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London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

PAPERS.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the
report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the state of the law of marriages in England.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 29.
The SPEAKER took the Chair ut Four o'Clock.

Mr. PALMER, moved that Mr. Busfeild he allowed
to attend and vote in the Committee on the Bradford
Improvement, Police, and Purchase and Closing of
Bradford Canal Bill, notwithstanding that he did not
sign the prescribed declaration before the chairman took
the chair, provided ho sign such declaration forthwith.
Leave granted.

PETITIONS.
Mr. HODGES presented a petition praying the House
to pass some measure which should have the effect of
reducing the armaments of the country.
Mr. THORNELY presented a similar petition from
Alfreton.
Mr. ANDERSON and Lord DUNCAN also presented
petitions to a similar effect.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition praying
the House to grant some effective health Bill.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from
Bristol against the union of Church and State.
Sir R. IL INGLIS presented a petition from certain
individuals, wives, mothers, sisters, and faithful subjects
of her Majesty, praying the House to reject the Mar-
ri ige Act.
Mr. Bateson from an Irish congregation, Mr. Duncan
from Arbroath, and Mr. Hastie presented petitions to a
similar effect.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from
Gainsborough against the Merchant Marine Bill.
Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented a petition in favour
of the scheme of secular education.
Mr. HILDYARD presented a petition from White-
haven in favour. of a measure for the suppression of beer
houses.

Mr. ADAIR presented a petition from Suffolk against
Certain clauses in the Railway Act.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a reution from the Chairman
and Committee of the' Anti-Chutch and State Associa-
tion, praying the House to pass some measure fur the
dissolution of the union of Church and State.
Sir B. HALL presented a petition praying the House
to pass some measure of sanitary reform.
Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields against intramural interments.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a similar petition
from Clerkenwell.
Mr. COCKBURN presented three petitions from the
corporation of Southampton—one against the Bankruptcy
Act, one in favour of the payment of magistrates' clerks
by salaries, and another in favour of the Burgess's Act.
Petitions were presented against Sunday labsur in the
Post-office from numerous places—by Mr. W. Patten
from Garstang; Mr. Fuller, from Sussex; Mr. 0. Dun-
combs; Mr. Tattoo Egerton, from Aiderley; Mr Di eciee
Mr. O'Fleherty, Lord Hotham, Sir R. H. Inglis (3),
Mr. Plumptre, Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. Christepaer (2), Capt.
Bateson (3), Lord Duncan, from Bath; Mr. Scott, from
Coldstream, and Mr. Cockburn, from Titchfield.
Mr. SCOT I' presented a petition from Dumfries pray-
ing that the House would not sanction any interference
with the Scotch system of education.
Lord H. VANE presented a petition from Stockton
in favour of international arbitration.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition
from certain depositors in the Rochdale Savings' Bank
complaining of the recent defalcations, and praying the
Rouse tr take steps to prevent a recurrence of such an
red; and a similar petition from the guadians of Roch-
dale.
Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition com-
plaining of agricultural distress.
Mr. SieDLEIR presented a petition from Carlow
praying for an alteration of the spirit duties.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose
against the Marine 43i1l ; also a petition from Arbroath
praying fur an amendment of the Poor-law ; also a
petition from the proprietors, pridters, and publishers of
the Montrose Standard against taxes on knowledge;
also a petition from St. James's in favour of the Inter-
ments Bill; and a:patition in favour of international
arbitration.
Mr. FORBES presented a petition from a place in
the county of Fife against the Marriage Bill.
Sir EDWARD BUXTON presented a petition from
St. Andrew's, Bethnal-green, in favour of a health of
towns' Bill.
. MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.
Colonel SAL WEY postponed his motion until the 21st
of May for the appointment of a Select Committee to
inquire into the case of the Military Knights of Windsor.
Mr. E. I)ENISON gave notice that on bringing up
the report on the Australian Colonies Bill he would
move an amendment to the effect that the legislature of
each colony should have the management of waste lands
within such colony.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CROWN.
Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on an early day he
would move far leave to bring in a Bill to enable
parties to proceed against the Crown, either in law or
equity, without the consent of the Crown.
AMENDMENTS ON GOING INTO COMMITTEES
OF SUPPLY. •
Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that, on Thursday next,
he would move a resolution to the effect, that where
notice was given of any amendment on the question for
going into Committee of Supply, or Ways and Means,
leech amendment should come on for discussion in its re-
gular order, and that no debate on the original question
should take place until such amendment had been dis-
posed of.
SUNDAY ARRANGEMENTS IN THE POST-
OFFICE.
Mr. FAGAN asked the Secretary of the Treasury
whether it was intended to extend to the post-offices in
Ireland the regulations existing in the provincial offices
in England, as respects Sunday duties, namely, that they
should be closed on the Sundays from ten a.m. to five
P M., except for the necessary receipt and dispatch of
mails, the box merely being left open for the receipt
of stamped and unpaid letters; and it so intended, when
was it probable that the alteration in this respect would
be made?
Mr. H AYTEIt said that, when the original
arrangement was made for the reduction of Sunday
labour in the Post-office, it was in the contem-
plation of the parties who suggested it to extend
the arrangement both to Ireland and Scotland, at
the first convenient opportunity, provided it
should be successful. So far as the measure hal been
carried out in England he (Mr. Hayter) believed it met
with universal approbation. though a good deal of mis-
apprehension bad existed on the subject. Inquiries
had lately been instituted by the Postmaster-General,
with the view of carrying out a similar arrangement in
Ireland and Scotland, and those inquiries hiving ter-
minated, he had made an application to the Treasury for
its sane two to enable him to carry the new regulations
into immediate effect, and that sanction had been ob-
tained.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Mr. B. OSBORNE begged to ask the Hen. Member
fur Lancaster, the Chief Commissioner for building the
New Houses of Parliament—(A laugh)—a question.
The House would probably be aware that a Committee
of this House sat in 1846, and they made a report that
they were convinced that so long as certain squabbles
between Mr. Berry, the architect, amid Dr. Rsiil, the
ventilator, continued, the Houses of Parliament would
never be finished.— (Laughter.) lie begged to adi. the
Hon. Member (Mr. Greene) whether he had :succeeded
its adjusting those squabbles, and whether he was aware
that an action was about to be commenced in
the courts of law by the architect against the venti-
lator?—(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. GREENE said he was certainly aware there was
an action pending between Mr. Barry and 1)r. Reid, but
happily that sehjsct had not come within the pro-
vince of the Commissioners ; but their best endea-
vours had been applied, of course, to reconcile the

betwo, a those rhrties, without, Low-
t,cor, chs it tit •its be .n successful. The
we olfiv,7l to carry on the wori7.3
po,coly cltl—( 1:u:;,;)•—!qut certaialy
it ws.l nrr3iige rn`:t''e's betwon
contewiitig artie, —(
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Mr. B. OSBORNE v:,ive notiee t-,nt on au early day,
he shoull call the ,t',ent:gn of the tiouse V) the desira-
bility of g,-tring- ria of both Mr. Barry and Dr.
Reid.—(Laui
EvwTrw.,ls IN GALWAY,

Mr. P. SCROI'E gave notice that to-morrow he
would ask the Secretary of State for Ireland whether he
was aware that a; many as 518 ejectment processes had
been served in a single day in the county of Galway. by
which 30,000 persons had bean driven in one day from
their homes?—(Hear, hear.) And whether the system
of ejections was not illegal, and a high crime and misde-
meanour by the aecient common law of 'rel.land.
REDUCTION OF OFFICIAL SA LARIES.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON a'ked the Member for Ox-
fordshire whether he meant to proceed with his motion
to-morrow with reference to the reduction of salaries?
Mr. HENLEY said it was certainly his intention to
proceed with his motion to-morrow. The exact terms
of his motion would be printed, and be in the hands of
members t) morrow morning, but it would not differ
materially from the motion now on the votes.
IMPRISONMENT OF A COLOURED BRITISH
SUBJECT AT CHARLESTON, U. S.
Mr. COCKBURN rose to ask a question of the Noble
Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs, which he said was
occasioned by a care which had lately occurred at the
Thames Police-court. It was whether he was aware of the
practice of the authorities of the town of Charleston, to
seiz3 British subjects, being men of colour. on board
British vessels in the port of Charleston, and t 3 imprison
th.'m during the time such vessels remain in that port;
and whether her Majesty's Government have made any
effirts with the Government of the United States to pre-
, vent British subjects from being thus outraged. The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman characterised this practice
as one not only in direct violation of the law of nations,
but as scandalous and disgraceful to humanity.—(Hear.)
Lord PALMERSTON said the subject to which the
Hon and Learned Gentleman had drawn the attention
of the House was, he WaS sorry to say, not a new one to
her Majesty's Government. It was an undoubted fact
that the practice alluded to was one sanctioned by the
laws of the state of Carolina, equally applicable
to the citizens of the free states of America as to
the subjects and citizens of foreign powers.
It was quite unnecessary to express the opinion which
any man must entertain of this practice.—(Cheers.) It
arose from the unfortunate institutions which existed in
the southern states of the Union, and which were now
a matter of very serious difference in the Congress of
the United States, Her Majesty's Government, in 1847,
ordered her Majesty's Minister at Washington to present
a note on the subject to the United States' Government,
and to remonstrate against this law, not merely as incon-
sistent with the usual practice of civilized nations, but as
at variance with certain articles in the treaty of 1815,
between the British Government and the United States
Government, providing for the residence of Briti,h sub-
jects in the United States territory. The answer
received from Mr. Buchanan was to the effect that the
federal Government had no power to induce the State
and Legislature of Carolina to remove this law, and that
if the British Government insisted upon anti pressing the
Government of the United States on the ground founded
upon the article in, the treaty of 1815, the Government of
the United Szatei would find it necessary to take elven-
tage of a clause in the treaty of 1827, which gave power to
either party to annul the treaty on giving 12;months' notice.
It was to be regrettel that such a practice existed; but,
on the other hand, it was as well that it was a matter of
public notoriety, because every free person of colour
being a subject of her Majesty, who went voluntarily
into the jurisdiction of that state, knew beforehand the
inconvenience he was liable to be subjected to.—(Hear.)
WOODS AND FORESTS.

Viscount DUNCAN wished to ask the First Lord of
the Treasury whether any one of the existing Commis.
sioners of Woods has applied for superannuation, and if
so, whether he has obtained it.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was understood to reply, that
in one case it had been applied for. Mr. Mills had re-
tired on 1,5001. a-year (as we understood).
Lord DUNCAN had another question to put to the
Noble Lord. He wished to ask whether it was intended
to appoint any one of the existing Commissioners of
Woods, Forests, Works, &c., to the office of Chief Com-
missioner of Woods, under the Bill now depending in
Parliament for the separation of the two departments?
Lord J. RUSSELL could not answer that question.
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS.

Sir B. HALL, notwithstanding that it was the inten-
tion of Government to proceed with the Ecclesiastical
Commission Bill that evening, wished to put a ques-
tion ti the Noble Lord, of which he hid given
notice, on the subject of a rumour which had
recently gained ground iu the metropolis, and which he
hoped the Noble Lord would be able to inform him
was without toundation.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged pardon for inter-
rupting the Hon. Baronet, but he begged to tell him
that he only received his note at two o'clock this al er-
noon. He immediately wrote off to obtain informa-
tion, but up to this time he had not received an
answer. Perhepa, therefore, the Hon. Baronet would tie
good enough to put his question off till to-morrow.
Sir B. HALL had no objection to do so; and in the
meantime he begged to give notice that the question he
should put tomorrow would be to this effeet:—There
was an office in the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury, known as the Regiitrar, a sinecure valued
at 9,0001., to which the Archbishop of Canterbury had
the power of pfeienting a successor as the office became
vacant. One of the lives which had been nominated
became meant during the time of the late Archbishop,
which the late primate had neglected to fill up, and the pre-
sent Archbishop had taken advantaze of this omission to
fill up the vacancy. He should therilire ask the Noble
Lord, to-morrow, whether the Archbishop of Cauter-
bury hud not filled up the vacancy, by nominating Mr.
Sumner, a son of the Bishop of Winch, seer, to the ofice?