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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from cer-
tain Irish solicitors against the Process and Practice Ire-
land Bill.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES ACT AMENDMENT

BILL.
The Marquisi of WESTMEATH moved the third
reading of this Bill, and repeated his former complaints
against the proc€edings of the Commissioners for the sale
of Encumbered Estates in Ireland. He had in the
streets of Dublin overtaken a group of drunken fellows
who had declared that their wish was to uproot the
Irish landlords; and ho believed such to be the wish of
the Ministers, with the exception of the Noble Marquis
opposite. He believed that they had indulged in the
abominable and wicked wish of changing, the whole pro-
prietary of Ireland. They had indulged the wicked
wish cf selling the estates of the Irish proprietors,
in order to introduce capitalista who would advance
money to the tenants, and it was upon speculations of
this sort that this measure for the sale of encumbered
estates had been propounded. The highest legal authority
had said that there could not be a greAter calamity than
the establishment of a court from which there should
be no appeal, yet such a court was this court for the dis-
posal of encumbered estates in Ireland. He could
not believe that the Commons of England would consent
to let the present law remain unamended in the statute-
book. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving two
additional clauses.

The Earl of CARLISLE considered the whole Bill
unnecessary, and he thought the clauses would still fur-
ther tend to militate against its progress in another
place, and therefore he must oppose them. One of those
clauses tended to circumscribe the powers of the Commis.
sioners in dealing with leases. Now, in many instances
neither tenants nor landlords could settle what were their
respective rights without extensive litigation in the courts
of equity. The Commissioners had now the power of
dealing with those rights, which had prevented extensive
litigation. If the clause were agreed to it would not only
prevent any sales for the future but, as it was retrospec-
tive, would vitiate those already made, which perhaps
was the object of the Noble Marquis. It would only
produce more mischief.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH had no objection to
withdraw the words of the clause which made it retro-
spective.
The Earl of GLENGALL supported the clause.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH denied that the
lessees and landlords of Ireland did not know their
rights.
The Earl of CARLISLE said that the clause pro-
posed would obstruct the working of the Act.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH did not care one
straw for the working of the Act. He wished to obstruct
its working, and to prevent its working altogether. He
wanted to put a drag-chain upon the working of the
Act, and he did not care if the Act and its machinery
was sent ho knew where.
The Duke of RICHMOND wished to know, if the
parties did not know their rights, how the Commissioners
should know them?

Lord BE AUM.ONT would have no objection to the

clause if the grievances existed of which 13e complained,
and if the clause would furnish a remedy, but he believed
that both the Noble Marquis and himself had laboured
under a mistake with regard to that matter. The effect
of the rule made by the Commissioners was not, as he
and the Noble Marquis had thought, to diminish the
term of notice, but to extend it. The old law made six
months' notice' requisite for the renewal of leases,
but the regulations of the Commissioners gave the six
months and something in addition. He would suggest
that the clause be withdrawn.

The Marquis of WESTMEATH still maintained his
own opinion on the matt3r, but as the clause did not
seem thoroughly understood he would withdraw it.
. .

The clause was then withdrawn.

The NOBLE MARQUIS then proposed a clause forbid-
ding the sale of anp encumbered estate unless it should
produce fifteen years' purchase. Persons had been driven
mad i❑ Ireland by the operation of this law, and had
committed murder while in that state.

The Earl of CARLISLE was constrained to oppose
the clause even at the risk of being taunted with pro-
moting madness and murder. It was contrary to the
spirit of the Act which was to leave the deci-
sion in all such cases to the Commissioners, who
were men of acuteness, honour, honesty, and
learning, and to pass this clause would
be to take a wrong estimation of the character of these
gentlemen, and to withdraw from them the confidence of
the House. The Commissioners, and he spoke by their
authority, were anxious to give an explanation of every
case which could be made matter of accusation against
them. If their Lordships chose to make this House a
court of appeal against their decisions, they would be
anxious to afford their Lordships explanations on any
individual case that ,could be brought forward against
them. He would supply their reasons, and explain to
Parliament the grounds on which they had decided.
The Noble Marquis had not thought proper to wait for
the production 01 the returns which had been moved for;
—prohably it answered his purpose hest not to do an.
but he had bien in communication with the Commis-
sioners. One of the cases brought against them was
that they bad disposed of one estate for one and a half
year's purchase. That estate had been sold with the full
concurrence of the creditors and the owners, and it was
doubtful whether the estate was worth the ht aq
rent of two hundred pounds a, 3 ear, and all parties
wore agreed that it had Ltched its full value. Ano:her
estate had been sold at seven years purcha.e. it was sub-
ject to a head rent of 4091. It was let at 7321., and was
sold for 2,2001. The holder cemented to the sale,
the creditors consented to the sale, but the proprietor
of the head rent opposed it. Dr. Laytield, one
of the Commissioners, whose political opinions dif-
fered from those of the Government, and assimilated
with those of the Noble Marquis, declared that the es-
ta:o had been sold far its full value, and owners of pro-
perty were now anxious to bring their estates under the
jurisdiction of the Commissioners for Encumbered Es-
tates.

(LETT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four u'elcek.
PRIVATE BILLS.

The Dilston Improvement, Market, Waterworks, and
Cemetery Bill was read a third time and passed.

PETITIONS .

Mr. 117 M. BROWN presented a petition signed by
7,300 members of a Friendly Society at Liverpool (as
v e understood) in favour of the Friendly Societies Bill
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the
managing committee of a Friendly Society, at Bristol,
against the Friendly Occietiea Bill.
Mr. BRAMSTON presented a petition, from a place
in Essex, against the admission of Jews to Parliament.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented petitions
from the Presbyteries of Balleinana cad Coleraine,
ju for a better system of tenant right in Ireland.
g.
Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition fern the
Floral Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows against the Friendly
Societies Bail.

Sir C. BURRELL presmtcd a petition from a place
in SusEeic against the admission of Jews to Parliament.
Colonel THOMPSON presented a pztitior► from the
South London District of Odd Fellows against thu
Friendly Societies Bill. -
Mr. PORTAL presented a petition from Hampshire
against, the admission of Jews to Parliament.
Mr. P. MILES protentQd a petition from the mar agers
of the Savings' Bank at Bristol against the Savings Bank
Bill.

Mr. PETO presented a petition from certain Dissent-
ing congregations in London against the compensation
CiMIEC,I in the Metropolitan Interments Bill.
Mr. STUART presented a petition signed by 250 of
the respectable inhabitants (A :Newark against the spread
of beer shop.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented nine petitions
from lodges of Foresters and Odd Fellows in favour of
the Bill relating to friendly societies.
Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from Midburst,
as we understood, against the admission of Jews to
Parliament.

Mr. ADDERLEY presented similar petitions from
places in Statlimlshire. _ _

Mr. B. OSBORNE presented a petition from Congle,
in the county of Mayo, praying that the House would
pass a Bill providing for the revenues of the Protestant
Church in Ireland being applied to their original pur-
poses.

Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from
Newington in favour of the Marriage Bill.
Mr. BANKES presented a petition from a place at
Dorset prayirg that the Savings Bank Bill be i creme]
to it Select Committee; also, petitions from the same
place against and in favour of the Ten Hours Bill.
against the Savings: Bank Bill.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr. THORNELY, in the aosence of Mr. Ewart,
postponed the motion on the abolition of capital punish-
ment until the 13th of July.
,_. Mr. O'CONNOR postponed his motion on the
People's Charter until further notice,
Mr. BOUVER. IE postponed his motion on the subject
of divorce by private Acts of Parliament, until the 11th
of July.

WESTMINSTER SEW:Pavvacoeu,r
the Noble
he wished
Lord DUNCAN rose and said, that seeing
Lord, the Member for Plymouth in his place,
to ask him several questions on an
namely, when the sewage of Westminster is brYouniect,
the new cesspool in Parliament-gardens, where the4Ciamt-
missioners intend to pump it to ; where the outlet theto°.
new sewer now constructing is to be; and why the Co
missioners of Sewers did not commence at the Z.
nearwit the outlet : what the total estimate of the new
line of sewer amounts to; and whether there is any oh.
jection to lay the estimate on the table of the House of
Commons : whether the new line of drainage is suffi-
ciently deep for the requirements of the Commissioners
of the Westminster improvements, and to drain the
entire of the Westminster district ?
Lord EBIZINGTON said it was not sewage water
that the steam engine had been erected to pump out,
but water which is,ued from the adjoining land and col-
lected in a deep cut that had been made for the purpose
of erecting a new sewer. As regarded the other ques-
qon, ho replied that the water was to be pumped into
the sewer in Great George-street, which was on a
higher level, in order to enable the workmen to continue
their operations.
1:11.. GREENE asked the Noble Lord whether it was
intended to carry the proposed sewer from the point
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