Church Rates Bill-Order for Second Reading read-Amendment of Sir John Trelawny that the Bill be read a Second Time this Day Six Months-Amend- ment agreed to by a Majority of 83-Division List-Bill put off for Six Months 1567 The Reform Bill-Notices of Motion from Mr. Miles and Lord J. Russell ... ... ... ... Disembodiment of the Militia-Question of Mr. Brown-Westhead Landlord and Tenant (Ireland)-Question of Mr. Bowyer Exchequer Bills-Motion of Mr. Hankey relating to the Funding of Exchequer Military Organization-Motion of Captain Vivian for a Select Committee-Mo- tion agreed to-Committee appointed Church Rates-Motion of Sir Arthur Elton for the Abolition of Church Rates- Newfoundland Fisheries-Motion of Viscount Bury for Papers-Motion with- Hudson's Bay Company-Motion of Mr. C. Fortescue-Motion withdrawn ... 1653 III. NEW MEMBERS SWORN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. Reigate.-Hon. William John Monson, v. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Member of Manchester.-Thomas Bazley, esq., v. Sir John Potter,-Deceased. Herefordshire.-Lord William Graham, v. Thomas William Booker-Blakemore, esq.,- Devon (Southern Division).-Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, esq.-Re-elected. Brecknockshire-.Godfrey Charles Morgan, esq., v. Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart.,- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. Linlithgow (County)-Charles Baillie, esq., v. George Dundas, esq., Lieutenant Boston-William Henry Adams, esq.-Re-elected. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. Banbury. Bernhard Samuelson, esq., v. Henry William Tancred, esq., Chiltern THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 17. Galway Town.-John Orrell Lever, esq., v. Anthony O'Flaherty, esq.-Void Election. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Dublin University.-Right Hon. James Whiteside, v. George Alexander Hamilton, esq., Steward of the Manor of Northstead. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. Leominster-Captain the Hon. Charles Spencer Bateman Hanbury v. John Pollard Willoughby, esq., Member of Council for India. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. York County (West Riding).-Sir John William Ramsden, Bart., v. Viscount Goderich, now Earl of Ripon. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. Worcester County (Eastern Division).-Hon. Frederick Henry William Gough Calthorpe, v. Colonel Rushout, now Lord Northwick. MONDAY, FEBRURY 28. Marylebone-Edwin John James, esq., v. Viscount Ebrington, Manor of Northstead. FRIDAY, MARCH 4. Midhurst-John Hardy, esq., v. Samuel Warren, esq., Steward of Northstead. TUESDAY, MARCH 8. Oxford University.-The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, Lord High Commis. sioner of Ionian Islands.-Re-elected. Bury St. Edmunds.-Lord Alfred Hervey, v. Earl Jermyn, now Marquess of Bristol. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. Wilts (Northern Division).-Right Hon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Secretary of State.-Re-elected. Tewkesbury.-The Hon. Frederick Lygon, Commissioner of the Admiralty.-Re elected. THURSDAY, MARCH 10. Sussex (Western Division).-Earl of March, President of the Poor Law Board.-Reelected. HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, APPOINTED ΤΟ MEET 30 APRIL, 1857, AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED TILL 3 FEBRUARY, 1859, IN THE TWENTY-SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. FİRST VOLUME OF THE SESSION. HOUSE OF LORDS, Thursday, February 3, 1859. MINUTES.] Sat First in Parliament.-The Lord after the Death of his Father. Took the Oaths.-Sir John Buller Yarde Buller, Baronet, having been created Baron Churston —was (in the usual Manner) introduced; The Right Honourable Thomas Pemberton Leigh, having been created Baron Kingsdown-was (in the usual Manner) introduced. was pleased to make a most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, as follows: "My Lords, and Gentlemen, IN recurring, at the usual Season, to the Advice of My Parliament, I am happy to think that, in the internal State of the Country, there is nothing to excite Disquietude, and much to call for Satisfaction and Thankfulness. Pauperism and Crime PUBLIC BILLS.—1a Select Vestries; Law of Pro- have considerably diminished during perty and Trustees Relief Amendment. the past year, and a Spirit of general Contentment prevails. THE Blessing of the Almighty on the Valour of My Troops in India, and on the Skill of their Commanders, has enabled Me to inflict signal Chastisement upon those who are still in Arms against My Authority, whenever they have ventured to encounter My Forces; and I trust that, at no distant Period, I may be able to an B nounce to you the complete Pacifica THE Measures which, in concert tion of that great Empire, and to de- with My Ally the Emperor of the French, I thought it necessary to take upon the Coast of China, have result vote My Attention to the Improvement of its Condition, and to the Obliteration of all Traces of the presented in a Treaty, by which further effusion of Blood has been prevented, unhappy Conflict. and which holds out the prospect of greatly increased Intercourse with that extensive and densely peopled Empire. ON assuming, by your Advice, the direct Government of that Portion of My Dominions, I deemed it proper to make known by Proclamation the ANOTHER Treaty into which I have Principles by which it was My Intention to be, guided, and the Clemency entered with the Emperor of Japan which I was disposed to show towards opens a fresh field for Commercial those who might have been seduced Enterprise in a populous and highly into Revolt, but who might be willing to return to their Allegiance. I have directed that a Copy of that Proclamation should be laid before you. I RECEIVE from all Foreign Powers Assurances of their friendly Feelings. civilized Country, which has hitherto been jealously guarded against the Intrusion of Foreigners. As soon as the Ratifications of these Treaties shall have been exchanged, they will be laid before you. I HAVE great Satisfaction in announTo cultivate and confirm those Feelings, to maintain inviolate the Faith cing to you that the Emperor of the of Public Treaties, and to contribute, French has abolished a System of as far as My Influence can extend, to Negro Emigration from the East the Preservation of the general Peace, Coast of Africa, against which, as unare the Objects of My unceasing avoidably tending, however guarded, solicitude. to the Encouragement of the Slave I HAVE Concluded, with the Sove- Trade, My Government has never reigns who were Parties to the Treaty ceased to address to His Imperial Maof Paris of 1856, a Convention re-jesty its most earnest but friendly relative to the Organization of the Prin- presentations. cipalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Those Rouman Provinces are now proceeding to establish, under its Provisions, their new Form of Govern ment. THIS wise Act on the Part of His Imperial Majesty induces Me to hope that Negotiations, now in progress at Paris, may tend to the total Abandonment of the System, and to the Substitution of a duly regulated Supply of substantially Free Labour. A TREATY of Commerce which I have concluded with the Emperor of THE State of the Republic of Russia, and which will be laid before you, is a satisfactory Indication of Mexico, distracted by Civil War, has the complete Re-establishment of induced Me to carry Forbearance to those amicable Relations which, until its utmost Limits, in regard to Wrongs their late unfortunate Interruption, had long subsisted between Us, to the mutual Advantage of Our respective Dominions. and Indignities to which British Residents have been subjected at the hands of the two contending Parties. They have at length been carried to |