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London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

FIOPERIAL PARLI4t.MENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 16.
The LORD CIISNCELLOR took his teat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
PETITIONS.

Lord CRANWORTH presented a-petition from car-
trio attorneys suggesting alteratiens in the Expenses of
Prosecutions Bill.
The Duke of ARGYLE presented several petitions
against Papal aggression; also a petition from the synod
of Ayr, praying their Lordships not to permit any
bishop to assume territorial titles in Scotland. Ho
thought it was scarcely worth while to introduce a
clause to exempt Bishops of the Episcopal Church in
Scotland from the operation of the Bill, es it had been
decided by the law courts of Scotland that fan assump-
tion of such territorial titles were illegal.
The Bishop ofSALISBURY said that 'ellannttl: such
titles were unknown to the law of Scotland they were
not contrary to law.
Lord CAMPBELL said that the Sah.retese Coast ec
Scotland had decided that the assumption ,of such terri-
torial titles were contrary to Intr.
The Bishop of SALISBURY sail that they violated.
no law in assuming those titles:.
Lord CAMPBELL said that the llits'et, _Reverent:
Prelate had precisely the same right: to assume the title
of Duke of Edinburgh as the Scotch prelates had to
assume their territorial titles.
RAILWAYS IN AMERICA.
Lord STANLEY in hutting the questien of which
no had given netiee,
on the sulject of the proposed
railway from
Halifax to Q2(.1100 and Toronto, :ht.--
minded their Lordships that no individual had
offered to construct a railweh at his oWil c,t et
from Lake Superior to the Pecific, and the' the Unites
States Legislature had etitertaineti the pretech aed bed
offered to sell him 78,003.,00
per acre, for the railwaysqatereaserotafslanci,t;:itmla%27,iie4s
portant that the istalway from Halifsx to Quell-et! and
'Toronto should be completer?., anti he i,dicvt.(l
that
pre-
positions
the able and indefetigsble agent for Nova .ts,et,staa watch
aryl hed resheate;l theft' adherenca to
bad been made by the Net& ahlri to
had found favors with ti--e Legislature of Nett'esr:Sicl7isic;
but, as he underztoeil, the cslony of Note artit,swier heal
'so treu.:ftr to the camp.,.,., ee the
rile;
eltitrssodritg.hiolisaei terms, aryl
Leeisleture ten mites of its:vie:ay on each -redo the line,
and unless New Bransaielt. corsented to the term:lea
of the line, the consent of Nose lishlta und of Caseada
would be useless, led as flue "i•cmtnitin!ca-
lion between the Atlantic met. sae Paeiles weuld
he carried on through the couttsy Unt:ted.
States, instead of Through istnerh-e,
less the Nob!e Earl comes ea some term a ith New.
Brunswick. 110 tithed , thertfers, if tl:o Nettle Estl
it ea t
would lay the proceedings ce she Nee' Brunteeee L F.-
lature on the table, and if des Gevetineett set, rut
pared to meet the sieete of the Yew litunswiea Leasia-
tare, which to him eppeared fah ?
Earl GREY had no objetrion to lay the papers on the
table, although the information conveyedby them `‘B6
very imperfect. He t er. consider that the elschhes
of the New Ere:Th.:wick Le
aielstuee could be tiers`
sidered as (it'll, as it had hetes ha telly areatitif
at the end of n seszion en iinpert t,t
information. He hed never Yot asd that env
substantial CTlMp7uy had eilera d
corstl'uct the
line. and the only hoothhich e had et etved
ht..ted by the
an offer vas one r loch 114 A been rtiat
Governments both el' Neva Scetia and Canada. He had
acted on the principle of declining communication with
the ti nnd b enrteePr:tltlY she :Nova Sc
eiiof an'ycootimanuP''y which was not
oand Canadian Govern-
ments. lie agreed with the Noble Lord as to the im-
portarese of the construction of this line, and he did not
consider that vilest had passed in New Brunswick pie-
canted and iremperable obstacle to such construction.
Lord MONTEAGLE 11:d heard with extreme satis-
faction the expression of opinion on the part of his
Noble Friend that he did not consider the opposition of
New Brunswick to be of such a nature as not to be over-
' come, aid that the Legislature of that colony might vet
be brought to aid in the making cf the railway. He
(Lord Monteegle) could not but express the regret he
telt when he found his Noble Friend had given up the
• occupation of the land when it had been offered to him.
The whole question of the legislation for these North
American railways, involving as it did the connexion
between them and the mother country, as well as the
improvement of 13,000;000 of acres of :astd, was one of
great importance; and he hoped his Noble Friend Weald
suspend any final proceedings on the &atter uatil the
opinion of the three colonies theuld have been oetateed.
Ile wished to know whether any StPilt bed bean taken
with respect to the railway Bills of lest steer?
Earl GREY said he had considered flat it vecule: havo
been much batter to have the land teanec the
went of a local Government instest:'. of the
With respect to the Acts referred se, they had been
only received two or three days, and no steps had yet
' been taken about them.

After a fey: words from Lord MO-4TEAGLE,

Lord STANLEY wisl4el to know, with reference LI
the company to which he had referred, whether thera
would be any objection to Jay on the table the corsz,....-
nications which had parsed between them and the, Go.
cerement?

Earl GREY said if the Noble Lard wi.ahed to mow) for
:hew, they would ba prAuct,d
The subject then dro7?:-C..

SPIRITUAL WAN I. 1L RURAL DISTRTCTS.

The Marquis of LANSDOWFE eahl, in Fasent%.rg '..
petition which was envust,?el to Into, ho begged to cait
the attention of their Lorchhipt; to a subject in which a
Right Rev. Prelate poescnt a'e3 interested, concerning es
it did a portion of the diooesu which was so ably red
justly managed by him. It was with reference to a„...
place in the diocese of Salisbury. The petition was
from the gentry and inhabitants of the parka of Wool.
in Devonshire, in which they eeraplatoed (het evcr
since they had been made a district, there was but 61.1 P
clergyman to discharge tile dray of that and two othoo
neighbouring parishes. The petitioners prayed for soma::
relief front that state of spiritnal dantitation. lie was
not cognisant of the circunastarice2 of the case of his own
knowledge, but having been requeattai to do so he had
felt it to be his duty to brinro it ,orword.
The Bishop of SALISBURY thanked the Noble Mar-
quis for his courtesy in g:ving him notioo of his itho.e_
tion as well as for the :Tanner in which he had ptosenteoi
the petition. He aelinowleked there wee a diffictilly in
the case of the petitioners, cod he feared -,,ozy much it
might not be easy to remedy it. The parish of Woo!
navigation-
laws, v 1
madega ti Loth.
from by
contained a population of about 800 persons, and the in-
come was 1181. a year for the cleogytnan. Between (AO
and GOO persons resided in the hatuist of Woof, aeout
two miles from the church. Before the year 11:844 there
had been a resident curate, but ha flood it wry difficult
to obtain the services of cow new for the place. It was:
after that date ho gave his consent ,%t the formation of
Wool into a separate atstricc, in the hope that :heOCom-
missioners would be able to pro-,Ve foo its endowment.
In that hope, as in many similar ones, he had been dis-
appinted in the failure of the funds of that Commiadoo,
and in their falling so far short of the demand wade upon
them. He had endeavoured in various ways to obtain
the services of a curate in that pariah, and he still hoped
offtood to pay half the eapenso of a curate, and
to ho able to do so. He had himself more thosuni4opnhanyee
ronstemtboepr roo
could make provi,ion for the parish.
v7thaes sottilllelrpnlll'po''rietdy tuonttliol ;hoeifEoctchleesriapseticsal Commission
THE COASTING TRADE.
sent a petition, plirstianatndt
Sunderland,
complaining ofif
shipowners in Shields
The Marquis of LONDOON.
nDoEtißcel,n(frotlnair'na
hadall eve Low
of the repeal of -e-, • '
from the consequences
oernt;Tze oi it,
n alleged unfair arrangements
laws, and certain
to look
the great depression which their trade
„.e
railway directors and railway companies. It was a hea-
ter of great importance to proserve the mercantile ma-
d in the earr -
• trade. The petitioners, to the number of be'' Y
ariii•cTrotEhei I lisc(u
interestsntruyi those vesselsas a
P
ing oyeen
400 and 500, complained of the different rat,,. of carriage
charged by railway companies for see, borax co is had
those which came by land conveyatc., ~,L3 the r sh
fore asked that all parties ehauld be 14y.t.
un
Loetint, ere-
footing in respect to that great article c.4.-° ' Renee
footing hahstimptior.
It was a question which was worthy'
the serione atten-
tion of Government.
The Earl of IiARDWICKE did 1- L'a rise to support
the prayer of the petition, but to congratulate his Nohla
Friend on his change of opinion.—(Loughtar.\
The Marquis of LONDONDERR7—I be 'to set the
with my ia
Noble Earl right. I voted
ca
(Hear, and laughter)
The Earl of lIARDWICKE centinucd—The r-e!i?-I')n
referred to the coasting trade, and, eherefore,atte otio-
tion of a change in the laws r 7•1.1 sot acute C.3t10r6...
them. He was not then going into the Oestton co
how far the coasting trade was or teas 'no: otio3tod LY
na
the repeal of the vigtitv.-1-1v7.'4 bLit he. .).'eaC"l to
throw out a suggestion, Loci to, was tbis7--°,h.t , path.
tioners were nut Zlion-: il,i2rad by' tho rail et. 100 the
increase of steam rat/luta:in had a1,,,,,,),32.,15a•),, 3?(1723.-
cessarily affected their condthoD.
.11,77'' .rest'(...o.t, 4 ClFss of
screw steamers now haildizoolo 'ie. r.„_P..,11 6,, °S .w-1 and
machinery, which would COoh be,_112',7. v.,,, ~,,.13)p,,,z,, most
successfully even with the ree tit_ tent) v.
0...1,,..
0^
r.-•at 'info; tiatil
they would be able CO make Pin ,r 0 ir
.. 7, i os7-n. the north
1 t ur LO i!re ra,r,h,
to the south and back agoe
what the . ..-
Lord BEAUMONT sf.ld.r...es
1,7c,i,, e Foitnirmiors
corn-
plained of was, that the '
e:r.,Tici,4, 10, th u I(.'t PronCl:o.o:rSble
and equal for the es_caos_
gok,
t,,
~ 0 011ie railway. They
Tr 5
charged higher
oi131: for ta? tail'all. (') patters than anot:her;
for instance, coang 1 Je,yotid .Lonf-lon irero
those corn- i
charged more
company succeed -r•F., to Tice na.tropoll, itself.
The CODIP----' d j,.., 0 • i,:.(1„ g4"t:illg two antes o:
charges inserted
t. ..eir in,a, and .auted accorclif,gly.
That W 55
. a " 'roc bell wvnby their Leid,'ilssi co".
siderattoO. . .
After a few words from .I.h!, DAC cf BUCCLEUCa.
Earl GRANVILLE thou-. • i• -- t'
at that a great ilea. was 0
be said against any alteoatica of! the law. He er"
preheteded if a prwvision were Ltrodneed in accordanzo
with the
prayer of the aetititm, that the snot of it
would be hot to le,wer the tolls for fcoty miles, but to
raise theta for the 200 miles between Londe:7. and -Ycrlh.,
The Marquis
Of LONDONDERRY whiled to explain
to the Noble Fart near him Shot to still felt the con-
viction he had formerly entertainer?, rind expressed Ws
Opinion that the nevigatios•laws hallo been a great
sourco of the presr,crity of tho b2st interests or the
country.
or to l'e oo tho table.
.rho prtition Was then oro, •
The Earl of S FHA DI3IIOKE presented a petition
against rapid ergression.
Soyeasl Bills having been forwarded
a stage, their
Lordships ttetiouincd. . _

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May le,. •
The SPEAgEn THIRDe Chair
READI ct
NG FouS. r o'cleek.
The following Bills were lead a third time and p:ssed;
St. Andrer,'s Rail nap.
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Taw Val(' v • • •"'

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