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London, England, 1851-07-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 24.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock to hear the
Royal Assent given by Commission to certain Bills.
The Lords COMMiSSiOLICTS were the LORD CHANCELLOR,
the LORD PRIVY SEAL, and the Earl Of CARLISLE.
The following were the public Bills which received
the Royal Assent:—
Survey of Great Britain.
School Sites Acts Amendment.
Landlord and Tenant.
Prisons (Scotland).
British White Herring Fishery.
Common Lodging Houses.
Lodging Houses.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
Highway Rates.
Loan Societies.
Militia Ballots Suspension.
Assessed Taxe.f Composition.
Public Wor ks, Fisheries, &c.
Apprentices to Sea Service (Ireland) (No. 2),
Marriages (India).
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Turnpike Trusts Arrangement.
Inhabited House Duty.
Burgesses and Freemen's Parliamentary Franchise.
Chorley's Waterworks.
Malmesbury Turnpike Roads.
North and South-Western Junction Railway.
Manchester Waterworks
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).
Ministers' Widows and Orphans Fund of the Free
Church of Scotland.
Great Western Railway (Railways to connect the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction Railway with the
London and North-Western Railway at Birming-
ham, &c.).
St. Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Branch to West
Durham Railway, Eke.).
York, Newcastle. and Berwick Railway (Abandonment
of part of Bishop Auckland Branch, &c.)
Dee Standard Restoration.
Midland Railway (Purchase of Leeds and Bradford
Railway, and Increase of Capital).
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire
Railway.
Stockton, Middlesbrough, Yarm, &c. Waterworks.
Cam Navigation (No. 2).
Cork and Waterford Railway.
Great Malv,•rn Improvement, Police, Sewers, Water-
works, and Gas.
London (City) Sewers.
South Staffordshire Railway (Branches to join the Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Rail-
way, &c.).
Birmingham Improvement.
Newark-upon- Crant Improvement and Market.
Caledonian Railway (Motherwell Branch Extension and
Lesmahagow Branches).
Brighton Extra-Mural Cemetery.
East Anglian Railways.
Electric Telegraph Company.
Ulveratone and Lancaster Railway.
East Stonehouse Waterworks.
Waterford and Tramore Railway.
Midland Railway (Extension of Time, &c.).
Waterford and Limerick Railway.
Killarney Junction Railway.
Itchin Bricla,e and Roads.
Copper Miners in England Company.
Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway.
Waterford, 'Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
Edinburgh Royal Asylum for the Insane.
Bath Improvement, Markets, Waterworks, and Bath
Commons or Preemen's Estate.
Great Northern Railway (No. 2).
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Estate.
Cubitt's Estate.
Upton's Estate.
Ithbridge's Estate.
Jackson's Estate.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.

On their Lordships resuming,
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from
Doaeraile against the Ecclesiastical Titles Assump-
tion Bill.

CIVIL BILLS (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the second
reading of the Civil Bills (Irelaud) Bill. The object of
the Bill was to extend the jurisdiction of the assistant-
barristers in Ireland from matters in which 20/. only
was in litigation to matters in which the amount in
litigation was 401. The Bill also codified and
embodied in one statute all the laws relating
to the jurisdiction of assistant-barristers in Ire-
land. It was a digest of all the laws relating to the civil
bill practise and jurisdiction of assistant-barristers'
courts in Ireland. It proposed to give to the assistant-
barristers'courts jurisdiction in all cases relating to insol-
vency, thus doing away with the necessity for the
Commissioners for the Relief of Insolient Debtors
going circuit—an arrangement which would greatly
facilitate the administration of justice.—(Hear, hear.)
The Bill made the Civil Bills Court a court of original
jurisdiction, giving the Court the power of awarding
costs to witnesses; it also gave the Civil Bills Court ab-
solute jurisdiction in all cases of legacy under 201.,
whatever might be the value of the estate upon which
the legacy was charged. It gave them power over eject-
ments in cases of tenants at win, just as if they held
under leases from tneir landlords. The result of such a
clause would relieve landlords from the necessity of
keeping their tenants under a perpetual notice to quit.
Under such circumstances the assistant-barristers would
be entitled to an increase of salary. At present they
received but 4001. a year. In future they would be paid
out of the consolidated fund. What their salaries were
to be would be best seen from the schedules attached to
the Bill. In future, stamps were to be used in the Civil
Bills Court, and the revenue de, wed therefrom, it was
calculated, would meet all the increased expense. Any
objections which might be urged against the different
clauses he should be most ready to discuss in Committee.
T. e Earl of LUCA N fully appreciated this Bill, which
he believed would turn out to be a very useful measure
His objection to it was that the jurisdiction of these
courts had not been made more extensive. At a future
stage of the Bill he would attempt to extend their juris-
diction to the same extent as the County Courts in Eng-
land, namely, to 501. He would also move in the Com-
mittee that the assistant-barristers be allowed to appoint
their own officers to carry out their decrees.
The Earl of ST. GERMANS would not oppose the
second reading of this Bill, but he must lament that it
had been brought down to the House on the same day
that the appropriation clause bad been introduced into
the House of Commons. Had it been otherwise,
he would have moved that this Bill, with its 160
clauses, be referred to a Select Committee, where it
would be better dealt with than in the House it-
self. It was quite impossible for the House to go mi-
nutely through the many clauses of this Bill in the pre-
sent session.
Lord MONTEAGLE observed that the Bill had been
very carefully considered elsewhere, and, as far as he
could judge, no reasonable opposition could be offered to
it. They were all friendly to the Bill, and anxious to
carry it through Parliament. He thought that they
could get through it in one day in a Select Committee,
had
drawn with the atsistance of the law officers who
upf thehs
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shouldbe sorryb e of toopminaiolcue sthuacth
motion,,
it
would endanger the passing of the Bill during the pre-
sent session.
The Earl of GLENGALL thought that the jurisdic-
tion of the Bill should be extended to 504
After a few words in reply from the Marquis of
CLANRICARDE,
Lord BEAUMONT objected on general grounds to
Bills of this importance being introduced into that House
at so late a period of the session. The principle of this
Bill was admitted on all sides, but it was entirely a ques-
tion of details, which would have been better arranged
in a Committee upstairs.
CHELTENHAM IMPROVEMENT AND HEALTH
BILL.
Earl FITZHARDINGE moved that this Bill should
be recommitted, in order that further evidence might
be given against certain clauses of it.
Lord ABINGER, as chairman of the Committee,
thought the recommittal was unnecessary.
Lord REDESDALE considered it would be a bad
precedent if, after having referred a Bill to a Committee,
they did not abide by the report of the Committee.
After a short discussion, their Lordships divided,
when there appeared—
Content 11
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Not Content •• 19
Majority against the recommittal —8
The report was then received.
Lord BERNERS presented several petitions from
agricultural districts complaining of distress and pray-
ing for relief. Referring to one of these petitions (from
what part of the country we could not hear), the Noble
Lord said he had received several letters from the chair-
men and vice-chairmen of boards of guardians confirm-
ing the allegations of the petition, that the manufactur-
bag operatives were beginning to press upon the land,
and that great distress existed among them. It was
stated in the newspapers that 6,000 of the operatives of
Nottingham were thrown upon the rates. He went
himself to the relieving officer and found that the state-
ment was substantially true, and that one-tenth of the
population were receiving relief. This wasiinot a state
of prosperity, and the condition of Leicester was no
better. The last Poor-law returns of the number re-
ceiving relief were fallacious, because they did not
give
the whole numb( r of unions and parishes that
came under the cognizance of the board. These re-
turns appeered to show a reduction of 60,000 in the
numbers relieved, but they did not state the cause of
this reduction, or that there was a great decrease in
the value of provisions, or that there was a decrease in

one portion of pauo'erism,-namfdy, in the 30 000
vagrants. The increase, of crime and the decrease of
depositsin saving,-banks Ance free trade was esta-
blished, could not be controverted. The petitioners ad-
verted to tho reports of the Select Committee of both
Houses which sat last year to inquire into the law of
settlement, as proving that this law was the chief
grievance under which the labouring classes suffered.
For 30 yisrs h" had to irlorlve their e,,edi.

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tioh, but, when ha thought lie bad achieved some good,
thwarted
he was met by the law of settlement, which