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HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIIRSDAY.

Their lordships met at five o'clock, and proceeded with
the usual legislative business, no judgment in the O'Con-
nell writ of error having been pronounced, as had been
expected.
Earl Powts said. in consequence of the consent of the.
Crown having been withheld from the bill relating to the
separation of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, he, after
mature deliberation, had thought it advisable to withdraw
the bill rather than press it forward against the report of
the committee with the prospect of being ultimately beaten.
The Bishop of SALISBURY recommended her Majesty's
government to consider this question. He very much
regretted that the noble earl had been compelled to with-
draw this bill, for he felt that if it had been passed it
would have been found to be a very beneficial measure.
lie trusted, however, that the government would in the
next session of Parliament introduce a bill themselves
upon this subject.
A discussion of some length followed, in the course of
which an attempt was made by Lord Lyttelton and the
Marquis of Clanric,rde to fasten a charge of unfairness
on the government in the course it had adopted in respect
of this hill, which charge, however, was rebutted by Lord
Brougham, Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Monteagle; after
which the bill was withdrawn.

Some other business on the paper was then disposed of,
and their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

- - -
On the motion of Sir G. CLERK, the Assessed Taxes
Composition Bill was read a third time.—ln answer to a
question from Captain Pechell, Sir G. Clerk said the
present measure was a mere continuance bill.
• The Colonial Postage Bill was read a third time and
p:ssed.
Mr. FERRAND wished to know whether there was any
objection to lay on the table of the house the evidence
• taken before the coroner on the steam-boiler explosion
at Bolton.
Sir .1. GRAHAM said he was not aware that it was in
the power of any authority to compel the coroner to pro-
duce the evidence taken in his court ; but he would make
inquiries on the subject, and if the hon. member would
repeat the question, be would endeavour to reply to it.
The adjourned debate on the second reading of the
Railways' Bill was resumed by Mr. BRIGHT, who sup-
ported the amendment for reading it a second time that
day six months.
Lord Seymour, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. J. S. Wortley
spoke in favour of the bill; and Mr. Bernal, Mr. Col-
quhoun, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Milner Gibson for
the amendment.
Sir R. PEEL was very merry at the expense of poor
Mr. Gibson, whom he designated as "Ingenui vullus
puer ingenuique pudoris."
Mr. Ward, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Muntz subsequently
spoke against the bill, and Mr. Sharman Crawford gave
• It his support.
The house having divided, there were—For the second
reading, 186 ; against it, 98 ; majority, 88.
The bill was'read a second time, and its committal fixed
for Saturday next.
The Turnpike Trusts (South Wales) Bill was read a se-
cond time. . .
*The reports of the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance
Bill, and of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill were re-
ceived. - . •
The committee on:dog stealing was nominated, after an
•ttnsuecessfal divisiennn a motion for adjourtiment.
Sir GEoaciE CLERK obtained leave to bring in a bill
se-;i3 to continue certain of the allowances of the duty of excise
on snap 'used in manufactures.
Mr. J. W.• Hoes obtained leave to bring in a bill to
• continue an. act of the 10th Geo. IV.: for providing for
r 'the governinentof her Majesty's settlements in Western
Australia, on the Weftern Coast of New Holland."

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FitioAr.
in reply to questions from the Marquis of Cr.mint-
cAßDE, retkpecting the collection of forces under Sir C.
Napier oh the frontier of the Purtjaub,
The Earl of RIPON said, that the rumours which hail,
recently reached this country from India, to the effect,
that an army of 80,000 men were collecting on the banks
of the utledge, for the purpose of iavading and conquer-
ing.the Puajattb, greatly exaggerated the truth. The fact
wns, shat it was necessary to have a large force concen-
trated in the north-western provinces, which were there,
most likely to( be suddenly attacked, and in the present
dis:tressed state of the Purijaub it would be nothing short
Of insanity to leave that portion of our Indian frontier
There
.was, however, no desire on the part
unprotected..
home, to add one
of the government, other abroad or at
inch territory to our possessions in that quarter, though
it was quite possibly tint we might be called upon to