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London, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

HERRING FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The house went into committee on this bill.
Several clauses were agreed to, and the chairman re-
ported progress.
The house suspended its sitting shortly before 4 o'clock.
The house resumed at six o'clock.
GROUNDS FOR RIFLE PRACTICE.
Mr. SELWYN asked the Secretary of State for War
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government
to introduce any measure for facilitating the acquisition
by volunteer corps of grounds for rifl.3 practice, by pur-
chase with their own money, or by voluntary grants from
landowners, pursuant to the suggestions made in that house
on the sth day of July, 1859, and the Ist day of July, 1860.
Mr. S. HERBERT said when a similar question was
put on a former occasion he thought the subject was worthy
of consideration, but upon giving it consideration he found
there were several points to be settled before a bill could
be introduced ; and, first, there was a question of giving
such power to persons who were not responsible to Parlia-
ment, and against whom no remedy could be provided in
case the ground taken for rifle practice should prove to be
dangerous to the public, or objectionable to the landowners
or inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Then, again, it would
be necessary that these grounds should be vested in some
authority of a permanent character. These things required
much consideration, and, as he had a good deal of business
on his hands, he could not attend to it ; but if the hon. and
learned gentleman would undertake to bring in a bill, the
Government would give him all the assistance they could
THE LONDON CORPORATION BILL.
Mr. NORRIS asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether he could name a day fur going int
committee on this bill ?

Sir G. C. LE WIS said, in consequence of the unexpected
manner in which the debates were adjourned, Government
could not name ar y particular day.

INLAND REVENUE.
Mr NORRIS asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government

to take steps for the transfer from persons locally appointed
to the officers of Inland Revenue of the duties of assessors
anti collectors of income, property, and assessed taxes, and
collectors of land tax ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply,
said the subject was one of considerable importance. The
exact state of the question he would describe. There was
a feeling in the country favourable to a transfer of the
kind. At the same time, it was quite evident that what-
ever might be its abstract merits it could not be carried
into effect except with the general concurrence of those
who would be affected by it. The course which had been
taken was this :—A circular had been sent out by the Board
of Inland Revenue to 699 Boards of Land Tax Commis-
sioners. From about half of the number answers had been
received, and another circular had been sent to spur those
who had not yet answered. So far as the answers had been
received, the greater number of the boards were favourable
to the transfer. Speaking generally, the boards in the
larger towns were unfavourable to the change, while those
in the counties, and in the small towns, were favourable.
The Government would not be justified in passing a coer-
cive measure with reference to those boards that were un-
favourable; but the Government would come to a decision
as soon as all the answers were received.
INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.

Mr. BAILIE asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whe-
ther it was the intention of the Government to continue to
compel the Indian and Australian packets to use the har-
bour of Gallo, or whether they would be allowed, if they
wished it, to use for the future the harbour of Trincomalee ?
Lord C. PAGET said he was not prepared to state that
the Government intended to make any alteration.
ATROCITIES IN SICILY.
Mr. SHERIDAN asked the noble lord at the head of
Foreign Affairs whether he had received any official ac-
count of the atrocities said by a noble lord in another place
to have been committed by Garibaldi and his associates in
the Island of Sicily, and whether such atrocities having
been committed, her Majesty's Government could have re-
mained ignorant of the circumstances ?
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that her Majesty's Govern—
ment had received information with reference to various
murders that had been committed by a mob of armed pea-
sants, who had attacked the police of the former Govern-
ment. There was, however, no account connecting General
Garibaldi in any way with the affair, or stating that he had
favoured or protected the proceeding. (Loud cheers.) It
seemed to have been more an act of vengeance committed
by those who had been, previously to late events, governed
by the police.
PROPERTY SEIZED IN THE INDIAN MUTINY.
In reply to Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN,
Sir C. WOOD said the property referred to in the ques-
tion of the hon. member was that which had been seized at
Delhi, and he was quite unable at present to give any defi-
nite information regarding its disposal.
BANKRUPTCY BILL.

Mr. CRAWFORD asked the noble lord at the head of
the Government whether he could hold out any hope of the
Bankruptcy Bill being further proceeded with this session ?
Lord PALMERSTON replied that he considered the bill
to be one of paramount importance, and he should cer-
tainly do all he could to persuade the house to pass it this
session, however long it might require them to sit for that
purpose. (Hear, hear.)
THE ENLISTMENT OF APPRENTICES.
Mr. HUMBERSTONE called the attention of the Sec-
retor§ of State for War to the petition of John Bishop, pre-
sented to the house on the 3d, praying for inquiry into the
legality of the enlistment of his son, wished to know
whether there was any power to enlist apprentices.
Mr. S. HERBERT said if the hon. gentleman would
refer to the 67th clause of the Mutiny Act of last year h 3
would there see that an apprentice who had enlisted could
be claimed by his master, provided only that his apprentice-
ship was only for the term of seven years, and that he was
under 14 years of age when the indenture was entered into,
but after the expiration of the seven years the enlistment
remained in force. In the case referred to, of the son of John
Bishop, the lad had been bound for five years only, and his
enlistment was therefore good. The necessary amount
having been forthcoming the boy had been discharged.
REMOVAL OF IRISH POOR.

Mr. LANIGAN rose to call the attention of the house
to the administration of the poor law in the St. Pancras
division, Middlesex; the correspondence between the
Secretary of State for the Home Department and the jus-
tices of said division; together with the depositions of
the poor Irish woman, Mary Carter, with a view of ascer-
taining what steps her Majesty's Government intended to
take in the matter.
Sir G. C. LEWIS said the duty of removing paupers
who had not a settlement in this country lay with the
parish officers, and not with the board of guardians, and
the Poor-law Board had, therefore, no power to interfere.
He thought some alteration should be made in the law, and
a great grievance would be removed.
THE GOVERNMENT " RESOLUTIONS."

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Lord FERMOY said he had a question to put to the
noble lord at the head of the Government, of which he had
not given notice; but as it related to the conduct of the
House of Lords, and to the debate that was to be resumed
that night, and as the answer of the noble lord to the ques-
tion might influence not only his (Lord Fermoy's) conduct,
but also that of other members, he hoped the noble lord
would reply to it. The question was this :—lnasmuch as
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated that the rejec-
tion of the bill for the repeal of the paper duty in another
place was the most gigantic innovation upon the privileges
of the House of Commons that had occurred in our time,
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VOLUNTEER CORPS IN IRELAND.

Captain O'CONNELL asked the First Lord of the
Treasury whether the Government had taken or Untended
to take any steps to enable the people of Ireland to form
♦olunteer rifle corps?
MINISTERIAL REPLIES.

Lord PALMERSTON said, in answer to the lak ques-
tion,:he had to state that the Government did ncct in ten
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to propose any alteration of the law bearing upon the
the
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question of the noble lord the member for Maryleisone, he
had only to say that he was quite satisfied with the resolu e
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tions which he thought it his duty to suotsit to