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done so entirely, it was owing to circumstances over which,
1 at present, they had no control.
The committee then divided. The numbers were—
Fo. the amendment
Against it
Majority against the amendment —147
The vote was then agreed to.
The following votes were also agreed to :-
600/. for the Female Orphan House, Dublin.
1,215/. for the Sick Hospital, Dublin.
500/, for the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin.
795/. for Dr. Stephens's Hospital, Dublin.
1,900/. for the House of Recovery, Cork-street, Dublin.
6001. for the Meath Fever Hospital.
The CH AIRMAN reported progress, and asked leave
to sit again.
The house then resumed.
PUBLIC WORKS BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
BANKERS' COMPOSITIONS BILL.
On the motion, by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. GLYNN said he would not oppose the bill, bug
would have been pleased if the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer had given the house some idea of the views of the
Government upon the matter.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be
understood that no objection was to be offered to the bill,
which merely continued for a year a clause in the act of
1844, whiclOf not continued, would expire iu the month
of August cf the present year. It had been represented to
him that some bankers in the country would feel it con-
venient for the act to bo continued, if the terms were en-
larged. Ho had said that he should have no objection to
an enlargement, on condition that if a larger term than a
year were concede 1 in committee, any legislation upon
the subject should be subordinate to that which might
take place in reference to the bank. He might say, in
reference to the Bank Act of 1811, what he stated at
' the beginning of the session, that Government would
have no objection to a committee of inquiry, if any gentle-
man would propose it. He did not know whether it was
the wish of the house, at that period of the session, to in-
quire into the operation of the Bank Act; but, if it should
be desired, her Majesty's Government would not offer any
objection. At the same time he did not think that, at that
period of the session, it would be able to make any great
progress with the inquiry. He did not see how it would
loe consistent with the duty of the Government to make
any proposition of this sort to the house without previously
hearing opinions as to the operation of the act during the
twelve years that had elapsed since 1845, that net having
introduced important principles which fixed a legislative
limit to the issue of the Bank.
Mr. SPOONER. was certainly very much surprised at
what had fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, be-
cause only a few weeks az° it was suggested that an in-
quiry should take place, and the right an. gentleman ad-
mitted that some inquiry would be very proper. Both
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the
Admiralty said that, although an inquiry was necessary,
that was not the time for it, and now the Chancellor of
the Exchequer came down and said it was too late. `(Hear,
and laughter.) Of this he (Mr. Spooner) was certain, that
they would never have a system of circulation fit to carry
the business of the country so long as the act of 1811
continued in existence.

The bill wits then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Friday.
BURIAL GROUNDS (IRELAND) BILL.

The house then went into committee on this bi!'.
After some discussion, clauses up to nine were agt eel to,
when

Mr. SPOONER, moved that the Chairman report pro-
gress, and the house resumed.
MEDICAL QUALIFICATION BILL.
This bill was read a second time, and ord. red to be re-
ferred to the 'select committee sitting upon the Medical
Practitioners' Bill.

Oa the motion of Col. DUNNE the following returns
were ordered :—Return of all those guns which have burst
at the siege of Sebastopol, stating the description and ca-
libre of each gun, number of rounds fired when the gun
became unserviceable, and supposed cause of such burstinr.
On the motion of Mr. COWPER, the following names
were agreed to as the committee on the Medicll Practi-
tioners Bill :—Mr. Cowper, Mr. Headlarn, Mr. Brady, Mr.
Cranford, Sir William Heatheote, Mr. Napier, Lord R.
Grosvenor, Mr. Black, Col. Dunne, Mr. Bell, Mr. Strutt,
Mr. A. Hastie, Mr. Howard, and Mr. Percy.
The house then adjourned at a few minutes after one
o'clock.