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3rortrbings Ut Varliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
On the motion of Lord BEAUMONT, the chairman and
secretary of the North Wales Railway were called to the
bar, and after receiving a reprimand from the Lord Chan-
cellor were ordered to be discharged, on payment of the
usual fees.

The Earl of HARROWBY moved for copies or extracts of
all instructions sent to her Majesty's envoys in the River
Plate for their guidance in the intervention of this coun-
try for the pacification of the affairs in that river. He re-
gretted that all these negotiations had failed, and that the
trade between this country and Monte Video had been al-
together sacrificed.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE objected to the motion,
as the negotiations were not only still pending, but they
had lately assumed a most promising aspect.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

'MONDAY

•
Mr. HUME expressed a hope that a statement of the
expenses incurred in the unsuccessful prosecutions of Mr.
Duffy, editor of the Nation, Dublin, would be laid before
Parliament. (Loud cheers.)
The bill for the repeal of the Navigation-laws was read
a third time and passed. Sir JAMES GRAHAM spoke in
its favour. The numbers were—for the third reading,
275; for an amendment moved by Mr. Herries, that it be
read a third time that day six months, 214; majority, 61.

••••
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the first reading of
the Navigation Bill, and said he would move the second
reading on Monday week.

Lord STANLEY acquiesced in the arrangement, and the
bill was theu read a first time.

Their lordships then passed a vote of thanks (in similar
terms to those moved in the House of Commons) to the
Governor-General of India, the Commander-in-Chief,
and officers and soldiers engaged in the recent campaign
in India.

Lord GALLOWAY suggested that while as British sub-
jects and peers they were expressing their obligations to
the distinguished individuals who had exerted their. ower
at the council board, and perilled their lives in the field
in defence of British interests in India, it would be worthy
of a Christian legislature not to pass by that Almighty
Power who was the giver of all victory.

-011.dod ! thy arm was there,
And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all"

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Christian legislature, he called upon their lordships, and
particularly upon the right rev. bench, to second bim in
the appeal which he now made to the government to take
these things into consideration, and advise the sovereign
to appoint a day of general thanksgiving for the mercies
vouchsafed to this country, accompanied with a deep
acknowledgment of the national unworthiness.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.---TIIESDAY.
Sir J. C. HOBROUSE moved the thanks of the house to
the Governor-General, the Commander-in-Chief, and the
officers and soldiers engaged in the recent campaign in
India.

The Marquis of GRANBY seconded the motion

Sir R. PEEL expressed his gratification at the glorious
manner in which Lord Gough had finished the campaign.
Sir J. W. HOGG said that the victory at Goojerat was
so decisive that it was impossible the Sikhs could ever
again rally in any numbers that could be deemed at all
formidable to the power of Great Britain. The strongest
proof of this was to be found in the resignation of Lord
Gough, which he had forwarded to the Duke of Welling-
ton, and which it was very unlikely he would have sent in
while any work remained to be done. Peace, he be-
lieved, was restored to India, and he hoped Lord Gough
would long live to enjoy the honours he had won.
Mr. M. GIBSON then called the attention of the house
to the state of our relations with the empire of Brazil,
and submitted a motion for the repeal of the Brazilian
Act 8 and 9 Victoria, c. 122.

After
was neg

long debate, the house divided, and the motion
ived by a majority of 137 to 34.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—`WEDNESDAY.
The house having resolved itself into committee on the
Bribery at Elections Bill,_ _

Mr. V. SMITH moved that the whole of the first clause
should be left out.

Sir F. THESIGER, having been a member of the select
committee to whom the bill had been enforced, thought
there was much force in the objection raised against it,
but still thought the measure ought to be tried as an ex-
periment.

Sir G. GitEY still entertained the same objections to
the bill which he had expressed on the second reading,
and he would therefore vote against it. He believed the
effect of the proposed declaration would be to deter honest
and timid men from taking it, although they might be
perfectly free from any act of bribery.
Sir J. PAKINGTON defended the declaration proposed to
be imposed on members by the bill, and was of opinion
that it would be a great improvement on the existing law.
After some further discussion the clause was lost by 54
to 92.

Mr. LOCKE moved the second reading of the bill to
compel railways in Scotland to attach passenger carriages
to the mail trains which the companies are obliged to run
on_the Sundays.

Mr. COWAN said that a more obnoxious or tyrannical
measure it would he impossible to introduce. More had
been made of the Duchess of Sutherland's case than it de-
served ; and at all events, the case of railway servants
should be taken into consideration, and they should not
deprive them of the opportunity of attending Divine Ser-
vice on the Sabbath.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said he wished to beamderstood as
speaking only his own private sentiments, when he be-
lieved the public inconvenience attending the partial clos-
ing of railways on Sunday—that partial closing being con-
fined to a very few railways in Scotland—would be as no-
thing compared to the shock which the bill would give to
the religious feeling of Scotland. He would therefore vote
against the second reading of the bill. After some fur-
ther discussion the house divided, and the second reading
was negatived by a majority of 9. The bill was conse-
quently lost.