The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-30 00:00:00

IMPERIAL

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HOUSE OF COMMONS. —YESTERDAY.
Tho SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PARNWORTH PARK AND IMPROVEMENT BILL.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and
agreed to.

THIRD READINGS. •
The folliwing bills were read a third time and passed:
—Dalkey Township, Rochester Oyster Fishery, Wilford
Bridge., Wrexham, Mold, Contelt's Quay Railway, and
Liverpool Improvement:

GREAT rrowra OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY BILL.
On consideration of this bill,

Mr. DODS ON called attention to its provisions, and stated
that the c•ipital of the railway was .C 1,530,000, and its
liabilities £168,003. The capital raised was £430,009,
that there was a deficiency of more than £lOO,OOO. The
company had power. to issue £378,000 additiohal preference
shares,.but in the state of the mono• market those shares
could not be issued. The company had else further
powers to raise money by loans, which it had not yet
,xercised, to the extent of £73,000. The proplsitiott of
this bill was to cancel the p riser to issue the £378,000
'unissued preference shares, and to take power to issue
£330,000 pre-preference shares. Tho proposition was of
so novel a nature, that he had thought it proper to bring
the matter before the house.

Mr. LIADFIELD gave notice that to-morrow he would
move for a committee of inquiry into the general question.,
Mr. BOUVERIE thought the hon. member for Sheffield
should make this a distinct motion, and not as an amend—
went to the third reading of this particulat bill.
Mr. SAMUELSON and Colonel W. PATTEN said it would
create great distrust on the part of shareholders in,
railways if new stock was in. this manner to obtain a
pre-preference, and thought the subject should be inquired
into.

The bill was then ordered to b 3 road It -third time.
.The North &itish Railway (Carlisle Doviation) Bill was
also considered, and ordered to b road a third time.
The Ahstillery Gas and Water Bill and the Great Eastern
Railway Finance Bill were read a second time. •
GREAT YARMOUT-II AND LANCASTER.'

Mr. BAXTER, gave notieo of his intention to move that
these boroughs should-only be deprived ok—one member
each.

LAST NIGHT'S COUNT-OUT.

Colonel FRENCH called attention to the count-out last
night, and remarkel that no business was being transacted
when the motion. to count was made. He wished to know
whatwould be done to provide against a recurrence of the
circumstance. In order that the matter might be discussed
he moved the adjournment Of
,the House.

Major S. KNOX slid his object in moving that the house
be counted was because an, obnoxious measure—the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill—was coining on, and ho came down
specially for this purpose.
Mr. BOUVERIE thought the new practice, was liable to
gross abuse. lie remarked that the Speaker was scarcely
is the chair when the motion for the count was made, and
that the hon. member for Armagh was at the door keeping
members out. It was matter for consideration whether
some rider should not be added to the motion made on
Monday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so as to pre-
serve the rights of private members.
Sir 1.1. ED WARDS hoped the remarks of the member
for Roscommon would be listened to, and that such a case
would not occur again this session. Last night the leaders
of the Opposition were conspicuous by their absence.
Mr. VANCE said he approved of the count out last
night, because he thought the EcclesiasticalTitlesßill was
of too much importance to be considered in a small House.
He was much delighted under the circumstances that the
House was counted out.
Mr. G. HARDY said, with respect to last night, the
Government did their best to get a House. He did not
think there would have been any difficulty in doing so,
but he believed the count out depended more on those who
had come down than on those who had not. It was his
earnest desire that the rights of private members should be
maintained, and he trusted and believed that no more
counts out would take place.
Mr. NEWDEGATE complained of the studious absenc 3
of members of the House belonging to the Established
Church when matters like the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
were under consideration.
The motion for adjournment was then withdrawn, and
the subject dropped.
UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

Mr. FA.WCETT moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which is to allow the colleges of Oxford and
Cambridge to admit to fellowships persons who are not
members of the Established Church. It might be inquired,
who asked for this bill ? In reply he would remark that
it was a numerous body of fel'ows of the colleges of b0...h
Universities. It was true that the majority was as:dust
them, but he wished to niake the Universities national
institutions. It was time the btrrier3 that at present kept
the prizes of the Universities entirely for the members of
the Church of England should. be removed. lie felt that
in the event of this roasonabliS proposition being refused it
would become the duty of those-who supported his view
of the question to take steps to.attain their (2f)ject in a more
dtre;ct and -effectu:Wmatingc*--The' was-it-11;3.okt),
simple, and permissive, as the provisions of the measure
could not come into force while the majority of any college
had decided to put the act intoiVer"ti°'
Mr. MORRISON seconded the motion.
Mr. SELWYN disapproved of the motion, and there-
fore ho moved that the bill be read a second time that day
six months, because he feared that the actual result of the
bill would not only admit those which were at present ex-
cluded, but enable those who professed no religion at all
to claim a portion of the university emoluments.
Mr. GORST seconded the amendment.
Mr. P. Ulm:lulu supported, and Sir W. HEATticom
opposed, the bill.
Sergeant GASELEE supported the bill, and said that
the fact of none of the heads of the colleges having peti-
tioned the house in its favour was a circumstance favour-

able towards the bill, because no body, however corrupt,
was in favour of reforming itsolf.
Mr.. GLADSTONE said the attempt to maintain the
present state of things was desirable in the interest
neither of the colleges themselves nor of those
not in conformity with the Church of England.
Tho attainment of a fellowship was a crowning act of a
university career, but then came the question whether the
clergy were to be educated without reference to religious
opinions. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to.
argue against the bill now under the consideration of the
house as a measure which did not deal with the matter in
broad manner, and concluded by saying he felt he could

not give his vote in its favour..
Mr. B. HOPE opposed, and Mr. CARDwELL supported
the bill. The latter hon. gentleman proceeded at some
length to criticise the speeches-that had been made by the
hon. and learned member who moved the amendment, and
with respect to the bill not affecting Roman Catholic; he
thought if they read the bill a second time they could
remedy that in committee.
Mr. G. HARDY thought the bill a very bad one, and
as it was a step in the wrong direction he hoped the house
would reject it by a large majority.
Mr. BOUVERIE would cordially give his vote in favour
of the second reading.
The house divided, when thero appeared—
For the second reading . 200
Against it
Majority for the bill
The other orders of the day- were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.