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London, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 30.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Assent was given to-day to no less ti lan
eighty Bills, among which were the following e--41 :'he
Indemnity Bill, the Military Savings' Banks BiII, the
Privy Council Bill, the Maynooth College Bill, thee Ca-
lico Print Works Bill, the Canal Companie* Tolls .1 Bill,
the Fresh-water Fishing (Scotland) Bill, the Herat Lble
Securities (Scotland) Bill, the Middlesex County-i ate
Bill, the Crediton Small Debts Bill, the Battersea V oor
Bill, Clerkenwell Improvement Bill, Chester Impre .ve-
ment Bill, the Claughton-cum-Grange (St. Andre' w's)
Church Bill, the Claughton-cum-Grange (St. John the
Baptist's) Church Bill, the Cromer Protection ft ,0 DP the
Sea Bill, the Neweastle-upon-Tyne Port Bill, Is 4 ldam
Harbour Bill, the Southampton Docks Bill, the Bix ken-
head (Companies) Docks Bill, the Castle-hill (We:t -Verd)
Docks Bill, the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspei ision
Foot- bridge Bill, the Clifton Bridge Bill, the Stoke-ta pon-
Trent Market Bill, the Glasgow Markets Bill, the 1 eud-
sey Gas Bill, the Devonport Gas and Coke Voull iiany
Bill, the Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas Bill, the VII isley
Gas Bill, the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas ST 'Aight
Company Bill, the Taunton Gas Bill, the Scarb( 'ugh
Water Bill, the Southwark and Vauxhall Watei . Bill,
the Huddersfield Water-works Bill, the Nottit tac4-h am
Water-works Bill, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wi.atcr-
works Bill, the Whittle Dean Water-works Bill, th e
Shams Water-works Bill, the-Royal Naval School Bill,
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Coal Turn Bill, the 11 emel
Hempstead Swell Tenements Bill, the Standard Life
Assurance Company Bill, the Edinburgh Life Assuz ante
Company Bill, the North British Insurance CeOel any
Bill, the West of London and Westminster Cone :cry
Company Bill, the Watermens' Company (Poo t's and
Endowment Fund) Bill, the Stokenehurch Road Bill,
the Duke of Argyle's Estate Bill, Molyneux's .g state
Bill, Lord Barrington's Estate Bill, the Leiceste r ‘ree-
teen's Allotments Bill, the Nottingham Inclosur e
and the Spoad (Clun), &c., Inclosure Bill.
The Royal Assent was also given to the fo Rol ing
Railway Bills :
The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill
York and Scarborough Railway Deviation Bill
Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Colne Ex :tension
Rail way Bill
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Junction Raih vay Bill
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway Bill
Leeds and Bradford Railway Extension (Shit )ley to
Colne) Bill
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Bill
Berks and Hants Railway Bill
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Bill
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction 3ailway
Bill
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway 13111
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Bill
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Bill
Monkland andairkintilloch Railway Bill
Newcastle- upon-Ty ne and North Shields Rail way (Tyne-
mouth Extension, &c.) Bill
Ely and Huntingdon Railway 8111
Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln) Bill
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway ] 3ill
Hull and Selby (Bridlington Branch) Railway 1 sill
Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Keymer I In anch)
Bill
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Bill
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branc he ard
Oldham and Heywood Branches Extension) B 311
Lynn and Ely Railway Bill
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough) Bi
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Bill ,
Whitby and Pickering Railway Bill
York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington I 'ranch)
Bill
The Commissioners were the Lord Chancell or, the
Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon th( f wool-
sack soon after Five o'clock.
SCOTCH BANKING BILL.
The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading 'a this
Bill.
The Earl of RADNOR considered the Bill lEls un-
necessarily interfering with the present admirable %system
of banking in Scotland, and he should be. glad
to see any Noble Lord connected with . that
country get up in his place and defe od the
Bill. The object of the Bill, it was said, was to
prevent an increase in the number of leant is, and
to restrict a paper currency ; but there vas no
necessity for such a measure, for within t b e last
fourteen years the number of banks and the am .cunt of
paper currency in Scotland had considerably dimi tithed.
The Duke of RICHMOND agreed with the a Noble
Earl that the measure was most objectionable, a d un-
necessarily interfered with a system of banking which
had for years been working successfully in Scot!: incl.
The Earl of ROSEBERRY thought the print tiple as
well as the details of the Bill were most objecti =able,
and if the Noble Lord determined upon dividi rag the
House, he should certainly say non-content to th is third
reading.
The Earl of RIPON defended the measure. A already
restrictions had been placed by the Legislature um ?on the
Bank of England, and he confessed he could ,se e no
reason why the tame restrictions should not apply *:,'to the
existing banks of Scotland.
Lord KINNAIRD objected to the Bill, because the
averages had been unfairly taken, and he was; quite
certain it would, to a considerable extent, limit t Ile cir-
culation of gold in Scotland.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH approved of the Bill ;
and, so far from thinking it would do any injury' to the
existing system of banking in Scotland, he was; quite
convinced it would place the banks of that counts 7 upon
a more wholesome and firm basis.
After a few words of explanation from the Lit eke of
Richmond, the Earl of Radnor, and the Earl of Dal-
housie, their Lordships divided, when there appear ed—
For the Bill . 47'
Against it .
Majority for the Bill —32
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
SANATORY REGULATIONS.
The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented a petition
numerously signed by medical men practising in the me-
tropolis,
praying their Lordships to establish some sana-
tory regulation for large towns. The Noble
Marquis expressed his regret that the measure
announced in the speech from the throne for in-
quiring into the sanatory regulations of large towns
had nut been brought forward, and expressed a hope
that something would be done before the next session
for establishing some central machinery for effecting the
I object in view.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCCI said a Bill ha been
prepared on the subject, but the state of public btasiness
in another place had prevented Government from ',intro-
ducing it into Parliament.
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.
Lord CAMPBELL, in pursuance of notice, wished to
ask the Noble Earl the President of the Board of 'Trade
whether Government were prepared to adopt some steps
for preventing abuses in railway amalgamation? The
Noble Lord sai 1 the practice of amalgamating competing
railways had lately been carried on to an enormous
extent, and in many instances to the great injury of the
public. In seine cases these amalgamations were effected
before one of the lines was sanctioned by Parliament,
and he should be glad to know whether some steps could
not be taken by the Legislature for protecting the public
against injury from those amalgamations.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE admitted the importance
of Parliament interfering, to prevent the public from
sustaining injury from their amalgamation, but he thought
the law, as it at present stood, was quite sufficient to
effect that. The two Companies effecting the amalgama-
tion, were compelled to come to Parliament for powers
to sanction the union, and Parliament ought to take that
opportunity of scrutinising, and, if necessary, of cur-
tai:ing the powers proposed to be taken by the promoters
of the amalgamation.
Lord BROUGHAM repudiated the existing practice
of amalgamating new with old railway companies, and
remarked that the amalgamation was not always con-
fined to two railways. Not unfrequently it was a canal
that was united with the railway, and in such a case the
canal was invariably filled up, for the protection of the
railway.
After a few words from the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE, who presented a petition on the subject,
the matter dropped.
JURORS' BOOKS IN IRELAND.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Bill entitled
an Act for making further regulations for more effec-
tually securing the correctness of the jurors' books in
Its land, which was read a first time.
The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petition from
his own diocese in favour of the Bill for amending the
law of marriage in England and Scotland.
RAILWAY CLAUSES COSOLIDATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILL.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved their Lordships to
adopt the reasons of the House of Commons for striking
out the clause giving compensation under certain
circumstances to road trustees in Scotland. Unless
their Lordships agreed to these reasons the Noble Earl
said the Bill would be lost, and he could not allow so
important a Bill to drop for the sake of such a clause.
The Duke of RICHMOND complained that the ques-
tion relating to the turnpike trusts of Scotland had not
been really and well discussed in the House of Commons.
There was a vast difference between the road trustees
of Scotland and those of England, and he certainly
thought the former were entitled to the compensation
given to them by the Bill.
The Earl of .KINNOUL said the road trustees of
Scotland had incurred heavy responsibilities for the sake
of the public, and he certainly thought they were just as
much entitled to compensation from a railway company
as the landholders, whose property was required for the
purposes of the proposed railway.
The Duke of MONTROSE agreed that the road
trustees of Scotland were entitled to compensation, but,
under all the circumstances, he thought it advisable to
pass the Bill without the clause.
Lord CAMPBELL remarked that it would be com-
petent for a committee to introduce a special clause into
a private Bill for giving the road trustees in Scotland
compensation for the injury they might receive from the
course of a proposed railway, and, upon second Conside-
rations, he could see no reason why they should not
strike out the clause objected to by the Commons.
After a few words from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
Earl of Dalhousie, and Lord Brougham, the reasons of
the House of Commons were agreed to.
IRISH BANKING BILL.
The Earl of RIPON moved the second reading of the
Irish Banking Bill, and expressed a wish to have the
discussion on the Bill postponed till Thursday, when he
should move the committal of the Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE had ne objection
to the course proposed by the Noble Earl. He entirely
approved of the principle of the Bill, and only differed
with some of its details.
The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to
be committed on Thursday.