any one of their Lordships, was net the
system of ventilation adopted by Dr. Reid the most scientific
id the most effective yet discovered? Notwithstanding this,
_he would not be allowed to carry his system into effect, but the
ventilation of the Houses was given to a person by no means SD
competent. He therefore wished the resolution postponed till
'42e evideette was laid before their Lordships.
Lord REDESDALE said if they waited for that, they would
" a long time before they got into the new Houses. He could
state, in reference to Dr. Reid, that as a member of the Com-
mittee, he (Lord Redesdale) bad frequently called for Dr.
Reid's plans, but he had never yet given them. Under all the
eutnstances of the case, he thought the recommendation of
t. 40 Committee ought to be attended to, and that they should
proceed to ventilate the House without Dr. Reid.
The Marquis of SALISBURY supported the motion.
Lord CAMPBELL thought they should continue to suffer
Inconvenience before they perpetrated an injustice, and if they
Mepted the resolution, he believed they would be treating Dr.
Reid unjustly. It was quite true that they were sometimes in
the temperature of Greenland, and at other times in that of
encoolen, but that was not the fault of Dr. Reid, who get no
means to carry out his principles. He believed that Dr. Reid
nad never held out any promise which he had not fulfilled, and
he considered that it would be very unjust to deprive him of
the honour of ventilating the new Houses of Parliament.
Lord SUDELEY said hat no one could doubt that Dr. Reid
had succeeded in houses already „wilt. Why then should he
fail in houses to be built, if he had a fair opportunity of carry-
ult out his experiments?
Lord REDESDALE said that the test of a man's abilities
patshis being able to overcome difficulties. He had decidedly
failed in the ventilation of their Lordships' House, for they had
been some evenings almost roasted during t' e debates.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, believing that the object
of his Noble Friend's motion was mere), to enable their Lord-
ships to enter the new House the next session, he should have
his support, and he hoped that their Lordships would adopt the
motion.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that the question
before their Lordships was not the ability or non-ability of Dr
Reid, but whether they should take steps to enable them to
enter tns new House the next session. He did not dispute
the abilities of Dr. Reid.
Lord ASHBURTON, without throwing any reflection upon
ur. Reid's character, submitted that for the purpose of
Plating an end to these annoying discussions about ventilation,
the address should be agreed to.
Earl GREY agreed with his Noble Friend near him that
Dr. Reid had been successful in his attempts to ventilate the
Rouse ot Commons ; there was invariably an agreeable and
steady temperature there. Formerly that House (when occu-
-Itied by their Lordships) was wretchedly ventilated. Since
1835, the time when Dr. Reid was called in, it had been ad-
-li:drably ventilated. He was sorry to hear that the plans of Dr.
Reid could not be introduced into the new Houses of Perlis-
tnent. _ _

The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the motion, which
Was ;Agreed to.
Lord BROUGHAM put a question to the Under Secretary
for the Colonies, respecting the conduct of Mr. Mc Dowal,
late Attorney-General for Van D ernen's Land.
ANOTHER COERCION BILL FOR IRELAND.
Lord BROUGHAM obtained leave to bring in a Bill which
Was the same in substance as that which he introduced in 1843,
regarding Ireland, and which he had then withdrawn at the
instance of his Noble and venerated Friend the Noble Duke
apposite. He introduced it in consequence of what took place
last night in another place, and he believed it ought to be more
stringent than it really was,
The Bill was then read a first time.
LORDS GOUGH AND HARDINGE'S ANNUITY
BILLS.—MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION.
The Earl of RIPON said that it was his intention that even •
41g, to announce the course which the Government intended to
pursue with respect to these Bills, but in consequence of cir-
cumstances which had recently occurred he did not consider it
his duty to call their attention to them to-night, but would
Postpone the reconsideration of the report for the present.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from a
Parish in Heiefordshire, against the Pauper Lunatics Bill.
SUMMARY CONVIC LIONS (JUVENILE
OFFENDERS) BILL.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER rose to move the second
reading of this Bill. The Bill proposed that all prisoners
under seventeen years of age should be brought to trial as soon
as posible. It was one of the clauses of the Bill that magis-
tratess should have summary jurisdiction in all petty larceny
cases, and that that power should also apply to the receivers of
stolen goods, and those prisoners who were charged with re-
ceiving money under false pretences. The Noble Lord was
proceeding with the details of the measure, when
The LORD CHANCELLOR, interrupting the Noble
Marquis, said that he should like to move the adjournment of
the debate till the House should be better attended, and he
Would therefore move that the further consideration of the Bill
should be adjourned to Monday week.
The adjournment was weed to.
PUNISHMENT OF CLERKS.
The Bishop of LONDON moved the second reading of the
Punishment o Clerk4' 13111.
Lord PORTMAN said that it would be bitter, under the
existing circumstances, to take the second reading of the Bill
'without discussion, and the second reading could be taken
merely pro fornsd.
The Bishop of LONDON concurred in the suggestion of the
Noble Lord.
The 13111 was then read a second time.
COUNTY WORKS PREsENTMENTS (IRELAND)
BILL.
The Comity Works Presentments (Ireland) Bill was passed
through Committee.
The other orders of the clay were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Seven o'clock.