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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 16.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
The Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Bill was read
a third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, the Kirwrlly
Inclosure Bill was read a second time.

Mr. GREENE brought up the report on the London
Orphan Aqh.na Bill.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the Man-
chester Division Stipendary Magistrate Bill was read a
third time and passed.

RAILWAYS.
Mr. R. COLI3OIINE moved that it be an instruction
to the Committee on the Harrogate and Ripon Junction
Railway Pill that they have power to make provision by
a separate Bill for the proposed branch railway to Rich-
mond, with the bridge and approaches thereto.—
Agreed to.

On the motion of Lord COURTENAY, the Amicable
Society Assurance Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Hardwvll and Streadly Road Bill was read a
second time.

Mr. B. BALDWIN prosentA a petition from Newark
in favour of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction
Railway.

THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.
Lord C. MANNERS presented a petition from a
Wesleyan Methodist congregation in the county of Lin-
coln against the grant to Maynooth.,
Mr. BROADLEY presented petitions from the
county of Gloucester, and from the East Riding of
York, against the proposed grant to Maynooth.
Mr. MUNDY presented a petition from the county
of Derby to the same effect.
Colonel WYNDHAM presented a petition from
West Sussex, and also a petition from South-Kirk
against intemperance.
Lord DALMENY presented a petition against the
grant to Maynooth.
Colonel ROLLESTON presented petitions from the
counties of York, Huntingdon, and several other places,
against the Parochial Settlement Bill.
Sir G. STRICKLAND presented petitions from seve-
ral Independent congregations, praying the House to ,
pass some Bill for the total prohibition of the sale of in-
toxicating liquors on the Sabbath day ; and also peti-
tions against the grant to Ma) nooth.
Mr. THOP.NELY presented petitions praying for
some Bill to abolish some of the Jewish disabilities.
Petitions against the grant to Maynooth were pre-
sented by Mr. Duncan, from Scotland ; Mr. Kemble,
from Walworth ; Mr. Busfeild, from Bradford ; Mr.
Trotter and Lord Pollington, from Yorkshire ; Mr.
Christopher, from Lindsay, and other places in
Lincslnshire ; Colonel Sibthorp, from Essex ; Mr. Ha-
milton, from Dublin ; Mr. Plumptre, from various parts
of the country ; and Mr. Spooner, from Birmingham.
Lord CLIVE presented a petition from Manchester
against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, and
in favour of the appointment of a Bishop of Manchester.
Also petitions to the same effect from various parts of
the country.
Mr. LAW presented a petition from the bachelors
and under graduates of Cambridge, stating their exceed-
ing regret at the grant which had hitherto been made
to the College of Maynooth. The Hon. Gentleman was
proceeding to make several observations, when he was
interrupted by the Speaker as being out of order, but on
stating that he was only condensing the substance of the
petition, he was suffered to say that the petitioners im-
plored the House not to accede to the grant.
POOR-LAW IN IRELAND
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Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON presented petitions
from several places in Ireland, stating the mismanage-
ment of the Poor• law Commissioners, their ignorance of
their duty, and their errors, in applying to the Court of
Queen's Bench for a mandamus for enforcing their au-
thority, which had been refused. He also presented pe-
titions against the Educational Board, and from the
Wesleyan Society against the Church Education Society.
Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from the
Caledonian Railway Company, complaining of a clause
which had been introduced into the Scotch Railway
Clauses Consolidation Bill, indemnifying the landholders
of that country against any loss of tolls on gates which
they might sustain through the course of a railway de-
stroying a public highway.
THE MIDLAND RAILWAYS AND MR. BURKE.
Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the report of the Se-
lect Committee appointed to investigate the matter.
Mr. STRUTT complained of a reflection which had
been cast upon a Committee of which he had the honour
of being chairman, and to whom wits referred the conside-
ration of the Midland Railways Bill. It had been
asserted that the investigations of the Committee
had been conducted in a very improper and
slovenly manner, inasmuch as in going through this
Bill they did not read the whole of it, but merely
glanced over the marginal notes. Now it was hardly
fair to state this, because he believed the real duty of
the Committee was only to examine the petition of the
promoters and the objects for which they proposed to
bring in a Bill, and then to ascertain if they
had complied with the standing orders of the
House. It was then the duty of the promoters,
should it be decided that they had complied with
the standing orders, to introduce a Bill properly drawn
up, and in conformity with the objects set forth in the
petition. He did not see, therefore, how any blame
could attach to the Committee.
The report was then received.
THE GRANT TO MAYNOOTH.

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Mr. GROG AN presented a petition from Dublin
against the grant to Maynooth.
Similar petitions were presented by Colonel Acton
from Wicklow ; by Mr. Stafford O'Brien from places in
Northamptonshire ; and by Colonel Fox from Bethnal-
green.

- Mr. PROTHERO presented a petition from a place,
:he name of which we could not catch, against the grant
:o Maynooth.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented petitions from places in
;he West Riding of Yorkshire, to the same effect.
MAGISTRATES' CLERKS BILL.

Mr. CRIPPS presented—a
petition against several
,he provisions of the Magistrates' Clerks Bill.
THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.

Mr. MORGAN presented Live petitions from places in
Wal's against the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. RAIKES CURRIE presented a petition from
Northampton against the same grant.
THE MEDICAL BILL.

Lord DUNCAN presented ;Petitio;Eom Bath agains
;he proposed Medical Bill.
MAYNOOTH GRANT.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented three peti-
tions from places in Derbyshire against the proposed
grant to Afaynooth.

Mr. OWEN STANLEY said that, on Friday, he
should ask a question of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir
R. Peel)—whether it was the intention of the Govern-
ment still to repeal the Act of the 6th and 7th of
William IV., and if it was necessary to obtain the
consent of the Crown for the union of the sees of St.
Asaph and Bangor ; and, in the event of such consent
being requisite, whether the Right Hon. Baronet was
prepared to advise the Crown to give such consent?
MAYNOOTH.
Sir J. HANMER said that on the Maynooth Bill
going into Committee, he should move that the second
clause, which gave the power of bequests to the College,
be omitted.