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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING,'

IMPEItiAt.PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 29.
ROYAL COMMISSION. ,
The Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House of
Commons to their Lordships' bar to hear the royal com-
mission read for giving the royal assent to several Bills.
The Lords Commissioners- were, the. Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of .13uccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The following Bills received the royal assent ;—The
Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, Detached Parts of
Counties Bill, District Prisons and Courts Bill, Marriages
(Ireland) Bill, Soap. Allowances Bill, Sudbury Disfran-
chisement Bill, Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill,
Parish Clerks Bill, Parish Constables Bill, Butter and
Cheese Bill, Western 'Australian Bill, Loan Societies,
Bill, Colonial Postage Bill, Linen Manufactures (Ireland)
811, Gaspe Fisheries Bill, Brighton, Lewes, and
Hastings Railway Bill, Croydon and Epsom Railway
Bill, Wells Harbour Bill, Wells Improvement Bill,
London Gas Bill, Mariners Life Assurance Company's,
Bill, MaCkenzie's Estate Bill, and Arch bu tt's Divorce Bill.
Their Lordships resumed.
The Land Tax CommissiOners Names Bill passed
through Committee.
Lord HAWARDEN presented a petition from the
Hull and Selby Railway Company against certain clauses
in the Railways Act.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord GLENGALL moved the second reading of this
Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said he would not
oppose the Bill. But most certainly if the Bill had been
brought on at an earlierpart of the session, he would have
moved the insertion of some new clauses and the omission
of others. The Bill consisted of 157 clauses, and their
Lordships would see the necessity of its being printed
before they came to be considered in Committee.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be printed.
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS BILL.
On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATION
BILL.
Lord DALHOUSIE moved the second reading- of
this Bill, observing that he could not ask their Lordships
to proceed further with it in that stage at present, as it
had only just been printed.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE—COMMITTEES..
Lord REDESDALE said that it would not be neces-
sary fur him to press the motion of which he had given
notice for the suspension of the standing orders for the
purpose of enabling COmmittees to proceed with the
presence of only three peers. The notice which had been
taken of the inconvenience, had drawn the attention of
Noble Lords to the subject, and the full number of peers
had undertaken to attend to the Committees to the end of
the session. One Noble Lord had written to him (Lord
Redesdale), to say that he would, if his attendance
would be useful, come up from . a distant part of the
country to give his services on Committees.—(Name,
name.) It was Lord Byron.—(Hear, hear.)
After a few words from the Earl of Wickldw, Lord
Brougham, and other ,Peers, the notice was withdrawn.
The Transfer of Property Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Messengers from tbe Commons brought up the Con-
troverted Elections Bill, and various other Bills, which
were severally read a first time.
this Bill.
THELord UNLAWFUL
WHARNCLIFFE OATHS
moved
intraheL t(hlißrdELreAadNinrig). of.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that he and
some noble friends of his were much dissatisfied with
the present aspect of affairs in Ireland, and they were un-
willing that the session should close without their having
an opportunity of expressing their views on that subject.
He thought that no measure could better afford that op-
portunity than the present Bill. It was not desirable
that the Bill should pass before it was known what the
Government intended to do in respect to the late trials,
upon which it appeared that policemen acted as spies,
upon the old system.—(Hear, hear.) One, clause of the
Act rendered any person liable to transportation if any
unlawful "pass-word" were found upon him, and it ap-
peared on the trials, that persons connected
with the police concealed such papers in the
houses of innocent people, and afterwards prosecuted
them. He hoped, therefore, that this Bill would be de-
layed until next week for the attendance of Irish noble-
men, who would necessarily be absent for the remainder
of this week.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he thought he had
as good a right to press, the Bill on now for his con-
venience, as they had to keep him in town next week
and the week after, upon an Irish question.
After a few words from the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE,
Lord WHARNCLIFFE postponed the third reading
till Friday next.
The Party Processions Bill (Ireland) was read a third
time and passed.
Earl FORTESCUE gave notice that on Thursday he
would present a petition from the trustees of the Tiver-
ton turnpike, complaining of certain Post-office regula-
tions respecting the mails.
The Duchy of Cornwall Lands Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday.
The Turnpike Trusts Bill (South Wales) was read a
second-time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday.
Lord BEAUMONT postponed till to-morrow, the
motion of which he had given notice respecting the re-
port on the Catholic Penal Acts Repeal Bill.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH moved the second read-
ing of the Metropolitan Buildings Regulation Bill. The
principle of the Bill had been already assented to by
the House in a former session. It was rendered neces-
sary by the imperfection of the Act of 1776, which
was now in force, but which was quite inadequate
to carry out its own enactments. In some cases
its provisions were too harshly and oppressively en-
forced, and in others they were too much relaxed.
The present Bill provided for the proper width
of, streets, alleys, and courts, for the secure build-
ing of houses, for the construction of drains for every
house, for ventilation, the height of rooms, and the spaces
between the rear of houses. It provided also measures
for preventing the erection of houses in the metropolis
unfit for human station. All surveyors under
this Act would be required to pass an ex•
amination as to their qualifications. This was a
very desirable provision, for, under the existing
system, persons were appointed, who, however respect-
able in other respects,
were wholly ignorant of the busi-
ness of a surveyor. It was proposed to appoint, with
salaries, certain official referees, who should determine
all disputes under the Act. There would also be a
registrar, to whom the surveyors would be required to re-
port their proceedings once amenth. In the present system
it frequently occurred that a surveyor surveyed his own
buildings. The surveyor was frequently a builder, and
it was obvious that persons having houses to build
within his district had a strong inducement to employ
him as their builder. This Bill required that
when a surveyor was employed to build houses
in his own district, the official referee should
appoint another surveyor to survey such buildings. The
Act now in force was very unequal in the extent
pf its application. For instance, part of Chelsea was
included, and the whole of Kensington was ex-
cluded from it. He thought that the present Bill
would best be discussed in Committee, and all • he
would now say was, that it would introduce
great uniformitylaw.Hee
and
din into the law, and would be' simple
respects less stringent than
asked their Lordships to read
it now for the second time.
objected to the pressing on this Bill
ata htn ed
soor Lord
intelligible,late present
CAMPBELL a
period of the session. It had only come
up from the other House on the 22d of July,
yet it was
cotoin
L.
many
as long as the Code Napoleon.
—(Hear, and leughter,) It contained one hundred and
eighteen clauses—(Heer, hear)—and was it to be ex-
pected that their Lordships should sit down to examine
these , clauses at this season, to the entire ne-
glect of every thing else? .In fact, the Bill
could not go through Committee in less than a
month or five weeks, unless the committal were a
mere farce. Yet, it was important that the Bill should
be thoroughly examined, as it would affect pioperty and
existing interests in the metropolis to a vast extent. As
far as he had examined the Bill, he found it imperfect,
in several respects, objectionable. Of course, he approved
of the principle, but he entirely disapproved of
the machinery. It was proposed to appoint a registrar,
and three official referees, with salaries of 1,0001. a year,
to be paid out of the county-rates. Again, he
admitted that it was - right to interfbre with
property when the public health or safety re-
quired it, but not otherwise. But the official referees
would have a power which had been taken out of the
hands of the Crown, to withhold the operation
of a prohibitory law, and to say Non &beat. The re-
' ferees would have the power of withholding at their dis-
cretion the operation of the 118 clauses of which this Bill
consisted. It was quite clear that there would not be
time to discuss the Bill adequately, and he should,
therefore, move, as an amendment, that the Bill be read
a third time this day three months.
• The Earl of CADOGAN was understood to say that
he agreed with the Noble and Learned Lord, that the
Bill was brought up at too late a period of the session to
be sufficiently considered.
The Earl of BESBOROUGg said that the Bill had
been prepared with great care, and he thought it would
be rather hard to throw it out on the second reading,
without a discussion in Committee.
The Earl of KINNAIRD approved of much that was
contained in the Bill, but he was still of opinion that it
came too late Bill,
b House for this session. There
were several enactments proposed in it, for carrying out
which there was no provision. Amongst others, it was
proposed to turn out all those who lived in cellars and
other places in the metropolis unfit for human habita-
tion. But there was•no provision for other dwellings for
them, nor was it proposed to facilitate the erection of
new buildings by taking off the tax of ten per cent. on
that kind of property. Re should be sorry to see the
Bill lost altogether, but he thought it would be best to
postpone it till the beginning of next session. .
The Marquis of SALISBURY regretted that the
Noble and Learned Lord opposite had thought it news-
to oppose the
sary Bill. He hoped their Lordships
would pass the second
reading and allow the Bill to go
'to the Committee, At the same time he complained of
the. House of Commons loathing their Lordships' table
with important Bills so late in the session—some ot these
Bills, like the present, containing 118 clauses. lie
hoped the Noble and Learned Lord would withdraw his
amendment, and let the Bill be committed; with the
understanding that it should not proceed further until
the beginning of next session, an understanding that had
beep Wrap q iP respect to other Bills.
Lord CAMPET44 Said that' if.'her- Majesty's Go-
vehiment wolfld agree to the iinderstinding proposed by
the Noble 1444ui5.. he Mord Oansphell)'Wettld svithlisay
hi; 4uriid4ienc ; but if ksjoble Mallets 'w4"cidter:-
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• • at" the House.

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The Earl of WICKLOW agreed with the N'ohie