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in this country. He agreed with their Lordships, and he I
therefore said that a penal colony should be established for the I
rece2t:on of men who had grin, through their punislitnetit I
Such a system be.tlit, means of converting such
men into the pioneers of civilisation.--(Hear, hear.) Such
men would be free from the difficulties to which they would be
subjected did they remain in this country. And instead of
being the vilest of their race, they would be the erectors
of the dwelling•places of virtue and civilisation.—( Cries
of " Hear, hear.") Let the Government confess its past
faults, and venture upon a future in which they would take
care to palliate the great evils which their present system bad
produced. If convicts were kept at home, they would be more
under the eyes and power of the Government— ( Hear, hear )
and by adopting tile suggestions which he had humble offered,
he did not doubt that they would confer upon this great
country a great and lasting benefit.—( Hear, hear. )
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose to exilain. He
would be very glad to learn that it would be found practicable
to dispense with transportation altogether ; and he also listened
with great pleasure to the admirable address of the Right Rev.
Prelate in reference to the experiment of the Pentoriville
Prison, and he did hope that the amount of crime causing these
things might decrease, so as to bring it in greater proportion
with the population.
After a few words from Lord LYTTELTON and the Bishop
of OXFORD. the petition was ordered to lie on the table.
The I'ublie Works (Ireland) Bill was then read a third
time and passed.
The Game Bill was then read a second time.
WEXFORD. CARLOW, AND DUBLIN JUNCTION
RAILW I Y.

Lord MONTEAGLE said that the other day he had given
notice of a motion with respect t 9 an Irish Railway Bill, the
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction ; and he would now
explain himself to their Lordships in a few words.
His motion was for the liu-pose of facilitating the
passing of a Bill through the Standing Orders' Committee.
The motion was that the standing orders in this eve was dis-
pensed with. The error which had been commuted was the
serving of some notices on a Sunday and a Christmas day,
though it was proved that no hardship was in consequence in-
flicted on any one. By allowing the Bill to proceed employ-
ment would be given to 6,000 persons.
Lord REDESDALE regretted he could not concur with
the views of the Noble Baron oppos te, because if the standing
orders were to be of any value at. all, they should be attended
to in this respect. The standing order which in the present
cae had not been observed was improper service of notice, or
that notices had been served on Christmas-day and Sunday ;
and surely if the parties ?Prying them were not wilfully wegli-
gent they should know that they were doing an improper act.
He thought the Committee had come to a just conch' ►on tliat
th:re was no case for recommending the parties to the mercy of
the House for non-attendance to the standing orders.
After a few words from the Earl of SH A ETESI3 'RY,

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the notice was, of
course, illegal, if served on Sunday, end that, in fact, a very
serious punishment was attached to any party who attempted
to serve such a notice en a Sunday.—( Hear, hear.)
The motion was then put and agreed to.
Their Lordships then adjourned at a Qaartor-past Eight
o'clock.