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London, England, 1845-07-26 00:00:00

ASSIGNMENT OF TERMS BILL.

The report on !his Bill was received, and the Bill was ordered
to be read a third time on Monday next.
The House then adjourned till hive o'clock.

The Howe resumed at Five o'clock.

The Earl of Onslow's Estate Bill was read a third time, and
passed.
130 LION AND LEIGH, &c., AMALGAMATION BILL.
On the o• der of the day for the consideration of the 13olton
and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North Union, Liver-
pool and Manchester, and Grand Junction Railway Companies
Amalgamation Bib being read,
Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved the insertion of the
clauses brought forward in the former debate.
A di=cu‘sion ensued, in which Mr. Escott, Sir George Clerk,
and Mr. T. Duneombe took part, and which was totally unin-
telligible to the gallery.
Mr. DARBY thought that every system of amalgamation
agreed to should be such as to operate for the benefit of the
public as well as for the shareholders. Care should be taken
that the tolls and fares should not be extortionate.
After a few words from Mr. ALDAM, the Bill was read a
third time and passed.
THE MALT-TAX.
Mr. DARBY presented a petition from a place in Cornwall
in favour of a repeal of the malt-tax, and several other peti-
tions on various subjects, but their purport we could not learn,
owing to the low voice in which the lion. Nlember spoke.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from Birmingham and
other places, complaining of the agricultural distress.
TEN HOURS' BILL.

Mr. BANKES presented a petition from his constituents in
favour of the Ten Hcurs' Bill.

SMALL DEBTS BILL.
Mr. HOPE presented a Petition from Southampton in favour
of the Small Debts Bill.
NEW ZEALAND.
Mr. J. E. DENISON presented a petition from the
friends and relations of the settlers in New Zealand, praying
that their case should be taken into consideration. He knew
he was not at liberty to read the petition, but he could tell the
House it was signed by the Duke of Norfolk, and many others
of the highest rank in the country.
IRISH POOR.

Lord CLEMENTS wished to put a question to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, as to whether he could inform the House
of the amount of the salary and allowances which Mr. Frank
Robarts Bestolacci was to receive out of the funds subscribed
for the relief of the poor of Connaught and Munster in the
year 1822 ?
Mr. YOUNG said that the salary was to be 2001. a year, and
11. a day when travelling. These allowances were to be paid
out of the funds of the Reproductive Loan Society, and not out
of the funds subscribed for the relief of the Irish poor in 1822.
IRISH CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL.
Mr. SHEIL said he had a question to ask, the purport of
which had previously been asked by another lion. Member in
that House. He wanted to know if her Majesty's Government
intended to make any alteration next session of Parliament in
the Charitable Bequests Bill?
Sir J. GRAHAM answered that there was an intention on
the part of her Majesty's Government to effect an alteration.
There were three points in which it was proposed to make
alterations. The first point was respecting the doctrine and
discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. As the law stood,
in any dispute arising respecting the title of bequests left to
Roman Catholic priests, it was referred to the Commissioners
under the Bill. Now this was contrary to the canons of the
Church. According to the canons of the Church, all such
matters were to be referred to the diocesan. This point was
one he proposed to alter. The second point had reference to
monastic institutions. The Bill of last session was not intended
to affect, directly or indirectly, those institutions, but as there
had been some doubts entertained on this head, it was intended
to remove those doubts in the amendments he intended to
propose by a declaratory clause. There was one ether point.
In the previous Bill it would be recollected that no provision
was made for granting any quantity of land, however small,
for the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. This it was
intended to alter, as the Government proposed to grant tracts
of land of not more than five acres each to the Roman Catholic
priests, for the purpose of glebes on which to erect houses and
chapels adapted to the purposes of the Roman Catholic religion.
(Cheers ) These were the three points which the Govern-
ment contemplated in their amendments.
MR. SHOLLS.
Captain FITZ lAURICE asked a question, why it was Mr.
Sholls had been prevented from having any friends attend-
ing on him in his examination, and why it was the short-hand
writer had been excluded ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not
aware that the short-hand writer had been excluded, but he
would inquire, and see that proper arrangements were made
fur taking the minutes of the evidence. As the examination
was private, he did not see that any friends of Mr. Sholls had
a claim to he admitted.

THE FREE CHURCH 01, SCOTLAND.
On the motion for the house to go into a Committee of
Supply,
Mr. P. M. STEWART rose to call the attention of the
House to the petition of Patrick Macfailan, Moderator of
the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
(presented 24th June), complaining of the refusal
of sites to congregations of that church. The Honour-
able Gentleman then read the petition, which stated that
about two years ago one-third of the inhabitants of Scotland
separated trent the Established Church, and organised them-
selves into the religious community termed the " Free Church
of Scotland." Upwards of 470 ministers seceded at that time,
arid the number had since been increased to 620. The subscrip-
tions to a general fund for the erection of churches and the
endowment of schools amounted to 726,000/., and of that sum
320,000/. had been already expended in the building of
churches. The Hon. Gentleman then read several communi-
cations from various parts of Scotland, describing the hardship
and suffering of the people of the Free. Church compelled to
worship in tents by the road-side, exposed to the incle-
mency of the weather. He was sure that he was
doing no more than justice to the landed proprietors
of those districts when lie said that they could not know
what was being done on their estates. The House had an in-
stance of the effects to be produced by such a system of perse-
cution in the very parish in which the building was ,situated?