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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1845.

The Lords met at Five.

The Earl of BESBOROUGH brought up the report of
the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the alle-
gations made against the Dublin and Galway Railway
Company. The Committee reported that the Company
had allotted shares without ascertaining the respecta-
bility of the applicants. The Dublin and Galway Rail-
way Bill was subsequently read a second time.
The Mutual Surrender of Criminals Bill (France and
the United States) was read a third time and passed.
The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage,
06,nd the House adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve.
The Earl of LINCOLN moved the third reading of the
Commens Enclosure Bill.

The Bill was opposed by Col. SIBTHORP and Mr.
SHArtmAN CaAwvotty, who divided on the motion that
the Bill do pass, but who stood alone in the opposition,
the numbers being for the Bill, 48 ; against it, 0 ; the
two opponents of the Bill being the tellers, and having
no voters to count.

The Drainage of Lands Bill passed through Com-

mittee.

The Lunatic Asylums Bill was read a third time and
passed, after the insertion of a clause, made by Mr. H.
BERKELEY, and the withdrawal of the 6th clause.

The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill passed through Com-

mittee.

At the Five o'clock sitting, Sir IL PEEL expressed his
willingness to devote Monday to the discussion of Mr.
C. BULLER'S motion on the subject of New Zealand.
The Death by Accident Compensation Bill was read
a second time.

Mr. AGLIONBY stated that the Bay of Islands, where
the recent disasters had occurred in New Zealand, was a
settlement under the supervision of the Church Mis-
sionary Society, and was 400 miles distant from the
settlement of the New Zealand Company.
Sir R. PEEL then moved the second reading of the
Bill for removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews,
petitions in favour of which had been presented from
various parties in the course of the evening.
The motion was opposed by Mr. PLIDIPTRE, and sup-
ported by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and other Hon. Members.

After a short discussion, the Bill was read a second
.me and ordered to be committed.

The House then went into Committee upon the Poor-
law Amendment (Scotland) Bill, and the whole of the
clauses were agreed to.
Sir J. GRAHAM then moved the third reading of the
Bills of Exchange Bill, which, after some slight opposi-
tion on the part of Mr. WILLIAMS and other Hon.
Members, was read a third time and passed.
The Bail in Error Bill and the Lunatic Asylum Bill
were also read a third time and passed ; and, the other
orders of the day having been disposed of, the House
adjourned.

Upon every fresh occasion on which the anirs of
New Zealand—our settlements there, the proceedings of
the New Zealand Company, the acts of the New Zealand
Goverment—are brought under public notice, we find
new occasion for marvelling at the imbecility or the im-
prudence, the precipitancy or the infatuation, which have
marked the proceedings of all the actors in this " strange,
eventful history." And yet where the legislative and
executive organisation of a new colony was a stupendous
blunder, ab ovo, an original mistake, it is little matter
for wonder, that, with the lapse of time, it should have
become a matured, practical, and dangerous an .malt'.
The latest accounts from New Zealand, in the afflicting
narrative they convey of the destruction of Kororaika
by the natives, and the expulsion of the British residents
from the beautiful shores of the Bay of Islands, after a
sanguinary conflict in which the Aborigines, making all
allowances for their great numerical superiority and
even their better fire-arms, must be allowed to have ex-
hibited the most undaunted intrepidity and self-posses-
sion;—these accounts furnish nothing more than the
rlt•Xt catastrophe in the natural st•cioeoce of such callmi.
ties as the massacre of Wairau. %V,. have not been
backward to declare our opinion of the enormous re-
sponsibility which attaches. for past (allures and disasters,
to the ill-digested plans of the New Z .aland Company,
and the still more culpable manner of reducing them
into execution, to the follies of Captain FIT
. ZROY, and
the infatuation of those connected with him the
Councils and the Executive Government of the island.
But we have never been enabled to trace the true con-
nexion of cause and effect, in their relation to events
that, in New Zealand, must always confer a melancholy
interest upon the history of the last three years, with
the authority and certainty that we are now enabled to
do, after a careful perusal of the legal opinion re-
turned by Mr. BURGE, (a Queen's Counsel and a

jurist, moreover, of Very considerable eminence),
on pertain querries that have been submitted
to him as to die construction of the New Zealand Go-
vernment Act, tilt INnrl §d V4cTot“A,c. 62, The ih„.