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was under consideration. All he could say was, that the
Government desired to facilitate as much as possible the
communication between Great Britain and Ireland. (Hear,

hear.)
The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote was a sum of £61,550 for public buildings
in Ireland, which was agreed to after a short discussion.
On the vote of £28,000 for lighthouses abroad,
Mr. A. SMITH opposed the grant of £3OO for a light-
house in the lonian Islands; to the grant for a lighthouse
in Western Australia, which was a rich colony and ought
to provide for its own lighthouses ; and to a sum of £B,OOO
being proposed for the erection of another at Ceylon. He
moved that the vote be reduced to £22,400.
Mr. CHILDERS wished to ask upon what ground they
were asked to vote £B,OOO for a floating light on the Basses
Rocks. He thought the Government of India ought to
bear at least one-half the expense of constructing this float-
ing lighthouse. The House of Commons had already voted
£20,000 for this object, and he should like to know what had
been done with that money. He did not think it right that
the revenues of England should be applied for this purpose.
There was another item of £5,000 for a lighthouse in British
Columbia. The whole of the cost of those lighthouses was
thrown upon England, but, in his opinion, the colonies
should be called upon to pay half the expenditure for their
erection and maintenance.

Mr. M. GIBSON said with regard to the general question
whether this country ought to be called upon to erect light-
houses in distant parts of the world, it should be borne in
mind that this country perhaps more than any other country
in the world benefitted in her trade and commerce by the con-
struction of lighthouses on dangerous coasts. Her commerce
was greater than that of any other maritime country. He
concurred in the opinion that the colonies ought to defray a
fair proportion of the expenses of those lighthouses ; but
there were many places the people of which were utterly
unablb to pay towards the maintenance of those light-
houses.

The amendment was negatived without a division, and
the vote was agreed to.
£5,000 for the Commissioners of Highland Roads and
Bridges.

Mr. WILLIAMS objected to this vote, and moved that
the chairman report progress, but the motion was negatived
without a division.

Mr. WHITE considered that no good ground had been
shown for coming to Parliament and making this demand
on the public exchequer. He hoped the committee would
give a direct negative to the vote.

Mr. WILLIAMS protested against the proposed expen-
diture. Why should this money be expended on the roads
selected in preference to other portions of Scotland ?
Mr. F. PEEL reminded the committee that the sum
asked was merely a contribution towards the repair of the
roads, and he defended the vote.

The committee divided—
For the vote
Against it
Majority —l3

The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote was £55,000 for Government rates for pro-
perty held by them, which after some discussion was agreed
to, and the chairman reported progress.
EAST INDIA (CIVIL SERVICE) BILL.

Sir C. WOOD, on the order of the day that this bill as
amended should be considered, said he had that morning
had the honour of receiving a deputation of members of
Parliament on the subject, who had suggested, in a most
handsome and gallant way, many amendments, to which he
felt himself bound to accede, and he therefore moved that
the bill should be recommitted for the purpose of introduc-
ing amendments to carry out their views.
Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Ayrton, and Sir M. Farquhar hav-
ing expressed their approval of the course taken by the
Indian Minister, the report on the bill as amended was
received.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.
The report on this bill was agreed to.
APPROPRIATION OF SEATS (SUDBURY AND
ST. ALBANS) BILL.

On the order of the day for going into committee on this
bill,

Mr. HADFIELD said he thought Doncaster would be a
better place for nomination than Pontefract.
The house then went into committee, and the clauses
having been agreed to with verbal amendments, the house
resumed.