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London, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE oP LORDS, Juilf 27.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Asselit was given today. by Commission;
at four o'clock, to no less than eighty-three Bills; The
Commissioners were the Lord Chentellor, the Marquis
of Clanricarde and the Earl of Minto.
The followdg Fite the titles of the Bills:
Hardinge's Annuity Bill.
Lord Gough's Annuity Bill.
Corresponding Societies and Lecture-rooms Bill.
Western Australia Bill.
Coalwhippers' (Port of London) Bill.
Spitalfields' New Street Bill.
Coroners' (Ireland) Bill.
Dundee and Perth Railway Bill.
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coat-
• bridge Branches) Bill.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
(Whaley-bridge and Hayfield Branches) Bill.
North Union Railway Bill.
Buckinghamshire Railway (Tring to Banbury) Bill.
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Bill.,
London and Croydon Railway (Thames Junction) Bill.
Newcastle :and Darlington Junction Railway (Dur-
ham and Sunderland Railway, and Wearmouth Dock
Purchase and Branches) Bill
Great Western and Wycombe Railway Bill
Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir, and Port Glasgow Junction
Railway .Bill.
Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway Bill.
South Wales Railway (No. 2) Bill.
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway Bill.
Hull and Selby Railway Purchase Bill.
Great North of England Railway Purchase Bill.
Midland Railway (Leicester and Swannington Railway
Purchase) Bill.
London and Birmingham Railway and Birmingham
Canal Arrangements Bill.
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway Bill.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway
Bill.
York and North Midland Railway (Widening and En-
largement) Bill.
London and Birmingham Railway (Leamington Ex-
tension and Coventry and Rugby Stations Enlarge-
ment) Bill.
Ca.!edonian Railway (Carlisle Deviation) Bill.
North Wales Mineral Railway (Deviation and Branches)
Bill.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction and North
Wales Mineral Amalgamation Bill.
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway (No. 2)
Bill.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Hud-
dersfield Diversion and Cooper- bridge Branch) Bill
Northern Counties Union Railway Bill.
Grand Junction Railway (Huyton and Aston, and other
Branches) Bill.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Deviations
and Branches) B 11.
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
Bill.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway (Durham
and Sunderland Railway and Wearmouth Dock Pur-
chase) Bill.
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction
Railway Bill.
Blackburn and Preston Railway Bill.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
(Peak Forest and MacclesfielitCanal Purchases) Bill.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway,
&c. Amalgamation Bill.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway (Bedford Extension) Bill.
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Rail-
way Bill.
Midland Railway (Birmingham Extension) Bill.
Midland Railway (Purchase of °Ahem Canal) Bill.
Tenby, Saundersfoet, and South Wales Railway Bill.
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (Extension to Caledo-
nian Railway) and Lancaster and Preston Junction
Railways Amalgamation Bill.
Eastern Counties Railway (Stations Enlargement) Bill.
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and
Railway Bill.
Leeds and Bradford Railway (Alteration of Levels in
Bingley) Bill.
London and Blackwell Railway (Widening) Bill.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway
(Crickle ath and Wem line) Bill.
Shrewsbury, Oawestry, and Chester Junction Railway
(Extension and Deviations) Bill. '
East Lancashire Railway (Deviation and Branches) Bill.
Huddersfield and Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds
Railways Amalgamation Bill.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Bill.
Furness Railway Extension Bill. .• •
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Norwich Ex-
tension) Bill.
London and Brighton Railway ( Wandsworth Branch) Bill.
Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way s Amalgamation. Bill.
London and Brighton and London and Croydon Railways
Consolidation Bill.
Sheffield General Cemetery Bill.
Heywood Waterworks Bill.
Severn Navigation Bill.
Bury Improvement (No. 2) Bill.
Pow of Inchaffray Drainage Bill.
Dudley Canal and Birmingham Canal Companies' Amal-
gamation Bill.
Cromford Canal Bill.
Chorley. Waterworks Bill.
Waterford Harbour (No. 2) Bill.
Belfast Improvement Bill.
Kilmarnock Waterworks Bill.
Black Sluice Drainage and Navigation Bill.
Rothesay Municipal and Police Bill.
Wath-upon-Dearne Improvement Bill.
Airdrie and Coatbridge Waterworks Bill.
Glasgow Municipal, Police, and Statute Labour Bill.
Hill's Estate Bill.
Ludlow Charity Estate Bill.
Howell's Charity Estate Bill, and
Ramsay's Estate Bill.
Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Draining and Embank-
ing Bill.
The Earl of' SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
LUNATICS ASYLUM BILL.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from certain
rate-payers in the county of Wilts against the Lunatics
Asylum Bill.
COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the
Commons' amendments on this Bill were ordered to be
printed.
RAILWAY BILLS.
Lord Portman and other Noble Lords brought up
reports on several railway Bills, which had been re-
ferred to Select Committees.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT.
Lord PORTMAN gave notice that, to-morrow, he
would ask her Majesty's Ministers a question in refer-
ence to this Bill.
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
The Earl of CLANCARTY, in presenting the report
of the Committee appointed to consider the Poor-law and
other laws relating to the poor in Ireland, hoped that the
condition of the Irish poor would occupy at an early pe-
riod the attention of Government; and whether concilia-
tion or coercion was adopted, he hoped that impar-
tial justice would be done to that people. He believed
it essential to the welfare of the Irish people to have
the Poor-law carried out properly, and to have medical
relief in connexion with these laws properly adminis-
tered. He also thought that the question of mendi-
cancy should receive early consideration. The Noble
Earl concluded by moving that the report now laid
on the table be printed and circulated. Before he sat
down he wished to remove an impression generally pre-
valent, that he intended to introduce a Medical Charities
Bill this session, believing, as he did, that it was
rather the province of the Government to do so.
The Duke of LEINSTER thought the report was well
worthy the consideration of the House.
SLAVE TRADE.
Lord BROUGHAM said, in pursuance of the notice
which he had given the House, he had now the honour
to present the petition of one of the most venerable in-
dividuals at present left on the earth. The petition was
from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, but,
according to the rules of their Lordships' House, it
could not be received as such; consequently, it must be
received as the petition of an individual, but that indi-
vidual a man, as he knew, and as all their Lordships
knew, pre. eminent above all others for his great per-
formances in the cause of justice, humanity, and sound
policy. When he recollected the history of that
distinguished individual, when he reviewed that history
for a period of three score years ; that that individual,
who had attained the extreme verge of human life, re-
maining steady to his principles, without looking back on
the past, except to profit from experience, or diverging to
either side, except to collect materials for his gallant force
looked forward still to the promoting the happiness of
his race. He said, when he considered this, he felt
that in presenting the petition he was entitled to their
Lordships' respectful sentence. That petition prayed
that if a measure should be presented to their Lordships'
House—a measure for introducing sugar from foreign and
British colonies, n„t only where there was free labour, but
where the produce was manufactured by manacled hands—
theiriliiipes v,
Lordships would give it their decided opposition.
—it prayed that their Lords
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admitting
dissent from that measure, however it might be intro-
duced into that House recommended on expediency,
and on, so called, human p
again into the country that traffic which long ago ap-
peared so horrid as to merit condemnation all the world
over. That man was an advocate, as were those whom
he represented, for the repeal of the differential duties
between foreign and British colonial produce, and for
letting all in on precisely the same terms, provided al-
ways that that produce of foreign colonies was not the
manufacture of the victims of that nefarious system of
slavery which sixty-one years ago he began to abolish.
The present measure gave rise to a sad sentiment, but
to a sentiment also of another kind ; there was a senti •
ment of wonder and astonishment, which in his
mind found no bounds, that their Lordships should
be discussing the subject at all in the year 1846 ;
that it should now be matter of doubt whether their
Lordships were to give the slave trade their countenance
and encouragement,—that it should b 3 the slave trade
which they were discussing was enough to fill his bosom.
When he considered one thing, it staggered him more
than all, and that was the date, the time of the year that
he was reluctantly called on for the hundredth time to
enter upon this discussion. The discussion was im-
portant, it was important in a commercial view ; in a
financial view it was of no mean importance that a
revenue of some millions should cease to be levied by one
vote of both Mutes ; and constitutionally, therefote it
was ts,discussion Of no small importance. The petition
referred to a measure which was to introduce into the
markets of Europe the produce of slave colonies—of our
enemies, perhaps, as the chance might be, if the peahe
were broken .;• and the question before *heir Lordshipi
was V whither they would erieourage the slave
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