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London, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

. HOUSE OF COMMOAS, Aug. 8.
BANKRUPTCY LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
(Continual from our Third Edition of last night.)
Mr. M. PIIIIAPS then proposed that "1,500/." should
be substituted for " ,800 t" in the seventh line of the
clause, as the salary o the country ConimisSioner.
After a fewwords from Sir T. VV'ILDE and Mr. AG-
moNr,Y, the Committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority against the amendment —65
The clause was then agreed to.
Clause 14, which had been postponed, was then put
and agreed to.
Clause 75 was also agreed to, with one verbal amend-
ment.

Clauses from 76-up to SO were agreed to.
Clause 81 was withdrawn.
clauses from 82 to 89 were agreed to with a few verbal
amendments.
On clause .90 being•put, which gives the Lord Chan
eviler the power of allowing the travelling expenses of
any of the Commissioners, in ease he should think it
necessary to send them on a Special Commission,
Mr. AGLIONBY objected to the clause, thinking that
the Commissioners ought to pay their own expenses
out of the large salaries that were to be given them.
• The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not think that
anything• could be more unreasonable than that the Com-
missioners should not be pal:: their expenses for travel-
ling, because they were quite uncertain. The expenses
of the Judges were easily calculated, and therefore they
paid them themselves ; but it' there was a special cum-
Mission they did not pay them out of their own pockets.
• Mr. jEßVlS•thought that the contingent expenses of
the Commissioners should be paid.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought it would be hard if, when
the Lord Chancellor had power to send down whom he
' might consider the best Commissioner, he was compelled
to pay his own expenses.
The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 91 was agreed to.
On clause 92 being proposed, •
Sir T. WILDE said he should object to the clause in
tot o, because he did not understand on what principle of
justice it was founded.
Sir J. GRAHAM said it was a balanced question, and
on the whole it would be advisable to let the clause pass
for the present, on the understanding that some other
-arrangements should be made.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 93 and 94 were also passed.
A supplementary clause was proposed after clause 94,
empowering the clerks and secretaries of the Lord Chan-
cellor to receive 2s. 6d. on each certificate and declara-
tion of insolvency, such sums to be applied to the pur-
poses of the schedule.
It was agreed to without discussion.
Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD said that he had a clause
to propose, to which he hoped there would be no
objection. The clause provided that the official as-
signee should render do account to the trading assignee
of all monies three days before the audit meeting. It
also.provided that the official assignee should furnish to
the trading assignee the account of property in hand, and
it further provided that the whole charges should be ex-
amined by the trading assignee, giving the trading as-
signee liberty to object to any- part of those accounts be-
fore the Commission.
• Sir. T. WILDE objected to the clause, as he thought it
Would defeat its own object.. It made the one assignee
the mere puppet of the other. The clause Was - founded
on an erroneous basis. Ile should therefore oppose it.
Mr. B. WOOD said he should not press the clause to
a division.
The clause was therefore negatived. •--
The House resumed, and •
The Cnant-p.rAN reported progress.—The Report was
ordered to be received to-morrow (this day).
INCOME-TAX.

Major BERESFOIiD (as we understood) wished to
put a question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on a subject of much interest to
persons in the City. He wished to know whether per-
sons holding securities, and receiving dividends upon
those securities, and paid to persons residing in foreign
states, would be obliged to deduct three percent, for the
Income-tax ; if so, it would be a serious injustice, not
Only to' the foreigners themselves, but to the merchants
in this country also. .
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. said
he had had several communications on the subject, a d
the view he took -of the case was that the Property-tax
would be levied on foreign funds payable in this country,
but if the parties resided out of the country and the
funds were paid out of the country, then the tax would
not be levied upon those funds.
BOROUGHS INCORPORATION BILL.

On the Order of the Day for bringing up the Report
on this Bill being read, -
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Bolton,
signed by eight individuals, stating that their corpora-
tion was at present not legally constituted, and praying
for no interference to legalise it.
Sir J. GRAHAM regretted that such a petition had
been presented as that just laid on the table of the House.
Notwithstanding that petition, however, he thought it
his. duty to propose the report of the Bill, and ho should
make in'the second clause the alterations suggested by
his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Attorney- General,
which he was happy to say had met with the approba-
tion of almost all tile parties concerned.—(Hear.)
Mr. AGLIONBY could not allow this opportunity to
pass without tendering his thanks to the Right Hon.
Baronet for the course which he had purEued with re-
gard to this Bill ; and he congratulated all parties on the
happy consummation which the Right Hon. Gentleman
had effected.

Dr. BOWRING also begged to congratulate the
Right Hon. Baronet, and all parties concerned, upon the
passing of this Bill, which he had no doubt would-effect
much good.
Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS rose to state, as h had
been instructed to do, that the people of Birmingham
were not at all satisfied with the charter.
The Report was then received.
The alterations in the 2d clause proposed by Sir J.
Graham were agreed to,
J. GRAHAM moved the suspension of the Stand-
ing. Orders, that the Bill might be read a third time at
once.

Mr. M. PHILIPS seconded the motion.
The Bill tias then ordered to be engrossed, and the
third reading was appointed for to-night.
COVENTRY BOUNDARY BILL. - •
Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on this Bill, which was received, and the Bill was
ordered to be read a third time.
BOROUGHS INCORPORATION MILL.
This Bill was now read a third tithe and passed.
WAR IN INDIA.

Lord PALMERSTON rose to put a question to the
Right Hon. Baronet opposite, relative to a matter which
involved the honour of the country and affected the in-
terests of a large portion of our empire in India. The
last mail from India brought conflicting accounts with
regard to the orders said to have been issued by the Go-
Vernor-General with respect to the British troops-west
of the Indus. One report said that he had issued orders
for the immediate retreat of these troops, and another
that he bad given different orders, which had been
interpreted as an order for withdrawal. The question
he wished to put to the Right Honourable Baronet was,
whether any order for the withdrawal of thejkitish
troops from the country west of the Indus, had or bad,
not been issued by the Governor-General of India : and
he did hope that the Right Hon. Baronet would be able 1
to state that there was not the slightest foundation for
such a report.
Sir. R.. PEEL said it had always been his wish to
give as much information to that House with reference
either to diplomatic affairs or to military operations, as
b," could give ; at the same time it bad ueen his &ter-

urination to withhold any information which might pre-
judice the public interests. The House must recollect
-that any answer he gave might be conveyed to India
within the period of six or seven weeks ; it was there-
fore of the utmost importance that he should maintain a
reserve which should prevent prejudice to our arms. At
this moment Candahar and Jellalabad were the
scene of military operations. The death of Shah Soojah
has placed the country in a new position as regards the
treaty that ‘va's concluded by Lord Auckland, and the
relation in which we stand to the Court of Lahore., in
consequence: of that- der,th, is row the subject
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