ing to the Districts of Leyton and Redditch and the Borough of Totnes. P. cxciv. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith. P. cxcv. An Act for regulating the Traffic in the City of Dublin, and certain other parts of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis; and for other purposes relating thereto. cxcvi. An Act for making a Railway from Ely in the county of Cambridge, to Bury Saint Edmunds in the county of Suffolk; and for other purposes. excvii. An Act for making a Railway from the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, near the town of Ballysadare in the county of Sligo, through the counties of Leitrim and Cavan, to the Irish North Western Railway, near the town of Enniskillen in the county of Fermanagh; and for other purposes. excviii. An Act for making better provision for settlement of differences between the Coast Section and the Inland Section of the Cambrian Railways Company; and for other purposes. cxcix. An Act for enabling the President and Fellows of Sion College, within the City of London, to grant Building and Improving Leases of certain Lands in the said City, and to sell the same Lands and to acquire other Lands, and for carrying into effect an arrangement relating to Sion Hospital; and for other purposes. cc. An Act for conferring further powers on the Commercial Gas Company, and for the Amalgamation with that Company of the Ratcliff Gaslight and Coke Company; and for other purposes. cci. An Act for granting further powers to the Galway, Oughterard, and Clifden Railway Company. ccii. An Act to extend the time granted by "The Metropolitan and South-western Junction Railway Act, 1872," for the purchase of Lands. cciii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway Company; for the purchase of Lands and the raising of Money, and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking; and for other purposes. cciv. An Act for extending the boundaries of the borough of Barrow-in-Furness, and for empowering the Corporation to construct additional Waterworks and Gasworks; and for defining and extending the powers of the Corporation in relation to the management of Streets, the regulation of Buildings, the im provement of the Borough, and other matters of Local Government; and for other purposes. ccv. An Act for making Railways from the Great Eastern Railway at Ely to the Great Eastern Railway at Newmarket; and for other purposes. cevi. An Act for incorporating the Regent's Canal and Dock Company; for the transfer to them of the Undertaking of the Regent's Canal Company; for authorising the construction of works; for improving and providing additional accommodation in connection with that Undertaking; and for other purposes. ccvii. An Act for incorporating a Company, and authorising them to make and maintain a Dock and other works at Sutton Bridge; and for other purposes. ccviii. An Act enabling the Metropolitan District Railway Company to connect their railway at Hammersmith with the London and South-western Railway; and for other purposes connected with their Undertaking. ccix. An Act to authorise the construction of Tramways in and near the City of Dublin, and for other purposes. ccx. An Act for making certain Railways between the Town of Magherafelt in the county of Londonderry, and the Town of Coleraine in the same county; and for other purposes. P. ccxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Abingdon and Barnsley, the District of Bradford (Wilts), the Boroughs of Colchester, Daventry, and Deal, the Evesham Union, the Borough of King's Lynn, the Districts of Kirkby Lonsdale and Leigh, the Mitford and Launditch Union, the Boroughs of Nottingham, Hastings, and Stafford, the Stockton Union, the Borough of Sudbury, and the District of Todmorden. ccxii. An Act to incorporate a Company for making a Railway from the Holme and Ramsey Railway at Ramsey, to the Great Eastern Railway at Somersham; and for other purposes. ccxiii. An Act for making a Railway to connect the Railways on the south side of Dublin; and for other purposes. ccxiv. An Act for incorporating the Stroud Water Company, and for conferring powers on that Company; and for other purposes. ccxv. An Act to confer further powers on the Magistrates and Council of the Royal Burgh of Burntisland, with reference to the Harbour of Burntisland; and for other purposes. 1. PRIVATE ACTS, PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER, AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE. A IN Act to amend and extend the Cornwallis Estate Act, 1870. 2. An Act for authorising the working and granting Leases of the Mines and Minerals under the Settled Estates devised by the Will of Charles Paget, late of Ruddington Grange, in the county of Nottingham, deceased; and for other purposes. 3. An Act to vest in Trustees powers to grant Building and other Leases of, and to sell and exchange the Estates devised by the Will of John Gerard Leigh, Esquire, deceased, and to give other powers to such Trustees for the management and improvement of such Estates; and for other purposes. 4. An Act for extending the powers exercisable by virtue of "The Paddington Estate Act, 1871," and the therein-recited Acts, by the Lessees of the Estate, with the consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, of granting Building or Repairing Leases, and of accepting surrenders of existing Leases of four hundred acres, part of the Estate (and of granting new Leases in lieu of the surrendered Leases), by enabling Agreements to be made 5. 6. 7. with the Commissioners for leasing or otherwise dealing with the excess of acreage over the four hundred acres. An Act for authorising the raising of Money on the Security of Estates in the county of Glamorgan, settled by the Will of the Right Honourable Other Archer, late Earl of Plymouth, deceased, and the Application of the Money for the Improvement of parts of the Estates, in order to render them available as Building Lands; and for extending the Power of granting Mineral Leases conferred by the said Will; and for other purposes. An Act to authorise the sale of certain portions of the Forest of Monar called "the Grazings and Shealings of Glenuiack (otherwise Glenuiag) and Pollanby, in the county of Ross, being part of the entailed_estates now held by Sir Arthur George Ramsay Mackenzie, of Coul, Baronet, and to authorise the purchase of other lands to be entailed; and for other purposes. An Act for amending "Charles Sheils' Almshouses Charity Act, 1864," and "Charles Sheils' Almshouses Charity Act, 1866." INDEX ΤΟ HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 38° & 39 VICTORIA. 1875. EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS. In Bills, Read 1o, 2o, 3o, or 1, 2, 3a, Read the First, Second, or Third Time.-In Speeches' 1R., 2R., 3R., Speech delivered on the First, Second, or Third Reading.-Amendt., Amendment. Res., Resolution.-Comm., Committee.-Re-Comm., Re-Committal.-Rep., Report.Consid., Consideration.-Adj., Adjournment or Adjourned.-cl., Clause.-add. cl., Additional Clause.-neg., Negatived.-M. Q., Main Question.-O. Q., Original Question.-O. M., Original Motion.-P. Q., Previous Question.-R. P., Report Progress.-A., Ayes.-N., Noes.-M., Majority.-1st. Div., 2nd. Div., First or Second Division.-l., Lords.-c., Commons. When in this Index a is added to the Reading of a Bill, it indicates that no Debate took place upon that stage of the measure. When in the Text or in the Index a Speech is marked thus it indicates that the Speech is reprinted from a Pamphlet or some authorized Report. When in the Index a † is prefixed to a Name or an Office (the Member having accepted or vacated office during the Session) and to Subjects of Debate thereunder, it indicates that the Speeches on those Subjects were delivered in the speaker's private or official character, as the case may be. Some subjects of debate have been classified under the following "General Headings :"ARMY NAVY- INDIA-IRELAND - SCOTLAND - PARLIAMENT - POOR LAW-POST OFFICEMETROPOLIS CHURCH OF ENGLAND EDUCATION - CRIMINAL LAW-LAW AND JUSTICE TAXATION, under WAYS AND MEANS. ABERDARE, Lord Artizans Dwellings, 2R. [224] 459; Comm. Birmingham (Corporation) Water, 2R. [224] 1776 Chimney Sweepers, 2R. [224] 448 Conspiracy, and Protection of Property, 2R. [226] 41 Criminal Law- Convict Prison at Gibraltar, [222] 540 Friendly Societies, 2R. [225] 1128; Comm. cl. 28, Amendt. 1469 Metropolis Re-valuation-Rating by Water Companies, [225] 1733 Police Constables (Scotland), 2R. [225] 1729 Pollution of Rivers, 2R. [224] 550; Comm. [225] 432; cl. 4, 778; cl. 6, 781; cl. 8, 782 Public Health, 2R. [225] 645; Report, cl. 298, Amendt. 1467 Sale of Food and Drugs, Comm. cl. 9, [224] 1899; Report, [225] 944 222-223-224-225-226. ADAM, Right Hon. W. P., Clackman- | ADDERLEY, Right Hon. Sir C. B.-cont. nan, &c. Burntisland Harbour-Lords Amendts. Consid. Metropolis-Street Traffic-Hyde Park Corner, Supply-Houses of Parliament, [224] 764 ADDERLEY, Right Hon. Sir C. B. Board of Trade-Miscellaneous Questions Board of Northern Lighthouses, [223] 602 Consolidated Fund (Appropriation), 2R. [226] Copyright-Royal Commission, Issue of a, Dover Pier and Harbour, 2R. [223] 357; No- Fisheries-Destruction of Sea Fish by Torpe- General Carriers Act (1830), Motion for a Ilerne Bay Fishery Act, 1864, [225] 1243 Mercantile Marine-Miscellaneous Questions Coasting Vessels, [223] 229 Cospatrick," Loss of the, [226] 858 "Druid," Case of the Wreck Register, - 1874 and 1875, [225] 550 Emigrant Vessels, [222] 626 Merchant Seamen's Fund - Pensions to Merchant Ships (Measurement of Ton- Poole Harbour, [225] 155 Rocket Apparatus, [226] 54 Rule of the Road at Sea, [225] 1136 Seagoing Ships, [224] 1129 Survey of Passenger Steamers, [225] 91, 1242 Nuphar," The, [223] 231 Overloaded Ships-Steamer "Bear," [225] Passengers Act, 1855-Inflammable Car- St. Tudwall's Road Lighthouse, [222] 1608 Shipping Disasters, [222] 754, 847 Merchant Shipping Act, 1854-Pilotage Fund, - Merchant Shipping Act, 1871 Passenger Merchant Shipping Act, 1873-Barque " Stan- 222] Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment, Leave, 225] Comm. 123; cl. 4, 129, 130; cl. 5, 131; cl. 8, 133; cl. 9, 136, 161, 171; cl. 10, 175; cl. 11, 226743 Metropolis Gas Companies, 2R. [224] 617 Passengers Act, 1855-Surgeons in Passenger Railways- Miscellaneous Questions Bathampton Junction, Accident at, [225] 999 Bedford Level, Crossing at, [226] 174 Ladies' Compartments, [225] 710 Railway Trains-Passengers and Guards, Sea Fisheries Act, 1868 Poole Harbour Seal Fishery, Close Time for-International Supply-Board of Trade, [224] 1768, 1769, Ramsgate Harbour, [224] 777 226] Unseaworthy Ships, Leave, 145; Comm. Adulteration of Food Act, 1872 Costs of Prosecutions, Question, Mr. Grantham; 155 Adulteration of Food and Drugs Bill See title Sale of Food and Drugs Bill ADVOCATE, The Lord (Right Hon. E. S. GORDON), Glasgow, &c. Universi ties Bankruptcy (Scotland) Law Amendment, 2R. [222] 1968 Conspiracy, and Protection of Property, Comm. cl. 14, Amendt. [225] 1358; Consid. cl. 15, Amendt. 1751 Education (Scotland) Act, Res. [224] 909 Entail Amendment (Scotland), Leave, [225] 221; Comm. cl. 9, Amnendt. 1396 High Court of Justiciary (Scotland), 2R. [223] 1751, 1754 Licensing Courts Appeal (Scotland), 2R. [223] 1576 Public Health, [225] 710 Stray Dogs-Sheep Worrying, [224] 393 Sheriff Courts (Scotland), 2R. [223] 1763; [224] 925 Sheriff Courts (Scotland) (No. 2), Leave, [223] 1490, 1493 Sheriffs Substitute (Scotland), 2R. [226] 680; Comm. cl. 1, Amendt. 720 Summary Prosecutions Appeals (Scotland), Supreme Court of Judicature Act (1873) Universities (Scotland) (Degrees to Women), 2R. [222] 1166 Africa-cont Cape Colony-South African Diamond Fields, Distress at the Cape Colony · The Turkish Consul General, Question, Mr. W. M. Torrens; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther April 12, [223] 722 Copy of Despatch, P.P. (No. 182) Disturbances in Griqualand, Question, Mr. Evelyn Ashley; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther May 24, [224] 794 Parl. P. [1348] Mr. Froude, Question, Mr. A. M'Arthur; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther May 27, [224] 923 Orange Free State Republic, Question, Sir Joseph M'Kenna; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther Mar 18, [223] 18-Correspondence, Question, Sir Joseph M'Kenna; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther April 29, 1821 Religious Bodies-Abolition of Grants, Question, Mr. Edward Jenkins; Answer, Mr. J. Lowther August 6, [226] 615 Parl. Papers Proposals for a Conference Correspondence relating to South African Possessions Africa, West Affairs on the Gold Coast, Observations, The Earl of Carnarvon August 3, [226] 436 Correspondence Parl. P. [1140, 1143] Slavery on the Gold Coast, Question, Mr. W. Correspondence Africa-East African Slave Trade Amendt. on Committee of Supply July 8, To Africa, South-Natal-See title Natal AGNEW, Mr. R. Vans, Wigton Co. 1792 Education (Scotland) (Sutherland and Caithness), [224] 1937 [cont. 2 H 2 [cont. |