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London, England, 1845-05-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIA P\-1161s‘ 4 "
HOUSE OF LORDS, M
Their Lords Lips met for the first time ter tin
suntide recess, at Five o'clock.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bisholi
the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Gloucester, and
Lord Kenyon, presented several petitions against the
Maynooth grant.
Several other Noble Lords presented petitions to a
similar effect.
SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS BILL.
This Bill was brought up from the Commons and read
a first time.

MAYNOOTH.
The Lill of RADNOR presented a great number of
petition• 'n favour of the grant to MaynoL.th.
The Bishop of CASHEL presented several ns
against it.

- SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.
The Bishop of BANGOR presented several petitions
from places in Wales against the union of the sees of
St. Asaph and Bangor.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
The Marquis of SALISBURY, in presenting a petition
from the Company of Clothworkers, in the City of L.,n-
don. begged to draw the particular attention of the
House to the purport of this petition. He thought that
it involved an important principle, and he should, their-
tore, with their Lordship's-permission give the substance
of it. His Lordship then read the following portion of
die petition :

" -Sheweth—That your petitioners have read with
much concern the provisions of a Bill brought into your
Lordships' House on the 7th ultitne, for securing the
due administration of Charitable Trusts in England and
Wales ;' inasmuch as, while they rt::•ognise some salu-
tary objects of a general nature as likely to be accom-
plished by its passing into a law, they perceive no in-
tention to exempt this and the other ineorporatcd Livtry
Companies of London from its operation.
" That your petitioners have possessed a corporate
existence from the }tar 1508, in the reign of litnry
7th, but formed long previously a guild or fruternity,
united for the better protection of the art or mystely to
which they owe their style and title ; and have ever
been faithful and loyal to the Sovereigns of this realm,
giving such support in times of need as their means and
revenues would enable them to do.

"That your petitioners are the administrators, in their
corporate capacity, of numerous trusts and charities
endowed almost wholly by members of their own body,
nd requiring in many cases much trouble, as ts ell as
knowledge of the wants of the poor persons to be re-
lieved by such benevolent gifts and endowments.
4" That your petitioners firmly believe, and are con =
vinced, that these trusts and charities have been mainly
created and placed under their management through
the confident persuasion which governed the minds of
the donors, that the prudent and certain administration
of them would thereby be secured in perpetuity, and
the trouble required for the discrimination of the cases of
the poor members, end others intended thereby to be re-
lieved, be chrerlully incurred.

That your petitioners affirm, and can prove, if re-
quired, to the satisfaction of your Lordships' House, that
all the various trusts committed to their charge are
strictly fulfilled ; and that they have, moreover, in very
many cases, been materially increased by appropriations
from their own corporate funds. _

"That your petconers firmly believe that the opera-
tion of such a Bill as that referred to, and now before
your Lordship's House, would be injurious and de-
grading to this and the other incorporated Livery Com-
panies of London ; and that it is calculated, moreover, to
defeat and nullify most of those charities which now fall
under their administration, as well as to put an end to
all further benevolent gifts of a similar description."
Lord BROUGHANI hoped his Noble Friend would
not press the second reading of the Bill to-night.
Tne LORD CHANCELLOR said it was an import-
ant measure, and fixed the second reading for Thurs-
day next. He thought the petitioners had
misunderstood the object of the Bill. The
only objection which they could reasonably offer to it
was, that they would be required from time to time to
state the amount of their receipts and expenditure in
connexion with the charities. Ile thought no public
body ought to object to such a return. _

Lord CAMPELL warmly supported the principle of
the Bill, but would not then enter into detail respecting
it. On Thursday the Bill would be regularly before the
House, and they would then hear what was said on
both sides.

The LORD CHANCELLOR had no doubt that the
constitution of the tribunal proposed in the Bill, in rela-
tion to the elnrities, would meet with his Noble Friend's
(Lord Campbell's) approbation. On the evening he had
named the Noble Lord would have an ample opportunity
of considering the Bill.