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Lord LYNDHURST acceded to the courses proposed,
Lord CAMPBELL had received ibnyetitamhred introductionatitoon sscothtlaatnicti
would be desirable to extend the Bills to Ireland and
With
done
regard
portions of them to Scotlaneer dti
he thought that would be better
of a separate Bill, which Bill he would introduce,
The Bills as amended passed through Committee.
PETITIONS,
The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several eti-
tions against Papal aggression. p
The Earl of HARR° WBY presented several petitions
to the same effect.
THE KAFIR COMMISSION.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE asked if the Noble Secretary
for the Colonies could explain the reasons which had
induced the Government to appoint a Commission to
proceed to the Cape of Good Hope to inquire into the
cause
otion of the Kafir war, after they had opposed a
m for the appointment of such a Commission in the
House of Commons
Earl GREY said that it was perfectly true that the
appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to proceed to
the Cape had been objected to by the Government on
the ground that it would interfere with the functions
of the colony, but as a grant of money would be applied
for to conduct the Kafir war, a Committee of
Inquiry was proposed in the House of Commons in
order to show the necessity for such expenditure. Him-
self and his colleagues who had opposed the Commis-
sion of Inquiry yet thought that some further assist-
ance ought to be rendered to Sir Harry Smith. When
Sir H. Pottinger was appointed governor of that colony,
he was also appointed her Majesty's Commissioner to
the affairs of the border tribes, Sir Harry Smith
received the same appointment, and what was now
intended was to appoint two Assistant-Commissioners
to Sir Harry Smith. It was not strictly a Commission
of inquiry; he thought that the policy had been so well
considered, that no inquiry would lead to any change in
it; but although the general principles of the policy were
almost universally concerned, yet the practical applica-
tion of that policy gave rise to difficulties which could
only be got rid of through the intervention of
the authorities toe the spot, and these Commissioners
were to decide at once upon the conflicting rights of con-
tending parties on matters of which Sir H. Smith, whose
whole time was taken up in his attention to the Govern-
ment and to his military duties, could not possibly
take cognizance without the assistance of other Commis-
sioners. The Assistant-Commissioners were gentlemen
who were well acquainted with the country. One of them,
Major Hogg, had taken an active part in the late Kafir
war, and tb,e other, Mr. Owen, had resided in the colony
a considerable time, and was acquainted with the Kafir
language.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE asked if there would be any
objection to produce the commission ?
Earl GREY would rather that his Noble Friend should
not move for a copy of the Commission, but he would
produce it with the papers relating thereto at as early a
period as possible.
The E of ELLENBOROUGH thought that the
Noble Earl would render Sir Harry Smith more assist-
ance by sending him 2,000 more soldiers then by send-
ing two Commissioners. Sir Harry Smith was in a
position of great military danger, and all civil considera-
tions should be thrown evereoara.
Earl GREY said reinforcements had been sent and
other reinforcements were preparing, and al-
though he was perfectly aware of the ne-
cessity of military strength, he thought that it
was also advisable to provide for entering into relations
with the Kafir tribes, so as to preserve those tribes in
their allegiance who were faithful to us.
The Earl of ELLENBOttOUGH knew something of
the doings of what were called politicals, and they often
interfered with great danger to the military. Napoleon
had said that one indifferent general was better than three
good ones if they differed. The Noble Earl had one good
general, and he sent out two inefficient assistants to
thwart him.
Earl GREY said they wore sent out as assistants, to
act under Sir Harry Smith. He had yet to learn that
even the Emperor Napoleon undervalued the aid of able
assistants.
The subject then dropped.
REGISTRATION OF DEEDS BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL, in reporting to the House the re-
snit of the amendments made by the Committee on the
Zegistration of Assurances Bill, begged briefly to state
tlee course adopted by them, particularly as a rumour
had been industriously propagated by the enemies of the
measure, that the Committee had quarrelled amongst
themselves. The very reverse of this was the fact. Thy
first took into consideration the petitions against the
Bill. One was from the attorneys and solicitors of Lon-
don, who chiefly dwelt on the circumstance that, within
their experience, very few cases had occurred in which
purchasers of estates had lost the property which they
h bought through bad titles. But that was not th.
foundation of this measure; the foundation of this mea-
sure was the enormous expense incurred in taking the
necessary precautions. Then came various petitions from
the country n!torneys cubing for distinct registries, and
he believed they would fain have as many registries as
there were attorneys in England, and could not help Sus-
pecting that the hope of being appointed registrar or de-
puty registrar had something to do with this movement.
It was his conviction that they must either have a metro-
politan registry for England and Wales, or abandon the
measure altogether. All England and Wales might now
be regarded as one great city, and the metropolis, in
Point of fact, was far more accessible to those living in
the remote parts of a country than the county towns.
For these reasons the members of the Committee
were unanimously of opinion that the registration
11°Moe ought to be in the metropolis. The next great
11.stestion they had to consider was one on which the very
able Commissioners from whom this measure emanated
were divided in opinion—namely, whether maps should
be used, and a resolution was Passed unanimously by
the
that at proser that maps would be highly desirable, but
measure, and had not sufficient maps to start the
to
poetthey were to wait for these it would be
necessairyhe
comatll.9ne the measure for an indefinite pe-
eiod.
3,
ancittr
that
ordered the Bill to be drawn
of without map
presenting it to their ait. shape he had then the honour
neat measure
He trusted the time
had come when that
appromeasure would be passed into
law with the general
Houses of Parliament. Tivieeuernoltalof Members of both
a.e and Learned Lord
then presente the report of the Bill, and moved that it
be printed forage purpose of being considered on Friday
next.
After a few words from the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH,
Lord COLCHESTER, and Lord BEAIMIONT, expressive of
a petition f
their approval of the Bill,
The motion was agreed to.
The Earl of HAREWOOD presented
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Leeds against Papal aggression.
• THE PROPERTY-TAX BILL.
The order of the day for the House resolving itself
into a Committe on this Bill having been read,
The'Earl of ELLENBORGIUGH said he wished to
receive some explanation on the subject of the new mode
of assessing tenant-farmers to the tax. It appeared that
that class might henceforward mako their payments on
the amount of profits they should have realised; but he
manat a loss to conceive how these profits could in
nuulY oases be ascertained. A tenant-farmer might
have laid out a large
land, from which he 'mmediate return,
capital in the improvement of his
or he might have he could receive no
a large quantity of
unsold, from which ho would derive
110 immediate returnthough valuable,
corn or of stock
one year
eatr again, h© might .
have exhausted a
end by that gportion of the value of nis
-teal's have left it come ratively unprofit-
able in future Years h
wished to know by whew rej (tie Earl.a of Ellenborougie)
Commissioners could
estimate the profits of a faemeer tihe
The Marquis of LANSDOsviuNE ch cases as those?
ties to which the Noble Lord had ref
acid that the difficul
referred might occur
in the case of a tradesman as well as i
iiionr:alt,,aorif a farmer.her
He apprehended that the Comae
rule to follow on such occasions than to str:ke wnhoatotth
Wight consider on the whole the fairest possible bale:-
of losses and of gains. The tax might undoubtsdl
Pen a dooYr
operate unfairly in some cases, and might 0
for fraud, but those were evils which it would, he be-
lieved, be impossible to remove.
The Bill then passed through Committee, and their
Lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 20.
Their Lordships met at Half-past Four.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal Assent was given this afternoon, by Com-
mission, to the following Bills:—
Exchequer-bills (17,756,6001.)
Indemnity.
Apprentices and Servants.
Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle•upon
Tyne.
Leicester Sewerage.
Dewsbury Gas.
Pyecombe and Hicksted Turnpike Road.
Laird's Patent.
Newington St. Mary Parish.
Durham Markets.
Reading Cemetery Company.
Downham Market, &c., Drainage.
Cheltenham and Painswick Road.
Cheltenham and Gloucester District Turnpike Road.
Manchester Parish Highways.
Scarborough Gas.
Millthrop and Levens Turnpike Road.
Hartlepool Freemen's Lands and Harbour Dues.
Tenterden and Woodchurch Roads.
Appleby, Kendal, Kirkby Stephen, and Market
Brough Turnpike Road.
Mildenhall, Burnt Fen Road, and Lakenheath and
Sock wold Roads.
Bangor and Caernarvon Railway.
Wiveliseombe Turnpike Roads.
Angerstein's Branch Railway.
Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, and Middles-
brough and Redcar Railway Companies.
Bristol and Exeter Railway.
Heathoote's Divorce.
The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Carlisle, and Earl Minto.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
Their Lordships resumed at Five o'clock.
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL said that his Noble and Learned
Friend (Lord Lyndhurst) and himself had gone through the
Administration of Criminal Justice Bill and the Preven-
tion of Offences Bill, and having received some valuable
information from Lord Denman on the subject, had agreed
to certain amendments, and ho would propose that the
Bills should be committed and the alterations introdnced,
and that the Bill should be reprinted with the amend
ments.