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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 10.

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATICN
AND REGULATION BILL.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
It being now three o'clock,
Sir W. CLAY suggested that the Chairman should
report progress, in order that the Bill might be re-
printed. It would be impossible to proceed with the
clauses of the Bill in its present state.
The Committee then went through the remaining
clauses pro forma, and the Bill was ordered to be re-
committed on Friday next.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REMEDIES AT
LAW AND IN EQUITY BILL.

The House then resolved itself into Committee on
this Bill.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in reply to a ques-
tion from Mr. Hawes, said that the object of this Bill
was to apply the law of bankruptcy to Joint-Stock
Companies.
Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to.
On clause 3 being read,

Mr. GILL moved the insertion of the words " excep
railway and canal companies."
Mr. GLADSTONE could not see on what ground the
Hon. Member selected two particular classes for exemp-
tion from the operation of the Bill, and must decidedly
oppose the amendment.
The amendment was withdrawn, and the clause was
agreed to.
The other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to, and
the report was ordered to be brought up on Thursday
week, wheit it is understood that several modifications
promised by the Government are to be introduced.
On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART the Monkland
Railway Bill was re-committed.
Mr. HAYTER presented a petition from an individual
in Dublin against a clause in the Dublin and Cashel
Railway Bill. The petitioner was entitled to 6d. in the
pound on all money paid into the Court of Chancery in
Ireland, and this clause deprived him of that sum.
Mr. SHEIL—He was made usher of the court when
he was six months old.—(Great laughter.)—The petition
was then brought up.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
nailmakers of Dudley and the neighbourhood, against
the truck sytem. The petitioners stated that they got
five shillings a week wages, and this sum they were com-
pelled to lay out with their masters.
Mr. WATSON presented a petition from Clitheroe
against the Mortmain Acts.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. HUME—I beg leave to give notice, Sir, in con-
sequence of that ungentlemanly act last night—(Great
laughter)—of counting out the House—
The SPEAKER—The Hon. Gentleman will please to
withdraw that expression.
Mr. HUME—WeII, Sir, unhandsome act then.—
(Laughter.) So long as we were talking about dogs
the House was not counted, but when I came to
talk about men it was counted directly. I shall bring
forward my motion on going into Committee of Supply.
Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that to-morrow he
should put a question to the Secretary of State for the
Home Department relative to incendiary fires in Norfolk.

STATE OF THE NAVY.
Sir C. NAPIER rose to put a question to the Gallant
Officer opposite (Sir G. Cockburn), and he was extremely
sorry that the First Lord of the Treasury was not in his
place while he did so. During the tenure of office by the
late Government, the ships of the navy were inefficiently
manned, and they were frequently complained of
by the present Government as well as by himself
and brother officers. The present Board of Admi-
ralty, however,' on coming into office, very pro-
perly improved the state of the navy with respect
to the manning of the ships, excepting with re-
spect to the guard ships which at present had only third-
rate crews. The question he had to ask was, whether it
was true that the Albion had sailed with a reduced
crew, and that the Caledonia and St. Vincent had em-
barked 150 supernumerary marines instead of the same
number of seamen. The Albion was an 84-gun ship,
and he understood that she had sailed with 750 men, the
full complement being 850 men.
Sir G. COCKBURN, who spoke in so law a tone of
voice as to be scarcely audible, was understood to say
that the Albion had sailed with her full complement of
men, which was 750. Three-decked vessels of the second
class had 850 men, but the third class only carried 750
men, and that was: the full complement for the Albion.
With regard to the other question, the Hon. and Gallant
Officer was right. The complement for the guard-ships
was 620 men each, but an occasion had arisen in which
it was desirable that one of these ships should go out
as quickly as possible, and it was arranged that she
should take 750 seamen, and also 120 marines.
The vessel alluded to was quite suited for the great ob-
ject for which she was sent out. She was quite equal
to take her own part either with friend or foe. He was
delighted to be able to state to the House and the
country, that his orders for this vessel to sail arrived at
Plymouth between one and two o'clock in the day, and
the ship was on her course at an early hour the next
morning.—(Cheers.)
Sir C. NAPIER—Then, am I to understand that, in
future, our ships are not to be manned by seamen, but
by marines ?
Sir G. COCKBURN—Certainly not ; but, in a case
of emergency like this, where the supposition might
arise in some people's minds that the lives of British
subjects in Morocco might be in danger, he (Sir G.
Cockburn) was glad to be able to do that in a moment
which, if done otherwise, might have caused great delay
in the sailing of the ship.---,(Hear, hear.)
THE STATE TRIALS.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he had a question to put
in reference to the proceedings which had recently taken
place in the House of Lords. The arguments upon the
writ of error having closed, it was said that the Judges
had left, or were about immediately to leave town. The
question he had to put was, whether the Government
had made any arrangement, in order that judgment
might be given in this case during the present session ?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he really could
not see what Government had to do at all with making
any arrangement upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.)
There had been an argument of six days addressed to
the House of Lords on the writs of error; and on which
argument, by the way, the counsel for the plaintiffs in
error occupied no less than five days, and counsel
for the Crown only one.—(Hear.) As to the impression
made upon the minds of' the judges who were to decide
upon the case, he (the Solicitor-General) could of course
say nothing •, and he knew just about as much as to the
time when the final decision of that high tribunal would
be delivered.