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THE LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL
JUNCTION (BASINGSTOKE TO YEOVIL).
The further consideration of this line was resumed by the
Committee, when Mr. Venables, the agent against the Bill,
called Mr. Smith, an engineer, who proved that the distances
were not marked on the datum hue in miles and furlongs
to correspond with the plan.
After some observations in reply, from Mr. WEnsTEn,
The CHAIRMAN said, it was clear that the standing orders
were not complied with.
Six other objections were then abandoned by Mr. Vann.
BLES, and he proceeded to an allegation contained in another
general petition, namely, " that the miles were not correctly
marked ot. the datum line," which was similar to an allega-
tion made yesterday, but that it did not apply to the same
part of the line.
Mr. WEBSTER contended that the allegation was decided
yesterday by the Committee, and that it should not heopened
again, as it did apply to the same part of the line.
The objection was not entertained by the Committee.
The petition of Mr. Bartlett was then proceeded with, in
which it was stated a certain field owned by the Marquis of
Anglesea was not numbered on the line, which field was in
the posse,=sion of petitioner and his brother.
The Committee decided that it was quite clear the field
was not numbered.
A similar objection to another field adjoining one marked
18, and owned by the Marquis of Anglesea, and in the pos—
session of petitioner, was then examined into, and the Com-
mittee decided, as in the preceding objection, that the said
field was not marked in the map, or entered in the book of
reference.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS_DAY)

HOUSE OF COMMOM.
The House met at Twelve o'clock.
The following Bills were read a second time :
Bridgewater and Al inchead Railway and Pier.
Caruwath and West Linton Railway.
Ballochnoy Railway (Shotts Branch).
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Railway.
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway (Chapel Hall Branch).
Swansea Vale Railway.
Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (Amendment andßranches).
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Wakefield Ex-

tension).
Ulverstone, Furness, and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.
Edinburgh and Peebles Railway.
Mr. DUNG AN presented several petitions from Paisley
Glasgow, and other places, in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill
and also five petitions from Tavistock and other places,
against the enrolment.and embodiment of the militia.
A petition was presented from several of the resident
clergy of Denbigh in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill.
A petition was presented from Bostock, in favour of Frost,
Williams, and Jones.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented two petitions from places in
Lancashire, in favour cf the Ten Hours Bill.
Mr. GREENE brought up the report on the Wakefield and
Pontefract Railway, and the Huddersfield Railway.
Mr. GREENE moved that Standing Order No. 114, re-
quiring the breviate of all private Bills to be laid on the
table three clear days before the second reading of such
Bills ; and standing order No. 119, requiring breviates of
-Bills amended in Committee to be submitted to the Chair-
man of Ways and Means, and laid on the table the day pre-
vious to the consideration of the report, be suspended
respect to all Bills entitled to the privileges agreed to be
granted in certain cases by the resolutions of the House on
the 7th day of July last.—The motion was agreed to.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
In reply to a question from Sir R. INGLIS,
Mr. ESCOTT said that in the absence of so many Irish
Members he should not feel justified in moving the second
reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.
Mr. HUTT understood that it was not intended to move
the second reading of that Bill during the present week.
The order of the day for the second reading of the Bill
having been read,
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN regretted to bring under the
notice of the House a circumstance which had recently
occurred at the Nottinghamshire election, and which
had come under his cognizance. It appeared that the lion.
Member for Maldon had stated that the views of Lord
Lincoln, with reference to the policy which it was intended
to be pursued towards Ireland, were perfectly satisfactory,
and that he had given utterance to very strong opinions with
reference to this subject. When he (Mr. O'Brien) looked
over the votes of that House, he had found that
the name of the Honourable Member for Halton
was among those who had voted in the attempt to
destroy- the Irish Church establishment. In the course of
the conversation which ensued between Lord Lincoln and
the Hon. Member for Mahlon it might be inferred that his
Lordship considered himself justified in remaining a mem-
ber of the present Government, although he entertained
sentiments contrary to the principles which the Government
had recently professed. The Noble Lord is also reported to
have said that he should take no part in the present debate ;
for, although he should support the Administration, his prin
ciples would not allow him to interfere further in the matter
than to give his vote. He (Mr. O'Brien) felt
it' to be his duty to state in the most public
manner that the greatest possible anxiety and con-
sternation prevailed as to the. nature of the sentiments which
the Noble Lord might entertain with respect to the policy to
be pursued towards Ireland. He must say that he deeply
regretted that the Noble Lord had not remained silent with
respect to his opinion on Irish affairs if the revenues of the
Irish Church were to be disturbed. He entertained the
sincerest regard for the Noble Lord, and fur.that reason he
regretted still more the events that had recently occurred.
He would most earnestly hope that the Noble Lord the
Member for London should have the task of interfering with the
temporalities of the Irish Church, and that the disagreeable
duty should not fall to the lot of his Noble Friend Lord Lincoln.
If those sentiments expressed by Lord Lincoln were perfectly
satisfactory to the Member for Maldon, who was distinctly
pledged by his vote to the destruction of the Irish establish-
ment ; and if the views of the Noble Lord coincided with the
views of the Government, lie did not think he was trans-
gressing his duty to' ask the Government to state their
opinions with reference to this subject of the Irish Church.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that it was possible Lord
Lincoln would be in his place in a few days, and that then
he would be able to explain his conduct most satisfactorily to
the Hon. Member. lie had no knowledge of the matter
more than what was derived from the newspapers, and he
• could not state what opinions were held by the Member for
Maldon, or on what subject it was that Lord
Lincoln gave him perfect satisfaction. The Ho-
nourable. Gentleman bad stated, that if the destruction
of the Irish Establishment was resolved upon, he would much
rather it were committed to the hands of the Noble Lord op-
posite. Now he was not aware that either he or the Noble
Lord opposite ever contemplated the destruction of that
Church.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he considered it due to his
own public character to state that he had been informed
generally of the w hole conversation which had taken place,
and he was at liberty to state that Lord Lincoln made use of
no expression which implied that he was to rake a part in
the overthrow of the Church Establishment in Ireland; lie
said that his opinions were in favour of a liberal policy, and
with respect to details he would be able to form his judg-
ment after some residence in the country.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Lord Jiihn Russell) did not think that any-
thing had taken place at all inconsistent with
his former opinions, and with regard to himself he
must declir.e the measures which the Hon. Gentleman would
impose upon hint. He had never held the opinion that the
Church of Ireland ought to be destroyed ; he cl!d think
there was a portion of its ftVeritieS, misapplied, and
a contest arose between Lisa and gentlemen .opposite
as- to that subject. They said his views, if carried out, would
destroy the Eembliehment—he considered that if they were
that they would teed. to its more certain preservation; but
with regard to the Church of Ireland as a whom, Ire wished
for its maintenance, and he, therefore, could not accept the
duty which the lion. Member would devolve upon him.
Mr. O'CONNELL observed that there was no person in
Ireland who wished for the destruction of the Irish Church.
Ile would wish for its maintenance, but the temporalities of
that Church were quite another affair, and he would press
upon the Government the necessity of seeing a portion of
them otherwise applied titan they were at present.
Mr. P. lIOWAItD observed that he saw with great
pain a report of certain observations made use of by tire
Member of Nottingham, with reference to the Roman
Catholic religion. New he did not thick that the words
could do any possible injury to the Church against which
they were directed, but he complained of them as cal-
culated to raise the seeds of religious discord in the country.
Ile had himself stood as many contested elections as any
men in England, and he had never used any words that
might not be employed in a drawing-room, and he hoped the
representatives of the aristocracy would do the same. Un-
less they did so, how' could they blame the ignorant and
uneducated for following their example?
THE CASE OF SEERY.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, that although they were on the
' orders of the day, he wished to oiler an explanation respect-
ing an answer which he had given to a questions on Monday
night 1.114, relating to a deputation that had waited on the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. When he (Sir J. Graliam)gave
the answer he had not received an answer from the Lord
Lieutenant, though immediately on the notice beir, given
of the irrtentien to asls the question, he was written to for the
particulars. He (Sir James Graham) wrote on Friday night,
and not receiving an answer on Monday, as expected, he re-
plied to the best of his ability, from the information ire was
able to collect, that the deputation had acted in the manner
he described. Ho stated that a deputation from Westmeath
had waited on the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin, and prayed
that the sentence of death on Brian Seery might be carried
into effect. He (Sir James Graham) answered the question
to the best of his information, and considered the deputation
had acted in a very harsh and unusual manner. On Tues-
day morning, however, he received the atiewer of the Lord
Lieutenant, which represented the matter in a somewhat
different light, and he would read it to the House. (The
Right Hon. Baronet then read the letter, which set forth that
a deputation from the county of Westmeath had waited on
the Lord Lieutenant, but that he (the Lord Lieutenant) had
not been influenced in the slighest degree by anything they
had stated relating to the case of Brian Seery. This decision
had not in the least degree operated on his mind. Iu jus-
tice to the deputation, however, it must be stated that
their principal object in calling on the Lord Lieutenant was to
represeut the lawless state of Roscommon, and the necessity
of more stringent measures for the protection of life and
property, and that it was only incidentally that the case of
Seery was introduced. On this subject they stated that any
lenity shown to Seery would tend to encourage and per-
petuate the evils that existed, and keep alive the spirit of in-
subordination.) lie had taken this, the earliest, opportunity
of making an explanation to the House.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT.
Mr. FOSTER asked the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J.
Graham) whether it was the intention of the Government to
introduce in the present session a Bill for the amendment
of this Act, which in many particulars operated in a very
vexatious manner?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM answered that the Government
intended to introduce a gill in the course of the session,
but previous to that it was their intention to lay before the
House a Bill to amend one portion of the present Act, re-
lating to the appointment of official referees, so as to in-
crease their number to three, with an increase of salary,
subject to the condition that no person should be employed
in that capacity who acted as a surveyor.
CORRESRONDENCE RESPECTING SEERY.
Mr. O'CONNELL withdrew the notice he had given re-
specting the correspondence between the Lord Lieutenant
and Dr. Cantwell, as he found that the correspondence was
laid on the table at a late hour last night. In place of that,
he beged leave t substitute a notice of motion, that two itd-
ditionagl Members be given to Ireland, for those of which
Sudbury had been deprived.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' BILL.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second
reading of
this Bill.
Mr. HENLEY asked the Hon. Gentleman what was
meant by the words in the Bill, "or any other purpose
not illegal." •
Mr. DUNCOMBE said, the Hon. Gentleman asked what
these words meant. To that he would answer, that they
existed in the present statute, and Ire was not responsible
fur them. The object of this Bill was to give greater