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London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

SOUTH-SE COMPANY'S BILL.

The South-Sea Company's Bill was read a third time
'and passed.
The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and
passed.

IRISH ARMS BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of
this Bill being read,
Mr. M. O'FERRALL asked if the Government in-
tended to persist in throwing the expense of the regis-
tration of arms on the counties of Ireit.:nd ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said the Act did not iZtake any alte
ration in the Bill of last year, in which it was merely
intended to correct a clerical error.
The Bill was then read it second time.
BISHOP OF LONDON'S ESTATE BILL,

On the order of the day for the third reading of the
Bishop of London's Estate Bill being read,
Mr. WAKLEY objected to passing the Bill through
when it had been before the Howe but five days. The
title of the Bill gave no idea of the nature of its contents,
and the public knew nothing whatever about it. Who
could suppose for a moment that this Bill was one for
regulating the property of Paddington ? Even the per-
sons on this property knew nothing about the Bill ; at
the Great Western Railway nothing was known of it.
The Bill would remove the present reservoirs
of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company,
and give Oa a perfect monopoly of the supply of water
to the buildings on the Paddington property, to the ex-
clusion of all the other water companies. A clause was
inserted for reserving ground on which to build a church
and an hospital ; but while the Bill was imperative, and
compelled the building of the church, it only gave a per-
missive power to build the hospital. He wished at least
to see the Bill apply the same power to both. He hoped
the Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Clay) would consent to post-
pone the Bill, as it was most unfair to pass such an Act
without further consideration.
Sir W. CLAY said the Bill was, strictly, a private
one, and had gone through all the forms and regula-
tions required for private Bills in the other House. Its
simple purpose was to rectify a' fault in the existing Act
of Parliament, by which parties were prevented from
giving a valid title to the property they disposed of in
Paddington. It did not give any advantage to any
water company with respect to the supply of water.
- Mr. GREENE, as Chairman of Committees, had care-
fully examined the Bill, and could see no objection to it.
It was intended to regulate the property which was
leased out in the last century by the then Bishop of
London, at Paddington. Part of the ground was occu-
pied by the reservoirs of the water company, and it was
now wished to apply the space to the original purpose of
building.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said, though the Bill was called
a private one, it applied to the property of the Church.
He thought that they ought to have had this_ measure
much sooner before the House. He trusted two or three
days would be given to Hon. Members to make in-
quiries on the subject.
Mr. BROTHERTON said that the Bishop of London
had only a peppercorn interest in the question.
Mr. WAKLEY said that the Bill itself admitted that
its provisions would be greatly for the interest of the
Bishop of London. He only asked for the postponement
till Tuesday, and unless that was consented to he would
divide the House.
After a few observations from Sir W. CLAY.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division
took place, Mr. Wakley withdrawing his amendment.
Mr. WAKLEY then moved, as an amendment to the
Bth clause, the insertion of the same copaptilsory pro-
vision with respect to the building of an hospital on the
estate, as there was in the ninth clause, relative to building
a church.

This amendment was agreed to, and the Bill was read
a third time and passed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

Messengers from the Lords' brought down the Ca-
;holic Penal Laws, Repeal Bill, and several other Bills.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.

Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from the
surgeons and assistant-surgeons of the different regi-
ments of Guards, complaining that they had been de-
prived of their rights by the new charter granted to the
the College of Surgeons, and praying that the House
would not confirm that charter without giving them an
opportunity of being hear] by counsel agAinst it.
LORD CRANSTOUN'S ESTATE BILL.

Mr. BROTHERTON brought up the report on Lord
Cranstoun's Estate Bill, which was read a second time.
PENITENTIARY SYSTEM.

Mr. MORE O'FERRALL wished to ask, seeing that
the Penitentiary system, as practised in the Pentonville
Prison, had been so successful, whether it was the in-
tendon of the Government during the recess to consider
the propriety of erecting a similar institution in Dublin?
Sir J. GRAHAM said that an arrangement had been
made in Ireland, as wel as in England, on this subject,
to which he attached great importance. All persons
sentenced to transportation were brought to a centril
prison before the sentence of transportation was carried
into effect, so that an opportunity was aff ,rded to the
authorities of investigating the previous habits and cha-
racters of such persons, so as to enable them to decide to
what settlement it would be most proper they should be
sent. Arrangements of that nature had been completed in
Dublin, and in this country the arrangement had been
effected by abolishing the penitentiary character of the
prison at Millbank, and converting it into a prison for
persons under sentence of transportation. His confidence
in the success of the experiment now carrying on at
Pentonville was so great that as far as he was individu-
ally concerned he should be glad to see it extended to
Ireland ; but it would be premature in him to state
what might be the intentions of the Government on that
subject. It would be the duty of himself and
his colleagues to watch the experiment, and if it turned
out as he hoped and was anxious it should, he thought
it would be extended to Ireland.
BAPTIST MISSIONARIES.

Mr. V. SMITH wished to put a question on the sub-
ject of the treatment which it was alleged a Baptist
missionary had received in the island of Bermuda (as we
understood). It had been stated that a clergyman named
Davies had thought proper to disturb the congregation
of this Baptist missionary, and had caused his followers
to be brought before a magistrate who had committed
them to prison. He wished to know if the Government
had taken any stepi to investigate the matter?
Mr. G. W. HOPE said that as yet no authentic ac-
counts had been received from the colony on the subject.

STEAM P3WER IN THE NAVY.
Mr. MORE O'FERRAL moved for a return of the
amount of horse-power ordered for her Majesty's
steam-vessels, between the Ist day of September, 1841,
and the Ist day of July, 1844.—Ordered.
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS (IRELAND) BILL.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose to move the order
of the day for going into Committee on the Chari-
table Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Bill, and said
that after having so fully opened this question
the other evening, he was very unwilling
to trespass on-the attention of the House, and yet there
were two or three amendments which he was anxious to
explain to the House, as having been introduced into the
Bill by her Majesty's Government. In the first place, he
had to state that it was the intention of the Government
to insert words in the Bill by which more than one
secretrary could be appointed to the Board of Cha-
ritable Bequests Commission in Dublin. Considering
the vast amount of Roman Catholic else-idea which
would come under the consideration of the,t hoard,
it had been held to be expedient that more than
one secretary should be appointed. Another alteration
intended to be made was in the sixth clan se. As that
clause at present stood it contained considerable
ambiguity, and it was proposed, therefor e, to insert a
proviso to the effect that netli lag therein
contained should be constlued to limit the
jurisdiction of any court of law with reference to
these bequests. These alterations, how 'over, were of
lee§ importance than the alteration hich jig intended to