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EXPENSES).

This Bill went through Cornmitiee pro forma.
The Howe then adjourned at Half past Fuur until
Half-put Six.

The House resumed at FlLtf-past Six o'clock.
YETI no NS.
Petitions were presented by Mr. Anstey, from Richard
S. Dunn, an officer of the Customs, praying inquiry into
his case ; by Mr. Lucke, from places iu Devonshire,
against the postal arrangements; and by Mr. Brotherton,
from Manchester, Salford, Heywood, and Randall, in
favour of international mediation.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that he would move the
Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill be committed that day
three months, when it was brought on.
ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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After a few words from Colonel DUNNE,

In reply to Mr. WALPOLE,
Lurd J. RUSSELL said that he should state when the

time came what, in his opinion, the salary of the present
Lord Chief Justice should be. Parliament, however,
would take it.; own course in the matter.
FRIEI`.TDLY SOCIETIES BILL.
The Howe then went into Committee on this Bill.
On clause 38,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
:hat the blank be tilled up with 1001.

Mr. J. A. S AITH said he thought the sum fixed by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to low a sum. Ile
thought it should be fixed at 2001.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
these societies were for the benefit of the lower class of
people, and 1001. was as large a sum as a person of that
class would insure his life for.

Mr. AGLIONBY supported the proposition for 2001.
Mr. HUME considered that fixing it at 100/. was a
great concession. The public was already much taxed
fur the advantage of these societies.
Mr. J. A. SMITH said not one of these societies had
put the public to one shilling of expense, but they con•
tributed to the revenue by paving stamps o❑ their
po!icies. The Provident Clerks' Association, with which
tie was connected, had paid in this way 1,700/. for stamp!.
Mr. P. SCItOPE observed that if they did agree to
200/. it ought to be limited to those societies that were
certified under the Friendly Societies Act.
Mr. J. A. S MIT II said he was willing to accede to that.
After some discussion, in the conrse of which

Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
allowed existing insurances to remain as tney were, but
that the Act would apply to future insurances.
The clause was agreed to, the blank being filled up
with 1001.
On clause 39.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked whether it was in-
tended to subject friendly societies to all the clauses
and provisions of the Acts relating to savings banks,
and whether Government would guarantee the continu-
ance of the rate of interest proposed to be given under
this Bill-31. 04. 101. p.r cent.?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied

that it was not intended to subject the moneys invested
on behalf of friendly societies to the regula'ions of the
savings banks Acts. With regard to the Honourable
atrouet's second question, he begged to state that there
was a certain number of friendly societies to which by
law an interest at the rate of 4/. Ils. was insured,
and there were other societies to which an interest
of 31. ins. was insure,l. In these cases the rates
of interest which had been guaranteed would be conti-
nued; but it was proposed in future cases to give a re-
duced amount of interest. ' The result of the arrange-
ments he had mentioned was a considerable annual loss

to the country, the loss last year upon'the interest paid

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to friendly societies having been "20,7001. He thought
it ex•remely desirable that the rate fixed to be hereatter
paid should be permanent, and he had therefore proposed
a rate of interest a little below that which he might
otherwise have been disposed to suggest. He had pro-
posed a rate of 3/. Os. 103. per cent, as a sum upon which
the parties, as far as he could give any assurance, might
permanently calculate.
The clause was then agreed to, as was also clause 40.
On clause 41, which provides that, on the death of a
member of any friendly society entitled to a sum not ex-
ceeding 501., the trustees, if ❑o will has 'yen left by
such deccasei member, may pay the amount according
to the rules of t'e said society, &c.,
Mr. HENLEY objected to the clause, on the ground
that it was inconsistent with the second clause, and he
suggested the omission of the words, " according to the
rules of the said society."
Mr. SPOONER obser►ed, that in some societies the
member had by the rules the power of having the sum
paid to his widow; if these words were struck out. he
would not have that which was perhaps his reason for
belonging to that society.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought it would be
advisable to omit the words. It did not appear desirable
that there should be various systems of rules prevailing;
it would be better that there should be one rule, the
rule of law as to the distribution of an intestate's effects,
and, if a person wished his property otherwise distri-
buted, he could make a will.
Lord DUDLEY STUART apprehended that it was
not the habit of the class of persons in question to make
a will.

After some conversation upon the point, the Com-
mittee divided. when there appeared—
Fur striking out the words ...
Against it
Majority ...
The clause, amended accordingly, was agreed to, as
also was clause 42.

On clause 43, prohibiting assurances from being here-
after granted by these societies, payable on the member's
death to a nominee, or to any oilier person than the
ex.eutors, administrators, or assigns of thamPfnher,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob-

served that it was never contemphtvd that there was to
be such a nominee system as had grown up, enabling
people to evade to such an extent the stamp and probate
and legacy duty, and, if so minded, to cheat their cre•
ditors. He believed there was a person of high rank in
this country whose life was insured for no less than
5,000/. in this way.
The clause was agreed to with amendments; the re-
maining clauses, as amended, were also agreed to, and
the Bill was ordered to be reported.
The amendments of the Lords to the Elections (Ire-
land) Bill wer. con,idered.
The Lax Fund Duties (Ireland) Bill went through
Committee. R-port this day.
TRANSFER OF IMPROVEMENT LOANS (IRE-
LAND) BILL.

Tho CHANCELLOR of.the EXCHEQUER moved
he second reading.

Mr. ARK WRIGHT wished some explanation to be
given of the obj, ct of the Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that in the Act passed this session for the purposes of
authorising advances to be made for the improvement of
lard in Ireland, there wa,i one word which, in the opinion
of the law officers, would have the elf-!et of prtventing
the commissioners of public works abowing proprietors
who had obtained advances for the improvement of one
portion of their estates to tranbfar the advances to the
improvement of another portion of their estates.
After a few words from Major ELACKALL and
Mr. MULLINGS, the Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed to-morrow (this day) at twelve
o'clock.

LOUGH CORRIB IMPROVEMENT COMPANY
COMPENSATION (IRELAND) BILL.
The order of the day for the second reading of this
Bill having ben read.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished some explanation of
the measure.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that a company, called the Lough Currib Company, had
executed certain works in Ireland, but had been unable
to complete them. A few years ago a Bill was passed,
enabling the Board of Works to undertake certain works
in Ireland, among which was the opening of the Lough
Corrib, and the carrying out More effectually whet the
company had professed to do. The company had exe-
cuted a certain part of the work near the town of Gal-
way, and by excavating a sand-bank had improved the
river. The Board of Works proposed to complete the
undertaking, and the compensation in this Bill of 5,0001.
wai for what the company had done.
Mr. HUME azked what the value of the works would
be. if completed?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said they
would improve the channel of the river, and facilitate the
drainage of the neighbouring lands.
Mr. HUME ask.d to whom those lands belnnqed?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re-
plied that they belonged to parties on the banks of the
lough who were taxed fur the repayment of the ad-
vances.

Mr. ANSTEY hoped the Government would agree to
the recommendation in the report, and make a distinet
board of fisheries commissioners.

Mr. M J. O'CONNELL hoped the Chanc'ellor of the
Exchequer. would receive with caution any statements of
the Lough Corrib Company.
Mr. AGLIONBY said a few words on behalf of the
company. The present Bill was a tardy act of justice to
a company which had spent large sums in improving
Ireland, and the compensation provided in it would not
exceed 2s. in the pound on the amount expended in
Ireland.
Mr. A RKW RIGHT felt so strong an objection to the
introduction of a Bill of this kind at a period of the ses-
sion when the usual forms could not be observed, that he
begged to move that the Bill be read a second time that
day three months.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the motion ••• • • ••• 10
Against it ... •-• "• 63
Majority •-• *** —53
Mr. HUME protested against the Chancellor of the
Exchequer thus laying out money at the end of the ses-
sion as fast as he got it in.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered
to be committed to-morrow (this day) at twelve o'clock.
MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL.
The order of the day for considering the amendments
to the Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill was then pro-
ceeded with. Some clauses and amendments were agreed
to, and added to the Bill.
Mr. CLEMENTS, pursuant to notice, moved to sub-
stitute the following clause for clause 8 in the Bill:
" And be it enacted, that the guardians of each union in
Ireland shall, when so required by the said Commis-
sioners of Health, with all re asonable dispatch, divide
such union into so many dispensary districts, having
regard to the extent and population of such dis-
tricts as may to them appear necessary; and
in case the said Commissioves of Health shall
approve of the districts so formed by the said
guardians, they shall issue an order under their seal,
declaring the same; and in case they shall not ap-
prove of the districts so formed by the said guar-
dians, the said commissioners may, and they are
hereby empowered to issue an order under their sell
declaring the districts which to them may appear neces-
sary; and it shall be lawful for the said commissioners,
and they arc hereby empowered, when they nay see oc-
claim, from time to time to alter such districts by any
order under their seal: provid d always, that in
no case shall al electoral division formed under the
Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor be
divided; and from and after a day to be named in any
such order, the cost of all medical relief afforded
within eech such dispensary district to which such order
shall relate, together with all the salaries and charges
incidental to the same, shall be charged on the poor
rates of the electoral division or divisions comprised
therein, according to the net annual value of eache
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inafter is provided; and the stml commissionc.ri may,
and they are hereby empowered. when they. may see
occasion, from time to time to regulAte the nmouet of
salaries or allowances pityab;e to such officers
respectively, and the time acd modo of payment
thereof."

Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he Mt himself under
some embarrassment with re-pect to the clause proposed;
for although he did not object to the principle of the
clause, 1.; proposed to displace one which had the ap-
proval a his Hon. and Learned Fliond the Member for
the University of Dahlia (Mr. Napier). The effect of
the clause would be to give inert ased power to the local
boards. He should not object to the clause if he might
not he thought, perhaps, guilty of a breach of faith to
his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for the Uni-
versity of Dublin, by whom clause 8 had been supported,
and who was not then present.
Colonel DUNNE supported the clause proposed to
be substituted for clause 8, which he thought a much
better one than that.
After a few words from Sir D. NORREYS,
It was agreed to strike out clause 8, and substitute
Mr. Clement's clause instead.

Sir W. SO XIERVILLE said he hoped the Hon.
Member would draw up a clause instead of clause 13,
in accordance with that one which he had just intro-
duced. He (Sir W. Somerville) had undertaken to
draw up a clause in accordance with clause 8, but he
could not now promis3 to du so.

Several clauses end amendments were brought up,
considi red, and agreed to; and the Bill wls ordered to
be read a third time at twelve o'clock to-morrow
(this day).

AUG UST 9, 1850.

EMIGRATION TO AIUTRALIA.
Mr. John Lunn, a printer, who emigrated from
Lincolnshire in September lest, and arrived at Ado-
laide, South Australia, on the 12th January, gives:
a less prosperous account of the prospects for emi-
grants who are not mechanics or farm labourers,
than previous writers. In a letter dated a month
after his arrival, he says, speaking of- the
voyage (in the ship Doug " Nearly all the
passengers were attacked with cholera•and diarrhea
and 26 died, one of whom was brother to Mr. Ad.
cock, printer, of Melton Mowbray ; his son also was
near dying, but has just recovered. After landing, I
called upon Mr. Edw. Woodroffe and Miss Bigg,
formerly of Stamford, and at Mr. W.'s house I saw
the Stamford Mercury." Speaking of the state of
Adelaide, he says-
" The place is inundated with emigrants. Some of
them are persona who held reepectah!e situations in En-
gland, such as head clerks in lawyers' offices: here they
get only 305. a week, and under-clerks 14s. to 18s. a week,
and 'find' themselves. There are gentlemen's sons here
who ore actually driven to become bullock-drivers :
there are men in the Bosh working on farms for
Os. and Bs. per week with rations : one of my
fellow voyagers had a situation offered him to
tike the management of a large farm, and ho
stared hen the master told him that he would give hiin
26/. and his rations. The only parties wanted here are car-
penters, bricklayers, masons, and joiners, but the ice ill all
be pulled down in their wages, fur the place 'warms with.
Germans, who work Tor 2s. 6d. per day. and ' find' them-
selves. Ships are s, ill arriving from England and Germany ;
and when I tell you that the place (I mean the city of Ade-
laide) is very much like Market Deeping, you may guess its
extent. There is only one street at present, with straggling
little wooden houses at the ends of the proposed new
streets: they are as yet only staked oat. The city will
be one mile square, or four miles round; and a Bill has
just passed the Government House here to make a rail-
road from the city to the port-the cost is estimated to
be 30,000/. Hats made of cabbage tree and straw are
principally worn here, and clothes are worth little or
nothing. I have seen good black dress coats and sur-
touts sold for 6s. and 7s. each at the auc ion marts:
there are three or four of these auctions every
night. White blouses are 19. 63. each, cotton socks 31
per pair; blue and pink figured shirts 2s. to 3s. 3d.
each; a dozen black hats sold for ls. 93. each; therefore
it is a folly fur any one t • lay out his capital in clothes.
Boots and shoes are about the same price as in
England. Peaches for pies aro 3d. and 41. per dozen.
grapes 4d. per lb. (beautiful), apples and pears I id. each;
plums, ld. each; tobacco 4s. per Ih; eggs 13. each; beef
end mutton 3d. per lb., prime joints; sheep's pluck
3d.; calves' pluck 6d.; onions 3,1. per lb., and
potatoes Os. per. cw%; but they are double that price in
November. A little wood cottage with only two
rooms on the ground floor and no fire-grate, 9s, per
week. There are no bedsteads here; all use some
with straw mattrasses. The sofas cost 1/. each: they
are made of cedar wood. lam boarded and lodged fir
12s. per week, and was lucky enough to get work the
first week I got here, and at Vie first place I inquired
at; but there are upwards of a score printers
in the bush at bullock-driving, and hard work it is to
manage sometimes 6,8, 10, to 16 bullocks in one day,
loaded with copper ore from the Burrs Barra Mines. I
could show you drapers' assistants, clerks, and
others who have not been brought up to a mechanical
trade, breaking stones on the road. but they
get 245. to 30s. per week at it ; it is, however, no
joke under a South Australian heat, particularly
when we have a north wind : it is just like standing
before the mouth of an oven. Farm labourers are run
down by the Germans, for both men and women reap
the corn. Our business (printing) is pretty good: me
get 9d. per 1,000 for all the smaller types up to plea, fur
reprint copy as well as manuscript; but as we work only
eight hours a day, we cannot get more than 21. 2s. a
week; sometimes we have five or six over hours, at 93.
per hour."
Mr. Lunn describes the natives of Port Adelaide as
the ugliest specimen of humanity he has ever seen, their
heads resembling the monster heads through which the
water spouts we carried to run the water from the leads
of our churches.-Stamford Mercury.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOit
THE WEEK.

Cuttings of roses should be taken immediately and
planted in a close cold frame, in a north aspect, for
three weeks or a month, until they are cicatrised
at the base ; they should then be taken carefully up,
potted in thumb pots, and plunged in a close warm
frame, with a gentle bottom heat. So treated, they will
make nice plants in a very short time, and if kept
under slight protection during winter, will fill their
pots with roots, and be ready for planting out in
April or May. Pink pipings, if put in at the time
we recommended, will now be ready for transplant-
ing; and in doing this not a moment should be lost,
as they halm need of all the rest of the season to estab-
lish themselves in such a manner as to prevent the
frost injuring them. If the situations ultimately
intended for them are vacant, they should be planted
in them at once, as they thereby flower much finer ;
but if these places are occupied for the present by
something else, the young pinks should be planted
four inches apart, on reserve beds in an open iitua •
tion, the soil of which should consist principally of
light loam, to which has been added some charcoal
dust or charred refuse; a little dung mixed with
road drift and soot should be added. The rotten ma-
nure from an old mushroom bed answers very well
for this purpose, as it encourages a mass of fibres,
and produces a healthy but over-gross deve-
lopment of top. Some time ago we promised to
remind our readers about making memoranda of
the most suitable arrangement for 'half-hardy
plants next season ; we are juet now doing so our-
selves, and we take this opportunity of redeeming our
pledge. As an easy method of reducing the thing
more completely to a system, a rough plan should
be made of the arrangement of the beds, which
should be numbered, and referred to an acc,mpanying
list of the names of the plants with which it is
designed to fill them next year, and the quantity
required for each bed. By compiling a summary
from this list, accurate information is at once ob-
tained of the quantity of plants which must be propa-
gated immediately by cuttings, and both by these and
seeds in spring. By this simple means redundancy
and deficiencies are avoided, disappointment is pre-
vented on the one hand, and waste of labour on the
other. Whilst the half-hardy plants are in their
greatest beauty, a tasteful eye will easily discover the
weak and improvable points, and, by observing the
more satisfactory parts, will readily perceive the most
desirable future arrangement. Plant out the second
crop of pink pipings, taking care to examine the beds
rather late in the evening ; worms may then be
caught, and every pink grower knows how often
they make great confusion among his stock by loosen-
ing the pipings, and very often drawing them together
in heaps. Take care that dahlias have abundance of
water, keeping the roots well mulched with rotten
manure. Let the lateral shoots be sedulously
a'-
tended to, by tying them out. Encourage the
weakest seedlings, for it very frequently happens that
they are the best, and generally bloom the very last
of the collection. Carnations and picotees are fast
getting out of bloom ; proceed rapidly with
layering; use leaden pegs to fasten the layers
down ; these are preferable to fern or
braken ones. Amongst stars that have come
under our observation this season are Bunn's Lord
Lewisham (S.B ), May's Ophelia, light purple
picotee Robinson's Elizabeth, splendid heav-edged
red ; Marris's Jeannette and Mrs. llemayns,
picotees. Whilst such flowers as these reward the
pains-taking florist, every one who grows carna-
tions and picotees ought to emulate them, by care-
fully crossing, saving, and sowing the seed. Auriculas,
polyanthuses, and pansies, must all have their share
of attention, keeping them clean and free from
insects ; the former is often pestered with green fly ;
this may readily be removed with a soft brush—
perhaps as easy and effectual a way as any. In
places where the work is kept in a forward state,
it may be presumed that by this time a sufficiency has
been potted for forcing, and that all the new planta-
tions have been properly prepared and planted. As
the fruit is all gathered, the old exhausted beds may
be at once destroyed—preserving the younger, one or
two year old beds, to afford the main supply next
season.—Gardener's Chronicle.

less the springs of popular resistance, or pos-
sesse3 less direction over opinion, if that be the
agency he means, than the Earl of Glengall. What-
ever he thinks upon any subioct the people almost of
necessity think the opposite. Strange excess of human
ingratitude as it may be, we believe, if the Cahir estates
were soli to-morrow, the event would be witnessed
without any profound emotions of bereavement. Per-
sons might even perhaps regard the change of masters
as resulting in a blessed riddance. His Lordship
complained that the reporters did not give the speeches
on Ireland—that is, his own speeches—at length.
They have taken their revenge, and furnished their
vindication, by complying with his wish in one in-
stance.—Cork Examiner.