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London, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

PRIVATE BILLS.

On the motion of 1.4,)rd RE DESDALE,several private
Bills were forwarded a stage.

PETITIONS.

Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in
favour of the County Courts Bill.
CLIMBING BOYS.

The Earl of SaAFTESBURY a.ked if the Govern-
ment intended to prosecute the person who had, accord•
ing, to a statement which appeared in one of the Leeds
journals, forced a climbing boy to ascend a flue in the
city, in which the boy was smothered?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the Govern-
ment had received no official information en th© subject,
but he would cause inquiry to be made into the circum-
stances of the case.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. June 30.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MENIBEK.

Captain SCOBELL took the oaths and his seat for
Rath. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman was introduced
by Lord Duncan and Mr. Pinney.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the North and South-
Western Junction Railway Bill, and the South Wales
Railway (No. 1) Bill, were considered and agreed to,
and the Bill ordered to be engrossed.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to:—
Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and

Loughor Railway.
Imperial Continental Gas Association.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital Estate.
St. Pancras (Middlesex) Paving.
Jackson's Estate Bill and Lethbridge's Estate Bill
were read a second time, and ordered to be committed.

PETITIONS.
Sir JAMES DUKE presented a petition from the
city of London in favour of the Chancery Bill.
Mr. ANSTEY presented a petition from the ship.
owners of Yougbal, praying for a revision of the exist-
ing navigation-laws.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from the
trustees of a charitable trust in the county of Lincoln,
praying for a reform in the proceedings of the Court of
Chancery.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland of the
Presbytery of Glasgow, as we understood, against the
admission of Jews into Parliament.

Mr. WILCOX presented, a petition from the chemists
of Southampton in favour of the Pharmaceutical Bill.

Mr. LACY presented a similar petition from a place
in Surrey.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a similar petition
from Rochdale.

Sir B. HALL presented similar petitions from Mary-
lebooe.

Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the cor-
poration of Carlisle, praying for an alteration in the
grand jury system.
Mr. MO WATT presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of the parish of St. Anne's, Westminster, praying
the House not to sanction any measure for the supply of
water to the metropolis which did not place the ma-
nagers under the control of the ratepayers.
The Marquis of GRANBY presented a petition from
the attorneys and solicitors of a place in Leicestershire,
praying for the repeal of the certificate duty.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition, from Glasgow
in favour of the Public Houses (Scotland) Bill.
Mr. ,lILTME presented a petition from the spirit
dealers of Paisley iwairist the Bill.

Mr. B. OSBORNE presented a petition from Totten-
ham against the Health of Towns Bill.
MAYNOOTH.—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
Mr. ANSTEY wished to call the attention of the
House to a matter which concerned the privileges of the
House; but before he founded eny motion on the sub-
ject he would move that a certain passage in last Satur-
day's Freeman's Journal be read by the clerk at the table.
(This was done; the passage was a resolution passed at the
Maynooth board contradicting a statement of the Hon.
and Learned Member to the effect that for years past
there had not been an annual assembly of the board at
which a motion was not made against the Maynooth
grant.) The Hon. and Learned Member then moved
that Mr. Duffy, the printer and publisher of the paper,
be called to the bar of the House. The House, he said,
would observe that the resolution contained in the paper
was a formal but not a substantial contradiction of
what he stated in the House the other night. He never
said that a motion had been made against the grant.
What he did say was, that Dr. M'Elale had introduced a
project to the board for the formation of a Roman Ca-
tholic University, to be supported by voluntary contri-
butions and a tax upon the different Roman Catholic
benefices, which would make it possible for
the college to refuse to apply any longer
for the usual grant from Parliament. He
would not press the motion to a division, as he had
merely made it for the purpose of having an opportunity
of giving that explanation to the House.
The motion not having been seconded, then fell to the
ground.
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
_ . . _ _ _

Mr. G. A. LIAMILTON'a.ked the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, why the important tables, nurnberei 2 to
12 in the appendices to the report of the Poor-law
Commissioners (Ireland), for the year 1849, end in their
previous reports, containing statements of the financial
condition of each union, with the receipts and payments
in detail, had been omitted in the fourth report, recently
presented?

- Sir W. SOMERVILLE was understood :to say that
the omission bad arisen from the circumstance of the
boundaries of the unions having been changed.
IRISH CENSUS.
Colonel DUNNE asked the Secretary. f:or Ireland
why the census returns for that country we re not pub-
lished; those for England being already given in the
public papers, and it being stated that those for Ireland
were in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he supposed the reason
of the delay was that all the returns had no t yet been
received from Ireland; probably all the rots rns would
be made by to-marrow or next day.
POSTAGE OF LETTERS TO FRA./ ZCE.
Mr. HUME gave notice that to-morrow he would ask
whether any measures were in progress by ftie Govern-
ment for reducing the enormous charge now made for
postage on letters sent to France.
TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEM'S LAND.
In reply to Sir W. MOLES WORTH,
Mr. HAWES was understood to say that ra vessel had
been sent to Van Dipmen
's Land with 300 CC:t %victs.
HINDOO SACRIFICES.
In reply to a question from Sir R. H. ING: LIS,
Mr. WILSON said that a Bill was just o t t the point
of being passed by the Council of India w 'hick would
prevent the continuance of self-sacrifice to the idol
of Juggernaut practised by Hindoo devotee: r.
THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMO
Sir E. BUXTON put a question to the Noble Lord
at the head of the Woods and Forests, when it was in-
tended to occupy the new House of Con iinons, and
whether there was any intention of pulling down the
present House before it was ascertained ttu it the new
House would accommodate the Members?
Lord SEYILOUR said that he had nothing ;to do with
the new Houses of Parliament, and therefor e could not
give the desired information. He had new
sr heard of
any intention of pulling down the present F Louse.
JEWISH DISABILITIES 811 EL,.

In answer to a quPstinn from Sir B. Eih,Lr „
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he cer..aini; meant to
proceed with the third reading of this Tjkl on Thursday
next, as the first order of the dity.