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IVIA.Rcn 22, 18!-'6.

imperial Vialianunt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
Mr. Bernal brought up the first, second, and third reports of
the committees of the Hoase of Commons on the subject of
orange lodges, and also the Spanish slave treaty bill, which was
read a first time.

TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY BILL.
Lord LYNDHURST laid upon the table a bill on the subject of
the transfer of real property: His lordship said that he would
explain its provisions on the second reading.
EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS.
Lord LyNDHURST introduced a bill to amend the law relating
to executors and administrators.
WILLS.
Lord LANGDALE brought in a bill for the improvement of the
law in reference to wills.
Each of these bills were ordered to be printed.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
The Alar.quis of LaNsnow/cs said he was instructed by the
building committee, as chairman, to lay upon the table the re-
port, which he would now move should be read.—[The report
was then read. It was in a similar terms to the report present-
ed to the House of Commons a few evenings ago, stating that
the plan No. 64 (Mr. Barry's) had been adopted.] The noble
marquis then said, as the committee had come to a unanimous
conclusion, and, in order to save time, be would at once move
an address to his majesty, praying that his majesty would be
graciously pleased to direct to be laid before the house some
further information as to the costs of the plan No. 64, as well as
to the best means of carrying the same into execution.
Address agreed to.
RULES RELATING TO RAILWAY BILLS.
On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, a message
was sent to the commons, requesting to be furnished with a
copy/of the rules laid down by the committee of the House of
Commons on the subject of railway bills. - •
BUTS
The Marquis of Bu presented several petitions in favour of
the continuance of local diocesan courts.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS..—THURSDAY.
The Speaker was not able to take the chair'at 4 o'clock owing
to the tardy attendance of members.

" MAKING NO HOUSE."
Mr. WALLACE adverted, to the circumstance of there being
no house yesterday, and said that he and other members were
in committees, and would have attended had they known that
Chat there was so limited an attendance of.members• but the',
were not aware of the fact; and in order to prevent disappoint-
ment in future, he suggested that there should be a bell, to be
rung when the house was about to be counted, as was the case
when a division was about to take place.
The SPEAKER observed that he bad complied with the stand 7.:
ing order on the subject. He had counted the house at foutr
o'clock, and, there not being forty members present, he had de-
clared the house to stand adjourned till this day. Members
knew by that standing order that it was their duty to be present
previously to four o'clock, if they wished
-business to proceed.
The conversation here dropped,.
Mr. Tooee presented a petition from proprietors of steam
packets engaged on the river' Thames, in favour of the Graves-
end pier bill,
Mr. WILKs presented a petition from the magistrates of Mid-
dlesex agaiast the Grand Junction Railway bill.

The Glasgow bridge bill was read a second time.
Mr. tIoDGEs moved that the London and Dover railway bill
be referred to a committee (Kent list )—Agreed

SMALL DriBTS BILL.

On the motion that the Macclesfield Small Debts bill be read.
a third time,

r. ROEBUCK opposed the bill, on the ground that it gave the
commissioners the power to imprison debtors fur seven days.
That was so objectionable and repulsive in principle, that he
moved that it be read a third time this day six months.
Lord STANLEY defended the bill. If modifications; were de.-
sirable, they could have been urged in the committee on the
bill; but the several clauses had passed the committee with
unanimous approbation, with the consent of all the parties pre-
sumed to he interested in the bill. He therefore thought this
opposition to the bill, on the question of its third reading, was
not very defensible.
Mr. AGLIONBY supported the amendment. He was against
the Iprinciple of that provision which authorised persons to
award a period of iniprisonment to those who had been taken
for debts. At this tune of day he could be no party to impri-
sonment as a punishment for debt. On account of that clause
alone, he resisted this bill—(hear).
The house then divided, the numbers appearing—
For the bill, 92; against it, 43; majority in favour of the
hill, 49.
On our return to the gallery,
Air. HOME moved that the clause authorising imprisonment
for debt under this act he struck out.

Mr. FRENCH complained of the delay which was occasioned
to members who had petitions to present by the repeated divi-
sions upon the bill before the house:- the last division had,
he considered, been upon the principle of the bill, and it was
useless again to sire the house the trouble of dividing.

Mr. 1-17onc said that he could not tell what was in the bill, or
what was not, for there were no printed copies of it, as it now
stoud amended, in members' hands. mast persist in his
motion.

After a few words from Mr. E. J.. Stanley and Mr. Hawes,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would most. heartily vote
with the hon. member for Middlesex upon his amendment, for
he looked upon it that the house had already affirmed the prin-
ciple that no man should be imprisoned after he had fairly given
up his goods to his creditors. The practice of arrest in such
cases was a cruelty which be was most anxious to see put an
end

After a few words from Mr. Maclean, the house divide&
'hey, there were—

For the amendment, 74; against it, 97; majority, 23. •
Mr. WARBURTON said the bill had not yet been printed, and
he thought it was requiring too much to ask the house to vote
for the third reading of a bill in such a shape. lie would, there-
fore, move that the debate be adjourned till Monday.
Mr. GRoTie seconded the motion; and,
After a few words from Mr. Evart, the house divided, when
the withers vore—
For the adjournment, 74; against it, 120; maiority, 4d.
Mr. lb: mover( next moved that the house do now adjourn.
Upon which another division took place, and the numbers
were—

For the adjournment, 53; against it. 128; majority, 75. •
On the gallery being opened, we found Mr. LIME address=
ing thellouse, and complaining that, having been asked to op—,
pose the bill, he had not been able to procure a copy of it,
When Sir CHARLES BURRELL said he saw strangers in the
gallery.
Strangers worelhen ordered to withdraw.
The gallery was notagain opened during the evening, and
the houge adjourned at a quarter before eight. o'clock; a mu--
tion to that effect having been. carried by a majority of 16G to'
20.

HOUSE OF :LORDS-FILtDAy

The royal assent was given by commission to the slave com-
pensation acts amendment bill, the capital punishment amend,-
'tient bill, and several private bills.
RAILWAY ROADS' REGULATIONS.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he now rose for the purpose
of moving, that a message be sent to the commons requesting to
befurnisbed with a copy of the report of the committee of that
house on the subject of railway bills, together with the regula-
tions relating thereto. The noble marquis said that their lord-
ships would recollect that, when last he addressed them upon
this subject, he had mentioned that a large capital was embark-
ed in such undertakings, and that it was necessary that the
public should be protected from such as might be merely specu-
lative. The committee of the House of Commons had drawn
up regulations, consisting of 19 heads, and it was necessary
upon each of these the answers given should be satisfactory to
ensure the progress of the bill. It was unnecessary for him to
detain their lordships by dwelling upon this topic, and the noble
marquis concluded by reading the motion.
The Earl of RIPON expressed his gratification at what his
noble friend had stated, as it was exceedingly important_that
the public should be put on their guard as respected sonic of the
railroad projects, for persons might be induced to become hold-
ers of shares in undertakings which could not be beneficial.
It was also essential that the property of individuals should he
protected, through whose lands railroads passed, for they were
often treated with but little ceremony by the projectors.
The motion was then agreed to.
WAR IN SPAIN.
_

The Earl Of ABERDFEN, in calling the attention of the house
to the character of the war in Spain, disclaimed any feeling of
partizanship with respect to the treaty; any feeling of sympathy
for Don Carlos on the one hand, or with the existing govern-
ment of Spain on the other; neither was it his intention to
complain of the conduct of his Majesty's government for having
recognized that of the Queen of Spain, but of the system of war-
fare which had been adopted, which he believed was unheard of
in the history of nations—a war disgraceful from its atrocities
and abominations. His noble friend the Duke of Wellington
had attempted to arrest the progress of those excesses 'and to
improve the mode of warfare, by establishing a cartel for the
exchange of prisoners, and had fortunately succeeded, and thus ,
gave a promise of leading to the most blessed, results. Now the
convention was trodden under foot and scattered to the wind's.
He did not intend to detain their lordships by an enumeration
of the various cruelties and butcheries which had been can ied
on: they were notorious; and their lordships were acquainted
with the accounts with which the daily papers were filled.
There was, however, one act of cruelty to which he would refer
as unparalleled for its ferocity : he meant the case of the mother
of a general of one of the partisans. It appeared that the par-
tisan Cabrera had been guilty of very great excesses. What
these were he (Lord Aberdeen) knew not; but he had no doubt
they were bad enough. The mother of Cabrera was seized and
actually assassinated, her death having been ordered by the
captain-general of the province. It appeared also that the in-
dividual who had the eldarlYwoinan in custody had some peek:in
of humanity about him, and would not execute the order until
he had appealed to the captain-general of the province, and the
captain-general gave orders that she should immediately be.put
to death. Now he (Lord Aberdeen) really did not know or
believe whether any thing was quite so bad as this, for he
doubted whether in the most frightful period of the French re-
volution any such act had ever taken place; for this was not the
act of a savage wretch or a cruel barbarian; it did not proceed
from blind revenge of a party, taken suddenly, and as suddenly
despatched ; but it was an act emanating from the highest autho-
rity in the country, and it had been sanctioned by the captain-
general to whom he had made allusion. This very general, too
had been received, it appeared, at _Barcelona with almost royal
honours on board one of his Majesty's ships of war. He (Lord
Aberdeen) believed that their lordships would concur with him
in considering this a most unparalleled atrocious act, and that
it was impossible to view it without shuddering. (Hear, hear.)
It had been stated that one of the partisans had four wives of
officers put to death who were engaged on the other side. ft
had also been further stated, " that for every person put to
death (by the opposite party) he would murder live innocent
victims;" and that Cabrera had declared that for every inno-
cent person put to death he would murder ten. He now came
to another part of the subject, from which it would he seen qbe-
ther or not his Majesty's government were fairly chargeable
with being implicated in such proceedings. He had already
alluded to the treaty which existed between the government of
the Queen of Spain and this country, by which we were bound
to supply "arms, ammunition, and warlike stores." Now we
had, agreeably to this treaty, supplied them, and with no nig-
gard hand. Be believed that more arms had been supplied
than were required for the number of troops which her Mars*:
possessed, and that the whole amount, if paid, which had been
supplied by our government was about 1.1(X),000. Now it never
could have been the intention by any understanding of the
treaty that this supply of arms and ammunition was ever fur-
nished for a legitimate mode of warfare, such as that which was
practised among civilized nations. (Hear, hear.) lf, therefore,
his Majesty's ministers knew when they were furnishing these
arms that they were to be used otherwise than in such a mode
of warfare than that which-he had alluded to. their conduct n'es
not justifiable, as they were in some measure responsible for the
conduct of those persons who used them. (Hear, hear, hear-)
His Majesty's government had suspended the foreign enlistment
act for the purpose of enabling certain persons to give the stan-
dard of one of the contending parties. He-might ask their lord-
ships what kind of martial education those people were likely to
receive? Was it anything like that which soldiers learned incivilised warfare? Might it not be expected that when they