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London, England, 1860-06-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEStIERDAY.)
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the fol-
lowing bills :
Refreshment Houses and Wine Licences.
Sir John Barnard's Act, &c., Repeal.
Malicious Injuries and Property Act Amendment.
Torquay Gas.
Horsham and Steyning and Beading. Roads.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Worcester and Hereford
Railways.
East Somerset Railway.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and Severn
Valley Railway.
London and North-Western Railway and St. Helen's
Canal and Railway Companies.
London and North-Western Railway (No. 1).
'London Hydraulic Power Company.
Grand Surrey Docks and Canal.
North Kent Water.
Bourton -on-the-Water Railway.
Dumfries, Lochmaben, and Lockerby J unction Railway.
Dover Gas.
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rnstrevor Railway.
Bucks County Rate.
Eau Brink Drainage.
Buckley and Connah's Quay.
Flintahire Railway.
Cheshire Midland Railway.
Hinckley and Leicester Railway.
London and South Western and Bristol and Exeter
Railway Companies.
Manchester Corporation Water.
Stourbridge Railway.
Wellington (Salop) Water.
Maidstone Water. _ _

Caledonian Itailway (Lestnahagow Branch).
Dublin (City) Steam Packet Company.
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

CHURCH RATES.

A great number of petitions were presented against the
abolition of Church-rates.

INSURRECTION IN NEW ZEALAND.
The Earl of CARNARVON asked whether the reports
of an insurrection in'New Zealand, which had appeared in
the newspapers, were accurate. Nothing could be more de
plorable than a collision between the natives and Europeans.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said no very precise infor-
mation had been received et the Colonial-office. He was
sorry, however, to say that •it was impossible for
him to return the answer the noble earl desired,
namely, that the account which had appeared
was untrue. There had been fighting, as had been described,
but whether the disturbances were likely to spread over the
whole of the island was uncertain at the time the last ac-
counts left. If it should prove true that the insurrection
had become general, that would be a most serious affair.
In any case, he assured the noble earl that the governor
would take energetic steps to restore tranquillity. Volun
teers were forming in great numbers, with equal zeal to that
which had taken place, and by a private letter he had heard
that a vessel had left Melbourne with 600 men, on board,
and another was on the way from S)dney. The date of the
letter was April 18, and the last Government d"spatch was
March 31, but despatches were expected by the mail which
'had not yet arrived at Southampton.
THE WINE LICENSES BILL.

Earl GRANVILLE rose to a point of order. Viscount
Dungannon had entered on the journals of the house a
protest against the passing of the Wine Licenses Bill. He
wished to know whether it was possible, in accordance with
the orders of the house, for a peer who had been preseit
during the discussion of the bill and had abstained from
voting could, in accordance with tho standing orders, pro-
test against it subsequently.
Lord REDESDALE said there was no standing order
on the subject, but the practice had gradually crept in, and
the noble viscount had only followed the example of others.
FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.