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Arn, 30 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| Bench, contain ing the y opinion of the judges that the addition | where all parties aggrieved might be heard Li ‘counsel and 
0.—1t is reported from New Dames that the 
EXIC 
to the {punishment would tend to increase the reluctance of] produce witnesses.—After a few remarks Alderman 
were m marching to attack Matamoras, A pre- juries LA convict, but that, if adopted, the v ought | Rose, the Bill was se a EE time, De House 
liminary encounter with the Mexicans had resulted | certainly 2 be left discretionary.—The Earl of WrsrMEATH |then went into committee Court of Chancery 
favourably to the F encb, Three ch tes were the amendment.—Earl Geer objected to Pha alter- | (Despatch of Business) Bill, the uad of w 
nd the Rio Gran co-operate with the | ation of the Bill ; he believed the objection made by the Judges | to. The Pena! Servitude Acts Consolidation Bill eet withdrawn. 
a Bask P 4 was founded c iefly on their unwillingness to give up any —Mr. 8 oved the second read f the Partner- 
lan e Mexican Governor Cort had | their power. Their Lordshi mm the amendment ; | ship Law Amendment Bill, explaining the objects and nai 
ordered all i hist troops pekara te at Matamoras, The | which was carried Mies ‘a : = was a cá ^ aap ni ye v To n RM MN 
third time and —On the order for the secon: ng o! i read a second time that day six mon! e con- 
Tapnbl unn. pus. quse m popularity. the Regius esc of Greek (Oxford) Bill, the Earl of | demned the Bill as inconsistent with commercial morality, and. 
Rumours of the occ "osos of Matamoras reached New 
£1 +h Rth } + 
oe ERBY said he did not intend to oppose the Bill, as he under- | as a mischievous interference with our mercantile legislation. 
= university desired that it should pass. At the same | —Mr. Marts said that the principle of limited liability was 
entertained i j i and thai 
—Mr. K. HoposoN likewise 
— 
to be held by a clergyman. If such a limitation existed in | defended the Bill, which would give freedom 
Parliament. bygone time rofesso! ld never have held the | so far ft msi: rcial immorality, it would, in his 
ve =o erp te s and he thought that the professorship of Greek | opinion, raise one of commercial m y.— a. 
-— t could v = times be adva: gem meg held by | Bowyer, Mr. Grecsox, Alderman Sarowows, and Mr. 
FRIDAY. stated That the Cra Earl The Earl of ELLENBoROvGH opposed the Bill on | BvcHANAN, also supported the Bill, the latter expressing & 
Guasvx s p tory a Sm» bad Deeds prepared, founded - the and that it took e y from the working clergy | hope that it would be extended to Scotland. The amendment 
the recom ns int port of the Com one of the few rewards ih had hitherto been allotted to | was negatived without a division, and the Bill was read & 
English and. Jah Courts E, nd them, and applied it to a purely secular i. — The | second time. The Charitable Assurances Enrolments Bill passed. 
-— — ca er in the House of Commons. Naval es CnHANC = said that the measure ed | through commi: Tho remaining members of the select 
hro ttee. he se 
j piian = university, which Tad accepted | committee on the Bankruptcy Act were nominated, notice 
it as the boat HAMA — the painful scenes that a being given that Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Verner should be 
those naval officers who did not apply for thelr r retirement 
the pre rders of 1 
— occurred. e however, no objection added, — The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND moved 
nditions offered by vious o a proviso to the effect that, in the event of the for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the constitution and 
and 1851. Those officers who preferr: ain on the active ave did endowing the Greek Pd goed to the amount of | amend the practice and course of proceeding in the 
list ha eprived of a vested right y the rr^ ori -— 6001. a year, the canonry he proposed to attach to the ckair | Court of Chancery in Ireland. He explained the principal 
hich m retirement compulsory.—The Duk should be placed at the Satan be the calves sity.—The Earl of | provisions of the measure, which included the abolition of the 
contended that no injustice had been done by the 1 bee gare Harrowsy thought this e went a vay iconii act on the | present offices of taxing masters and the creation in their 
- The condition of the Navy List must be taken ei part of the Government.—Earl GREY concurred with the Earl | stead of a vice-chancellor, who, with the Lord Chancellor and 
account. Fifty years had passed witbout a naval war, of Ellenborough that it was unwise to withdraw a valuable = Master of the Rolls, "would be sufficient to do the whole 
tbere were no less than m “Admirals in the list. though, 20 Le of Church heel es the position it had hitherto | work. The Chancery Regulation Act of 1854 mH also Pa 
would be enough for the efficiency of the service, Thenumber | occupied of being ward for purely clerical services.—After NOU, and the practice of procedure of t Court 
could n e be e constantiy incr reased, even in the interest ‘of the 
a few words San the Earl of OAERERTOK, the Bishop of Lonpon | Chancery would in all respects assim! ey (n that E 
self, as it mig qo a sad th ainst the whole 
remarked that he had no doubt that the clerical y would | operation in bys nom A large pee saving would be the 
be always able to supply a gentleman fit to undertake the | result oe eie c ml —Mr. Wurrestpe contended that 
created by these successive order s the t hardship of | duties of the professorship, and he could way. express a hope e wor! e for 12,0001. a yon but that » 
o Hiat ^ and that the officers had had gross injustice = that all the canonries might be as well disposed of pig ipang Vid pe oT, "0001. P M "propowed P ende ae carried ou: 
—The Earls of Dersy and Harrowsy concurred in mferr: na man p^ must nec Saueri be one of the od complets ned that many the fations of the 
en. most eminent Greek scholars of the day. The Bill vá read a mmissioners had bim altnpether overlooked by the framers 
Monpay.—Earl STANHOPE gave notice that on =y rong second time. The Joint Stock Companies iat d p of the Bill. In his aem all the im ents contemplated 
23d of May, he should pa attention to the report Bill was read a third time and passed. Registration of | by the Bill might be effected by a new T MM of rules adapted 
School Commissioners. The Warehousing of British. diis. wa) County Voters (Ireland) Bill was read a adi time tothe existing macbinery of the Court of Chancery.—After 
was read a second time. Th e Consolidated Fund Biil (15,000,0001. Frivay.—The Steam Rams in the Mi —The Earl of DERBY | some ‘discussion, in which Sir P. O'BRIEN, . Scutry, 
was read a third time and passed. called attention to th 8 t r Majesty's | Mr. VANCE, epo Dunne, = othe k part, leave was 
ndence een he 
TuxspAY. —The om n (Scotland) Bill, on the motion of the m . Laird i gi 
n as to whether the papers sbould be produced had | Massey moved that | the Marquis of Hartington be at liberty to 
Duke of ARGYLL, was a first time. The Mortgage Deben- | 4 
ures Bill was read a dae ‘tine and referred to a select com- | been ably discussed in the House of rari and had been | appear, by his counsel and af, before the Select Com- 
mittee; the Joint Stock Companies (Foreign Countries Bill)| negatived in favour of the Government by a majority of 34. ed xum x inquire whether the Under-Secretary of 
passed through committee; and th Fate ehousing of British | In reviewing the circumstances under ‘which the corre-| State who was | —n "Ra t office thereby vacated 
Spirits Bill was read a third time and p: American Prizes. | spondence had arisen, he characterised the conduct of the | his E The mot! er 
— ELMSFORD brought finda” remi the manrer in| Messrs. Laird as everythin was commendable, seeing ESDAY.— i; ew Mr. A. Mitts called 
which. the Government proposed to deal with prizes brought | that they had withheld nothing from the Government ; and | attention to the war now going in New Zealand, and moved for 
by the belligerent Sta’ of America into ports within | the conduct vern on oye hr hand, he con-|all correspondence between the Governor and the Colonial 
Majesty's inions, declared in the co nde: sidered highly censurable, —— 1 that i d been most unfair, | Office relating to the policy of confiscation which had been 
liament with respect to the Tuscaloosa. | ungenerous, and ho feared 2 adopted by the New Zealand Legislature. Besides the enor- 
e course contemplated was so ob [Lett add mous cost of this war, there were other considerations which 
tionable, so op comity of nations, al called for the pube of the Imperial Parliament. B; 
at he felt bound to bring it under the last news it a) red that the Legislature of New 
cortal laws, one of ch ted 9,000, 
HOUS OF COMMONS. s 
FniDAY.—On the Order for going into Supply, Mr. LIDDELL | acres of native lands: and another invested the Col 
moved “ That, in the opinion of the House further interference | Government with arbitrary power, to an extent almos 
on the part of this cow PIN oA civil war in China is im- | unparalleled, of suspending the law and of imprisonment, 
: itic and unnecessary." He wed the policy adopted of | These Acts were now in operation in the colony, and he thought 
governors of colonies in po die t, as eint ine with | late years with reference to Chin urging that o oa attempts p subject called for tho attention of Parliament. He dis- 
international law, and d Alis an secs ion of the i» pho the Mantcbu diy « ai against - s apogs were ed ad e nsactions between the Colonial Government and 
LÀ. a a iss _euing tt e aud of the manner in which the ET ELT effect, and aid und nded to injure our character the natives of Les. d XD ITADER title to land, 
r in charge of ti t. upon the ment and the inam which believing the 
Os io employ not experienced ; and he 
governor, in whose hands they were powerless to 
most wor cruelties and excesses, such as those perps- | natives.— 
trated at capture of et pt He attributed the failure of 
TD, ha: man of | oi 
ssary, o 
cedented in the past, and which he hoped would find no favour | w| t t were the measures to be adopted on the conclusion of the 
Mr. LAYARD ce : and Sir G. Grey 
but wW: 
its PEE to e it T n restrain the 
how 
to go on interfering in - civil war for the pu: of | approval of the Govern ar ‘other panona had been 
bellion ? pany. x v 
ttii n the 
China as an open t n lation of the laws of neutralit; ;| arrangem: rc de for the pee n and settlement of the colony. 
—Mr. roar dec that, horrible as were the atrocities | —Lord RO fe aec of 
committed by the Russians in Poland, andi by the Prussians in| | factory, and pot the New gon ssembiy would accept 
"and his | Denmark, th pes n tae n. go wr by the iniquitios | the Garde it — administered. i^e od inten wNY og x 
comm: troops — E 2 pos I's policy — g n: wey for the 
noble friends mig eir judicial capacity. By th Diurni instructio: Ei Governments in England. ile he was | future A. CHURONILL vindicated the m the 
Senate nations a pr was bound to have a prize adjudi- enl on: d out. | Gace pe ad, pmi on the war by rappetonn Sontag 
ama to ascertain whether was eque Sa Moxpay.—Mr. H. Lewis inquired whether the Garibaldi | with Ihe perm. in the purchase of lands. —M*. C. Fortescur 
je> eh d to prevent ate betneheade in the Meeting on Primrose Hill had been suppressed by the police | said that the qu m in the present war n Saet diferent 
pursuit of booty. This was no doubt a i cce of th the with the authority of the Home Office.—Sir G. Grey replied | from that in t e old quarrel about Wiri n Ein ngiand the 
that neither he himself, nor any member of the Government, | Treaty of in e present war har been wantonly 
consent nor [the Commissioners of Police, had issued any instructions | provoked by the naiven He defended the New Zealand 
the i fere. The facts were that the Chief Com- | Government, and said that there was nothing in the acts 
i —— s ofa 
old rule, a it Rum IUE v perfecti established by d ong xw 
FHARDWIORA te 1 TM on w to the police to inter! 
Trtep = Tae dal Arant was given by commission to missioner of Works had 
India 
H > of General d —Mr. SEL 
Ine pt MET that his satisfaction at that statement had been much lessened 
ud war 
la 
ve ex —— te ade ee —Mr. LiNpsAY m: resolution that t her Maj s Govern- 
on. The re ortha Committee of Ways and Meanson the Pire ment should now eds t measures for the pres Eat ryt of 
Insurance y was brought up and — to. On the order | harbours of refuge on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, 
for the second. reading of the Dasons and Inland Revenue Bill, | recommended by a committee of this House ín 1858, by a 
a short discussion took place on some of the details of the Bill, Royal Commission in 1859, -— by 8 resolution of this House 
the country, without previous refi which was ultimately read a second time. The House then went | in 1860. The necessity of the works had been demonstra! 
[oA General, RIS g in the same city. On the - into committee on the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Bill, on its tho facts pen: in the i inquiries referred to. With cori d 
the third reading of Poulet of Lord Wope- | recom: and the clauses underwent a long diecussion.— | the cost, he of opinion that the harbours might b 
uode moved Poster trae m e addition of floggi: On the order for the second reading of the Thames Conserva structed y sou" lal eg at ] imate of the 
the sentence discretionary on the part of the judges, i Bill, Mr. Ld that, as the Bill affected the rights | Royal C om issioners, and they would be available not only as 
WENSLEYDALE thought the increased | of the Tm and the privileges of the es | harbor as rendezvousfor shipsof war. On the 
ent of the punishment, if enacted at all, ought not to be | watermen, it should be referred to a Select Committee.—Mr. | ast point he showed the prodigious annual loss of lives 
to the discretion of the judges.—The Lorp Seg ame e said, this Mg inis de hybrid Bill, the usual course was, | and of on the coasts of this country, observing that 
read a letter from the Tord Chief Justice of the Queei er the second ng, refer it to a Select Committee, ‘if one-half or even one-sixth of these losses could have 
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