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London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

ADVANCES BILL.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the order of
the day. for the second reading of this Bill. Ile -aid,
the amount which bad already been spent in drainage
had produced a most beneficial effect, not only in •the
improvement of the land, but in the industrial habits of
the people; and he had every reason for believing that
the benefits which would result from this Bill would be
great as regarded boa' these points.
The Earl of LONSDALE expressed a qualified
approval of the Bill. He thought the advances ought
to be confined to works of drainage only.
The Earl of LUCAN thought that much benefit would
arise from making advances for other works connected
with the land than mere drainage.
Lord BEAUMONT admitted that advances for drain-
age stood on somewhat a different footing from ads ances
for farm buildings, inasmuch as buildings did not in-
crease the productiveness of the land, while drainage
did. Form: fly, he had expressed an opinion that the ad-
vances ought to be confined to drainage purposes, but he
thought Ireland in that respect ought to be an excep-
tion. In that country large districts, deserted by a
miserable tenantry, had fallen into the possession
of the landlords, and unless they were assisted and
encouraged to erect buildings, the land would remain
unimproved, and, it might be, uncultivated. Under
these circumstances, he thought it would be desirable to
make advances for other than drainage works in Ire-
land. At the same time, he thought some control
would have to be exercised to prevent jobbing or mis-
appropriation.
After a few words from the Earl of GLENGALL,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he know
great improvements had been checked from the inability
of proprietors to provide the necessary farm buildings.
In Ireland, more especially, such buildings were part,-
cularly requisite at the present moment, in consequence
of the great change that was going on in the consolida-
tion of small farms. Every application whether for
drainage or for building advances, would be brought
under the consideration of the Board of Works, who
would entertain no application for building advances un-
less satisfied such buildings were necessary.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH thought it was idle
to hope for much improvement so long as the present
weight of poor-rates existed.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed on Thursday.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 24.
The ►SPEASZR took the Chair at Four o'clock.
THIRD READINGS, &c.
The following Bills were read a third time and passtd—
Godstone and Highgate Turnpike-road.
Surrey and Sussex Roads.
The following Bills, as amended, were considered and
agreed to :
Bridge
across the River Clyde opposite to South Port-
land-street, Lauri eiton.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.
PRUSSIAN MINISTER'S RESIDENCE BILL.
On the motion for the third reading cf this Bill,
Sir R. 11. INGLIS said he took this opportunity of
mentioning the name of the gentleman who was asso-
ciated with this Bill, and of the insult which had re-
cently boen offered to him in another place. Ho did not
believe that there was any plaee in Europe, and ho
thought he could answer for America, in which such a
wanton and, he believed, unpremeditated insult could
have been offered to such an individual.—(Hear, hear.)
He did not desire to provoke any disunion between the
two assemblies.

Mr. B. DENISON rose to order.
The SPEAKER intimated that the Hon. Baronet
the Member for the University of Oxford was entirely
in order in his remarks.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS thought that the Honourable
Member had not' read the title of the Bill, or he would
not have interrupted him. As he was saying,
he did not wish to provoke any disunion between
two houses or two individuals, but be did maintain that
fur a man at home in his own country, and his own
house, deliberately to insult a stranger and a guest,
and that guest being th© representative of a
Sovereign most clo,,ely united to our own be-
loved Queen, was highly unbecoming. He could not
call this individual an inoffensive individual, because that
would be degrading to him, he was one of the most
actively benevolent men that this country contained.
His Hon. Friend had beery dragged before another
assembly in violation, he would not say of the rules of
the House, but of all the ordinary courtesies of life, and
that, too, in the presence of many of her Majesty's Minis-
ters ; and, under these circumstances, he felt be was not
encroaching on the time of the House in making ierr:r-
eoce to one so attacked and so little sustained in another
place.—(llenr, hear.) tie would add, in conclusion,
that in his opinion the explanation which had .been
given elsewhere added insult to injury, for
Chevalier Bunsen had been accused of not un-
derstanding the English language, whereas he un-
derstood and wrote it as well- as the individual uho
had clwsea to attack him.—(Laughter and cheers.) He
would give his cordial support to the Bill now under
discussion. _ _

Mr. ROEBUCK said his Noble and Learned Friend
(Lord Brougham), who was supposed to have made
the attack, stated distinctly that he informed Chevalier
Bunsen, in very courteous terms, that he was sitting in
the place which lied been appropriated to the ladies,
and requested him to retire—(Hear)—but, to the asto-
nishment of the Noble Lord, Chevalier Bun-
sen, whom the Hon. Member for the University
of Oxford called his friend, looked him in the face and
said nothing. On tho fourth occasion Lord Brougham
said, " Then I shall be obliged to have you turned out;"
and receiving no answer, he certainly did put in force
the orders or the House to have that gentleman ejected
from the gallery.—(Hear.)