through Committee, on the motion of Mr. Fox Maule; there having been for the motion 56, and against it 36.-The Public Records Bill was read the second time.— After some other orders were disposed of, the House adjourned at six o'clock; and, on re-assembling then, it was counted out. July 13.-The Prisons Bill was further considered in committee, and, after several amendments, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. On the motion of Viscount Ingestrie, returns were ordered of the expense of building her Majesty's ship Vernon. Mr. R. Steuart obtained leave to bring in a Bill to vest in the Treasury the powers of the Commissioners for the Redemption and Sale of the Land Tax of Corporations, which was brought in accordingly, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next.Sir F. Trench gave notice that on Monday he would move for returns of all rewards offered by the Irish Government for the discovery of offenders, and not paid by them.-Adjourned. July 16. Considerable discussion took place on the motion that the Royal Ex change Rebuilding Bill be read a third time.—Mr. Pryme moved, and Mr. Wolverley Attwood seconded an amendment, postponing the third reading for six months. On a division, the original motion was carried by a majority of 102 to 38; and the Bill was read a third time and passed.-Lord Ashley gave notice that on the first motion for going into Committee of Supply, he should bring forward as an amend ment the motion of which he had given notice on the subject of factories. To an inquiry by Mr. O'Connell, Sir George Grey replied that the legislature of Jamaica had voted the extinction of the negro apprenticeship on the 1st of August of this year. This took place on the 9th of June; but when the packet sailed, the council had not decided upon the subject. Lord John Russell, in moving that the House resolve into committee on the Irish Tithe Bill, took occasion to explain the intentions of Government in respect of the existing arrears; on which subject Sir Robert Peel had recommended that the residue of the million, voted several years since as a fund for loans to the unpaid clergy, should be employed in buying up from such tithe-owners as should be willing to sell the rights to the arrears due from the occupying tenants. Lord John now stated that this residue was not so large as bad been supposed; that, besides the 640,000l. which had been lent to the clergy, 100,000l. had been advanced in aid of public works; that there remained, however, 240,000l., which, with so much of the 640,000l. as had been repaid by the clergy, he proposed to apply in the buying up of the existing arrears, but with this difference that whereas Sir R. Peel's proposal left it optional with every titheowner to accept the arrangement or not, this measure of the Government was intended to be universal, and therefore compulsory.-After a committee, pro formă, on the Act respecting the advances to the Clergy, the House resolved itself into committee on the main measure-the Tithe Bill, and the clauses up to the 42nd having been gone through, the chairman reported progress, and the Bill was ordered to be further considered on Thursday.-Lord John Russell moved for leave to bring in a Bill for further suspending the appointments to certain dignities and offices in cathedrals and collegiate churches, and to sinecure rectories, and for preventing the immediate effects on ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the measures in progress for the alteration of dioceses.-The Prisons Bill, the Trading Company Bill, and the County Clare Advance Bill, severally passed through committee.-The Land Tax Reduction Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed.-The Coal Trade (Port of London) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Highway Rates Bill went through committee.-The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.The noble lord then moved that the Irish Corporation Bill of 1836 be printed; and at one o'clock the House adjourned.-Lord John Russell moved that the Corporation (Ireland) Bill, as amended after coming from the Lords in the year 1836, should be reprinted, as it was desirable, if the Bill of last year should come back from the other House, that hon. members should be in possession of the former Bill.-Ordered. -Adjourned. July 17.-Mr. Hume gave notice of his intention to move, "that the exclusive privileges of the Bank of Ireland are prejudicial to the best interests of that country, and that it is expedient to place the Banks of Ireland upon an equality."-The hon. member also gave notice that he would move for a return of the manner in which 100,000l., which had been granted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the 6th and 7th William IV., was appropriated.-On the motion of Lord John Russell, the Militia Estimates were referred to a select committee.--The Glass Duties Bill was read a third time and passed.-The Registration of Electors Bill went through committee.-The Post Office Bill, after a division, was read a second time.-The Fines and Recoveries (Ireland) Bill went through Committee.-The report on the Schools (Scotland) Bill was brought up, after an amendment by Mr. Gillon, for postponing it for three months, had been negatived.-Adjourned. July 18.-The Sugar Refining Patent Bill was read a second time.-The Middlesex County Courts Bill passed after a division on the 40th clause, which was retained in opposition to the opinion of Sir E. Sugden, by a majority of 26 to 18.—The Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill, No. 2, went through committee.-The Western Australia Bill was read a second time.-The House resolved itself into committee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill.-In the committee an amendment was proposed by Sir R. Peel, and carried without a division, extending the operation of the measure to tenements of 201. instead of 10l. a year rent. The other clauses of the Bill were agreed to, and the House resumed.-The Solicitor General announced that he should postpone the Bankruptcy Court Bill until another session.-The Tithe and Land Bill went through committee.-The Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill was recommitted. In committee on the Parliamentary Boroughs (Scotland) Bill, clause 6 was struck out. The House then resolved itself into committee on the Public Records Bill. Colonel Sibthorpe opposed the 8th clause, on the ground that it tended to increase, to an unwarrantable and indefinite extent, the patronage of Government. This, as well as the other clauses, was then agreed to.-The imprisonment for Debt Bill was reported and ordered to be read a third time on Friday.-Adjourned. July 19.-The Vestries in Churches Bill was, after some discussion, lost on a division, there being 76 ayes and 78 noes.-The House having resolved into committee on Lord John Russell's resolution regarding the issue of Exchequer Bills for Ireland-namely, "That Exchequer Bills to an amount not exceeding the residue of the sum of one million, remaining unappropriated, under an act of the Srd and 4th of King William IV. cap. 100, and under an act of the 6th and 7th year of his said Majesty, cap. 108, be issued and applied, together with the instalments paid, or which may be paid, under the first-mentioned act, to the relief of the owners of compositions for tithes in Ireland for the years 1836 and 1837, and that the commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury be authorised to remit such instalments in certain cases," Mr. Hume proposed as an amendment, "That the proposed grant of 640,000l., which had been advanced from the Treasury of the united kingdom as a loan to the Clergy of the Established Church, and the lay proprietors of tithes in Ireland also, the additional grants of 100,000l. and 260,000l., now proposed to be made for the Church of Ireland, making in the whole one million sterling, will be highly unjust to the people of England and Scotland, and subversive of those principles on which good government and equal justice can alone be maintained."-For the Ministerial proposition 170, against it 61; majority against Mr. Hume's amendment 109.-The report was postponed until Monday.-Sir G. Rose reported from the Maidstone Election Committee that Mr. Fector had been duly elected, and that the petition was "frivolous and vexatious."-Lord J. Russell said that on Thursday next he proposed to move the consideration of the Lords' amendments of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill.-The resolution regarding light-houses at Gibraltar, &c., authorising the levying of tolls on vessels, was agreed to, and a Bill ordered accordingly.-The Trading Companies Bill was read a third time and passed.—The motion of Lord Morpeth for the third reading of the County Clare Advance Bill was negatived by a majority of 61 to 57.-The Custom Duties Act Bill passed through committee.-Adjourned. July 20.-On the proposition that the House resolve itself into Committee of Supply, Lord Ashley called the attention of the House to the state of the law for the regulation of the factories of the United Kingdom, and moved, "That this House deeply regrets that the law affecting the regulation of the labour of children in factories, having been found imperfect and ineffective to the purpose for which it was passed, has been suffered to continue so long without any amendment."-Mr. Fox Maule stated that the Government would introduce a Bill next session on the subject, but it would be similar to that introduced before by the Government.-For the original motion, 121; against it, 106-majority against the amendment, 15.-The Public Records Bill, the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill, and two others, were read a third time and passed.-On the motion of Mr. Rice, a resolution for a grant of 51,000l. for the expenses of the New Poor Law Commission was agreed to.-The Prisons Bill was read a third time and passed.-Adjourned. INDEX TO VOL. XXII. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Absent Friends, by Mrs. C. B. Wilson, 154. Burke, Dr., on the Physical Effects of Moral Agents on Health, 69. Bonnivard the Patriot, in the Dungeons of Chillon, by Mrs. Crawford, 216. Bean, the, from the German, 254. Courtier of the Reign of Charles II., by Mrs. C. Gore, 42, 143, 270, 389. Claudine, a Tale, by the Author of "Misrepresentation, 305. Deception, a Tale, by Mrs. Abdy, 87, 324. Enigma, 193. Furlough, the, 30. Future, the, 240. Flow on, thou Sea, 388. Guizot, M., Memoir of, 130. Half Hours, 81. Hunter of the Glen, by Washington Browne, 419. Intellectual Longevity, 107. Italy, a Poem, by J. E. Reade, Esq., 217. Infant, to an, 317. Joy, late Chief Baron, Memoir of, 337. Kean, Edmund-Village Theatricals, 318. Loaded Dice, by the O'Hara Family, 113, 225, 361. Leaf and the Stem, by T. J. Ouseley, 253. Last Words, by T. J. Ouseley, 336. Mems in the Mediterranean, by Launcelot Lamprey, 55, 195, 380. Masaniello's Call to the Neapolitans, by Mrs. Crawford, 379. Note Book of an Irish Barrister, 1, 155, 241, 337. Outline of the Grievances of Women, 16. Prose Sketches, by a Poet, 93. Phillis Leyton, by the Author of the "Impregnable Bachelor," 413. Queen's Diamonds, by Joseph Price, 432. Smith, Sir William, Memoir of, 1, 155, 241. Spring, Stanzas, by Mrs. Crawford, 80. Salvator Rosa; or, the Two Portraits, 206, 281. Sun, the, to the Earth, on the Dawn of Morning, by Thomas Ragg, 234. Shakspeare Fancies, 290. Song, by R. Howitt, 355. Spanglets of Heaven, by Thomas Ragg, 400. Stanzas, 448. To a Skylark, by R. Howitt, 41. Twin Sisters, by Mrs. Abdy, 360. Village Legend, by R. Howitt, 27. Venice and its Dependencies, 401. Vintage Song, by Mrs. C. B. Wilson, 448. War Song, 323. West Indies, Scenes in, by the Author of "Nelsonian Reminiscences," |