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London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

THE SIIN, LONDON, TUESDAY - EVENING,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

On the motion of Sir W. HAYTER, a new writ was
ordered for Claokmannan and Killross, in the room of.
Sir W. Morrison, deceased.
PETITIONS.
Mr. ANDERSON presented a petition from the
Shetland Islands complaining of the burdens upon land.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL.presented several petitions
,from, Limerick and Dublin, andother places in-Ireland,
against the 'Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinbargh
in favour of this Bill.,
Mr. FRESHFIELD presented severarpetitions from
parishes in Lincolnshire to the same effect.
Mr. COWAN presented petitions from Edinburgh
against the Distilled Spirits Bill, stating that they had
never been consulted with respect to the. Bill now before
the House, and ;that the Bill as it now stood would be
injurious to their interests. •
Mr. CORBALLY presented several petitions against
the Eva siastioal Titles Bill.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented petitions to the same
effect from the undermentioned placest—Bray, in Wick.
low; Tburles, Tipperary; Killskeery, Tyrone; Lisburn
and Hillsborough, Down and Antritn; ,Dunabate and
Portrave, Dublin; Hilcar, Donegal county; Clones;
Monaghan ; Tessuagh, Tipperary ; Tallinghohegby;
Donegal; Anghabery, Monaghan; Xillnippe and Dun`
sany. Meath; Ballynderry, Tyrone and Antrim; BetAi.
naskill. Galivay; St. Nicholas Without, Dublin; Dublin
Cemeteries Committee (which on the motion of the Hon
Gentleman was read from the table); Dunnuly, Leitrim;
Bridgetown Garrybarry, and Ktlle,boe, Clare.
Mr. JOHN ,O'BRIEN presented a petition from the
Chamber of CommerCe of the city of Limerick, praying
that. the Towns Improvement Bill be suspended till the
wards of that city be reconstructed on the principle of
the Dublin Improvement Act ; also a petition from
a public meeting of the ratepayers and citizens of
Limerick, praying that the Towns Improvement Bill,
with certain modificationa,:may pass into law. I
Mr. R. M. FOX presented a petition from the comity
of Long‘ord against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which
he moved should be read at the table of the House. I
The petition was then, read by the Clerk at the table.

SEWERS ACT.
Lord DUNCAN wished to ask the Right Hon. the
Secretary of State for the Home Department when he
proposed to bring in his new Bill respecting the Com-
missioners of Sewers ?
Sir G. GREY could not name the day now, but ample
notice would be given of it beforehand.
DINGLE WORKHOUSE.
Mr. REYNOLDS asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land a question respecting the investigation held in the
Dingle workhouse, county of Kerry ; and whether the
Protestant chaplain, and other paid officials, alleged to
have bribed Catholic paupers to become Protestants, are
still continued in their respective appointments ?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said an inquiry had been in-
stituted into the matter by the Poor•law Commissioners,
and it had transpired that they had been in the habit of
distributing small sums amongst the Protestant inmates
of the Dingle workhouse, but it was more for the pur-
poses of charity than anything else.
Mr. REYNOLDS wished to know if the Hon. Baronet
had any objection to lay the paper relating to that before
the House?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE had none whatever.
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
31r. HUME asked the Under-Secretary for the Colo-
nies whether he would have any objection to lay on the
table the last dispatch received from the Cape respecting
the expense of the Kafir war?
Mr. HAWES said if the Hon. Member would put his
question to-morrow he would be in a position,to give an
answer.
In reply to Mr. ADDERLEY,
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was the intention of the
Government to appoint assistant Commissioners to pro.
ced to the Cape to inquire into the affairs of Kafraria.
Mr. ROEBUCK wished to know what powers the
Commissioners would have to make peace with the Kafir
tribes?
Lord J. RUSSELL said Sir Harry Smith was Chief
Commissioner.—(A laugh.)
VISITS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS TO THE
EXHIBITION.
Mr. HUME said he understood it was the intention of
the Government to give leave of absence to dockyard
servants for six or ten de,: s to enable them to come to
London to see the Exh►bition, and he wished to
know whether the Government were to pay their ex-
penses; and also, whether they would have any objec-
tion to extend the same privilege to other public servants?
Sir F. BARING replied that the Admiralty had given
have to the officers employsd in the dockyards, who
were anxious to attend the Exhibition, to be absent two
days in London, Out they did not propose to pay their
expenses either in coming up or in returning.—(Hear.)
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL.
Mr. MOORE presented several petitions from Ireland
against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. SPOONER presented two petitions against Papal
aggressi.n.
Mr. ROCHE presented several petitions from Tip-
perary against the Bill.
Sir JOHN YOUNG presented several petitions from
the county of Durham to the same effect.
Mr. W. Miles from Gloucestershire, and Mr. Hope and
Sir John Trollops from Hants, presented petitions to
the same effect.
Dr. POWER presented several petitions from different
places in Ireland against the Bill.
Mr. KEATING and Mr. LAWLESS presented several
petitions, the latter, chiefly from Clonmel, against the
Bill.

Mr. SADLEIR also presented petitions against the
Bill.

Colonel CHATTERTON presented a petition from
Cork in favour of the Bill.
Several other petitions were presented in favour of
and against the Bill.
The House then resolved itself into Committee. and on
the motion being made to proceed,
Mr. REYNOLDS rose and said, that he moved
that the Chairman do report progress, and ask leave
to sit again.—(Loud laughter from all sides of the
House.) Gentlemen might laugh at such a motion, bUt
they should recollect that when the House last sat upon
this question an understanding was come to that the
First Lord of the Treasury should decide before they
sat again as to thecourse which he intended to pursue
with regard to this Bill. It was quite evident that no
such understanding had been come to, and that no
course had been adopted which was at all
likely to lead to the settlement of the question.—(Hear,
hear.) Members might cheer, but those who were most
ready to give that ironical notice of their feelings, might
be of a different opinion when they came to hear the reason
which be had to adduce for thus moving that the
Chairman should now report progress. Ho bad care-
fully studied this Bill, and had been somewhat asto-
nished at the form which its several clauses had assumed.
The understanding not having been carried out, he felt
himself perfectly justified in the couse which he now pur-
sued, of moving that the Chairman report progress.
It should be recollected that this was not the first Bill
or even the second Bill, for it was entirely a different
Bill from that which had been originally introduced.
The Right. Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home De•
partment had voluntarily abandoned the second and third
clauses of the Bill, but he had retained the first.
During the course of the debate the Honourable Mem.
ber for Midhurst, Mr. Walpole, had placed a notice on
the books which materially affected the whole subject.
By that arrangement the whole of the evil was still con-
tinued, and the first clause contained all the mischief.
That clause he called the Walpole clause. There was
also another clause of the most insulting nature to him
and his co-religionists, namely, that clause which
the Secretary of State had manufactured out
of the proviso which had been originally introduced
to exempt the Scotch Episcopalian bishops from the
operation of the Bill. That was what he called making
" fish of one and flesh of the other," and he would like
to know whether the Noble Lord would introduce
just such another clause for the benefit of the
Roman Catholic bishops of the United King-
dom. Another reason for his making this mo-
tion was, that there were several amendments
which did not apply to the Bill in its present shape;
and would it not, therefore, bo reasonable to permit the
CLI3irM3II 0 sport .prcgreu, in order to enable Ron.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 19.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Midland Railway (Extension of Time, &c.).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Branch to the
West Durham Railway, &c.).
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS.

On the motion for considering the Chorley Water-
works Bill,
Mr. CARDWELL. on behalf of the corporation of
Liverpool, complained that the promoters of this Bill
had departed from their original Act of Parliament in
the appropriation of their capital. The corporation of
Liverpool petitioned against the present Bill, the object
of which was to raise additional capital; but the Com-
mittee, acting under the impression that the corporation
could apply to one of the courts of law to redress the
grievance which they complained of, refused to hear
them. Now it so happened that the promoters of the
Bill had so framed their original Act as to preclude
that appeal to a court of law, and therefore,
unless the House at this stage inserted a proviso to the
contrary, this Bill would trench upon certain works of
the Liverpool corporation and seriously injure the rate-
payers of that town. He moved the insertion of a pro-
viso to that effect.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER opposed the proviso, and, as
Chairman of the Committee which sat upon this Bill,
defended the course that had been taken by that body.
This Bill simply authorised the Chorley Water Works
Company to raise an additional capital of 12,000/. to
carry out certain works which had already been sanc-.
tioned by Parliament, and the Committee were at a loss
to know bow it could injure Liverpool,
Mr. HEYWOOD supported the Bill, and fully coa-
-1 curred in the decision of the Committee.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. W. Brown,
Mr. Thornely, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Greene took
part, the proviso was withdrawn.
The Bill was then considered and agreed to, as were
also the following Bills:
Liverpool Docks (Alteration of Management, &c.)
Midland Railway (Purchase of Leeds and Bradford
Railway, and Increase of Capital).
Midland Railway (Regulation and Increase of Capital,
&c.)
Weston-super-Mare Improvement and Market.
HARWICH ELECTION.
Mr. K. SEYMER, brought up the report of the
Harwich Election Committee unseating Mr. Prinsep, and
declaring the last election to be void.
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