COMMONS, TUESDAY, JUNE 20. PARLIAMENT PREVENTION OF CRIME (IRELAND) BILL-DUBLIN PETITION— Page PROTECTION OF PERSON AND PROPERTY (IRELAND) ACT, 1881-RELEASE PROTECTION OF PERSON AND PROPERTY (IRELAND) ACT, 1881--PRISON WARDERS-Questions, Mr. Healy; Answers, Mr. Trevelyan PARLIAMENT BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE-POLICE SUPERANNUATION BILL— Question, Baron De Ferrieres; Answer, Sir William Harcourt STATE OF IRELAND-INTIMIDATION-Question, Sir Henry Fletcher; Answer, EVICTIONS (IRELAND)-THE SPECIAL, AND RESIDENT MAGISTRATES, AND THE POLICE-Questions, Mr. Gibson, Mr. J. Lowther, Mr. Healy, Mr. Mitchell Henry; Answers, Mr. Trevelyan; Question, Mr. O'Sullivan ; LAW AND POLICE CASE OF CHARLES FROST, WRONGFULLY CONVICTED Questions, Mr. Macfarlane; Answers, Sir William Harcourt PROTECTION OF PERSON AND PROPERTY (IRELAND) ACT, 1881-MICHAEL M'SWEENEY AND JOHN RYAN-Question, Sir Herbert Maxwell; An- PROTECTION OF PERSON AND PROPERTY (IRELAND) ACT, 1881-RESIDENCES OF RELEASED PRISONERS-Question, Mr. Donaldson-Hudson; Answer, EGYPT-THE POLITICAL CRISIS-THE FLEET AT ALEXANDRIA-Question, Sir H. Drummond Wolff; Answer, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman EVICTIONS (IRELAND)-Death FROM EXPOSURE AFTER EVICTION AT RHODE, KING'S Co.-Questions, Mr. Molloy, Mr. Sexton; Answers, Mr. Tre- IRELAND-ADVANCES TO IRISH LANDLORDS ON IRISH ESTATES-Question, Captain Aylmer; Answer, Mr. Courtney.. SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY RATES-DRAFT REPORT-Question, Mr. EGYPT THE POLITICAL CRISIS-Questions, Mr. M'Coan, Mr. A. J. Balfour, Mr. Arthur Arnold, Mr. J. Lowther, Sir H. Drummond Wolff, Mr. Bourke, Mr. Onslow; Answers, Sir Charles W. Dilke, Mr. Gladstone, EVICTIONS (IRELAND)-LORD ROSSMORE'S ESTATES-Question, Mr. Dillon; 1750 1761 PARLIAMENT BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE-THE NEW RULES OF PROCEDURE -Question, Mr. Gorst; Answer, Mr. Gladstone PARLIAMENT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES) BILL-Question, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck; Answer, Mr. Gladstone .. 1768 PARLIAMENT-BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE-QUESTIONS-Question, Mr. Mac PARLIAMENT BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE-Continued. After long debate, Moved, "That the Debate be now adjourned,"-(Mr. R. N. Fowler :)-After further short debate, Motion, by leave, with- Original Question put:-The House divided; Ayes 253, Noes 97; Ma- Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Bill [Bill 157] [Fifteenth Night]— Bill considered in Committee [Progress 19th June] After long time spent therein, Committee report Progress; to sit again Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Bill [Bill 157] [Sixteenth Night]— Bill considered in Committee [Progress 20th June] After long time spent therein, it being a quarter of an hour before Six of the clock, the Chairman left the Chair to report Progress; Com- Labourers' Cottages and Allotments (Jreland) Bill-Ordered (Mr. Villiers Stuart, Sir Patrick O'Brien, Sir Hervey Bruce, Colonel Colthurst, Mr. Blake, Mr. O'Sullivan); The Lord Barrogill (the Earl of Caithness), after the death of his father. For the County of Banff, v. Robert William Duff, esquire, Commissioner of the Treasury. MONDAY, JUNE 19. NEW MEMBER SWORN. For the County of Banff-Robert William Duff, esquire. HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, APPOINTED TO MEET 29 APRIL, 1880, IN THE FORTY-THIRD YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. FIFTH VOLUME OF SESSION 1882. of the Peace to cases of burglary and forgery, said, that neither of those crimes could at present be tried at Quarter Sessions, and that his proposal was that it should be permissible to try them at such Sessions, it being left to the committing magistrate to say whether a case should be tried at Sessions or at Assizes. There was no doubt there were many cases in which it was desirable that the accused should be tried by the best tribunal the country could afford; but, on the other hand, he might point out that cases of burglary often partook of a trivial character. For example, if a man should open a window, put his hand behind it, and steal a small piece of beef, his offence would amount to burglary, and, according to the present law, would of necessity be tried at Assizes. Bill to extend the Jurisdiction of Justices in General and Quarter Sessions of LORD BRAMWELL, in presenting a the Peace Presented (The Lord BRAM Bill to extend the Jurisdiction of WELL); read 1; and to be printed. Justices in General and Quarter Sessions (No. 112.) EGYPT (POLITICAL AFFAIRS). QUESTION. THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY: My Lords, there is a Private Bill coming on which will occupy some little time; and, therefore, I wish now to ask the noble Earl opposite (Earl Granville) a Question of which I have been unable to give him Notice. I am afraid that, under present circumstances connected with Egypt, it is impossible to give Notice with respect to information which sometimes, as in this case, only reaches us an hour or two before your Lordships meet. I wish to know, Whether the noble Earl is able to give any information to the House with respect to that which he stated to be the remedy for the Egyptian difficulty, on which Her Majesty's Government relied-namely, the project of assembling a Conference at Constantinople; and, whether it is true, as rumoured, that the Sultan has refused his assent to such a Conference? EARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, I think the noble Marquess might have given me Notice of this Question; but in reference to the statement appearing in the morning newspapers, I can only reply that, while the Sultan does not think it necessary that a Conference should be held, I have no hesitation in stating that he has not refused his assent. I am able also to contradict another erroneous statement that has appeared in the newspapers. It is entirely untrue that Lord Dufferin has recommended Her Majesty's Government to abandon the Conference. THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY: I wish, if I may do so, to put to the noble Earl another Question, of which I did give him Notice two days ago—namely, with respect to the earthworks at Alexandria. Have Her Majesty's Government given any instructions with respect to those earthworks-instructions to press in any manner on the authorities who are now governing in Egypt the expediency of abstaining from prosecuting the construction of the earthworks; and have any instructions on the subject been given to the officer in command of Her Majesty's Fleet in consequence of the earthworks being commenced? EARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, we have had communication with our Admiral at Constantinople and our Agents in Egypt on the subject; but the noble Marquess will agree with me that it would not be right for me to indicate the nature of any instructions that have been given on the subject. THE EARL OF CARNARVON: I wish to ask another Question, of which no Notice has been given. It has been stated EARL GRANVILLE: I must press the noble Earl to give me Notice of the Question. THE EARL OF CARNARVON: My Question arises out of the answer just given, and I consider that I am perfectly justified in putting it. It is stated in today's papers that guns are being placed in the earthworks at Alexandria. I shall be glad to know, if the noble Earl is aware of the truth or untruth of that statement? EARL GRANVILLE: As a matter of fact, I believe orders have been given that no further armament shall be placed in those earthworks. WREXHAM, MOLD, AND CONNAH'S QUAY RAILWAY (EXTENSIONS AND DOCK) BILL. MOTION FOR RE-COMMITMENT. THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, in rising to move that the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway (Extensions and Dock) Bill be re-committed to another Select Committee, and, at the same time, presenting Petitions in favour of the Motion, said: My Lords, I cannot allow this Bill to proceed without asking your Lordships to re-commit it; and I have taken what I know to be a somewhat unusual and exceptional course, because, as I am about to endeavour to show to your Lordships, the proceedings taken by the Select Committee, who have already had the Bill before them, testify that the course they have followed has also been unusual and exceptional. The matter, therefore, requires at your hands unusual and exceptional treatment. But there are precedents in your Lordships' House for the re-committal of a private Bill, such as this is, by your Lordships. There was one in 1859; and though I am aware that the House, as a rule, supports the decision of its Committees, still I am also aware that, having a strong sense of the public estimation with which the decisions of your Committees are regarded, where a sense of justice requires it, your Lordships have justly held that Bills should be re-com |