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London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS•—(This Day.)

Their lordships assembled for public business at 12
o'clock. In the absence of the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Redesdale, the deputy speaker, occupied the woolsack.

COMMITTEES.
The following bilk passed through committee, and
ware reported to the house without amendments :—The
Customs' Duties ; the Race Horse Act Amendment ;
the Cinque Ports Amendment ; and the Pauper Main-
tenance Bilk.

THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were severally read a third time
and passed :—Tbe Income-tag; Indemnity ; Copyhold
and Inclosure Commissioners, &c. ; Extra Parochial
Places; and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bills.
FIRST READINGS.
The following bills were severally read a first time :
The Mutiny ; Marine Mutiny ; Speaker's Retirement ;
Exchequer Bills ; and the Consolidation Fund Appro-
priation Bills.
Their lordships adjourned at half-past 12.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(I'his Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.•
The O'Donoghue took the oaths awl his seat for the
county of Tipperary, in the room of James Sadisir ex-
pelled the house.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The f)llowing private hals were cinsidered and ordered
for third reading—Electric Telegraph Company, and the
Great Southern and Western Redway (Capital).
The Orkney Roads Bill was read a second time and
order to betommitted.
The Aldershot Railway Bill was withdrawn in conse-
quence of the objections of the War Department.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY BILL.
This bill, for legalising the payment of a dividend to
the shareholders in the Great Northern Railway, was
read a first time.
ENFIELD FACTORY.
Mr. SPOONER moved for an account of the total
sum expended at Enfield Factory, from the let day of
January, 1854, to the 31st day of March, 1857 ; the
amounts under the following heads to be separately
specified, viz. :—Building, Machinery, Miscellaneous
Stores, Salaries, and Wages. And, statement of the
number of guns delivered into store, up to the 31st day
of March, 1857, from Eofield.—Agreed to.
MR. SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
The SPEAKER rose and said—l should nob be doing
justice to my own feelings were I to permit the passing
of this bill through its final stage in this house without
expressing most gratefully my most respectful and sin-
cere acknowledgment of this mark of approbation of
my humble services in the chair, and at the noble and
generous manner in which those services have been re-
warded. (Loud cheers.)
Sir G. GREY moved that the observations of the
Speaker be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of
the house. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE seconded the motion.
Agreed to unanimously.
EXCHEQUER BILLS (21,049,7001.) BILL.
This bill was read a second time and passed.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)

BILL.
This bill was read a third tirae and passed.
MUTINY BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
MARINE MUTINY BILL.

This bill was read a third time and gassed.
The above bills were then ordered to be taken to the
House of Lords (this sitting) for a first reading in that

house.

MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Mr FAGAN, for the second reading
of this bill,
Mr. BAGWELL supported the second reading. The
hon. gentleman complained not only of the injustice of
this tax, which was a renewal of the old penal laws of
Ireland, but of its unjust assessment. The small bo•
rough of Clonmel, which he represented, was assessed at
2411., whilst Kilkenny, a larger place, was assessed at
only 3071., and the large city of Limerick but 8101.
Mr. MEAGHER supported the bill and suggested to
the Government the necessity of passing this bill. The
provincial towns affected by the tr.x returned 10 mem-
bers, and influenced the counties returning about 10
more, and he thought it was a question now for their
consideration whether they would make friends or ene-
mies of these members.

Mr. HORSMAN said that no practical result could
in this session result from the second reading of this bill.
It must be admitted that the tax was a grievance, and
during the twenty years he had been in Parliament the
subject bad been one of much agitation and discussion
ih Ireland, and also of much discussion in that house.
After reviewing the present bearing of the tax, he said
the course the

After some further discussion, in which Mr. M€Gruire,
Mr. A. Black, Sir D. Norreys, Mr. Beamish, Mr.
Cowan, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Kinnaird, and Mr.
Heard took part, relative to the abolition also of the
annuity tax of Scotland,

Mr. FAGAN expressed his thanks at the statement
that had been made by the Government, which would
be a "message of peace to Ireland" superior to that of
the late Sir Robert Peel.
Mr. HENLEY condemned the whole discussion,
which would lead to no benefit, except in an electioneer-
ing point of view.
The bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed that day three months.
SECOND READINGS.

The orders for the second reading of the following bills
were ordered to be discharged :—The Carl ele Canonries ;
Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) ; The Tenants' Compensation
(Ireland) ; and the Registration of Long Leases (Scot-
land).

EXTRA-PAROCHIAL PLACES.
The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered
ana agreed to.
PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.
Sir 13. HALL obtained leave to bring in a bill to
extend the time for enabling the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Works to complete improvements in Pimlico
and in the neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace.
PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION.
Sir B. HALL obtained leave to bring in a bill to make
further provision for enabling the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Works to acquire a seat for additional offices
for the public service near Whitehall and her Majesty's
Palace of Westminster.
In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY,
Sir B. HALL said that the object in bringing in this
bill was to facilitate their progress under the suspension
of standing orders in the ensuing session of Parliament.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION

WITH INDIA.
In reply to questions from Sir D. NOBRETS and Mr.
OTWAT,
Mr. WILSON repeated the answer of the Chancel-
-1 )r of the Exchequer on a former occasion, that telegra-
phic communication was to be made with India vict
Silusia and the Persian Gulf. He was not prepared to
give an answer relative to the Euphrates Valley com-
munication.

PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Mr. PELLA.TT obtained leave to bring in a bill for
the incorporation of Public Charities, which was read a
first time and ordered to be read a second time tlat day
three months,

BURIALS.
Mr. PELLATT obtained leave to bring in a bill
relating to Burials in Conseerated and Unconsecrated
Ground, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time that day three month'.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE 110USE—MOLDA-

VIANREdIJGEES.
On the motion for the adjournment of the house till
Saturday,

Mr. OTWAY called attention to the state of 20 or 30
refugees from Wallachia in 1848 or 1849, who had
been refused to return to their country, and he asked the
interference of the Government in their behalf.
Lord PALMERSTON said that the affair of the pro-
vinces were in a fair way of settlement and the Austrian
troops were evacuating them, and the Divans were
considering questions relative to the country, and there
was no doubt but that those gentlemen would return to
their country. He believed it only to be a question of
time when they should return.
The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned at
half-past two o'clock, till Saturday.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—Han-
der(' " Israel in Egypt" will he performed on Friday, the
27th. Advantage will be taken of this performance to
hold the first choral rehearsal for the great Handel Fes-
tival, which will take place -under the direetion of Mr.
Costa, in the large ball, Exeter-hall, on Friday evening
next, the 20th instant.
CANTERBURY HALL.—In order to gratify the musical
tastes of the hundreds that nightly crowd this attractive
it has been arranged to give, in
usuallyattractive programme, a series of
addition place o f entertainment,
to
the
selections from the operatic compositions of some of
the best masters. The first of the series was taken from
"La Sonnambula ;" and the second, which has been
performed with great success during the present weel,,
has been selected from the opera of the " Bohemian
Girl," by Balfe. The solo parts are sustained by Madam
Marietta, Mr. Rime, Mr. Currie, and Mr. Farrant with
great ability. Mr. Sam Collins, the Irish vocalist, who
lately joined this corps, has now completely established
himself as one of its leading artistes. The great secret
of the success of Mr. C. Morton is that, from the com-
mencement of the undertaking, he has secured the ser-
vices of some of the best English singers, and has never
allowed a song to be sung at which the most modest
need blush.

TnE MAILS.—SOUTRAMPTObT, Tuesday.—The Royal
Mail Company's steamship Magdalena, Captain G.
Abbott, sailed to-day with the West India, Mtxican,
and Pacific mails. She takes nut 71 passengers, among
whom are Governor Bayley, of the Bahamas, Mrs. Parry
and six daughters for Barbadoes, Quartermaster and
Mrs. Kerridge, Colonel Ready ad family,
&c., specie
value 4,8001., jewellery value 6 100/. and a full cargo.
The Belgian Royal Mail steamer Constitution, Captain
Pougin, 8.R.N., sailed to-day for New York with 560
passengers and a large cargo. The Peninsular and Oil-
entalCompany's steamer Sultan, Cap. Cook, also sailed
to-day for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cad); and Gibraltar,
merchandise on freight. *The Colombo, Captain Field,
with the India and China mails, left Malta on the 10th
withinstant, eatmBapil.sm, a few passengers, and a fair cargo of
p.m., and may be expected here on the 19th.
The Tyne steamer was taken into the graving dock this
afternoon, and her repairs will be immediately proceeded
with.