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Tgx 001--W LOWDoNS MOWDAY JsreENnitlil MAACK 1046,

On the motion that this Bill be rEad a second time,
Sir C. LEMON opposed the second reading, and
mlve i that it be ;cad that (LI- six months.
After one diicussion the second reading was po,,t-
pont.d to Friday next.
The River Nene Improvement and Drainlg! Ii l
was read a second time and ordered to be committed.
SEVERN NAVIGATION.

On the motion that the Severn Navigation Im-
provement Commission Bill be read a second time.
Captain BERKELEY moved that it be read a
second time that day six months.
Mr. HOPE seconded the motion.
Mr. R. SPOONER supported the second reading
of the Bill.

SLANEY opposed the second reading of the
Bill, and trusted that the House would throw it out.

Lord INGESTRE thought it would be a great
injustice to the country not to allow the Bill to go
into Committee.

Mr. LABOUCIIERE supported the second read-
ing of the Bill on public grounds, in order that its
merits might be inquired into.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading .. 91
Against it
Majority
The Bill was accordingly lost.
Mr. COBDEN presented ‘ieveral petitions against
the income-tax.

Lord 11. VANE prosente4l a petition against any
alteration in the navigation I. _ _ _

Lord BRACKLEY pres,..,nted a petition in favour
cf t.i.e Thrnan Ilelief Bill.

Mr. 'VAIVN presented a petition from Falmouth
against the income-tax.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY gave notice that
on an early day he should move that all standing
orders relating to the House be rescinded, being
vain, impossible, and of no utility whatever.
THE CASE OF ANNETTE MEYERS.

Mr. EIVART wished to know from the Right
lion. Baronet the Secretary for thQ Home Depart-
ment whether it was the intention of the Government
to carry into execution thb ..entence recenty passed
upon Annet:e Meyers for the murder :of a soldier in
St. James's Park

Sir G. GREY said that he could give no other
answer than that the only official communication he
had received upon the subject was from a letter ad-
dressed to him by the Lord Chief Baron, stating the
verdict, of the jury, and that it was accompanied
with a strong recommendation to mercy.
STATE uF THE FLEET AT MALTA.

- Lord INGESTRE w fished' to knuw from the
Hun. Member fur the West *Riding whether the
report of his speech at a meeting at Manchester,
with respect to the fleet at Malta, was substantially
correct.

Mr. COBDEN said that when the naval estimates
came before the House he should be very happy to
justify every word which he had said on the subject,
and probably the Noble Lord would upon that occa-
sion be, prepared to refute the facts which he had
stated, and which were in the main correctly given
in the report which appeared in the Manchester
Guardian.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether the fleet had
been withdrawn from the Tagus?
Lord PALMERSTON said that Admiral Napier
had received orders to return home.
WAR WITH MEXICO.

Mr. ROBINSON wished to know from the Noble
Lord the Secretary for Voreign Affairs whether the
Government were in possetsiun of any official intulli•
genie announcing the cessation of hostilities in
Mexico ?

Lord PALMERSTON said that he had reason to
believe that when the last accounts left Mexico nvgo-
tiations for peace were going on, but he could not
state whether an actual cessation of hostilities had
taken place.