August 2. (LORDS.) Lord Brougham brought forward a motion to the effect that more efficient measures be adopted for the suppression of the slave trade. The Duke of Wellington recommended Lord Brougham himself to propose some measure, promising, in the name of the government, his cordial support. The motion was withdrawn, on the understanding that Lord Brougham would introduce a bill early in the next session. (COMMONS.) On the motion of Mr. C. Buller, the Bribery at Elections Bill was read a third time; two new clauses were added, and it was then passed. The Designs Copyright Bill, supported by Sir R. Peel and Mr. Gladstone, was opposed by Mr. W. Williams, who divided the House on an amendment which he moved for its recommittal, and which was rejected by 73 to 14. Various amendments were proposed by Mr. Williams, which were negatived, and in one instance lost on a division by 78 to 13. 3. (COMMONS.) In the Newfoundland Bill, for making 'some alterations August in the constitution of that colony, Lord Stanley agreed to limit the duration of the bill, to omit a clause altering the qualification of electors; and the bill, thus altered, was supported by 68 to 13. Mr. O'Connell opposed the bill going into Committee, but the motion was lost by 82 to 21. He then moved several amendments, which were rejected by similar majorities. A motion by Mr. O'Connell, for the production of correspondence between the local authorities and the Irish government relative to Ribbonism, was lost by 72 to 24. The Ecclesiastical Leasings Bill was read a third time and passed, Mr. Hawes remarking that it was valuable as a recognition of the appropriation principle. The House went into Committee on the Bankruptcy Bill. (COMMONS.) The House met this day (Saturday) to expedite several bills. The refusal of the Chiltern Hundreds to Lord Chelsea, implicated in one of the election compromises, was brought forward, and the course which the government had taken generally commended. August 6. August 8. 9. (COMMONS.) The Bankruptcy Bill went into Committee. Amendments for lowering the salaries of the officers, and for preventing the extension of the act to the country, were rejected by considerable majorities. The issuing of the writ for Ipswich was decided by 86 to 32. (COMMONS.) Sir J. Graham announced that Government intended to August postpone the County Courts Bill to the next session. The Bankruptcy Bill received some additions and amendments. Sir R. Peel moved an address for the erection of monuments to Sir Sidney Smith, Lord de Saumarez, and Lord Exmouth. Mr. Hawes withdrew a motion of which he had given notice, for adding the names of Herschell, Watt, and Davy, hoping that Sir R. Peel would himself undertake that duty. Mr. Hawes moved that the further consideration of the Limitation of Actions (Ireland) Bill be postponed to that day three months, but his motion was lost by 41 to 15; and he then moved the adjournment of the House, which was agreed to without a division. (LORDS.) The Commons' amendments to the Bankruptcy Bill were August agreed to, the Lord Chancellor stating that they could be altered next 10. session. (COMMONS.) Lord Palmerston, in moving for a return of the bills introduced during the session, entered into a review of the conduct of the government since its accession to office, and of the policy of the late and present governments. Sir Robert Peel replied. After a few remarks from Mr. Cobden and one or two other members, the House agreed to adjourn till Friday. Sir James Graham introduced his bill for the registration of electors, for the purpose of being printed and circulated during the recess. August 12. (LORDS.) Parliament was this day prorogued by Her Majesty in person. The speech from the throne adverted to the financial and-commercial measures of the session as "calculated to maintain the public credit, and, stimulating the demand for labour, to promote the general and permanent welfare of all classes." Her Majesty deeply lamented the military reverses westward of the Indus, and turned with satisfaction to the conduct of the troops who had defended Jellalabad. The next topic was "the prospects of a harvest more abundant than those of recent years;" and Her Majesty trusted there were "indications of gradual recovery from that depression which has affected many branches of manufacturing industry, and has exposed large classes of her people to privations and sufferings which had caused her the deepest concern." missed the two Houses with a confident expectation that they would do their utmost, In conclusion, she disin their several counties, to encourage, by example and active exertions, "that spirit of order and submission to the law which is essential to the public happiness, and without which there can be no enjoyment of the fruits of peaceful industry, and no advance in the career of social improvement.' **During the session the House sat 1008 hours on 117 days, exclusive of 274 hours on 9 Saturdays. On 91 nights the House sat after midnight, in all 125 hours. From February 3rd to May 13th (Whitsuntide) the average time of sitting was 8 hours; from 20th of May to 18th of August the average was 9 hours. The average of the session was 8 hours 36 minutes. On the last four days the House met at 12 o'clock. 220 XIII. PRIVATE BILLS OF THE SESSION OF (5 and 6 Victoria.) I. Numerical Abstract of the Petitions and Private Bills for the Session 1842. Petitions presented to the Commons or bills brought from the Lords 232 Bills read a first time Number which received the royal assent 213 The number of bills is 40 less than in the Session of 1841; and the number which received the royal assent is 5 less. II. Comparative Classification of Private Bills for Ten Years: Bills passed. 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 3 7 10 81 37 56 67 63 46 49 59 17 14 8883 222 23 12 21 22 15 25 12 48 10 13 50 18 47 Internal Communication Navigation, &c. Private Regulations 28 29 44 42 51 33 43 43 36 Total 165 142 160 193 192 152 171 187 176 171 The average number of private bills passed annually during the five years ending 1837 was 169; and for the five years ending 1842 the annual average was 171. III. Abstract of Petitions and Private Bills, Session 1842 III. IMPROVEMENTS OF TOWNS AND DISTRICTS: 1. General Improvements, New Streets, }16 &c. 2. Courts, Bridges, Cemeteries 3. Water and Gas-Works 4. Municipal Regulation 34 21 5 22 15 16 I. AGRICULTURE.-Inclosures and Drainage.-The Inclosure Acts are as follow: Bucks.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Buckland. Cambridge.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Cot tenham. Cumberland.-An act for inclosing and dividing Wakeyhill Common in the parish of Stapleton. Devon.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Kilmington. Gloucester.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Yate. Leicester.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Med bourn. Lincoln.-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Clee. Norfolk. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing lands in the parishes of Ormesby Saint Margaret, Ormesby Saint Michael, Ormesby Saint Peter, and Ormesby Saint Andrew, and Scratby otherwise Scroteby. Oxford.-An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Britwell Salome and Britwell Prior. Somerset.-An act for inclosing lands in the several parishes of Huish Champflower, Clatworthy, and Brompton Ralph. Southampton-An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Kingsclere. DRAINAGE.-An act for draining certain fen lands and low grounds in the parishes of Cottenham, Rampton, and Willingham, in the county of Cambridge. II. COMPANIES.-An act for regulating legal proceedings by or against the Northern Coal Mining Company, for enabling the company to appoint one board of directors in lieu of two independent boards, and for removing restrictions in the choice of directors. An act for regulating legal proceedings by or against The Metropolitan Patent Wood Paving Company, and for granting certain powers thereto. An act for regulating legal proceedings by or against The Guarantee Society, and for granting certain powers thereto. An act to enable The City of Glasgow Life Assurance and Reversionary Company to sue and be sued, and for other purposes relating to the said company. An act to enable The Imperial Insurance Company to alter some of the 'provisions of their deed of settlement, and better regulate their proceedings and the investment of their funds. An act for regulating legal proceedings by or against The Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company. An act for regulating legal proceedings by or against The Cwm Celyn and Blaina Iron Company, and for granting certain powers thereto. An act to amend an act for incorporating and granting certain powers to The North American Colonial Association of Ireland, and for explaining, altering, and enlarging the provisions thereof. An act to enable the Forth Marine Insurance Company to sue and be sued, and for other purposes. An act to enable the Court of Chancery to appoint a person or persons to sue on behalf of the co-partnership of bankers lately carrying on business under the firm of The Imperial Bank of England, in lieu of the public officer. III. IMPROVEMENTS OF TOWNS AND DISTRICTS: General Improvement, New Streets, &c.-An act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town of Weston-super-Mare in the county of Somerset, and for establishing a market therein. An act to amend, alter, and enlarge the powers and provisions of an act for paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, watering, and improving the town and borough of Sudbury in Suffolk. An act for the promotion of the health of the inhabitants of the borough of Liverpool, and the better regulation of buildings in the said borough. An act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and improving Ely Place and Ely Mews, Holborn, in the co. of Middlesex. An act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town of Fleetwood and the neighbourhood thereof in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for establishing a market therein. An act for better lighting, cleansing, sewering, and improving the borough of Leeds in the county of York. An act to authorize the purchase of a certain ferry called Woodside Ferry by the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Township or Chapelry of Birkenhead, Chester; and for amending the Improvement Acts for the said township. An act for making a new street from Blackman-street to the Southwark Bridge-road, and for improving the district called the Mint, all in the parish of St. George the Martyr, in the borough of Southwark in the county of Surrey. An act for amending an act relating to the paving and sewerage of the town of Liverpool in the county palatine of Lancaster. An act for better paving and improving the streets and highways within the extra-parochial place of Toxteth Park, Lancaster, and for the sewerage of certain parts of the said place. An act for further extending the approaches to London Bridge, and the avenues adjoining to the Royal Exchange in the city of London, and for amending the acts relating thereto respectively; and for raising a sum of money towards opening a street to Clerkenwell-green in Middlesex in continuation of the new street from Farringdon-street in the city of London. An act to alter and amend an act of the fifty-fourth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, for lighting and watching certain parts of the liberties, hamlets, or districts of Camberwell and Peckham in the county of Surrey. An act to explain an act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to Alter, Amend, and Enlarge some of the Powers and Provisions of the Acts for Paving and otherwise Improving certain Streets in the Parish of St. Pancras in the County of Middlesex." An act to alter and amend the provisions of the act for opening a street to Clerkenwell-green in the county of Middlesex. Bridges, Markets, Cemeteries, &c.-An act to continue and amend" An Act to Rebuild Windsor Bridge in the Borough of New Windsor, Berks, and to Improve the Avenues thereto. An act to amend the act relating to the Saint Philip's Bridge in the city and county of Bristol, and for widening and improving the approaches to the said bridge. An act to enable the sheriffdom of Ross and Cromarty to provide proper court-house accommodations, and for other purposes relative thereto. An act to extend the provisions of an act of the forty-eighth of King George the Third, relative to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, and Lunatic Hospital or Asylum, and to incorporate the trustees thereof. An act for authorizing the conveyance of a piece of land upon which a church at Kingstown in the county and diocese of Dublin and parish of Monkstown has been erected, and for providing for the due celebration of divine service in the said church, and for assigning a district thereto. An act for establishing a general cemetery for the interment of the dead in the parish of Sonning, near the town of Reading in the county of Berks. An act for providing additional burial-grounds in the parish of Leeds in the West Riding of the county of York. An act for taking down the market-house in the town of Saint Austell in the county of Cornwall, and for erecting a more convenient market-house instead thereof; for providing a new market-place; and for increasing and regulating the markets and fairs within the same town. An act for erecting a market-house and for regulating the market within the borough and town of Great Torrington in the county of Devon. Gas and Water.—An act to amend and enlarge the powers of an act passed in the second year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, for supplying the towns of Old and New Brentford in the county of Middlesex, and other places |