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London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Fcur o'clock.
The Lord.' amendments to the Hartlepool Freemen's
Linda and Harbour Duss Bill were considered and
agreed to.

SECOND READINGS.
Tho following Bills %w t.., then read a second time:—
Brighton Extramural 'Cemetery; Ki:2g's College 1103-
pita! (No. 2); and Chri.schurch (Southwark) Parish
Bills.

PETITIONS.

A great rurnher of petitions were presented against
the P..,pai aglres!,ion.
Mr. 0110 presented a petition from Fife against the
Prisons' o,2eorlard) Bill.
Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from
Preston agair.:t the continuance of the 13.(gium Donum.
Colonel SIB rHour presented a petition from Lin-
coln, complaining of agricultural distress.
• Colonel SAL'WEY presented a petition from Welling-
ton praying for electoral reform.-
Mr. ROBERT PALMER presented a petition from
Berkshire against the Jew Bill.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from the
board of guardians at Preston praying for extended
powers to raise loans for the relief of the poor.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Paddington,
against the proposed encroachment on Kensington-
gardens.
Sir G. GREY presented a petition from Northumber-
land, praying for a modification of the taxes on carriages.
NEIT.
Major BERESFORD moved for a new writ for the
Isle of Wight in the place of Mr. Simeon.
RAJA BROOKE.
Mr. B. COCHRANE asked Mr. Hume when he pro-
posed to bring forward his motion relative to Raja
Brooke? He supposed now that Sir James Brooke had
come to England, the Hon. Member was afraid to bring
it on.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUME said, so far from that being the case, he
had been waiting the arrival of the Raja, and it Govern-
ment would only give him the day after to-morrow, the
Hon. Gentlemen should see whether he was afraid to
bring the motion on or not.
MONEY-ORDER OFFICE.

Mr. J. WILLIAMS--- gave notice of his intention to
put a question to the Secretary of the Treasury to-mor-
rrr On the subject of the money-order department of the
General Post-office.
PIISEYISM IN THE CHURCH.
Sir B. HALL k •
as ed the Prime Minister what steps
the archbishops and bishops of the Established Church
Shadeer taken in pursuance of the letter addressed by the
etart' of State to the Archbishop of Canterbury, by
retrattaaainnydraeofttheeere Majesty, for the purpose of suppressing
Established Cho init places of worship belonging to the
had taken, or who about
whether the Bishop of London
against any of the
ship calls histrionic"ergy who sanctioned what his Lord-
performances, " in the churches
within his diocese.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was not in a position to
state what steps had been
eken with respect to the
matter alluded to by the Hon. Baronet, and strongly
deprecated the inconvenience which would arise from
asking such questions in the
GARDENS.
mr. HUME intimated that heGe.oul°clslTl;ring
NEW RIDE !IN RENsii'ase.
the subject
as to the proposed new ride
before the House to-morrow. Xensington-gardens
__rotion for
EXTEN:3ION OF THE FRANCHISE
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice e
of a
next session with respect to
the xlenslau of the
franchise.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL,
On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Mr. MOORE rose to move that the standing order,
which requires that Bills concerning religion should be'
Brat considered in a Committee of the whole House, be
Lead. and that the order for the Committee on Eccle-
siastical Titles Assumption Bill be discharged. The
iit:3ll of this motion was, he said, drawn from
declared order of the House, which
all d that all Bills relating to religion or
ornate Ina alteration Prosed in the laws on this point should
Iginate Committeeof the House. Mr. May,
a high o .
order hadiserlitY in these matters, had said that this
and not to the iY3
on this ground been construed as applying to'religion,
been considered first the
of religious bodies, and it was
and afterwards the t 8
1111 a
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill had
had been brought Committee of the whole House
was quite willing Pole7irEillit thatTem
preliminary rylrsetlearn.d Bill
ffe
only with reference to its sgfr the Bill were to be regarded
meats of the Government first motive, or if the amend-
temporal measure, that his objection to restore it to a mere
to the ground, but his objection Way Would at once fall
first introduced, and he thought r. 3 against the Bill as
for him to argue before any uittwal not necessary
gentleman of that House that wrr or educated
the administration of sammentardinti°l2 and
mere temporal incidents, but eszentiall ell' not 1
He quoted a letter from Archbishop isetur: i.ipiritual.
that Rev. Prelate stated tilizt he could not yierfine which
ecclesiastical functions except in his character orrehhis
bishop, and then the Hon. Gentleman proceeded toa --
ob-
serve that the letter containing that opinion produced
such an effect upon the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government, that, with a spirit of liberality which re-
called the incidents of the Noble Lord's early career, he
consented to make a material alteration in the Bill. Now,
assuming the opinion of Dr. Murray, and the admission of
the Government that followed, to be correct, how,could
any one pretend to say that the Bill related only. to tem-
poralities, and would in no way interfere with reli-
FOn ? But it might be said that Dr. Murray was