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London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

session.

• Sir F. HEYGATE and Sir 11. BRUCE also criticized the
Redistribution scheme from a Conservative point of view,
complaining it was not just to Ulster. As it had given
satisfaction to neither side, the Government, they thought,
would do well to drop it.

Mr. PIM and Mr. BAGWELL protested strongly against
the policy of aggrandizing county representation at th 3
expense of the boroughs ; and Ur. FORTESCUE agreed that
no public interest would be injured by postponing the Re-
distribution scheme to a future year, but it was so un-
satisfactory that if it were pressed he should do his best to
substitute some other plan for it.
Mr. GREGORY, on the other hand, urged the houso not
to confess itself incompetent to produce a complete mea-
sure for Ireland. The difficulties might be found out in a
very short time. Mr. Gregory did not agree with those
who thought the counties over-represented, pointing out
that agriculture was the chief interest of Ireland.
General DUNNE maintained that Ireland had as good
a right as Scotland to additional members, and Mr. Law-
son protested against the suggested disfranchisement of
his borough (Portarlington). There was not the same
necessity for extinguishing small boroughs in Ireland as
in England, for, with one or two exceptions, every town
over 10,000 population was represented.
Mr. IL BAIL LIE also recommended that the bill should
be- limited to the enfranchising clauses, and after some re-
marks from Mr. Synan,
Mr. DISRAELI wound up the conversation by remark-
ing that the suggestions just made shoul 1 have the care-
ful consideration of the Government.
The house then want into coarnitte3 on tire
On clause 3, regulating the boreugh occ,ipation fran-
chise,
Mr. LAWSON onioavourad to an Ind the clause so as
to fix the franchise at ,C 1 inste t I of th, rateable an ,ual
value of "mere than .C 1" t proposed by the
Lord MAYO strenuously opposed the chang.? ou the
ground that it would disturb the whole rating system of
Ireland for the incommensurate result of adJiug h trdly
2,000 to the constituencies.

Mr. C. Fortascue, Mr. Murp!iy, and Mr. o'l3airno sty-
ported the amendimint, while G moral Donna an 1 tho
Attorney-Gon-ral for I-elind spJlio for tho b.ll. Mr.
Lawson offered to limit hij a•notanent to borolglis ; but
on a division the committee rjectel it altogether by 183
to 177.

On arriving at the Relistribution p)rtion of tin h:11,
Mr. Disraeli postponed for further considerat!on clauses
10, 11, and 12, which contain all the principal provisions.
Clause 13, which provides for the revision of boundaries
and the appointment of a BoUndary Commission, was
negatived on the understanding that a clause should be
substituted for it (suggested by Mr. Lawson), making a
general arrangement that, whore the municipal OXC33ti
the Parliamentary boundaries, the two shall be conter-
minous.

On Clause 18, which prohibits payments fur convoying
voters to the poll in boroughs, there was a long discus-
sion, turning chiefly on the exceptions to be altnitted, and
flaimately it was agreed to with fuur only—Carrickfergus,
Cork, Limerick, and Galway.
In the other clauses a few verbal amendments were
made, and on arriving at the schedules the Chairman was
ordered to report progress, Mr. Disraeli promising that the
bill should be resumed the first thing on Thursday.
Sir S. NOItTIICOTE'S Indian Bills (Governor of India
Act Amendment and Governor-General of India Bills)
were read a second time.

On the report of Supply being brought up,
Mr. CIIILDErIS, reverting to the discussion which he
raised last week on the propriety of taking the supplies
for nine months only, entered his protest, in the interests
of constitutional precedent, against the doctrine the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had then laid down, that
the course to b 3 taken depended on the cause of the
dissolution. Referring again to the precedents of 183)
and 1811, Mr. Childers maintained that, whenever it had
been notified to a Parliament that it was to be dissolved,
it was the rule only to take supplies sufficient to List over
until the new Parliament could be got Ogether. But ho
admitted that in asking for a whole year supplies the
Government had taken the most practical and convenient
course.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUE3 reiterated
his opinion that the precedent of 1841 was inapplicable,
and Mr. Gladstoae confirmed and enforced Mr. Childers's
view of the constitutional practice.

On th© second reading of the Registration Bill,

Mr. BAINES, seconded by Mr. Mill and Mr. Melly,
called attention to defects in the process of registering
lodgers, particularly to the want of provision for giving
him notice of objections ; and the SulUtJr-General re •
plied that it was unnecessary, as the lodger would have to
attend to make his claim.

Mr. PUGII gravely warned the house of the danger of
precipitation, illustrating his point with his usual fertility
of apt Virgiliau quotations ; and I
Sir G. BOWYER, in the same vein, deprecated need-
less abbreviation of the processes of registration. It was
peculiarly important that the new Parliament should be
duly elected, and that the constituent body should be
formed with the utmost care and deliberation, otherwise
the new house would be discredited before it met, and a
second general election would be necessary within a
twelvemonth.
Mr. K ENDAL mentioned that at a recent meeting of the
clerks of the peace a resolution hail been passed declaring
that there was great danger of excluding large classes
from the register by shortening these processes. But
Mr. LEEMAN, on the other hand, as a clerk of the peace
of 25 years' standing, asserted that the bill was perfectly
workable, and gave the Government great credit for the
skill with which they had selected the processes to be
shortened.
Mr. W. P. MARTIN also predicted that the bill would
be found effectual.
Mr. DODSON, holding that if there was to be an
autumn session it ought to be held earlier than the bill
proposed, explaining how by shortening the time allowed
to the clerks of the peace and the town clerks for meking
out the lists, and by assimilating the time in town and
country for exhibiting the lists of objections and omitted
claims, the revising barrister might be got to work by the
7th of September, the writs might be issued by the 12th of
October, and the new Parliament assembled by Novem-
ber 9th. __ _ _ .

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Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Denman pointed
out defects in the bill, to which
Mr. HARDY replied that all these objections had been
carefully considered by the Government, and would be
inquired into by the Select Committee.
The bill was then read a second time and ordered to
be referred to a Select Committee, with power to take
evidence.
The Petroleum Act Amendment Bill passed through
committee, and some other bills having been forwarded a
etage, the house adjourned at tIYO 11#44t0 to 2 o'clock.