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London, England, 1861-07-22 00:00:00

I.MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS EVENING.)
ROYAL ASSENTS. .

The royal assent was given by commission to the follow-
ing bills :—Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scotland)
Act Amendment, Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes
(Ireland), Inclosure (No. 2) Local Government, Supple-
mental Transfers of Stocks and Annuities, Poor Assess-
ments(Scotiand),London Coal and Wine Dues Continuance,
Queensland Government, Dean Forest and Hundred of St.
Briavols, Chatham Dockyard Enlargement, Tylde Water,
Blackburn Water, Treak, Ancholm, and Grimsby Rail-
way; Stockton and Darlington Railway (Capital), Leven
and East of Fife Railway Companies (Amalgamation,
&c.), Leven and East of Fife Railways (Extension &c.),
Airdale Drainagr ; Londonderry and Loch Swelly Rail-
way,: Swanna Vale Railway, Dumfries, Lochmaben
and Lockerby Junction Railway, Hammersmith, Padding-
ton, and City Junction, Barnsley Coal Railway, Lon-
don and North Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, and
Caledonian Railways; Marlborough Railway,
Yorkshire Railway
(Keadley Extension), Wigan Gas Meter and Fitting Com -
B:ailway,l/uloriCorporation Water,
pany, Waveney Valley
Bolton Corporation, Brighton, u d, and Tunbridge
Wells Railway; Stockport,Timperlecy, ande Altrincham June.
Railway; Harwich Polio? and Improvement, Kinross-shir e
Railway, Eastern Counties
.and Saffron Walden Railway,
and Llanrwrt Railway, Aberystwith and Welsh
CCganswtartailway, Bishop.Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree
Railway, Cleveland Railway, Forest of Dean Central Rail-
way, Haffield Chase Warping andp Improvement, Inverness
and Perth Junction Railway, Ludlow and Clee Hill Rail
way, Mersey Docks and Hartom Board, Much Wen
jok, &c., Railway, Salisbury and Dorset Junction, Sout
Easters Railway (Folkestone Harbour, &c)., Vale o
Clwyd Railway, Ware,,Hadham, and Buntingford Railway,'
Ranizey Railway, Alva Railway, North London Railway
(branch to City), Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Ponty-
pool Railway.
The LORD Cavicruon took his seat on the woolsack
at fire o'clock.

POLAND.
Lord RAVENSWORTH presented a petition, which
he had not been able to present on the night of Lord ilar-
rowby's motion in consequence of illness.

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lEEE DUCHY OF IVIODENA.
The Marquis of NORMANBY rose to move that anhum-
ble address be presented to her Majesty for copies or extracts
of any despatches relating to the affairs of the duchy of Mo.
dena from her Majesty's Minister accredited to the Courts
of Central Italy during the years 1855, 1856, 1857, and 1858.
lie added to his motion a similar motion for papers relat-
' i gn to the Duchy of Ferrara. He was not in the least pro-
r pared; when he gave notice of his intentlon to make this
motion go;2.e time since, for the scene which followed. lie
had considerea
Liens made ainst il.'
.!t his duty to contradict the grave
Glad a_cstone,
and to to informag the right ;2.°11'
e Duke of Modena by 11If,
gentleman's colleagues that
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a
he was prepared with sues contradiction. Re had
Gladstone, and
since been in correspondence u-..th M .
en made to believe
he believed that gentleman had b.:.
the truth of what he (the Marquis of isTonnonnbV) 1g.,(13,
said. He would first read to their lo,'
correspondence between himself and Mr. GsliC...Pcleist,°,2T
This he proceeded to do. His first letter consisted .... ‘!.
distindt denial on evidence which he gave of the statement
adopted by Mr. Gladstone with reference to an IS;
execution in Modena,. Mr. Gladstone replied that e
1,.,1 nht raade
not admit that he -tad done wrong. Ile -- h•och had
Celt
nd the authen i y
a single assertion not. authorised by documents w i
been before the public for two years, a
added that he
of which had never been questioned. He a
e house statements
thought the practice of answerlll4,in 'lord Normanby, in
made in another was not desirabi.:', i whether a Minister
answering this, said the question.
rowileour4 statement of his
of the Crown should allow
which had gone forth to Baran°
[LEFT SPESir,
peer_tf_nr,egain uneontradicted.
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COMMONS-(THIg EVENING.)
it AL COMMISSION.
ins speaker was summoned by the Black Rod to attend
in the tipper House to hear the Royal assent given b
EixEortF,tvok AL
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to several bills, for which see Lords' com-
missionPßlVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Blano Valley Railway (Lords) ; Edinburgh, Perth, and
Dundee Railway (Lords) ; and Glasgow and Milngavie
Junctioir Railway gJords).
The folllowing bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :—Attinsota Twit EE}tate, Cornwall Aailwah

Victoria Docks Gas, and West of Fife Mineral Railway and
Charleston Railway and Harbour Companies.
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AUSTRALIAN SOVEREIGNS.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS asked the Chancellor of the
Exchequer if, in the trial of the pyx which had just been
made, Australian sovereigns coined at the branch of the
Royal Mint at Sydney were submitted for assay, and if the
quality of such sovereigns was equal to those coined at
Tower-hill ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
his hon. friend must be aware that the Australian sove-
reign was not a legal tender, and was not a coin
of the united kingdom. That being the case the sovereign
in question did not receive the benefit, if there were any, of
the test to which the other sovereigns were subjected. How-
ever, this test was no longer necessary to establish the
value of a coin, and the Australian sovereign had under-
gone a test that proved it fully equal to the sovereign of
this country.

Alderman SALOMONS gave notice that he would draw
the attention of the house to this subject next session.

CONTROLLERS OF CUSTOMS.

Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer what arrangements had been made for the discharge
in the outports of those duties which were formerly per-
formed by the Controllers, whose offices are now abolished :
And whether provision had been made for employing the
Controllers whose services had been dispensed with upon
duties as nearly as possible analogous to those which they
have previously had to perform, and for securing to them
their fair chance of promotion to superior situations as they
may fall vacant ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
as the principal duties of the officer in question were other-
wise provided for, the office had been abolished. The
former system which had been practised had boen discon-
tinued, and the consequence was that some of these officers
had been employed as collectors or clerks, and some had
received compensation. Employment could not be pro-
vided for all these officers who had been reduced, and they
were placed on the retiring pension list. He could assure the
hon. member that there was every: disposition to provide
as far as possible for the reduction in the officials caused.
by the alterations that had taken place in the customs.