IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 551, 26 July 1851, Page 3

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

House of Commons, Majicii 7. The Lord Major of Dublin appeared at the bar in Lib rol)cs, and jnCbCiitcd u petition fiorn tbo metropolis of liolaud Rfjnmst ihe abolition of the Viceroy .dty. Lord J. Russu.r, gave notico that on hi.s tiny fortnight ho should move for le.ivo to buii^ in a bill for the better admimsUalion of ju&tice (heir, hear) in the Court of Chancery. Sir Do Lacy livANb enquired fiom the government wht'tlier the expense of the n-mforct'inont übout to bo sent out to K.ilhana would bo tit tho expense of Una cauntiy or of the C.ipc, and whether tho House would Iklvc smy opportunity of passing an opinion upon the subject? J.oid .T. Ru!"sFi,t, in reply, could only say that his noblo Jnend at tho head of tho Colonial Uopaitment had enjoined tho Govornoi of tho Capo to take care that no expenae should be incurred, in the event of another war winch would f.ill upon this country— tho colony would bo expected to bear it ; but he could not 6ay uny moro at present than this, th.it with the exception of Bending out tho necessary mnforcoments, no expense would bo mcuired without a statement of it boiug laid boforo tho House. (Hear.) JMr. Lockl King brought up Ins bill for extending tho ir.mchibo in counties m England and Wales. It was read a fust time; to bo lead a second time on the 2nd Ami.

MlNlS'iriltAl. EXPLANATION. Lord J. Hussill llion roeo, an<l in moving that the House al its mmg be adjonrnedtill Monday, proceeded to state the oulor in which public business would bo taken, lie said llmt in moving the order of tbo day (0/ the second rending of the Ecclobiaslicnl title's uasiimptiou bill, Sir George Giey would state the it was pioposed to make 111 that mensura, v/hich were certainly extensive, and afterwards movo that the order be adjourned till Friday next. Ho tiusteJ. that no eppoattion would bo ni.'tdo to this proposition. A considerable time bad already pnpsed over without nny business being done. It was desirable to proceed with the estimates as boon ob possible : and, therefore, on Monday, he should proposo to proceed with those for tlio navy. It would aKo bo necausnry to take Homo votes for (ho army, especially that for the numbor of men, as the Kaeter holidays, were fast approaching, and the ! Mutiny Act would expire on tho 85 th Apn). Ho did not proposo to take a voto on tbo subject of the income tax, until tho :24th mutant j and on tho following Friday tho Chancellor of (ho Exchequer would state the attention.) he proposed to make with leference to vho financial moasuien of tho government. (Hear.) It was then agreed that the House, at its rising, should adjourn till Monday. RJr. J. SuMtii presented a petition fiom the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, praying the House not to conaont to bo much of the ecclesiastical titles assumption bill, w hicb, upon the motion of the lion, gentle aien, w as read by tho clerk at tho table. Mi. 11&\noids piesented a petition iiom Dublin against lh.it measure, which, upon lua motion, was al&o read at length fiom tho t.ible. Sir G. (<iu.Y (hen proceoded to state the alteiations and modifications pioposed by tho government to bo made in the bill to pi event (ho assumption of titles by .Roman Catholic pi elates, oi which bonio\e'l tbo second reiidiug. lie fust ol all nlluded to the suggestion of Loid Stanley, that this subject bhould be dealt with by a resolution of both liouscb, and said that be could not agiucwith the noble loid that jt would (>c tlie best couiw, inasmuch as it would bo inofl'ectual, because it would not liavo tho (bice of law, whilst it could not bo ])!issed without involving the saino debate aa would take place in the case of a bill, nor could he concur m the piopo.sition foi it committee of enquny. Another suggestion was, llji.it Jieland &houkl be excluded i'/om the opciation of the bill. 'I'bia bad boon fully considered nucl ic-onaideied by tbo government. 'J'liey deemed it inconsistent with their duly to assent (0 tho .suggestions to hii\o dono so, they would have been sboitly admitting that the iiutlionty of the Queen was less in lioland than thatoi the Lope.a pioposition to wliiuh tlioy would not foi a moment aiseut, At the same tune, there were piwtical diileiL-iiLus ujion this suibject between England and liel.uid— a ciicunibtaiice which constituted the ii', mi dificulty hi dealing nilh tho (|iiost!oi). He (it nn d, howevei, ihnl it w;is put of the b'll to hcl a ide spiiilu ii acts on the prut ot'bisho)>s in the. Koiuau Cat'jclic (Jhuicb, or lK>i Jtiiit'.'iioieo with bc'iuc&t, y . liv.

the bill in certain ca^cs of oidination find collation and bci)uo»m, would, in its present shap<\ have an opoialion which tlio government never uiteudcJ, and tlicrofoio m comrmttpe it would ho proponed to omit ultogether Irotn the bill tho eccoud and third clauses, winch related to I those Mibjects. Tim bill would then bo a parliament™ y declaration that the authority under which the titles ! bad been assumed was one which tho countiy repudiated. Such a prohibition would, bo thought, ba\o all tho effoct of nniuioiml declaration ogaint-t the act of tbo ■ Popp, though at the s.r.ne tune, ho did not look to Acts of Parliament for tho security of the Protestant religion (Hear, bear.) At the name tune, it had nevei been conteuinliittid to include the Scotch bishops of the Epis- | copal church, but in introducing words to the effect of | uxcludui" thorn from its operation. lie should also add 1 a provision, that such exemption bhould not bo held to I give any right or title to the assumption of tales tt | which they were uo entitled by law. Ihe lion, baroneo i concluded by moving that the order for the becond reading of the bdl he postponed till uoxt Friday. Mr. Su waiit contended that the bill as now altered in no respect corresponded with the measure which had been introduced by the noble lord at tho head of tho government. Mi. Gihsw was averse to any kind of Legislation upon religious subjects. Sir li- iNOiiasaid, that after what had taken pl<ieo that e\enmg, ho thought the best thing they could do would be to do uothing. The measuro now pioposcd wa» paltry in tho extreme, and ho behoved the government would bo compelled to bring forward a much more etringcnt monsurp. Mi. G. ISanres briefly opposed tbo measure. After a few observations by Mr. Gladatone and Lord Claude Hamilton. Lord J. HusaLLteaid the law officers of the crown were of opinion that tho late assumption of titleßwaa not illegal, although the proper nuthoritios might piosocuto for (he introduction of tho bull, a course which ho thought would have been oppressive aud dangerous., lv framing tho present bill it had been sought, und he believed successfully, to a«roid interference with tho rehgtoun hbcity of the sub/net. JIo could not hopo by any measure to provont thu Irish piae^lß from impeding' the cducatiou of the people; but this ought not to deter tho House from passing ft bill asserting tho Queen's supremacy in hot dominions. Mesars. Ncwdppate, Stamford, Plumptrc and Colonel Sibthorp, oapros-i-d their dissatisfaction with th» amondeii hill, winch they considered unequal to the emergonciefa of tho cafee.

Tubi>and. — Loud- Licin plant's L*vi i . — Lord Clarendon, on Wednesday, held Lib bgcoik! Loveo this bca&on, p.ml, very probably, the last ofbisVice-lloyalty. Indeed Una Beemod to bo the general impiession amongst thoaa who paid their respocts to his Excellency ou tins occasion , and there was a luinour at tbo Levee that the Maiquis of Kxotoria to bo tho new Lord-Licutonant. Tho nttendaaco was much less than usual, partly m consequence of the- circuits vow in progress throughout the country. It wns romaikod that none oi the Roman Catholic Bishops or Clergy wero in ottondance. It is stated that somo arraugoments have been in. progress for somo days past fw the departure of the Lord-Lieu-teaant and his Excellonoj 'a family for England. — Dublin Fapcr.