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man, and he would remember it before many months were
over his head." The prisoner said " she might before many
hours went over ber head " Witness recollected nothing ese.
The LORD MAYOR asked if the prisoner had any question
to ask the witness? Prisoner—l could not undersrai- d a
word that was said. Will you have the goodness to read it

to me.
Mr. Goodman then read the evidence as given by the girl
Wt4.lthail.
The prisoner, in answer to the question whether he had
anything to ask the witness, said he would reserve his
defence.
John Tolloday, twenty-one years of age, lived at Castle-
lane, Cambridge, and was a whitesmith. The deceased
was his sister, and her name was Susan Tolloday.
She was cousin to the prisoner's wife. Witness had never
seen prisoner and his sister together.
The prisoner had no question to ask.
The LORD MAYOR asked if the prisoner had anything to
say why he should not be committed for trial? The pri-
soner had nothing to say.
The witnesses were then bound over to appear against the
prisoner at the present sessions (now sitting).

MPER!AL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DA Y.)

HOUSE OF CO3ISIONS.
The SPEAKER. took the chair at Twelve o'clock.
Mr. B. Borrn CARRELL, introduced by Mr. Dodd and Mr.
Barry Baldixin,took the oaths and his seat for St. Aiban's.
CORK AND WATERFORD RAILWAY.
Several amendments were pt., posed en this Bill, and
agreed to.
VIRGIN MARY HOSPITAL (NEWCASTLE)
ESTA I E BILL.
This Bill ws; read a secotid time.
LORD KENYON (CONGREVES) ESTATE BILL.
This Bill was read a third time, and passed.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.
Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham,
praying that this Bill might pass ; and for the abolition of the
county court at Warwick, and of the Mayor's court at
Birmingiiarn.
SOUTHWARK AND WATERLOO BRIDGES.
Lord G. BEN TINCK presented a petition trom Finsbury
praying that these might be made free bridges.
Mr. I3ROTHERTON presented a petition from Hackney

to the same effect.
RAILWAY PARCELS.
Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from Not-
tingham praying that railway companies might not be allowed
to break open the parcels entrusted to their care.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION RILL.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from tb., medical prac-
titioners of Leeds, praying that this Bill might pass without
delay.
Sir G. GREY also presented a petition from thz medical
association of Gloucestershire to the same effect.
FLOGGING IN THE ARNIY.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Hammersmith
aga,nst flogging in the army.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Hull, frcru the
debtors confined in the gaol there, for the total abolition of

imprisonment for debt.
Sir G. GREY presented two petitions praying that the BA
be passed this session.
ACCOUNTS OF THE SECRETARY-OF-WAR.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented a return of the accounts
which had been rendered to him.
RAILWAY BOARD.
Mr. MORRISON moved the confirmation of the resolu-
tions of the Select Committee on Railways, of which he WAS
chairman, with the view to the establishment of a railway
board for directing the process of amalgamation, and for the
general government of railway companies, and for empowering
the board to test locally the correctness of the plans and sec-
tions deposited with the members of the board.
Mr. HUME sail that having been on this Committee, he
was confident that any one who had considered the state of
private business fur the last two years, and who observed that
this Committee and the Committee of the House of Lords
were unanimous, would think the resolutions ought to he con-
firmed. lie would therefore second the motion.
Sir G. GREY having been also on the Committee, con-
ceived that it would be adviAble for him to express his opinion
respecting the resolutions. To the first of those resolutions he
had no objection. It directed the process of amalgamation.
The second was contained in the ninth, and if the House were
to take those two as one, and embodied the general recommen-
dation of the Committee for a railway board, he thought it
would be better than to go into details, and fetter the
House at this time with resolutions which it might
prove ye: y inconvenient to carry into effect. The better plan
would be to accept the several recommendations of the Com-
mittee, and carry out the whole design when' it could be
presented in the more perfect shape of a Bill.
Lord G. SOMERSET approved of the establishment of this
board, but coeceived that the matter was yet premature. This
board ought plainly to comprise members of both Houses of
Parliament, and, in his opinion, it ought to consist, at least
partly, of members of the Government at the time in being.
After a few words from Mr. W ARBURTON.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
Government had plainly received recommendations from both
Houses, and from both sides of this House, to establish the
board ; but it did appear to them that to attempt to do mere
than establish the department at this period of the session would
be futile. He would, therefore, propose to bring in a very
shoat. Bill, for the purpose which he had intimated, giving the
board thus constituted some of the powers of the Board of
Trade, beside others of a similar kind, to enable them to
fulfil their duty. The Vice-President of the r;oard of Trade
was prepared with such a Bill, but having been exceedingly ill
it happened that it was not laid on the table. The matter
the n would be in progress, and the business might be well con-
sidered during the recess, and a Bill be brought in in the early
part of next session for the complete organisation of the board
and the arrangement of its duties. He proposed, therefore,
to accept the first and second, and perhaps the ninth resolution,
and on them to found such a Bill.
Mr. BERNAL believed some such board to be absolutely
necessary, for without it the private business of the country
could not go on. But while making such a sweeping change
the constitution, due deliberation ought to be observed in t.
establishment of this board, espeehtly when they recolleetet
that railways had now been constructed in the most remote
parts of the country.
Mr. GREENE took the same view of the case.
Mr. P. M. STEWART ceeceived that the better plan
would be to strike off all the resolutions but the first, so as to
get the department recognised, and then the House would be
able to constitute such a board as would obtain the confidence
of the country and be as perfect as such a thing could be in all
its details.
Mr. ESTCOURT did not think that the resolutions pro-
posed would at all compass the important subject to which they
related, and their adoption would lead to a great deal of unne-
cessary trouble hereafter. If any portion ot these resolutions
was to be adopted, be thought that the first resolution
would of itself answer all purposes, and the rest could
easily be dispensed with. He did not, however, think
it at all wise to introduce the subject at this late
period of the session, when any legisletinn upon it must
necessarily be of a hurried character, and the safer plan would
be to withdraw all the resolutions until next session.
Mr. MORRISON said that, after the expression of opinion
which had be en given by the House, he would be perfectly
content if the Home were to adopt the first resolution.
Lord LINCOLN so far differed from many Hon. Members,
that his opinion was against the passing of the first resolution;
for if the Government intended to introduce a Bill constituting
a railway hoard, the re•olution would be quite superfluous. if
there were no part of the Government at present existing
which could make those preliminary inquiries necessary,
be would at once accede to the motion, but as such a portion
ot the Government did exist, he should oppose it.
After a few words in explanation from the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, the first resolution was agreed to.
THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF BOMBAY.
Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK vase, pursuant to the notice
which he had given, to ask the President of the Board of Con-
trol, for some information respecting the Chid Justiceship of
Bombay. Yesterday it was his duty to bring before the
House a case with respect to the appointment of
the magistracy which he thought must have struck
the House very deeply, with the manner in which these duties
were performed by her Majesty's late Ministers. It was his
duty that day to bring before the attention of the House, and
the attention of the country, a job which had been committed
with respect to the appointment of the Chief Justice of Bombay.
There were at that moment two Chief Justices of Bombay.—
( A laugh.) It would be in the recollection of the House, that
the division on the Coercion Bill, which put her Majesty's late
Ministers in a minority, occurred on the 26th of June. On the
29i .h of June following the announcement was made to that House
and to the country that her Majesty's Ministers had resigned
the reins of Government. On the 30th of June, Mr. David
Pollock, a Commissioner for the relief of insolvent debtors in
London, was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay ; and, as he
believed (and on that point he asked for information of his
Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Control), at
that time Sir Henry Roper, the then Chief Justice of B mbay,
had not tendered his resignaion to Government. He was
well aware that it was in the power of the Government to
supersede a chief justice in the colonies, but he submitted that
if it were within the power of the Government, it was con-
trary to the spirit of the constitution, that, for the sake of
patronage, the t;overi went should supersede those who held
(Ace as judge in any part of the Queen's dominions. He be-
lieved that Sir Henry Roper was in the seventh year of the
performance of his duties as Chief Justice of Bombay. Five
years' service would give to him a retiring pension of 7001. per
year, and seven years' service would have entitled him to a
retiring pension of 1,0001. per year. The period of service
which would have entitled him to the full retiring pension,
of 1,0001. per year would have expired on the 2t of November
next, yet her Majesty's late President of the Board of Control
had, as he would show to the House, perpetrated a job, as he
had thought proper to supersede Sir H. Roper by appointing
Mr. David Pollock, when there were yet four months to rue
before Sir Henry Roper would be entitled to his full retiring
pension. Bat this was not all. There was another and more
serious view of the case, and it was this—that by the
law of the land, as soon as Mr. David Pollock
was appointed Chief Justice, he became legally Chief Justice of
Bombay ; then all authority by which Sir Henry Roper could
try immediately ceased. Ihe result of this was, that every
trial which should be held by Sir Henry Roper, between the
time of the appointment of Sir Henry Pollock and the arrival
of the news of his appointment at the East Indies, would be an
illegal trial, and every criminal who should be convicted—
that was, capitally convicted---..would stand before the
laws of the country as a murdered man, and that was one of
the ways in which her Majesty's late Ministers performed the
ministerial duties of their places. At that very moment (he
did not know whether the Bill was actually in the House, but
if it were not he believed that it would be laid on the table
that night) it had been necessary to introduce into the
e
other House of Parliament a Bill, which, under the titl
of the East India Patrotage Bill, was in point
of fact a Bill for concealing this nefarious jet), and at
the same time to grant an indemnity to the perpetrators of it.
The object of the appointment of Mr. David Pollock was to
make a vacancy in the Conimissionership of Bankrm toy, with
which to reward the private secretary of Lord Lyndhurst, and
the mode of proceeding was this :—S:r Henry Roper was to be
superseded by the appointment of Mr. D. Pollock, which would
leave the office of Chief Commissioner in London for the
relief of insolvent debtors vacant. Mr. David Pollock was
then in his turn to be succeeded in office by Mr. Phillips, a
commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy at Liverpool, and
thus to make a vacancy there, to which Mr. Perry, the private
secretary of the Lord Chancellor, had been since ap-
pointed. He (Lord George Bentioek) had nothing
to say against the character of Mr. David P:g
lock ; he did not wish to say or to insinuatel
that he was unfit for thudiscbarge of the high duties to which
he had been appointed. He believed that his legal attainments
were grew, and though he might be something out of practice
as regarded the courts of that portion cf the law which ihee
was to administer, from having been now occupied for some
time as an Insolvent Debtor ' Commissioner, he (Lord
George Bentinck) did not mean to say that he was not
fit to hold the office of Chief Justice of Bombay—thougu
his age, being6s, was rather greater than that of those who were
sent out to the East Indies to fulfil the situation of Chief
Justice had generally attained. Weil, then, with ct to
Mr. Phillips, he had nothing to say against his character or
against his legal attainments. He believed that a more capable