Lords Sitting of 30 August 1841

MINUTES.
Bills. Read first time:—Foreigners Consecration Act Amendment; Demise of Lands by Incumbents; Spiritual Corporations Leases; Attorneys and Solicitors Consolidation; and Earl of Scarborough's Indemnity. — Read second time:—Administration of Justice.—Read third time and passed:—Buildings Regulation; Boroughs Improvement.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.
Viscount Melbourne: My Lords, I consider it my duty to acquaint your Lordships, that in consequence of the vote which was come to by the other House of Parliament on Saturday morning last, which was precisely similar in terms to a vote come to by your Lordships at an earlier period of the week, I have, on the part of ray colleagues and myself, tended to her Majesty the resigna-
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tion of the offices we hold, which resignation her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept, and we now continue to hold those offices only till our successors are appointed.

DRAINAGE or TOWNS.
The Marquess of Normanby,in moving the third reading of the Buildings Regulations Bill, and the Borough Improvements Bill, said, he had no objection to accede to the amendments proposed by the hon. and learned Lord (Lyndhurst) in those measures. With regard to the third bill (the Drainage of Towns' Bill) which he had presented to their Lordships, subsequent inquiries had induced him to consider that it would be more desirable that the Bill should originate in another place. He would therefore withdraw it.
The Boundaries Regulation Bill and the Borough Improvements Bill were respectively read a third time and passed.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL.
The Lord Chancellorsaid, that as the hill which he had presented to the House the other evening for the better Administration of Justice in England had already passed their Lordships' House, and was precisely in the same state in which it had been left by the House of Commons at the close of the last Session, he trusted their Lordships would see no objection to its being then read a second time, in order that it might be considered in committee on Monday next.
Lord Broughamsaw no objection to the proposition of his noble and learned Friend, inasmuch as his objections to the bill would be more properly considered in committee. He had no objection to the principle of the bill, therefore he should not oppose the second reading.
Bill read a second time.

BILL OF INDEMNITY.
The Lord Chancellorconsidered it his duty to inform the House that a certain noble Lord (understood to be the Earl of Scarborough) after he had taken the oaths, had been guilty of a most curious omission. He had omitted to subscribe the roll of Parliament, and by so doing, having subsequently sat and voted, he had subjected himself to certain penalties. He proposed, therefore, to introduce a bill to indemnify the noble Lord from the consequences of the omission, and on Monday next he should move that the

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standing orders be suspended, in order to enable the bill to pass forthwith.
Bill read a first time.
House adjourned to the ensuing Monday.