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London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jung 17.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at twelve o'clock.
PE PORTS.
The following reports were brought up, and the Bills
ordered to be engrossed :—Allhallows Tithes; East Lanca-
shire Railway (Deviation and Branches); London and Bir-
mingham Railway (Weeden and Northampton) ; North
Wales Railway ; Sheffield General Cemetery ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Chester Junction, and North Wales Mineral
Railway Amalgamation ; South-Eastern Railway (Chislet to
Margate).

TD READIN.
The following BillHs were read a third time and passed :
Glasgow Municipal, Police and Statute Labour; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Diversion
and Cooper Bridge Branch) ; Kennington-lane, &c., Light-
ing, &c. ; Newmarket and Chesterford Railway:; Newport
and Pillgwenlly Waterworks ; St. Helen's Canal and Rail-
way; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Rail-
way (Whaley-bridge and Hayfield Branches) ; Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Dakinfield,
Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station
Enlargement) ; Shropshire Union Railways and Canal
(Newton to Crewe, with Branches); Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole Railway (Methley, Askern, and Oakenshaw
Branches).
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT AND GOOLE RAIL

WAY BILL.
Sir J. Y. BILLER moved the further proceeding on the
third reading of this Bill, which was read a third time and
passed.
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NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY BILL.
The Lords' amendments on this Bill were read, and
agreed to.

SITES IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. BOYD presented petitions from the ministers and con-
gregations of various places in Scotland, praying the House
to facilitate the obtaining of sites for building places of
worship.

SMALL TENEMENTS BILL.
Various petitions from places in England were presented in
favour of and against this Bill.
UNIVERSITY TESTS (SCOTLAND).

Mr. LOCKHART presented several petitions against any
Bill that might have for its object the alteration of the ex-
isting testa in the Universities of Scotland.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions in favour
of the Bill for obtaining sites for churches in Scotland.
Mr. P. M. STEWART presented several petitions to a
similar effect.

RAILWAY GAUGE.
Sir G. CLERK announced that he was not disposed to
make any objection to the amendments which had been made
to some of the resolutions he had proposed in the debate last
night.
Mr. DENISON was about to address the House, when he
Mr. FOX MAULE, who rose to order. He wished to
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know whether that order of the day had precedence over the
wotah:
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could not be pressed forwcardktnoo-
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then ensued, in w h4eh t(err.B Fox MAktn.w,
Sir Jamrs GRAHAM, and other Hon.
which of the orders should have the
pnarecedexiocienellu, :Istitloe
discussion was put an end to by Sir GEORGE CLERK con-
senting to postpone the further debate on his resolutions
until to-morrow.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY BILL.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON moved, " That it be an instruc-
the Dir
tion to the
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the BristoGl ee onGroup 18, to hear the petition from
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their Yeovil and Taunton Branch. aster Railway, relative to
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before BILL.
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After a few words from Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET,
.he motion was withdrawn.
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be referred to the Co
agreed to.
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Committee last year on. the Bristol and Gloucester Railway
The motion was ,
A short discusslon then ensued as to the gauges, which
was put a stop to'bY
d tI ° the Bid ctraefle,
Eight 1100. friend, the Vice-rrezt ea
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Sir JANIS GRAHAM interposing,. _and saying that his